President Trump’s use of Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein’s credibility to cover for the clumsy firing of FBI Director Comey has echoes of President Bush’s bogus WMD claims about Iraq, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar Deputy…Read more →
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said that maybe there should be an “Impeachment Clock” that acts like the famous “Doomsday Clock.” If there was, he added, President Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey would have “moved us an hour closer to midnight.”
NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released a new poll this morning. If Trump really was angry at his team before, he must be ready to have them all lined up against a wall and shot now.
Republican commentator David Frum was busy on Twitter this weekend: "The White House has a communications problem: it doesn’t tell the truth. The way to fix the problem is not to hire more skillful liars. However, a communications strategy based on telling the truth is not practical when the truth is more lethal even than an exposed lie." According to the latest polling about two-thirds of Americans don't believe Trump's gaslighting or any of his bullshit.
-by NoahHow’s that for allegory? As soon as news came that President Crazy Pants, aka big orange traitor, aka Putin’s Butt Boy, had fired the man who he feared was getting too close to the truth, speculation as to what name would be issued forth from the bunker as a nominee to replace former FBI Director Comey ran wild.The first two names I thought of, of course, were Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, but, my mind didn’t stop there.
Like most Republicans, GA-06 candidate Karen Handel is sticking with TrumpI checked this morning to see how many co-sponsors there were for Eric Swalwell's bill that would mandate a National Commission on Foreign Interference in the 2016 Election. Swalwell's bill would lead to an examination of "any attempts or activities by the Russian government...
The crisis engulfing the Trump administration was compounded Friday by the president’s early morning tweet threatening fired FBI Director James Comey over leaked accounts of a White House dinner that contradicted the story given out by the president in an interview the previous day with NBC News. In the interview, broadcast two days after Trump fired Comey without warning,[Read More...]
In an OpEd in Thursday's NY Post, Paul Sperry asserts that the real reason Señor Trumpanzee canned Jim Comey was because the FBI wasn't investigating something Trump is obsessed with: "Obama aides’ illegal leaks of classified information-- leaks aimed at undermining the incoming Trump administration." Trump sees the Flynn scandal through this prism. No one else seems to have gone off on this tangent, which some congressional Republicans are starting to cling to.
(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) James Comey, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appointed by President Barack Obama, has never been a man independent of the law. This is not because his heart wasn’t in the right place or because his intentions may have been malicious. Instead, Comey has always been a man of the state — much like any other person to have occupied this position in history. What does that mean?
(ANTIMEDIA) President Donald Trump started another day of his trademark rage-tweeting early Friday morning, during which he denied collusion with Russia, complained about the “Fake Media,” threatened to
