President Donald Trump’s decision to publicly attack his own attorney general this week is reportedly sending shock waves through the White House, even among the president’s most loyal supporters. Sources tell CNN that Trump’s rebuke of Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe “is causing deep alarm inside the West Wing, leading some to worry that their loyalty…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempted to blame Democrats for the failure of the law known as Trumpcare that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. During a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, McConnell said that it was sad that Democrats were celebrating the failure of the Republican Party’s bill. Neither McConnell nor President Trump ever reached out to…
When Donald Trump Jr. decided to publicize the emails setting up his now-infamous meeting with a Russian lawyer to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton, the repercussions were felt strongly and swiftly in the White House. “This is sum of all fears stuff. It’s what we’ve all been dreading,” an unnamed White House aide told The Daily Beast. That same official also claimed…
Based on the whims of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), women attempting to enter the speaker’s lobby have been denied entrance based on their shoulder-baring sleeveless shirts and dresses. According to CBS News, multiple female journalists have reported that they’ve been turned away from the speaker’s lobby due to their bare shoulders – a policy not shared by either the Senate or…
During the “Overtime” segment of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher’s panel took some parting shots at Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) – who is stepping down – for wanting to strip Americans of their health care while at the same time complaining he isn’t paid enough to stay in Congress. With host Maher noting that John Chaffetz is retiring after saying he…
Appearing on MSNCB’s AM Joy, attorney Tamara Holder called out the women who have defended President Donald Trump’s misogynistic comments about his female critics, saying their minds are as small as his hands. After host Joy Reid ran a series of clips of female Trump advocates – including adviser Kellyanne Conway news and spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders – defending his recent attack…
Sen. Ron Johnson News: (R-WI) He suggested on Sunday that people with pre-existing conditions deserved to pay more for insurance because they were like cars that had been involved in an automobile accident. During an interview on Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd noted that Republicans in the Senate had held no hearings on their health care bill and so they could…
Warren vs Trump: President Donald Trump acknowledged on Sunday that using the name “Pocahontas” as a racist attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was an insult to the heritage and memory of Pocahontas – but he suggested that he would continue to do it anyway. During an interview with Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth that aired on Sunday, Trump accused Democrats…
Digging up Mike Pence’s past political work has become a sport in the brief time since he was named Donald Trump’s running mate. The most recent finding is that Pence penned strong anti-LGBT letters in the 1990s during his time as head of the Indiana Policy Review. In 1993, he attacked gay leadership in the military, claiming: “Homosexuals are not as a…
A Republican former lawmaker who suggested Obama supported Islamic State militants and urged voters to take up arms over a proposed energy tax is now blaming Comedy Central for the shootings of two GOP congressmen. Michelle Bachman – who called on her constituents to become “armed and dangerous” over an emissions tax for energy production – rebuked comedians, media personalities and political…
Former House Speaker New Gingrich on Wednesday blamed the shooting at the Republican baseball practice on Democrats who spout “vulgarities,” among other things. Talking with Fox News, Gingrich pointed fingers at left-wing “hysteria” that he says has exploded ever since President Donald Trump’s election last fall, as evidenced by Kathy Griffin’s latest stunt in which she held up a likeness of Trump’s…
Earlier on Monday, Axios reported that although Senate Republicans are holding closed-door meetings to draft a healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they won’t release it to the public. In response, Twitter users are doing what they do best – tweeting their outrage and making jokes about the so-called “secret health care bill.” Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) tweeted,…
“If the typos in the president’s tweet or the typos in his attorney’s statement are the biggest news of the day, then the journalism profession in the United States has really gone astray”
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer drew widespread laughter from reporters when he insisted that President Donald Trump’s infamous “covfefe” tweet was not a misspelling. After one reporter asked Spicer if “people should be concerned that the president posted somewhat of an incoherent tweet last night,” Spicer simply replied, “No.” The reporter then asked Spicer why the misspelled tweet stayed up for…
House Speaker Paul Ryan seems spooked by a recording that reveals he asked Republican lawmakers not to discuss concerns that then-candidate Donald Trump might have been paid off by Vladimir Putin. A Washington Post report transcribed the recording of a June 15 meeting at the Capitol, where Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the House Majority Leader, raised concerns that Trump and Rep. Dana…
“In order for this country to work like it’s supposed to, everybody has to follow orders to the letter. At the end of the day, they should take a page from their agency’s book: Comey didn’t follow orders and look where it got him”
Congressman Roger Marshall of Kansas is distancing himself from comments made recently to STAT about poor patients and their health care, which garnered considerable backlash. In a recent interview, discussing the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, Marshall, a Republican, said: “Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us.’ There is a group of people that just don’t want health…
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, has made it his mission to ensure that low-income residents living in government-sponsored housing don’t enjoy too may comforts. According to a report from the New York Times, Carson paid a visit to a homeless shelter located in Ohio this week and was “plainly happy” after being told that it had “stacked dozens of…
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney had an unusual lecture for reporters on Tuesday about how a “good shutdown” would “fix” Washington, D.C. At Tuesday’s White House press briefing, Mulvaney complained that Democrats had taken credit for “winning” negotiations over a $1 trillion spending bill. Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump had also lashed out at Democrats’ budget spin…
Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) didn’t seem to know that the latest round of legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare was a new piece of legislation. During a conversation with Jake Tapper, the CNN host was forced to explain to Black that there haven’t been any hearings on the Obamacare 3.0 bill and that the CBO hasn’t had time to score the legislation.…
Donald Trump on Wednesday said he is “absolutely” considering proposals to break up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which houses the judges who have blocked two of the president’s executive orders on immigration. “There are many people that want to break up the 9th Circuit. It’s outrageous,” Trump told the Washington Examiner in an interview Wednesday. The president also complained that…
President Donald Trump was very active on Twitter Easter morning and lashed back at protesters wanting to see his tax returns, saying he shouldn’t have to show them since he “easily won the Electoral College.” Moments after he defended no longer calling China a currency manipulator, now that they are giving him a helping hand with North Korea, Trump dismissed calls for…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on Monday that one of the Trump administration’s top goals in the Middle East was to “destabilize” Syria. During Monday’s White House press briefing, NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Spicer to clarify the administration position removing Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad from power. “The goal for the United States is twofold,” Spicer explained. “It’s, one, to make sure…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Friday declined to say whether Donald Trump was still concerned about starting World War III by taking action against the Assad regime in Syria. Throughout the campaign, Trump warned against the U.S. taking military action in Syria, arguing that America should never have gotten involved in the Middle East in the first place. In a…
