Politics
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Trump Bashes Brett Kavanaugh’s Second Accuser, Claims Democrats are Running a ‘Con Game’
According to President Trump, the women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct are bit players in a political drama drummed up by Democrats merely trying to discredit “a high-quality person.” For the second time, the president has come out to not only defend his Supreme Court pick but to unload…
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Watch: That Awkward Moment When the President of the United States Addresses the UN and Gets Laughed At
The president of the United States is a joke. Never before has a president been such a global embarrassment, but here we are, in 2018, the year of our lord Tarana Burke (who also happens to be No. 1 on this year’s Root 100 list, which you can see here), the president was boasting of…
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Watch: Sen. Ted Cruz Chased Out of Restaurant by Hecklers For Being Ted Cruz
Sen. Ted Cruz was just trying to enjoy a meal of boiled monkey parts flavored with braised deer scalp and a tall glass of iced bat blood at a Washington restaurant when he was forced to leave after activists learned of his location and began peppering him with questions. The hecklers, also known as people…
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Trump Continues to Back Brett Kavanaugh, Calls Latest Allegations 'Totally Political'
In a move that has shocked absolutely no one, President ChiChi von PeeTapes is continuing to back his pick for Supreme Court despite new allegations. On Monday, the president of people who wear overalls in a non-fashion way, called the newest set of sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh politically motivated and added that…
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Is Expected to Resign or He's Being Fired. Either Way, He's Gone: Report [Updated]
According to several sources, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is out. Now, how he leaves his position is up for debate. According to Axios, Rosenstein is expected to resign. NBC News’ Pete Williams, however, reported that Rosenstein would not resign of his own accord and was headed to the White House on Monday, where he…
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There's No Such Thing as a Republican Party
As a child who was prone to going down rabbit holes, I was obsessed with stories about unexplained phenomena. I consumed books about subjects such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, ghost stories, the Bermuda Triangle, extrasensory perception, spontaneous combustion, unidentified flying objects, alien life, and the existence of a higher power. When I became…
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NJ Sheriff Caught Making Racist Remarks About 'The Blacks' Resigns
A New Jersey sheriff running for reelection this November has resigned after a recording of him making racist remarks about black people and the state’s South Asian attorney general was published by WNYC. As WNYC reports, the recording captures a Jan. 16 conversation in which Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino, a Democrat, reports back to…
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Christine Blasey Ford to Testify on Thursday
Christine Blasey Ford’s lawyers said in a statement Sunday that she is ready to testify in an open hearing Thursday about her allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her, CNN reports. “Despite actual threats to her safety and her life, Dr. Ford believes it is important for Senators to hear directly from…
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Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Tried to Finesse White House Funds to Pay Legal Fees of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates: Report
John Dowd, formerly President Donald Trump’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, attempted to funnel money from the White House to help pay the legal fees incurred by Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates. According to a report in the the Wall Street Journal, Dowd would have gotten away…