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Trump Calls for ‘Major Investigation’ Into Nonexistent Voter Fraud
President Donald Trump doesn’t need evidence to make claims, and he also doesn’t need evidence to demand “a major investigation” into voter fraud. That’s right; Trump is going to investigate the claims that only he’s made since losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. “I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD,…
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Trump Sends Tough Tweet About Chicago Violence
The tweeter in chief is at it again, this time taking aim at Chicago. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump put Chicago on notice, tweeting: While it was unclear if the president meant the FBI, the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Administration or the National Guard, his tweet sounded really tough. My guess is that after he…
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No Evidence of Illegal Voting, but That Doesn’t Stop Trump or Sean ‘Spicy Facts’ Spicer
It’s been two days, just two days, since President Donald Trump took office, and the weird news just keeps coming. On Tuesday, Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer made it clear that real facts, aka the truth, will not be in play at this White House when he walked out to the podium and continued the myth…
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Despite Protests, Trump Revives Pipeline Projects
A day after President Donald Trump signed executive orders to freeze most federal-worker hiring, remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and stop funding of all foreign nongovernmental agencies that perform abortions, he’s given the go-ahead for construction to continue on two controversial pipelines, the Chicago Tribune reports. In only his second day in…
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Sean Spicer Is Building a Chrisette Michele ‘Bridge’ Alternative-Facts Mixtape
The president has had a shaky start since taking office. First his inauguration drew a whopping seven people, not counting those who watched on the internet; then he bombed at the CIA office; then he sent his press secretary, Sean Spicer, out to deliver his first statement to the press with “alternative facts,” which, in…
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Gregg Popovich Just Maxine Water’d President Trump
Don’t ask San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich anything about Donald Trump or this election or the state of affairs of this country if you aren’t ready to hear the real. Before the Spurs took on the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night, Pop was asked his thoughts about the women’s marches that were happening around…
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Trump Makes Good On Promise to Nix Trans-Pacific Partnership
President Donald Trump didn’t waste any time fulfilling his campaign promise to remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). On Monday sources confirmed to CNN that the newly minted president plans to sign an executive order to do just that. Although the TPP was a bipartisan trade agreement that planned to promote economic…
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About Putin and His New Boo
Now that doomsday has happened, there are certain things to which we can look forward. For one, there will be pain. Lots and lots of pain. Unfortunately, it won’t be like a Betty Wright track in which said pain will yield some gain. It will just hurt. There will also be plenty of stupidity because…
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About the Blacks the Marigold Manchurian Candidate Has Been Meeting
For as long as he is president, there will be debate over whether or not black people should be meeting with the Marigold Manchurian Candidate. It’s a question The Root’s political editor, Jason Johnson, recently tackled in the piece “So, When Is It OK to Meet With Trump?” While we are in accord with the…
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Women’s March: Massive Crowds Take Over DC and Cities Around the Country
Singer-actress Janelle Monáe said a prayer with her fellow performers before taking the stage to raucous cheers at Saturday’s Women’s March, which drew a gargantuan crowd that packed the National Mall from the streets east of the U.S. Capitol all the way west past 17th Street. “I want to remind you that it was woman…