WASHINGTON — On Friday evening, lawyers working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended that Paul Manafort, the president’s disgraced former campaign chairman, serve as many as 24 years in jailon charges brought in federal court in Virginia. This sentencing memo comes a day aftera federal judge found that Manafort had …
Read More »Trump Could Be Our Laziest President Ever, According to Leaked Schedules
Axios has obtained leaked, private schedules of President Donald Trump showing how he’s spent his time over the past three months. According to the leaked schedules, our president has spent 60% of his “working” hours since the midterms in unstructured “Executive Time.” Executive Time is supposed to consist of time …
Read More »North Korea Won't Denuclearize, Might Team Up With Russia (Art of the Deal, Folks)
Maybe the most dubious item on President Trump’s self-professed “historic” list of accomplishments is the progress he claims to have made with North Korea. Since meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore last year, Trump has touted his loving relationship with the dictator while promising that the North Korean nuclear threat …
Read More »Trump Lies About '10 Foot Wall' Around Obama's Home. There Isn't One
In the midst of the government shutdown over funding of President Donald Trump‘s border wall, the president tweeted a bizarre justification for wanting to build a barrier between Mexico and the United States, saying that former President Barack Obama has a “ten foot Wall” surrounding his home in Washington, D.C. …
Read More »Jay Inslee Believes a Climate Candidate (Like Himself?) Can Beat Trump in 2020
WASHINGTON —On November 7th, the morning after the 2018 midterm elections, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee sat in a hotel in the other Washington, the swampy one, red-eyed from a string of late-night TV appearances, picking at a plate of eggs and rehashing the huge night his party just had, …
Read More »Michael Cohen Admits He Was in 'Regular Contact' with Trump Team When He Lied to Congress
In a court filing late Friday night made by his attorneys, Michael Cohen, President Donald J. Trump’s former personal attorney, admitted he was in “close and regular contact” with Trump’s legal team and the White House when he lied to Congress in 2017 about the then-presidential candidate’s plans for a …
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