Days after likening himself to Elvis in front of a crowd of supporters in Tupelo, Mississippi, President Trump has described his pre-election business dealings with Russia as “very cool” in an effort to absolve himself on any indiscretion. “Oh, I get it!” the president tweeted sarcastically early Friday morning. “I …
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When I first heard Donald Trump on the campaign trail, I thought, “What a joke!” When I last heard Donald Trump on the campaign trail, I thought, “How long will it take for my children to learn Icelandic?” I underestimated Donald Trump once. I’ll never do it again. Don’t think …
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Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel skewered Ted Cruz for seeking help from his old foe, President Donald Trump, as the Texas senator fights to keep his seat in a surprisingly tight race against his opponent, Beto O’Rourke. On Monday, Trump appeared at a rally for Cruz in Houston, while he …
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s case against Paul Manafort, the longtime Republican strategist and disgraced former chairman of President Trump’s 2016 campaign, just got a lot stronger. Mueller on Friday filed a new, superseding indictment that alleges Manafort and one of Manafort’s partnersin his multi-year lobbying campaign in Ukraine obstructed justice …
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President Trump values his down time in the White House. Since he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last January, reports have abounded about his television intake, from primetime cable news to his morning block of “executive time” when he mostly watches Fox & Friends and fires off the bulk of …
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In 1968, Bob Dylan was living in Woodstock, New York, where he’d recently relocated to escape public scrutiny, focus on his new family and, eventually, record a shit-ton of world-historic music with the Band. On visits upstate, friends found Dylan relishing his new bucolic life, “contented to talk about stonemasonry …
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In November 2013, the president of the National Rifle Association, David Keene, was introduced as an honored guest at the conference of the Right to Bear Arms, a gun lobby in Moscow. “There are no peoples that are more alike than Americans and Russians,” Keene said. “We’re hunters. We’re shooters. …
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If Devin Nunes didn’t have enough problems already, he’s now made an enemy of George Papadopoulos’ fiancée too. A week ago, the White House released a memo written by the California congressman and breathlessly hyped by his House colleagues as “absolutely shocking,” “worse than Watergate,” so bad “people will go …
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On Monday night, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted along party lines to make public a memo authored by its chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes. (Nunes, if you recall, was forced to recuse himself from the committee’s investigation into Russian election interference after misleading the public about the origin …
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Samantha Bee delivered a scathing profile of President Donald Trump‘s senior policy advisor and “political small pox blanket” Stephen Miller on Full Frontal Wednesday. As Bee pointed out, the anti-immigration hardliner was at the center of the recent government shutdown, scuttling a bi-partisan deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood …
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