Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Tony Perkins Defends Trump Administration’s Policy Of Holding Migrant Children In The DOJ’s “Summer Camp”

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Now that President Trump’s scored big points for his historic meeting with Kim Jong Un, his opponents are desperate to change the subject. Anxious to turn the country’s attention away from the administration’s diplomatic success, they’ve returned to an issue that the Congress has repeatedly failed to resolve — immigration. Yesterday’s …

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FEC Dismisses Self-Enrichment Suit Against Trump

Politico reports: The FEC will not investigate President Donald Trump’s political campaign for enriching his businesses after considering a complaint from a liberal watchdog group, which alleged that Trump’s boasting about his hotels and use of his private jets constituted a violation of campaign law. The agency released its decision Friday, two years after the complaint was filed during the …

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Trump Screams About Angela Merkel’s “Bad” G7 Photo

Hair Furor is now claiming that the evil fake news media conspired to only show the “bad” now-famous G7 photo in which he sits petulantly before the assembled world leaders like a toddler who just got told there will be no visit to Chuck E. Cheese if he doesn’t behave. In fact, as everybody knows, that photo was first posted …

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GOP Rep. Mark Sanford Laments That There Are No Consequences For Trump’s Incessant Lying [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Outgoing Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) told NBC News that there are no seeming consequences for President Trump when he lies, cautioning that there would be “incredibly harmful” repercussions in Washington’s future. “There is no seeming consequence to the president and lies and it is going to have incredibly harmful consequences in the way that we operate going …

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Federal Court Again Blocks Trump’s Transgender Ban

Via press release from Lambda Legal: Today, a federal court in Seattle denied yet another attempt by the Trump Administration to implement its discriminatory plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services. Today’s ruling in the lawsuit brought by Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN and joined by the State of Washington denied the administration’s motion to …

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Rudy Giuliani Dangles Pardon For Paul Manafort

The New York Daily News reports: In one of his most forceful attacks on the special counsel yet, Rudy Giuliani on Friday claimed the Russia investigation could get “cleaned up” with pardons from President Trump in light of Paul Manafort being sent to jail. “When the whole thing is over, things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons,” the …

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Giuliani: Joe Biden Is A “Mentally Deficient Moron”

The Huffington Post reports: With a strong economy and a new “success” in North Korea, President Donald Trump will cruise to re-election in 2020, his lawyer predicted, particularly if the Democrats nominate a “moron” like former Vice President Joe Biden. “They need someone new, who would be more threatening to us,” Rudy Giuliani, himself a failed presidential candidate in 2008, …

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Trump Wails About Manafort’s “Very Unfair Sentence”

In his sixteenth tweet since 6AM today, Glorious Leader wails about Paul Manafort’s “sentence” even though Manafort has not yet gone to trial, much less been convicted and sentenced. (But hey, we’re ALL looking forward to that, amirite?) And of course, what would a Trump tweetstorm be without mentions of Crooked Hillary, James Comey, and “all the others” conspiring to …

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Senior White House Staffer Marc Short Hits The Exit

Politico reports: White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told his colleagues Friday that he’s resigning, according to current and former administration officials. He is expected to leave the White House in mid-July, but it was unclear whether he has accepted a new position. Short, the top White House liaison to Capitol Hill, did not respond to several requests for …

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Trump Lies Yet Again About Nonexistent Law

Buzzfeed reports: There is no law that determines children must be taken away from their parents when they cross the border. Crossing the border illegally is a federal misdemeanor, and recrossing illegally is a felony, but there is no law mandating the separation of families that cross the border illegally. Instead, the increase in family separation, which has seen hundreds …

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REPORT: US To Pull Out Of UN Human Rights Council

Reuters reports: Talks with the United States over how to reform the main U.N. rights body have failed to meet Washington’s demands, activists and diplomats say, suggesting that the Trump administration will quit the Geneva forum whose session opens on Monday. A U.S. source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the withdrawal appeared to be “imminent” but had no …

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REVEALED: Trump’s 2020 Campaign Team Is Secretly Working With Former Cambridge Analytica Staffers

The Associated Press reports: A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned. The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with …

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BREAKING: Paul Manafort Ordered To Jail Pending Trial

The Daily Beast reports: Paul Manafort is going to jail. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday morning to revoke his bail, meaning the president’s former campaign chairman will be incarcerated until his July trial. The move came after Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s team moved for the judge to change the terms of Manafort’s bail. Mueller’s team alleged that …

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Graham: If You Don’t Like Me Working With Trump To Make The World A Better Place, I Don’t Give A Shit

“If you don’t like me working with President Trump to make the world a better place, then I don’t give a shit.” – Sen. Lindsey Graham speaking live on CNN just now after defending the Trump administration’s loathsome policy of ripping migrant children out of the arms of their mothers. Yesterday Graham posted a much-mocked tweet celebrating Glorious Leader’s birthday …

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Hair Furor: When Kim Speaks, His People Sit Up At Attention, I Want My People To Do The Same [VIDEO]

CBS News reports: President Trump declared in a spur-of-the-moment interview with “Fox and Friends” Friday morning that he wants people to sit at attention for him like they do for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Kim stands accused of leading a murderous regime that starves its own people. But Mr. Trump has heaped praise on Kim since meeting with …

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Some Canadians #BoycottUSA Over Trump’s Trade War

The New York Post reports: Blame America. Canadians have taken to practicing pocketbook diplomacy in defense of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is caught in a trade war of words with President Trump, by boycotting American goods and canceling vacations to the United States, according to a report. Shoppers are shunning Kentucky bourbon, California wine and Florida oranges, and avoiding …

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Trump Tells State TV: The FBI Was Plotting Against My Election And Comey Should Be Locked Up [VIDEO]

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump says the Justice Department watchdog report on the Clinton email probe shows the FBI was biased against him “at the top level” and was “plotting against my election.” Trump is giving an impromptu interview with Steve Doocy of “Fox & Friends” on the North Lawn of the White House Friday. He says of …

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TODAY: Paul Manafort To Plead For Continued Bail

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is set to ask a federal judge on Friday not to revoke his bail and send him to jail pending trial after Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed new charges of witness tampering last week. Manafort, whose charges arise from Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential …

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Trump Approves Tariffs On $50B In Chinese Goods

Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump has approved tariffs on Chinese goods worth about $50 billion, said a person familiar with the decision, ratcheting up a confrontation on trade with Beijing and triggering losses in the domestic stock market. The Trump administration is preparing to release a refined list of the first batch of Chinese products to be hit with tariffs …

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Glorious Leader Offers To Drop In On State TV Show

Glorious Leader is really enjoyed this morning’s “executive time” with his favorite propaganda outlet, which has been wall-to-wall manufactured outrage about yesterday’s release of the inspector general’s report. Reports have suggested that Trump is rarely dressed at this time of day, so it’s not very likely that he’ll stroll down the White House driveway to crash the broadcast. In the …

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