Tag Archives: hypocrisy

Talking Points Memo reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday took aim at actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman after the two were charged in a massive college admissions cheating scandal. “Lori Loughlin & Felicity Huffman indicted for lying and buying spots in college,” Conway tweeted. “They worried their daughters are as stupid as their mothers.” The former “Full …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump criticized Democrats after the House passed an anti-hate resolution on Thursday, accusing them of becoming an “anti-Jewish party.” The resolution, that originally condemned anti-Semitism, was drawn up in response to comments and tweets from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “I thought yesterday’s vote by the house was disgraceful because it has become, the Democrats have become …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Rep. Trey Gowdy, the man who led an 11-hour public congressional hearing on the Benghazi consulate attack, said Monday that he believes such hearings are “utterly useless”—now that they’re used to investigate President Trump’s inner circle. Gowdy, now a Fox News contributor, joined Fox & Friends to weigh in on last week’s House Oversight Committee …

Michael Cohen’s testimony was derailed for several minutes this afternoon after Freedom Caucus member Mark Meadows flipped out over Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s implication that his having trotted out a black former Trump employee as evidence of Trump’s non-racism was itself a racist act. Meadows demanded that Tlaib’s comments be stricken from the record but withdrew that request after some back …

Fox News reports: The Republican National Committee is telling Michael Cohen, its former deputy finance director who has turned on President Trump, to “have fun in prison” as part of a coordinated war room effort to push back against his expected anti-Trump public testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. “Convicted felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying, including …

Newsweek reports: “Disgraced felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying to Congress and making other false statements,” Sanders said in a statement sent to Newsweek on Tuesday. “Sadly, he will go before Congress this week and we can expect more of the same,” the White House press secretary said. “It’s laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar …

The BBC reports: Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences. The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally. A draft law mandating technical changes needed to operate independently was introduced to its parliament last year. The …

The Hill reports: Dozens of undocumented immigrants reportedly worked on the construction and operation of President Trump’s resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, at one time totaling more than 100 undocumented workers under employment at the resort at once. Sixteen undocumented workers from Costa Rica and other Latin American nations spoke with the Washington Post and claimed they worked previously at …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump’s company has fired at least 18 undocumented workers from five golf courses in New York and New Jersey in the past two months, part of a purge set in motion after a series of reports about the clubs’ employment of workers without legal status. Eric Trump, the president’s son, confirmed the firings to The …

“I always love to say to those gender studies people, if you say ‘abortion’ or ‘stem cells’ or ‘guns’ one more time, I’m going to perform one of those on you because, with a gun, because you, by implication, are suggesting that women can’t do the math.” – Kellyanne Conway, in a 2007 speech to the College Republican National Committee, …

The New York Post reports: Hours after President Trump grounded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to visit the troops in Afghanistan, first lady Melania Trump was winging her way to Mar-a-Lago — on a government jet. Politico writer Jake Sherman made the discovery while listening to air traffic control and noted that EXEC1F was headed to Palm Beach airport. …

“They’ll announce on Colbert, then they’ll do Kimmel, then they’ll do Fallon. The entire late night arena in network, and streaming, and cable it’s all just the advertising arm of the Democratic Party. It’s a big giant safe space for them. It’s really — it’s worse than propaganda. If you think about, like, Russia spent a few thousand dollars on …

The Daily Beast reports: President Trump took to Twitter Sunday night to gloat about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce and the subsequent exposure of his personal life on the pages of the National Enquirer. In the days following Bezos’ announcement on Twitter that he and his wife Mackenzie are divorcing, the National Enquirer published a series of exposes alleging that …

The Hill reports: CNN host Don Lemon on Thursday shared a 2013 video of President Trump saying then-President Obama should be fired over a government shutdown. “If you say, ‘Who gets fired?’ it always has to be the top. The problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top,” Trump said on Fox News in …

The New York Times reports: During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with …

ABC News reports: Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter and a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, defended her use of a private email account while transitioning to an administration job, insisting to ABC News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday “there’s no connection between” her situation and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. “All of my emails are stored and preserved. There …

Axios reports: Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, son of the late Billy Graham, tells “Axios on HBO” why he supports President Trump, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct and has previously bragged about his extramarital affairs. “Now people say ‘Well Frank but how can you defend him, when he’s lived such a sordid life?’ I never said …

Politico reports: A pair of Republican committee heads have requested information from the White House regarding Ivanka Trump’s use of a personal email account to conduct official business throughout her time in the administration. In a letter to White House chief of staff John Kelly, House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked that the administration provide his committee with an …

Mediaite reports: Citing a report by conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, Ainsley Earhardt noted that NBC and ABC spent zero seconds covering the caravan, while CBS dedicated a mere 21 seconds to a story Fox News has provided voluminous coverage. In the next breath, co-host Brian Kilmeade reported an update in the caravan story: that the U.S. military deployed …

The Washington Post reports: Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing …