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Emoluments. If that word was unknown to you before this year, it’s likely because previous administrations were so careful to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest. But with Donald Trump leading the “the president can’t have a conflict of...
by Mark Sumner
 84 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 11:12 AM PST
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by Bill Prendergast
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 10:07 AM PST
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Flynn's loyalty towards Russia wasn't a surprise to anyone. Not our Comrade in Chief, not his jolly sidekick, not our Congress, not even the American public. If you honestly believe Flynn was forced to hand in his resignation because he misled VP...
by Darrin Stephens
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 06:21 PM PST
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Boy, it's a good thing we've got Republicans to provide that critical check on an executive branch that's totally not in power.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who has refused Democratic requests to investigate possible conflicts of interest involving...
by Joan McCarter
109 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 06:56 AM PST
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Trump calls them criminals. I call them patriots. 6 comments
on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 03:44 AM PST
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Huh?
In perhaps the most bizarre presidential press conference in the history of the United States, Donald Trump today took a page from one of his biggest boosters while on the campaign trail … Sarah Palin. Not only did his answers to reporters not...
by Kentdorfman
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 10:18 PM PST
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I know this is long but my intent is to get you to consider today's presser in context. Who is Trump speaking too? Who can possibly believe such unbelievable claims?
Start with yesterday's refusal to condemn antisemitism. To even say the...
by Darrin Stephens
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 07:32 PM PST
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The road to perdition is paved in ignorance. They say there are only 7 real stories in the world. If you read enough, and pay attention to life, you can actually begin to see them unfold in realtime. You grow able to predict what the author of that...
by Darrin Stephens
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 09:01 PM PST
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Guest: Author, activist Norman Solomon of ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org | Plus: Trump's latest insane press conference; More on Flynn and the Logan Act; and our 8th Anniversary 'Green News Report'...
On today's BradCast: Donald Trump holds his first...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 06:20 PM PST
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Let's start with a basic rundown of Donald Trump's comments Thursday about the demise of his national security adviser, Michael Flynn: Flynn resigned; he fired him; Flynn's great, he was just doing his job; his resignation is all the media's fault;...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 06:24 AM PST
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Another late afternoon blockbuster from the Washington Post: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was not completely truthful with the FBI.
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn denied to FBI agents in an interview last month...
by Joan McCarter
105 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 02:18 PM PST
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Now will AG Sessions enforce the law?
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn denied to FBI agents in an interview last month that he had discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States before...
by TomP
189 comments
on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 01:48 PM PST
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If The Orange Tufted Poodle thought that canning Mike Flynn was going to make this whole thing go away, he was once again showing his politically infantile understanding of how things work. We have all seen the press continue to dog Trump, Spicer,...
by Murfster35
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 12:56 PM PST
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Remember that time when Donald J. Trump stood in front of the memorial wall at CIA headquarters and gave a rambling self-congratulatory speech about how great he did in the election and said basically eight words about the ultimate sacrifice given by...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 09:34 AM PST
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The NYT is reporting here that Trumpworld is looking to Steve Feinberg, head of Cerberus Capital, to “review” the U.S. intelligence agencies.
Would that be the 17 intelligence agencies that have definitively concluded the Russians hacked the 2016...
by ScottMcMurrey
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 07:25 AM PST
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The chair and ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee are asking for a briefing on “the circumstances that led to the recent resignation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.” Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein made the request in a...
by Laura Clawson
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on Thu Feb 16, 2017 at 06:42 AM PST
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Feb 17, 2017 at 06:50 AM PST
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I don’t often do what I have just done. I have begun with the ending.
The title of this post is the final line of a column for tomorrow’s New York Times by Charles M. Blow, titled Drip, Drip, Drip. I felt the complete context of that title ought...
by teacherken
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 05:33 PM PST
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Why is he smiling? I can answer that one. He was elected with no experience, no help from his party, no deals with his party, no concern for the truth, no concern for his country, very little financial outlay from his own pocket, and after saying...
by brooklynpaul
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 02:28 PM PST
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Damon Linker of The Week, like his putatively centrist Conservative brethren on the National Review, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, tried to demonstrate that he had a pair by criticizing Donald Trump unreservedly before the election. Now...
by Next Conservatism
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on Wed Feb 15, 2017 at 01:59 PM PST
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Wonder what executive order Der Trumpkopf will issue this week... - 1 comments 0 Recs
Trump thought that Puzder was canny
Till he hired an illegal nanny
As cabinet picks go
That one was a no
So Puzder got tossed on his fanny.
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