ArchiveJanuary 2019

The racist incident involving a group of white students from Covington Catholic High School surrounding and taunting a Native American elder in Washington, D.C., last weekend has officially become the latest battle in America’s culture war. Days after the initial viral video surfaced, the story is still making headlines, with one narrative spreading in mainstream media outlets, and an...

Trump now has the lowest two-year average approval rating of any president in over seven decades. A new poll from ABC News/Washington Post shows Trump with an average approval rating of 38 percent during his first two years in office. That is 23 points lower than the average approval for the 12 presidents before him, 61 percent, going back to 1945 — when the first approval polls for U.S...

A defeated Trump announced Friday afternoon that he will support a bill to temporarily end his weeks-long, unpopular government shutdown, without funding a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Despite his earlier bravado in vowing not to “cave” on the wall funding, Trump finally did exactly that — and did exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told him to do, which was to stop...

The indictment of longtime Trump adviser and confidant Roger Stone has prompted a round of condemnation of Trump’s embrace of criminality from Congress. Senators and members of Congress also noted the vindication of the Mueller probe and the need to protect the investigation from interference from Trump. The indictment again brought to the fore ongoing concerns about how election outcomes...

An unhinged Trump finally made his first statement after his close adviser, Roger Stone, was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller, and it was a doozy. Trump unleashed a torrent of anger in a single tweet, exposing his deep-seated insecurity as the Mueller investigation closes in on the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia. “Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO...

Now that close Trump adviser Roger Stone has been indicted, former CIA director John Brennan is more convinced than ever that Robert Mueller’s investigation will prove damning for Trump. Brennen said Friday that he thinks it’s “quite evident” the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, that this collusion may have “gone to the very...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has had to stop flights coming in to New York’s LaGuardia airport because of Trump’s shutdown of the federal government. The FAA had to issue a ground stop at the airport due to “staffing related issues.” Air traffic was also delayed at airports in Philadelphia and Newark due to similar issues with staffing. House Speaker Nancy...

Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, holds a top-secret security clearance, which lets him access highly sensitive national security material. He shouldn’t hold that clearance. In fact, NBC News reports, career security officials initially rejected his application — but they got overruled by someone hand-picked by Trump. Much like his father-in-law, one of the concerns with Kushner is...

Thursday was not a good day for party unity in the GOP. During a closed-door luncheon, senators went after Mike Pence and fought with each other as each of them tries to escape their responsibility for the longest government shutdown ever. It isn’t apparent why Pence was at the lunch, as his only message seemed to be “the president is interested in striking a deal.” Striking a...

Early Friday, Roger Stone became the latest in a long line of top Trump campaign advisers to be indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller. In the dark hours of the morning, the FBI arrived at Stone’s house and arrested him for a litany of criminal activity, including obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements, and witness tampering. “With Stone’s indictment, the...