On Wednesday, Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner announced he won’t be seeking reelection in 2020, giving up the seat he has held since 1979. Speaking to conservative radio host Mark Belling, Sensenbrenner, who has served in Congress since 1979, said he wouldn’t be seeking a 22nd term. That makes Sensenbrenner the second Republican in just one day to call it quits. The first was Texas...
Georgia Republican to resign, giving Democrats another chance to take back the Senate
Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia announced Wednesday that he will resign at the end of the year because of “mounting health challenges” related to his Parkinson’s disease. “I have concluded that I will not be able to do the job over the long term in the manner the citizens of Georgia deserve,” he said in a statement. Isakson will step down at the end of the...
White House: Trump is just ‘joking’ about pardoning officials who break the law for him
Trump promised his supporters in 2016 that he was going to build a big, beautiful wall on the southern border, and Mexico was going to pay for it. None of that has happened. Not a single mile of new wall has been constructed, and Mexico continues to refuse to cough up the cash. But that isn’t stopping Trump from demanding that government officials get his wall built before the next election...
Mike Pence celebrates millions of Americans losing access to health care
Mike Pence has been on a mission to take women’s health care away from them since long before he became Trump’s vice president. So it’s not a surprise that he gleefully cheered when millions of people lost access to health care last week as a victory for his cause. “Just last week, thanks to the strong stand for life President Trump has taken, tens of millions of dollars...
White House: Trump ‘feels’ like his wife knows Kim Jong Un even though she hasn’t met him
The White House is once again trying to spin an impossibly nonsensical statement from Trump. While addressing reporters at the G-7 meeting in France Monday, Trump praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, as he has done so many times before, but he added a new twist. “Kim Jong Un, who I’ve gotten to know extremely well — the first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think...
Top adviser claims Trump’s ‘order’ to US companies was just his way of ‘asking’ nicely
On Friday, Trump caused quite a stir — not to mention a dramatic 400-point drop of the Dow — when he tweeted a decree to U.S. companies to stop doing business in China. “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China,” Trump wrote. The “order” was met with widespread mockery, as many rushed to explain that Trump...
Trump attacks American Jews as ‘disloyal’ for voting for Democrats
Trump took his attacks on American Jews to a new low Tuesday when he accused them of being “disloyal” for supporting the Democratic Party. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump has a long and ugly record of anti-Semitic remarks and...
Trump can’t stop bragging about his crowd size after one image shows empty seats
Trump is notoriously obsessed with the size of his crowds, often exaggerating his numbers and falsely claiming to break records when his crowds do nothing of the sort. So when an image of empty seats at Trump’s MAGA rally in New Hampshire last week went viral — along with the hashtag#EmptySeatMAGATour — Trump didn’t take it well. Several days later, he is still insisting his crowd was...
White House claims Trump’s in meetings as he rage-tweets about 2016 election
While the country continues to reel from two mass shootings that claimed the lives of more than 30 people over the weekend, Trump has other things on his mind. White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley told reporters Tuesday afternoon that Trump has no public events on his schedule for the day because he’s “meeting with staff on a wide range of policies, having conversations in prepping...
President Obama calls on Americans to reject language that ‘normalizes racist sentiment’
Even out of office, President Obama continues to play the role of comforter in chief to a nation grieving after multiple mass shootings. While Trump insisted Monday that video games and mental illness, but “not the gun,” are to blame for the two shootings that have claimed the lives of 31 people and counting, the former president condemned the refusal of those in power to do anything...