Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office released both a sentencing memo and a heavily redacted addendum regarding former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. He recommended a "sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration," because Flynn cooperated ...read more
You should now be able to count on one hand how many weeks (or days) Rudy Giuliani has left acting as Trump's lawyer. The former New York Mayor went on Fox News last night and confessed that his client did in fact seek to collude with Russia in the 2016 campaign, but it was OK ...read more
In Tucker Carlson's noble quest to protect Donald Trump and the racist right from marauding liberals taking over America with their gender politics, the Fox News host is doubling down on the parallel universe he inhabits. In a truly extraordinary claim, Carlson stated that thus ...read more
We could probably spend weeks listing all of the reasons why Trump voters ultimately cast their ballots for the Mad King. What's truly baffling to me, even more than the reasons for their votes, is how they can continue to celebrate their guy while their tiny brains are routinely ...read more
In the latest high profile resignation from Donald Trump's inner circle, lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, quit today for undisclosed reasons. However, if you read between the lines, it is clear that Dowd believes Trump to be an idiot who will almost ...read more
If Donald Trump did not collude with the Russian government to throw the 2016 election in his favor, he would no doubt be extremely alarmed about the definitive intelligence reports stating that the Kremlin is planning on disrupting the midterm elections this year. And yet ...read more
Donald Trump is set to give his State Of The Union address tonight to assure Americans the country is in good shape and lay out his grand vision for America. Anyone watching it willingly is either a paid journalist, or a masochist. Because watching the president speak for more ...read more
Good evening. As many of you know, a couple of years ago I started a business venture that included running for President of the United States. I was in more debt than anyone except Robert Mueller probably knows. One night, a couple of Russian oligarchs at Mar-a-Lago suggested I ...read more
In 2013 when the movie 'Zero Dark Thirty' came out, Glenn Greenwald wrote a predictably pedantic and scathing review about its complicity with the pro Obama/pro CIA/pro neo imperialist/deep state. A reader cheekily left a comment on the piece asking the Guardian that they should ...read more
Prior to and during my podcast on Tuesday, I was feeling beaten down by the brain-scattering impact of the frenetic avalanche of news that's accompanied both the 2016 presidential campaign and, naturally, the Trump presidency. It's been a harrowing time to be a political writer ...read more
Former White House chief strategist and former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon has made a deal to speak with special counsel Robert Mueller regarding Russia's interference into the 2016 election. What this means is anyone's guess, but given the very public falling out between Bannon ...read more
In the mind of Glenn Greenwald, there is no greater threat to the future of humanity than centrist Democrats. They are surveillance loving, neoliberal shills who have sworn fealty to the overlords of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama. No matter how bad ...read more
You might recall that Trump used the phrase "no collusion" no fewer than 16 times during a recent interview with The New York Times and reporter Michael Schmidt. This week, Trump added dozens more instances of the phrase "no collusion" to the list, including a press conference ...read more
According to birther advocate and notorious racist Lou Dobbs, Donald Trump is "the most accomplished presidency in modern American history." Why? Because Trump has laid waste to the federal government, trashed the deal to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon, hiked up health ...read more
Today's bombshell report that Steve Bannon believes Donald Trump Jr. is guilty of collusion with the Russian government was understandably plastered over every news site on the internet. Hell, even Breitbart.com featured it prominently on the front page (albeit not as headline). ...read more
Steve Bannon is not only waging war on the GOP establishment, it appears he has now turned his attention onto his political protege, Donald Trump. In a truly astonishing series of excerpts from an upcoming book by Michael Wolff, the Guardian has revealed that Bannon believes the ...read more
While it's true that Robert Mueller has put together a team that would give even a crack team of defense lawyers nightmares, that's not the main reason Donald Trump and his cronies are finding themselves in increasingly dire legal trouble... To continue reading this article, ...read more
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is the most important man in American politics right now. Mueller is America’s last chance in removing the tyrannical Donald Trump from office, and Trump knows it. This is why the latest news coming from the investigation is encouraging. Thus far, ...read more
In a sign that the White House is officially in complete panic mode, Donald Trump is using his favorite scapegoat to detract from the growing investigation into their collusion with Russia. In an unhinged Twitter rant this morning, the Commander In Chief was up bright and early ...read more
You. Yes, you over there with the anti-Trump t-shirt: Put down the champagne and turn off the celebration music. I know you're excited that Donald Trump Jr. was stupid enough to save an email explicitly detailing criminal activity. I know this proves the Trump campaign did, in ...read more
Just think about these two events carefully for a moment: 1. Despite initially denying it, Donald Trump has explicitly admitted that the Russian government hacked the US election in 2016. 2. Donald Trump Jr. has admitted to meeting with a Kremlin associate* to get opposition ...read more
Proving yet again that he is manifestly unfit to be the Commander in Chief, Donald Trump is now blaming President Obama for Russia hacking the 2016 election, and also calling it a Democratic "scam". He tweeted out the following salvo in response to the latest revelations from ...read more
