I had the good fortune of talking to David Corn this week, who, with Yahoo! News's Michael Isikoff, has written what is sure to be remembered as one of the best books on the 2016 election, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

Former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe was fired yesterday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions just days before his official retirement. The appalling decision was not only clearly motivated by Trump's well documented hatred of McCabe -- who was one of the first people at ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Yesterday, as the press corps visited the White House to hear briefings on immigration from senior officials, Donald Trump unexpectedly showed up to answer a few questions. Just before he left, he made one of the most egregious off-the-cuff remarks of his presidency thus far: ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

The Senate Judiciary Committee has asked that both Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort testify next week, and in the memo they sent out, they have asked for any and all correspondence between them and Dr. Jill Stein, the 2016 Green Party candidate for President of the United ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

There is no other way of getting around this: Donald Trump is officially a failed president. He is so far removed from fulfilling his obligations as the Commander in Chief that there can be no other way of describing him, or his presidency. The failures are so extreme, so ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Andrew Sullivan's latest essay on the state of all things Trump makes for incredibly sobering reading. While most of us are stuck in the daily dirt reporting of the never ending insanity, Sullivan has taken on a new role in the media as a sage-like figure who dips into public ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Yet more signs of extreme panic are coming out of the White House over the Mueller investigation into Trump's potential obstruction of justice over Russiagate. Not only has Vice President Mike Pence lawyered up with private counsel in advance of the oncoming shitstorm, Trump's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The signs that the Trump administration and GOP are seriously panicked about FBI’s special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Donald Trump's alleged obstruction of justice are growing by the minute. Newt Gingrich went on a bizarre twitter tirade earlier, darkly warning ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

by Larry Jaffee James Comey, while still in the private sector, in 2012 authored an article for a lawbook entitled “Defending Corporations and Individuals in Government” Investigations (West). The nine-page article offers advice to embattled organizations in crisis mode, and in ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

If you want to know how serious the implications of FBI’s special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into president Trump's alleged obstruction of justice are, just take a look at Newt Gingrich's twitter feed.  Gingrich, one of the (relatively) more sane Trump stooges in ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018