Looking forward to 2018 and 2020, the Democrats need to work together if they want to stop the Trump administration plunging the country and the rest of the planet into an ecological abyss, because shit just got very, very real. From the Atlantic:Â Â Since January, the Trump ...read more
President-elect Donald Trump recently said that he has no interest in appointing a special prosecutor to go after Hillary Clinton for the big nothing-burger email controversy that Republicans have been salivating over for the last year. His decision to not waste taxpayer dollars ...read more
UPDATE: The number of emails in question, three, was reported by NBC News. Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald is walking back his earlier tweet. This article has been amended accordingly. Once again, the online political press has completely flummoxed an otherwise innocuous news story, ...read more
While the eyes of the world are on Pope Francis' first visit to the United States, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has quietly been having a pretty good week. On the heels of a CNN/ORC poll that showed Hillary widening her national lead over Bernie Sanders, a new poll ...read more
The conservative media reaction to Hillary Clinton's belated apology over the email "scandal" has been a predictable mix of mockery and "It's about time!" Once in a while, though, these folks can surprise you, as Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade did Wednesday morning. In case you ...read more
On Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a lengthy interview to MSNBC's Andea Mitchell, part of a new phase in the Democratic frontrunner's campaign for president. As expected, a major focus of the interview was the white-hot email "scandal" that has contributed ...read more
Hillary Clinton conspiracy theorists throughout political Twitter are hard as rocks today following the latest twist in the increasingly ridiculous "Emailghazi" non-scandal. The Politico headline: "State: No record Hillary Clinton signed exit form." Yes, it's come down to an ...read more
There's no way White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked "details" of Hillary Clinton's personal email account, as was reported by the credibility-challenged New York Post. How do we know this for sure? As I discussed with John Fugelsang and Frank Conniff Monday ...read more
Over the weekend, The Washington Post published an article detailing how former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) used his private email account and its accompanying personal email server to send and receive what seems on the surface to be sensitive messages relating to National Guard ...read more
Let's say you're a Clinton conspiracy theorist and you're desperate to single out Hillary Clinton (and no other national security officials, past or present) for microscopic scrutiny as a means to confirm you're long-held bias that she's both a sneaky-Pete and a ruthless ...read more
The Hillary Clinton email story reached its high water mark Tuesday afternoon. We hope. Best case scenario: the so-called "Emailgate" will recede into the darker corners of the debate, becoming just another in a long line of Fox News and AM talk radio scare-words to rattle off ...read more
UPDATED BELOW Quick FYI to the national press: likely presidential candidate Rick Perry is under indictment and used a private email account while governor. Elsewhere, likely presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie and several others have similar email ...read more
Nearly everyone across the news media spectrum has jumped to the unverified conclusion that Hillary Clinton ran a so-called "homebrew" email server inside her house. As we've noted before, this could very well be the case, but the reporting so far has fallen short of proving it ...read more
At the risk of making this about me, anyone who's followed my writing since the 2008 Democratic primary fracas knows that I'm far from being a Hillary Clinton superfan. Since then, and due to how she comported herself following Barack Obama's nomination, I've warmed up to ...read more
The big Wednesday story in the Hillary Clinton email news cycle centered around a bombshell Associated Press story by Jack Gillum and Ted Bridis, titled "Clinton Ran Own Computer System for Her Official Emails." The takeaway, as was reflected on dozens of news sites, was that ...read more
