Former Mayor of New York and current Trump legal counsel Rudy Giuliani is in his boss's bad books after a series of interviews that can only be described as a train wreck. Trump is reportedly incensed about Giuliani's appearances, with many in the media speculating  he will may ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 23, 2019

A bombshell report from Buzzfeed has revealed that president Trump "directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow." Reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier spoke with two federal law enforcement officials ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Jan 18, 2019

It is impossible to make completely accurate predictions in politics. This is particularly true for Donald Trump, who is so predictably unpredictable that most pundits worth their salt have given up forecasting his political fortune.  In recent times however, there have been ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 12, 2018

Early this morning, president Trump tweeted the following statement to his army of red hats:  The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess. They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 15, 2018

By any reasonable measure, Trump's firing of Jeff Sessions represents a grave threat to democracy and the rule of law. No matter what you think of Sessions, he refused to allow Trump to politicize the Department of Justice, particularly as it related to the Mueller ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

America's worst lawyer is continuing his media blitz and making grand claims about president Trump's legal woes without a shred of verifiable evidence. This past weekend, Rudy Giuliani told the New York Times that the Mueller probe would be wrapping up in September because there ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 21, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  May 17, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  May 16, 2018

After almost 18 months on the job, we know that Donald Trump gets all his political information from Fox News. The reality TV star is so used to the medium and has such little ability to concentrate that it appears he can't actually communicate with people in real life, and ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  May 9, 2018

Next up in the line of public servants willing to incinerate their careers and personal dignity for the narcissistic madman currently residing in the White House is former mayor of New York and noted racist Rudolph Giuliani. In his infinite wisdom, Giuliani has decided to join ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As the Mueller probe gets closer and closer to Trump and his inner circle, the president is beginning to see the writing on the wall. If he does not get rid of Mueller, Trump knows that deeply embarrassing information will be revealed about either his finances or his collusion ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

While casually announcing war with Syria on Twitter this morning, president Trump also accidentally let slip that he obstructed justice in the Russia investigation. This was the Commander in Chief's unintentionally explicit admission of an impeachable crime:  As Jonathan Chait ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

The fact that so many members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team identify as Democrats obviously invalidates all recent and forthcoming confessions to various crimes as well as all objective evidence of fraud, perjury, money laundering, and collusion. This much is a ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Nov 9, 2018

In a bleak warning to America, Andrew Sullivan has penned an important piece looking at the incredibly disturbing behavior of the president over the past couple of weeks -- behavior that looks uncannily like a transition from bumbling buffoon to raging tyrant. Citing Plato's ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

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

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

• By Ben Cohen
  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

On Monday afternoon, the Washington Post reported the astonishing story that former Trump aide Sam Nunberg would be refusing a subpoena requiring him to appear before a grand jury later in the week. “Let him arrest me,” Nunberg told Josh Dawsey. “Mr. Mueller should understand I ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 5, 2018

The Banter Long Read: There is legitimate reason to criticize the FBI and local law enforcement over their handling of the Parkland shooting before, during and after the event. There should be a thorough investigation into the intelligence failings regarding Cruz and the botched ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 1, 2018

The official story behind the woefully unqualified White House communications directorHope Hick's decision to quit today is, well, pretty laughable. Reported the New York Times:  Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I remember feeling pissed off in February 2017, when Bill Maher invited Milo Yiannopoulos on Real Time. As someone who'd followed his show since high school, I'd always hated when Maher would bring on some idiot Republican to do nothing but stir the pot. But at least many of ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Feb 26, 2018

Breitbart.com loudly declared recently that "Americans 'Overwhelmingly' Believe Obama 'Improperly Surveilled' Trump Campaign'. According to the far right outlet, Americans are now ignoring the "disgraced" media that is failing to report on it and are turning to journalistic ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In the relentless PR war to convince America that there was no collusion, no Russian hacks and no need to investigate the president for crimes against his own country, Donald Trump tweeted this in support of the widely ridiculed Devin Nunes today:  Nunes will go down in history ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

I've been attempting to write an article for the past three days about the need to find common ground with those you disagree with politically, no matter how ideologically you might be apart. I will still publish this piece, but my God does the left's contrarian-in-chief Glenn ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

In an extraordinary statement on Twitter, former FBI director James Comey ripped into Trump and the Republican Party's attempts to smear the agency with the ludicrous 'Nunes Memo':  To refer to the President of the United States and the major political party in power as ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

With the resignation of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe after months of sustained attacks from Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans and Trump's decision to not continue sanctions on Russia over its hacking of the US election, important voices from across the nation are ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As Trump and the Republican Party ram through the most unpopular tax cuts in US history and the Mueller investigation continues to close in on the president and his election team, Trump's approval ratings across the board are now utterly catastrophic.  A Quinnipiac University ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Speaking on Fox News today, Tom Fitton, the head of a conservative watchdog group stated that not only does the Mueller investigation need to be "shutdown", but the entire FBI too: "I think the FBI's been compromised," said Fitton. "Forget about shutting down Mr. Mueller. Do we ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 14, 2017

If you've been paying attention to the coordinated attacks on Special Counsel Robert Mueller coming from the pro-Trump media, you will have noticed a dramatic acceleration over the past couple of weeks. This is because Trump is almost certainly planning to fire him, yet again ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Although most of the Breitbart journalists are completely detached from objective reality, a sprinkling of them do seem to grasp certain aspects of just how bad the Mueller probe is going to be for Donald Trump, particularly with Michael Flynn's decision to cooperate with him. ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

(WARNING: SATIRE!) Sources reported to the LA Times that Robert Mueller once left a nasty comment card at an Applebee’s restaurant. The card in question was recreated through a second hand retelling from an anonymous source who reportedly had lunch with Mueller, along with ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Nov 9, 2018

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

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Nov 9, 2018

(SATIRE WARNING: This article has been written with satirical intentions. The Daily Banter only tepidly endorses the rantings and ravings of Frederic Poag. The following should used for comedic purposes only and should only be taken with a grain of salt. Please see your physician ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Nov 9, 2018

White House sources leaked early Monday morning that White House Chief of Staff and newly christened “Blue Falcon” military veteran John Kelly was especially distraught at his loss in the White House Indictment Office Pool.  Kelly reportedly debated calling in sick after the ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Nov 9, 2018