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

As we enter 2019, Donald Trump continues to do everything possible to hide, lie or cover up the multitude of illegal and unethical acts that defines his mafia style presidency. While some of Trump’s ghastly acts of constitutional violations, deceptive business practices and ...read more

• By Robert Covington, Jr.
  Jan 2, 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

(Image via NBC News)  On his show last night, Tucker Carlson accused federal prosecutors of being on a "political mission" to take out Trump and overturn the will of American voters. His claims were based on outright lies and debunked conspiracy theories....  To continue reading ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

While Trump and the GOP have been busy pretending that they 'won' the midterm elections last week, reality appears to finally be settling in with the president. According to reports in both the LA Times and the Washington Post, Trump is angry and despondent over the loss of the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 14, 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

Former Vice President Joe Biden told "CBS This Morning" that he hopes Democrats do not try to impeach Donald Trump if they retake the House of Representatives after the midterm elections in November. "I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now," ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Last night on Anderson Cooper 360, panelists Jeffrey Toobin and Kirsten Powers found themselves having to calm down Michael Caputo, whose defense of Brett Kavanaugh turned into a full-on temper tantrum when they called him out on his lies.  Caputo, a Republican aide, has worked ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 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

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

It is hard to imagine what it must be like to work in the Trump administration or for him in any other capacity. Facing scandals and utter chaos in every direction, the Trump team has been in a perpetual state of crisis for as long as it has existed. In recent times however, the ...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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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