Last November, The Guardian revealed Julian Assange met with Paul Manafort at the Ecuadorian Embassy, shortly after Manafort had been appointed to run the Trump campaign in the spring of 2016. Assange has vociferously denied these claims, calling Guardian reporters Luke Harding ...read more
While everything about the Trump Crisis is deeply abnormal and frustratingly opaque, we can often rest assured knowing that, no matter what, Trump always makes things worse for Trump. The closest thing to normalcy in this ongoing sack-full-of-monkeys is the predictability of ...read more
A bombshell report released by The Guardian this morning revealed that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in the spring of 2016. This was the third time Manafort had visited the WikiLeaks founder; he'd previously gone ...read more
Trump is continuing his war on the Department of Justice and the intelligence community by threatening to declassify documents related to Bruce Ohr, an FBI agent whose name is not well-known to the American public, but who has been a target in conspiratorial right-wing circles. ...read more
Because Donald Trump is a fucking moron with no capacity to control his mouth, even friendly interviews are disastrous for him. Take, for example, a softball chat he had on Wednesday that aired this morning on his favorite morning ego stroking session, Fox & Friends. During the ...read more
If there's one thing we've learned from the shocking double conviction of Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, it's that the powerful aren't always exempt from the law. Sometimes, systems work. Sometimes, justice work and those who abuse the law and their positions of power are held ...read more
Sean Hannity is not in a good place, and his opening monologue on his show last night was a spectacle in how not to take bad news. In fact, Hannity was so rattled by the stunning conviction of Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was convicted of eight of charges, ...read more
Today was not a good day for Donald Trump. His former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight criminal counts, including five counts of tax fraud, and Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer, also pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws. Cohen ...read more