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

The Banter Long Read: Evidence is coming out that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to cheat his way to the presidency, and his attorney general finds himself caught in the lies. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have been indicted; George Papadopoulos has pled guilty; and ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  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

Today, special counsel Robert Mueller released his first indictments in the  ongoing Russia scandal, beginning with Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner, Rick Gates, as well as the confirmation that former Trump foreign policy adviser George ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Nov 9, 2018

It's been amazing to watch Trump supporter convince themselves that Robert Mueller's months-long investigation has been actually been about Hillary Clinton colluding with Russia all along. It's propaganda at its most effective and a sign of just how easy to manipulate the ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Dec 20, 2018

Throughout the past two years, which seem more like two centuries, we've witnessed myriad episodes of the unapologetic incompetence of Donald Trump and his surrogates. I don't think we need to do the complete list, but there's one area that stands out more than most today. ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

Paul Manafort is well and truly screwed and we might be, too. The FBI had such damning evidence against him that even during the 2016 election, a judge signed off on a warrant to wiretap Manafort's communications and that surveillance continued after Trump was sworn in as ...read more

• By Justin Rosario
  Nov 9, 2018

The Banter Long Read: A few months ago, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was caught on tape joking, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." Although McCarthy apologized for the remarks later on, he wasn't entirely wrong.... (Word Count: 1592) To ...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

Well, that didn't take long. The Trump campaign has gotten to the bottom of who was to blame for Melania Trump's plagiarized speech debacle at the Republican convention yesterday, and discovered that it was...wait for it...Hillary Clinton!! The obviously lifted passages from ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018