Steele Dossier
10 Important 'Trump Tower Moscow' Questions For Loyal Trump Supporters
In case you've been avoiding Fox News Channel and the Red Hats, here's what they're saying about this week's historic events. They're saying it's all a big nothingburger, just like always. Specifically, we learned this week that, yes, Donald Trump secretly worked on a deal to ...read more
Donald Trump is Using Bruce Ohr to Delegitimize the Mueller Probe
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
Donald Trump is Obsessed with the Russian Pee-Pee Tape
Yesterday, the Associated Press published former FBI director James Comey’s memos from his meetings with President Trump. The memos reveal things we either know or have assumed about Trump: he’s petty, vindictive, obsessed with loyalty, and has an attention span that makes fleas ...read more
DAILY BANTER EXCLUSIVE: Interview with 'Russian Roulette' co-author David Corn
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
Shock Report: The Kremlin Kept Mitt Romney from Becoming Secretary of State
This morning, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer published a summation of Christopher Steele and his investigation into Donald Trump that culminated in BuzzFeed leaking his dossier to the press shortly before Trump's inaugural last year. It is the most thorough article that I have ...read more
The Nunes Memo Omitted Much More Than It Revealed, And Here's A List
The controversial four-page memo about the Trump-Russia investigation drafted by pro-Trump stooge Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was released unredacted to the public today and, as predicted, it's a con-job from start to finish. It alleges that FBI and Department of Justice ...read more
BECOME A MEMBER!
Dianne Feinstein Puts America First, Releases Fusion GPS Transcript
Today, California Senator Dianne Feinstein dropped a bomb on her Republican colleagues by releasing the transcript of the Judiciary Committee's interview with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, whose company funded the dossier that blew the Trump-Russia investigation wide open ...read more
MEMBERS ONLY: New York Times Reporters Caught Lying About Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias
The Banter Long Read: ...in reporting on this new development, the Post's rival newspaper, the New York Times, has been caught lying about its relevance. Worse, their lies could undermine the legitimacy of the Russia investigation in the minds of the American public and even ...read more
The Trumps Are Stupidly Talking About the Steele Dossier, Which Is Fantastic News
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