It appears that the Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson under Donald Trump, lied about a $31,000 custom mahogany dining room set chosen for his office that was paid for by the public. Carson maintained that “nobody was more surprised than me,” about the cost of ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

Donald Trump is just a blip on the political screen. That might sound like wishful thinking, but in the context of the long term devolution of the United States, it is absolutely true. Imagine for a moment that you have liver cancer. Not the most malignant kind, but one that ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Apr 12, 2017

There is an emerging story about an unopened Trump hotel in Azerbaijan that has, as Adam Davidson in the New Yorker has uncovered, been linked to corrupt officials who support the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This is potentially a huge scandal that should have the ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Mar 7, 2017

2016 may have taken Bowie, Prince and Carrie Fisher, among others, but this morning 2017 killed irony. In his highly anticipated, absolutely inevitable tweet-storm in response to last night's release of the details of an intel dossier on Trump that included claims he had paid ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Nov 9, 2018

This will no doubt leave you shocked, shocked, but one of Donald Trump’s reality TV administration appointments has just been outed as an unscrupulous cheat. CNN Money has broken the story that conservative writer and former Fox News indignant blonde woman Monica Crowley ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Jan 8, 2017