(Image source: The New York Times) We should probably brace ourselves for an extended Trump shutdown because there's ultimately no reason for the president to end his ongoing temper tantrum. He straight up needs this. Even though his poll numbers are crashing, the longer the ...read more
A bombshell report from Buzzfeed has revealed that president Trump "directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow." Reporters Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier spoke with two federal law enforcement officials ...read more
There's no way to know for sure, but it seems like Donald Trump is increasingly disconnected from reality. Specifically, I don't get the sense he fully understands how blindingly real his legal jeopardy is. In fact, around 35 percent of American voters are just as deluded as ...read more
There's one human being on this planet who I'd like to see locked up in federal prison more than Donald Trump. It turns out, the orange doesn't fall far from the orange tree. Specifically, Donald Trump Junior is someone who is both repulsive and dangerous -- perhaps more ...read more
You might recall how Donald Trump mentioned that the reason the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan was because terrorists were crossing the border into Russia. And so, in 1979, the Soviets retaliated by invading. While babbling incoherently, as he always does, Trump blurted, “The ...read more
The 2016 election exposed a deadly and dangerous glitch among American voters. We're apparently a nation of suckers and kneejerk social media users, and that's actually sugar-coating the diagnosis a little. Russia's active measures worked only because gullible Trump voters and ...read more
Maria Butina, the alleged Russian spy who posed as a gun rights activist to court influence among Republicans, will plead guilty today for conspiring to violate Section 951 - the federal statute referred to by the DOJ as "espionage-lite" - during the 2016 election. She has also ...read more
Wednesday, December 12, was another historic day in the ongoing disintegration of both the Trump presidency and the Trump brand, with Trump the man-baby moving ever closer to impeachment and ignominy. We learned that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and bag-man, Michael Cohen, will ...read more
Donald Trump has to know. He has to know that he's in deep trouble. I mean, he can't really believe the court memos that dropped on Friday actually cleared him, can he? Between the time at which the explosive Michael Cohen sentencing memo went public and the time at which the ...read more
Donald Trump had yet another really bad day. It began with a series of ridiculously childish Twitter outburts, including one in which he accused Rex Tillerson of being "dumb as rocks" and another in which he screamed "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" possibly triggering a bomb threat called ...read more
Yesterday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office released both a sentencing memo and a heavily redacted addendum regarding former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. He recommended a "sentence that does not impose a term of incarceration," because Flynn cooperated ...read more
I'd like to preface all of this with the caveat that we don't yet have hard evidence showing specific alterations in the midterm election results. And, with that in mind, I'd also like to suggest that, yes, Russia most likely played a part in changing the outcome in several key ...read more
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
(Image via Reuters) You might be surprised to learn that I've always kinda' liked former RNC chairman and current MSNBC analyst Michael Steele. He's a Never-Trumper and a seemingly reasonable guy regardless of his former political affiliations... To continue reading this ...read more
Last night it was revealed that two right-wing grifters, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, were reported to the FBI for a hasty, rushed-together conspiracy that involved forcing women to make false claims of sexual assault against Robert Mueller. For those unfamiliar with either ...read more
Mitch McConnell has some words of advice for House Democrats poised to take control of the lower chamber: Please don't be mean to Trump. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is warning Democrats to think carefully about “presidential harassment” if they win the majority of the ...read more
The New Yorker's stunning expose of the server communications between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank during the 2016 election is a must-read piece that exposes the tantalizing threads of the Trump-Russia investigation. Reporter Dexter Filkins reaches no hard ...read more
With the battle over the Kavanaugh confirmation in the rearview mirror, we turn now to the midterms and the low frequency stress we're all experiencing in the face of another Election Day that could be hijacked by Russian military intelligence operatives. So far, there hasn't ...read more
Ever since Brett Kavanaugh first stepped up to the microphone to publicly accept Donald Trump's offer to become the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, I've been screaming to anyone who'll listen about the obvious, observable fact that Kavanaugh is being puppeteered by ...read more
No matter what happens, we can always count on Donald Trump to make things worse for Donald Trump. In the ongoing effort to simultaneously brand himself as the Greatest Great Person Of Greatness while also desperately squirming out of legal jeopardy, Trump, like a doofus Walter ...read more
I suppose it was inevitable that during an era in which Donald Trump is perpetually flooding the zone with madness that we'd also get a Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who brings with him a seemingly endless syllabus of baggage. Now, after weeks of speculation as well as ...read more
Over the past two years, The Daily Banter has repeatedly scrutinized California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher for his ties to Russia. Warned as early as 2012 that the Kremlin had been cultivating him as an asset, he continued to spout Kremlin talking points and meet with dubious ...read more
