In an exclusive audio recording released last night by The Rachel Maddow Show, Congressman Devin Nunes admitted that he and his fellow Republicans want to hold on to the House in the 2018 midterms to impede and, just maybe, end Robert Mueller's investigation into Donald Trump's ...read more
This is part one of a two part piece on the story behind the Magnitsky Act Everyone knows that on June 9th, 2016, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin and lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in Manhattan. Although Junior ...read more
It might be Donald Trump's new counter-argument against the Mueller investigation or it might not be. With Rudy Giuliani running Trump's defense on television, who the hell knows. Rudy might just be making this up as he goes, but it looks like Trump and his legal team are saying ...read more
Lost in the fire hose of daily Trump news is the basic notion that the president is anything but presidential. Donald Trump continues to behave more like an incontinent mid-level radio or Fox News screecher, abandoning all links to the decorum or decency for which most previous ...read more
One of the myriad problems with the Russian attack against our elections is the vast complexity of the crisis. The working parts in the Mueller investigation alone -- and just the ones we know about -- could take weeks to cover for someone who hasn't been following along. Then ...read more
In addition to the indicted conspirators themselves, the charges handed down today against 12 Russian operatives by the Department of Justice includes allegations against a variety of unnamed co-conspirators. I happen to know one of those unnamed co-conspirators personally ...read more
You have to give it to Donald Trump. The man has an uncanny ability to describe reality as the exact inverse of what almost everyone outside of his nutty supporters believes it to be. At a meeting in Brussels with Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg, Trump, who is in the midsts of a ...read more
Sometimes it's difficult to know whether Donald Trump is stupid or if he's exploiting the naivete of his fanboys. I suppose we have to evaluate each blurt and each tweet on its own, whether he's being a moron or whether he's feeding viral talking points to his Red Hat army. ...read more
You should note today's date somewhere. Send an email to yourself, post something on your Facebook wall, do whatever you need to do to make sure you remember June 4, 2018. It was almost two years ago, in July of 2016, when we first heard that Russia was behind the hacking of the ...read more
Not that facts matter anymore, but in the off chance there are some Red Hats stopping by today, it's time to bring some truth in response to Donald Trump's ongoing lies about the alleged political motives of Robert Mueller's team. For several months now, Trump has been hurling ...read more