According to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Mueller investigation has yielded zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign team of 2016 and the Russian government, despite mountains of publicly available evidence that there was.
According to Politico, Trump allies are now freaking out about the possibility that the president's pugnacious lawyer Michael Cohen may well be about to flip and turn on Trump to save his skin
It is abundantly clear that the president really, really does not want to get on Vladimir Putin's bad side
As long as history records that the 2016 election was skewed by Russia to help Trump, personal collusion by Trump or not, the Trump presidency will be widely regarded as illegitimate.
Trump defied the screaming all-caps warning from his national security team — “DO NOT CONGRATULATE,” they wrote in his briefing papers — personally phoning Putin this week anyway, while also refusing to mention a goddamn thing about any of the above, including the 13 sanctioned troll farmers or the near-assassination of Sergei Skripal on UK soil.
Donald Trump will almost certainly do nothing to assist Britain during this crisis. While he has said he is with Britain "all the way", he has provided no measures to punish Russia, no measures to support May, and has been purposely vague when it comes to blaming Putin for the attack.
Despite definitive intelligence reports stating that Russia is planning on disrupting the midterm elections this year, Trump's State Department has spent precisely none of the previous administrations allocated budget of $120 million to fight it.
Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and a close aide to Donald Trump said Wednesday that she plans to leave the White House in the coming weeks. Why? Because she probably wants to avoid jail time due to the rapidly expanding Russia investigation.
In an extraordinary statement on Twitter, former FBI director James Comey ripped into Trump and the Republican Party's attempts to smear the agency with the ludicrous 'Nunes Memo'.
New York Magazine ran an in depth profile of Greenwald that focused on his strident belief that there is nothing to the Russiagate/collusion investigation. It was a subtly brutal piece of journalism that exposed Greenwald's ineptitude as a journalist and painted him as a painfully unaware zealot. But Greenwald completely missed the point.
Former White House chief strategist and former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon has made a deal to speak with special counsel Robert Mueller regarding Russia's interference into the 2016 election. It could mean he could have his ultimate revenge on Donald Trump.
In a truly astonishing interview revealed today, Steve Bannon states that the Trump Tower meeting between the Donald Trump Jr. and a group of Russians during the election in 2016 was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”.
Speaking on Fox News today, Tom Fitton, the head of a conservative watchdog group stated that not only does the Mueller investigation need to be "shutdown", but the entire FBI too
The efforts to delegitimize Robert Mueller, a lifetime Republican with a spotless record of professionalism, have been extraordinary. As Mueller closes in on his inner circle, the president has only two options, each with catastrophic consequences.
In a stunning confession, president Trump's personal lawyer John Dowd, took responsibility on Sunday for a tweet that Trump sent on Saturday claiming he knew his former security adviser, Michael Flynn, had lied to the FBI before he fired him in February
If Breitbart is now acknowledging that the man they've been lying for shamelessly for the past two years is in deep trouble, you can be sure that we are approaching some sort of reckoning.
Robert Mueller has seen what the rest of us have seen: a president who has openly challenged Americans to make him accountable for daily violations of the constitution, and dared anyone to stop him from turning the country into a totalitarian state.
The crisis is just beginning. Unless social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter endeavor to self-police more vigorously, deploying support staff and algorithms to weed out deliberate foreign attempts to manufacture chaos in our politics, things could get much, much worse.
Trump has been under investigation so many times since announcing his candidacy that his legacy will no doubt be defined more by what he was accused of than what he accomplished.
"I want to thank him for cutting our payroll" said the president in response to a question about Vladimir Putin expelling US diplomats from Russia.
Donald Trump Jr. isn’t a politician. He’s just a regular guy who likes to go duck hunting and run the family business while dad’s off helping us shape a high-quality society. He wears plaid shirts and jeans. Donald Trump Jr. is just like you.
The president's total impotence is now irrefutable, and his chances of staying in power are growing slimmer by the day.
“We have to be vigorous in holding the norms of our civil society," said former Government Ethics Chief, Walter Shaub. "We have to protect our institutions.”
"What we're missing now -- what was taken from us -- what I need right now, is to be able to hear and read Chez's reactions to everything that's happened since that cold night in February when he died."
This is getting truly pathetic.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has requested all correspondence between her, Donald Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort
So devoted to Trump is Sean Hannity that in order to deflect from his failures, the Fox News host is now attacking the GOP for failing to repeal and replace Obamacare, but turning on his coworkers at Fox News.
This is the version of reality Americans are now living in -- a version where the President of the United States actively condones colluding with a hostile government that has just hacked your election.
The clouds parted over the weekend and into Monday, thanks to the brave, intrepid and patriotic reporting of The New York Times and the drip-drip exposure of Donald Trump Junior and the Trump campaign's obvious criminal conspiracy with Russian spies.
Retweeting a 5 month old story from Hannity's new best friend Julian Assange, the Fox News host is doing his best to take the heat off of the Trump family.
President Trump apparently discussed setting up an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded". Er, what?
Predictably, Donald Trump is lying about the latest revelations into the Russia hacking scandal, misquoting former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and using a pathetic straw man argument to deflect attention away from himself and pass the blame to President Obama.
Apparently suffering from amnesia, Fox News host Sean Hannity equated Russiagate with Birtherism, the vicious Obama conspiracy theory he helped promote.
Buckle up and grab the popcorn.
Like a dog who has learned how to beg for treats, Trump is reverting to basic learned behavior in a time of crisis.
As of yet there have been no rising stars in the Democratic Party since its implosion after the election. With Kamala Harris, they might just have found one.
The former FBI Director’s testimony was blunt and damaging to the Trump administration. The response to his answers also shows how easy it is to win over Washington.
During the James Comey hearing today we learned (again) that Trump asked him specifically to end his investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia. This isn't the only evidence however, there is a lot more and it is now time to begin the impeachment process.
The Russian President will never give Americans the answers they're looking for
The news about the Trump/Russiagate scandal is coming so fast and so frequently that we are having a difficult time keeping up with it here at the Banter. We need your help to continue covering it.
In a truly deranged opening monologue on his show last night, a clearly spooked (and exhausted) Hannity dug deep into his bag of bullshit, claiming there were five dark forces working to destroy the Trump administration.
The right wing media has been working over time to cast doubt on the Trump/Russia leak story, labeling it liberal whining, false, and an overreaction. At the front of the misleading propaganda march is of course Breitbart.com -- a site that screwed the story up in truly hilarious fashion.
The new, mega edition of Banter M is now out!!!
It is perfectly rational to a) be highly critical of Comey's job performance and b) express outrage over his firing when the explanation given makes no sense whatsoever.
Bottom line: it's absolutely this level of defiant ignorance that allowed Putin to so-easily infiltrate our social media and news cycles in the first place, with his pervasive disinformation campaign and hacked documents.
