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
As Trump and the Republican Party ram through the most unpopular tax cuts in US history and the Mueller investigation continues to close in on the president and his election team, Trump's approval ratings across the board are now utterly catastrophic. A Quinnipiac University ...read more
Rachel Maddow released two pages of President Trump's 2005 federal tax return Tuesday night showing Trump and his wife Melania paid $38 million in income taxes for that particular tax year. The returns were acquired via mail by reporter and author David Cay Johnston. It's also ...read more
Donald Trump has admitted to "self-dealing" in tax documents for his charitable foundation. Self-dealing, which is illegal, means that he used tax-free funds from his charity to benefit himself. It also means that he did this knowingly since his signature is required on these ...read more
I've been writing about presidential politics since 1988, and never in a million years did I think I'd witness anything like the Donald Trump campaign, culminating, of course, in Trump's unprecedented, vomitous behavior throughout the last three days. I never thought I'd ever ...read more