An Appeals Court Didn’t Seem Impressed By Michael Flynn’s Effort To Get Out Of His Criminal Case Right Away
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court appeared unimpressed on Friday by arguments from President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the Justice Department that a judge had little power to probe the government’s decision to drop the criminal case against Flynn. Flynn and DOJ raced to the US Court of Appeals for
Joe Scarborough Rips Donald Trump With Rewrite Of His Rally Coronavirus Waiver
The real legal disclaimer on the president’s 2020 campaign website warns people they can’t sue if they catch the contagion at the indoor event, planned for June 19 at the 19,000-capacity BOK Center. “By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people
Trump Is Back To Business As Usual As Virus Surges In States
WASHINGTON (AP) — At the White House, aides now routinely flout internal rules requiring face masks. The president’s campaign is again scheduling mass arena rallies. And he is back to spending summer weekends at his New Jersey golf club. Three months after President Donald Trump bowed to the realities of a pandemic that put big
The Latest Swing State Polls Look Good For Biden
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week Hard as it may be to believe, Election Day is now less than five months away. And at this point, former Vice President Joe Biden has a clear lead over President Trump in the national polls. But recent state-level surveys also give Biden an
Tom Cotton Accidentally Gives The Washington Monument An Awesome New Name
Then he predicted that cancel culture would come to Washington. “Are we going to tear the Washington Monument down?” Cotton asked. “Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?” On Twitter, the answer was a resounding yes: I watched this so you don’t have to. All you need to know is that “THE
Black People Are Tired Of Inaction Against Police Brutality. They’re Watching Biden To See If He’ll Turn The Tide.
Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News; Getty Images As America reckons with historic protests against police brutality, violent law enforcement retaliation, and eerie curfews, Black activists and strategists are closely watching Joe Biden. The nationwide protests that began after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody offer Biden a chance to signal to Americans how
May’s Jobs Report Brought Good News — But Not For Everyone
We already knew the economic crisis of the coronavirus pandemic was moving much faster than our economic data could keep up with. But the most recent jobs report, which was released today, underscores just how little we know about the current state of the job market at any given moment. In a surprise development, the
Trump Invokes George Floyd In Celebration Of Jobs Report
President Donald Trump said he hoped George Floyd was “looking down” on a surprisingly optimistic jobs report released Friday, just moments after calling for an amped-up police response to nationwide protests against racism and police brutality sparked by Floyd’s death. The president’s reference to the man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned his
Trump Takes Vindictive Swipe At GOP Senator Opposing Him, Endorses Anyone ‘Good Or Bad’
President Donald Trump on Thursday vindictively declared he would endorse any candidate with a pulse over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) after she revealed she was struggling with whether to support Trump’s reelection. “Few people know where they’ll be in two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska (which I love)
Trump Campaign’s Plea For Video Messages To Celebrate President’s Birthday Backfires
Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign put out a call on Twitter Thursday for people to film and send in videos wishing the president a happy 74th birthday, which is on June 14. “We want to make this year President Trump’s BEST BIRTHDAY EVER,” read Trump’s campaign website, which provided a form for people to fill out