James Comey’s much-hyped interview with George Stephanopoulos aired tonight. In a five-hour interview condensed to a one-hour special, Comey said that there’s evidence that Trump obstructed justice, that “it sucked” to be him following the election, and that Trump “will stain everyone around him.”
Remember Hillary Clinton, our brave and martyred friend, the first casualty in the war against Donald Trump? According to Politico, Clinton has nobly put aside her differences with Trump to help, ah, [checks notes], Mike Pompeo, a torture proponent and Islamophobe, get her old job:
After today’s FBI raid at the office of Donald Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen, Trump was predictably furious. At a meeting today with the press, the president cycled through his usual roster of scapegoats whenever something goes wrong—Robert Mueller, Jeff Sessions, James Comey, and Hillary Clinton, to name a few—and…
If there’s one thing that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have in common, it’s that neither of them can stop talking about the 2016 election. While Clinton literally wrote a book on “What,” in her opinion, “Happened,” a Trump speech wouldn’t be legit if he didn’t harp on about how much and how hard he won.
Hillary Clinton spoke at an event at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Thursday night, addressing the reaction—hers and the public’s—to her loss in the 2016 election. And when she was asked how she’d respond to critics who told her to “get off the public stage and shut up,” per the moderator’s wording, she seemed…
The bombshell revelation that Cambridge Analytica apparently used illicitly obtained Facebook user data to hone the Trump campaign’s digital strategy has given way to more granular details of how the data company manipulated media and tech firms to give its client an edge. On Friday, The Guardian published portions of…
I guess Joe Biden is running for president.
Hillary Clinton said late Saturday that she “meant no disrespect” when she insulted a large swath of America as an economic wasteland because it voted for Donald Trump instead of her.
The Democrats, a party chronically short on good ideas, seem to have finally stumbled across one: getting rid of superdelegates altogether.
On Friday, Mayor of 9/11 Rudy Giuliani alit from the stalactite he spends daylight wrapped around to attend a reception for President Trump’s donors at Mar-a-Lago. There, Axios reports, he was invited to speak onstage, during which he recalled attending Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s 2005 wedding—a happy…
Spending day after day on Twitter is a loathsome, exhausting task I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Today’s reason: this tweet from almost-president Hillary Clinton.
Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina Republican congressman most infamous for the lengthy, expensive, and stupid probe into Benghazi that he spearheaded for the sole purpose of inflicting political harm against Hillary Clinton, announced on Wednesday that he will not be running for re-election in 2018.
Fifteen minutes before every news channel in America turned to the US Capitol Building for the State of the Union address, and T minus two and a half hours before all US citizens turned on their TVs to watch Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the much-anticipated Stormy Daniels interview–and the only 100 percent-definite moment…
The State of the Union is one of the most highly choreographed and scripted nights in American politics. If everyone hits their mark—that is, if the president says the right words as they scroll by on the prompter and the minority party’s sacrificial lamb responds to say those words were bad without accidentally…
It is Sunday, the Grammys have stretched into their third hour, Patti LuPone is singing a rendition of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is live-tweeting a seething commentary about Hillary Clinton’s Fire and Fury Grammys sketch. Time, as of 10:28 p.m., is a flat…
Hillary Clinton responded Friday to a New York Times report about a top adviser she had kept on staff after he allegedly sexually harassed a fellow staffer by saying she was “heartened” that the woman had come forward.
Hillary Clinton refused to fire a top adviser after he’d been accused of sexual harassment by another member of her staff, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The FBI has launched a brand spankin’ new investigation into the Clinton Foundation, according to reports from The Hill on Thursday. And I know what you’re thinking, “Emails, again?” But according to law enforcement officials and a witness, the Justice Department is changing it up this time with an inquiry into…
Congressional Republicans forced through a wildly unpopular tax plan that will act as policy steroids for extreme wealth inequality, a provision of that same bill will likely destabilize national healthcare markets and force millions of additional people to go without insurance, the president of the United States is …
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