Over the past year, the mainstream media has managed to popularize fake news stories of every kind. Manufactured hate crimes. Climate crises. Fake war footage. Here are just a few of the stories intended to deceive in 2019. MAGA Hat Smirker In January, the media reported that bunch of Covington high school kids surrounded a…
The impeachment proceedings against President Trump have fueled all manner of conjecture regarding the proper discharge of foreign policy, hidden motives behind both Trump’s phone call and the ensuing investigation, and everything from the dead-cat bounce of the Mueller Report to the Kurdish policy shift. But there are a number of questions that, while they should be asked,…
Mary Margaret Olohan Video footage shows the Iowa voter who argued with former Vice President Joe Biden telling another event attendee, “stick it up your ass, fella.” Biden spoke at a campaign event in New Hampton, Iowa, where he lashed out at an Iowa voter who questioned him about both his age and his son’s business dealings in Ukraine. Biden told…
Mary Margaret Olohan Democrats expressed concerns that voters might be affected by GOP anti-impeachment ads over Thanksgiving break, lawmakers and aides said. Groups supporting the GOP purchased almost $8 million in television ads targeting pivotal districts, Politico reported. Most of these ads will focus on criticizing Democrats about impeachment, and Democrats expressed concerns to party leaders that voters…
Chuck Ross Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, testified Wednesday that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s requests that Ukraine’s president open politically charged investigations in order to secure a White House meeting “were a quid pro quo” that reflected President Donald Trump’s wishes. “Mr. Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a…
Chuck Ross George Conway, the husband of White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway and a harsh critic of President Donald Trump, called Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik “lying trash” on Saturday, and urged voters to support her Democratic challenger. Conway, a Republican attorney, was seemingly miffed by Stefanik’s battles with Rep. Adam Schiff during the Trump impeachment hearings….
On October 31 st , Nancy Pelosi moved forward with a formal impeachment inquiry, adding a layer of formality to the so-called “soviet-style” impeachment inquiry. However, rather than analyzing the institution of impeachment on legal grounds, as many lawyers are wont to do, impeachment should, as is intended, be analyzed on political grounds. As Alexander…
Shelby Talcott – Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley stood off in an argumentative interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie Tuesday morning. – Nikki Haley backed up President Donald Trump on the Ukraine phone call and supported the president again by saying that he is mentally fit for office and has always been truthful…
A February 2018 tweet by Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the Ukraine phone call Whistleblower, appears to indicate him assisting pedophiles obtain government security clearance. An article from Slate raised the question of how a domestic abuser obtained security clearance. Zaid responded in a tweet that he has gotten clearances for people who have child pornography…
Mary Margaret Olohanon Only two Democratic congressmen voted “no” on a resolution formalizing an impeachment inquiry Thursday: New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew and Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson. Congress voted Thursday to open an impeachment inquiry with a vote ending 232 in favor of the impeachment inquiry and 196 against. Not a single Republican voted yes….