Fearless prediction. Look to see Raj Shah behind the White House podium tomorrow, due to the fact that the usual press slug, Sarah Flackabee Slanders had a previously scheduled ethics transplant that she just couldn’t move. Or an early lunch date with Sean Hannity. Or something, anything to keep her from having to step behind […]
Political runs a fascinating article on Mother's Day about the possible causes of Trump's often described narcissism, sociopathic and/or psychopathic nature, paranoia, conspiracy obsession, and just all around general meanness. The article notes that Trump distrusts psychologists and any...
Smoke and mirrors is the way that the Trump administration operates. Deflect attention from something critical by focusing the news cycle on something altogether different. This coming week will be focused on the SCOTUS nomination, which means the appointment...
A few days ago George Clayton, a Trump supporter who has announced his plans to run for the Texas State School Board insulted a young man, Drake Johnson, who has been admitted to Harvard, asking him, “was it merit or quota?” Clayton has caught a lot of heat since then and now he’s apologized — […]
God, I love Republicans, in some ways. So proud, so "upstanding Americans," so predictable, even the Trump ones. Some way, somehow, they will find a way to enrage religious working-class whites, (e.g. tell voters that Democrats are going to...
I am not a D.C. insider, nor am I an attorney who has represented presidents facing serious investigations (though I am an attorney who has done criminal defense). I am not a Robert Costa or any of the other...
Politico runs a column written by a former Senate Judiciary and White House lawyer, predicting Mueller's next steps, and it seems best to prepare ourselves, for better or worse, for the most likely scenario.
As we have reported here before,...
It's Friday afternoon and Avenatti may have just shed some light on how the game changed. He just sent out a tweet containing a picture of a new filing submitted today by the U.S. Department of Justice in the...
My god.
So much happens, so much Stormy, tweetrades, Pruitt writing himself checks, Trump obstructing or taking the 5th, Rudy barging in and peeing all over everything, one can miss things, even very big things, perhaps the biggest thing yet,...
