Political News and Commentary
A Republican Congressman who is known for pushing crazy conspiracy theories and getting arrested for drunk driving is now filing a resolution asking Robert Mueller to step down from the investigation into Trump-Russia.
Today, New York City was hit by what appears to be a terrible terrorist attack. The attack occurred in lower Manhattan, where the suspect was able to drive down a bike lane for several blocks, hitting dozens of people.
In breaking news, Paul Manafort was indicted today by the Robert Mueller investigation into ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia. That was expected. But less expected was the fact that another man would be incicted as well. That man: Rick Gates.
Buried under the mass of news today was this unbelievable item: according to reports, Trump is making the U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico pay for evacuation flights off the island -- and if they have no money, he plans to take their passports until they pay up. And this comes just days after several members of Trump's team were caught charging hundreds of thousands of dollars to taxpayers so that they could fly in private jets to questionable "events".
Historically, the NBA Champions usually visit the White House to meet the active President of the United States. Well the Golden State Warriors have chosen not to visit Donald Trump as the organization posted a press release for ignoring him.
This evening on the Rachel Maddow show, Rachel Maddow went through a list of people who have been appointed or hired to work in senior government roles that are completely unqualified for the job.
Today on The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur took a hit at former employee Dave Rubin in a discussion about racists in the media. In discussing PewDiePie, Uygur noted that certain media personalities take positions because they are actually racist, like Richard Spencer, while others take positions because they're paid to, like Dave Rubin.
STATEMENT OF DONALD J. TRUMP JR. September 7, 2017
I welcome the opportunity to share this prepared statement in an effort to set forth the sum and substance of what I know regarding a meeting I attended on June 9, 2016. I am thankful for the opportunity to meet with you today and look forward to answering all of your questions. As will become clear, I did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did.
Donald Trump has successfully scared away journalists from reporting on his "dossier" for a while now. But despite the outrageous allegations in the dossier, the CIA and FBI are continuing to use it as a guide to their investigations into the Trump/Russia scandal.
Kansas Secretary of State Chris Kobach spent the day yesterday making the rounds on TV suggesting that many (if not most) DACA recipients are criminals. Even through the vast majority (like > 99%) haven't been convicted of any crime, he insisted that they're still criminals because some of them (he didn't have any numbers) may have been arrested and not prosecuted.
