Donald Trump has bragged plenty about his charitable giving, but like nearly every aspect of the president’s life, his nonprofit foundation is rife with corruption. Most of the reporting on the Trump Foundation took place during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, when it was discovered that the money it brought in …
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President Trump wasfleeced by Kim Jong-un. During Tuesday’s summit between the two world leaders, Trump legitimized Kim’s regime while promising to end joint defense testing with South Korea, something the president’s advisers have repeatedly warned him against. In return, Kim offered nothing more than a vague commitment to work toward …
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Whomever President Trump was speaking about on Wednesday, they began the paragraph as human beings. “You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are,” the president told Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims and the rest of the assembled California officials in a meeting about the state’s “sanctuary” immigration laws. Trump quickly …
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After Rudy Giuliani’s recent, potentially troublesome media tour as President Trump’s new lawyer, the former New York City mayor’s behavior has left many Americans shocked and confused. But on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver argued that Giuliani’s “always been this way,” detailing his various controversies and bizarre public moments. …
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The Trump administration’s narrative regarding the Stormy Daniels case unraveled completely Wednesday night after Rudy Giuliani’s admission that the president repaid Michael Cohen the $130,000 used to silence the adult film star shortly before the 2016 election. Though the White House spent most of Thursday trying to untangle the factual …
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Stormy Daniels answers the door of her Houston hotel room wearing little athletic shorts and a green Pantera tank top over a sports bra, her long blond hair in a loose ponytail. We shake hands and she jumps back onto her bed, sitting up with her legs tucked under her …
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“It’s pretty clear to me everyone in the White House knows it’d be the end of President Trump’s presidency if he tried to fire Mr. Mueller,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina yesterday on ABC’s This Week, referring to Robert Mueller, the special counsel hired last May to investigate …
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The headline in the New York Times seemed sympathetic: “The House Just Voted To Bankrupt Graduate Students”. The piece by Erin Rousseau, a graduate student at M.I.T., detailed an insidious little virus buried in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, just passed by Republicans in the House. The law would …
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We’re in the midst of a unique moment in modern history. Women are speaking up about the mistreatment they’ve suffered at the hands of powerful men – and people are actually listening. Whether the end result will be abacklash or aradical reconfiguration of power dynamics in the workforce is yet …
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Billy Eichner celebrated Halloween on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, appearing onstage dressed as a giant banana and roping Colbert into a Billy On the Street–style game, “Hocus Pocus or Trump’s White House.” The game (which begins at the 7:15 mark), found Eichner quizzing Colbert on facts that …
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