Is the world’s biggest political road show enough to win an election? Matt Taibbi heads to Springfield, Virginia to a Bernie Sanders campaign rally in the run-up to Super Tuesday. Are his supporters feeling the Bern? Yes. Baby Yoda tees? Check. “Black people love Bernie,” says one supporter. The enthusiasm …
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In this week’s episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast. They discuss how Mike Bloomberg or Bernie Sanders would square up in a general election against Trump, Wall …
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Attorney General William Barr is frustrated by President Trump’s Twitter habit. “I think it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases,” Barr said during an interview with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas that aired on Thursday. Barr’s comments were spurred by the president tweeting …
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Delivering the opening remarks at the impeachment trial of President Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) evoked the founding fathers to put impeachment in historical context. Schiff said that Alexander Hamilton had cautioned that a public official unfit for public office may one day get elected to “pursue his own interests.” …
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“I was disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me,” presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren told reporters in Iowa, on Sunday. Warren was responding to a report published in Politico on Saturday that referenced a script from the Bernie Sanders campaign that instructs his volunteers on …
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Mike Lee is ticked off. The Republican senior senator from Utah emerged from a classified briefing by the Trump administration on the conflict with Iran denouncing it as, “The worst briefing I’ve seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I’ve served in the United States Senate.” …
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Days ahead of the assassination of high-ranking Iranian military and intelligence official Gen. Qasem Soleimani, President Donald Trump was dropping hints to guests at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, telling them to expect something “big” very “soon” in Iraq. “He kept saying, ‘You’ll see,’” a source who was at Mar-a-Lago …
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Unredacted emails regarding the withheld congressionally-appropriated US military aid to Ukraine that prompted the impeachment of President Donald Trump show government officials were concerned about possible illegality of withholding the aid and that the president himself was standing in the way. The unredacted emails, viewed by Just Security’s Kate Brannen, …
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President Trump attacked three-time ambassador Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter on Friday while she testified before the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings. But as she exited the room, some in attendance gave Yovanovitch a round of applause. The ovation followed her all the way to Sunday night, when she arrived at …
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“Brazen Orwellian doublespeak” — that’s what the Green Party is saying in response to Hillary Clinton’s accusation that their 2016 candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, is “totally” a “Russian asset.” “Clinton has spent her entire career as an asset of Wall Street, the police state and war — the real dangers …
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