As primary season continues, troubling questions and palpable dismay linger on the minds of many voters. The same tired fights of 2016 are playing out yet again four years later, as Donald Trump’s approval rating creeps higher while the Democratic unity looks like a pipe dream. Defeating Trump was always …
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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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CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the debate Tuesday night had an interesting exchange with Joe Biden: COOPER: Mr. Vice President, President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine. I want to point out there’s no evidence of wrongdoing by either …
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With veteran Fox News host Shepard Smith’s surprise announcement that he’s leaving the network on Friday, can it still be argued that the network is anything but a propaganda machine for President Donald Trump, in the same way Russia’s RT “news” network bends to the will of Russian President Vladimir …
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