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When we last left Roger Stone, he was trying to convince federal judge Amy Berman Jackson to put him in jail in advance of his trial, or at least he seemed to be trying to do that. Berman Jackson gag ordered Stone in February after he accidentally oopsie allowed one of his interns to post…
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty) Folks, I’ll be honest with you: I’m starting to think that President Donald Trump is not only a viciously corrupt abscess on the underbelly of American politics, but that he’s incredibly stupid to boot. I mean, why else would he essentially admit that the only reason he picked (laughably unqualified) Matt…
A year-and-a-half before he took responsibility for overseeing the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, Matthew Whitaker, now the acting attorney general, had already reached a conclusion. “The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign,” he said in an interview on the Wilkow Majority show. “There was…
Just before 5 P.M. on Tuesday, the afternoon of August 21, 2018, became one of those unforgettable Trump news cycles, like the moment when the “Access Hollywood” tape was released, on October 7, 2016, and Donald Trump’s voice was heard bragging about sexually forcing himself on women, or when the White House suddenly announced, on…
FBI agent Peter Strzok, who most people know as the FBI agent who committed the sin of telling his girlfriend Lisa Page that he has opinions sometimes on politics, including opinions unfavorable to our Dearest Leader Donald Trump (and Bernie Sanders and Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder and Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton), will be…
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) President Donald Trump hasn’t actually fired special counsel Robert Mueller yet, but for some reason, city officials in Pittsburgh are already planning to clamp down hard on protests that might erupt if he does. In an email obtained by WTAE reporter Marcie Cipriani, Pittsburgh Police Commander Victor Joseph instructed his…