Though Obama’s speech certainly included issues related to Indonesia in particular, it also had a broader message about addressing the challenges brought about by globalization and technological change that he has sought to spread in his post-presidency so far. Like many of his other speeches, Obama’s address at the conference – a biennial event established […]
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Project Veritas Drops Another Video Bomb…This One Is about the Angst Behind Gov Cuomo’s Brother…
CNN associate producer Jimmy Carr says Chris Cuomo is only anchor of CNN’s “New Day” because his brother is governor of New York in yet another undercover video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. In the video posted Wednesday, Carr said of Cuomo’s rise, “I don’t have a brother who’s the governor, so … ” The […]
The Savior: Obama Tells Democrats He’s Back to Rebuild the Party He Helped Destroy…
The savior is returning. Barack Obama may get back into the trenches to help his party, which was widely expected, especially with the midterm season upon us. The former president is reportedly having regular check-ins with Democratic Party leaders, with speculation that he’s aiming to rebuild the party he helped destroy over the course of […]
Former Clinton Foundation Donors Flocking To The McCain Institute…
With the Clinton Foundation standing at the heart of the many scandals that dogged Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, it was no small wonder that donations to her family’s controversial charity began to dry up soon after her loss last November. Just weeks after the election, donations to the foundation from foreign governments plummeted, […]
First the New York Times, Now the AP Corrects Falsehood in Four Trump-Russia Reports…
The Associated Press “clarified” a false claim it’s been running in stories about President Trump and Russia on Friday, conceding in a release it’s not the case that 17 intelligence agencies “agreed” on the hacking narrative. The correction to four reports on Trump and Russia comes the same day The New York Times issued a […]
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Financial Disclosures of More than 400 Officials Trump Has Installed Across the Government…
ProPublica has been collecting disclosure forms that lay out Trump administration officials’ financial holdings and employment backgrounds. We now have disclosures from more than 400 officials and we’re sharing them with you. They are from White House staffers, President Trump’s Cabinet and from the hundreds of members of so-called beachhead teams that the administration has […]
American Pravda Part 3/3: CNN Selectively Edits, Hates Trump and Think Voters Are Stupid (VIDEO)…
“On the inside, we all recognize he is a clown that he is hilariously unqualified for this. He’s really bad at this and that he does not have America’s best interests. We recognize he’s just fucking crazy.” He continues to attack Trump personally, instead of focusing on his policy: “He’s not actually a Republican. He […]
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CNN Faced $100M Lawsuit over Botched Russia Story…
The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump’s — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned. The cable network’s coverage of Trump transition team member Anthony Scaramucci came amid federal scrutiny of corporate parent Time […]
House Panel Votes to Force Congress to Vote on War Against Islamic State…
The House Appropriations Committee, in a surprise move, adopted an amendment Thursday offered by leading anti-war Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) that would force Congress to vote on a new authorization for the battle against the Islamic State. The amendment, which passed by voice vote, would repeal within 240 days of the enactment of appropriations for […]
NYTs Issues Correction: 4 Intelligence Agencies NOT 17 Approved ODNI Russian Hacking Assessment…
Correction: June 29, 2017 – A White House Memo article on Monday about President Trump’s deflections and denials about Russia referred incorrectly to the source of an intelligence assessment that said Russia orchestrated hacking attacks during last year’s presidential election. The assessment was made by four intelligence agencies — the Office of the Director of […]
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REPORT: Obama Admin Relied on Outside Country for ‘Critical Intelligence’ Claiming Russia Interference…
The source of the intelligence led to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) reluctance to make conclusions with high confidence based on the data, the Post reported. Those details were buried inside an extensive, 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published last week titled, “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault.” The piece was […]
CNN’s Van Jones Calling Russia Story A ‘Nothing Burger’ (VIDEO)…
CNN commentator Van Jones called the Russia story a “nothing burger” in the second CNN-related undercover video released by Project Veritas this week. “The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger,” Jones says on the video, apparently unaware he is being filmed. “There’s nothing there you can do.” The comments caught on tape aren’t […]
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times for Defamation…
On Tuesday evening, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hired Hulk Hogan’s lawyers and sued the New York Times for defamation for falsely accusing her in a June 14 editorial of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ). The Times’ editorial was published on the day that James Hodgkinson shot House Majority Whip […]
Burr: Senate Panel to Get Comey Memos…
The Senate Intelligence Committee has reached an agreement to receive memos written by former FBI Director James Comey detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump, Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told POLITICO on Wednesday. It had been an open question whether Congress would get access to the memos, which several committees in both the House and […]
Lindsey Graham Asks Very Simple Question about ‘Unmasking’; Massive Evasion Effort Ensues…
For months now, Senator Lindsey Graham has been trying to get an answer to a very simple question, namely ‘if his conversations are ‘incidentally’ captured while he’s overseas talking with a foreign leader who’s being surveilled by the U.S. intelligence community and his name is subsequently unmasked, is he, as a United States citizen and/or […]
Roger Stone Has Set a Date to Testify in the House Russia Probe Behind ‘Close Doors’…
Roger Stone has scheduled July 24 as the date of his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, according to his attorney. Stone, a longstanding ally of President Trump, will appear before the panel during a closed hearing, Robert Buschel told Politico Tuesday. “We tried really hard,” he said of publicly conducting the hearing, which comes […]
Podesta Meets With House Intelligence Panel Behind Closed Doors…
The House Intelligence Committee met behind closed doors Tuesday with John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman, amid complaints by President Donald Trump that the Obama administration didn’t do enough to counter Russian interference in the U.S. election. Podesta’s email account was hacked, as was the Democratic National Committee’s. Many of those emails were then […]
It’s My Party by Andrew Cockburn…
Close to a decade ago, as Barack Obama was cresting toward his first presidential victory, Jim Martin pleaded desperately for his help. Martin was a progressive Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, and for most of the race he had been an underdog, outspent five to one. Then, a month before the vote, […]
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On Russia, a Senator’s Deception and a Timeline of Trump Frustration by Byron York…
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia investigation — that Schumer said the president was under investigation after he, Schumer, had been specifically told by the FBI that Trump was not — is shedding new light on the events that led to the president’s […]
Theater That Put on Trump Assassination Play Gets New $100,000 Grant…
The Public Theater in New York has received an additional $100,000 grant from the federal government, fresh off its controversy for staging a Julius Caesar production where a Donald Trump lookalike is assassinated. Just days after controversy over the graphic mock Trump killing began, the National Endowment for the Arts announced its newest round of […]
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