2014 photo shows Joe, Hunter Biden on golf course with Ukraine gas company executive
Lost amid all of the uproar over President Donald Trump, Ukraine and impeachment is the fact that the entire story boils down to allegations of corruption and malfeasance involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine. Biden was asked a few weeks ago about his son’s professional endeavors in […]
Mitch McConnell: Senate rules leave ‘no choice’ but to take up impeachment if articles pass House
With the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives rushing headlong toward impeachment of President Donald Trump, there has been plenty of speculation about how such an effort would fare in the Republican-controlled Senate, or if that body would in fact hold a trial at all. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just put some of those questions to […]
New book explains why Barack Obama has not endorsed Joe Biden
A central feature of former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign is his penchant for reminding everyone that he served as wingman to the first black president, Barack Obama. Yet, for all of the professed admiration and camaraderie, Obama has noticeably declined to support Biden’s candidacy. A new book documenting the “partnership” in the […]
NY Rep. Chris Collins resigns ahead of insider trading guilty plea
Republican New York Rep. Chris Collins resigned his seat in Congress on Monday, one day before pleading guilty to federal charges related to insider trading. Resignation submitted, guilty plea expected Politico reported that Collins submitted his resignation on Monday and stepped down from the seat he had held representing the Buffalo, New York area since […]
Sarah Sanders says Elizabeth Warren’s rise in support ‘couldn’t be better news’ for Trump
While former Vice President Joe Biden was the frontrunner among Democratic 2020 candidates as soon as he entered the race, it has become increasingly clear that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has growing momentum and support — not to mention a friendly media establishment — on her side and is on the verge of becoming the […]
Nancy Pelosi: Danger of losing House majority over impeachment ‘doesn’t matter’
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had long resisted the siren song of impeachment that echoed incessantly from her left flank over the past three years, only to finally give in to the pressure this past week over the contrived controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Pelosi not only […]
Hillary Clinton calls Eleanor Roosevelt ‘gutsy’ for standing by unfaithful husband
Failed presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is back in the public eye again, promoting a new book while fielding softball questions teed-up to attack President Donald Trump in friendly media interviews. In a television segment that aired on Sunday morning, Clinton credited former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for having been a big inspiration in her life […]
Elizabeth Warren vowed to end for-profit prisons – but she was once heavily invested in them: Report
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a top contender among the 2020 Democratic candidates, has called for an end to the practice of for-profit prisons run by private companies. But a new report reveals that as recently as six years ago, Warren was heavily invested in a retirement fund that owned significant shares in two of the […]
Steve Scalise: Why did Nancy Pelosi leave town if she’s so serious about impeaching Trump?
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) wondered on Fox & Friends on Saturday why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would leave town for two weeks on a scheduled congressional recess if she were really serious about impeaching President Donald Trump. Scalise asked a number of questions about Democrats and impeachment: “If they were so serious, […]
First House Republican comes out in favor of investigating Trump
A single House Republican has come out in support of investigating a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, Fox News reports. Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) made it clear to reporters on Friday that he’s not ready to vote to impeach the president, but thinks an investigation is warranted as a measure of “oversight.” “I’m a […]
Judge blocks Trump admin policy to extend detention limits for migrant children
On Friday, a Los Angeles federal judge blocked a new Trump administration policy that was intended to keep migrant families together while upholding the integrity of the immigration process. The policy would allow migrant children to be detained together with their families in licensed facilities for longer than 20 days, which is not generally enough […]
Ocasio-Cortez ordered to testify in Twitter blocking lawsuit
A federal judge has ordered Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to testify in court over a lawsuit against her for blocking Twitter followers, the Daily Caller reported. Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block asked for the congresswoman’s testimony after hearing other witnesses in the case. “I think she has to testify,” the judge said of the suit, […]
House Democrats threaten Pompeo with obstruction charges over subpeona
Many Democrats have already convinced themselves that the July phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky constitutes an impeachable offense and are pressing forward, full steam ahead, on the long-promised effort to impeach the president. The Democratic chairmen of three influential House committees have issued a subpoena demanding documents and testimony […]
Trump campaign announces October rally in Minneapolis
President Donald Trump is heading to Minneapolis in October for a campaign rally — right in the heart of leftist Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district. Since ascending to Congress in the 2018 election, Omar (D-MN) has been an outspoken opponent of Trump, and her reaction to the announcement was predictable. Omar lashes out “Our beautiful state […]
‘Whistleblower’ complaint cites report from Soros-funded organization
Democrats and the media are head over heels for the impeachment of President Donald Trump based upon a so-called “whistleblower” complaint that in turn was based solely on second- and third-hand hearsay from government officials and media reports. One of the key media sources cited in the complaint is an organization that is heavily funded […]
Sarah Sanders: The ‘ridiculous’ Democrat impeachment push is fueling Trump’s campaign
Democrats rushed headlong into impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, based solely on anonymous reports of a “whistleblower” complaint that was premised on second-hand hearsay. Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders could only chuckle at the absurdity of it all. So far, she says, the furor has only served as an “in-kind […]
Trump: Nancy Pelosi has been ‘taken over by the radical left’
After two-and-a-half years of resisting calls for impeachment from her left flank, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has caved to the pressure. Pelosi said on Tuesday that the House will move forward with its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump — and now, Trump is firing back at the House speaker for allowing the “radical […]
Nearly a dozen GOP senators join Democrats in vote against Trump’s border wall
After several unsuccessful efforts to convince Congress to appropriate adequate funding for the construction of a new wall along the U.S.–Mexico border, President Donald Trump was left little option but to declare a national emergency in February and use congressionally-delegated powers to shift around previously appropriated Defense funds to get his wall built. Of course, […]
Senate passes meaningless resolution to cancel Trump’s national emergency on border wall
President Donald Trump tried repeatedly to have Congress appropriate adequate funds for the construction of his famed wall at the U.S.–Mexico border, to no avail. Democrats left him little choice but to declare a national emergency and use his executive authority to shift previously appropriated funds around for that purpose. Predictably, Democrats and establishment Republicans […]
GOP lawmaker introduces resolution to oust Jerry Nadler as Judiciary chair
Among all of the hysterical talk among Democrats and the media about the ongoing efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, an often overlooked fact is that an actual and official impeachment inquiry or process has yet to be formally authorized by a full vote of the House of Representatives, as is required by the Constitution. […]
Report: Fox News will no longer book pundit who called Greta Thunberg ‘mentally ill’
A popular right-leaning pundit appearing on Fox News issued an accurate, if incredibly blunt, assessment of the way in which the radical left is exploiting a young Swedish climate activist with a known history of mental health issues — 16-year-old Greta Thunberg — to push a partisan narrative on climate change. It would appear that […]
Report: Whistleblower found to have political bias in favor of Trump opponent
Democrats and the media successfully whipped themselves into a frenzy over the past week with regard to a so-called whistleblower complaint about the content of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, and even though nobody knew who the whistleblower was, what the complaint entailed, or what had actually been […]
Ilhan Omar says Joe Biden not progressive enough to be president
Former Vice President Joe Biden has clearly been the frontrunner among the Democratic 2020 candidates since entering the race, but the fact that he is a long-serving member of the Washington political establishment with a generally centrist and moderate track record, there is a portion of the ideological left that has deemed him inadequate to […]
Stephanie Grisham says she has no plans to resume formal daily press briefings
Over the course of President Donald Trump’s tenure in office the White House has shifted away from the tradition of a formal daily briefing held by the press secretary in favor of frequent, but more informal press gaggles held by the president himself, a practice many in the media have decried, despite the unprecedented access […]
Leftist billionaire Tom Steyer blasts Nancy Pelosi over failure to impeach Trump
Since the day that President Donald Trump took office, there has been a stalwart segment of the Democratic Party that has demanded his impeachment for a variety of reasons, a push that Democratic leaders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have simultaneously attempted to both nurture and contain for purely political purposes. Some of those who […]
Elizabeth Warren surpasses Joe Biden in major Iowa poll
From the moment he first launched his campaign earlier this year, former Vice President Joe Biden has consistently polled nationwide as the clear and obvious frontrunner among the many Democratic 2020 candidates — that is, until now. A major poll in Iowa just showed a new candidate in the lead for the first time this […]
Maxine Waters ‘shocked’ by Rep. Sean Duffy’s farewell to Financial Services Committee
Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy (R) just resigned from his seat in Congress to spend time with his family as his wife, conservative pundit Rachel Campos-Duffy, prepares to give birth to their ninth child, who has unfortunately been pre-diagnosed with a heart condition. In what was likely Duffy’s last time participating in a congressional committee hearing, […]
Mike Pence criticized for motorcade on car-free Mackinac Island
Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Michigan’s famous Mackinac Island this weekend to deliver a speech to the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, and he arrived for the event at the Grand Hotel in a motorcade of eight SUVs, according to the Detroit Free Press. There’s just one problem, though, and critics and haters wasted no […]
Joe Biden explodes on reporter who asked about his son’s business dealings
Democrats and the media thought they had a new scandal to hang on President Donald Trump when it was leaked that a so-called “whistleblower” complained about the content of a phone call the president had with the president of Ukraine. But as more information emerged, the spotlight shifted from Trump to former Vice President Joe […]
President Trump to host UN event on protecting religious freedom
The White House announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump will host and keynote a Protect Religious Freedom event during the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. “The president will call on the international community to take concrete steps to prevent attacks against people on the basis of their religion or beliefs and to ensure […]