Trump says Kellyanne Conway is not being considered for chief of staff
Following a couple of less than ideal public appearances by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in recent weeks — including a news conference about the site for the 2020 G-7 economic summit and Ukraine issues, as well as an appearance on Fox News Sunday — speculation mounted in the media that President […]
Ocasio-Cortez breaks ranks with Pelosi, throws support behind Texas progressive
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is once again butting heads with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Democratic Party establishment. The freshman congresswoman has offered up an endorsement for a young far-left progressive like her who is challenging a relatively moderate Democrat incumbent in Texas, the Washington Free Beacon reports. AOC has reportedly thrown her […]
Julian Castro says he must raise $800k by month’s end or exit presidential race
Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Julian Castro, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration and former San Antonio mayor, has never risen out of the lowest tier of candidates in the broad field of Democrats seeking the White House. Castro is now cautioning his supporters that he will soon be forced to […]
Mick Mulvaney: Trump ‘surprised’ by backlash over plan to host G-7 at Doral resort
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced on Thursday that the 2020 G-7 economic summit would be hosted at President Donald Trump’s famous Doral resort in south Florida, and quite predictably, Democrats, the media and Never-Trumpers utterly lost their minds. Following several days of intense criticism over the decision, Trump announced via Twitter […]
Sole House Republican considering support for impeachment announces his retirement
Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL), the only Republican in the House who has said he is considering supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump, said Saturday that he would not seek another term in office, the Washington Examiner reported. Rooney was asked by reporters on Saturday whether he would seek a third term in the House. […]
Mark Zuckerberg not asked about blacklisted conservatives during Fox News interview
In an exclusive Fox News interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, host Dana Perino appeared to avoid asking the tech mogul specific questions about conservatives who are being blacklisted by Facebook. According to Breitbart, Zuckerberg said repeatedly in the interview that free expression was important, even while Facebook maintains a list of potential […]
Tom Arnold jokes about Trump’s assassination in tweet ahead of Dallas rally: ‘They showed up for JFK too’
It is no secret that many Hollywood liberals utterly despise President Donald Trump, with some even going so far as to openly call for his death. Formerly funny comedian Tom Arnold is one of those Trump-hating denizens of Hollywood who has wished death upon the president — and he just did so again with a […]
Chelsea Clinton ends speculation, says she will not run for Congress in 2020
Following the recent announcement that Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) would retire from Congress at the end of the current term, there was widespread talk in political circles that former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton might decide to throw her hat in the ring to succeed Lowey as the representative of New York’s 17th Congressional District, which […]
Washington Post: Ocasio-Cortez will endorse Bernie Sanders for president
Though she is only a freshman member of Congress — and has yet to serve even a full year in office — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has already vaulted to the forefront of the Democratic Party. And she isn’t hesitating to wield that incredible influence. AOC is set to throw her support behind Sen. Bernie […]
Report: Rotating hosts to fill Shepard Smith’s Fox News time slot until permanent anchor chosen
The cable news world was stunned on Friday by the unexpected resignation of longtime midday Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, and speculation immediately ran wild with regard to why he left as well as who would be selected to replace him in the 3 p.m. time slot. According to a top executive at Fox News, […]
Trump to ‘take a look’ at possibility of suing Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi
House Democrats, egged on by their media allies, have launched secretive impeachment inquiry proceedings against President Donald Trump over an entirely contrived controversy related to a phone call Trump made in July to the president of Ukraine. At the forefront of the impeachment push is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and chair of the House Intelligence […]
Brooklyn shooting leaves 4 dead, 3 injured: Report
Four people died and three were wounded early Saturday in a shooting at a private social club in Brooklyn — a location that police called an illegal gambling site, Breitbart reports. The shooting occurred just before 7 a.m. at Triple A Aces Private & Social Rental Place. NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told reporters […]
Acting DHS head Kevin McAleenan steps down
Acting Department of Homeland Security head Kevin McAleenan is stepping down to move to the private sector. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will announce McAleenan’s replacement next week and praised him for doing an “outstanding job.” “Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well […]
Two Giuliani associates arrested on campaign finance charges
Two foreign-born associates of the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who’d been assisting him in his personal investigation of alleged wrongdoing by Obama administration members in Ukraine, have been arrested and charged with violating federal campaign finance laws. Left largely unmentioned in media reports is the fact that the criminal charges are for activities entirely […]
Cherokee professor laments poor treatment by Warren’s 2020 campaign
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is finally catching up with former Vice President Joe Biden in the race for the Democrats’ 2020 nomination — but with her past coming back to haunt her, that surge in support may be shortlived. Joseph M. Pierce, an associate professor at Stony Brook University in New York who says he’s […]
Bernie Sanders to ‘change the nature’ of campaign following heart attack
It was just last week during a campaign event in Las Vegas that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a top contender for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination, suffered chest pains and was rushed to a local hospital where two stents were inserted to open a blocked coronary artery. It was later confirmed by doctors that Sanders […]
Trump: Signing military condolence letters is ‘hardest thing I have to do’
Despite President Donald Trump having spoken regularly throughout his first term about his intentions to cease American involvement in foreign wars, the bipartisan political establishment in Washington, D.C. exploded in hyperbolic outrage at the news that he would be withdrawing all remaining U.S. forces from northern Syria. During an event at the White House on […]
Report: Ukraine whistleblowers’ lawyer sought out administration informants
Almost as though on cue, a second so-called “whistleblower” with a complaint about President Donald Trump’s interactions with Ukraine has emerged just as the breathless narrative surrounding the first alleged “whistleblower” has all but crumbled under closer scrutiny and with the release of a transcript of the phone call at the heart of the matter. […]
Report: Former Obama officials knew Joe Biden’s remarks on Ukraine would cause problems
Though the mainstream media has ignored it amid their concern over President Donald Trump’s now-infamous July phone call with Ukraine, Joe Biden once bragged about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma Holdings — a company the then-vice president’s son, Hunter, was working with — fired. Now, it has been revealed that several former […]
Doctors confirm Bernie Sanders suffered heart attack
It was confirmed by doctors that Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a heart attack earlier this week when he was hospitalized with chest discomfort. A statement released by Sanders’ campaign revealed that he experienced a “myocardial infarction,” which is medical parlance for a heart attack. Two stents were placed, and Sanders was […]
Mike Pence defends Trump amid Ukraine scandal: They ‘elected us to drain the swamp’
Democrats have been trying to pull Vice President Mike Pence into the now-infamous Ukraine “scandal” since word first got out about the so-called “whistleblower” complaint against President Donald Trump — and now, Pence is fighting back. In a move that shows he won’t let this controversy drive a wedge between himself and the president, Pence […]
HHS announces new Title X recipients as Planned Parenthood backs down in funding war
In February 2019, the Trump administration reinstated a rule in Title X of the Public Health Service Act prohibiting the use of federal funds by family planning providers that perform or refer abortions — a change that Planned Parenthood fought (and lost) in court. Now, with funds to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers effectively […]
Maxine Waters: Impeachment not enough, Trump needs ‘solitary confinement’
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been on the unhinged side of things with regard to her view of President Donald Trump since before he was even elected — but even she managed to take her perpetual outrage against the president to another level in recent days. The congresswoman has been shouting “Impeach 45!” since 2017, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]