A jury took less than an hour Wednesday to convict a Donald Trump campaign staffer in Michigan of felony election fraud — from a previous campaign. Brandon Michael Hall, a recent and failed local GOP candidate, was found guilty of 10 counts of election fraud stemming from his work on an unsuccessful judicial campaign he […]
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Half Of Americans Want Obamacare To Stay Or Expand
Some 49% of Americans want Trump and Congress to either expand Obamacare or continue implementing the law as it is, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Thursday. Another 26% want the entire law repealed, while 17% would like the law scaled back. Trump and GOP Congressional leaders have said they plan to take […]
Trump Praises Pakistan’s Prime Minister Despite The Foreign Relations Consequences
We have all seen how President-elect Donald Trump made a cozy, expansive, even flattering phone call to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. On one level, his remarks could be seen as simply amusing. In America, we have gotten used to Trump’s way of shooting his mouth off without any hint that he knows his subject. […]
Single Parent Families Will Have Higher Taxes Under Trump Plan
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals would modestly cut income taxes for most middle-class Americans. But for nearly 8 million families — including a majority of single-parent households — the opposite would occur: They’d pay more. Most married couples with three or more children would also pay higher taxes, an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center […]
Trump’s National Security Adviser Primed For WWIII
Late in the presidential race, Donald Trump warned that his opponent would start a new world war. “You’re going to end up in World War III over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton,” he told Reuters. As it turns out, there was no need to worry about Clinton’s hawkishness. The next world war is […]
Russian Propaganda Strategy Aided Trump’s Campaign
The flood of “fake news” this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery — including […]
Trump Violated Campaign Finance Laws Over 1,100 Times
The Federal Election Commission reportedly found the Donald Trump campaign accepted over 1,000 donations that violated some campaign finance laws. The FEC issued a letter to the campaign indicating that they had accepted about 1,100 problematic donations, totaling about $1.3 million. Some of the donations came from groups that had not properly registered, according to […]
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is Another Scam According To Bernie Sanders
Our infrastructure is collapsing, and the American people know it. Every day, they drive on roads with unforgiving potholes and over bridges that are in disrepair. They wait in traffic jams and ride in overcrowded subways. They see airports bursting at the seams. They see the need for a modern rail system. They worry that […]
Trump Foundation Admits To Financial Improprieties
President-elect Donald Trump’s charitable foundation engaged in self-dealing in 2015 and prior years, the foundation said in an Internal Revenue Service filing. That self-dealing, which typically triggers additional taxes for anyone who got improper benefits, resulted from payments to “disqualified persons,” or foundation insiders, according to the document. The document, which was the foundation’s tax […]
Trump Won’t Follow Through On Prosecuting Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump repeatedly said Hillary Clinton ‘s “lies and deception” rivaled Watergate. He called her “Crooked Hillary.” His most rabid fans chanted it over and over again at huge campaign rallies: “Lock her up!” But on Tuesday, Mr. Trump essentially said: “never mind,” signaling that he does not intend to pursue […]
Trump Possibly Using Presidency To Strong Arm Better Personal Business Deals
The Trump Organization spent months trying to drive off the culinary union from its Las Vegas hotel, losing one legal battle after another before a federal labor board. Soon Donald Trump’s company, which has refused to bargain with the union after housekeepers and other employees voted to join last December, could gain some leverage. As president, Trump will […]
Gen. James Mattis Is Trump’s Leading Candidate For Defense Secretary
This weekend, President-elect Donald Trump described retired Marine General James Mattis as a contender to be the next defense secretary and as “the real deal” following their hour-long meeting Saturday. Mattis retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after a 41-year career where he led Marines into Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, the initial […]