Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump released a statement Wednesday praising the Interior Department's inspector general for "Completely and Totally exonerating me in the clearing of Lafayette Park!" — referencing, without explicitly saying so, an incident last year that his critics characterized as a photo opportunity for him. On June 1, 2020,…

Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 9, 2021. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday defended a decision by the Justice Department to continue to…

The Biden Justice Department is still defending Donald Trump in a defamation suit brought against the former president by one of his rape acusers, E. Jean Carroll, arguing that Trump should not be held liable for making "crude remarks" against Carroll during her time in office.  Carroll's accusations date back…

On Tuesday morning, a new Senate report revealed even more of what is increasingly obvious: The January 6 Capitol insurrection was both surprisingly predictable and yet widely ignored by the people who had the power to stop it. "The U.S. Capitol Police had specific intelligence that supporters of President Donald Trump…

Joy Behar had a hilarious reaction to Donald Trump’s wrinkled pants at a recent event on the June 7 episode of ‘The View,’ and Meghan McCain was mortified. The ladies of The View had a little something to say about Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally in North Carolina on June 5. The…

Last Friday I wrote about how the Democrats plan to spend the month of June deliberately failing to pass their legislative agenda in order to demonstrate how intransigent the GOP is being with their use of the filibuster. It is reminiscent of the House plan to pass "messaging bills" in the last…

Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress. Just don't ask what they'd do if they win. Look no further for evidence of the GOP's muddled governing agenda than battleground North Carolina, where party leaders packed into a convention hall Saturday night to cheer former President Donald Trump. Even with…

If Donald Trump's movement is destined to be America's answer to Nazism, then the Joe Biden administration is currently a rough equivalent of the Weimar Republic — the unstable constitutional democracy that governed Germany before the rise of Adolf Hitler. The comparison is imperfect, but the cautionary tale is still clear. There is an…

Facebook has formally banned former US President Donald Trump for two years, with the punishment continuing from the day he was suspended on the platform.The company says saying he deserved the maximum punishment for violating its rules over a deadly attack by his supporters on the US Capitol.Facebook policies have…

Facebook said Friday it would suspend Donald Trump's accounts for at least two years, retaining a ban on the former U.S. president that it imposed after determining he incited the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. "At the end of this period, we will look to experts to…