President Trump: freaking out US Senators, too. They just won’t say it this plainly when they know they’re being recorded. Getty Images Washington Post: At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn’t switch off her microphone. Apparently speaking to Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking Democrat of […]
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Eli Sanders is The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won this, but he also once crashed his bike into a parked car while on his way to a staff meeting, never mind this, so… His website, which probably hasn't been updated in a while, is www.elisanders.net.
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Turns out There Was an Eighth Person at That Once-Secret Trump Tower Meeting, and He Works for a Russian Oligarch
The list of people at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting keeps getting longer. Drew Angerer / Getty Images It’s been more than a week since The New York Times broke the news of a secret June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between Trump campaign officials and Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. It’s also […]
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Was the Trump Campaign’s Russia Collusion Not Just About Getting Clinton Dirt, But Also About Giving Voter Data?
Data driven? GETTY IMAGES An intriguing McClatchy article today suggests we may be thinking too narrowly about possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. It’s not just that Donald Trump, Jr. was eager to get Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton. It could also be that Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was involved in helping […]
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Behavior Is “Borderline Treason,” Says Former Bush Ethics Lawyer
Borderline. Feels like I’m going to lose my mind… Win McNamee / Getty Images Meeting with a Russian national who promises you dirt on Hillary Clinton during a US presidential campaign? That’s “borderline treason,” says Richard Painter, the former ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush. Trump Jr. has now admitted to just such a […]
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Elizabeth Warren Says It’s Time for a Single Payer Healthcare System
Elizabeth Warren Astrid Riecken / Getty Images While Republicans keep on struggling to repeal Obamacare, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has decided it’s time to move beyond the stale fight over our current system and get a newer, better system: single payer. If you haven’t been tracking Warren’s statements closely, you might be surprised to learn […]
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Is Eric Trump Copying Richard Spencer’s “Fashy” Haircut?
White nationalist Richard Spencer’s “fashy.” Eric Trump just debuted a similar summer style. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images In urgent fashion questions: Is that a deliberate “fashy” on Eric Trump’s head, or did he just accidentally trip into Richard Spencer’s favorite haircut? .@EricTrump rocking a new hair cut. pic.twitter.com/wEpuQ5z5iQ— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 25, […]
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Live: Let’s All Watch Jeff Sessions Get Grilled Together!
Testifying in public today for the first time since January 10. Win McNamee / Getty Images As Attorney General Jeff Sessions begins his public testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee (at 11:30 am Pacific, streaming here and everywhere), let’s review a few things. Sessions was supposed to testify publicly before two other Congressional committees that […]
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You Must Read James Comey’s Prepared Testimony
It’s the fullest accounting so far of what went down between President Trump and his fired FBI director.
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More People Now Want Trump Impeached Than Support His Job Performance
Ratings down, rantings up. Win McNamee / Getty Images Newsweek reports that “support for Donald Trump’s impeachment is now higher than his approval rating.” Virtually every single poll tracking President Donald Trump’s approval rating showed the figure plummeting Monday morning, well below the margin of error compared to the rising level of support for impeachment. […]
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Twitter Founder “Sorry” If He Helped Put Trump in Office
Not laughing so much now that Twitter played a role in “a very bad thing.” David Paul Morris / Getty This has been kicking around for a couple days, but in case you missed it due to beautiful Portland weather interrupting obsessive device-checking: Evan Williams, the guy who owns Twitter and Medium, is sorry about […]
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The Case Against Impeaching Trump
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The case is being made today by Cliston Brown in the New York Observer, and it can be summed up in two words: Mike Pence. As they often do, Democrats are failing to see when they’ve got a good thing going and are looking for a way to screw it […]
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New York Times: Trump Personally Asked Comey to End the Flynn Investigation
“I’m like a smart person.” Mark Wilson / Getty Images Drip, drip, drip: WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to shut down the federal investigation into Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, in an Oval Office meeting in February, according to a memo Mr. Comey wrote shortly […]