The U.S. District Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York is investigating Rudy Giuliani’s business and financial dealings with Ukraine and other countries. Ironically, that’s the very same office that Giuliani once held before becoming the mayor of New York City. The Wall Street Journal reports that the investigation has been going on for quite some time now. (more…) Read more
October 16, 2019
Federal Prosecutor Examining Giuliani’s Business and Financial Dealings
October 16, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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October 16, 2019
Cruz Criticizes Trump for Asking China to Investigate Biden
October 16, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Ted Cruz became one of the very few major Republican legislators to criticize Donald Trump for his call on China to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter. On Sunday’s Face the Nation, he was asked about it and, unlike so many other political cowards in the GOP, he did not equivocate or hem and haw over it. (more…) Read more
October 15, 2019
Nazi Posters Posted on Synagogue in Grand Rapids
October 15, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Yet another horrible anti-Semitic incident has taken place right here in my hometown of Grand Rapids, where a bunch of posters, some of them invoking Adolf Hitler and calling for another genocide against Jews was plastered on the doors of the Temple Emanuel, the most prominent synagogue in the city. (more…) Read more
October 15, 2019
Turkish Invasion of Syria Allows Hundreds of ISIS Detainees to Escape
October 15, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Trump’s decision to allow Turkey to invade northern Syria has had exactly the result that virtually everyone predicted. Our longtime Kurdish allies are on the run and now hundreds of ISIS detainees have gone free from camps there. Gee, if only anyone — I mean, everyone — didn’t see that coming. (more…) Read more
October 15, 2019
Liz Cheney Blames Turkish Aggression on Impeachment Proceedings
October 15, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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The irrational apple doesn’t fall far from the partisan tree. Liz Cheney went on Fox News and found a way to blame the Turkish invasion of Syria not on Trump, who allowed it to happen quite publicly and intentionally, but on Democrats. The impeachment investigation, she says, is to blame for it. (more…) Read more
October 15, 2019
Lively Explains Ukraine Situation: It’s All About The Gay.
October 15, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Scott Lively, the utterly deranged anti-gay bigot and crackpot conspiracy theorist, has an explanation for what is happening in Ukraine. And wouldn’t you know it? It all comes back to The Gay, the root of all evil in Lively’s dark, twisted world. He says Obama overthrew the Ukrainian government (he did?) because, of course, he’s gay. (more…) Read more
October 15, 2019
Barr Blames Everything on ‘Secularism’
October 15, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Attorney General William Barr gave a talk at the Notre Dame Law School and peddled the tired old line that everything bad in society is the result of “secularism,” always vaguely defined. Like most ridiculous conservative ideologues, he equates secularism with “moral relativism.” (more…) Read more
October 14, 2019
Sondland: Trump Told Me to Say There Was No Quid Pro Quo
October 14, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, apparently intends to testify about the now-infamous phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky despite being order not to do so. And he intends to tell the House Intelligence Committee that the “there was no quid pro quo” statement in a text message he wrote was directly ordered by Trump himself. (more…) Read more
October 14, 2019
Trump Continues to Lie About Military Running Out of Ammunition
October 14, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Trump lies on pretty much an hourly basis, but one of his most ridiculous lies is repeatedly claiming that when he took office, the military had totally run out of ammunition, but he fixed that. In fact, the military has long had far more ammunition than they could possibly need and it was Republicans trying to prohibit the purchase of any more. (more…) Read more
October 14, 2019
Jackson: Liberals Have No Morals, Will Murder You
October 14, 2019 By Ed Brayton
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Failed Virginia Republican candidate for Lt. Governor E.W. Jackson says that conservatives are at a disadvantage against liberals because liberals, being the immoral, horrible people we are, will murder them if we think we can get away it. And yes, Virginia is the same place where the Charlottesville white supremacist rally took place. (more…) Read more
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