National Politicians & Issues
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used her Christian faith to ardently defend the rights of LGBTQ Americans during a congressional committee hearing on Thursday ― calling out the “bigotry” of those who use Christianity to discriminate against this marginalized community. The lawmaker suggested that Jesus himself would be “maligned as a radical” by today’s Congress for his […]
Former President Barack Obama demanded South Carolina television stations and a pro-Trump group stop airing a “despicable” ad that misuses his voice to attack his former Vice President Joe Biden. “Joe Biden promised to help our community. It was a lie. Here’s President Obama,” the ad begins, then continues to play an audio passage from Obama’s 1995 memoir, “Dreams […]
Attorney General William Barr attempted to block U.S. prosecution of a Turkish bank last year after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked Donald Trump for help in the matter, according to a new CNN report that supports earlier accounts. Barr personally attempted to head off prosecution of Halkbank in a suspected multibillion-dollar scheme to evade sanctions […]
President Donald Trump has been caught in several lies – again. President Donald Trump made 31 false claims last week and 55 the week before, including 22 at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in late January and 13 in an official speech at a community college in Charlotte, North Carolina, in early February. Trump spread […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden raised eyebrows on the campaign trail Sunday when he jokingly called a university student a “lying dog-faced pony soldier.” This was after she asked him a question about his apparent fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. In video clips of the encounter at the campaign event in Hampton, New Hampshire, […]
From start to finish, President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was marked by partisan tension that spilled out in the exchange between the leaders of both parties: Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. He refused to shake her hand after she introduced him. She tore his speech up and tossed it aside […]
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said she didn’t want to explain what the White House strategy will be after the House of Representatives voted to formalize the impeachment procedures today. “To be honest with you,” Grisham told Fox News, “now that we are in phase two of the impeachment inquiry, I don’t think we […]
In the coming days, President Donald Trump is likely to continue making direct comparisons between the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the killing of Osama bin Laden eight years ago. After all, Trump’s presidency seems, in large part, to be dictated by either undoing or trying to outdo what President Barack […]
President Donald Trump slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) while speaking at a rally in her home state on Thursday, calling her a “fraud” and “disgrace to our country.” “How the hell did that ever happen,” Trump said of Omar’s election to Congress in 2016. “How do you have such a person representing you in Minnesota?” President […]
Two Muslim men are asking the Department of Transportation to investigate American Airlines and regional carrier Mesa Airlines after crew members on a Dallas-bound flight called the FBI on them. The offense? According to Issam Abdallah, one of the men accusing the airlines of discrimination, crew members became suspicious of him after he “went to […]
Democratic donor Ed Buck has been charged with operating a drug house after a 37-year-old man suffered a non-fatal overdose at his apartment last week. Two other men have died of overdoses at Buck’s home. Buck is accused of injecting the man with methamphetamine at his West Hollywood apartment on September 11, according to the […]
CNN’s Don Lemon repeatedly questioned President Trump‘s “fitness for office” on Wednesday night and suggested that his recent remarks “puts us in danger.” “This is a president of the United States running wild, running amok, it’s constant, it’s everything,” Lemon said. “All of it together raises serious questions about his fitness for office… The volume of what […]
