The idea that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks—especially one who’s been rewarded for bad behavior—is particularly poignant when we consider President Trump’s firing Friday of Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the Intelligence Community. Trump has a track record of firing and retaliating against officials who don’t blindly follow his orders and mimic his mood swings, no matter how unethical, illegal, dangerous, or […]
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Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued an unqualified rebuke of his boss, President Donald Trump, in an official statement released early Saturday morning. Horowitz’s missive, put out on official U.S. government stationary, is an unprecedented defense of his recently-fired colleague, now-former intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who oversaw the whistleblower complaint that eventually led to the the 45th president’s historic impeachment late […]
President Donald Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who brought forward the whistleblower complaint to Congress in light of President Donald Trump’s conversation with Ukraine’s president – which later led to the impeachment proceedings. The news comes late Friday night, in a letter obtained by CNN, which states Atkinson is set to be booted in 30 days from his post. NEWS: The […]
Authored by Michael Lewis, op-ed via Bloomberg.com, We have so little data for how we’re supposed to live in this social-distancing world… At the same time much of Northern California was ordered to shelter in place, it was granted lots of exceptions to the order. You could go out for groceries and prescription drugs and dog walking. You could go out if you performed an “essential service.” You could […]
Michael McFaul has once again flexed his deep understanding of the world on Twitter, this time expressing bafflement over the start of the Iranian New Year. Not everyone is on the same calendar, Mike. Never afraid of broadcasting deep thoughts to his captivated Twitter followers, the Stanford academic found it fitting to mock Iran’s supreme leader for commenting on the start of the Iranian (or Persian) […]
A man in Texas was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor after admittedly lying about having tested positive for contracting the novel Coronavirus in a post on Facebook. According to the Tyler County Sheriff’s Office, 23-year-old Michael Lane Brandin turned himself in after causing a small panic because his post also claimed that he was told the deadly contagion had evolved to spread even more easily than […]
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and “fixer” for President Donald Trump, is calling on his former client to order the release of non-violent prisoners to avoid imposing a “death sentence” on him and others. The petition is a “plea to the President of the United States to save lives” to avoid a threat of lethal exposure for inmates like Cohen. Of course, given […]
Far from reassuring the markets, the Federal Reserve’s dramatic action over the weekend seems to have spooked them instead. Over the weekend, the Fed decided it couldn’t wait for Wednesday’s planned meeting to act, cutting interest rates to nearly 0 percent. It also announced $700 billion of direct capital injection through the purchase of Treasury securities and mortgage-backed debt. The question is whether this action can […]
Michael Cohen, and the Federal Correctional Institution at Otisville, New York The coronavirus outbreak has lots of people thinking about their well-being, their habits, and their proximity to others. You can possibly add federal prison inmate Michael Cohen to that list. A petition was shared from his Twitter account on Sunday morning: https://t.co/QJV3oHoiyQ — Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) March 15, 2020 The account has been run by […]
Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images President Donald Trump topped off his Sunday proclamations on Twitter announcing he is “strongly considering” a pardon for Michael Flynn. He also took shots are the FBI and the Justice Department for good measure. “So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with […]
15 Mar, 2020 17:41 President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he is “strongly considering” pardoning former advisor Michael Flynn after the FBI and Justice Department “destroyed” his life, seemingly confirming the long-standing rumors. So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has “lost” […]
A Michigan mayor and longtime Republican has decided to renounce President Donald Trump in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. The Chicago Tribune has released a profile on Michael Taylor, mayor of Sterling Heights, MI, which is situated in the middle of Macomb County, where many midwestern voters supported Trump in 2016 after voting for Barack Obama twice. Taylor has established himself as a prominent […]
A NASA employee was charged Wednesday with murdering his neighbor, a Maryland National Guardsman, with whom he’d fought for years over loud music, dog poop, and guests, according to police and family members. Michael Hetle, 52, faces several charges, including second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, in the slaying of his 24-year-old neighbor Javon Prather, Fairfax County police […]
President Donald Trump has mocked “Mini Mike” Bloomberg pretty much every primary election night in the past few weeks, and now that Bloomberg is on the ballot and racking up losses, Trump again mocked his campaign woes. Bloomberg was more optimistic early in the night, saying “we proved we can win the voters who will decide the general election” despite his only win being American Samoa […]
Fox News’ Chris Wallace assessed that Michael Bloomberg’s heading for a “terrible night” based on how quickly Joe Biden won in Virginia. Exit projections declared Biden the winner almost instantly after the polls closed on Super Tuesday, with the vice president routing the competition. As Wallace analyzed Biden’s lead in the state, he assessed that “Michael Blockberg is having a terrible night.” “His ads have been […]
NBC’s National politics reporter Josh Lederman in West Palm, Florida, covering the Mike Bloomberg campaign reported on MSNBC Tuesday night that there is “intense pressure” on the former New York City mayor to drop out of the race for the White House. The segment began with the NBC reporter stating that the pressure on the Bloomberg campaign to drop out is “intense” from “senior” Democratic officials […]
MIAMI, Florida—Mike Bloomberg started the most important day of his 2020 campaign scolding a sea of reporters about rival Joe Biden’s momentum and refusing to drop out of the Democratic primary. “Joe’s taking votes away from me,” Bloomberg said at his campaign’s Little Havana field office when asked by a reporter about moderates dropping out to support Biden in the last 24 hours. “Have you asked […]
Democratic US presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg presented himself as the standout candidate on the issue of Israel during a speech at the AIPAC confab. Addressing 18,000 people at the pro-Israel lobby group yesterday, the former New York mayor attacked his rival Bernie Sanders over his position on Israel and offered unconditional support for the Zionist state. “If I am elected president, I can promise you I […]
Filmmaker and prominent Bernie Sanders supporter Michael Moore waved off former Vice President Joe Biden’s decisive South Carolina primary win on Monday night, claiming the state “is not representative of the United States.” With moderate and establishment Democrats rallying around Biden ahead of Super Tuesday, including candidates Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropping out and endorsing the ex-veep, Moore appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari […]
Staunch Sanders supporter and progressive firebrand Michael Moore brushed off former Vice President Joe Biden’s big primary victory in South Carolina, dismissing that state as “not representative of the United States” and that it will have “absolutely no impact on the November 3rd election.” Speaking with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Moore said the Democratic establishment was growing increasingly frightened of Sanders’ candidacy, and was the driving reason […]
President Donald Trump continued taunting “Mini Mike” Bloomberg this morning over the people he has advising him on his presidential run. Bloomberg was not on the ballot in South Carolina last night, but he’s banking on a strong showing on Super Tuesday this week. Trump tweeted last night he should get out of the race, and this morning the president taunted the former New York mayor […]
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod said on CNN Saturday night that Joe Biden’s big South Carolina win is a blow against one of the rationales for Michael Bloomberg getting in the race. Bloomberg was not on the ballot in South Carolina tonight and is banking on doing well on Super Tuesday next week. After Biden won, former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe endorsed Biden live on CNN […]
Michael Bloomberg has learned nothing. That seems to be the main message to come out of the candidate’s presidential campaign so far—at least where race, and more specifically stop-and-frisk, is concerned. At Wednesday night’s CNN town hall in South Carolina, just as he had the night before in a debate, the former New York City Mayor again spoke about the racist policing policy in terms that […]
Democratic strategist James Carville called out Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for using Tuesday night’s Democratic debate to continue her attack on former New York City mayor and 2020 rival, Michael Bloomberg. “The takeaway is Elizabeth Warren hates Michael Bloomberg more than she wants to win,” Carville said. “I think she doesn’t want to attack Bernie because she’s scared she’ll get primaries in 2024. Her attacks on […]