On Thursday, former Trump campaign and Trump administration aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording of a phone call with Lara Trump. The two discuss Manigault Newman possibly joining the Trump campaign shortly after she was fired from the White House late last year. In the call, Lara Trump offers Manigault Newman a $180,000 salary — roughly […]
This story is a collaboration between ThinkProgress and Right Wing Watch. It also appears on Right Wing Watch. A year ago, Americans watched on in horror as the extremism and hate of the so-called “alt-right”, which had long been festering online, materialized in a very real and terrifying form on the streets of Charlottesville. In […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday announced the formation of a new Iran Action Team, which, he said, is intended to help realize President Donald Trump’s strategy of maximum pressure on the Iranian regime as a show of “solidarity” with the “long-suffering Iranian people.” The team will be lead by Director of Policy Planning Brian […]
A majority of Americans don’t support President Trump’s proposed Space Force, a new branch of the military that would protect U.S. assets in space, according to a new CNN poll. Trump called for the creation of Space Force earlier this summer, and Vice President Pence made the official request last week. It now awaits approval […]
A majority of Americans don’t support President Trump’s proposed Space Force, a new branch of the military that would protect U.S. assets in space, according to a new CNN poll. Trump called for the creation of Space Force earlier this summer, and Vice President Pence made the official request last week. It now awaits approval […]
Federal government agencies took zero responsibility for placing a number of unaccompanied immigrant youth into the hands of human traffickers in 2014, where they were forced to work on egg farms in Ohio, a bipartisan Senate report revealed Wednesday. The 52-page study, conducted by a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, showed federal officials […]
Federal government agencies took zero responsibility for placing a number of unaccompanied immigrant youth into the hands of human traffickers in 2014, where they were forced to work on egg farms in Ohio, a bipartisan Senate report revealed Wednesday. The 52-page study, conducted by a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, showed federal officials […]
Venezuela, an oil-rich country in the deep, dark throes of a political, economic, and social crisis, is now facing a new hell: Water shortage in its capital of Caracas. Amid the country’s fiscal disaster — it is unlikely to make $1.1 billion in payments on two bonds that matured on Wednesday — Reuters reports that […]
Unionized Metro workers continue to call for accountability after the transit agency appeared to provide special accommodations for white supremacists attending the Unite The Right 2 rally in Washington, D.C. last weekend. Workers gathered at a rally in D.C. on Thursday and called for Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld to be fired. When Jason Kessler, […]
Donald Trump built a fortune and a career using little more than some Hollywood magic. Thanks to a few well-placed cameras, heavily-produced scripts, and masterful cuts in the editing booth, he was reworked from a debt-laden businessman with a line of cheaply made neckties into an American success story. But when you live by the […]
Just when you thought the recent fortunes of young American white supremacists couldn’t get more embarrassing — especially after last week’s paltry turnout for the “Unite the Right 2” rally — prominent members members of the far-right have continued to suffer personal setbacks stemming from their public displays of racism. As this cohort, the leaders […]
When the White House announced late last month that President Trump was considering stripping security clearances from administration officials, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) downplayed it as mere “trolling.” “I think he’s just trolling people,” Ryan said with a shrug during a July 24 news conference. .@SpeakerRyan dismisses Trump calling for security clearances to be […]
The Trump administration released draft plans on Wednesday outlining how it intends to allow resource extraction on vast swaths of land that President Donald Trump ordered stripped from the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in Utah. Trump signed two executive orders in December 2017 that eliminated more than 2 million acres from the two national […]
The Trump administration on Wednesday revoked former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance — a move Brennan said Thursday was meant to silence him from speaking out against the president, who he claimed in an op-ed likely colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. “While I had deep insight into Russian activities during the […]
By replacing retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy with Donald Trump’s nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, the United States Senate could well set back civil rights, voting rights, workers’ rights, access to healthcare, reproductive rights, and civil liberties for decades. But one of his biggest Senate supporters thinks colleagues should overlook all of that because he finds […]
ROSS TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA — It’s usually pretty quiet outside Rep. Keith Rothfus’ (R) Ross Township office. But that changes every Wednesday, when dozens of the congressman’s constituents gather outside his nondescript doors to demand that he hold a town hall meeting. Each week, since February 2017, organizers have rallied about a different topic important to […]
In this week’s episode of “As The Donald Distracts,” our ongoing made-for-media drama produced and directed by the Trump White House, erstwhile sycophantic supporter Omarosa Manigault Newman has turned from trusted inner-circle advisor to fired-and-feared administration antagonist as she peddles her self-serving memoir, “Unhinged.” “I will say I am going to expose the corruption that went […]
Over the past year, FBI agents have been investigating a series of cyberattacks against a Democratic rival of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), one of the most ardent supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Republican Party. The cyberattacks, first reported by Rolling Stone, were targeted against Dr. Hans Keirstead, who fell just 125 votes short […]
If you found yourself thinking it was scorching hot in recent weeks, well, you were right. For the three-month period of May to July, the entire contiguous United States (CONUS) “ranked hottest on record,” as the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, California tweeted out Wednesday, adding that “records go back to 1895.” No need to […]
At some point, you have to start to admire white nationalist Jason Kessler’s seemingly natural ability to consistently own himself. Kessler was already the laughing stock of the internet after his much-hyped “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington, D.C. drew barely two dozen demonstrators but over a thousand counter-protesters. Kessler spent most of the […]
