Previous Guy shines a pile with a revisionist history of his Helsinki beta moment

Previous guy whines with some strange riffs from Mueller Report, likely because of the latest Rudy tape as well as the McGahn testimony. Apparently he still wants that Moscow hotel. … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: a Trump indictment has Florida officials preparing extradition plans

A Trump indictment moves closer with McGahn agreement to testify to Congress, as with a variety of other possible witness cooperation and NY DA activity. The Manhattan DA is signaling such possible … Read More

White House announces Jarvanka are headed to Davos — and that Jared outranks Ivanka

On cue, Ivanka appears on a news outlet in order to humanize the Trumpian psychosis ranting against his Senate trial. She softballed her way through accountability for her father’s immigration … Read More

Groundhog Day: a second Trump impeachment could happen

As unlikely as it could happen, the eventual resolution of the Don McGahn testimony issue could bring another impeachment inquiry. The investigations continue regardless of this first impeachment, because there’s … Read More

The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 149)

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see … Read More

Even if Americans are divided, the impeachment trends can change as with today's McGahn ruling

The 120 page ruling on the order for the McGahn testimony came in today. McGahn must comply and testify before Congress. Executive Privilege is limited. Expect a WH appeal. It rejects … Read More

Arms for Dirt – adding false information to a call summary is impeachable

Darn that pattern of impeachable conduct. Alexander Vindman said he tried to fix the wording in the rough transcript so that it matched his notes of the phone call, but … Read More

Some of Trump's Ukraine CT narrative came from a RWNJ columnist, now at Fox News

Apparently John Solomon is Individual-1’s Pat Buchanan and William Safire. John Solomon, now at Fox News, seems to be the nutter whose shaky ideas about Democrats in Ukraine diffused to Trump. … Read More

Holy Cow – Trump was the real author of the rant-filled 8-page letter to Pelosi

Such a wack letter refusing to cooperate did allow for the possibility that Trump reviewed it but the Daily Beast reports that Trump had a much deeper role, which explains … Read More

Hooboy! The Trump-Fox feud continues with fierce pushback from Neil Cavuto

On his Thursday show, Neil Cavuto responded to Donald Trump’s recent remarks about the relative dearth of bootlicking happening at Fox News these days. Yesterday, Trump tweeted this: x Just … Read More

Impeachment This Fall?

Politico has a news story up this morning reporting that Jerry Nadler now thinks his committee could have impeachment articles ready sometime this autumn: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler … Read More

Sarah Sanders pokes her head out to predict six more weeks of bullsh*t

The Mouth of Sauron emerged from her volcano lair yesterday long enough to gaslight the ever-living fuck out of us. x Didn’t take long for Mueller to once again vindicate President … Read More

The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 125)

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see … Read More

The dam just broke

You were real funny out in the game zone. It’s not so funny NOW, is it bitch?   Dynamo   The Running Man There’s one overarching image if Bill Barr that I … Read More

Sentence First, Trial After (and Make it Snappy)

Republicans are now openly admitting that it doesn’t matter what crimes the House finds Trump committed; they will make the Senate trial as short as possible and find him not … Read More

The best argument I've heard for impeachment so far.

It seems to be an argument almost as fundamental as “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, and just about as insoluble. On the one hand you have activist … Read More

The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 122)

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see … Read More

Hook. Line. Sinker.

This would be embarrassing if only it weren’t so damn hysterical. Watching Donald Trump go up against Nancy Pelosi is like watching Don Knotts fight Muhammad Ali in his prime. … Read More

The lid is off of the can

I used to have a favorite pet phrase when I was raising my kids. They’d do something goofy,and I’d tell friends, “You buy ‘em shoes, you dress ‘em up nice, … Read More

370+ former prosecutors say Trump would have been charged with obstruction were he not POTUS

Only 370? Where are the rest of them? In a stinging rebuke to William “Low — No, No Lower … Lower” Barr, hundreds of former federal prosecutors have signed a statement … Read More

Lindsey Graham is proud to tell you he doesn't care if Trump broke the law

The gelding of Lindsey Graham is complete. If only the operation had been quicker. Watching Donald Trump hack away at his gonads with a meringue whisk for four years kind of … Read More

“Fan Fiction”

The title is a description of the content of my re cent article “*sigh* OK, time to get messy” that appeared in the comments section. Actually, I got a kick out … Read More

Trump claims he didn't try to fire Mueller because firing people 'is not good'

This is a guy whose entire persona was based on the lame catchphrase “You’re fired!” And here he was earlier today: “I’m a student of history. I see what you … Read More

“*sigh* OK, time to get messy.”

For all of 2018, the Democrats pledged in their campaigns that they were the ones who would restore order to a lawless Trump Washington, hold Trump’s feet to the fire, and restore … Read More

Trump: 'I have been the most transparent president in the history of our country'

I can only assume he means “transphobic.” The Hill: “We're fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a conference in Atlanta on opioid … Read More

CNN: Trump pressured John Kelly to give Ivanka a security clearance, too

Guess the ‘vanka half of Jarvanka is unfit to know government secrets, too. CNN: President Donald Trump pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn … Read More

Who will ultimately bring down Trump? You'll never guess.

It won’t be Michael Cohen. And it won’t be Michael Flynn either. Forget about Paul Manafort while you’re at it, and he can take Rick Gates and Don McGahn with … Read More

If NBC Listed the White House Podium as a Source, I would Buy that Before I Believed a Trump Tweet.

There was a minor dust up in the blogosphere last night after anNBC news story came out, which stated that White House Council Don McGahn, who sat directly behind Kavanaugh during … Read More

Don McGahn, Who Championed Kavanaugh, Will Ride Herd on “Limited” FBI Investigation.

NBC News White House counsel Don McGahn, who has shepherded Kavanaugh's nomination since president Trump chose him for the high court on July 9, is taking the lead for the … Read More

Mitch McConnell has a Flake in his hair.

I hate when this happens. I've been obsessing over this for like, 20 hours now, it even woke me up at 2:30 this morning. But when you spend as much … Read More

NYT: White House counsel McGahn has been cooperating with Mueller

Needless to say, Trump is going to lose it when Ivanka reads this story to him. From The New York Times: The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has … Read More

Wow! W. H. Counsel McGahn, fearing Being Trump's Fall Guy, Co-operating “Extensively” w/ Mueller

This is HUUGE! New York Times “WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes … Read More