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Donald Trump's company allegedly was involved in an Iranian money laundering through construction of a Trump tower in Azerbaijan. (Photo Collage:

Trump Hotel Deal May Have Helped Iran Fund Middle East Terrorism

Keith GirardJanuary 14, 2020

Donald Trump had no compulsions about getting involved in one of the world’s dirtiest business deals, even though evidence suggests it washed money for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.... Read More...

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Iran launched almost two dozen Fateh-110 missiles at U.S. based in Iraq. (Photo: Hossein Velayati)

Trump Middle East Bungling Leads to Brink of War Nobody Wants

Keith GirardJanuary 8, 2020

Donald Trump impetuous decision to kill Iran’s top commander without a clear reason or clear strategy has led to a humiliating counter strike against U.S. bases, pushing the region one step closer to a war that nobody wants.... Read More...

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Donald Trump personally ordered the death of a top Iranian general in Iraq. (Photo: Getty)

Trump Fumbles to Justify ‘Wag the Dog’ Strike on Iranian General

Keith GirardJanuary 3, 2020

Donald Trump appears to have impetuously ordered a lethal attack on Iran’s military leader in Iraq. He’s twice changed the reason justifying the killing, but has yet to quell worldwide outrage.... Read More...

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President Trump continues his roll back of environmental regulations that protect the nation's air land and water. (Photo: Getty)

Trump Toilet Rants Mask Cynical Assault on Environment

Keith GirardDecember 21, 2019

Donald Trump's rambling discourse on toilets drew social media snickers and a few jabs from late-night comics, but his bizarre ranting masks a cynical assault on the environment.... Read More...

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Congress could lose its power of oversight leading to an authoritarian government. (Photo: US Capitol)

Trump Attacks on Congress Turning US into Weimar Republic

Keith GirardDecember 17, 2019

Donald Trump, GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican lawmakers are taking a page out of Hitler’s assault on the German Weimar Republic.... Read More...

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Joe Biden is being smeared by Republicans trying to defend Donald Trump. (Photo: U.S. Congress)

Impeachment Gives Trump What He Wants: Smearing Joe Biden

Keith GirardDecember 12, 2019

Joe Biden is being smeared by Republicans trying to defend Donald Trump in impeachment hearings. (Photo: U.S. Congress) Donald Trump may have failed to coer... Read More...

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Donald Trump suffered two legal setbacks his border wall. (Photo Collage: Getty/US. Customs & Border Patrol)

Trump $2B Military Fund Raid to Build Wall Ruled Illegal

Keith GirardDecember 12, 2019

Donald Trump has been slapped down in court again. In separate rulings, two U.S. District Court judges ruled that diverting money from the military to build his wall under the guise of a “national emergency” is illegal.... Read More...

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Donald Trump's legal options are fading in fight against subpoenas. (Photo: Pool)

Trump Stonewalling Crumbles Following Legal Setbacks

Keith GirardDecember 3, 2019

Donald Trump is down to his last legal redoubt–the U.S. Supreme Court–in his efforts to stonewall Congress and government investigators over efforts to gain access to his financial records and White House witnesses.... Read More...

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Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher has become a political football. (Photo Courtesy of Andrea Gallagher)

Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher Had History of ‘Unhinged’ Acts in War

Keith GirardNovember 25, 2019

Eddie Gallagher, the Navy Seal whose war crimes conviction was reversed by President Trump, has a long history of “unhinged” conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan.... Read More...

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Donald Trump's health has raised red flags after his sudden hospital visit. (Photo: ScreenCap)

Donald Trump Raises New Red Flags Over Health After Hospital Visit

Keith GirardNovember 25, 2019

Donald Trump’s health has been a mystery the president has worked hard to cover up, starting with the 2016 election up until his sudden Nov. 16 hospital visit.... Read More...

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Trump Officials Should Face Contempt, Jail for Ignoring Impeachment Subpoenas

Keith GirardNovember 14, 2019

Top Trump officials who have refused subpoenas to testify in impeachment hearings should face a long-standing process as old as the nation itself. ... Read More...

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Donald Trump nailed for lies and misstatements at his Louisiana rally. (Photo:

Donald Trump Lying So Fast at Louisiana Rally Fact Checkers Barely Kept Up

Keith GirardNovember 7, 2019

Donald Trump lying long ago lost touch with reality. Nowhere was that more evident than at his Louisiana rally last night. ... Read More...

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William Barr being sworn in as U.S. Attorney General. (Photo: White House/ Tia Dufour)

Bill Barr Barnstorms Europe Looking for Dirt, Alarming Allies

Keith GirardNovember 3, 2019

Bill Barr has stepped outside the U.S. Attorney General’s traditional role to run political interference for Donald Trump, barreling through Europe, alarming U.S. allies, in a Quixotic quest.... Read More...

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Russian spy Maria Butina continues to create legal problems for the National Rifle Association. (Photo: Maria Butina/Facebook)

Maria Butina Fallout: NRA, Branded ‘Russian Asset,’ Now Faces State, Fed Probes

Keith GirardNovember 2, 2019

Maria Butina, the fetching Russian “gun rights” advocate and accused spy, has left the country, but her close ties to the National Rifle Association continue to reverberate.... Read More...

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Jared Kushner pictured with wife Ivanka Trump, is the owner of dozens of substandard apartments in Maryland. (Photo: White House)

Jared Kushner Sued Over Rats, Vermin in City Trump Called ‘Rodent Infested’

Keith GirardOctober 29, 2019

Jared Kushner is being sued in Maryland for failing to maintain substandard, rat-infested housing in Baltimore. It’s the same city father-in-law Donald Trump called “rat infested."... Read More...

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Russian agent Maria Butina knew the way to the heart--and soul-- of the NRA and old-fart Republicans--guns and sex. (Photo: Instagram)

Maria Butina, Russia’s Guns n’ Sex Red Sparrow, Flying the Coup for Moscow

Keith GirardOctober 25, 2019

Russian spy Maria Butina, who used her sexuality and obsession with guns to get close to influential conservative politicians and groups, walked out of a U.S jail today (Oct. 25).... Read More...

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Rudy Giuliani Gets Bronx Cheer at Yankee Stadium on His Birthday (See!)

Rudy Giuliani Bagmen Arrested For Funneling Russian $$$ to Trump Campaign

Keith GirardOctober 10, 2019

Rudy Giuliani has been tied to two men indicted on federal campaign finance charges for allegedly funneling foreign money to support Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.... Read More...

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Ivanka, Jared Kushner No Shows as Trump Faces Serious Charges

Keith GirardOctober 4, 2019

Ivanka and Jared Kushner have virtually gone underground in recent weeks, a possible sign of the seriousness of President Donald Trump’s alleged crimes and effort to cover them up.... Read More...

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Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs refutes Trump tariff claims. U.S. is paying. (Photo: Vlad Lazarenko)

Wall Street Rips Trump Tariff Folly; Here’s Who’s Really Paying

Keith GirardSeptember 23, 2019

Wall Street is the latest to join a host of academics and economists who unanimously agree U.S. businesses and consumers are footing the entire bill for Donald Trump’s tariff war.... Read More...

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Trump Assault on California Clean Air Draws 24 States into Legal Fight

Keith GirardSeptember 20, 2019

A Trump Administration regulation designed to preempt greenhouse gas emissions and Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) standards in California has drawn 24 states into a legal fight.... Read More...

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Brett Kavanaugh Used to Target Susan Collins in Democratic Fundraising Effort

Keith GirardSeptember 17, 2019

Brett Kavanaugh has become fodder in a Democratic fundraising appeal targeting Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins, a key vote confirming Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.... Read More...

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Seth Rich, a DNC staffer was murdered in July 2016 in a botched robbery. (Photo: Linkedin)

Fox News Back on Hook for Trafficking Fake Seth Rich Conspiracy Story

Keith GirardSeptember 13, 2019

Fox News may yet be held to account for promoting a right-wing conspiracy linking the death of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich to the release of stolen DNC emails.... Read More...

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Taxing the Rich: Two Academics Lay Out Options In New Paper

Keith GirardSeptember 12, 2019

Lily Batchelder and David Kamin with the Economic Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute have laid out options to reverse Donald Trump’s $1.4 trillion tax cut and raise taxes on high income earners... Read More...

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Donald Trump's $1.4 trillion tax cut is causing government debt to soar. (Photo: CBO/Getty)

Trump Browbeats Fed as Tax-Cut Fizzles; CBO Sees 1.8% GDP Growth, Soaring Debt

Keith GirardSeptember 11, 2019

Donald Trump’s massive tax cut has run its course, leaving behind massive deficits that will weigh on the economy for years to come as growth slips.... Read More...

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Trump Pie-in-the-Sky Space Force to Cost $$$ Billions — CBO

Keith GirardMay 10, 2019

Donald Trump’s Space Force will add billions of dollars to the Pentagon budget, exceeding previous estimates, even though the military has already committed 23,000 employees, according to a new study.... Read More...

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Robert Mueller’s Trump/Russia Probe a Failure of Duty

Keith GirardApril 18, 2019

Robert Mueller, a highly decorated Marine and Vietnam combat veteran, knows the meaning of orders. As special counsel of the Trump/Russia investigation, he failed to follow them.... Read More...

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Donald Trump Sells Out Western Democracy, Putin Declares Propaganda Victory

Keith GirardApril 14, 2019

Donald Trump’s reckless, disjointed foreign policy has played right into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, leading his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to declare today that “the Western, liberal model of society is dying.”... Read More...

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Trump Sociopathic Lying Is Bad, But Mass Psychosis of His Base Is Worse

Keith GirardApril 11, 2019

Sociopathic lying by Donald Trump has now spawned more than 9,000 lies and misstatements. As bad as that is, the mass psychosis of his followers, who believe him, despite all evidence, is even worse.... Read More...

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Health Care Overhaul Would Expand Aid, Reverse Trump Efforts to Undercut ACA

Keith GirardMarch 27, 2019

A major health care overhaul introduced in Congrress would lower health insurance premiums by thousands of dollars per year, according to an analysis by a non-partisan research and policy group.... Read More...

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