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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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Trump Tax Cut Will Sock Nation With Higher Interest Rates

Keith GirardMarch 19, 2019

The Donald Trump tax cut, mainly for the rich, is sending ripples through the economy, creating billions of dollars in hidden costs that will come out of the pockets of millions of consumers and businesses over the next decade.... Read More...

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Donald Trump National Emergency Faces 16-State ‘Power Grab’ Lawsuit

Keith GirardFebruary 19, 2019

Donald Trump national emergency to fund his border wall is setting the stage for a key constitutional test of presidential power. Sixteen states are suing him in federal court to block the move.... Read More...

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Trump Boasts About Economy Undercut by 2018 Home Sales, Construction Declines

Keith GirardFebruary 5, 2019

Donald Trump boasts about the economy as one of his biggest successes based on strong monthly job gains since he took office. But one of the economy’s principal leading indicators–the housing sector–is already flashing ominous signs that a recession is looming.... Read More...

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Donald Trump Fate Sealed as 1-Term President by Policy Missteps, Millennials

Keith GirardJanuary 25, 2019

After two years in office, Donald Trump has finally laid out most of his cards on taxes, tariffs and the economy; they eerily parallel President Herbert Hoover’s disastrous policies leading to the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s.... Read More...

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Russian Sex Worker Anastasia Vashukevich, 28, May Be Victim of Trump-Russia Set Up

Keith GirardJanuary 25, 2019

Anastasia Vashukevich arrest in Thailand and subsequent arrest in Russia on prostitution charges may be an elaborate set up by powerful forces in Moscow to keep her from revealing possible details about Russian collusion with the Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 election, a Russian anti-corruption activist asserts.... Read More...

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Donald Trump Retreats to Last Russia Redoubt; ’85 Reagan Iran-Contra Defense

Keith GirardJanuary 21, 2019

Donald Trump has retreated into a corner as more and more details about the Russia investigation become evident, forcing him into his last refuge– the same defense that saved Ronald Reagan’s presidency during the Iran-Contra scandal some three decades ago.... Read More...

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Trump Sniffing 60 Times During Speech Raises New Concern About Adderall Addiction

Keith GirardJanuary 9, 2019

Donald Trump sniffing and heavy breathing during his border speech last night (Jan. 9) on border security, reinforcing claims that he regularly snorts Adderall to get through situations that require his concentration and attention to detail.... Read More...

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Michael Flynn Lying Defense Ripped by Feds 3 Different Ways

Keith GirardDecember 14, 2018

Michael Flynn is bidding to avoid jail for lying about his contacts with Russian operatives. But special counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, today (Dec. 14) shredded claims he was “tricked” into lying by FBI agents three different ways in a pointed memorandum.... Read More...

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Maria Butina Mixed Sex, Guns to Woo NRA, GOP (18 Photos)

Keith GirardDecember 14, 2018

Maria Butina very calculatedly used a “guns ‘n tits” strategy to build influence among Republican Party operatives and their biggest GOP constituent group, the National Rifle Association. Her spy craft could have been culled from a John le Carré novel.... Read More...

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Panama Papers Corruption, Obscured by Trump Scandals, Going Hollywood

Keith GirardDecember 12, 2018

The Panama Papers, which revealed corruption on an international scale, have largely been overshadowed by Donald Trump’s serial scandals, sex payoffs, possible Russia collusion and unprecedented self-enrichment. But not for long. The papers are going Hollywood.... Read More...

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Read Here: Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Full Sentencing Memo for Michael Flynn

Keith GirardDecember 4, 2018

Ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s cooperation with Special Counsel Robert Mueller was detailed in a sentencing memo filed by Mueller’s office tonight (Dec. 4). Read the full document below.... Read More...

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Trump Foundation Corruption Ruling Upholds Limit on Presidential Immunity

Keith GirardNovember 23, 2018

In another significant test of presidential immunity, New York Supreme Court Judge Salliann Scarpulla rejected arguments by Trump’s lawyers that President Trump is immune under the U.S. Constitution’s “Supremacy Clause,” from being sued in state court because he is a sitting president.... Read More...

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Donald Trump Caught With Pants Down, Pecker Exposed in Sex Tryst Payoffs

Trump, Deeply Involved in Sex Tryst Payoffs Despite Two Years of Lies

Keith GirardNovember 9, 2018

Donald Trump was deeply involved orchestrating payoffs to his mistresses in the run-up to the 2016 election with longtime crony and National Enquirer owner David Pecker, according to a new bombshell report.... Read More...

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Trump Scrambles to Find Crony for AG Job Sparking National Crisis

Keith GirardNovember 9, 2018

Donald Trump’s firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has all the markings of Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” during Watergate, compounded by Trump’s bumbling effort to put a political crony in the job, sparking a national outcry.... Read More...

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Trump Legacy as ‘Massacre President’ Jumps in Wake of California Mass Shooting

Keith GirardNovember 8, 2018

Donald Trump’s claim to be a “law and order” president was rebuked, again, today (Nov. 8) after another mass shooting left 13 people dead and others wounded, cementing Trump’s legacy as the “massacre president” for his failure to act to curb gun violence.... Read More...

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Did Kanye West Trump Bromance Sink Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum?

Keith GirardNovember 8, 2018

Kanye West’s high-profile support for President Trump, including efforts to convince African-Americans to vote Republican, may have help sink the candidacies of Democrats Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum, who ran for governor in Georgia and Florida, respectively.... Read More...

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