Trump Officials Should Face Contempt, Jail for Ignoring Impeachment Subpoenas
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...
Keith Girard
Donald Trump Lying So Fast at Louisiana Rally Fact Checkers Barely Kept Up
Donald Trump lying long ago lost touch with reality. Nowhere was that more evident than at his Louisiana rally last night. ... Read More...
Bill Barr Barnstorms Europe Looking for Dirt, Alarming Allies
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...
Maria Butina Fallout: NRA, Branded ‘Russian Asset,’ Now Faces State, Fed Probes
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...
Jared Kushner Sued Over Rats, Vermin in City Trump Called ‘Rodent Infested’
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...
Maria Butina, Russia’s Guns n’ Sex Red Sparrow, Flying the Coup for Moscow
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...
Rudy Giuliani Bagmen Arrested For Funneling Russian $$$ to Trump Campaign
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...
Ivanka, Jared Kushner No Shows as Trump Faces Serious Charges
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...
Wall Street Rips Trump Tariff Folly; Here’s Who’s Really Paying
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...
Trump Assault on California Clean Air Draws 24 States into Legal Fight
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...
Brett Kavanaugh Used to Target Susan Collins in Democratic Fundraising Effort
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...
Fox News Back on Hook for Trafficking Fake Seth Rich Conspiracy Story
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...
Taxing the Rich: Two Academics Lay Out Options In New Paper
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...
Trump Browbeats Fed as Tax-Cut Fizzles; CBO Sees 1.8% GDP Growth, Soaring Debt
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...
Trump Pie-in-the-Sky Space Force to Cost $$$ Billions — CBO
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...
Robert Mueller’s Trump/Russia Probe a Failure of Duty
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...
Donald Trump Sells Out Western Democracy, Putin Declares Propaganda Victory
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...
Trump Sociopathic Lying Is Bad, But Mass Psychosis of His Base Is Worse
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...
Health Care Overhaul Would Expand Aid, Reverse Trump Efforts to Undercut ACA
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...
Trump Tax Cut Will Sock Nation With Higher Interest Rates
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...
Keith Girard
Keith Girard has 30 years of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.