Newly Revealed Trump Administration Texts On Ukraine Appear To Show Clear Quid Pro Quos

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Trump’s call with the leader of Ukraine has prompted an impeachment inquiry as Democrats condemn what they call brazen efforts to extract political...”

wly released text messages sent by senior Trump administration officials appear to show clear instances of the White House brazenly pressuring Ukraine for political favors in exchange for cooperation from the U.S. government. The texts were released late Thursday by the chairs of...

I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down.

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“IT’S STRANGE TO see my journalism twisted, perverted, and turned into lies and poisonous propaganda by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and their...”

It 's time that republicans quit lying IT’S STRANGE TO see my journalism twisted, perverted, and turned into lies and poisonous propaganda by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and their enablers. But that’s what has happened to a news story I wrote four years ago. In 2015, I wrote a story for...

Trump Could Be Facing Indictment In NY For Filing False Tax Returns

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  20 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  5 years ago

“New York appears to be building a case against Trump for filing false tax returns, and the state can indict a sitting president.”

The big difference here is that Cy Vance is the local he is the state prosecutor in New York county. So he is not concerned with federal crimes. He’s concerned with state crimes. But I think we have a continuous theme here that pervades all of and it’s simply that all roads lead to Donald...

Is the North Carolina GOP the Future of the National Party?

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“I think it’s time to look to the North Carlolina GOP as a kind of worst-possible-case example of where the national party is headed”

I think it’s time to look to the North Carlolina GOP as a kind of worst-possible-case example of where the national party is headed. Nowhere else have I found the Republicans to be more conniving, vindictive, undemocratic and downright criminal. Wednesday provided the latest appalling example....

Trump Is Undermining US Intel Networks So They Can’t Gather Evidence Against Him

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Trump is openly soliciting illegal help from foreign governments in the 2020 election”

Trump is trying to both discredit the information that intelligence gathering provides and dismantle US surveillance networks to prevent investigation and evidence gathering I suppose the righties on NT will say this is fake news and should be taken down CNN reported: President Donald...

Trump Pressured NOAA To Put Out Inaccurate National Weather Forecast

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“This is so much worse than a Sharpie on a map.”

I'm  sure our rightie friends will call this fake news also, just like everything they don't like The scandal has gone beyond a Sharpie as government employees say that they felt pressured to from above to put out an inaccurate hurricane forecast. The Washington Post reported:The agency sent a...

Trump Attacks The Troops By Taking Away Automatic Citizenship From Kids Born Overseas

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  3 Comments  •  5 years ago

“This is Pres. @RealDonaldTrump directly attacking the brave men and women who protect, serve and defend our nation. This is despicable”

Trump Attacks The Troops By Taking Away Automatic Citizenship From Kids Born Overseas 5k SHARES FacebookTwitterSubscribePinterestStumbleuponPrintMailFlipboard The Trump administration has enacted a policy change that takes away automatic citizenship from the children of US...

Mitch McConnell’s Nightmare Continues As Kentucky Coal Miners Expose Him As A Fraud

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Mitch McConnell let the coal companies walk away from us, and then after one minute, he did too.”

Mitch McConnell might think he has the votes of coal miners locked down, but a new ad released by his Democratic opponent, Amy McGrath, shows that they’re mad as hell and ready to vote him out of office. In the campaign spot, a coal miner explains how he and a group of other miners with black...

Trump Tells Crowd Of Veterans That He Deserves The Medal Of Honor

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  0 Comments  •  5 years ago

“President Bone Spurs is the last person who should be honored”

Aaron Rupar ✔@atrupar During his speech to a veterans group in Kentucky, Trump -- seemingly joking but who can be sure -- talks about giving himself the Medal of Honor. I'm surprised his bone spurs didn't flare up while doing so....

Conservative Evangelicals Aren’t Hypocrites, They’re Sadists

Via: Don Overton  •  News & Politics  •  5 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

“God tells you not just the way you should be, but the way you actually are, and if you accept that, you will be blessed. ”

If you step outside of it, you're just asking for trouble. So arguing against this structure asks conservative white evangelicals to rewire their entire sense of reality. Late last week, my friend John Stoehr made a daring argument: “white evangelical Christian support for Donald Trump isn’t...