Tag Archives: pardons

Donald Trump, who has said in the past that he fired FBI Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation, says he did not fire FBI Director James Comey because of the Russia investigation

By Mark | May 31, 2018

While, thanks to Roseanne Barr, the whole world was busy debating the extent to which Ambien causes racism, Donald Trump took the opportunity to rewrite a little bit more of American history today. [He also sent a signal to his numerous co-conspirators by announcing his intention to pardon the racist far-right “intellectual” Dinesh D’Souza, but […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ambien, Dinesh D’Souza, fake news, FBI, James Comey, Jeff Sessions, laurel, Lester Holt, lies, lying press, Michael Flynn, obstruction of justice, post-truth, racism, reality deficient, rewriting history, Rod Rosenstein, Roseanne Barr, Russia, Russiagate, Sergei Kislyak, yanni | 25 Comments

Unraveling Trump’s Twitter thread on Maggie Haberman, a woman he talks to all the time, but hardly knows, and never speaks with.

By Mark | April 21, 2018

Donald Trump went nuts on Twitter again this morning. It would seem that he didn’t like Maggie Haberman’s most recent piece in the New York Times, titled, “Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore.” Following, in case you missed it, is a bit of Trump’s irate thread. As […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged corruption, Donald Trump, flipping, Hillary Clinton, Maggie Haberman, Michael Cohen, Preet Bharara, Pulitzer Prize, Richard Nixon, Riger Stone, Robert Mueller, Sam Nunberg, Scooter Libby, Sylvester Stalone, treating people like shit | 6 Comments

The “unlawful” bombing of Syria, the curious pardoning of Scooter Libby, and the expanding criminal case against Michael Cohen

By Mark | April 15, 2018

Quite a bit has happened over this past week. For the purposes of this post, I’d like to focus on just three of the many story lines that I’ve been following; our bombing of Syria, the Scooter Libby pardon, and the criminal case against Donald Trump’s “fixer,” Michael Cohen. Let’s start by talking about Michael […]