“How come we never saw Obama helping Katrina victims?” Maybe because in 2005 George W Bush was president 🤔 pic.twitter.com/9ApV4I604f – Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 30, 2017 In case you missed it, there’s a new trend on Twitter: complaining that Trump isn’t getting enough credit for the “heckuva job” he’s doing regarding Hurricane Harvey, especially… Continue reading “Why do Trumpers think Obama was president during Katrina?”
You know how liberals are, always stabbing people and all. I’m sure your conservative family members were already gleefully passing this fake news around, claiming “both sides do it”…
Joshua Witt, 26, told police two weeks ago that he was getting out of his car in the parking lot of a Steak ‘n Shake in Sheridan, Colorado, when a man came over to him and attacked him with a knife.
On Monday, the Sheridan Police Department told BuzzFeed News in a statement that Witt admitted to making the story up after police confronted him with evidence that the attack never took place.
Witt, who posted his claims on Facebook, claimed that a man asked him if he was a neo-Nazi while reaching over his open car door to stab him.
“I was just getting out of my car to go get myself a milkshake and the next thing I hear is ‘You one of them neo-Nazis” as this man is swinging a knife at my head over my car door,” Witt told BuzzFeed News at the time. “I threw my hands up out of natural reflex and then I kind of dived back in my car as the suspect took off running.”
Police became suspicious of his story because surveillance video did not show anyone running from the scene, as Witt had claimed, and because police found and interviewed someone who matched Witt’s description of the attacker, “who is a transient and lives in the area was cleared as a possible suspect.”
They also looked at video from a nearby sporting goods store, which showed Witt buying a small knife minutes before the alleged attack.
No president in modern history has lost ground in the polls as quickly as 45th President Donald J. Trump, the Los Angeles Times notes. In an op-ed published Sunday, columnist Doyle McManus points out that Trump’s approval numbers had sunk from 45 percent to 34 percent in the short time he has been president, according to… Continue reading “L.A. Times: ‘Trump is shedding supporters like no other president In modern history’”
Glenn Simpson, whose firm compiled an infamous and salacious dossier about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, told Senate investigators Tuesday that he “stands by” its findings. The private investigator and former reporter spent more than 10 hours being questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee after Chairman Chuck Grassley withdrew a subpoena when Simpson agreed to… Continue reading “Trump dossier researcher ‘stands by’ explosive findings”
Former Pennsylvania senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum revealed this week that he has been working on a plan to effectively repeal Obamacare by stripping money from four Democratic states. In an interview with Breitbart, Santorum said that he had been collaborating with Republican lawmakers to craft legislation that would block grant health care funds… Continue reading “Rick Santorum has a backdoor Obamacare repeal plan that strips funds from Dem states”
James Clapper minced no words after Trump’s rant in Phoenix. He told Don Lemon that he questioned Trump’s fitness for office, and more. On Don Lemon’s show, Clapper observed that it was “interesting to contrast last night’s teleprompter Trump performance versus tonight which is, of course, the real Trump, just as it was in the unglued… Continue reading “James Clapper: ‘I question his fitness to be in office’”
The numbers speak for themselves: 12% of Bernie supporters did vote for Trump.
James Clapper after Trump's speech: "I worry about, frankly, you know, the access to the nuclear codes" #TrumpResign pic.twitter.com/sJfbf5mo9Y
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 23, 2017
Alysin Camerota sat down with a group of Trump voters from Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alabama and Georgia to see how they react to Trump’s policies — including his decision to increase troops in Afghanistan. She asked who supported the move. Everyone raised their hands. “I think it’s a serious problem that we’ve kind of not taken… Continue reading “CNN focus group still loves Trump”
Oh dear. Looks like Trump was trying to enlist Mitch McConnell to “protect” him in the Russia investigation:
During the call, which Mr. Trump initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.
Mr. McConnell has fumed over Mr. Trump’s regular threats against fellow Republicans and criticism of Senate rules, and questioned Mr. Trump’s understanding of the presidency in a public speech. Mr. McConnell has made sharper comments in private, describing Mr. Trump as entirely unwilling to learn the basics of governing.
In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where Mr. Trump’s presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year’s elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.
While maintaining a pose of public reserve, Mr. McConnell expressed horror to advisers last week after Mr. Trump’s comments equating white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., with protesters who rallied against them. Mr. Trump’s most explosive remarks came at a news conference in Manhattan, where he stood beside Ms. Chao. (Ms. Chao, deflecting a question about the tensions between her husband and the president she serves, told reporters, “I stand by my man — both of them.”)
