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Ted Cruz’s ‘Pittsburgh over Paris’ campaign shows us just how dumb the Biden years are going to be
Getty In response to Biden re-entering the US into the Paris climate agreement, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz has launched a “Pittsburgh over Paris” campaign. Cruz says that Biden rejoining the Paris agreement will cost the citizens of Pittsburgh jobs, but the idea makes no sense and is just another bad faith attempt at scoring political points....
GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy says that ‘everybody across this country has some responsibility’ for Capitol riots
President Donald Trump speaks as he joined by House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy in the Rose Garden of the White House on January 4, 2019 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a recent interview that “everybody across this country” is to blame for the Capitol riots....
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon supporter, has announced articles of impeachment against Joe Biden
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is seen with her face mask pulled down as she speaks with a colleague on the floor of the House on January 3, 2021 for the swearing in of the new Congress. Erin Scott-Pool/Getty Freshman GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden. Greene, a staunch Trump...
Tucker Carlson stressed about Biden’s war on white supremacy and Sean Hannity renewed attacks on Hunter in a first wave of Fox News attacks on the new administration
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson stirred fears of President Biden’s war in white supremacy in his Inauguration Day show on January 20. Fox News Fox News hosts reacted to Joe Biden’s inauguration with attacks and fear-mongering. Tucker Carlson said Biden’s war on white supremacy was a bid to persecute ordinary conservatives. The...
James Comey says the GOP needs to be ‘burned down or changed,’ calling the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol ‘our own Chernobyl’
Former FBI Director James Comey. Alex Wong/Getty Images Former FBI Director James Comey eviscerated President Donald Trump, his supporters, and the Republican Party in an interview with The Guardian. He described the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol as the US’s “Chernobyl” — referring to the 1986 nuclear accident — saying it was...
In an expletive-filled rant, Trump told an aide to never mention Nixon’s name again, as some call for him to resign
Getty President Donald Trump has refused calls to resign after he was impeached earlier this week. Trump has been extremely opposed to the idea and has forbidden aides from mentioning former President Richard Nixon. Nixon resigned after the House Judiciary Committee voted to move ahead with his impeachment proceedings in 1974. Visit Business...
Biden urged the Senate to focus on the needs of the country as the move forward with Trump’s impeachment proceedings
“Too many of our fellow Americans have suffered for too long over the past year to delay this urgent work,” Biden said in a statement on Wednesday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images President-elect Biden urged the Senate to also focus on other issues including pandemic relief as they get ready to hold impeachment proceedings. President Donald...
US rivals are looking to use the Capitol siege to their advantage
Pro-Trump rioters storm the US Capitol, January 6, 2021. Samuel Corum/Getty Images The US’s rivals are likely calculating that the US, distracted by the Capitol Siege of January 6, will be ill-equipped to respond to provocations. The thinking likely extends to strategic rivals like Russia and China as well as regional actors and even US...
Trump’s nightmare scenario of being impeached, convicted, then barred from public office for life is looking more and more likely
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (L) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in March 2020. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Shorn of GOP support after the riot at the US Capitol, President Trump is facing a three-part reckoning in Congress. The House is due to vote today on impeaching him...
GOP Sen. Susan Collins thought the mostly white pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol was ‘the Iranians’ at first
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Edelman-Pool/Getty Images GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in a new op-ed said she initially thought the Capitol siege was the work of the Iranians. “My first thought was that the...
