Section: TPM (USA)
Nominee For Top Pentagon Spot Goes On Tweet-Deleting Binge As Inflammatory Posts Come To Light
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata has hurriedly deleted old tweets, some of which capture him expressing Islamophobic and racist sentiments, as his nomination for a top Pentagon position is considered by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Here are five points on President Trump’s pick for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, a top...
When The Inmates Run The Asylum: Bolton Book Reportedly Details Trump Quids Pro Quo
Major newspapers got ahold of John Bolton’s forthcoming memoir of his time in the White House, publishing details from the book nearly simultaneously on Wednesday afternoon. The Wall Street Journal published a full chapter of the book concerning President Trump’s dealings with China, while the Washington Post and New York Times have...
The US Has Become The World’s Top Exporter Of White Extremism
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The rise of white supremacy extremism is a global phenomenon and the United States is its chief exporter. While the threat posed by radical right wing ideologues, the milieu most white supremacists inhabit, had been on the rise prior to the Trump administration, it...
DOJ Sues John Bolton To Block Publication Of His Book
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the publication of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s book, which is scheduled for release next week. The lawsuit alleges that Bolton breached his non-disclosure agreement with the government by moving forward with the release, despite having not finished the...
Trump Denounces John Bolton’s Book, Says Conversations Are ‘Highly Classified’
President Trump on Monday attacked ex-National Security Adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book, arguing that any conversation with him as president is “highly classified.” Trump also suggested that criminal charges should be pursued against anyone who writes a book based on those supposedly “classified” chats. Trump said he disapproved of...
Trump Expected To Sue To Block Release Of John Bolton’s Book
The Trump administration is expected to sue to block the publication of the tell-all account of John Bolton, the ex-national security adviser who spent a year and a half in the White House. Trumps plans to sue over the memoir’s publication, according to an ABC News report Monday, after an announcement from the book’s publishers Simon...
Bolton Accuses House Dems of ‘Impeachment Malpractice’ In Forthcoming Book
In his tell-all memoir finally set for publication later this month, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton alleges that House Democrats failed to look at other transgressions made by the president that went beyond the scope of Ukraine during their impeachment inquiries last year. According to the press release for Bolton’s new...
Farce, Tragedy and Photo Op
As much as anything else, the spectacle yesterday afternoon in front of the White House was a deliberate set-up. It’s a not-unknown stock in trade for bad actors to invite press to one kind of purported event and switch to something more ghastly on camera, forcing the press to become complicit in what unfolds. Yesterday was a version of...
A New Round Of Biden Smears Launched From The Ukraine Fever Swamps
The 2020 election is six months away, and foreign interference in it has begun. The same people who brought you the conspiracy theories for which President Trump sought to extort Ukraine last year — leading to his impeachment — are now peddling something new. It’s audio clips of Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry...
Trump Nominates Cleveland US Attorney To DC Post, Overseeing Flynn Case
President Trump nominated a permanent U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Monday, naming current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Justin Herdman to the position. The move brings acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. Timothy Shea’s brief, fraught tenure to an end, while putting Herdman in charge of a U.S. Attorney’s...
