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Even Rush Limbaugh Is Now Ripping Into Fox News
Rush Limbaugh is following in President Trump’s footsteps in attacking Fox News. During an episode of his namesake radio show Wednesday, conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh took aim at Fox News — where he’s been a regular guest — for featuring “Never Trumpers” in its coverage on Trump’s infamous July call with Ukraine...
Trump Says China ‘Should Investigate The Bidens’
President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that the Chinese and Ukrainian governments both should investigate his 2020 rival Joe Biden and Biden’s son, Hunter. When a reporter asked Trump what he wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do about the Bidens during the infamous phone call in July, Trump bluntly admitted that he...
Giuliani Confirms That At Least Some Docs State IG Gave Congress Came From Him
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani confirmed Wednesday night that at least some of the documents in the packet of “disinformation” that State Department Inspector General Steve Linick handed over to Congress in an “urgent” briefing came from him. According to CNN, the packet includes fodder for the fabricated Joe and Hunter Biden smears, as well as...
Prison Bars Haven’t Kept Manafort And Giuliani Apart
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has kept up a steady flow of communication with the imprisoned Paul Manafort through the former Trump campaign chairman’s lawyer, seeking to further the rightwing talking point that Ukrainians interfered in 2016 to help Hillary Clinton. A happy byproduct of this narrative would be muddying the charges against...
How Nickelback Found Itself Woven Into The Trump Impeachment Narrative
The aughts-era Canadian rock band that earned its proper place as the butt of an entire generation of internet memes found itself shrouded in newfound significance on Thursday morning. As part of his seemingly weeks-long Twitter-rage at Democrats and the media over the impeachment inquiry against him, Trump tweeted out a doctored video on...
Volker Felt ‘Pushed Out’ By Pompeo. Now He’s Telling His Story To Congress
Former U.S. Representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker clearly has some beef with the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Last week, Pompeo unceremoniously forced him out after revelations surfaced about Rudy Giuliani’s contacts with State Department officials who helped him get meetings with Ukrainians to better spread his smear campaign against...
The Rudy Dossier
Good TPM Readers, I was in the midst of writing out a post explaining how there was a lot of circumstantial evidence that that packet of pro-Trump conspiracy theories the State Department Inspector General brought up to the Hill was actually Rudy Giuliani’s work product: the packet of information he’d assembled in his trips abroad....
Ex-Ukraine Envoy Kurt Volker Still Plans To Testify Despite Pompeo’s Defiant Letter
Former Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker will testify in the House’s impeachment inquiry this week even after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed to prevent State Department officials from doing so. According to multiple reports on Tuesday, Volker still plans to give a deposition to the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and...
Barr Jetsets Into ‘Unprecedented’ Territory As Trump’s Lackey
As Washington blew up last week over President Trump’s campaign to pressure Ukraine into becoming a disinformation arm of the GOP, his attorney general was nowhere to be found. In fact, Bill Barr was not in the United States, but rather in Italy. Multiple news outlets reported on Monday that Barr’s Italy trip focused on urging the...
DNC Blasts Facebook For Allowing Trump Ad Blitz To Spread False Claims
The Democratic National Committee’s CEO criticized Facebook on Tuesday for its refusal to fact check posts from politicians, including those of President Donald Trump as the President goes on an anti-impeachment crusade on the social giant’s platform. DNC CEO Seema Nanda told CNN that the organization was “deeply disappointed” in...
