Reading the Mueller Report, Part IV
Why weren’t crimes charged as a result of the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower Meeting? We’ll begin with the “facts.” By “facts” I mean what the prosecutors have enough evidence to prove. The meeting was proposed...
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Judge Delivers Major Setback to Trump Policy to Increase Coal Mining on Federal Land
The Interior Department acted illegally when it sought to lift an Obama-era moratorium on coal mining on public lands, a court found. Via the New York Times...
Mueller Report Does Nothing to Narrow a Vast Partisan Divide
As Democrats issued a subpoena demanding an unredacted copy of the report and condemned the president’s conduct, most Republican lawmakers remained silent on the findings. Via the New York Times...
Reading the Mueller Report, Part III
Q: Why weren’t more crimes charged from the behavior described in Vol. I? First reason: Special Counsel (SC) was not able to collect all the evidence for a variety of reasons (Mueller Report, page 10) Some...
Sanders’s ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses. Not Trump’s.
Unlike previous administrations, where officials feared blows to their credibility in public, President Trump’s press aides are generally performing for an audience of one — the president. Via the New York Times...
Debunking Mueller’s ‘Conflicts’
The Russia report released April 18 contradicts President Donald Trump's claims that special counsel Robert Mueller had two conflicts of interest that prevented him from conducting an impartial investigation.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Ready, Set, Joe
Former Vice President Joe Biden is running (it's his third attempt). Plus: The real immigration crisis isn't asylum seekers on the southern border.--- Analysis from the Atlantic...
Warren: ‘House should initiate impeachment proceedings’ against Trump
The day after the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report, reaction from 2020 Democrats — as well as one leading Republican — intensified. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on...
To impeach or not to impeach? That is now the question.
It's a close call.--- Opinion from the Washington Post's Max Boot...
8 times the Mueller report shows Trump, White House spread false or misleading claims
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report provides a behind-the-scenes reconstruction of key events in the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The redacted version of the report, released April 18 by Attorney General Bill Bar, verifies and supports media reports about events that Trump...
The American Left Is Right About Scandinavian Socialism
And the right is wrong. Analysis from Foreign Policy...
Rep. Hunter pretends to cross the Mexico border and gets called out for violating ‘parole’
Rep. Duncan Hunter and his Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar traded Twitter barbs Thursday over a video Hunter posted where he appeared to suggest he was crossing the southern border into Mexico....