On Wednesday, while reporting on responses to the mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) health, CNN got duped, citing a post from a fake Republican lawmaker.During a morning panel segment discussing McConnell’s hospitalization, Inside Politics ran a graphic displaying four online stat…
Left Hook podcaster Wajahat Ali and independent reporter Jim Acosta say they have no doubt that Republican leaders will try to duplicate their hide-and-seek tactic with “brain dead” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Trump when the president inevitably deteriorates too far to function.“What they’re doi…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a deputy he can’t seem to rein in, seven senior officials told Axios. According to the report, Chris Landau, Rubio’s second at the State Department, is secretly working to undermine President Donald Trump in Venezuela, where his father once served as the ambassador…
Conservatives have been on the attack against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett after she ruled against President Donald Trump’s executive order in the birthright citizenship case. A new Economist/YouGov poll shows that Barrett has the lowest polling of any other justice at a time the High Cou…
President Donald Trump’s careening performance at the NATO summit in Turkey has reporters relating stories of “menacing threats” and “comical misnomers,” “sabre-rattling” and “tremendous love,” but while the conference got off to a rocky start, analysts assert that “alliance leaders, who had feared …
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta made clear that he was skeptical of President Donald Trump‘s claimed reason for switching planes for his journey home from Turkey at this week’s NATO Summit.On Wednesday, New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh asked Trump specifically why he wasn’t flying his prized …
A letter from Harmeet Dhillon, who heads President Donald Trump’s DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, is demanding that Georgia officials explain within five days how they are preventing illegal voting in the state — despite the fact that illegal voting is not a legitimate problem in U.S. elections.The Atl…
In a letter sent to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on June 30, Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) sounded the alarm about “conflicts of interest and ethical risks posed by prediction market betting on Supreme Court decisions and Court operations.” And the Democratic congressman urged Roberts…
New reporting has uncovered a White House policy that withholds antiterrorism funds from states that don’t comply with the Trump administration’s election rules. This effort, declared a former US attorney on Wednesday, amounts to “extortion.”“Threatening to withhold federal antiterrorism funds from …
Federal Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order that President Donald Trump’s money be given to E. Jean Carroll after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in the case. There were two Carroll cases, and the high court refused to hear the second one. The court docket shows that Judge Kap…