'It is disgraceful!' Trump complains Dems are 'delaying virtually all of my nominees'

Trump slams ‘sick degenerates’ in media over ‘fake’ claim that Putin made US envoy wait for 9 hours

Sky News earlier reported that Trump’s special envoy Witkoff had to wait for more than eight hours for a meeting with Putin, who was reportedly busy meeting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the time US President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted media outlets for allegedly spreading this ‘fake news’ that Russian President Vladimir Putin made his close aide Steve Witkoff …

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Trump snaps at 'sick degenerates' in the media for reporting on Putin negotiations delay

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A day after Donald Trump used a speech at Department of Justice to call his opponents "scum" and then accuse CNN and MSNBC of "illegal" behavior," he jumped on his Truth Social platform to attack the press some more. Reacting to reports that his envoy was kept waiting by President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president stood up for the Russian …

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‘Crooked election,’ ‘corrupt media’ & more: 5 things from Donald Trump’s rare DOJ speech

Live Mint

US President Donald Trump gave a rare address to the Department of Justice on Friday. Trump also vowed to clean up Washington, tackle crime, and curb illegal immigration while criticising the media, the 2020 election and his actions against the FBI. Here are five key highlights from Trump's speech: Allegations against Joe Biden Donald Trump accused Joe Biden of not …

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‘Tough day to be a Democrat’: Critics pounce on Senate Dems after party-breaking vote

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A group of Senate Democrats whose vote on Friday enabled the GOP’s funding bill to barrel forward stirred an internal Democratic debate with some accusing party leaders of not doing enough to oppose President Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda. The key procedural vote unfolded Friday afternoon, with 10 Democratic senators voting in favor of cloture on the Republican funding bill – …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

'Just lame': Columnist gives Dems advice to spice up protests to trigger Trump

Raw Story

Democrats have taken a lot of heat for their protest of President Donald Trump's first address to Congress of his second term, from the heckling and signs to disruption that led to the forcible removal of Rep. Al Green from the chamber. The real issue, he said, is that there's a simple tweak of strategy Democrats could have made to …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

'Scary S**t': Ex-GOP Lawmaker Delivers Urgent Warning Over Trump's Next Move

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Former Rep. Joe Walsh warned that President Donald Trump feels “untouchable” and that there’s no telling what he may attempt do next. “The biggest failure of all of us during this Trump era has been the failure of imagination,” the vocal Trump critic told MSNBC’s Michael Steele on Sunday. “But Michael, this is scary shit.” Later in …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Democrats berated for flat-footed Trump response

Raw Story

Since Donald Trump's election, many ordinary voters have been desperate for an effective resistance to his aggressive drive to downsize the US government and recalibrate its foreign policy. "These theatrics made the Democrats look petty and, ultimately, incapable of influencing the debate," said Matthew N. Klink, a veteran political strategist and communications expert. Brad Chase, who has worked in communications …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

'Democrats should lose!' Trump rages over lack of applause and smiles during speech

Raw Story

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday evening to rage that his address to Congress received no notable applause from Democrats. "The Democrats should lose the Midterms based on their behavior at last night’s Joint Address to Congress," wrote Trump. Trump's address was marked with a number of disturbances, including Rep. Lance Gooden physically accosting Rep. …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Boredom and terror meld in Trump address

LA Times

Hello and happy Thursday. This week in… pic.twitter.com/FAJMd2EnrO — First Lady Melania Trump March 5, 2025 Bipartisanship and a brave young woman Before we dive further into the depths of Trump’s speech, let’s give a shout out to a brave young woman, and highlight a moment of bipartisanship, courtesy of Melania Trump. “It’s worth it to let people know that …

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3 weeks ago

Conservative pours cold water on Trump's too early 'spike the ball' speech

Raw Story

Donald Trump's speech to both Houses of Congress on Tuesday night may have wowed his MAGA supporters and Republican attendees, but not all conservatives are quite on board. According to longtime National Review columnist Jim Geraghty, the president may have got ahead of himself in boasting about the first few months with the economy not only struggling but facing a …

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'Extremely Dishonest': CNN Fact-Checker Nails Trump On 13 'Flat False' Claims

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LOADING ERROR LOADING CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale said President Donald Trump stuck to his script during Tuesday night’s speech before a joint session of Congress ― but he didn’t stick to the facts. “President Trump was, believe it or not, marginally more careful with the facts tonight than he usually is,” Dale told CNN’s Jake Tapper, adding that’s only when …

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Trump’s over 90-minute joint address to Congress: Promises, claims rivals call 'lies'; lawmaker ejected

Firstpost

Trump spoke at a critical juncture in his presidency, as voters who returned him to the White House on his promise to fix inflation are instead finding economic chaos President Donald Trump took credit for “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy Tuesday in an address to Congress and the American people about his …

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'Public will turn against you': Top GOP pollster shares major 'opportunity' for Dems

Raw Story

During recent town hall meetings, Republican members of Congress have been faced with angry constituents who are particularly upset about President Donald Trump's mass layoffs of federal workers. In a Monday interview on CNN, Frank Luntz — a Republican messaging expert who regularly conducts focus groups with swing voters — noted that heated town hall appearances can sometimes be a …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

GOP Strategist Spots ‘Bad Sign’ That Trump Voters Are Already Having Second Thoughts

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Buyers’ remorse is starting to set in for some of President Donald Trump’s voters, longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell suggested on Wednesday. Essentially, nothing has changed for those who backed Trump for the “one very specific reason” that they believed “things are too expensive,” Longwell told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. And now, Longwell said, those voters are being …

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1 month ago

'Cracks in the Republican Party’s wall': Analyst spots lawmakers 'inching away' from Trump

Raw Story

President Donald Trump has long had an iron grip over the Republican Party, with congressional GOP lawmakers in safe districts held rigidly in line by the fear of angering MAGA voters. "Though it didn’t generate a lot of headlines, Republican Rep. Gary Palmer made some provocative comments early last week, saying lawmakers 'need to remind' Trump that 'Congress has a …

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1 month ago

'Landslide!' Trump lies about polls to claim Dems 'losing their minds' over his popularity

Raw Story

Donald Trump spread lies about the 2024 election to claim he had a broad mandate over a vanquished Democratic Party. The president won the Electoral College and became only the second Republican to win the popular vote since 1988, and while the vast majority of counties shifted in his direction, Trump's margin of victory – just 1.5 percentage points over …

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Trump Suggests His Election Victory Granted Him A Lifeline

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he made a “very risky decision” in deciding to run in the 2024 presidential election, adding that he would have had “a very nasty life” had he lost that race. In an appearance before a Saudi Arabian-backed summit in Miami Beach, Florida, Trump claimed his decision to pursue another term in …

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1 month ago

Republicans appear to have 'blown a circuit' after Trump remarks: MSNBC analyst

Raw Story

President Donald Trump's decision to call Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "dictator" and accuse him of starting the war with RussiaPresident Vladimir Putin after the Russian strongman invaded his country appears to have initiated a revolt among key Republican lawmakers. After MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski shared clips of key Republicans including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Sens. Lindsey Graham, John …

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1 month ago

Senate Democrats Regret Voting For Some Trump Cabinet Nominees

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LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Before President Donald Trump entered office last month, Democrats struck a bipartisan tone and pledged to work with him whenever possible, including by supporting some of his Cabinet nominees. Blumenthal’s comments followed the Trump administration’s decision to terminate more than 1,000 Veterans Affairs Department employees, including veterans and workers combating veteran suicide at the Veterans …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'Beware': Analyst spots bizarre irony as Republicans 'box themselves into corner'

Raw Story

House Republicans have "boxed themselves into a corner" with a government shutdown fast approaching this month, having thoroughly alienated Democrats out of any reason to help them keep it open, MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen wrote for an analysis published on Tuesday morning. Cohen is far from the first to point this out — several others have done so in …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Democratic Leader Slams Trump For Failing To Fulfill This Core Campaign Promise

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LOADING ERROR LOADING House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday said President Donald Trump has failed to fulfill one of the main campaign promises he ran on. In an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Jeffries said Trump and the Republican Party have failed to bring down the cost of living — an issue that ranked as one of the main …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Analyst highlights 'risky' way Dems could flip GOP's power

Raw Story

As congressional Democrats struggle to counter President Donald Trump's disruption to the federal government, Slate writer Jim Newell suggested that threatening a government shutdown might work to their advantage. For now, Newell wrote, Democrats are "working to put the ball in Republicans’ court: Republicans run the government, and it’s their responsibility to fund the government." Democrats don’t want to shut …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'Good luck': WSJ's editorial board slams GOP for allowing 'hard to believe' Trump choices

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The political capital President Donald Trump has been riding since his Election Day victory gave him the power to put together the cabinet he envisioned for his second term — but it's about to test the Republicans who ushered it in, the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board wrote. “Republicans seem poised to confirm all of President Trump’s cabinet nominees, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Striking': Trump said to have given Dems 'real political hay' with 'bizarre spectacle'

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Reacting to the Oval Office press conference in Tuesday where Donald Trump sat at his desk and let billionaire Elon Musk soak up all the attention and answer a flurry of questions, the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were stunned to see the president let someone else be the center of attention. After sharing clips of Musk fielding questions while …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump 'burning up political goodwill at an alarming rate' as GOP lawmakers fume: report

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After only three weeks into Donald Trump's second term, Republican party lawmakers are already growing tired of his outbursts on Truth Social and his ever-shifting policy plans he is proposing without giving them a heads-up. According to a report from Reese Gorman of NOTUS, members of the GOP caucus are being forced to deal with an onslaught of complaints from …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Obnoxious': GOP lawmakers turn on MAGA star as he goes to war with Mike Johnson

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Rep. Byron Donalds is increasingly angering many of his House Republican colleagues by antagonizing House Speaker Mike Johnson over the plan to pass President Donald Trump's agenda, The Daily Beast reported. This comes as the House and Senate continue to wrestle over the best way to move forward with the legislative calendar; the House and Trump largely want to pass …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

A lesson from the Democrats’ ‘woke’ debacle

The Hindu

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is an important lesson not just for Democrats, but political actors everywhere who are attempting to contain burgeoning right-of-centre politics and powerful demagogues. Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris highlighted the machinations against democracy, but in making it her overriding theme, she renewed concerns about her being “woke”, which in contemporary political lexicon indicates …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Experts warn Dems falling for Trump and Musk's 'trap': 'Don’t swing at every pitch'

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Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill are getting caught in a political web created by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s showdown over U.S. foreign aid amid their threats to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. “My heart is with the people out on the street outside USAID, but my head tells me: ‘Man, Trump will be well …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Democrats confront limits of their power in bid to stop Trump and Musk

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Outraged Democrats are testing the limits of their diminished power as they try to stop the stunning power grabs of President Donald Trump and his chief lieutenant, Elon Musk. “Only two weeks in, Elon Musk is already our worst president ever.” It’s unclear, however, if such attempts at obstruction would realistically stop Trump and Musk. “As we typically …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress

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Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies is "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like," expressed outrage at being barred from entering the U.S. Agency for International Development, and vowed to take legislative action and launch legal challenges to stop Musk's "outrageous" maneuver, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against Democrats who are proceeding as …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

"They will fail through incompetence": Trump's bumpy return to office should worry MAGA

Salon

This is the so-called honeymoon phase of Donald Trump’s presidency. With his almost one hundred executive orders and other edicts, Trump has done such things as attempt to void the 14th Amendment, reverse 60 years of civil rights progress, launch a nationwide mass deportation campaign, declare a national emergency to combat the “border crisis," free his MAGA followers who attacked …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chuck Schumer gets an earful from Dem governors demanding he fight Trump harder: NYT

Raw Story

It isn't just frustrated partisans on social media who think Sen. Chuck Schumer and other Democrats need to do more to fight back against President Donald Trump. The New York Times reported late on Wednesday that Democratic governors gave Schumer an earful about doing more to slow down Trump during what the paper described as a "tense" phone call. Maura …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'A 5 Alarm F-ing Fire': Trump's Federal Funding Freeze Is Jolting Some Dems Into Fight Mode

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Democrats on Capitol Hill are fuming about President Donald Trump’s Monday night announcement that he is freezing all federal grants and loans, a stunning action that appears as unconstitutional as it is harmful to millions of Americans. The implications of this is the executive can pick and choose which congressional enactments they will execute.” Sen. …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Democrats can’t just rage at Trump for the next four years

LA Times

To the editor: I’m a registered Democrat, and since President Trump’s inauguration, I’ve vowed to look at the current administration’s decisions “from both sides now”. Though Democrats disagree with many of Trump’s policy decisions and executive actions, we need to force ourselves to find something to try to authentically agree with. This process begins with attempting to believe it’s possible …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Some Democrats Are Saying the Right Thing About Trump. The Rest Need to Get on Board.

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Thirteen Senate Democrats including Raphael Warnock and Slotkin sent a letter to Majority Leader John Thune on Jan. 22 saying that they “stand ready to work with you” to find “bipartisan solutions for our outdated immigration system.” At least …

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Trump freezes trillions in federal funding, sparking accusations he is violating constitution

Firstpost

President Trump ordered a freeze starting Tuesday on potentially trillions of dollars in federal funding to Americans, impacting everything from education grants to small businesses loans - and sparking accusations that he is violating the constitution President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. AP File President Donald Trump ordered a freeze starting Tuesday on potentially …

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2 months ago

'Something Republicans are very bad about': GOP lawmaker sounds alarm over infighting

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Even though President Donald Trump was elected to a second term with Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress and is fulfilling his campaign promises, one high-ranking Senate Republican isn't so sure that Democratic opposition has been quelled. Politico's Eugene Daniels recently interviewed Sen. Chuck Grassley, one of Trump's biggest supporters and the longest-serving sitting U.S. senator. The 91 year-old …

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2 months ago

Republicans panicking Pete Hegseth nomination will 'backfire' on Trump: former GOP adviser

Raw Story

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ana Cabrera on Friday morning a former senior GOP congressional adviser stated the Senate Republicans are expressing dismay that the hearing on secretary defense nominee Pete Hegseth is being rushed and it could lead to a disaster. Speaking with the host hours before the whole Senate will vote on the embattled former Fox News personality's …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Trump Now Has A Loyal Team, But Overreach Could Again Threaten His Success

Huff Post

Donald Trump smiles after a fireworks show at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on Saturday. “ACA repeal was where his kind of mean-spirited, small-minded bullshit met conservative orthodoxy.” - Matt Bennett, executive vice president, Third Way Trump, who has promised to erect the biggest deportation program in U.S. history, claims he will prioritize deportation of undocumented immigrants guilty …

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2 months, 1 week ago

'Real job stress': Democrats handed fresh advice on how to make Trump's life miserable

Raw Story

According to one columnist, Democrats have nothing to fear in the future with Donald Trump unable to run again in 2028 and, therefore, they should bedevil him at every turn and make the next four years unbearable for him. Pointing out that Trump's extremist agenda precludes any reason to call for national "unity," Linkins wrote, "Rather than exert so much …

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55 years, 2 months ago

One Trump Nominee Has Mastered the Art of Pretending It’s All OK

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Their almost uncanny toolbox of denial techniques—Hegseth’s “anonymous smears” and Bondi’s “wait, Trump said what now?”—reveals the game here: Treat everything Donald Trump has said about what he plans to do with the Justice Department, the FBI, the military, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Trump nominee's 'outrageous lie' before Senate singled out by MSNBC host

Raw Story

Fox News personality Pete Hegseth's appearance before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he seeks approval to become Donald Trump's secretary of defense, got a thumbs down on MSNBC Wednesday morning. After sharing clips of the embattled Hegseth attempting to blow off credible accusations of public drunkenness and sexual improprieties, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough singled out what he called …

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2 months, 1 week ago

'Far too much at stake': Watchdog warns Dems against fast-tracking Trump nominees

Raw Story

With the Republican-controlled Senate set to hold confirmation hearings for more than a dozen of President-elect Donald Trump's nominees this week, a watchdog group on Tuesday urged Democrats to oppose any effort to ram the picks through without sufficiently aggressive questioning and vetting. The New York Times reported Tuesday that an FBI background check on Pete Hegseth, Trump's choice to …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s nominees are suddenly looking safer

Politico

Most Republican senators “are predisposed to let the president have his team absent some extraordinary circumstances,” Sen. John Cornyn said on Monday. She’s a very quick study, and I think she will do well in her open hearings.” That optimism is shared inside the Trump transition, which has been orchestrating a carefully scripted charm offensive targeting the Senate GOP — …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress is ready to certify Trump’s election win, but his Jan. 6 legacy hangs over the day

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As Congress convenes amid a winter storm to certify President-elect Donald Trump ‘s election, the legacy of Jan. 6 hangs over the proceedings with an extraordinary fact: The candidate who tried to overturn the previous election won this time, and is legitimately returning to power. “Whether we’re in a blizzard or not, we are going to be in …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

"That's really sad": Pelosi clowns Trump for screening 2020 election denial doc at Mar-a-Lago

Salon

Nancy Pelosi has a message for Donald Trump: move on. During a visit to CBS' "Face the Nation," the former House speaker said the president-elect's obsession with the election he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 is "almost sick." This really is sad," Pelosi said when told about a documentary Trump screened at Mar-a-Lago that questioned the legitimacy of the …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

'Waaa, waaa': Trump ridiculed on MSNBC for self-pitying Saturday morning meltdown

Raw Story

A panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Weekend" was disrupted with laughter on Saturday morning after co-host Symone Sanders Townsend read a post that Donald Trump had just put up on Truth Social moaning about how he has been treated. In the midst of a discussion on a ruling from Judge Juan Merchan that Donald Trump will still have to sit …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

'Catastrophically wrong': Dem strategist warns party is woefully unready for next 4 years

Raw Story

In less than three weeks, President-elect Donald Trump will be serving his second term and he will be joined in Washington by small GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress. In a sobering op-ed published by The Hill Thursday, Democratic strategist Max Burns argues that members of his party are woefully unprepared for Trump's second term and the assault on …

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'It is disgraceful!' Trump complains Dems are 'delaying virtually all of my nominees'

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