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Russian President Vladimir Putin made warm remarks toward the Democratic Party during an interview this week, saying that the Democratic Party and the Communist Party have similar values and that President Donald Trump has been tough Russia. “It was unclear what [Putin’s] goals were — Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., warned a House committee last month that Russia was actively pursuing a disinformation campaign against Joseph R. Biden Jr.,” The New York Times reported, “but one possibility was that Mr. Putin was reaching out in case Mr. Biden, who leads in the polls, wins the election.” Putin...

House Democrats on Friday unveiled legislation creating a panel to gauge a president's capacity to perform the job — and potentially remove the commander in chief from office in cases of decided debility. The commission would be permanent, applying to current and future administrations, but it's a clear shot at President Trump, whose treatments for the coronavirus have raised questions about their effects on his mental acuity. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a sharp critics of the president, has fueled those questions in the the days since Trump returned to the White House after three nights in the hospital, floating the...

House Democrats are launching an investigation into President Trump’s treatment of the Secret Service during his bout with the coronavirus. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, accused Trump of disregarding the safety of his protective detail when he left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a short drive in his limousine to greet supporters who were outside the facility. Thompson called Trump’s Sunday night trip a “joyride” that risked the health and safety of the agents who had to accompany him on the trip. “So we can know more about how these events have affected the...

Joe Biden’s transition team named Jessica Hertz, until recently a Facebook executive focused on government regulations, as its general counsel and charged her with navigating conflicts of interest and other ethical issues for the Biden admin-in-waiting

The party of slavery, rebellion, and Jim Crow has found new expressions for its darker inclinations. Democrats love to claim that their party underwent a metamorphosis in the 1960s, when they finally washed away the taint of slavery past. The Rebellion, in which Democrats played principal roles in causing, was a century in the rearview mirror. Goes the spin: Democrats vanquished their post-Civil War record of virulent racism, which expressed itself in Jim Crow (Southern apartheid) and the atrocities of the nightriding Ku Klux Klan -- the party’s white-garbed brownshirts -- who ranged beyond the South, terrorizing blacks in states...

@YALibertyAOC says impeachment is once again "on the table." Regardless of where you stand politically, impeachment was never intended to be a political weapon that could be wielded when a president does something the opposing party doesn't like. This is a very dangerous road to go down. Video...

ANALYSISPresident Trump has been confronted with a series of false and unfounded conspiracy stories from the same liberal establishment that condemns the wild QAnon phenomenon, according to an analysis of the president’s nearly four years in office. The press has lambasted the right-wing mystery persona of QAnon and its Internet-driven conspiracy theory that a cabal of Hollywood big-shots, Democrats and federal officials is involved in a pedophile ring determined to bring down the president. But at the same time, anti-QAnon liberals have embraced and promoted scores of Trump-deriding false stories and conspiracies. Some are bizarre, such as an international White...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Green Party cannot appear on the state’s ballots this cycle, handing Democrats a win as they try to consolidate support in the key swing state. The court ruled in a 5-2 decision that the Green Party did not follow proper procedure for getting on the ballot, overturning a Republican judge’s decision in a lower court ruling. The Green Party earlier this year swapped out Elizabeth Faye Scroggin for Howie Hawkins as its presidential candidate. But the high court ruled that it failed to properly get...

The newly-revealed Senate coronavirus bill confirms what we have all spent the last 4 years being taught: That Congressional Republicans have never accepted Donald Trump as president, or the issues he ran on, and if Trump is to win, it will have to be by running against the leadership of his own party. Democrats and Republicans have been fighting for months over the details of a second coronavirus relief package. The Democratic proposal would cost more than $3 trillion and, predictably, includes a huge amount of spending wholly unrelated to helping Americans through this economic crisis. For good measure, it...

NEWS: At least 27 phones used by the Mueller team were wiped before they could be checked for records. Some phones just wiped themselves, in other cases there was mass password amnesia that required resets. Andrew Weismann wiped two of his three Special Counsel's Office phones. He wiped one by accident. He wiped the other by entering the wrong password too many times. Has anyone ever wiped their phone by accident? Asking for a friend. UPDATE: Counting the phones which were "reassigned," the Special Counsel's Office wiped 31 phones before they could be checked for records. A phone belonging to...

The feud between Trump and liberal cities which encourage protests which seeking to defund the police escalated sharply on Wednesday, when the President ordered the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City, Portland, Seattle and Washington, cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime. In a five-page memo sent to federal agencies on Wednesday whose subject is “Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients of Federal Funds That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities” and signed by Trump, the president orders them to report to the...

The evidence now is overwhelming that the Democrats are planning to throw the nation into a deep crisis following Election Day, in a cynical plot to steal a presidential election, and with it, control of Congress. The plan isn't even hiding in plain sight; it is trumpeted almost daily: Send out tens of millions of unsolicited mail ballots to everyone on voter rolls (that in most jurisdictions haven't been purged of those who died or moved). We already know from the experience of Clark County, Nevada that 17% of the 1.3 million ballots sent to registered voters were "undeliverable," meaning...

Last week Democrats selected Joe Biden as their nominee for president. Both Trump and Biden are positioning themselves as deliverers of our nation and positioning each other as the destroyers of America and American values. The Democratic convention allowed us to hear Trump’s opponents accuse him of trashing everything from Christianity to the Constitution. Trump’s supporters do see him as a great deliverer, recovering the nation from the leftist ideologies destroying America. They remember the words of Barack Obama, who said just days from his election: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”In today’s...

Jimmy Dore on Tucker Carlson: "It was like a War rally at their convention!""Joe Biden's entire career has been one of imperialism.""These guys are nothing but sabre-rattling, war mongering maniacs!"Video...

The 2020 election could be the biggest gamble in the history of the United States, starting with the huge consequences at stake but made even more uncertain because of two huge question marks at the front and back ends of the voting itself. Think of this election as a giant roulette wheel, except instead of red or black, you are betting on red or blue — Republican or Democrat. Here’s how a Republican sees that gamble: If the spinning ball falls into a red slot, you get four more years of Donald Trump appointing conservative judges, empowering minorities through a...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a fierce ally of President Trump's, praised Jill Biden’s speech about her husband, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, calling her an “outstanding person.” “Tonight, Jill Biden did a very good job representing herself and Joe in the causes they believe in,” Graham wrote on Twitter. “She’s an outstanding person who has led a consequential life.” Jill Biden offered an intimate glimpse into her husband and family as the former vice president was officially nominated as the party's presidential nominee, setting him up to go head-to-head with Trump in...

Pelosi’s postal service conspiracies cannot hide a fundamental problem with universal mail-in voting: many state voter rolls - including Kentucky’s - are full of ineligible voters.Audio...

Pelosi’s postal service conspiracies cannot hide a fundamental problem with universal mail-in voting: many state voter rolls - including Kentucky’s - are full of ineligible voters.Audio...

About three-quarters of U.S. adults say they support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan in a new poll commissioned by the libertarian Charles Koch Institute obtained exclusively by The Hill. In the poll, which surveyed 2,000 U.S. adults, 44 percent said they strongly support bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq and 30 percent said they somewhat support doing so. For Afghanistan, 46 percent said they strongly support bringing troops home and 30 percent said they somewhat support it. The poll was conducted by YouGov for the Charles Koch Institute, the research institute founded by conservative mega-donor Charles Koch...

@SteveScaliseDems' demands: - Mail-in/No-ID voting - Stimulus checks to illegal immigrants - Green New Deal provisions - Tax breaks for blue state millionaires - $ for sanctuary cities - $ for pot industry What a joke. That's not COVID relief. It's Pelosi's No Liberal Cause Left Behind Act. Video...