Category: Trump

West Virginia Bets Big on Plastics, and on Backing of Trump Administration
The state’s leaders want a federal loan guarantee to build a giant chemical storage plant that could cost as much as $10 billion.

How Trump’s Political Appointees Overruled Tougher Settlements With Big Banks
After talks with well-connected lawyers for Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland, senior Justice Department officials in Washington last year told career prosecutors who’d been investigating the banks’ misdeeds to settle for less than they wanted.

Many Sides Blame Tough Trump Rhetoric for Mass Shootings
A variety of sources point at least some of the blame for this past weekend's dual mass shootings at Donald Trump and the kind of hateful rhetoric Trump has become known for.

Let’s Talk About The 7th Maryland Congressional District
Let’s talk about Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, the subject of Trump’s latest weird tweetstorm, and aside from reminding Donald Trump that he actually is the president of Maryland’s 7th Congressional District, let’s look at it just from a “facts” standpoint first.

ACLU Asks Federal Court To Halt Ongoing Family Separations
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Tuesday to block the Trump administration from continuing to separate hundreds of families in defiance of a previous court order.

Rep. Khanna: Attack on Cummings Will Hurt Trump in Suburban Counties He Needs to Carry
If Donald Trump thought his Twitter attack against Rep. Elijah Cummings will help him politically, he is wrong, according to a California Democrat.

Judiciary Dem: ‘We Are in an Impeachment Investigation’
While hundreds of House Democrats and much of official Washington is busy debating whether to open an impeachment proceeding against Donald Trump, one top member of the House Judiciary Committee says impeachment has functionally already begun.

Jennifer Granholm to Mia Love: More Republicans Like You Should Come out and Tell Trump, ‘Enough Is Enough’
The first black female Republican elected to Congress took Donald Trump to task for his ongoing string of racist tweets attacking non-white Democratic figures.

‘He’s Just a Racist Who Uses Social Media’
With his attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Cummings Baltimore district, Donald Trump is merely doubling down on his public racism.

Maybe The Fault Lies With Us, Not Mueller
You can tell that we're not holding presidents to the same standards as we used to.

