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The new web video, tweeted by the President five days before the midterm elections, is the most extreme step yet in the most inflammatory closing argument of any campaign in recent memory. The Trump campaign ad is the latest example of the President’s willingness to lie and fear-monger in order to tear at racial and…
President Trump said Wednesday that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if billionaire philanthropist George Soros or someone else is funding the caravan of Central American migrants moving toward the U.S. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Trump told reporters outside the White House when asked if “someone” is paying for the caravan. “George Soros?” a reporter interjected. “I don’t know who,…
The jobs-versus-mobs line also provides insight into the social media feedback loop between President Donald Trump and his supporters. | POLITICO Illustration/Getty Images The creator of ‘Dilbert,’ a Reddit user and Newt Gingrich all helped to make a random tweet part of Trump’s midterm stump speech. It used to take a fancy degree and political…
There is a family friend, a man I’ve known for decades. A highly educated man with total financial security in his recent retirement. A man who always had a good story to tell or an interesting side of a conversation to hold up. Then, a few years ago, he got on Facebook. Reading his timeline…
From left: Laura, Nathan, and Jocelyn. Photo: Courtesy of the subjects More than half of American adults plan to cast ballots in November, but only a third of people ages 18 to 29 say they will. Here, 12 young adults on why they probably won’t vote. (See also: Many reasons why you really, really should.)…
The FBI has been alerted to an alleged plot to discredit special prosecutor Robert Mueller after a woman said she’d been offered money to falsely say that he’d sexually harassed her. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the…
On Tuesday, October 16, President Donald Trump started tweeting. “The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!” “We have today informed the…
Scott Olson/Getty Images North America Justifying his decision to attend a political rally and address the Future Farmers of America convention on Saturday — both just hours after a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 — President Donald Trump lied about the aftermath of September 11, 2001. “I remember when we had…
Gov. Tom Wolf, center, walks with Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald Elected officials from Pittsburgh and around Pennsylvania are reacting to a shooting at a Squirrel Hill synagogue that has left multiple people dead and several injured. “This is an incredibly sad day for all of us,” Gov. Tom Wolf told reporters gathered near Tree of…
There are fatalities after a man opened fire during a Shabbat service on Saturday morning. Four police officers have also been shot and wounded. A suspect has been arrested. Multiple people have been killed, and four police officers wounded, after a gunman opened fire in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday morning. A suspect…