by Hope McCorkle | Jun 4, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
Members of the far-right often attack progressives by spuriously attaching them to pedophilia-based conspiracies
A man with links to President Donald Trump’s transition — and someone who served as a witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation — has been charged with transporting child pornography.
This is not George Nader’s first run-in with the law.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | Jun 4, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
District Judge Trevor N. McFadden accused Democrats of trying “to conscript the judiciary in a political turf war”
Update: The White House is asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an emergency stay on the lower court order blocking them from beginning construction on the border wall, according to The Hill.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | Jun 3, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
Trump and Beto highlighted two distinctly different visions for America in dueling rallies in the city of El Paso
President Donald Trump and Rep. Beto O’Rourke made headlines in February when the future 2020 candidates laid out two distinctly different visions for America in dueling rallies in the border city of El Paso — and they apparently took two different approaches to paying their tabs, too.... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | Jun 3, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
“Once we have all the facts, then we’ll make a policy determination,” Kushner tells Axios’ Jonathan Swan
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner refused to say whether Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had ordered a hit on “Washington Post” journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a wide-ranging interview with “Axios on HBO.”... Read Original Article
by Hope McCorkle | Jun 3, 2019 | Original Source Salon.com
“Instead of obsessing over who‘s a ‘frontrunner,’ maybe we can start w some general eliminations,” AOC tweeted
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been blunt in her assessment of Rep. John Delaney, D-Md.: If the Democratic presidential candidate is not going to support Medicare for All, he needs to “please sashay away.”... Read Original Article