February 2, 2021 10:46 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Impeachment Impeachment timeline: Feb 2: Trump answer to article/House pre-trial brief; Feb 8: House reply to Trump answer/Trump pre-trial brief; Feb 9: House pre-trial rebuttal/Trial resumes. UPDATE: Read the House brief here and Trump’s response to the article of impeachment here. Donald Trump’s entire impeachment legal team disbanded – with just a week […]
January 25, 2021 8:32 am
By Adrienne Cobb
The facts come out Former President Trump allegedly conspired with a Justice Department official to fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen in order to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results. The plan, developed earlier this month, involved sending a letter to Georgia officials, falsely saying that the […]
January 20, 2021 9:36 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Legal dangers ahead The Manhattan district attorney’s office interviewed Michael Cohen for numerous hours on Thursday, focusing on Trump’s business dealings and relationship with Deutsche Bank. This is the second time that Cohen met with DA Vance’s prosecutors, who are looking to the Trump Organization for possible tax, bank, and insurance fraud, […]
January 13, 2021 6:29 pm
By Scott Stedman
John Weaver, a former top aide to Senator John McCain, Governor John Kasich, and a co-founder of the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, sent sexually suggestive messages to at least 30 young men and in some cases, sent unsolicited pictures of his penis, flew political ambitious men to his location […]
January 12, 2021 4:42 pm
By Adrienne Cobb
Author’s note: Due to the Capitol riots/insurrection dominating the news (and rightly so), I made the decision to focus on the events that got buried in the news cycle over the past week. Russia A new report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) found that Trump […]
January 5, 2021 12:45 pm
By Aaron Parnas
Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater USA, and brother of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos, has come under fire recently for potentially lying to Congress. On April 30, 2019, Representative Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a criminal referral letter to the Department of Justice […]
January 4, 2021 5:56 pm
By Adrienne Cobb
Election shenanigans On Saturday, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in an attempt to convince him to overturn the results of the presidential election. Audio of the call, which lasted over an hour, was published by The Washington Post. Trump alternately berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, […]
December 28, 2020 4:04 pm
By Adrienne Cobb
Transition sabotage and last-minute regs Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller allegedly ordered the Pentagon to halt cooperation with the Biden transition for the two holiday weeks, leaving just 20 planning days before Biden’s inauguration. Miller claimed the meeting cancellations were “mutually-agreed upon,” but Biden transition director Abraham contradicted him: “Let me be clear: […]