The nonpartisan Democracy Defenders Fund has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department over the agency's refusal to release documents from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that mention President Trump and his Mar-a-Lago residence. read more
Jonathan Freedland: Trump's dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. It's like being woken in the night by a burglar wearing a striped shirt and carrying a bag marked "Swag": we would assume it was a joke or a stunt or otherwise unreal, rather than a genuine danger. So it is with Trump. We cannot quite believe what we are seeing. read more
Someday, the president may need the American people to believe something he says"and they won't. read more
Robert Reich: How to explain the rise of so many incompetent and unprincipled people? Easy. They could never succeed on their own merits. As soon as their incompetence became apparent " which was likely to be as soon as they took the first job that required some degree of intelligence and integrity " they were fired. read more
The woman thought to have the most direct knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's decades-long sex-trafficking operation claims there was no client list, no blackmail scheme and -- to her knowledge -- no high-profile Epstein associates who committed illicit acts in connection with the notorious sex-offender's crimes. That's according to an account provided by Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to a top official of the U.S. Department of Justice during a highly unusual two-day interview session last month, according to a transcript and audio of the conversation released Friday by the DOJ. read more
Pathetic creature, perpetually in a state of meltdown.
Always pi$$ed off about something or (more often) nothing.
Joyfully spreading wreckage in his mad wake.
And, yes, MAGAts, you voted for this.
(It will be as with Nixon.
A few months after he left in disgrace ... .
Hardly anyone would admit to contributing a vote to his landslide.)