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By Susan Crabtree for RealClearPolitics It was a revealing second in an in any other case predictable present of imprecise deflections that has develop into the sort of efficiency artwork required for Cupboard nominees to make it via the Senate affirmation gauntlet. Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden’s nominee to guide the …

Supermodel Chrissy Teigen, who was as soon as blocked by outgoing President Donald Trump after criticizing his insurance policies on Twitter, celebrated the top of his presidency in remarks she made on-line this morning. “With two impeachments, the creation of three million LESS jobs, 403,000 lifeless, a document low approval …

When President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes the oath of workplace on Wednesday, he could also be accompanied by a familial artifact that has adopted him all through his 50-year political profession: a hefty Bible, accented with a Celtic cross, that has been in his household since 1893. Whereas this …

President Trump has granted clemency to Stephen Ok. Bannon, the previous White Home chief strategist who was charged with defrauding political donors who supported constructing a border wall that Mr. Trump advocated, and Elliott Broidy, certainly one of his prime fund-raisers in 2016, amongst different folks. Mr. Bannon was indicted …

Rachel Maddow skewered Donald Trump on Tuesday evening, calling him a “sore loser” who will no doubt go down because the country’s worst president. The MSNBC host ticked off a handful of explanation why Trump is leaving workplace in shame, from two impeachments to an armed revolt to the unprecedented …

When Donald Trump gained the Republican nomination in 2016, he didn’t actually have any political allies. So when Mike Pence was introduced as his VP, it was seen as extra of a strategic transfer. Pence was on the ticket to assist Trump win the votes of Evangelical Christians. And whereas …

Consultant Rashida Talib (D-MI) went off on Israel whereas showing on the radically liberal present “Democracy Now!” on Tuesday, going as far as to accuse it of being a “racist state” as a result of it didn’t embody the roughly four.5 million Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution and …

Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared January 19, the day earlier than Joe Biden’s inauguration, to be a “Day of Racial Therapeutic” in her state. Whitmer Declares Eve Of Biden Inauguration To Be ‘Day Of Racial Therapeutic’ Whitmer, who’s a co-chair of Biden’s inauguration, defined that the day earlier …

President Trump, throughout his one time period in workplace, has used clemency energy on behalf of convicted liars and crooked politicians, a few of whom have been his buddies. However the lengthy checklist of pardons his workforce has ready for him to signal on his remaining full day in workplace …

The CNN host Don Lemon got here fully unglued on Monday evening as he attacked the Republican lawmakers who dared to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on the late civil rights chief’s vacation. Lemon Assaults Professional-Trump Republicans  Lemon grew to become enraged when he noticed Republicans like Vice President Mike …