TrumpAdministration

Trump official broke the law with attempt to silence government scientists during pandemic

A Trump administration political appointee broke the law with a gag order banning Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) staff from talking to the media, the Office of Special Counsel …

Mon Dec 13, 2021

Trump's election-nullifying lawyer wanted to attack Germany to secretly rescue the, um, CIA chief

Donald Trump-loyal “attorney” Sidney Powell is one of the members of the Republican election-sabotage team who pushed the wildest, and most obviously false, hoaxes to justify Republican demands that …

Tue Nov 16, 2021

In a 'major victory for patients,' Biden lifts Trump-era abortion gag rule

The Biden administration is repealing the abortion gag rule set up under Donald Trump, which prohibited organizations receiving federal family planning funds from providing abortion referrals. The gag …

Tue Oct 5, 2021

Rosen testifies behind closed doors on Trump administration coup attempt at Justice Department

The full scope of the Trump administration’s efforts to nullify an American presidential election is just beginning to come into view. Trump and his top allies engaged in an orchestrated, …

Mon Aug 9, 2021

Team Trump sabotaged years of climate change preparation, and we won't be getting those years back

There are a few points that stand out in this New York Times federal climate science writeup describing how boned we are after four years of rampant political corruption—not by Donald Trump, but by …

Tue Aug 3, 2021

With a three-pronged plan, Trump's White House tried to topple our democracy

America has not yet internalized what the last Republican administration did, during the last months of Donald Trump’s term of office. The country seems rather insistent on not letting the full …

Mon Aug 2, 2021

Garland's Justice Department finds Wilbur Ross lied to Congress ... but won't prosecute

In yet another move hinting that the Merrick Garland Department of Justice places more value on moving forward than holding Trump-era corruption to account, Government Executive is reporting that the …

Mon Jul 19, 2021

A spate of new books show how the presidency broke Donald Trump

The books documenting Donald Trump’s final days in office are beginning to appear. Please do not buy them. The journalism habit of hiding consequential bits of insider news from the public so …

Tue Jul 13, 2021

Trump's Republican allies wanted to sabotage government. They largely succeeded

A New York Times story on the ongoing effects of Team Trump’s spectacular mismanagement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is notable for two reasons. First, because of a …

Mon Jun 21, 2021

Fallout from Trump Justice Department data seizures on reporters and members of Congress continues

Attorney General Merrick Garland is meeting with leaders from CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and he’s going to have some explaining to do. All three media organizations have …

Mon Jun 14, 2021

Report claims police did not clear Lafayette Park for Trump photo op, despite your eyes and ears

With a report that borders on gaslighting, U.S. Department of the Interior Inspector General Mark Greenblatt announced a bizarre finding that the violent clearing of Lafayette Park mere minutes before …

Wed Jun 9, 2021

Mark Meadows pressured Justice Department to open probes supporting Republican election hoaxes

There is only one reason Republican lawmakers are blocking any investigations into the January 6 insurrection they can block: because it was a Republican insurrection to begin with. It was premised on …

Sun Jun 6, 2021

Secretive, abusive unit in Commerce Department tracked social media posts critical of Trump's census

The Biden administration has put the brakes on a shady, abusive security unit inside the Commerce Department. Under the leadership of a career supervisor named George Lee, the Investigations and …

Mon May 24, 2021

Reports of the Trump Justice Department's shady activities keep trickling out. What else is coming?

The digging-out of all the Trump administration’s dirt and rampant abuses of power continues—and it’s probably nowhere near done. CNN learned on Thursday that the Trump Justice Department had secretly …

Fri May 21, 2021

Trump administration food box program winds down

The Biden administration is ending a pandemic food box program put in place to bring fresh food to struggling families while giving farmers a market for food they might otherwise have had to throw …

Thu May 13, 2021