National Politics
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“I truly believe that I’m strong enough to beat her at her own game."
Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX) slammed the marathon proceedings on the Senate floor Tuesday night, condemning Democrats for being “redundant” and “table banging” because they don’t have facts. If you have the facts, you bang the facts. If you have the law, you bang the law. If you don't have either, you bang the table. Today, we've […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized the Democratic Party for not being progressive on Monday, declaring her own party is a “center or center-conservative party.” "We don’t have a left party in the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview at MLK Now 2020. “The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is […]
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized her former Democratic presidential rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in an upcoming documentary, saying “nobody likes him” and he is a career politician who “got nothing done.” “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, […]
"It’s unforgivable that resources have been kept in a warehouse.”
Democratic hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT) said he rather be on the campaign trial than stuck in Washington D.C. for President Trump’s impeachment trial that could last for weeks. “I’d rather be in Iowa today. There’s a caucus there in two and a half weeks. I’d rather be in New Hampshire and Nevada and so forth,” […]
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts arrived in the U.S. Senate Thursday afternoon to prepare for his role presiding over the impeachment trial of President Trump and swore in the oath to senators. “Senators, I attend the Senate in conformity with your notice for the purpose of joining with you for the trial of the president […]
By Mona Salama After a 28-day delay, the House voted Wednesday to send the two articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate for a trial that is expected to begin next week. The resolution passed 228-193 largely along party lines. Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN) was the only Democrat to vote against the resolution. Rep. […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(D-CA) announced seven Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday who will serve as impeachment managers in the Senate trial against President Trump. “Today, I am very proud to present the impeachment managers,” Pelosi said during the press conference. “It is their responsibility to present the very strong case for the president’s impeachment and removal. […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT) denied Tuesday night that being labeled a “Democrat Socialist” will not turn off voters or hurt his chances because his campaign will “expose the fraudulence” to defeat President Trump. “Nope, not at all and that is because the campaign that we are going to run will expose the fraudulence of who Donald […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders(I-VT) stood alone at Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate in opposing the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, or USMCA, in part because it "it does not even have the phrase ‘climate change’ in it.” “We could do much better than a Trump-led trade deal,” Sanders said. “Every major environmental organization has said no to this […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden accused President at Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate of “flat-out” lying about the justification for killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. “What's happened is, now that he's gone ahead, the president, and started this whole process moving,” Biden said. “Quite frankly, I think he's flat-out lied about saying the reason he went […]
The December shooting carried out by a Saudi aviation student at Naval Air Station Pensacola that killed three American service members was an “act of terrorism,” Attorney General William Barr said Monday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) has emerged as the top fundraiser powerhouse of her party, but the Democratic socialist is refusing to pay her dues to the House’s Democratic campaign committee, angering her fellow Democrat colleagues. “It is pretty nuts, $250,000 for a freshman Democrat,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with HisPolitica outside the Capitol Friday. […]
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said President Trump decision to launch the airstrike that killed Iran's top military commander, Qassem Soleimani last week is “undermining our national security interest.” Gabbard added that the killing of Soleimani was an “assassination” because it was an “illegal and an unconstitutional act of war.” “The Commander-in-Chief […]
"We’re ready to go full speed ahead in 2020.”
The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to approve a resolution aimed at restricting the President's ability to use military action against Iran without congressional approval. The measure passed by a nearly party-line vote of 224-194, but there were a few defectors from both sides of the aisle. Three Republicans voted in favor of the […]
“The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has lifted an illegitimate nationwide injunction."
"These are serious times with serious issues."
Members of Congress drew sharply different conclusions Wednesday after the Trump administration made its case that an imminent threat had justified the killing of a top Iranian military commander. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and CIA Director Gina Haspel held a classified briefing […]
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) slammed the administration classified Iran briefing on the strike that killed one of Iran’s top generals, Qassem Soleimani last week, calling the closed-door meeting “insulting and demeaning.” “What I found so distressing about that briefing was that one of the messages we received from the briefers was, 'Do not debate. Do […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House will vote Thursday on a resolution limiting President Trump's military action with Iran without congressional authorization. “Last week, the Trump Administration conducted a provocative and disproportionate military airstrike targeting high-level Iranian military officials,” Pelosi said in a statement Wednesday. “The Administration took this action without consulting Congress. […]
President Trump declared that Iran “appears to be standing down,” in an address to the nation after Tuesday night's missile attack on two Iraqi bases housing U.S. military personnel. “Our great American forces are prepared for anything,” Trump in remarks from the Grand Foyer of the White House Wednesday morning. “Iran appears to be standing […]
President Donald Trump delivered his much-anticipated response to the Iranian missile attack against U.S. and ally forces in Iraq. Speaking from the White House, Trump announced that “no lives were lost” because of how the military had prepared for possible attacks, and because of an early warning system that was in place.
Iran has retaliated against the U.S. for killing it’s Quds Force terrorist leader Qassim Soleimani by launching dozens of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq.
Just as Iran’s new leader of their it Revolutionary Guard, Hossein Salami, declared that his regime has plans for 13 attacks against U.S. interests in retaliation for Soleimani’s targeted killing last week, the U.S. Air Force held a massive show of force during a planned exercise in Utah.
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, along with ten GOP Senators introduced a resolution on Monday to dismiss articles of impeachment against President Trump for lack of prosecution. “Speaker Pelosi started this bogus impeachment by claiming President Trump was an urgent ‘threat to democracy’ who had to be removed now. But after a bipartisan vote against the articles […]
“The testimony & evidence considered in a Senate impeachment trial should be the same testimony & evidence the House relied upon when they passed the Articles of Impeachment.”
“A trigger happy armchair strongman, lacking congressional authority, has recklessly brought our nation closer to war.”
Just as Iran threatens to strike at U.S. interests, President Trump just announced moments ago that he would target "52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago)," saying that Iran itself would be targeted.
Moments after the Pentagon confirmed that President Donald Trump ordered the targeted killing of Iranian terrorist and Republican Guard Corps Quds Force General, Qassim Soleimani, congressional Democrats and 2020 presidential candidates began to express their disapproval of killing an individual that has directly killed American military personnel as Israelis, not to mention other U.S. allies.
Miami – During his Evangelicals for Trump kick-off event Friday, President Donald Trump said that he didn’t know where some members of Congress came from because of their support for the anti-Israel, BDS movement.
Hating on Scalia is disturbing. Regardless of what side of the political aisle you find yourself, respect should always be given to all elected officials and confirmed jurists, regardless of how they voted or ruled.
Shortly after Sen. Marco Rubio (R) held Iran directly responsible conducting the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, where dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and supporters stormed the compound, President Donald Trump echoed the senator from Florida, saying that the Iranian regime would be held “fully responsible.”
“This impeachment is about Trump’s conduct, not mine.”
Michael Bloomberg (D), the former mayor of New York and a current presidential candidate, has received both support and criticism for entering the already crowded race for the white house.






