Implicated in the extortion scheme are several high-ranking members of the administration.
Rick Perry
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The Legal Liability That Poses the Biggest Threat to the Three Amigos
Being linked to a corrupt attempt to pressure a foreign ally to smear the president’s political opponent.
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Department of Energy Celebrates Export of Molecules of U.S. Freedom
In a press release, the Office of Fossil Energy rebranded liquified natural gas as “freedom gas.”
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Trump Has Assembled the Most Ignorant Cabinet in History
Once again, Ben Carson is the poster child.
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Trump Has Assembled the Worst Cabinet in History
He told us he would only hire the “best people,” but the president’s picks have been a legal and ethical nightmare.
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Jeff Sessions Deserves to Be Humiliated
What did I tell you back down the line? I’ll scratch your back, you can scratch mine… Steely Dan, “Gaucho,” 1980 You have to admit: it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, and it feels good to see him get screwed. Jeff Sessions probably looks in the mirror now and finds himself restraining the urge […]
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Green Lantern: Gore’s Return to the Spotlight Has Implications for 2018 and Beyond
Accepting the Vice Presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention 25 years ago today, then-Tennessee Senator Al Gore declared: I’ve spent much of my career working to protect the environment, not only because it is vital to the future of my State of Tennessee, our country and our earth, but because I believe there is […]
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What the Right Did to Carter, The Left Must Do to Trump
You can’t deny the strategy worked. Yesterday, I reaffirmed by 2015 call for progressives to be as vigorous in their defense of President Obama’s legacy as right-wingers are in their defense of President Reagan’s legacy. In that 2015 piece, I noted: [November 4, 2015] marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of Reagan’s victory over President Jimmy Carter. […]
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The Man in Charge of Our Nuclear Weapons
Rick Perry is unprepared to be the energy secretary.
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Thought Process
C’mon, John Kerry’s just doing his job. The outgoing Secretary of State knows that the man nominated to replace him, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, isn’t qualified to cut the White House lawn, much less represent the Trump administration internationally. As a longtime climate hawk, Kerry also knows about ExxonMobil’s decades of deception on climate change, […]
