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Some of former officials have already gotten a taste of a post-Trump life. For former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, “[t]here’s been no cushy landing on K Street or high-profile consultancy at a major lobbying or public relations firm,” The Post said. While he published a book about being a taxpayer-funded liar, it flopped. Another one…

While the Lincoln Project continues to line its organizers’ pockets, the silver-lining of the PAC is that they have been very prodigious in their video output. More specifically, their videos are attacks on Donald Trump and his record and how awful he is. This relentless barrage of fact has allowed Vice President Joe Biden the…

“Dr. Sean Conley refused to answer reporters’ questions about the last time President Trump tested negative for coronavirus and said, ‘I don’t want to go backwards.’ ‘Oh, I do!’ said Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.”—Seth Meyers Clip of Trump in North Carolina: Somebody came up and said, ‘You’re the most famous person in the world…

Daily Kos Staff Friday October 09, 2020 · 11:27 AM PDT 2020/10/09 · 11:27 Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her children Donald Trump with Amy Coney Barrett and her children Remember all the comments about how Amy Coney Barrett’s children were not wearing masks at the Rose Garden event announcing her nomination to…

One of the documents shows that “an investigator from the Public Integrity Unit, often dubbed the department’s internal affairs team, began examining pictures and text messages from Walker’s phone in late May.” That’s two months after police officers murdered Taylor. Why two months later? Besides the fact that Taylor’s murder had become national news, it turns…

The House Democrats are still at $2.2 trillion. McConnell is, who knows. One reporter from The Washington Post reports that at an event in Kentucky on Friday, he said a stimulus deal is “unlikely in the next three weeks.” Reuters reports that he also said we need another COVID-19 aid package. He could have said…

U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a Supreme Court nominee, meeting with Sen. Mike Lee of Utah on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Lee announced he had tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, a prominent member of the GOP senate caucus and Senate Judiciary Committee, announced Friday…

One thing that’s very clear is that the White House kept the positive result from Hicks a secret. It wasn’t Trump’s tweet that broke the news to the nation, it was Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs, who released the information hours before Trump fessed up. Even then, it seems that Jacobs had known for some time,…

Daily Kos Staff Friday October 02, 2020 · 9:21 AM PDT 2020/10/02 · 09:21 Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, have tested negative for COVID-19, his campaign announced Friday. The Bidens had the PCR test, which can detect the presence of an antigen, meaning it can be effective earlier than antibody tests. Biden…

As we close in on the final month of the 2020 campaign season, Republicans are pulling all the levers to stem another blue tidal wave this November. From Republican-led state legislatures doing their part to create confusion and lay the groundwork to challenge ballots (read more about that here) to Donald Trump and his surrogates launching a…