Friday, May 23, 2025

Tag: Michael Cohen

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grills Michael Cohen, laying out plan to probe...

“In five minutes, this freshman congresswoman just laid out a whole investigative plan for three more topics into Donald Trump’s potentially criminal activities.”

Lawmakers urged to ‘start the impeachment proceedings’ after report Trump ordered...

"If the Buzzfeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached," declared Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.

Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years in federal prison

“My weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump, and I was weak for not having the strength to question and to refuse his demands.”

Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress

"I am pleading guilty because I am in fact guilty of the offense identified in this Agreement.”

Why Manafort and Cohen thought they’d get away with it

It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals.

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, August 23

Verizon confirms throttling internet in California during deadly wildfires, Michael Cohen won't accept a pardon from Trump, new poll shows Sanders would be Trump in 2020, and more.

Michael Cohen pleads guilty & implicates Trump as Paul Manafort is...

“If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn’t they be a crime for Donald Trump?”

Progressive Briefing for Thursday, June 21, 2018

Trump signs executive order halting family separation policy he created President Trump signed an executive order halting what has become a notorious family separation policy...

Russian Oligarch-linked firm that paid Michael Cohen was also represented by...

The investment firm that the two Trump attorneys worked for, Columbus Nova, calls it a “coincidence.”

Trump’s lawyer arranged $130K payment to silence porn star before election

Trump allegedly cheated on his wife, Melania Trump, with the porn star in 2006.

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Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands

DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs sent the market...

Ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

Department of government chaos, revenge, and patronage

And MAGA, in the end, is just a load of DoGCRaP

Controversial ‘nonprofit killer’ clause quietly removed from GOP megabill—but advocates warn it could return

A sweeping provision to strip nonprofits of tax-exempt status without due process is no longer in the latest House GOP budget bill, but civil liberties groups say the threat to free speech and advocacy is far from over.