Nick Baumann

Why The Democrats Impeached President Donald Trump

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Marie Yovanovitch Explains How Trump Opened The Door For Corruption

President Donald Trump’s decision to remove the former ambassador to Ukraine from her post over bad-faith smears dramatically undermined U.S. efforts to fight corruption worldwide, she told Congress in a public impeachment hearing Friday…

Democrats Rack Up Election Wins In The South Ahead Of 2020

Democrats made major gains in state-level elections across the country on Tuesday, revealing President Donald Trump’s weakness in even the reddest of states and putting the lie to the idea of a massive voter backlash against House Democrats’…

Donald Trump Is Pressuring U.S. Allies To Endorse His Favorite Conspiracy Theory

Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty President Donald Trump believes in a conspiracy theory. His belief in it explains the scandal that could lead to his impeachment. Specifically, the president is convinced that the Democratic National…

Congress Has Trump Whistleblower Complaint. Some Lawmakers Want You To See It, Too.

The complaint reportedly concerns a series of actions involving Trump, including a July 25 phone call during which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his 2020 political rival Joe Biden. The White House released a…

The Trump Whistleblower Scandal Is Proving Edward Snowden Right

The former National Security Agency subcontractor should have used “other avenues available for somebody whose conscience was stirred and thought that they needed to question government actions,” then-President Barack Obama claimed in an August 2013…

Donald Trump Is Asking A Foreign Country To Help Him Win. Again.

President Donald Trump had gotten off scot-free. ”A great day for me,” he declared on July 24. Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony about Trump’s alleged obstruction of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election had…

Actually, Pete Buttigieg, Sept. 12, 2001, Was Bad

Jonathan Bachman/Reuters Democratic candidates met for a debate one day after the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. During his opening statement, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, in the 21st-century “West Wing” style he’s…

DC Neo-Nazi Who Called Pittsburgh Murders A ‘Dry Run’ Arrested; Has Deep Ties To ‘Alt Right’

WASHINGTON ― Jeffrey Clark, the 30-year-old man federal agents arrested here Friday after he called the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting a “dry run” and his relatives worried he might try to launch a race war, wasn’t shy about being a neo-Nazi. In April…

Democrats Made Big Gains At The State Level Tuesday

Democrats swept key state legislative and gubernatorial races across the country Tuesday, ensuring that at least 42 million more Americans will live under unified Democratic governance of their states next year and opening the door for sweeping…

U.S. Election Rules Doomed Democrats’ Chances Of Taking The Senate

Democrats may be ecstatic that they retook the House of Representatives, but their decisive victory conceals a harsher reality: It took a landslide in the popular vote to get them here, and they are projected to lose seats in the Senate. Those facts…

Fox News Confronts Rudy Giuliani Over Michael Cohen ‘Liar’ Flip-Flop

Rudy Giuliani can’t get his story straight on Michael Cohen — and even Fox News is calling him out on it. On “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace confronted Giuliani, who serves as one of President Donald Trump’s attorneys, on his flip-flopping …

A HuffPost Reporter Was Bombarded With Threats. Twitter Suspended Him.

Twitter Last week HuffPost reporter Luke O’Brien published a story identifying the woman behind @AmyMek, a massively popular pseudonymous Twitter account followed by people like Sean Hannity, Roseanne Barr, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Ryan Zinke and …

What Did AT&T And Novartis Get For The Money They Paid Trump’s Lawyer?

WASHINGTON ― The world’s largest telecommunications company, an investment firm tied to a Russian oligarch, a pharmaceutical conglomerate and an aircraft manufacturer competing for a government contract all sent money to President Donald Trump’s …

The Hidden Extremism Of Trump’s State Of The Union

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address was competently delivered and — for him — relatively inoffensive. The mainstream media and the television pundits will surely deem it to be a presidential moment, representative …

House Republicans Vote To Release Classified Memo They Wrote Attacking Russia Probe

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s Republican allies in Congress advanced their monthslong assault on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Monday, voting along partisan lines to release a …

Here’s What The FBI Lovers’ Secret Texts Actually Say About Trump, Clinton And Leaks

WASHINGTON ― Last week, a story by The Hill’s John Solomon set off another firestorm in the conservative media about the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The article, which was linked to by The …

Republicans Have Dramatically Ramped Up Their Attacks On Russia Probes In 2018

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that it is time for Republicans to “finally take control” of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and bring an end to a scandal that’s been looming over his presidency …

Top Republicans Say Trump Isn’t About To Fire Mueller. But They Can’t Stop Attacking Him.

Top Republicans on Sunday used news shows to assure the media and America that President Donald Trump is not on the verge of firing Robert Mueller, the special counsel charged with investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election and possible …

Watch Out, Donald Trump. Here Come The Democrats.

FAIRFAX, Va. ― The Democratic Party romped to victories across the country Tuesday, gaining key state legislative seats, two governorships and full control of the state governments of New Jersey and Washington, where they’ll have wide power to enact …