This explains the massive amounts of “Executive Time” on his schedule.  We may have just figured out why Donald Trump has up to 60 percent of his schedule marked as “executive time.” According to a new report in The Washington Post, President Trump paid to have a massive “golf simulator” installed in the White House so he can play virtual rounds of golf. The report noted that Trump spent $50,000 on the new golf simulator. During the recent government shutdown, Trump took his longest break from golfing since becoming president so it seems having the golf simulator installed in the White House...

The former NASA astronaut announces his next mission: unseating Republican Martha McSally.  Mark Kelly, retired NASA astronaut and husband of former Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, announced his campaign Tuesday that he will run for Senate in Arizona in 2020. “I always knew that I was going to serve this country in some way,” said Kelly. “It becomes pretty obvious pretty early when you get into space that we’re all in this together,” he said. Kelly made the announcement in a video posted to his Twitter account: My next mission… #FullSpeedAhead #ForArizona pic.twitter.com/5E36z7aztH — Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) February 12, 2019...

Kamala Harris on legalizing weed: “Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” On Monday, 2020 hopeful and California Senator Kamala Harris confirmed that she strongly supports legalizing marijuana. Harris told the hosts of the New York City radio show “The Breakfast Club” that the rumors that she didn’t support legalization were completely false. Hear what #KamalaHarris thinks about legalizing marijuana 💬 pic.twitter.com/YGZlCAKUZ0 — The Breakfast Club (@breakfastclubam) February 11, 2019 “That’s not true,” Harris told show host Charlamagne Tha God. “Half my family is from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” Harris also said, “I think it...

Special Counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann tips its hand, says Russian sanctions are at the center of the investigation.  Robert Mueller’s investigators are still very much targeting the Trump campaign for collusion with the Russians and a newly unsealed court document proves it. During a routine sentencing hearing for Paul Manafort last week, Robert Mueller’s lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann tipped the Special Counsel’s hand. Special Counsel prosecutor suggests Trump campaign made a deal with Russia In the hearing, Weissmann makes the case that team Trump worked on plans to give Russia relief from sanctions and a more favorable U.S. policy...

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have ordered Trump’s inauguration committee to turn over documents about its donors, finances, and activities. According to a bombshell new report in the The New York Times, a lawyer working for the Trump inaugural committee received a subpoena on Monday seeking a range of documents, including ones related to the committee’s donors and event attendees. The subpoena came from prosecutors working for the United States Attorney for Southern District of New York. The New York Times report came after an earlier report from ABC News, that noted prosecutors in the Southern...

A new batch of polls show that President Trump’s base is eroding. As the government shutdown reaches deeper into record territory, Donald Trump’s approval rating is down. According to a batch of newly released polls Trump’s approval rating is hovering near record lows. Trump approval is down A Pew Research poll released Friday found that Trump’s approval stands at just 37 percent. And in a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll out this week, Trump’s approval rating is down to 39 percent while his disapproval rating up to 53 percent. That’s a 7 point negative change from the December poll. Trump’s...

Support for Trump’s border wall is sinking. A new set of polls released Sunday confirm that Americans firmly blame President Trump and Congressional Republicans for the government shutdown. According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, 53 percent of Americans place blame for the shutdown on Trump. At the same time 29 percent blame Democrats while 13 percent blame both sides. And at the same time a new CNN poll found essentially the same results with 55 percent saying they blame Trump for the shutdown and just 23 percent blaming Democrats. As a reminder, Trump said he was “proud” to...

FBI Opened Probe Into Whether President Trump Is Working For Russia: NYT Comey firing led FBI to open an investigation into whether Trump was doing Russia’s bidding. In the days following the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, the FBI launched a formal investigation into whether President Trump was working for Russia, The New York Times reports. According to the Times report, Comey’s firing caused so much alarm among top law enforcement officials at the FBI that they began investigating if Trump was a national security threat or secretly carrying out anti-American agendas on behalf of Russian officials....

Paul Manafort Shared Secret Campaign Data With Russian Agent: Report Manafort’s lawyers accidentally revealed in court documents that Paul Manafort shared secret Trump campaign materials with a Russian intelligence operative.  Attorneys for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort inadvertently revealed Tuesday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has evidence Manafort shared polling data with a Russian intelligence agent and later lied to the Special Counsel about it. The revelation came after Manafort’s lawyers failed to properly redact a court filing Tuesday. Manafort’s lawyers were responding to the Special Counsel’s claim that Manafort broke his September 2018 plea agreement by...

A Review Of The 8 Witches Robert Mueller Has Snagged So Far That sure is a lot of witches! News of Paul Manafort’s decision to end his legal defense and begin cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller radiated through Washington Friday. Manafort’s cooperation agreement is the latest and most high profile win for the Special Counsel who continues to be undefeated in all legal proceedings in the Russia investigation. And since we already know President Trump’s response will be to call the entire investigation “witch hunt,” we thought it would be helpful to do a review of all the...