Flynn Was Paid To Lobby For Turkey While Attending Trump Intel Briefings: Report Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was being by the country of Turkey to to lobby at the same time that he attended top secret intelligence briefings on behalf of the Trump campaign. NBC News is reporting that according to federal records Flynn only stopped lobbying after he became Donald Trump’s national security adviser, “but he then played a role in formulating policy toward Turkey, working for a president who has promised to curb the role of lobbyists in Washington.” Flynn did not register with...

Maddow Ratings Beat Fox News On Trump Russia Connection Special Rachel Maddow’s special coverage on “The Russian Connection” was the most viewed cable news program among the coveted 25-54 demographic during the 9pm hour. The MSNBC’s special beat every other cable news program in the 9pm time slot. Maddow’s Russia special was watched by 2.904 million viewers which exceeds the 2.850 million viewers that Fox’s Tucker Carlson had. And Rachel Maddow’s ratings roughly tripled the 1.256 million viewers that CNN achieved. Maddow has continued to aggressively cover the connections between Russia and Trump and it looks like that coverage...

Watchdog Groups U.S. Attorney to Investigate Trump’s Foreign Business Deals A letter was sent to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, asking him to investigate whether Trump has received payments or other benefits from foreign governments through his business interests. If Trump has, he would be violating the Emoluments Clause. Reported by the Washington Post, the letter was sent by a trio of watchdog groups six weeks after one of the groups filed a lawsuit in federal district court making a similar claim. Trump has claimed that he addressed ethics concerns...

15 Million Will Lose Insurance If Republican Health Plan Passes: Report Republicans have spent the last few days trying to discredit the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in advance of their analysis on the Trump-Ryan health bill. Republicans are clearly concerned that the CBO will not have very good numbers for the Republican plan. But policy experts at the Brookings Institute have performed their own analysis on the Republican bill and they found that the Republican plan would have a devastating impact on people’s lives. “CBO’s analysis will likely estimate that at least 15 million people will lose coverage under the...

Nancy Pelosi: Republicans Are Afraid of CBO Score on Trumpcare House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, at a breakfast for reporters hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington D.C. on Friday morning, blasted Republicans for moving forward on Trumpcare, that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, without first seeing an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). “They are afraid of that,” Pelosi said, referring to a CBO score that would project how much the bill would cost and how many people would lose their health insurance. Pelosi added that Democrats did not move forward with the...

FBI Investigating Server Link Between Trump Organization And Russian Bank: Report A report Thursday confirmed that the FBI is still investigating a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank. CNN is reporting that while initial reports about the server were made in November, the FBI continues to investigate the matter for possible connections to the Russia probe. The FBI’s counterintelligence unit is running the investigation is reportedly handling the investigation into the server which is connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign. Investigators find the server relationship between the Trump Organization...

Schumer On Trumpcare: ‘No One Likes This Bill’ Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday slammed the Republican legislation to replace Obamacare. Schumer said of Trumpcare, “no one likes this bill.” “Hospitals, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberals, non-partisan groups, and most of all, the people who will no longer have affordable health care,” Schumer said during a press conference. “So we Democrats are here today to tell our Republican friends: Turn back, drop this irresponsible plan, stop this effort to repeal, and we’ll work with you to improve the Affordable Care Act. But Trumpcare is a loser for just about all...

D.C. Restaurant Suing Trump Over Unfair Competition Washington D.C. restaurant owner says that they are facing unfair competition because of Donald Trump’s continued affiliation with government-owned Old Post Office building that Trump operates the Trump International Hotel. The owners of Cork Wine Bar, Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross,  filed a lawsuit alleging unfair competition against Donald Trump and the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges that Trump’s affilation with the government-owned property puts them at a competitive disadvantage. The attorney for Cork Wine Bar says that government officials, lobbyists, foreign dignitaries and others seeking political influence “feel pressure” or an “obligation” to...

Three States Suing To Block Trump’s New Muslim-Ban Democratic attorneys general for three states have announced that they will be asking the court for a temporary block on Donald Trump’s new Muslim-ban which was signed this week. In February, District Court Judge James Robart blocked Donald Trump’s first Muslim-ban and Robart’s ruling was upheld by the Ninth Circut Court of Appeals. Trump later withdrew the first Muslim-ban and issued a new ban attempting to craft the order to fare better in the courts. On Thursday, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that his office will file a motion...

The Internet Hilariously Trolls Paul Ryan’s Disastrous PowerPoint Presentation Ryan tried unsuccessfully today to make the case for his plan to take health insurance from poor people and give the money saved to rich people. The internet had a lot of fun trolling Speaker Paul Ryan’s disastrous health plan PowerPoint presentation today. Here are some of our favorites: pic.twitter.com/P894zMKXy0 — Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) March 9, 2017 That lean tho… #ProfessorRyan pic.twitter.com/yGPwrvo3NT — Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) March 9, 2017 I left a meeting to make this pic.twitter.com/mcS7cnAySy — Dan Amira (@DanAmira) March 9, 2017 Paul Ryan uses simple images to explain...