Political Scandals

CNN self-parodied itself on Tuesday as it tried to discern higher meanings behind Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lunchtime trip to Subway on the same day it was revealed he issued a target letter to former President Donald Trump as part of his January 6 investigation.

How bad did the United States Secret Service bungle their investigation into the bag of cocaine left in the West Wing? All you need to know is that even disgraced FBI bureaucrat and Russiagate hoaxer Andrew Weissmann is critical. During a Thursday night appearance on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, Weissmann told host Stephanie Ruhle that “this is really just not a sufficient investigation.”…

Carol Leonnig’s official job title at the Washington Post claims she is an investigative reporter, but based on her Wednesday appearance on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, she is more like the FBI’s official stenographer as she attacked Republicans for criticizing the “hallowed” institution during the day's House Judiciary Committee hearing despite the fact “there…

On MSNBC’s The ReidOut, host Joy Reid brought on leftist activist and turncoat former Republican Kurt Bardella to smear and mock Republicans in Congress for wanting to hold Joe Biden’s drug addict criminal son Hunter accountable for his many crimes. Proving that he has no self awareness at all, Bardella claimed some Republicans secretly think House Oversight Committee Chairman James…

During a Tuesday morning press briefing on the sidelines of the NATO conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson broke from the press corps’s focus on NATO and the war in Ukraine to question National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on a new twist in the Biden family’s business dealings with a Chinese state-affiliated energy company and a report alleging collusion between…

Monday was a difficult day for CNN’s conception of President Biden. First, the network struggled with the idea that he may night be the perfect family man and then on CNN Primetime, struggled that he may not be the most caring and empathic man they have built him up to be.

On Monday’s episode of CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, the host and her panel discussed the surprisingly searing New York Times column that ripped into President Biden for denying the existence of Hunter Biden’s child. Despite CNN’s personality cult following of Biden, the panel found it extremely difficult to excuse his behavior.

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A stunning report by Axios revealed Monday that President Joe Biden frequently screams and curses at his staff in a fit of rage when he's not given the answers he requests in meetings. Despite breathlessly reporting on false rumors and innuendo about then-president Donald Trump for four years, all three evening news broadcasts ignored this story because it would make Biden look bad. 

Despite a new update Thursday in the ongoing "cocainegate" scandal in which a small bag of cocaine was left inside with West Wing of the White House in a different location than was originally reported, ABC's World News Tonight and CBS Evening News both lost interest in the story, while NBC Nightly News only managed to dedicate 41 seconds during their evening…

This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives revealed the testimony of an IRS whistleblower who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation. That whistleblower had two revelations to present. First, he said that the federal prosecutor overseeing Hunter’s case told at least six witnesses that he had been blocked by Attorney General Merrick Garland from special counsel status -- a status…

After predictably ignoring Hunter’s possible role in the appearance of a small bag of cocaine found inside the West Wing of the White House, the “big three” evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC kept up their silence on Hunter Biden. Failing to mention his name once during each of their reports Wednesday evening. This is despite the fact that the son of the President is a well-known user of…

On ABC’s This Week, co-moderator Jonathan Karl committed a random act of journalism Sunday during an interview with California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna in which he actually asked him about the bombshell IRS whistleblower report alleging that U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss was constantly hamstrung during his investigation of President Joe Biden’s drug…

It is an unfortunate truism of politics that partisans tend to believe the worst about members of the opposite party and no amount of facts — if, indeed, facts can be agreed upon — move people from their entrenched positions. Largely, I think, it’s all about gaining or keeping power and not actually discovering the truth or solving problems.