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Twitter Sleuth Matt Taibbi Shuts Down Jim Jordan, GOP Lawmakers; IRS Did Nothing Wrong

Keith GirardMarch 29, 2023

Matt Taibbi, the journalist turned Twitter sleuth, says Jim Jordan and GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill have taken his comments about the Internal Revenue Service out of context...

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House Should Reject Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Desperate Bid To Cling To Power and Expel Her

Keith GirardFebruary 5, 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to be expelled from Congress. (Govt. Photo) Marjorie Taylor Greene is so desperate to cling to power she has renounced nearly all of her crackpot, insurrectionist views and violent threats, but it's not enough. Sh...

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Congress Has Power to Jail Trump Officials Who Ignore Impeachment Subpoenas: It Should Use It

Keith GirardNovember 15, 2019

Top Trump officials who have refused subpoenas to testify in impeachment hearings should face a long-standing process as old as the nation itself. They should be held in contempt of Congress....

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Trump Will Be Worst 1-Term President Regardless of Russia Probe; Here’s Why

Keith GirardJanuary 25, 2019

After two years in office, Donald Trump has finally laid out most of his cards on taxes, tariffs and the economy; they eerily parallel President Herbert Hoover’s disastrous policies leading to the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s....

POLITICS

Donald Trump Faces First Foreign Policy Test Over Vow to ‘Rip Up’ Iran Nuke Deal

Keith GirardNovember 23, 2016

Donald Trump, who accused rival Hillary Clinton of being the “war candidate” may find himself up to his neck in a military confrontation with Iran, if he moves ahead with a campaign promise to “rip-up” President Obama’s historic nuclear accord with the Islamic regime. The U.S. House last week, in a get-tough move in step with Trump’s campaign rhetoric, approved the Iran Sanctions Act, or ISA, for another 10 years....

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