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Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced Monday they won’t be giving out any political donations on the heels of the capitol siege, while a growing number of businesses said they will cut off campaign contributions to Republicans who voted to challenge the Electoral College count. HALLPAC, Hallmark’s political action committee, told Popular Information’s Judd Legum that it … Read more
Republican Senator Pat Toomey revealed on Saturday he believes President Donald Trump has ‘committed impeachable offenses’. In an interview with Fox, he claimed that Trump was no longer fit to serve after the president this week called on his supporters to ‘fight’ the election results, causing them to riot on the U.S. Capitol in violent … Read more
Sen. Lindsey Graham made enemies with MAGA supporters this week, which he learned firsthand at Reagan Airport on Friday. Graham was in the airport near Washington D.C. when he had a run-in with a number of vocal Donald Trump supporters. The Trump loyalists confronted Graham after he backed down from his pledge to contest the Electoral … Read more
President Trump kicked off his New Hampshire rally on Friday with a rant against the BLM protesters who accosted guests departing his RNC speech at the White House on Thursday night, branding the group ‘thugs’ and ‘agitators’. Speaking to a crowd of several hundred people at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Trump lashed out at demonstrators who … Read more
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton sparked outrage by calling the enslavement of millions of African people in the early years of the United States a ‘necessary evil’. Cotton, an outspoken Republican, made the jarring remark in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Sunday as he promoted a new bill that would defund schools that teach … Read more
Sen. Tom Scott questioned why the New York Times backpedaled on his recent op-ed calling for troops to be sent in to quash rioting seen in recent days connected to the George Floyd protests. The paper posted a mea culpa yesterday over its decision to publish Cotton’s incendiary commentary calling for the use of military force … Read more
FBI officers seized a cellphone belonging to Senator Richard Burr on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Sen. Burr, of North Carolina, surrendered his phone to federal agents after they served a search warrant at his home in … Read more
The CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, sold $3.5 million of his own shares just days before the first reported US death from the coronavirus. Jeffrey Sprecher, the husband of junior Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, offloaded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) shares on February 26 – before the shares plunged by nearly … Read more