“You don’t see evidence of gang association,” said one legal expert. “It just feels like a dirtying up of the defendant.” After a US Border Patrol Agent shot two Venezuelan immigrants in Portland, Oregon in January, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that the two victims were “vicious Tren de Aragua gang members” who “weaponized their vehicle” […]
Despite denials of being involved in the Texas state senate special election, Trump endorsed the losing candidate on three separate occasions over the last three days. Hours after the Republican Party suffered an upset defeat in a special election in a deep-red district in Texas, President Donald Trump falsely claimed he had nothing to do with the race. While speaking to reporters […]
“A vote for Trump’s Social Security Commissioner is a vote to destroy Social Security,” warned one advocacy group. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday is set to hold a confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Social Security Administration—an ultra-rich former Wall Street executive who has aligned himself with the Elon Musk-led slash-and-burn […]
“Elon and his all-male team lie about Social Security like other people chew gum,” said one former head of the agency. Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, was berated anew Friday after insidiously tarring millions of Social Security recipients as “fraudsters”—a tactic critics called part of an orchestrated […]