The cartoon was published in the International edition of the paper and appeared in the opinion section. It depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog leading President Trump who is both blind and wearing a yarmulke. This cartoon, which appeared in The New York Times’ international edition yesterday, is vile and inexcusable, especially

Don’t start fitting Stephen Miller for prison stripes or orange jumpsuits just yet. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) told CNN that the House Oversight Committee plans to enforce their subpoena authority to the full extent, including levying fines and even jailing those who refuse to appear. There’s a difference, though, between theoretical authority and the power

I’m not going to take the easy lay-up by running through his statements over the years expressing skepticism about vaccines. He did a good thing here. He should do more of it, writes Tiana Lowe: Most political adversaries ought to be reasoned and negotiated with. But vaccine opponents aren’t most political adversaries. They’re conspiracy theorists

Donald Trump offered the National Rifle Association a treat, if not really a surprise, in his speech at their annual meeting. After thanking the NRA for their efforts to “stand up for our God-given rights — without exception, without fail, and without apology,” he turned his attention to one of their top concerns. The president

Rod Rosenstein won’t stick around much longer at the Department of Justice, but the deputy Attorney General will make his departure memorable. At a dinner hosted by the Armenian Bar Association, Rosenstein took aim at critics, the media, and especially Russia, whose aims at destabilizing the US remain vastly underappreciated, he warned. However, when describing

Or anyone else serving in a White House role, if Donald Trump can prevent it. In the case of Stephen Miller, that outcome was a foregone conclusion even apart from the bubbling fight over the Mueller report. Earlier today, the White House formally rejected a request from House Oversight chair Elijah Cummings for Miller’s appearance at

Nice campaign you got there, dad. Don’t get cocky. Joe Biden’s presidential-launch campaign announcement painted Donald Trump as an aberration and the former VP as the return to pre-Trump normalcy. But does the man whose legacy is at stake in this effort think his former running mate is the man for the job? Barack Obama isn’t

Now that Congress has decided to take the gloves off, Donald Trump and the White House may too. Faced with new subpoenas covering the same ground as Robert Mueller’s investigation, Trump told the Washington Post last night that he will likely use a new tactic to prevent any further cooperation on obstruction investigations — executive

Did Kirstjen Nielsen really need to be told that the subject of Russia might be a wee bit sensitive to the man whom Democrats accused of being a Muscovite agent? According to “one senior administration official” talking to the New York Times, chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had to intervene to keep the ousted Homeland

To do what, exactly? Donald Trump issued this curious challenge earlier today on Twitter, part of an effort to rail against Democrats’ efforts to make the Robert Mueller probe interminable. If House Democrats start impeachment proceedings, however, Trump said he would ask the Supreme Court to intervene. Er …. who wants to tell him? The Mueller

Ironic, since others have made the same point about her mishandling of classified information — even in court, as part of their legal defense to the same charge. The most famous example, Kristian Saucier, received a pardon from Trump because of it. I’m surprised to find Hillary adding to the pressure here on Pelosi and

After last year’s Nerd Prom fiasco, this might secretly be welcome news to both sides of the ongoing White House briefing room battle. No one from the White House will attend the annual dinner staged by the White House Correspondents Association, on orders from Trump administration official Bill McGinley. The move comes as relations continue

Donald Trump wants to get the Iranian-sanctions band back together, this time targeting Tehran’s most reliable source of funding. The US will no longer waive sanctions on countries that import Iranian oil, the White House announced today, in an attempt to “bring Iran’s oil exports to zero.” The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin reported the decision

“Offensive operations,” George Washington once wrote, “often times is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defence.” Count this among the few times that Donald Trump can claim similarity with the first president. In hoping to forestall Democratic fishing expeditions into his private finances, Trump sued Congress today to block executions

One might be tempted to say that Rep. Eric Swalwell went nuclear on Attorney General William Barr today, but he usually reserves that for gun owners. Appearing on MSNBC after the release of the Robert Mueller report, the Democratic presidential hopeful told Nicolle Wallace that Mueller proved that Donald Trump was a “double digit obstructor.”

I was watching CNN this morning after the Barr press conference and there was a clear interest and focus on the issue of obstruction. Two different reporters were brought on to read excerpts from the obstruction section of the report. Less was said about collusion which seemed odd given that it has been the focus

It was the best of times in Volume I, it was the worst of times in Volume II. Now that the focus of Robert Mueller’s report has shifted from the no-joy on Russia collusion to the antics on obstruction, Donald Trump seems much less satisfied with the conclusions of the special counsel. Trump took to

One can kinda-sorta understand why opponents of Donald Trump resist (so to speak) acknowledging the end of Russiagate. Less clear is the impulse for Trump’s team to continue litigating the W. Rudy Giuliani went on the attack late yesterday, claiming that the extensive testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn couldn’t be trusted. Giuliani

Which Conway? Come on, man. The Kellyanne-George public war over Donald Trump reached its zenith — so far, anyway — with the latter’s call to remove his wife’s boss from office. Writing in the Washington Post today, George Conway urges Congress to impeach Trump even though Robert Mueller found no collusion with Russia and declined to

One can hear the desperation in Stephanie Ruhle’s voice as she tries to frame the Mueller report as existential — to the point of misrepresenting the findings. How likely are voters to have changed their minds about Trump with the report, Ruhle asks — and then tries to answer the question before throwing to the

Senator Elizabeth Warren posted four tweets today in which she argued that impeachment is the only proper response to the Mueller report: Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress: “Congress has authority to prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.”

The unspoken addendum: They’re never going to be there. As expected, House Judiciary chair Jerrold Nadler announced this morning that he will issue subpoenas to get the fully unredacted report from Robert Mueller this morning, as well as to Mueller and William Barr. Nadler tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that “it’s not up to me” to

Very true — and very inflammatory, at least with the Democratic activist base. After Robert Mueller’s special counsel report made it very clear that the Russia-collusion hypothesis about the 2016 election had no basis in fact, #2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer told CNN it’s time to look to 2020 instead of impeachment. Trying to eject

That’s what William Barr said, but it’s not really what Robert Mueller said. Jay Sekulow, Donald Trump’s lead personal attorney, lays out what the debate over obstruction will look like over the next few weeks, few months, few years … basically forever. If Trump didn’t act even within his own authority over an investigation that

Jim Messina was Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2012. In a podcast hosted by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Messina says flatly that he believes Bernie Sanders cannot beat Trump in the 2020 general election: “Can Bernie Sanders beat Donald Trump?” ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl asked Messina on the Powerhouse Politics podcast

This leftover from yesterday perfectly exemplifies the political impulse to twist tragedies into political arguments — even when the two aren’t at all related. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) apparently felt that we had spent enough time discussing the near-destruction of an 800-century-old wonder. Why not turn the Notre Dame fire into a turgid metaphor about

That’s one way to end catch-and-release — in theory. In practice, William Barr’s decision to end bail for asylum seekers might turn the crisis at the border into a catastrophe. Or at least into a powerful disincentive: Migrants who come to the United States seeking asylum may instead wind up jailed indefinitely while they wait

The long wait for (redacted) clarity is almost ♦♦♦♦♦♦ over. After almost two years of special-counsel investigation, the Department of Justice will publish the report from Robert Mueller into Russia-collusion, or lack thereof, on Thursday morning. Start your hot-take engines — and get out your color-code charts: Lawyers from the Justice Department and the special counsel’s

Everyone in Washington says that they want as much transparency from the Mueller report as possible. At least a handful wouldn’t mind seeing a bit less, according to NBC. A few White House officials who came into contact with special-counsel investigators don’t want to find their names in the index or attached to anything that makes Donald

Donald Trump apologies are a rare commodity, and he has no inclination to dispense one to Ilhan Omar. The president visited Minnesota yesterday and sat down with local ABC affiliate KSTP to promote the effects of his tax bill. When Tom Hauser told him that the representative from MN-05 blamed him for death threats she’d