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Nearly two weeks after CNN took heavy flak for hiring Sarah Isgur Flores as political editor, the former top DOJ spokesperson under Attorney General Jeff Sessions tweeted that she is back from vacation and will start at CNN next month – as a political analyst. It's been a great vacation but I am back on twitter! And…

President Donald Trump's Acting Attorney General/Yes Man Matthew Whitaker said Monday that Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and any ties to the Trump campaign is "close to being completed." Whitaker expressed skepticism about the Mueller investigation before he…

After recapping a “whirlwind” week that included mass shooting and wildfires in California, CNN’s Jim Acosta being banned from the White House, and Trump skipping a commemoration for World War I soldiers because it was raining, John Oliver spent some time looking at Trump’s reax to the midterm elections. Democrats won…

Samantha Bee spent the top of the first post-midterms Full Frontal talking about President Donald Trump’s petulant reax to losing control of the House and becoming accountable to – anybody. “It finally happened!” Bee said of Trump’s morning after move setting “free” Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Technically…

In what is clearly a case of leaving before he was publicly pushed, Donald Trump’s favorite cabinet member piñata Jeff Sessions has resigned as Attorney General. Never expected to last long after yesterday’s midterm elections, the former Alabama Senator and long time Saturday Night Live foil submitted his undated…

Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos got 14 days in the hoosegow today after pleading guilty to lying to feds. The first person sentences in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of 2016 Russian election interference also got slapped with 200 hours of community service, a $9.5K fine, and a year…

President Donald Trump has been a busy boy today, calling on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the author of this week’s New York Times op-ed assuring Americans there is resistance inside the Trump administration. NYT did not identify the author other than to describe the person as a senior member of the…

UPDATE with White House response. In a scorching tease of Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book about President Donald Trump, which lands next week, the Washington Post has published a sampling of its charges. The damning catalog appears to paint a far worse picture than that in Michael Woolf’s mega-selling Fire and…

The President of the United States this morning directed the U.S. Attorney General to investigate his political rivals. One day after telling Fox & Friends he only gave Jeff Sessions the job because he thought he was loyal (during the same interview, he questioned Sessions’ manhood), Trump mocked Sessions’ rare…

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions took a big swing at President Donald Trump in a statement today after POTUS demeaned and belittled him and the Department of Justice on Fox & Friends this morning. Among other insults, Trump said he only gave his favorite punching bag the AG post because he had been loyal early in…

UPDATED: Just one day into the trial of his former campaign chief Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand Attorney General Jeff Sessions immediately pull the plug on Robert Mueller's Russian election-tamper probe. “This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that he is cobbling together a “Religious Liberty Task Force” to battle the cultural and political threat to religious freedom — and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert gave us a preview of what this task force will look like. During the Justice Department's Religious…