Today, in news that should be surprising to no one: Donald Trump Jr. knew prior to his meeting with a Kremlin-affiliated Russian lawyer that the Russian government sought to aid Trump senior’s campaign.
In case you were wondering, Jill Stein remains extremely Not Sorry for having possibly contributed to the election of a malicious cantaloupe. Although the Green Party ostensibly stands for, y’know, the environment that is currently being systematically destroyed at a vastly accelerated pace, Stein told Politico that…
At Monday’s heavily-anticipated House Intelligence Committee hearing, FBI director James Comey acknowledged that the FBI is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, including “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and…
On Sunday, a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina, fired shots inside a pizzeria in northwest Washington, D.C. Armed with an assault rifle, he later told police he wanted to “self-investigate” a fraudulent election conspiracy theory connected to Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump, a tax-avoidant opossum testicle dead-set on becoming president, crows about the many millions of dollars he has saved by not paying federal taxes — a despicable move, but not necessarily an illegal one. But in the early 1990s, Trump did not report hundreds of millions of taxable dollars with the aid of…
An Iowa woman arrested on charges she voted twice for Donald Trump attempted to explain her behavior by stating that “the polls are rigged,” according to Iowa Public Radio.
Rep. Tammy Duckworth is challenging Sen. Mark Kirk for his U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, and the incumbent unleashed an incredible comment about her mixed-race heritage during tonight’s debate in Springfield.
CBS New York reporter Tony Aiello tweeted the above photograph of what appears to be a trigger warning in Hofstra University’s student center for an MTV Elect This Campaign, to be held on Monday evening alongside the presidential debate.
Tonight, in an arena at Long Island’s adequate Hofstra University, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will be evaluated on a number of factors that have virtually nothing to do with each candidate’s ability to serve competently as president.
In an editorial for the Washington Post, Republican Senator Susan Collins has detailed why she refuses to vote for nominee and self-tanner soaked whoopee cushion Donald Trump.
BuzzFeed News reports, and several other sources have confirmed, that a third candidate—an anti-Trump Republican—is set to declare his candidacy on Monday. This news will either blow up the entire election season, that has thus far been a festival of fuck ups, or do nothing much at all.
Based on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 “3 a.m. phone call” campaign ad, The Simpsons have released a campaign video meant to parody the concept. As it turns out, the video primarily lampoons Donald Trump (that’s fine!).
At the start of the Republican National Convention—the ceremony in which Republican leadership will officially declare Donald Trump, the contents of a dumpster behind a Roll N Roaster, as their nominee—men are beginning to feeling introspective about their complicity in Trump’s rise.
Listen, I have held my tongue when that decaying, hollowed-out tree trunk that is now housing a family of malnourished, furious possums Donald Trump has dragged other respectable Americans through the mud (actually, no I haven’t really), but he has gone too far. Too fucking far.
On Friday afternoon, Newt Gingrich, your mother’s oddly hard stuffed Santa doll that sits on your mantel and quietly spreads holiday malice, said something not crazy, about how black Americans have it harder than white Americans can ever comprehend. And I think he probably liked how that felt.
At Jezebel, we’ve made it our mission to transform the brutalizing slog of election reporting into a creative exercise—namely, we’ve sought to find the words to describe Donald Trump’s utter terribleness. It’s a job we take seriously and one that will likely never be complete until we’re all dead under a pile of his…
Can you remember all the way back to March, when Bernie Sanders—at the time, a doofy Vermont senator who had overcome all odds by running a major campaign based on free love and free kush—was speaking at a rally in Portland, Oregon, when all of a sudden a tiny bird landed on his lectern? Have you ever been more filled…
On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton announced an expansion of her college plan that would offer free college tuition at public schools for families making up to $85,000 per year, with that number eventually increasing (by $10,000 per year) to $125,000 by 2021.
During a Tuesday evening speech in St. Clairsville, Ohio, unwashed fumigation tent Donald Trump used evocative language to describe what the Trans-Pacific Partnership was literally doing to America.
In an interview that aired Wednesday on C-SPAN, Sen. Bernie Sanders admitted, perhaps to himself, that his campaign was nearing its end.
