The Republican National Committee spent a whopping $271,000 at two Trump properties in February, according to a report from The Washington Post. All told, 86 percent of the committee’s February expenses marked as “venue rental and catering” were basically funneled right into Trump’s pocket.
Following reports of alleged sexual misconduct that forced casino developer Steve Wynn to step down from his post as RNC Finance Chairman, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that in 1998, their own newspaper buried a story detailing similar behavior.
Kayleigh McEnany—Trump bobblehead doll, former CNN commentator, and bona-fide Obama birther—has been hired by the Republican National Committee as its new national spokesperson.
Social media is currently ablaze with a debate over whether Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus and Co-Chair Sharon Day compared Donald Trump’s impending inauguration to the birth of Jesus Christ in the RNC’s annual “Message Celebrating Christmas.”
New Jersey governor, professional sycophant, and unrequited Bruce Springsteen lover Chris Christie seems to be dislodging himself from Donald Trump’s shrieking asshole—but not for any noble reason, mind you. Offered several executive appointments, Christie turned down all of them, and in the meantime was passed over…
In the winter of 1910, a young woman named Bessie Watkins left her small Ohio town for the big city of Cleveland. She told her family that a new job was waiting for her, and she took the train north. They would never see her again. In fact, her descendants would never even hear of her until a century later.
In an truly incredible (I mean that!) report, TMZ revealed that singing Canadian erection Justin Bieber was offered $5 million “to perform at a Republican event during the GOP Convention,” and that he probably would have accepted it had Scooter Braun and LeBron James not intervened.
“You don’t stop being a parent when your child dies,” Lucia McBath, one of the Mothers of the Movement said at the Democratic National Convention last night. “I am still Jordan Davis’s mother. His life ended the day he was shot and killed for playing loud music. But my job as his mother didn’t.”
CLEVELAND— That Donald Trump is unpopular among women is well-known. The statistic citing seven out of ten women who have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican nominee and his penchant for sexism have been central features of both conservative anti-Trump campaigns and the Clinton campaign. But at the Republican…
In the perfect coda to the rabid clusterfuck that was the 2016 Republican National Convention, armchair political correspondent and actress Kirstie Alley had very important things to say about Ivanka Trump: namely, that the daughter of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is a champion of Generation Y. In short, it…
A Trump delegate has had her credentials revoked by the Illinois Republican Party for posting racist remarks on Facebook encouraging police officers to shoot black people—though she phrased it slightly less delicately.
CLEVELAND— This year’s Republican platform is the first to mention Planned Parenthood by name. The Fifth Amendment of the platform, dedicated to “Protecting Human Life,” opposes the “use of public funds to perform or promote abortion or to fund organizations, like Planned Parenthood, so long as they provide or refer…
If Ted Cruz doesn’t jerk it to this headline, I’ll eat $100.
CLEVELAND- Conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham bounded onstage Thursday night to urge everyone to vote for Donald Trump. She also did a big ol’ straight-armed wave that, as everyone on the internet pointed out, looked like she was saying an enthused, “Hi” to Hitler. She’s electing not to address that second…
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Mike Pence closed out the third night of the Republican National Convention by almost making it to first base with Republican nominee Donald Trump.
On the third day of the Republican National Convention, conservative radio host and general blowhard Laura Ingraham wore a very purple dress and stood in front of a very purple backdrop and compared Hillary Clinton to the scourge of skinny jeans and man buns.
CLEVELAND — Code Pink co-director Alli McCracken made headlines when, on the first night of the Republican National Convention, she stood up and unfurled a banner.
People attending the Republican National Convention are, by and large, as you would expect, not big fans of Hillary Clinton. That’s made clear from the convention stage, where she’s called a criminal and a liar and a disciple of Satan. On the street, trucks and t-shirts bearing the slogan “Hillary For Prison 2016" are…
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