Author: Robert Leonard
Bush ethics lawyer calls impeachment trial “rigged,” says GOP may be doomed
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 18, 2019Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s actions have been “corrupt” and that the impeachment trial is “rigged.” Painter, who said he prosecuted corrupt Democrats and Republicans, believes the GOP’s actions might spell its doom. Painter also called the Trumps an “organized crime …
Read MoreChina trying to stop leaks about Uighur imprisonment
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 16, 2019China is trying to crack down on information leaks about its genocidal campaign against the Uighur people. The move comes amid growing international outcry and Chinese attempts to dodge the accusations. China has claimed that all the Uighur Muslims and Kazakhs it has imprisoned in concentration camps have “graduated” and are happy. Family members of …
Read MoreFox News host Chris Wallace is waging war on Trump
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 13, 2019Fox News host Chris Wallace has declared war on Trump. That’s only because he thinks that Trump declared war on him, first. “I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history,” Wallace said, “He has done everything he can to undercut the media, to …
Read MorePrince Andrew accuser: “in no way, shape or form am I” suicidal
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 12, 2019Ghislaine Maxwell, woman who recruited victims for Epstein, is still on the lam
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 9, 2019Virginia Giuffre, in her first UK interview, told the BBC that she stands by her claim that Prince Andrew sexually abused her, and Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her. Her interview was in response to Prince Andrew’s public denial on the BBC, in which he bizarrely claimed that he cannot sweat––a rebuttal to her claim that he sweated …
Read More500 legal experts say Trump committed impeachable offenses
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 8, 2019More than 500 hundred legal scholars and law professors have signed a letter saying that Trump “engaged in impeachable conduct.” “But if the House of Representatives impeached the President for the conduct described here and the Senate voted to remove him, they would be acting well within their constitutional powers. Whether President Trump’s conduct is …
Read MoreMajority of Republicans think Trump is better than Lincoln
Posted by Robert Leonard / December 1, 2019A stunning 53% of Republicans prefer President Donald Trump over President Abraham Lincoln, according to a recent Economist/YouGov Poll. Only 47% think that Lincoln was the better president. The same poll points out, however, that 75% of Americans agree that Lincoln was the better president. It’s mind boggling to think that anyone would prefer Trump …
Read MoreHong Kong protestors celebrate Thanksgiving
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 30, 2019Thousands of Hong Kong protestors have staged a Thanksgiving rally, draping themselves with American flags, in appreciation of the U.S. bills supporting the protests. President Donald Trump has signed into law two bills backing the Hong Kong protestors. The move has infuriated China. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that the laws represent “serious interference …
Read MoreTrump signs pro-HK bills, China furious
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 28, 2019President Donald Trump has signed into law two bills backing the Hong Kong protestors. The move has infuriated China. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that the laws represent “serious interference in China’s internal affairs and a serious violation of international law.” China already expressed their displeasure about a pro-Hong Kong bill just passed …
Read MoreViolence further increases in Hong Kong
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 13, 2019For the second straight day, the Hong Kong protests have become more violent than before. In one isolated but shocking incident, a pregnant woman was repeatedly pepper-sprayed and wrestled to the ground. This twitter video shows the event: Police also stormed the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where protestors had erected barriers and set several …
Read MoreHong Kong protests take violent turn
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 12, 2019The continuing Hong Kong protests became violent on Monday. Police officers shot a man at point blank range, and protestors doused a man in gasoline and lit him on fire after he criticized them. Both men are in the hospital. The Hong Kong government withdrew the extradition bill that began months the protests, but they continue …
Read MoreWhy there’s a 99% chance Trump will win 2020
Posted by Robert Leonard / November 8, 2019Calling the Trump campaign a dumpster fire is putting the situation mildly. Trump and his people are basically openly corrupt, they’re nepotistic, they’re incompetent, and they’re undignified. When they’re not too busy crapping the bed, they manage to do just enough right to please their base. And that’s where they have the Democrats beat, and …
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