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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, December 2, 2024 at 11:30 PM EST Former South Carolina governor and failed 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was slammed on Monday over criticizing President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden on federal gun and tax related charges. "Biden pardons his son, which he promised not to do," Haley wrote via X. "Not just for the crime at hand but for everything going back 11 years. Then skips town and goes to Africa. This is why no one trusts politicians. Democrats stop trying to justify this. It only makes you look more out of touch. Politics at its worst." December 2, 2024 at 10:45 PM EST If recent political history is any indication, examinations into Republican electoral defeats up and down the ballot may not be far off, according to a political columnist. In fact, they could be one presidential election cycle away. December 2, 2024 at 9:58 PM EST Longtime Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night pressed Jason Miller -- senior adviser to Donald Trump -- on whether the president-elect would accept a pardon from President Joe Biden. The Ingraham Angle host raised the question during a conversation about President Biden's Sunday, December 1 pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, on his federal gun and tax related charges -- which both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have condemned. December 2, 2024 at 9:28 PM EST CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller explained on Monday what could happen to the Federal Bureau of Investigation if President-Elect Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, is confirmed. Patel has vowed to prosecute all enemies of his potential boss in the media and in government if granted the role of director. December 2, 2024 at 8:41 PM EST Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) reminded Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that he once refused to give Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination a hearing after the Kentucky lawmaker suggested Republicans were being treated unfairly with current judicial nominations. During a Senate floor session on Monday, McConnell said he was alarmed after hearing that two judges might not follow through with plans to retire in light of Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election. December 2, 2024 at 6:05 PM EST Former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, on Monday explained the real danger in President-Elect Donald Trump's piling list of controversial Cabinet nominees. MSNBC's Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace asked Figliuzzi what government could look like with MAGA nominees like former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and conspiracy theorist and Trump loyalist Kash Patel running the CIA and FBI. December 2, 2024 at 5:13 PM EST Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has a message for Democrats after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden from federal gun charges and tax offenses on Sunday -- despite previously saying he would not. "I see Congressional Dems on Twitter coming out to condemn Biden on Hunter," Hasan wrote via X. "I get it[,] but this is why Republicans win in our asymmetric politics." December 2, 2024 at 4:39 PM EST Donald Trump's defense secretary nominee, Fox News host Pete Hegseth, already faced sexual assault allegations on top of his lack of experience within the Department of Defense. But on Sunday, the New Yorker published a bombshell report containing more allegations against the MAGA pick. In the past, the potential DOD secretary is said to have been "repeatedly intoxicated on the job," according to the report. December 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM EST When Preston Nafz was 12, he asked his dad for permission to play lacrosse. "First practice, he came back, he said, 'Dad, I love it,'" recalled his father, Lothar Nafz, of Hoover, Alabama. "He lives for lacrosse." December 2, 2024 at 3:50 PM EST A Stanford misinformation expert has admitted he used AI to draft a court document that contained multiple fake citations about AI. Stanford's Jeff Hancock submitted the document as an expert declaration in a case involving a new Minnesota law that makes it illegal to use AI to mislead voters prior to an election. Lawyers from the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Upper Midwest Law Center, which are challenging the law on First Amendment grounds, noticed the fake citations several weeks ago and petitioned the judge to throw out the declaration. December 2, 2024 at 11:56 AM EST President Joe Biden's announcement that he is issuing a full pardon for his son Hunter Biden sent shockwaves throughout the media on Sunday, with many on the right expressing outrage and many on the left""although not all""defending his decision. Some legal experts, explaining why the charges should never have been brought, say Biden is right to issue the pardon even after having said he would not. While many are looking at this through a political lens, not a legal one, President Biden explained both the political and legal aspects in his announcement. December 2, 2024 at 11:36 AM EST Donald Trump had four different White House press secretaries during his first term as president: Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham (who supported Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race), and Kayleigh McEnany. And when he returns to the White House on January 20, 2025, that position will be held by 27-year-old Karoline Leavitt. According to CNN's Andrew Kaczynski, Leavitt will be "the youngest person ever to hold the position of White House press secretary." |
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