President Trump Gave a Nod to a Conspiracy Theory About the Democratic Email Hack in Helsinki President Donald Trump gave a not-so subtle nod to an online conspiracy theory about the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday. During a 46-minute press conference in Helsinki, Trump declined to support the broad consensus within the U.S. intelligence community, Congress and the…
Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? Shows Us Who We Are, For Better or Worse The most surreal moment in the first episode of Showtime’s Who Is America? comes deep into Sacha Baron Cohen’s interview with Larry Pratt, an executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America. Disguised as a hulking Israeli colonel named Errad Morad, the British comedian has already gotten Pratt to crack up at a rape joke…
The Strange Case of the NRA-Linked Russian Charged With Being a Kremlin Agent Mariia Butina, a self-described Russian gun rights activist with links to the National Rifle Association, has been arrested by the FBI on charges she was acting as a Russian agent in an orchestrated effort to infiltrate American political organizations, including the NRA. The Justice Department said in court filings that the 29-year-old woman worked to…
How Trump Ended Up Looking Weak in Front of Putin Those who have known President Trump for decades attest that the former New York real estate mogul fears two things above all: being humiliated and looking weak. But a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin left Trump suffering through both indignities. Even though the two leaders met on neutral ground in Finland, Putin ran the…
