This is where you're supposed to stand up for what's right. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman is a decorated Iraq war veteran. He's an expert on Ukraine serving on the National Security Council in the White House. Now, he's being smeared as a "Never Trumper" and even a traitor. His crime? Speaking out in a sense... Continue Reading →
Butt Dial Rudy
Where hasn't Rudy Giuliani stuck his ass since Donald Trump became president? While Republicans are complaining that diplomats are "unelected," unelected Rudy Giuliani is engaging in shadow diplomacy in Ukraine and other nations while also working on his personal business deals. Is he working for the State Department or as Trump's personal attorney? It's confusing... Continue Reading →
Human Scum
Lindsey Graham has been representing South Carolina in Congress since 1995, and he doesn't want to stop. If advocating a principle, even one he used to stand by, threatens his political existence, then principles be damned. In 2015, while running for president and describing what Trump was "selling," Graham said, "Here’s what you’re buying: He’s... Continue Reading →
Trump Lynching
Yesterday, in one of his greatest reaches to paint himself as being unfairly victimized, Donald Trump used what might be the worst comparison in his presidency. That's saying a lot because he's made a lot of terrible comparisons. Donald Trump equated his impeachment to a lynching. He tweeted, "So some day, if a Democrat becomes... Continue Reading →
Get Over It
Here’s your cartoon for CNN’s weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday for the rest of your life. Mick Mulvaney went on Fox News Sunday and tried to "clarify" his quid pro quo comments to Chris Wallace. He blamed reporters for misunderstanding and misrepresenting his words. Unfortunately for him, Wallace played the... Continue Reading →
Quid Pro Uh-Oh
Out of the multiple times I shouted at the TV yesterday during acting-chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney's disaster of a press briefing yesterday was when he was answering a question about the House investigating Trump awarding the next G7 summit to himself. He said they were expecting the House to look into it because this administration has... Continue Reading →
A Nationals Impeachment
Washington, D.C. has not sent a baseball team to the World Series since 1933 (which they lost). In fact, the city was without a baseball team from 1971 to 2005 because their team, the Washington Senators, fled to Texas to become the Rangers. The Washington team that went to the series in 1933, also named... Continue Reading →
Yippee Ki-Yay Rudy
Nobody liked the idea of John Bolton as Trump's national security adviser. Bolton, a longtime war hawk who has publicly endorsed starting a war with every nation hostile to the United States, was now in an influential position close to a president who could be influenced by the slightest flattery. "Wow! That was some insightful... Continue Reading →
Two Tricky Dicks
Here’s your cartoon for CNN’s weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. Please sign up to get these in your inbox every Sunday for the rest of your life. Arguing the House Judiciary Committee should be denied obtaining grand jury materials from the Mueller investigation, the Justice Department said the decision to release secret grand jury materials to the House in 1974, when... Continue Reading →