Emails: Top Clinton Aide Accused Fox News Reporter of Sexually Harassing a Colleague

J.K. Trotter · 05/11/16 09:30AM

Near the end of her tenure as Secretary of State, one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, Philippe Reines, claimed in emails to colleagues and journalists covering the State Department that James Rosen, the 48-year-old chief Washington correspondent at Fox News, had been removed from his post at the agency over allegations of sexual harassment. In one such email, dated January 2013 and addressed to a CNN producer and another State Department staffer, Reines, then serving as a deputy assistant secretary of state, wrote, “Fox has had nobody assigned to State for the last two years after they pulled James Rosen for sexual harassment.”

Donald Trump Picks White Nationalist as His Delegate 

Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/10/16 03:52PM

For the California primary, Donald Trump has selected several people to represent him as delegates. One of those delegates is William Johnson, a famous white nationalist Trump was forced to disavow in January over a series of racist robocalls. But that was then and this is now: “I can be a white nationalist and be a strong supporter of Donald Trump and be a good example to everybody,” Johnson assures Mother Jones.

Cliven Bundy Files Batshit Lawsuit Claiming Harry Reid Is Personally Trying to Steal His Land

Andy Cush · 05/10/16 03:15PM

We warned readers this morning to brace themselves for another whole big exhausting thing with the Bundy family ranchers, thinking that a call from environmental groups for the government to relocate their cattle might prompt another standoff. That might still be the case, but the newest thing we have to contend with turns out to be this completely bonkers lawsuit the Bundy patriarch is filing in federal court.

Donald Trump's Former Lawyer Paints Bleak Picture of Him Home Alone Gorging on Candy 

Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/10/16 01:09PM

Some of Donald Trump’s former friends and acquaintances this week felt compelled to describe him as a business-and-family-oriented man who would never objectify a woman, which he of course would never do now that he’s courting Hillary’s voters. One particular argument to that effect, volunteered by Trump’s former attorney, is hauntingly bleak.