Civil Rights and Social Justice
Donald Trump's unreadiness to be president was dramatically highlighted this morning when he went off on a tweetstorm accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower.
In an apparent bid to deflect attention from the mounting controversy over whether his administration has ties to Russia, the commander-in-chief deployed his favorite weapon in the early hours of Saturday morning: dropping a Twitter bomb on the world that accuses President Obama of a conspiracy on the scale of Watergate.
Democrats are pushing back on President Trump's Saturday morning claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower offices before the election.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) continues to give zero fucks about calling out our Commander-in-Thief on his bullshit.
On Thursday afternoon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions held a press conference to announce that he was recusing himself from any possible investigations into connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. It was a dissembling performance that demonstrated why his recusal is not enough.
Rep. Ted Lieu has low expectations for President Donald Trump's speech to Congress on Tuesday night.
"I just want the president to stop lying and making stuff up," the California Democrat said in an interview with "Power Lunch" ahead of the speech.
Poisonous political divisions have spawned an encryption arms race across the Trump administration, as both the president's advisers and career civil servants scramble to cover their digital tracks in a capital nervous about leaks.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Sunday blasted President Trump for his Twitter attacks of news outlets, saying if the president spent more time focused on his intelligence briefings, Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens might still be alive.
On January 30, 23-year-old Torrance resident Ruhi Khan drove her brother to Los Angeles International Airport for his routine departure to American University of Antigua, a medical school in the Caribbean. She did not intend to join the thousands of protesters assembled at Tom Bradley International Terminal demonstrating against President Donald Trump's travel ban.