Author: Sydney Robinson

In the latter portion of the Senate hearing surrounding Former FBI Director James Comey, significant attention was diverted from the issue at hand when Senator John McCain began his questioning and appeared, by most accounts, to be close to incoherent. McCain rambled and mumbled, appearing to confuse two separate investigations that Comey was involved in during his line of questioning. He often rambled on long, confusing sentences which made the viewer forget the beginning of the question by the time he arrived at the end. Article continues below video. Viewers immediately noticed something seemed off about the former presidential...

Responding to the ongoing testimony by Former FBI Director James Comey, Deputy White House Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders took exception to Comey’s repeated claim that Trump was a liar. During Thursday’s off-camera briefing (which no one watched because they were too busy watching Comey), Huckabee Sanders was queried by reporters about Comey’s repeated assertion that the President had lied in specific instances, as well as in more general ways. Huckabee Sanders replied that not only could she confirm that Comey was completely wrong, but that she was insulted to even be asked. “I can definitely say the president is...

During the ongoing investigation into the Russian hacking scandal, a female Senator was subject to gendered silencing by her male colleagues. Senator Kamala Harris, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, was taking part in the hearing in which she quizzed Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. But unlike many of her male colleagues, Harris’s attempt at taking a hard line and demanding direct answers was met not with compliance, but with defiance. Again and again during her questioning of the men under oath, Harris was chastised for speaking over and interrupting the...