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Trump says believe me Frankly, Trump’s MAGAspeak makes Orwell’s doublespeak sound credible. For example, Trump could tell his supporters the sun is shining, while they’re standing in the rain listening to him, and they would believe him. Here is the commandment Trump handed down during the early days of his presidency: Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you… Read more.
Republicans, are you tired of losing yet? I have written several commentaries lampooning how “everything Trump hails fails.” Sure enough, getting Donald Trump’s political endorsement has become the kiss of electoral death. No political leader in US history has had more candidates they endorse lose on election night. Democrats are projected to notch several key wins across Tuesday’s… Read more.
Powell and Chesebro cop guilty pleas, Willis closes in Donald Trump’s life is a tangle of legal jeopardy so absurd it’s Kafkaesque. But even he knows the final scenes of his absurdist legal drama are now playing out. Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer criminally charged in Georgia for his role in what prosecutors describe as a conspiracy to overturn… Read more.
Two days ago, MAGA Republicans announced their intent to impeach President Biden. Today, a Republican special counsel announced his intent to prosecute Biden’s son, Hunter. Trumped-up charges fueled the announcement in each case. That’s self-evident. Why Republicans are impeaching Biden House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced Tuesday that Republicans in the lower chamber are launching an impeachment inquiry into President… Read more.
I was in the vanguard of those calling for President Biden to announce he will not seek reelection. Yes, I cited prevailing concerns about his age. He’s 80. But I also noted back then that, among other things, he promised he’d serve only one term – as a transitional president; he risked the backlash that befell… Read more.
First Republican presidential debate It was not Mr. Trump’s chief rival in the polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who emerged at the epicenter of the first Trump-free showdown on Wednesday, but instead the political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy, whose unlikely rise has revealed the remarkable degree to which the former president has remade the party.… Read more.
In Trump Republicans trust Trump voters are more likely to believe the former president is telling them the truth than their friends and family or religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll. (Axios, August 21, 2023) That, of course, is the very definition of cult worship. After all, nobody in their right mind is… Read more.
People in Donald Trump’s inner circle keep affirming Rick Wilson’s famous assertion that “Everything Trump Touches Dies.” Of course, the more accurate assertion is that everyone who associates with Trump either ruins their reputation or ends up in jail. Giuliani ‘America’s mayor’: fall from grace Everyone from former Cabinet secretaries like former AG Jeff Sessions to former lawyers like Michael… Read more.
Republican projection Donald Trump always accuses others of what he himself is guilty of. That’s called projection. And it defines so much of Trump’s political rhetoric that even his defenders engage in it. A case in point is Congressional Republicans accusing the Biden family of all kinds of financial crimes and schemes. You’d be forgiven… Read more.
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appearing in the federal courthouse that sits just blocks away from where his angry supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to keep him in power. (The Washington Post, August 3, 2023) I’m following up on Tuesday’s post.… Read more.
