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Four years ago, I pleaded for the (liberal) media to stop derailing Hillary’s campaign with irrelevant stories about her “stupid e-mails.” What do you think FOX News, the BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other news organizations would do if Assange were leaking hacked e-mails of their anchors and reporters – purportedly to expose bias in the… Read more.
Here in part is what I wrote in “Trump Impeached,” December 18, 2019: ____________________ I’m holding out forlorn hope that pangs of conscience will compel enough Republicans to join with Democrats to convict Trump. After all, the House presented more than enough evidence during its impeachment hearings to find Trump guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.… Read more.
And, like so much of his presidency, there’s no there there. Ever since day one, President Trump has been promising to deliver the “deal of the century” to solve all that has troubled the Middle East for a thousand years. His penchant for idle and reckless boasting was telling enough. But he betrayed all hope… Read more.
No doubt you recall the viral video which shows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yucking it up with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and French President Emmanuel Macron at President Trump’s expense. The occasion was a reception at the 2019 NATO summit in London. They were all laughing at the… Read more.
In typical fashion, President Trump mistakenly blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for cutting his cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. In typical fashion, he then projected onto Trudeau the upset over a serious public policy that would cause him (i.e., Trump) to make such a petty personal cut: I guess Justin… Read more.
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That’s why they wasted no time reveling in the apocalyptic-cum-hedonistic prelude to their rapture. More to the point, it was always wishful thinking to expect any Republican to vote to impeach their god … for anything. Therefore, I don’t get all the dismay over “moderate Republicans” defying logic, reason, and common sense to normalize Trump’s… Read more.
A defining feature of the Trump presidency is the way the United States is alienating allies and embracing enemies. This was the case just weeks ago when the United States summarily betrayed the Syrian Kurds, leaving them to the crusading devices of Turkish frenemies and the mercenary devices of Russian and Syrian enemies. Therefore, one… Read more.
For example, only this belief explains the way, defying his patent intent to deceive, Kim of North Korea got him to play along like a lovesick puppy in talks about denuclearization; upending US intelligence findings, Putin of Russia got him to defy the findings of US intelligence agencies to parrot Russian propaganda about election interference;… Read more.
I have been making P.T. Barnum analogies to explain Donald J. Trump for years. Here, for example, is what I wrote nearly 10 years ago in “Trump for President? Don’t Be a Sucker!” April 8, 2011: ____________________ Donald Trump is nothing more than the P.T. Barnum of business: a huckster who thrives on the notion… Read more.
