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There’s no denying that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help Donald Trump. Only that explains why Trump keeps acting like Putin’s useful idiot. And yes, Trump is really that stupid and transparent. Trump is Putin’s useful idiot Of course, Putin keeps playing the coy mastermind who pulled off that electoral feat. He started mere days… Read more.
Sometimes President Trump’s congenital mendacity manifests like a tourettes tic. This explains the way he used to blurt out “no collusion,” as well as the way he now blurts out “no quid pro quo.” But, just as there was collusion between him and the Russians, there was quid pro quo between him and the Ukrainians.… Read more.
President Trump is notoriously thin-skinned. And nothing gets under it quite like observations that he’s behaving just like his predecessor, Barack Obama. Yet there’s no denying that he’s behaving towards Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro just as Obama did towards Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. No doubt you recall Obama declaring that Assad must go: The future… Read more.
[S]ince their historic first meeting in Singapore last June, the two leaders have adopted a strategy of playing to each other’s ego with gushing and gratuitous adoration in pursuit of their aims. (The Washington Post, February 25, 2019) They actually take pains to show how much they’re in love. But, after Bradley Cooper and Lady… Read more.
Donald Trump doesn’t have much to commend in his presidential legacy, but criminal justice reform stands out. Trump’s criminal justice reform The legislation signed by President Donald Trump on Friday makes big changes to the treatment and rehabilitation of low-level federal prisoners. The new law, called the First Step Act, retroactively applies changes Congress made to drug sentencing… Read more.
Bob Woodward’s charges that top national security staff find themselves compelled to protect the world from President Donald Trump should, in any normal time, precipitate an almost unprecedented national emergency. The revelations, in the veteran reporter’s new book, are so stark and shocking because they flesh out a narrative that the President’s critics have long… Read more.
Nobody should be surprised that Trump delivered his to Kim by reading it aloud on TV. After all, this P.T. Barnum of politics is all about the show — the consequences be damned. But it’s refreshing to see that Kim is delivering his to Trump by hand. Never mind that this is what any sensible… Read more.
Here in part is the plainly hypocritical way President Trump weaseled out of the nuclear summit with President Kim: Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. (CNN, May 24, 2018) Indeed, just weeks ago,… Read more.
It might seem preposterous to even suggest that any journalist is as much the conscience of journalism as Martin Luther was of Catholicism. But Nicholas Kristof might be worthy of such praise. Kristof is a New York Times columnist and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes – for reporting (1990) and commentary (2006). Therefore, his voice… Read more.
In fact, reports are that Trump’s announcement of his decision to withdraw triggered explosions within hours: Syria on Tuesday said Israel carried out an attack on a military base south of Damascus, which was used by Iranian forces. … The [Israeli] military said it identified what it said was unusual movements of Iranian forces in… Read more.
