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Father Carville knows best? Democratic pundits are offering Kamala all kinds of advice for her first presidential debate against Trump next week. Yesterday, The New York Times even featured a James Carville op-ed touting “the best strategy to defeat Trump.” The consensus has them goading her to use her prosecutorial skills to get under his… Read more.
That Donald Trump is a bloviating fraud and a serial tax cheat comes as no surprise to anyone who knows anything about his business practices. Why Trump can’t admit he lost In fact, I presaged two years ago all of the allegations AG Letitia James teased in her sensational press conference yesterday in “The Tax… Read more.
In his forthcoming book, Frankly, We Did Win the Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, Michael C. Bender claims that Donald Trump routinely told Rudy Giuliani he “sucked” and was a “pathetic sight” to behold. Further, that the more Trump demeaned Giuliani, the more Giuliani worshiped Trump. But I suspect Bender might be… Read more.
And the pope is a pacifist, a holy man, and a catholic. This analogy sums up the obvious and anti-climactic nature of Michael Cohen’s overhyped congressional hearing. I watched enough to suggest that the following three sentences from his opening statement were the most interesting things anyone said all day: I am ashamed that I… Read more.
Washington is abuzz this morning with speculation about Trump pardoning Cohen and Manafort. He has the absolute power to do so, of course. And he willfully laid the predicate for pardoning undeserving criminals like these when he pardoned defiantly racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. Except that, far from protecting Trump from impeachment, doing so… Read more.
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s hapless lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty this afternoon to eight criminal charges. Significantly, while allocuting to his crimes under oath, Cohen implicated Trump, sealing this president’s fate as an unindicted co-conspirator. Cohen … pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance and other charges. He made the extraordinary admission that he paid… Read more.
Frankly, the idiom “monkey see, monkey do” seems a fitting sub-heading for the alleged misdeeds of all the idiots involved here: A New York doctor [Harold Bornstein] who served as President Donald Trump’s personal physician is alleging that Trump’s lawyer, bodyguard and an unidentified ‘large man’ raided his office for medical records. Bornstein said ‘the… Read more.
