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In June, when Mary Trump began teasing her tell-all about President Trump, I was in the vanguard of those urging readers to gobble it up. I refer you to “Two Trump Tell-Alls: Boycott Bolton’s! But There’s Something About Mary’s…,” on June 22. Then, when it became an instant bestseller, I celebrated. I refer you to… Read more.
It is vexing that, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, peaceful protests have invariably descended into rampaging violence – complete with mercenary looting and police assaults that make a mockery of BLM chants for criminal justice. But the failure of Democratic leaders to decry and condemn this violence is as self-defeating as… Read more.
I have had President Trump pegged for years as a narcissist whose craving for flattery makes him as vulnerable as a child crying for milk. More to the point, he has demonstrated time and again that he prizes flattery above all else – decency, truth, and even the welfare of the country be damned. This… Read more.
His willful and negligent bungling of the fight against Covid-19 has already resulted in nearly 170,000 deaths. Now his willful and malevolent “kneecapping” of the Postal Service is sabotaging delivery of life-saving medicines to millions from sea to shining sea. Notably, this is affecting the poor and elderly – whose Obamacare health coverage he spent… Read more.
But he is now modeling behavior so hazardous to people’s health, his forehead should carry the same warning as a pack of cigarettes. This covidiot stunned the world on Monday when he said he’s taking hydroxychloroquine to fight Covid-19. This, despite his own FDA warning that taking this drug for that purpose could kill you.… Read more.
Malignant incompetence and serial bungling define not only Trump’s war against Covid-19 but every aspect of his presidency. This is why it’s all too easy to believe reports that he dispatched Rambo wannabes on a knucklehead mission to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In “Trump Indicts Maduro. Putin Says, ‘Go Ahead, Puppet, Make My Day!’”… Read more.
The following would be funny if it did not reflect reality in this time of corona: As medical staff in the US face a rising number of COVID-19 cases with a dwindling supply of protective gear, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its advice, suggesting that, in a crisis, healthcare workers… Read more.
Like me, you probably thought Donald Trump was joking when he boasted that his supporters are so stupid, they’d still support him if he murdered someone on 5th Avenue in broad daylight. Well, the joke’s been on us ever since they elected him president of the United States. Now he seems hell-bent on playing us… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard Republicans whining about the impeachment of President Trump being unfair, even invalid, because Democrats passed it on a strictly party-line vote. Hell, you’ve probably even heard some Democrats bemoaning this fact. Granted, votes for the only other presidents formally impeached – namely Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton – were bipartisan. But… Read more.
I confess. For a variety of reasons (some obvious), I vowed to eschew the impeachment trial of President Trump. But, the political junkie that I am, I couldn’t resist. Mind you, I managed to tune out much of yesterday’s legal wrangling over procedural resolutions. And thank God too, because that session droned on until 2… Read more.
