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One of the more Orwellian features of Donald Trump’s dystopian presidency is the role Rudy Giuliani is playing. Because this former celebrated prosecutor and mayor of New York City is now playing a cross between Tom Hagan, consigliere to the “Corleone Family”, and Roy Cohn, counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy. But, as mobster capos invariably… Read more.
The House has impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, sending the case to Senate for trial. … The House of Representatives on Wednesday impeached President Trump, charging him with ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ and making him only the third president in history to face removal by the Senate. … A historic… Read more.
Donald Trump is an irrepressible buffoon. This is why even frenemies like Russian President Vladimir Putin – who see him as a “useful idiot” – must continually laugh at him behind his back. But nothing betrays what little respect Trump commands on the world stage quite like his allies doing the same. Donald Trump departed… Read more.
As sure things go, soccer superstars Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe seemed destined to lead Team USA to gold at this Women’s World Cup. In fact, the last time a championship in international competition seemed so guaranteed, basketball superstars Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson (of the first “Dream Team”) were leading Team USA to gold… Read more.
President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions. As late as 7 p.m., military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike, after intense discussions and debate at the White House among the president’s… Read more.
The U.S. and Iran edged closer to a military confrontation on Thursday as Iranian forces shot down an American reconnaissance drone and President Trump charged that Tehran had made ‘a very big mistake.’ As the hours went by, each side refrained from additional escalatory steps, and Mr. Trump later appeared to defuse the crisis by… Read more.
Michael Steele is the former chairman of the Republican National Committee. This is why the role he’s playing these days is so striking. He is wandering across the American media landscape as President Trump’s most earnest and prophetic critic. This latter description is particularly noteworthy because it compels allusions to John the Baptist. You see,… Read more.
The then President-elect Donald J. Trump tapped former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to head his transition team. Echoing Trump’s campaign promise, Christie pledged to hire the “best of the best” to staff Trump’s cabinet and senior members of his administration. Then all of a sudden Jared Kushner prevailed upon Trump to fire him. And… Read more.
An infectious feature of Trump’s presidency is the willingness of so many to abandon professional and personal principles to serve his amoral and often helter-skelter political agenda. Two of his Jewish advisers, Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, demonstrated this in spades. No doubt you recall the moment Trump informed the… Read more.
Julia Ioffe apologized immediately for that unfair jibe. But only willful amnesia can explain anyone not remembering that Trump has made many jibes that were far more unfair. And he has yet to apologize for any of them. Donald Trump has deemed a journalist for GQ Magazine a ‘sick woman’ after she made a comment… Read more.
