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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.
I suspect even Donald Trump thought he would lose his cult-like spell over Republicans after not just losing the 2020 presidential election in a landslide (by his own definition), but inciting an insurrection to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, and then costing them control of the US Senate to boot. Yet, paradoxically, his spell… Read more.
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 vicious Bastille Day attack in the French city of Nice that killed at least 84 people was an act of terrorism, France’s President Francois Hollande said early Friday. The driver, identified as a 31-year-old French Tunisian, crashed his truck into a crowd of people who were watching fireworks. He plowed the vehicle-turned-weapon forward for… Read more.
