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Trump says his six-story bunker under the White House—which critics fear is a prelude to martial law—is so classified that U.S. citizens who even discuss it commit Treason. So why is Putin involved?
Were anything in this growing political scandal actually funny, we might say the sauce is thickening. But the plot of another staged or lied-about assassination scheme thickening is bad for America.
There’s never been a Trump scandal that didn’t get worse over time—usually quickly—and the revelation that while overseas he used the press corps and his own staffers as human shields is no exception.
When a threat’s hypothetical, decoys get used. It’s happened before—albeit with press knowledge. When a threat is known to exist, leaving civilians to face it uses them as bait. Tell the truth, media.
The speech Donald Trump will soon give on alleged 2020 Chinese election interference is shocking not just because the U.S. intelligence community disputes his claim but because he is the guilty party.
Thursday—July 16—marks the launch of Stage 2 of the January 6 coup plot. It has been in the works for 5 years; its aim is the end of our democracy. Trump’s move toward a possible civil war begins now.
By the time of Trump’s Monday DocuSign of America’s surrender to Iran and his formal surrender at Versailles Wednesday, we knew the Iran War would live in infamy. But over 72 hours, it got far worse.
It’s so much worse than we could have imagined. It’s a significantly worse defeat than Vietnam, and may stand as the worst military defeat in U.S. history. And the president can’t stop lying about it.
Maine’s wildly imperfect Democratic Senate candidate deserves analysis and criticism—like any political candidate. But what’s being said of Platner has become unprecedentedly bizarre and incoherent.
Our energy, food and financial networks now rest on media reporting what Trump and his administration aim to hide—that there’s never been a ceasefire in the Second Iran War and that the war continues.
