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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.
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.
Trump did an unprecedentedly astonishing about-face on launching America into endless war in the Middle East. His fealty to Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't sufficiently explain it—but boundless greed does.
A lawyer who for a decade opposed discussions of Trump and Treason as premature says the Second Iran War and recent revelations in the Epstein Files make it not just a necessary but urgent topic.
The new Epstein Files drop reveals that just weeks before the arrest that would lead to his death, Epstein was focused on the thesis of my 2019 bestseller, Proof of Conspiracy. The reason shocked me.
Betraying your promises, your values, your party and your countrymen is bad enough—but getting nothing in return makes the capitulation of eight Senate Democrats to a ghoul a truly grotesque display.
