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How Trump Corrupted Pam Bondi
Newspaper profiles of Pamela Bondi -- subbed in as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general following the scandalous implosion of Matt Gaetz -- often describe her with a phrase like "longtime loyalist."
The former Florida attorney general's unwavering fealty dates back to September 2013, when a political committee ...Read more
Will the Senate Save America From Trump's Cabinet?
Among the sharpest conservative opponents of fascism is George T. Conway III. During a Nov. 14 appearance on CNN, the attorney and activist offered this pithy description of Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Gaetz and Bobby Kennedy, the worst nominees (so far) to Donald Trump's cabinet:
"If you were seeking to destroy the country, the Gabbard, Gaetz, and ...Read more
Meet Jack D. Ripper, the New Health Czar
Over the few days since Donald Trump's election victory, America has gotten a foretaste of the wreckage likely to ensue when he returns to the White House. His promise to endow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with plenary authority over health and food regulation -- and to let him "go wild" -- shows once more how little Trump really cares about anyone ...Read more
The Grift That May Cost Trump the Election
If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz win the White House on Nov. 5, the Democrats may owe their triumph to the notorious character flaw that plagues the Republican Party of Donald Trump: an irresistible urge to grift.
In an election likely to be determined by a very narrow proportion of votes in a few states, the difference between winning and ...Read more
Trump, Musk and the Hideous Campaign of Hate
Long before Donald Trump declared he would run for president, his first political adviser articulated the central idea that has come to define both candidate and campaign.
"Hate is a stronger motivator than love," said Roger Stone in 2008 -- and that corrosive outlook is obviously what still drives the Watergate-vintage dirty trickster and ...Read more
MAGA's Nazi Infestation Just Got Worse
How unsurprising is it that former President Donald Trump appeared recently at an event supposedly devoted to opposing antisemitism -- and proceeded to deliver a speech dripping with antisemitic innuendo and contempt for American Jews?
Like so much of what Trump says and does, his remarks at the "Combating Antisemitism" affair in Washington, ...Read more
Exploiting Fear Is What They Do
Of all the falsehoods, evasions and plainly loony remarks by former President Donald Trump during his ill-fated debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, perhaps it was to be expected that his ridiculous lie about the endangered pets of Springfield, Ohio, would go super viral.
While the Republican candidate declared himself the winner "by a ...Read more
'Russia, Russia, Russia' Is Not a Hoax
Years before former President Donald Trump seized upon the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen, he insistently promoted another supersized falsehood -- namely that charges of Russian interference in the 2016 election were "a hoax." His minions in the media, from Fox News down to the lowliest web trolls, have incessantly...Read more