Perhaps you remember Corey Lewandowski. He was Trump’s first campaign manager. Remember? He was the loudmouth who shoved a reporter in Florida, roughed-up a protester in Tuscon, mocked an immigrant child with Down syndrome, slapped a woman in the butt […]
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Kinzinger calls for an “uneasy alliance” among Republicans, Democrats, and independents to fight Trump’s influence
He is one of the few honest Republicans in the House of Representatives. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL), who is not running for reelection in 2022, is asking Democrats and independents to help him save his party from Trumpism. Here is […]
The National Archives confirms that Trump ripped-up presidential documents
After receiving over 700 pages of documents from the National Archives, the House January 6th Committee noticed that some of the papers seemed to have been ripped-up and reconstructed using tape. The National Archives has confirmed that this is indeed […]
Did Republicans revise their moral beliefs to support Trump?
Of course they did. But now there is a study. Here is Eric. W. Dolan at PsyPost: New research sheds light on how people resolve inconsistencies between their own moral views and that of their preferred candidate. The findings, published […]
Do you have your Trump coin yet?
One of these Make America Great Again coins could be yours for free (plus $9.99 shipping and handling). Just to be clear, these coins are different from the Trump King Cyrus coins that court evangelical prophet Lance Wallnau was hawking […]
Joe Biden got ice cream yesterday. Fox News went nuts.
What if you replaced “Joe Biden” in the following clip montage with “Donald Trump” and replaced “ice cream” with “golf” or “executive time”? Hmm…
The GOP’s main job right now is to break with Trump
Conservative columnist Gary Abernathy calls for a break-up. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: So, “What are Republicans for?” Fair question. But before the Republican Party can redefine itself, it must first divorce itself from […]
The bridge from Reaganism to Trumpism
Here is a taste of Jonathan Chait’s New York Magazine piece, “New Gingrich Invented Donald Trump’s Lock-Them-Up Politics”: A popular belief, especially among political centrists, holds that Trump is the antithesis of the old Republican ethos. On one side of […]
Trump was planning to use the military to seize voting machines following the 2020 election
Politico got access to some of the materials from the National Archives that were recently turned over to the January 6, 2021 House of Representative select committee. Among the papers was a Trump executive order directing the Department of Defense […]
Grading Biden’s first year: I’ll give him a B
The reports on Joe Biden’s press conference yesterday are pretty predictable. A Fox News headline called it a “total disaster.” The New York Post called is an “utter disaster.” The New York Times reported on the event with little overt […]
Trump-JFK Jr. in 2024!!
It’s a winning ticket! 🙂 Here is Meridith McGraw at Politico: Ray Kallatsa is a die-hard Trumper who “definitely” wants to see former President Donald Trump run for office again in 2024. So it was natural that he’d travel from […]
David Blight on fighting the Trumpian Lost Cause
The Yale historian wants us to keep battling for democracy. Here is a taste of his piece at The Guardian: On 6 January 2021, an American mob, orchestrated by the most powerful man in the land, along with many congressional […]
McCarthy: Trump said he admitted personally bearing some responsibility for the January 6 attack
In the days following the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told a California radio station that Donald Trump said he was responsible for the attack. Here is what McCarthy told KERN radio […]
Will American democracy survive another Trump presidency?
Yale historian Timothy Snyder is not optimistic. Here is a taste of his interview with Charles Davis of Business Insider: Let’s revisit this scenario where Trump and the Republican Party have claimed victory and have had some legal cloaking of […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin of the Jan. 6 select committee calls Trump a “walking crime wave”
He also said that the upcoming hearings will “blow the roof off the House.” Here is David Knowles of Yahoo News: On a Thursday Zoom call with progressive activists, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said that the upcoming hearings by the Jan. […]
Ivy leaguers who are trying to destroy American democracy
What do Josh Hawley, Steve Mnuchin, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Elise Stefanik, and Kayleigh McEnany have in common? They all have degrees from Ivy League institutions and they are all, in one […]
Trump complains that the media is not covering the January 6th, 2021 crowd size
Philip Bump of The Washington Post covers the latest remarks from former narcissist-in-chief. A taste: …In an interview with the far-right cable channel One America News that was released on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, former […]
Trump will celebrate Christmas at First Baptist Church-Dallas
And I am sure he will get a warm welcome from court evangelical Robert Jeffress. Here is the Dallas Morning News: Former President Donald Trump returns to friendly Texas turf Sunday in Dallas at the American Airlines Center to talk […]
Can Mark Meadows be any more inept?
Who is Mark Meadows? He has an Associate of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. He got involved in real estate and in 2016 sold 134 acres of land in Dinosaur, Colorado to Ken Ham, the founder of […]
Trump Jr., Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade communicated with Mark Meadows on January 6, 2021. Here is what they said:
Last week I wrote that the House Select Committee on January 6th had the political equivalent of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss’s little black book. Well, thanks to Liz Cheney, we now know some of the things in that book. The […]