The twistings and turning of what we could call the case against Donald Trump are not easy to follow. But what has been revealed so far is a tangled web of interrelated actions on the part of investigators that indicate … Continue reading →
There are several intertwined stories here that fit together to form a fascinating picture. So let’s try to untangle them, starting with the more trivial and leading to the most important.
Continue reading →Larry Tribe, Harvard law professor, made a very weird (or is it wierd?) suggestion on Twitter: Trump [had] tweeted: The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, … Continue reading →
Salena Zito notes that it hasn’t gotten much press: Last weekend in Beijing, as part of his 12-day trip to Asia, President Trump announced that the US and China had signed an $83.7 billion memorandum of understanding to create a … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Today is the one-year anniversary of the 2016 election, so I thought I’d repeat a post I wrote about Trump in August of 2015, when it was beginning to dawn on me that he was a very serious contender.] … Continue reading →
Here are some reminiscences by political operatives and media people about Election Night 2016 (hat tip Ace). They vary from the delighted to the devastated. The surprise and shock was enormous for Hillary supporters, as you can imagine. Here are … Continue reading →
Unexpected (and certainly unexpected by me) but so far true: In assessing Trump’s accomplishments, let’s not get too distracted by his unconventional conduct. This hitherto ideologically unmoored man has set in motion an administration arguably more conservative than Ronald Reagan’s.
Continue reading →After President Trump’s Twitter account was shut down for eleven minutes by a rogue employee or contractor on Thursday, Steven Hayward wondered: …[T]his does raise an interesting question: If a Twitter employee can shut down Trump’s account, what else might … Continue reading →
…over and over again? The latest iteration: ““You Can’t Go Any Lower: Inside the West Wing, Trump Is Apoplectic as Allies Fear Impeachment.”
Continue reading →Toqueville almost certainly would have looked down his nose at Trump—much as he did Andrew Jackson, who was president during the Frenchman’s 1831 visit to the US. But as Jean Yarbrough (Bowdoin professor of political philosophy and American political thought, … Continue reading →
I hate when this becomes a topic for politics. I don’t care whether it involves a Republican or a Democratic president, or one I like or dislike. I believe that such interactions are private and should remain so. They are … Continue reading →
It’s complicated. And it happened during the Obama administration. And it’s just coming out now: According to The Hill’s John Solomon and Alison Spann, the FBI began to piece together a Russian operation designed to advance Vladimir Putin’s control of … Continue reading →