The GOP plot to discredit Robert Mueller hits a snag

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify publicly before Congress on July 17. Republicans in Congress want to distract the public by focusing their attacks on “investigating the investigators” who investigated the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia-linked operatives — not the Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. (As long as it inures to their … Read more

Trump’s Orwellian double-speak gaslighting of America on the environment

The Trump campaign, and the Republican Party writ large, have fully embraced the Russian dezinformatsiya tactics that they learned from them in the 2016 campaign. Some would call it “gaslighting” the American public, and others would call it Orwellian “double-speak” from 1984. This was on full display yesterday when Donald Trump actually tried to claim that … Read more