The Daily Beast succinctly laid out Donald Trump’s autocratic imperial presidency position in court, Trump’s Shameless Plan to Disqualify Every Impeachment Witness: Donald Trump asserts that testimony by witnesses who learned about his scheme to shake down Ukraine from other presidential advisers should be disregarded as “hearsay.” Trump also asserts that John Bolton and other … Read more
If you need any further evidence that the Republican Party is now a personality cult in thrall to a dangerous demagogue, Donald Trump, today’s House vote to formalize the rules for the next public phase of the impeachment inquiry should erase any remaining doubt. During the Watergate scandal the House did not approve the rules … Read more
Republicans in the House of Representatives heard the call of history and hung up on it. In a vote to formalize the next phase of the impeachment process, all the Republicans, who had complained, without much validity, that they had been shut out of the process in the closed-door depositions (Republicans and their counsel are … Read more
Last week The Daily Beast reported, Trump Cuts Out Media That Doesn’t ‘Make Him Feel Beautiful’: Nowadays, faced with a rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry and a potentially tough re-election fight, Trump is going to even greater lengths than usual to try to banish—or retaliate against—news outlets he perceives as unfriendly, and to build an even … Read more
Last week, the Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to gain a majority on an attempt to censure Intelligence Committee Chairperson Adam Schiff on his insightful comments (parody) about Mr. Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with the Ukrainian President and his handling of the impeachment inquiry. This measure was voted down on a party-line … Read more