Last Friday, President Trump would not say if he plans to keep or remove FBI Director Christopher Wray, expressing displeasure with his testimony to Congress about foreign election interference and domestic terror threats for a second straight day. Trump doesn’t offer vote of confidence for FBI director: “We’re looking at a lot of different things,” … Read more
There are a number of contenders for the “stupidest member” of the U.S. Senate, but for my money I have to go with Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has been prolifically stupid over his career (I can’t believe that Wisconsin voters chose this fool over Russ Feingold – twice! – one of the true good guys). … Read more
It was August of last year that a whistleblower filed a complaint with the intelligence inspector general about Donald Trump’s attempt to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July to “do him a favor” of opening a bogus investigation into Joe Biden and his son for the benefit his reelection campaign, if Zelensky ever wanted to … Read more
Donald Trump is a textbook example for psychological projection, i.e., unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits he doesn’t like about himself and attributing them to someone else. Although in Trump’s case, I am not so sure that it is unconscious. Trump has never developed past the childhood schoolyard taunt of “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever … Read more
Update to ODNI confirms that Republican senators are dupes for Russian propaganda (excerpt): Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post report “President Trump’s own intelligence officials just released a statement confirming something we all know: Russia is interfering in our election with the express goal of harming Trump’s opponent, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe … Read more