Donald Trump has spent four years promoting a “deep state” conspiracy theory with which to undermine the U.S. intelligence agencies and the state department. He has removed virtually all of the career service personnel who led those agencies, out of retaliation for their having investigated his campaign’s numerous interactions with Russian operatives in the 2016 … Read more
Andrew McCarthy at the National Review is having none of Arizona’s appointed, not elected Senator Martha McSally following the GOP’s playbook of blaming China for the Trump administration’s abject failure of mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic. The Foolish GOP Proposal to Open China to American Lawsuits over COVID-19: Some terrible ideas never go away, especially ideas that … Read more
Above: Cheers, whoops and shouts of “God is Great” broke out after Zalmay Khalilzad, left, and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s political leader, signed the landmark agreement in Doha on Saturday. Hussein Sayed / AP On Saturday, more than 18 years after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. made a bid … Read more
Well, this settles the matter. No senator can in good conscience now vote to acquit Donald Trump on Article I of the Articles of Impeachment. To do so is to egregiously ignore the findings of fact and conclusions of law of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) purely out of GOP tribalism by lawless Republicans. Is … Read more
Laura Clawson at Daily Kos writes, Trump killed Soleimani to win support in impeachment trial, Wall Street Journal casually mentions: Way to bury the lede, Wall Street Journal! The newspaper did a deep dive into Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, but you have to read 29 paragraphs in to get to … Read more