“This is how cons work: The stakes keep getting increased until the whole thing collapses.” Philip Bump at the Washington Post reports, Another year, another high-profile voter-fraud summit goes bust: It was just over a year ago that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell convened supporters and data experts in South Dakota for a multiday summit at … Read more
The second day of the January 6 Committee hearings clearly established, from Trump campaign officials to Republican campaign lawyers to DOJ attorneys – Republicans all – that there there was no fraud in the 2020 election and that they all told Donald Trump this. He knew that he lost. He knew that his claims of … Read more
The investor class aka the predator class in the casino capitalism of Wall Street drove the stock market to unprecedented levels, despite a global pandemic and the recession it created. They bought into the irrational exuberance that the stock market always goes up. There were those experts who have been warning that Wall Street was … Read more
NBC News reports, Trump probably broke the law in an effort to obstruct Jan. 6 proceedings, judge says: A federal judge presiding over a civil suit involving the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol found Monday that then-President Donald Trump “likely attempted to obstruct the joint session of Congress” on Jan. 6, … Read more
Above: Editorial: Trump’s ‘beautiful wall’ is a vanity project and nothing more. Democrats should treat it as such: [T]his debate isn’t, and never has been, about the best way to secure the border. It’s about the symbolism of the wall. To Trump, it’s the embodiment of his Fortress America approach to the rest of the … Read more