Donald Trump emerged from the fever swamps of right-wing conspiracy theory mongering. He was the leader of the racist “Obama Birther” conspiracy theory. Trump was also an anti-vaxxer from way back. “In public statements going back more than a decade, Trump has alleged a connection — for which no evidence exists — between childhood vaccines … Read more
Elected officials were all warned by economists — serious economists, not those asshats in the White House Council of Economic Advisors — that opening up the economy too soon would result in a resurgence of the coronavirus spread, inevitably leading to the necessity of shutting down the economy again, a far worse result with more … Read more
Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr is the most corrupt attorney general in American history. He should have been prosecuted and disbarred for his actions during his first stint as attorney general under George H.W. Bush, and most definitely for his actions under Donald Trump. William Barr believes in gaslighting Americans with alternative reality and alternative … Read more
Last Friday, Donald Trump returned to his magical thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic from February when he said that the virus would just go away: Feb. 10: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as … Read more
While you were stuffing yourself with Thanksgiving dinner and plotting your plan of attack for black Friday Christmas shopping, you likely were not paying attention to the news. Two reports over the holiday demonstrate, one again, how Donald Trump is gaslighting America. First, it appears that Ambassador Sondland invented the phone call in which he … Read more