There have been numerous headlines over the past several weeks that read “Trump is melting down.” He is clearly a man who is mentally and emotionally unstable and erratic, a potential danger to himself and to the country, if not the world. He is obviously unfit for office. And yet, no one appears willing to … Read more
With his declared willingness to accept help from a foreign government in an election, President Trump upended long-held views that such outside assistance is anathema in American campaigns, both because of laws prohibiting foreign contributions and widely embraced norms of fair play. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation clearly determined that the Trump campaign — including … Read more
As I’ve said before, “At some point the Russians figured out that the best way to defeat America is by old-fashioned capitalism and corruption: find easily corruptible politicians in key positions of power and simply buy them, through bribery or with campaign contributions.” “Moscow Mitch” McConnell took a beating this week in investigative journalism from the … Read more
If Russian citizens can take to the streets to demand fair and transparent elections, at risk of imprisonment and their very life for doing so from Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime, The pro-democracy protests rocking Moscow, explained, then surely Americans who do not live under such a threat of violence can take to the streets and … Read more
Update to Trump attempts to undermine the intelligence community with his loyalists. The Washington Post reports,Trump announces shakeup at top of U.S. intelligence: President Trump said in a tweet Thursday that he will name Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as the acting director of national intelligence, following his aborted effort to … Read more