Last Thursday the New York Times reported that Donald Trump ordered officials to give his son-in-law Jared Kushner a security clearance, prompting both his chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to document their concerns in “CYA” memos. Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance: President Trump ordered his … Read more
Update to There is good cause for Americans to be alarmed and highly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week Israel’s attorney general made it official, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be indicted on corruption charges: Israel’s attorney general announced Thursday that his office plans to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on … Read more
It is a time honored practice of government that when it wants to kick the can down the road until after public interest has waned in order not to do anything, form a committee to study an issue. Hence President Donald Trump, a long-time climate change denier, Every Insane Thing Donald Trump Has Said About … Read more
Last week Republicans seized on a Twitter post by Democratic freshman representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which even some Democrats condemned as anti-Semitic. Suddenly even Jewish Democrats were accused of anti-Semitism in the GOP’s divisive messaging war for 2020. In the GOP framing, any criticism of Israel, in particular any criticism of their favorite far-right but … Read more
This past week, it was reported that Trump’s DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling: Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials. And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately … Read more