You’re shocked, I’m sure: The New York Times reports, Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump: Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump. That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about … Read more
Last Friday, President Trump would not say if he plans to keep or remove FBI Director Christopher Wray, expressing displeasure with his testimony to Congress about foreign election interference and domestic terror threats for a second straight day. Trump doesn’t offer vote of confidence for FBI director: “We’re looking at a lot of different things,” … Read more
You may have missed this reporting recently with everything else going on. Having Russia’s intelligence agencies and Internet Research Agency troll farm running ops for his campaign is not enough this year. The Trump campaign is turning its MAGA youth cult followers into his own Russian troll farm to amplify the dezinformatsiya his Russian cohorts are … Read more
It was August of last year that a whistleblower filed a complaint with the intelligence inspector general about Donald Trump’s attempt to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July to “do him a favor” of opening a bogus investigation into Joe Biden and his son for the benefit his reelection campaign, if Zelensky ever wanted to … Read more
Donald Trump is a textbook example for psychological projection, i.e., unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits he doesn’t like about himself and attributing them to someone else. Although in Trump’s case, I am not so sure that it is unconscious. Trump has never developed past the childhood schoolyard taunt of “I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever … Read more