Twitter-troll-in-chief ‘outs’ the alleged Ukraine whistleblower

On Thursday, President Donald Trump retweeted a post that outed by name the identity of the alleged whistleblower who first filed the complaint about his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump Pushes Out Tweet Naming Alleged Whistleblower: Trump’s personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, retweeted a post by the re-election campaign’s official “war room” account … Read more

The epic media fail of the 2016 campaign is being repeated in 2020

Last month there were some little noticed ominous headlines that appeared to indicate that Donald Trump was following through on his campaign rallying cry to prosecute his 2016 political opponent, Hillary Clinton, to “lock her up.” The Washington Post and CNN reported the State Department steps up email probe of dozens of former Hillary Clinton … Read more

First the Russian troll farm, now a Chinese religious cult propaganda farm for Trump

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