Donald Trump, when he is in trouble, routinely defends with “I barely knew the guy” … “I never met him” … “I don’t know anything about it” … or just last weekend, “I’m not involved” with the firing of Manhattan US attorney Geoffrey Berman, that was “all up to the attorney general.” Trump’s statement came minutes after Attorney General … Read more
Donald Trump is a classic textbook example of psychological projection. When Donald Trump accuses someone of something, you should understand that it is a subconscious expression of his own guilty conscience. Donald Trump recklessly accuses his political opponents and critics of “treason” all the time. The president who cries ‘treason’: According to a Washington Post analysis, Trump … Read more
Most American students have been taught in their K-12 American history classes that the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to the Union’s General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. But it would be more than 16 months before President … Read more
You would never know that this country is in the midsts of a global pandemic in which we will reach 100,000 confirmed deaths by this weekend, and an economic depression on par with the Great Depression of the 1930s. Donald Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress do not want to address these overwhelming problems, … Read more
When the history of this era is written the most remarkable story told will be how a failed state, the gangster kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, was able to defeat the most powerful democracy and defender of freedom in the world, the United States, by coopting one of its major political parties, and getting a … Read more