AngelaMerkel

There’s so much unhingery packed into this CNN story on Trump’s phone calls with foreign leaders that choosing among the outrages is kind of like picking your favorite Egyptian plague. Want a shower of frogs? Fire ‘n’ hailstones? Locusts? They’re all here, and then some. So let’s start with this...

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  • June 29, 2020

A little over a week ago, Trump announced he wanted to have the G7 leaders meet in person in July. (The United States is this year’s host.) First it was going to be at Camp David, which is bad enough as a pandemic breeding ground, but then he changed to...

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  • May 30, 2020

A little over a week ago, Trump announced he wanted to have the G7 leaders meet in person in July. (The United States is this year’s host.) First it was going to be at Camp David, which is bad enough as a pandemic breeding ground, but then he changed to...

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  • May 30, 2020

This is what every GOP officeholder knows and fears: If people actually vote in large numbers, they can’t win. Thanks for putting it out there, Mr. Pr*sident. x Trump says if voting reforms got passed, “you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again.” pic.twitter.com/4tKFSTY5Oi— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) March 30,...

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  • March 30, 2020

After this week’s testimony in the impeachment hearings, the contours of President Donald Trump’s abuse of power for personal advantage have become crystal clear. Trump violated U.S. law when he solicited the interference of a foreign power in an American election. Looking ahead to 2020, Trump demanded the new Ukrainian...

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  • November 24, 2019

On June 4, 2014, Donald Trump as usual was apoplectic. His fury that day was ignited by word that President Obama had authorized the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant held captive in Afghanistan since 2009. So Trump took to Twitter to ask, “Are you allowed to...

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  • November 25, 2018

Donald Trump couldn’t be bothered to honor our fallen World War I veterans yesterday, but the second Vladimir Putin came within 10 feet of his treasonous ass, this happened: x Observe their expressions as Putin approaches pic.twitter.com/okDnM2T4qt — Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) November 11, 2018 That’s the look on my face...

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  • November 11, 2018

Already branded by a survey of historians as America’s worst ever, the presidency of Donald Trump may also live in infamy as the most ironic. After all, the man who ran to “Make America Great Again” has already ceded global climate leadership to China and Europe, withdrawn from the Pacific...

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  • June 17, 2018
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