Trump-Russia Connection Wasn’t A Hoax

Democrats, and some conservatives, continue to believe that Donald Trump won in 2016 because of interference in the U.S. election by Russia and Vladimir Putin. Trump cultists and even less partisan Republicans assert that it was all a hoax by Democrats and Hillary Clinton's campaign. Cathy Young of the conservative Cato Institute pointed out that...

Hunter Biden and the Ridiculous False Equivilancy Narratives

Republicans and The Wall Street Journal editorial board accuse David C. Weiss, a Republican who was nominated by Donald Trump to be US attorney for Deleware, of engineering "sweetheart deals" for the President's son. For three years, Republicans demanded that the Department of Justice appoint a special counsel to investigate Hunter and have attempted to...

Trump’s Banana Republic, According to Republican Chris Christie

“Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis…. You think it’s because he’s some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it’s because he was sitting next to the President of the United States for four years doing favors for the Saudis?......

Framing Hunter Biden

Update: Hunter Biden Countersues Computer Repair Shop Owner, Claiming Invasion of Privacy (Washington Post). Asha Rangappa, on her Substack site, pretty much decimates the assertions that Hunter Biden has engaged in criminal behavior, to conservative media's great disappointment and denial. She has created a site she calls the "Freedom Academy" to educate people about disinformation....

Fact-checking Trump Supporters Re 1/6/2021

Donald Trump and his supporters continue to spread disinformation about 1/6/2021. He exaggerates the numbers at the rally, claims falsely that only a "very small percentage" of people went to the Capitol afterwards, most did nothing wrong, and no one who entered the Capitol had weapons. In reality, 1. "The Department of Justice (DOJ) said...

Trump’s Deranged Claims of Massive Voter Fraud Damage Democracy

It's a relief to see respectable conservatives swat down the breath-taking, blatant attempts of Donald Trump and his cult followers to subvert democracy via patently false claims of election fraud. "Trump's challenge is over," the conservative Wall Street Journal editorialized. "He has no legal alternatives and ought to concede." Bitterness as a political strategy rarely...

Trump, Biden and ‘Draining the Swamp’ of Washington Corruption

Hyper-partisans like squeaky-voiced Ben Shapiro assert that Joe Biden's early appointments represent a return of "the swamp," labeling the appointments "DC establishment insiders." They strike me as inspiring public servants with a substantial knowledge of policy and how government works. Thank God the nation will no longer have to endure the constant chaos, turnover, upheavals...

Force GOP Congressional Candidates to Answer These Questions

Republicans for the Rule of Law. Republicans running for re-election in 2020 must be forced to answer the following questions: Do you believe Trump is fit for office and deserves re-election even though he paid hush money to two porn stars before the 2016 election in violation of campaign finance law and the Mueller report...

Presumptions of Guilt: New McCarthyism Dominates US Hyper-partisan Media

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both belong in prison, if you believe their cult-like opponents, along with US hyper-partisan media like Fox News and MSNBC -- especially talking heads in the 24-hour-news cycle -- and the mass hysteria they genned up -- presumptions of guilt rather than innocence. Trump supporters chanted "Lock Her Up." Democrats...

Prediction: Tribal, Hyper-partisan Responses to Mueller Report

Prediction: No matter the evidence presented by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, even if he presents strong evidence of conspiracy, collaboration with the Russians, bribery, tax evasion, fraud and obstruction of justice by Donald Trump, Republican senators will not vote to remove him from office. If Mueller wounds Trump but not mortally, it will be in...