Combatting Social Media Disinformation By MAGA Trump Supporters

No, Trump Didn't Donate His Airline to Bring Troops Home From Iraq in the 1990s. Click to Politifact. No, Christian designs were not banned from the White House for Easter. And no, President Biden did not declare Easter to be Transgender Day of Visibility. Click to AP article. Almost all European countries have NOT banned...

Trump Is Likely to Foment Civil War. A Prediction for the Next Year, to Mid-2025

Quoting Lincoln, Trump and his supporters "would make war rather than let the nation survive." He sees threats of mass violence, even civil war, as leverage against imprisonment upon conviction of felon(ies). These scenarios are inspired by the movie, "Civil War" in America, now showing. Click for my Substack piece. In choosing his vice presidential candidate,...

The Inevitability of Trump’s Election?

Democrats, and President Biden, should start running scared right now. The fundamentals -- a strong economy, and significant legislative accomplishment -- are good. But Biden's popularity is too low. People -- even Democrats -- think he is too darned old. He's losing key swing states to Trump, according to polls. Working-class African American and Latino...

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...

Government Should Be Shut Down Until His Prosecutions Are Defunded, Trump Demands

Conservative Charlie Sykes writes on The Bulwark that Biden is old, but Trump is cra-aazy. The former president "has called for terminating provisions of the Constitution; orchestrated a coup to overturn the last presidential election; and absconded with military secrets. Lest you have forgotten, he has also been found liable for rape; and faces more...

Joint Chiefs Chairman Has Committed Treason and Should Be Executed, Trump Asserts

Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the president, secretary of defense, and national security council, has committed treason, should be executed or at least jailed, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social recently. He chose Milley for the top...

2024 Election Unlikely to Turn on Physical Incapacities

Republicans like to exaggerate and magnify video clips of Joe Biden's verbal gaffes, falls, and slow octogenarian gait. Democrats respond in kind, offering similarly subjective video clips and pictures of Donald Trump's verbal gaffes, falls, and slow gait. These are both propagandistic snapshots. It's unlikely either side will flip a single voter by casting doubt...

How Trump Could Win

In 2020, Donald Trump "lost by a combined 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin....Biden needs to win by 4.5 percent to carry the Electoral College." -- Republican consultant Stuart Stevens.  

WSJ: GOP Is Following Doomed Path

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board criticizes Donald Trump for not participating in Republican debates. Instead, he's communing with Tucker Carlson, who "will be on hand less as an interviewer than to endorse the former President’s claims that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is America’s fault and that the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was...

Trump Has Disqualified Himself from the Presidency, Legal Experts Argue

"The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again," write two constitutional scholars, one conservative and one liberal: J. Michael Luttig and Laurence Tribe, in The Atlantic. "The only question today is whether American citizens today can uphold that commitment." The 14th amendment to the Constitution, enacted shortly after the civil war, "contains within it...