As we get closer to the presidential election, and Donald Trump increasingly fears he is holding a losing hand, the bizarre description of “American Carnage” in Trump’s inauguration speech in 2017 becomes more ominously an uncanny prediction for 2020. In the 2016 presidential debates, former Florida governor Jeb Bush remarked
The Trump Administration is lowering the “Barr” on justice and decency. Attorney General William Barr, who virtually serves as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has made unprecedented interventions in cases at the Department of Justice (DoJ) on behalf of his leading client. He intervened in the sentencing of the president’s …
Attorney General Barr, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, President Trump, Trump, William BarrTrump’s war on government ethics continues unabated. The outrageous events at the Republican Convention last month provided more evidence that there is no law or tradition or custom that Donald Trump is unwilling to break. The violations of the Hatch Act, the anti-corruption law that Congress …
Betsy DeVos, Chad Wolf, Emoluments Clause, Ethics, government ethics, Hatch Act, Mark Meadows, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, Mike Pompeo, President Trump, TrumpTrump’s war on America reminds us of Jonathan Swift’s saying “A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Thomas Jefferson’s version was “Falsehood will travel over the country, while truth is putting on its boots.” …
Barr, Donald Trump, Eric Trump, Larry Kudlow, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, Pompeo, President Trump, RNC, Trump's liesTrump’s war on arms control and disarmament ignores the destruction and devastation caused seventy-five years ago, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 Japanese and injuring another 100,000. The great fires that raged in each city consumed many of the bodies. If …
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William Barr, Trump’s Cat’s Paw, was appointed as Attorney General of the United States in 2019. According to such political texts as How Democracy Dies by Harvard Professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, the first authoritarian step in compromising the rule of law and the rule of …
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Donald Trump crossed a red line that could finally cost him politically. This one is the latest of many he has crossed over the past three and a half years. The trappings of his fascist march to St. John’s Episcopal Church and his blasphemous display of a bible (held backwards …
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