Section: AlterNet (USA)
House and Senate Republicans are failing the test of moral integrity: Robert Reich
Financial regulators subject banks to stress tests to see if they have enough capital to withstand sharp downturns. Now America is being subject to a stress test to see if it has enough strength to withstand Trump’s treacherous campaign to discredit the 2020 presidential election.Trump will lose because there’s no evidence of fraud....
Rudy Giuliani’s quixotic frenzy has observers wondering if he may need Trump’s protection
Erstwhile LifeLock spokesperson Rudy Giuliani on Thursday emceed a 90-minute Trump campaign press conference at Republican National Committee headquarters, where he and Sidney Powell, the red-pilled lead lawyer for Michael Flynn’s defense team, espoused outright lies and fringe conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump’s...
Here’s how Ivanka Trump reacted to a bombshell report about a criminal investigation involving her
Ivanka Trump echoed her father’s rhetoric on Thursday night after the New York Times broke a new story about the criminal and civil investigations surrounding the family business.The Times reported:Two separate New York State fraud investigations into President Trump and his businesses, one criminal and one civil, have expanded to include...
Trump recently weighed an attack on Iran that could spark broader conflict: report
Following a report that Iran had substantially bulked up its reserves of nuclear material, President Donald Trump considered attack options against the Middle East country last week, according to the New York Times.But other officials counseled the president on Thursday against aggressive steps, the report found, with at least one cautioning that...
There’s an obvious solution if Trump refuses to leave the scene after his defeat
The national celebrations after Joe Biden decisively defeated Donald Trump in this month’s election focused heavily on the image of Trump being pushed out the door. People took to the streets and boogied down to Steam’s 1969 hit “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.” Signs carried by celebrants tended to focus more on...
Trump is in survival mode — and caught in a pardon dilemma with no good alternatives
Donald Trump is becoming more fearful and anxious by the day. Above everything else, he desperately wants to save his own skin and avoid spending his remaining days outfitted in an orange prison jumpsuit. This is why, as the legal challenges to his humiliating defeat at the polls fail one by one, he will eventually shed his phony tough-guy facade...
‘Well-connected’ GOP donor linked to Rick Santorum scored $65 million in government investment for one-person company
It is going to take approximately half of forever to sort out the corruption of the Trump years—presuming we eventually get to that point. A new scandal of the sort that would in past years result in weeks of televised outrage seems to crop up every few days.The Associated Press brings us yet another. A “well-connected” Republican...
Ralph Nader’s election postmortem: Democrats won. Now what?
Apart from barely squeezing through the swing states to defeat corrupt, incompetent, lying, corporatist Donald Trump, the Democratic Party had a bad election.Loaded with nearly twice as much money as the Republican Party, the Democratic Party showed that weak candidates with no robust agendas for people where they live, work, and raise their...
Foreign leaders rush to congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Remember when America wasn’t constantly standing alone? When we weren’t the only nation to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? When we weren’t the only nation to destroy the treaty that prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons? When we weren’t the absolute worst nation in the world when it comes to our response to the...
Susan Collins shows her true self in the last days of a tight race
It’s Nov. 2, and there’s one burning mystery in Maine: Will Susan Collins vote for Trump? Seriously, for eight months she’s been playing this game. “I’m focused on my job and also on my own campaign and I’m just not going to get involved in presidential politics,” she said at the beginning of March,...
