Section: AlterNet (USA)
A wave of reports expose Trumpworld corruption as the president’s allies point fingers
It’s been a long, difficult week in Trumpworld with all of the incriminating reports of corruption surrounding President Donald Trump and his administration. With Election Day less than five days away, Trump is likely feeling the pressure as the opposing forces work over time to state their case and prove that he is unfit for the office of...
‘Signs of a coming conflict are everywhere’: Why a 2nd Civil War would be quite different from the 1st
In 2020, the United States has been rocked by everything from a deadly pandemic and a brutal recession to civil unrest in a long list of cities to fears that violent conflicts will occur either on Election Day or after the election. Journalist Matthew Gault, in an article published by Vice this week, wonders if the political divisions in the...
Kayleigh McEnany’s new volunteer role with the Trump campaign raises multiple ethics questions
President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany appears to have supplemented her government work with a new role as a senior adviser to the president’s re-election campaign.McEnany, who left her job as Trump campaign spokesperson to join the administration, was introduced in a Tuesday segment on Fox Business as...
Here’s the real reason Trump and Giuliani’s ‘October surprise’ is crashing and burning
There’s a basic problem with the story that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani have been pushing about Joe Biden’s actions in Ukraine: It’s a lie. Of course, this is politics, and the fact that the story is simply lacking in any facts isn’t necessarily an issue. The real problem with this lie is that it’s an obvious lie....
Trump is blindingly cruel and incompetent — and his presidency has been a complete failure
In the earliest days of the Trump crisis, just about a month after the inauguration, I received the horrifying news that my best friend and podcast partner, Chez Pazienza, had died of a drug overdose. It was the evening of Feb. 25, 2017, and the shock still hasn’t quite worn off. In fact, I ask myself nearly every day what Chez...
Trump plans to fire Gina Haspel, Christopher Wray and Mark Esper immediately if reelected: report
Although former Vice President Joe Biden has a variety of possible paths to victory on Election Day, President Donald Trump might pull off a narrow Electoral College victory if he performs well in enough swing states — and if Trump does win a second term, according to Axios reporters Jonathan Swan and Alayna Treene, he plans to fire FBI Director...
Joe Biden showed he learned the lessons of 2016
The bar was set so low — yet Donald Trump still failed to clear the mark. In his final debate performance of the 2020 campaign (and with any luck, his last one ever), the president fumbled the one attack line that his campaign had prepared against Joe Biden for years.It was like he whiffed at tee-ball.The first time Trump tried to hit the former...
Blue wave or not, expect to see a lot of Mitch McConnell in 2021
With the 2020 election less than two weeks away, many pundits are stressing that despite what the polls are showing, President Donald Trump might win a narrow Electoral College victory if he is able to outperform former Vice President Joe Biden in enough swing states. But Fox News’ ultra-conservative Rupert Murdoch is predicting that Biden...
Rudy Giuliani declined offer of compromising Hunter Biden emails and images in May 2019
Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, was approached by someone offering allegedly compromising emails and images belonging to Hunter Biden in spring 2019, according to two individuals familiar with the meeting.Giuliani was approached with the offer while at a lunch in New York City in late May of last year, according...
Trump did it again — the same blackmail scheme that got him impeached
Back thousands of years ago, in February of 2020, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a “moderate” Republican, justified her vote to acquit Donald Trump at his impeachment trial — despite the mountains of evidence of guilt — by claiming that Trump had learned his lesson. “I believe that the president has learned from this case,”...
