Section: Salon (USA)
Now that a White House insider is implicated, Team Trump may begin to fall apart
Sarah Sanders; Jared Kushner; Steve Bannon (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci/Susan Walsh) For the first time in a year’s worth of reporting on the Russian attack on the 2016 presidential election, a series of watershed articles published by the New York Times has placed one of the alleged conspirators inside the White House. Specifically, the...
Russia scandal goes well beyond Trump: GOP leaders definitely knew about hacking — did they benefit too?
Paul Ryan, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell (Credit: AP/Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Jonathan Ernst/J. Scott Applewhite) Despite Europe’s clear disdain for President Trump it seems as though he’s over there every other week. In fact he’s arriving in France on Thursday at the invitation of President Emmanuel Macron to help celebrate Bastille...
Tucker Carlson quarrels with guest who makes Charles Lindbergh comparison
(Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew) Fox News host Tucker Carlson got into a heated exchange with Lt. Col. Ralph Peters over whether questioning America’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin is analogous to Nazi apologists from the 1930s. “I’m not vouching for Putin’s character. He seems like a shady guy. A strong man...
How did Donald Trump Jr.’s relationship with Russia start?
(Credit: AP) Donald Trump Jr.’s connections to Russia long preceded his recently-revealed correspondence with a lawyer connected to the Russian government in order to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton. As far back as 2008, Trump Jr. was on record bragging that “in terms of high-end product influx into the U.S., Russians make up a pretty...
6 signs that the Russia investigation could blow up the Trump White House
Donald Trump Jr. (Credit: AP/Kathy Willens) The New York Times report that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer last June in expectation of receiving damaging information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is a blow for a White House already saddled with sinking poll numbers and a stalled legislative agenda. After a few...
Sebastian Gorka says Trump Jr.’s meeting isn’t a big deal: That’s “what political campaigns do”
Sebastian Gorka (Credit: Getty/Alex Wong) The deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka, argued on Tuesday that when Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer — who allegedly has connections to the Kremlin — in order to gather damaging information on political opponent Hillary Clinton, it’s just “what political campaigns...
Putin’s flacks: Russia’s stealth public relations war
(Credit: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool) The Russian attempt to influence the 2016 American presidential election, using what intelligence agencies call “active measures,” has dominated U.S. headlines. There is, however, a second front in Russia’s effort to shape the hearts and minds of American citizens, and it’s received almost no...
Consider the upside, liberals: If Trump can achieve a new détente with Russia, that’s a good thing
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Evan Vucci) The long-awaited inaugural tête-à-tête between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is finally in our rearview mirrors. While us mere plebeians are not privy to the intimate details of such meetings, we do know a few things about how it all went down; We know the two men...
Donald Trump and the decline of the West: Ten thousand years of civilization and we end up with this guy?
René Descartes; Donald Trump; Plato; William Shakespeare (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke/WikiMedia/Salon) In trying to reckon with Donald Trump’s bizarre speech in Poland on Thursday, which was among the most troubling events of his troubling presidency, I couldn’t help thinking about Mahatma Gandhi’s supposed quip when asked by a...
The day democracy got hacked: To this “old spy,” all signs in the DNC email leak pointed to Russia
Hillary Clinton (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke) Beginning in March and April 2016, an unknown person or persons hacked into the computer servers of the Democratic National Committee. Over time it became clear that the hackers were targeting very specific information in the DNC files—the opposition research the Democrats had dug up on their Republican...
