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Mike Johnson kisses the ring — and boosts Trump's Big Lie

Donald Trump likes to proclaim himself the greatest businessman, greatest president, greatest everything — and none of it is even remotely true....

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What's the source of our national bad vibes? You get exactly one guess

If there's one thing that characterizes this election season so far, it's that the country remains as polarized as it's ever been in recent history,...

12.04.2024 30

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Donald Trump's first criminal trial is nearly here — and he's already starting to melt down

There's been some talk lately about Donald Trump's light campaign schedule compared to President Joe Biden, who's been visiting swing states...

10.04.2024 2

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"His enemies are America’s enemies": Trump is getting help preparing his revenge list

Are you better off than you were four years ago? That question is circulating on social media and cable news every day now in response to the Trump...

08.04.2024 10

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Greene Intends to Wreck the House in an Election Year If She Doesn’t Get Her Way

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has twisted himself into a pretzel trying to please his fractious caucus and he’s starting to show the...

05.04.2024 4

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is out for Republican blood

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has twisted himself into a pretzel trying to please his fractious caucus and he's starting to show the...

05.04.2024 10

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Why the police are providing Trump cover for Jan. 6

Donald Trump, an alleged "master brander," has liberally stolen all of his most famous slogans from other politicians, starting with "Make...

03.04.2024 60

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Martyrs to the MAGA cause: Trump follows Hitler's steps with glorification of Jan. 6

You get the feeling that among the jaded Beltway establishment there is a belief that the horrified reaction against Trump's Hitler analogies is just...

22.03.2024 50

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Trump is dangerously desperate for a bailout

Donald Trump had an epic meltdown on his social media site Trump Social on Tuesday. Even for someone who is prone to ranting and raving in public,...

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Trump’s Small Donor Base Appears to Finally Be a Bit Tapped Out

Back in 2000 when Donald Trump first tested the waters of a presidential campaign by giving a series of speeches as a possible Reform Party candidate,...

18.03.2024 20

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Follow the money, and you'll find Donald Trump in deep trouble

Back in 2000 when Donald Trump first tested the waters of a presidential campaign by giving a series of speeches as a possible Reform Party candidate,...

18.03.2024 40

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RNC Hires 2020 Election Denier as Senior Counsel for “Election Integrity” Unit

One of Donald Trump’s most famous quotes is from the 2016 campaign when he said, “I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any voters.”...

15.03.2024 5

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Trump is already plotting his next Big Lie

One of Donald Trump's most famous quotes is from the 2016 campaign when he said," I could shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose any voters." He...

15.03.2024 6

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Trump's new "Honest Don" nickname can't distract from his obvious decline

Donald Trump is very proud of his talent for nicknames. In a recent interview in New Hampshire he explained, "I do a lot of names for people, some...

13.03.2024 4

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Growing Alliance Between Orbán, Trump and the US Far Right Is Very Disturbing

I’ve been following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s increasing influence on the American far right for some time as he hosted the likes...

11.03.2024 4

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Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán: The American right's most disturbing global alliance grows desperate

I've been following Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's increasing  influence on the American far right for some time as he hosted the likes...

11.03.2024 20

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Joe Biden's State of the Union shocked and delivered

Everyone was expecting a historic train wreck of a State of the Union last night and they got it. But it wasn't the one they thought it would be....

08.03.2024 40

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Trump's big con is a flop

As I watched the Super Tuesday returns last night I was struck by exit polls that showed the economy is the most important issue to many Republican...

06.03.2024 2

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Donald Trump is in no shape to pivot from a GOP primary to a general election

One of the moldiest political tropes around is the one that says a presidential candidate needs to run to the base during the primaries and then pivot...

04.03.2024 20

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Trump's threats against NATO and a new nuclear arms race

I don't care much about the notion of American "dominance" or "prestige" but I do care a lot about the prospect of the planet being blown up and...

01.03.2024 20

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As another government shutdown looms, it's time for Mike Johnson to step up

Here we are again looking right down the barrel of a government shutdown because one-half of one of the three branches of the federal government is...

28.02.2024 10

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Donald Trump's dominating GOP primary performance doesn't add up

Of all the 2024 political events I believed were irrelevant, the GOP primary campaign has been at the top of the list. But I was wrong. As it turns...

26.02.2024 30

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CPAC can't quench MAGA's thirst

One of the most frustrating refrains one hears these days is that the Republican Party has "suddenly" gone crazy — as if it was a spontaneous...

23.02.2024 10

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After Alexei Navalny's death, Trump's cowardly groveling looks worse than ever

News came last week of the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny last week. He had survived an attempted assassination by poison in 2020 but...

21.02.2024 4

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Republicans' impeachment farce implodes with indictment of star Biden "informant"

The Biden impeachment inquiry seems to attract witnesses who turn out to be con artists and criminals for some reason. The Republican inquisitors get...

16.02.2024 40

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Lara Trump's takeover of the RNC turns the GOP into a second Trump Organization

Poor Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel. Nobody has debased and humiliated themselves more chasing the approval of Donald Trump....

14.02.2024 2

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Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson gave Putin exactly want he wants

As we all know, the biggest story in the world is the breaking news that President Joe Biden is old. Sure 9/11 was something of a big deal and the war...

12.02.2024 4

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Joe Biden falls victim to Democrats' special prosecutor delusion

Perhaps someday Democrats will learn their lesson but I'm not holding out much hope at this point. They suffer from an inexplicable habit of allowing...

09.02.2024 7

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Republicans royally botch their one election year play

On Tuesday night, after a long day of very important legal developments for Donald Trump, the former president posted on his Truth Social feed "ALL...

07.02.2024 20

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Republicans scramble to get Trump his payback -- yet keep coming up short

As usual these days, Republicans in Congress are a bubbling cauldron of chaos and dysfunction with wild hearings, inexplicable strategy and internal...

05.02.2024 4

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Joe Biden's economy is roaring back against right-wing sabotage

Nobody on planet Earth has more chutzpah than former president Donald Trump. After claiming over and over again that the stock market would crash if...

02.02.2024 10

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Republicans' border battle at risk of blowing up

Generally, it's always fair to assume that the American right wing is 100% hypocritical in all things. They do not practice what they preach — and...

31.01.2024 30

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Nikki Haley is not on a noble mission -- but we should still root her on

Nikki Haley may not have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the Republican presidential nomination but she's decided she's not going to go...

29.01.2024 10

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Trump's border power play is a push for civil war

Donald Trump is having a rolling hissy fit that's escalating by the day. From courtrooms to rallies to incoherent interviews, his behavior is making...

26.01.2024 7

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Trump's New Hampshire victory speech shows he's running out of time to hide

After his win in the Iowa caucuses last week Donald Trump came to the microphone and gave an uncharacteristically gracious victory speech. It was...

24.01.2024 8

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Ron DeSantis ends the most humiliating presidential run in history with one final disgrace

Who would ever have guessed that the latest Republican Great Whitebread Hope would crash and burn even before the New Hampshire primary? It's not as...

22.01.2024 30

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Trump's dominating Iowa win reveals massive cracks in his coalition

The Trump juggernaut rolled into Iowa on Monday and won what the media is calling a "historic" victory. He garnered 51% of the vote while his closest...

17.01.2024 3

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"He's failing on the job": Marjorie Taylor Greene is leading a MAGA rebellion against Mike Johnson

Here we go again. The House Republicans are running around in circles, unable to agree among themselves about what they were sent to Washington to do...

12.01.2024 7

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Why Trump is make his lawyers look like fools in court

The idea that former President Donald Trump was performing his official duties when he told his supporters to march to the Capitol and "fight like...

10.01.2024 40

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The Jan. 6 election is coming — and it's time for America to choose a path

Groundhog Day isn't until next month. But if you were watching cable news over the past few days you certainly got a feeling of déjà vu watching...

08.01.2024 20

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Trump's shamelessness could save him

A few months back I noted a little story in the New York Times about special prosecutor Jack Smith's investigation that didn't get much...

05.01.2024 9

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Trump's GOP primary strategy is also his courtroom defense

The new year is off to a strong start. With only two weeks before the first presidential caucuses, yet another debate for second place is in the...

03.01.2024 4

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Nikki Haley deserve no grace for Civil War gaffe

If there's a worse time to drop a nuclear-powered campaign gaffe than the week between Christmas and New Year's less than a month before the primaries...

29.12.2023 20

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The twisted fantasy behind Mike Johnson's "purity" pledge

Several years ago, when many Democratic strategists were demanding that the party embrace the tenets of the Christian Right in order to win over the...

27.12.2023 8

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When Hitler tried to redesign Christmas

It's a real contest but if I had to choose Donald Trump's most fatuous claim it would have to be that until he became president "nobody could say...

22.12.2023 6

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The Supreme Court is now perfectly set up to save Donald Trump

Donald Trump first came to America's attention as a political actor back in 2011, when he became the self-appointed leading voice on the right...

20.12.2023 6

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Trump Echoing Fascists Doesn’t Dissuade Likely GOP Iowa Caucusgoers

Donald Trump believes in eugenics. He really does. Of course, his understanding of it is purely based upon his own belief in his superior genes and...

18.12.2023 3

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Trump echoes Hitler — and MAGA hears it loud and clear

Donald Trump believes in eugenics. He really does. Of course, his understanding of it is purely based upon his own belief in his superior genes and...

18.12.2023 20

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James Comer's shady shell company makes clear that Republicans' Biden crusade is pure GOP projection

It appears that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's honeymoon is coming to an early conclusion. The right-wing House Freedom Caucus is hopping mad...

15.12.2023 10

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Republicans have already lost the American public on impeachment

I know this will come as quite a shock, but the current U.S. Congress is the least productive in almost a hundred years. Not since the first years...

13.12.2023 6

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