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Trump’s Most Audacious Lie Yet

June 4, 2024 Most, trumps, audacious0 comment

When someone lies as prodigiously as Donald Trump—The Washington Post stopped counting at more than 30,000, around the time he left office—handing out superlatives is challenging. Even so, the former president might have told his most audacious lie yet this weekend. Trump sat for a conversation with Fox & Friends Weekend that aired yesterday. This isn’t a venue where Trump would expect to get tough questions, and a co-host, Will Cain, made a relatively straightforward point. “You famously said, regarding Hillary Clinton, ‘Lock her up,’” he said. “You declined to…

Trump’s Stop-and-Frisk Agenda

May 27, 2024 agenda, trumps, StopandFrisk0 comment

Even as Donald Trump relies on unprecedented support from Black and Latino voters, he is embracing policies that would expose their communities to much greater police surveillance and enforcement. The policies that Trump is pledging to implement around crime and policing in a second presidential term would reverse the broad trend of police reform that accelerated after the murder of George Floyd, four years ago today. Trump has endorsed a suite of proposals that would provide cities with more funds to hire police officers; pressure officials in major cities to…

Trump’s Shoot-the-Moon Legal Strategy

April 9, 2024 Strategy, legal, trumps, ShoottheMoon0 comment

Updated at 4:12 p.m. ET on April 9, 2024 With less than a week to go before the start of his trial in New York on falsifying records, former President Donald Trump has sued Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the case. The suit is sealed, but it is reportedly related to a gag order Merchan recently placed on Trump. The suit seems highly unlikely to succeed, and it’s only the latest in a series of Trump broadsides against the judge. He accused Merchan of bias because the judge’s daughter…

Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land

February 17, 2024 trumps, Acuity, don't, attacks, land, mental0 comment

Ten years ago, I stood in the back of a large room at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, watching Donald Trump ramble. The celebrity billionaire had been loitering on the fringes of American politics for a few years, but this was my first time seeing him give a proper speech. At least, that’s what I thought he was supposed to be doing. Speaking at the Politics & Eggs forum is a rite of passage for presidential aspirants, and Trump at the time was going through his quadrennial ritual of…

Biden celebrates 175 federal judges confirmed, still behind Trump’s pace

February 1, 2024 confirmed, Celebrates, judges, trumps, Pace, Biden, still, federal, Behind0 comment

President Biden celebrated Thursday hitting the milestone of confirming 175 federal judges since he took office roughly three years ago. The Washington Times stories: White House

What Trump’s Victory in Iowa Reveals

January 20, 2024 victory, Iowa, reveals, trumps0 comment

Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucus was as dominant as expected, underscoring the exceedingly narrow path available to any of the Republican forces hoping to prevent his third consecutive nomination. And yet, for all Trump’s strength within the party, the results also hinted at some of the risks the GOP will face if it nominates him again. Based on Trump’s overwhelming lead in the poll conducted of voters on their way into the voting, the cable networks…