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A recent argument between myself and my best friend revolved around Donald J. Trump. My friend believes he is “evil.” By that he means that every bad thing he did was craftily planned and deliberate. I am less sure of the strategy behind his tactics because I rate him as
Donald J. Trump
As you know, I post things that make me laugh, or make me think, and appearance here does not necessarily indicate agreement. This was too droll to pass up, given Donald J. Trump’s appearance in a New York courtroom. As you may know, in the past he often suggested
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There’s a show-biz adage about audiences that says, “Always leave them wanting more.” That is not what the House Jan. 6 committee planned Tuesday with a televised hearing that was to start at 10 a.m. and go all day long. At the last minute, they started the hearing
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Surprise! The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol was going to take a few weeks off, but stumbled into something it thought so explosive, it called a Special Added Attraction Assembly for Tuesday afternoon. To this neutral observer outside the Beltway, there was a juicy hamburger
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Thursday’s hearing of the House committee investigating Jan. 6 might have been called Pressure Cooker -- Part II. The Tuesday hearing produced testimony from several elected Republican officials -- and from Donald J. Trump himself on recorded calls -- that the president tried to pressure them into not accepting
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By Jack Goldsmith The evidence gathered by the Jan. 6 committee and in some of the federal cases against those involved in the Capitol attack poses for Attorney General Merrick Garland one of the most consequential questions that any attorney general has ever faced: Should the United States indict former
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Tuesday was Hump Day for the House Jan. 6 committee, the fourth and halfway point. As things stand now, seven hearings will be held. In case you are new here, I concede the committee is out to “get Trump.” I also believe the first three hearings did not produce a
Donald J. Trump
I am happy that my blog attracts people from Left to Right. The vast majority of my subscribers read and enjoy (or not), but do not comment. The majority of people who do comment are male, which I kind of understand, and older, which I also understand, and lean Right,
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Thursday was the day for Mike Pence’s turn in the spotlight, but the former vice president did not appear before the House Jan. 6 committee. Was he in the undisclosed location he was ushered to on Jan. 6? I don’t know whether his absence is a reflection of
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Democrats hired a network executive to produce its January 6 hearings as, well, entertainment. In entertainment, you want to lead with sensation, to create buzz. If possible, you want to save the best for last because the last thing is what the audience best remembers. Last week’s hearing did
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Having promised “significant new information” that was “explosive,” I think the Jan. 6 Select House Committee failed as badly as the Robert Mueller report that was expected or was hoped to handcuff President Donald J. Trump to Russia. It failed to do that and allowed Trump to falsely claim that
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Remember when the chicken-legged clowns who run Major League Baseball actually moved the All-Star Game from Black majority Atlanta to white majority Denver to protest the racist and voter-suppression laws passed by the Georgia legislature? Other corporations, stampeded by the woke on Twitter who hadn’t read the law, cravenly