Trump is reportedly making a list of the Republicans who are now distancing themselves from him. He’s “contemplating retribution:” It looks like Trump can add Texas Sen. John Cornyn to his list. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Cornyn is distancing himself from Trump. He compared his relationship with Trump to a bad marriage. (He …
Trump has no interest in actually governing. He never had any interest in governing. He just wants an audience so he can play a “winner” on TV. He thought, like any starring role, playing a World Leader would be a great way to get rich. Trump told his staff that he wants to be on …
Trump has written the final act of the 2020 Campaign Realty Show, and the central plot point goes like this: “This election was a shambles! A disaster!” People make fun of how much cable TV Trump watches, but how else can he plan his game? Fortunately, it appears that Trump will not be able to …
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) comes right out and says that the GOP is opposed to democracy: By “democracy” he means all people have a say in government. By “peace” he means order. By “liberty” he means the freedom of [white] men to grab whatever they want. The GOP, which has become the party of white …
. . . and get the hip waders ready. The next few weeks and months may feel like the longest you’ve lived through. Trump will launch a few more psyops operations against the American people designed to terrify you and make you believe he can cheat and pull this off. Don’t fall for it. Don’t …
Trump is in the hospital with COVID, and the Trump-FOX-GOP has an existential problem. The strongman myth requires a strongman. COVID was supposed to cull the weak, who would die willingly to save the “economy” for everyone else. Q: What do you do when the leader himself is stricken with COVID? A: Embellish the myth …
The National Election Task Force spent much time writing up legal briefing demonstrating why state legislatures cannot appoint its preferred slate of electors to override the will of the people after the election. Reading this meticulously researched and cited piece of scholarship, I was struck by how much time lawyers had to spend debunking this lie. …
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[Click here to read on the Just Security website] If you’ve spent time on social media, you’ve probably been scared into thinking that Donald Trump and the Republicans have the 2020 election in the bag. Cheri Jacobus, a Democratic political strategist and pundit, recently tweeted that “Trump’s Supreme Court will overturn the election results when Biden wins. …
Go figure. The New York Times was the first to get Trump’s taxes. Here is an excellent (and very readable) analysis from Just Security on the legal implications of the NYT bombshell article on Trump’s tax returns. The author is a professor of tax law at NYU School of Law. There’s a core of Trump’s …
This morning, my Op Ed appeared in the Washington Post. If you have a subscription to The Washington Post, you can read it here. If not, click here for a PDF version. Spoiler: if Trump wins this, it won’t be because he masterminds a way to get state legislatures and courts to keep him in …
