Trump in 2016: “I alone can fix it.” Trump in 2020: “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Here's the clip. On the lack of testing #Covid_19 and the "failure" of the response, @realDonaldTrump: "No, I don't take responsibility at all." #COVID pic.twitter.com/rpTh5DcILr — Kyle Morse (@Kyle_A_Morse) March 13, 2020
Trump
Conflicts of Interest, Gluttony, Grifters, Self-Dealing, Trump
Grifters: Episode One
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Trump
On Hoaxes
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Democrats, Elections, Never Trump, Politics, Presidential race 2020, Republicans, Television, Trump
The Unexpected (But Welcome) Never-Trump Haven @ MSNBC
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Politics, Trump
The Lincoln Project Asks: What do you call Thom Tillis?
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Agriculture, Dairy, Economy, Trade, Trump
A Wisconsin Dairy Farmer on Trump
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America, Authoritarianism, Law, Liberty, Never Trump, Trump
The Creeping Authoritarianism in Trump’s America
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Conflicts of Interest, Federal Government, Law, Trump, William Barr
Bill Barr: Trump’s Man on the Inside
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Bill Barr has now been Trump’s attorney general for a full year. He’s spent that year helping Trump weaponize the Justice Department for his personal benefit—showing that, like the man who appointed him, Barr is an urgent threat to American democracy.https://t.co/Xtr0BE6fVJ — The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) February 14, 2020
Law, Trump
New York’s Attorney General Explains the Law to Trump
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Never Trump, Trump
Trump is Beatable
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Politics, Trump
The Trump Bubble
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Over at the conservative Bulwark, there’s a published email in which the email’s author anecdotally describes how some Trump supporters are ignorant of significant daily political events: I will also point out that the same people who were extremely knowledgeable about what was going on during the Obama administration amazingly have very little knowledge of…
Agriculture, Economics, Economy, Federal Government, Trump
Brain Drain Plagues Key USDA Research Service After Trump Administration Orders Relocation
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When the Trump administration relocated the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service to the Kansas City area last year, about two-thirds of its employees quit their jobs rather than move. Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, called the mass resignations a “wonderful way to streamline the government.” These departures have…
Depravity, Ethics, Never Trump, Trump
He Already Has
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It is difficult for reasonable and civilized people to understand the persistent of corruption and disorder in a man like Trump. The rational man or woman – guided by intellect and tradition – assumes that someone of Trump’s ilk is only in the grip of an ephemeral disorder, a passing derangement. Surely, they think, Trump…