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Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal

The Guardian

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On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave

Donald Trump is already in jail. He is pressed into confinement every weekday, except Wednesdays, beginning bright and early, no excuses, at 9.30 in...

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Trump used to scold felons who wanted to vote. Now he could be in the same spot

The People of the State of New York v Donald J Trump will conclude, according to long-established court procedure. The former US president’s defense...

15.04.2024 40

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If cover-up is the real crime, Trump’s hush-money charges have a Nixonian ring

Of all of Donald Trump’s charged crimes, spelled out in 88 felony counts – from plotting to overthrow the government of the United States to...

04.04.2024 3

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Few truly loathe Trump more than Mitch McConnell, but he’s been his top enabler

The convergence on 28 February of Mitch McConnell’s retirement announcement as the Republican Senate leader with the supreme court’s order to...

11.03.2024 30

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Trump’s hubris has brought about the downfall of his family’s business empire

Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling on Friday concludes the nearly century-long history of the Trump Organization in New York in disgrace and ruin. For...

17.02.2024 100

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The US supreme court may turn this election into a constitutional crisis

Imagine it is 6 January 2025. The bell tolls for the day of electoral college certification again. All the events of 2024 converge: The US supreme...

14.02.2024 60

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Deny, attack, reverse – Trump has perfected the art of inverted victimhood

Time after time, with predictable regularity, never missing a beat, Donald Trump proclaims his innocence. He always denies he has not done anything...

01.02.2024 4

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Trump and his toadies are trying to rewrite history so that he’s not an insurrectionist

OJ Simpson decided he could make some “blood money”, as he called it, by writing a “hypothetical” book on the murders of his estranged wife...

23.01.2024 20

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Donald Trump beat his opponents. But can he beat the courts?

Donald Trump’s most dangerous race is not with other Republican candidates, but against the law. In his political match, he faces no serious...

17.01.2024 10

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Prosecutors are charging Trump using laws made to fight the KKK. Here’s why

On Tuesday, in response to the federal case brought by special prosecutor Jack Smith over Trump’s alleged role in the January 6 insurrection, Trump...

15.01.2024 100

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Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe

Nikki Haley’s feigning of staggering ignorance about the cause of the US civil war unintentionally revealed her quandary in the Republican party. It...

01.01.2024 100

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Will Trump provoke a crisis of legitimacy for the US supreme court?

Donald Trump’s packing of the supreme court, to which he appointed three members, to create a reliable conservative majority, has been hailed by the...

26.12.2023 7

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The 15 questions that will not be asked at the Republican debate

The next Republican debate, like every previous one, is a staged performance simulating a debate. It is in the spirit of a Potemkin Village, the...

06.12.2023 3

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George Santos: a creature of Congress, dark money and limitless Republican hypocrisy

It seems churlish for any member of the party of Donald Trump to single out George Santos for punishment as a liar, fraudster and fabulist. The 23...

30.11.2023 6

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We have zombie Republican presidential candidates, enabled by an undead media

In taking the loyalty oath to support the party nominee in order to be permitted to participate in debates, the Republican candidates have transformed...

15.11.2023 10

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Tommy Tuberville is not acting: he really is Trump’s useful idiot

Tommy Tuberville plays the fool with such conviction that he makes it difficult to imagine a motive behind his idiocy. He is really, truly, actually...

07.11.2023 70

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Jim Jordan’s dizzying fall bodes an even more broken Republican party to come

Jim Jordan’s march to seize the Capitol began as a beer hall putsch but veered into Sesame Street. Vote after vote, he has missed the sagacity of...

24.10.2023 60

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The greater the fear Trump feels, the more sinister his threats become

“D EATH!” tweeted Donald Trump about Gen Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (AKA “My Generals”). “TRAITOR!” he...

09.10.2023 100

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Congressional Republicans are trapped in a dangerous absurdity of their own making

T he House Republicans have triggered a Chernobyl of their own, a chain reaction that will inexorably lead to a meltdown to their core surrounded by a...

26.09.2023 30

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Democrats need to realize that there is no alternative to Biden – and buck up

N ow ends our summer of discontent. Nearly half of Democrats fretfully tell pollsters that President Biden is “too old”. Fifty-eight percent of...

13.09.2023 60

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