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Biden’s shadow communications strategy is creating a drone conspiracy crisis

The White House should speak plainly about what is in plain sight to avoid panic

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Donald Trump’s Christmas message of hope: Die hard

Or cave easily to his authoritarian regime

12.12.2024 2

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Yes, Joe should pardon them all — Trump included

The storm is rising. Lost in the anger, frustration, bitterness, hopelessness, rhetoric and potential violence, as well as  the existential angst of...

05.12.2024 9

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American gratitude has no room for accountability

Happy Thanksgiving. Peach and Blossom are thankful. As is usual on this purely American holiday, the president earlier this week pardoned the two...

28.11.2024 20

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The press obeys in advance

The rending of hair and gnashing of teeth from those who despise Donald Trump continues inside the Beltway and across the country two weeks after his...

21.11.2024 3

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Trump savors victory — but the storm is coming. Will the media stand up?

On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump made his “victorious” return to the White House and shook hands with President Joe Biden. A short time...

14.11.2024 30

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It’s time to prepare for the Trump sequel

I hate sequels. Godfather II was OK, but most other sequels suck. I guarantee you the Trump sequel won’t be anywhere near as entertaining as...

07.11.2024 30

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Jeff Bezos just threw Donald Trump’s campaign a life jacket

The stakes have never been higher in a presidential race. For those who have conveniently forgotten, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled...

31.10.2024 4

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Donald Trump drowns out his own closing argument

Donald Trump is broken and no one can put Humpty Trumpty back together again. This thought occurred to me at a truck stop in rural Nevada. Less than...

24.10.2024 20

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“The enemy within”: Trump trumps Trump

He’s vindictive, shallow, delusional and increasingly dangerous – but no one seems to care. Houston, we have a problem. Actually, we have many...

17.10.2024 30

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Natural disasters leave fertile ground for MAGA’s exploitation

It has been an interesting and tiresome week in the news. Time to recap. Donald Trump made loving phone calls to Vladimir Putin after he left office....

10.10.2024 10

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JD Vance is laying his foundation for a post-Trump GOP

If you watched Tuesday’s vice presidential debate hoping for something like a WWE SmackDown event, then you were probably left...

03.10.2024 10

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“The Apprentice” gets honest about the making of Donald Trump

When we first meet Donald Trump in the new movie “The Apprentice” it is in the early 70s and Trump is in his mid-20s. He is a slumlord collecting...

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Trump fatigue has set: Post-election disruption plans suggests the pressure is getting to MAGA

Donald Trump can be defeated.  He was in 2020, although he’ll never admit it. He was defeated by E. Jean Carroll in court when a New York jury in a...

26.09.2024 10

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It’s now all fiction. Donald Trump destroyed reality

Republicans are openly proud of their lies — but our disdain for the truth is bipartisan Nobody’s making it easy for anyone these days. Let’s...

19.09.2024 9

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“Active suppression of witnesses”: CIA lied about "Havana Syndrome," whistleblower documents reveal

The CIA has consistently lied to the American public about anomalous health incidents (AHI) for the last several years and may be guilty of...

16.09.2024 10

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“We did not do well”: MAGA admits Kamala Harris broke Donald Trump

Beware the prosecutor who smiles. Be wary of the cornered sewer rat who feels threatened. That sums up the contentious presidential debate between...

12.09.2024 20

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“Enough is Enough”: America’s toxic mix of mass shootings, disinformation and Donald Trump

Welcome back to the new school year kids.  Seeing friends. Sharing stories about your summer. Fall football. Dodging bullets. Apalachee High School...

05.09.2024 30

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Republicans for Harris: GOP gets ready to rescue MAGA from Trump

The 2024 presidential race may answer a question none of us knew we would ever ask: What can 70,000 disgruntled Republicans on one phone call do to...

29.08.2024 3

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The serious side of joy: Democrats laugh off Robert Kennedy Jr., deflate Trump with humor

CHICAGO — Donald Trump tried this weekend to derail the Democratic juggernaut that bolted from the confines of the United Center in Chicago...

25.08.2024 40

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The Woodstock of politics: Democrats strike all the right cords — and scare Donald Trump — with DNC

CHICAGO — I sat down Wednesday to indulge in my morning ritual of an espresso; this time at the Gallery Café just a couple of miles from the United...

22.08.2024 10

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The babysitter factor: Democrats have one big question to answer with their convention

Donald Trump doesn’t hold press conferences, he stages press events. And he doesn’t want you there if he can’t control you.   Shortly after...

15.08.2024 3

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Trump left spinning by Kamala Harris’ surprise strength

It didn’t take long. Shortly after Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris appeared Tuesday on stage in Philadelphia with...

08.08.2024 10

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Joe Biden must bust up the media

Don’t look now, but we just witnessed a major seismic event in American media. Monday afternoon a federal judge ruled that Google’s parent...

06.08.2024 7

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Kamala Harris turns the GOP into the gang that couldn’t shoot straight

In celebration of his 100th birthday (On August 2, coincidentally the same day my wife and I went on our first date), I recently found myself...

01.08.2024 5

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Maybe the Almighty weighed in: Joe Biden passes the torch — but won't say why

The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule. The people do. History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea...

25.07.2024 4

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Joe Biden demonstrates the meaning of unity: The president drops out so Kamala Harris can step up

Joe Biden is done. The president who brought us back from the brink after four years of Donald Trump’s atrocities, a horrible COVID pandemic and...

22.07.2024 20

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Democrats in disarray distract from a disastrous Republican convention

If you’re looking for entertainment out of the ordinary during this extremely hot summer brought to you courtesy of global climate change, then look...

18.07.2024 30

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Biden’s donor dilemma: Democrats brace for the big money dump

Folks, we’ve been here before. When Ronald Reagan bombed in his first debate against Walter Mondale in 1984, it prompted members of the press, some...

13.07.2024 20

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When you’ve lost George Clooney

Let us be blunt: Joe Biden has a problem. It didn’t begin with his poor performance at the CNN presidential debate – though many claim otherwise....

11.07.2024 10

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"Don't discount what he's telling you," Cohen says of Trump's threats. "He's already done it to me"

Michael Cohen is a man on a mission. Donald Trump’s former fixer and longtime lawyer was unceremoniously expelled from the ex-president’s inner...

09.07.2024 50

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Democrats’ divine intervention: Biden says only God can make him back down

God got dragged back into the presidential race this week, but not the way you might think.  After sitting down with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos...

07.07.2024 20

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A eulogy for the United States on its birthday

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our respects to the dearly departed United States. It was dearly loved, and it has now definitely...

04.07.2024 100

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The New York Times wants Biden gone — but they seem OK with a convicted felon

A day after the first presidential debate, President Joe Biden energetically took the stage in Raleigh, N.C. to talk about his less-than-stellar...

29.06.2024 30

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Tonight’s debate could be Trump’s last act

Freedom of choice is what you got Freedom from choice is what you want  - Devo History is set to be made in Atlanta on a CNN...

27.06.2024 4

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America is still haunted by the ghost of Ronald Reagan's corruption

America has always been corrupt. A nation “discovered” by those seeking fame and fortune at any cost and colonized by religious fanatics who...

20.06.2024 30

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The mistake of conflating historic criminal convictions: Donald Trump and Hunter Biden are not equal

Tuesday was an odd day at the White House. Press secretary Karine-Jean Pierre originally scheduled a press briefing for 2:30 p.m. However, a short...

13.06.2024 10

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The press is the problem

Jeff Bezos is reorganizing the Washington Post. The New York Times is a pale shadow of its former self. CNN pays known liars and reporters...

06.06.2024 6

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Donald Trump up close and personal: A president convicted by a jury of his peers

In the end, it was a jury of ordinary people who brought him down. Convicted felon. Donald Trump, the twice impeached, former president sat through...

31.05.2024 60

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De Niro is proof Democrats are starting to get it: Take the fight to Donald Trump

“I’m like Uranium 238,” James Carville, the Ragin’ Cajun, once told me, “not quite stable.” His recent whining about some women in the...

30.05.2024 10

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Heroes or “losers”: Trump taints Memorial Day with divided memories

To many, Memorial Day is a vague acknowledgment of loss. For admiral John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, Memorial Day...

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Behind Trump’s courthouse spectacle a dark reality remains concealed

Years ago, while covering the trial of a leader of the “Texas Syndicate,” a criminal organization with roots in the Lone Star State, I noticed...

23.05.2024 30

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I worked with Michael Cohen and covered Donald Trump. Guess which man I trust

The question is who will a Manhattan jury believe?

18.05.2024 20

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Biden vs. Trump debate: A battle between appearance and reality

Trump is an expert at selling an appearance and Biden can’t sell reality

16.05.2024 10

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The long-awaited Donald Trump vs. Michael Cohen showdown is not “High Noon”

It’s more like “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”

13.05.2024 30

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A return to facts over “fake” news

According to former co-counsel for Trump's first impeachment and Obama White House Ethics Czar Norm Eisen, within the next three weeks, the leading...

09.05.2024 40

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The Kentucky Derby is tamed, and it's a shame

I grew up on the backstretch of Churchill Downs, learning to imbibe, thrive and survive. From 1971 through 1979 I attended every wild Kentucky Derby...

04.05.2024 50

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Trump pays for his gag reflex

The night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination Bobby Kennedy appeared at a public event in Indianapolis and quelled a potential riot. What he...

02.05.2024 10

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It’s all the media’s fault

Well, we finally know who to blame. President Joe Biden unexpectedly (for the White House press pool, at least) showed up on the Howard Stern Sirius...

27.04.2024 40

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MAGA begins to panic: Trump may not make it to the ballot

Donald Trump. Those two words spoken out loud can elicit an emotional response on par with the worst invectives, curses or insults you can conjure. ...

25.04.2024 10

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