For several months, allegations that Russia interfered in the US presidential election to help Trump, as well as claims that Trump and some of his associates have ties with Russia, have been all over the media. They are repeated so…
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Brian Stelter wrote a self-congratulatory piece for CNN in which he praises journalists for their role in Flynn’s resignation. According to him and many other people in the media, investigative journalism and information leaked by courageous people in the administration led to Flynn’s…
With Flynn’s resignation, the anti-Russia hysteria, which had been receding a little bit recently as people were busy losing their mind over other things, is back with a vengeance. This story has been developing for more than a month and, after weeks of…
Trump apparently decided to dump Abrams, who there won’t be Deputy Secretary of State, which is a very good news. Of course, this happy development has nothing to do with the activity of the opposition, who was far too busy opposing…
Several people have pointed out about my post from yesterday that, beside the accusations that were made against Sessions during his confirmation hearing in 1986 and used again to disqualify him this year, there were many other reasons to oppose him.…
I predicted a few days ago that, if Trump was stupid enough to nominate Abrams for Deputy Secretary of State, he would find several Democrats to confirm him. Well, unsurprisingly, I just read this article in Al-Monitor which explains that, as…
Jeff Sessions was finally confirmed by the Senate, after the Democrats made a spectacle of themselves again. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I’m sure he will be a great Attorney General, not least because he will actually enforce immigration…
It’s really amazing, although not surprising, that Democrats spend most of their time and energy trying to oppose people whose nomination to the Cabinet would be relatively benign, even from a liberal point of view, but almost completely ignore those who are…
Ipsos recently did a poll for Reuters about Trump’s executive order, which I already discussed at length before, according to which, to the amazement of the sophisticates, a plurality of Americans agree with it. According to that poll, 48% of Americans…
Stephen Walt wrote another piece in which he criticizes Trump. He makes some good points, although I find the constant virtue signaling annoying. To be sure, Trump is a clown and I’m sure he’s never read Hans Morgenthau, but in practice he…