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2 days, 11 hours ago

Column: Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and revisionist presidential history

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The Joint Chiefs of Staff pay their respects around the flag-draped casket of former President Carter as he lies in state at the Capitol on Tuesday. From my novice reporter days in Texas beginning midway through his single term, through my years in Washington covering presidencies and presidential campaigns into a new century, Republicans made Carter’s name synonymous with failure …

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6 days, 11 hours ago

Opinion: Don't forget what happened four years ago on Jan. 6

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Pro-Trump forces versus the police on Jan. 6, 2021. Who didn’t know that attacking the Capitol was illegal? Four years ago on Jan. 6, not even most Republicans would have imagined this 2025 anniversary: The West Front of the Capitol — where rioters battled outnumbered police to breach the building, marauding and hunting for lawmakers — is currently getting gussied …

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Opinion: A peaceful transfer of power — you can thank Harris and Biden

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Did you miss it? Gabriel Sterling, the top Georgia election officer who four years ago publicly and presciently warned Trump that “someone’s going to get killed” because of his provocations, and who endured death threats himself, said of the electors’ meeting this week, “To be honest, I forgot about it.” As Trump declared in last month’s victory speech, “It’s time …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Opinion: Christopher Wray just broke the first rule of dealing with Donald Trump

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For someone who played a tough-talking executive on TV — “You’re fired!” — Donald Trump sure goes out of his way to avoid such confrontations. Just after Thanksgiving, Trump posted 159 gushing words to announce that uber-loyalist grifter and fellow revenge seeker Kash Patel was his choice to be FBI director, and zero words acknowledging that Wray, Trump’s first-term pick …

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1 month ago

Opinion: Trump's predatory Cabinet choices are added proof that #MeToo is over

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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Defense, speaks with reporters. “It’s a very scary time for young men in America, when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of,” Trump told a Mississippi rally during that October six years ago. So now, as Trump crafts a Cabinet again, he’s explicitly rejecting the …

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1 month ago

Column: The backlash on the backlash against the Hunter Biden pardon

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Days later I’m still seething that President Biden gave a “full and unconditional” pardon to his troublesome surviving son. With the pardon of Hunter Biden, who’d pleaded guilty to tax evasion and was separately convicted of lying about his drug addiction on a gun application, Joe Biden put his family ahead of his fealty to the animating pledge of his …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Who's the vice president-elect? Elon Musk or JD Vance

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President-elect Donald Trump with, left to right, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and Sen. Ted Cruz at a SpaceX test flight in Texas on Tuesday. There was no room for him at the four-top table where the real power bros — Donald Trump, of course, son Don Jr., world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk, and supposed health nut Robert F. Kennedy …

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Opinion: Trump's initial choices could make for a Cabinet of avengers

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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general is Matt Gaetz, who resigned from the House of Representatives when the nomination was announced. As Donald Trump rolled out his Cabinet choices last week, the strategy that consigliere Steve Bannon described during the president-elect’s first term naturally popped to mind: “Flood the zone with s—.” Overwhelm the media, the public and political …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Calmes: Democrats, learn the lessons and move on

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After months of obsessing over the presidential contest, it was jarring last week to tune in to the annual Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery and see President Biden center stage. That he selfishly didn’t give way until far too late in 2024 helped doom Democrats’ chance of keeping the White House, and thus dealt a blow to his …

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2 months ago

Opinion: Trump and our disappearing checks and balances

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If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it’s law-breaking, oath-violating Donald Trump. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, House speaker in 2017 and 2018, broke with Trump in 2016 over the “grab ’em by the pussy” tape, but became accommodating enough once Trump was president. As Punchbowl News reported : “Now Trump gets …

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2 months ago

Calmes: Coming soon to Washington — America's dark ages

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I can’t do better than those words, uttered last year by Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, when he dolefully contemplated Trump returning to power. Politics Donald Trump elected as the United States’ 47th president The presidential race between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Trump is at the …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Calmes: The Top 10 reasons to vote for Kamala Harris for president

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Last week, I listed the top 10 reasons to vote against Donald Trump. Harris is “a strong, committed public servant … running to put people together,” Republican former Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan said last week, in joining more than 30 former party colleagues in condemning Trump. Harris wouldn’t treat the Justice Department as her personal law firm, as Trump …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

When Donald Trump cites history, we need to watch out

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Yet again Donald Trump has provided a reminder of the irony in his slogan “Make America Great Again” — besides the fact that America is great. One of the most recent examples of Trump’s warped views is his promise that if elected he’ll employ the rarely used Alien Enemies Act of 1798, intended as a wartime measure, “to target and …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Top 10 reasons not to vote for Donald Trump

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Former President Trump speaks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner in New York on Thursday. 1: 10: As president, he violated his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” Ask Mike Pence, who forfeited his place as Trump’s ticket mate to Ohio Sen. JD Vance because Pence wouldn’t violate the Constitution; Vance would. Gen. William Barr said …

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3 months ago

Opinion: When Trump talks 'bad genes' and 'racehorse theory,' he is telling us who he is

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Then-President Trump at the Bemidji, Minn., Regional Airport after a rally at which he told the mostly white audience “you have good genes in Minnesota.” Donald Trump’s fascination with genetics, especially his own “good genes” of the white European sort, as well as the “bad genes” of the you-know-which types, has always been creepy. And Trump’s White House chief of …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Is Kamala Harris' rise backlash against Donald Trump's misogyny?

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Talk about delicious ironies. Barack Obama, during their 2008 rivalry, famously damned her with faint praise: “You’re likable enough, Hillary,” As that exit poll data indicates, Clinton’s groundbreaking candidacy was notable for not galvanizing women voters as much as it should have. She ruefully mused in her 2017 memoir that as she’d watched the massive Women’s March in Washington protesting …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Democrats are embracing that hopey-changey thing again in Chicago. Will it work?

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Go ahead, Democrats, party like it’s 2008. These gatherings are the single biggest opportunity for candidates to grab voters’ attention before the election; 25 million viewers caught Trump’s meandering acceptance speech last month at the Republican convention. In the weeks since Biden reluctantly exited the race and endorsed Harris, a rattled Trump has cursed the Democrats’ switcharoo and the reversal …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: The full truth of 9/11 is still emerging

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The rubble of the World Trade Center following the terrorist attack Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. “What we’ve uncovered, with no help from our FBI and no help from our own government, is that had a significant amount of help, and that help came in the form of the Saudi government,” Brett Eagleson, president of the families group 9/11 …

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5 months ago

Opinion: Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she wields power but won't tell all

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Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressing former President Trump and his Cabinet in 2019. Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s new book about major events of her two decades as House speaker or Democratic leader is titled “The Art of Power” — an unintended, she insisted to me, echo of Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal.” She writes of the actual, consequential deals …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: We have to destroy the Republican Party to save it

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A Michigan Trump supporter’s headgear. Four years ago he said of his radicalized former party on CNN : “Just burn it down and start over.” Opinion Columnist Jackie Calmes Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene. Republicans still claim to be the party of law and order, and yet, Stevens noted, their hostility to the FBI …

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6 months ago

Opinion: Step aside, Joe. It's time

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If Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee this fall against Donald Trump, my vote for him would be the easiest I’ve ever cast. But Biden has nixed a neurological examination: “No one said I had to,” he countered when ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos asked on Friday whether he’d had or would have such an exam. “Look, I have a cognitive …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Trump's claims about the economy in the debate will be lies

LA Times

Expect the economy to be debated by President Biden and former President Trump on Thursday. Spoiler alert: “Bottom line, in their totality, Biden’s policies are better for the economy than Trump’s,” Moody’s chief economist Mark M. Zandi told me. Moody’s projects that after Trump’s recession, the economy would return to growth late in his second term, for average annual growth …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: The debate — Senile Biden vs. Obnoxious Trump? Please no

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The first debate between President Biden and former President Trump on Thursday night will be a real test of Americans’ sense of civic duty. But given the sort of cringey schoolyard ruckus that Trump provoked between the two men in their initial encounter four years ago, it’s a fair question why anyone else would tune in. Nonetheless, as my colleague …

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7 months ago

Column: Biden's urgent D-day message — save democracy all over again

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President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden lay a wreath in the Normandy American Cemetery following the ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of D-day on Thursday. California Column: Trump’s pity party maligns America’s real darkest days It’s sad and scary that so many people can believe anything from Donald Trump’s mouth when he contends his felony conviction marked the …

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Column: Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and revisionist presidential history

Opinion: Don't forget what happened four years ago on Jan. 6

Opinion: A peaceful transfer of power — you can thank Harris and Biden

Opinion: Christopher Wray just broke the first rule of dealing with Donald Trump

Opinion: Trump's predatory Cabinet choices are added proof that #MeToo is over

Column: The backlash on the backlash against the Hunter Biden pardon

Opinion: Who's the vice president-elect? Elon Musk or JD Vance

Opinion: Trump's initial choices could make for a Cabinet of avengers

Calmes: Democrats, learn the lessons and move on

Opinion: Trump and our disappearing checks and balances

Calmes: Coming soon to Washington — America's dark ages

Calmes: The Top 10 reasons to vote for Kamala Harris for president

When Donald Trump cites history, we need to watch out

Opinion: Top 10 reasons not to vote for Donald Trump

Opinion: When Trump talks 'bad genes' and 'racehorse theory,' he is telling us who he is

Opinion: Is Kamala Harris' rise backlash against Donald Trump's misogyny?

Column: Democrats are embracing that hopey-changey thing again in Chicago. Will it work?

Opinion: The full truth of 9/11 is still emerging

Opinion: Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she wields power but won't tell all

Opinion: We have to destroy the Republican Party to save it

Opinion: Step aside, Joe. It's time

Opinion: Trump's claims about the economy in the debate will be lies

Opinion: The debate — Senile Biden vs. Obnoxious Trump? Please no

Column: Biden's urgent D-day message — save democracy all over again