US Politics in Trump era Public date: 02.10.2020 20:59:01

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8 Jul 2018

Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?

The media has treated the notion that Russia has personally compromised  the president of the United States as something close to a kook theory. A  minority of analysts, mostly but not exclusively on the right, have promoted aggressively exculpatory interpretations of the known facts, in which every suspicious piece of evidence turns out to have a surprisingly innocent explanation. What is missing from our imagination is the unlikely but possible outcome on the other end: that this is all much worse than we suspect.
The media has treated the notion that Russia has personally...

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11 Mar 2018

G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul. Now It May Need to Be Altered.

The legislative blitz that rocketed the $1.5 trillion tax cut through Congress in less than two months created a host of errors and ambiguities in the  law that businesses big and small are just now discovering and  scrambling to address. Companies and trade groups are pushing the Treasury Department and Congress to fix the law’s consequences, some intended and some not, including provisions that disadvantage certain farmers, hurt restaurateurs and retailers and could balloon the tax bills of large multinational corporations.
The legislative blitz that rocketed the $1.5 trillion tax cut through Congress in less than two months created a host of...

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8 Mar 2018

Local News Anchors Are Being Forced to Deliver Pro-Trump Propaganda

A family of conservative multimillionaires owns Sinclair Broadcast Group. And Sinclair Broadcast Group is on the cusp of owning enough local television stations to reach 70 percent of American households. Every news station under Sinclair’s umbrella is required to syndicate commentary that comports with its owners’ ideological views.
A family of conservative multimillionaires owns Sinclair Broadcast Group. And Sinclair Broadcast Group is on the cusp of...

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3 Jan 2018

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

Even though the numbers in a few key states had appeared to be changing  to Trump’s advantage, neither Conway nor Trump himself nor his  son-in-law, Jared Kushner  — the effective head of the campaign — ­wavered in their certainty: Their unexpected adventure would soon be over. Not only would Trump not be  president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.
Even though the numbers in a few key states had appeared to be changing  to...

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23 Jun 2017

Trump Indicates Tweet on Tapes Was Meant to Affect Comey Testimony

President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Friday in an interview that his tweet hinting of taped conversations with James B. Comey was intended to influence the fired F.B.I. director’s  testimony before Congress, and he emphasized that he committed “no obstruction” of the inquiries into whether his campaign colluded with Russia.
President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Friday in an interview that his tweet hinting...

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29 Mar 2017

The White House Asked for Veto Power Over Sally Yates’s Testimony at Russia Hearing

Sally Yates’s tenure as the Trump administration’s acting attorney  general was short-lived but eventful. A holdover from the Obama Justice Department, Yates didn’t make it two weeks before she was dismissed for refusing to defend Trump’s first travel ban. But before she departed, she warned White House counsel Donald McGahn that National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had misled his superiors about his preelection conversation with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Weeks later, word of that warning leaked to the press — and Flynn promptly resigned.
Sally Yates’s tenure as the Trump administration’s acting attorney  general was short-lived but eventful. A...

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25 May 2016

Why Did Bernie Sanders Put an Obama-Hater on the Democratic Platform Committee?

The liberal case against Hillary Clinton rests in large part upon her associations — people she surrounds herself with and whose judgment she relies upon. She has caught an enormous amount of flak, some of it fair, for her ties to figures in the finance industry or advisers with morally questionable worldviews. By the same token, what should we make of Bernie Sanders’s decision to appoint Cornel West as one of his advisers to the Democratic Party’s platform committee?
The liberal case against Hillary Clinton rests in large part upon her associations — people she surrounds herself...

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