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The Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer NAILS IT!
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor
Our Democracy is at stake!
Don’t Think of It as a Contest Between Biden and Trump
It made the news!!!!
Trump says he warned NATO ally: Spend more on defense or Russia can ‘do whatever the hell they want’
“Republican front-runner Donald Trump said Saturday that, as president, he warned NATO allies that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that are “delinquent” as he ramped up his attacks on foreign aid and longstanding international alliances.
Speaking at a rally in Conway, South Carolina, Trump recounted a story he has told before about an unidentified NATO member who confronted him over his threat not to defend members who fail to meet the trans-Atlantic alliance’s defense spending targets.
But this time, Trump went further, saying had told the member that he would, in fact, “encourage” Russia to do as it wishes in that case.”
Donald Trump is saying he can literally shoot ANYONE on Fifth Avenue and no one can do a thing about it!
Trump, awaiting ruling, says presidents must have ‘complete and total’ immunity
“As former President Donald Trump awaits a ruling from a federal appeals court on his broad claim of presidential immunity, he said early Thursday that a U.S. president “must have complete and total presidential immunity.”
“A president of the United States must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him/her to properly function,” Trump said in a lengthy post on Truth Social in all caps. “Any mistake, even if well intended, would be met with almost certain indictment by the opposing party at term end. Even events that ‘cross the line’ must fall under total immunity, or it will be years of trauma trying to determine good from bad.”
“Sometimes you just have to live with ‘great but slightly imperfect,'” Trump added. “All presidents must have complete & total presidential immunity, or the authority & decisiveness of a president of the United States will be stripped & gone forever. Hopefully this will be an easy decision. God bless the Supreme Court!””
There is always a tweet!
SCARY:
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Corporate America (Donors!) want Tax Cuts and Deregulation for Profit!
Is corporate America welcoming a Trump dictatorship? History says ‘yes.’
“The U.S. economy is booming under Biden, so why are many CEOs seemingly resigned to, if not openly rooting for, an autocratic Trump?”
Trump IS planning on being a Dictator – The GOP has no problem with that!
Why Trump and the GOP love Hungary’s authoritarian leader
““The reason that Orbán keeps winning is he has the control of a dictator,” said one political scientist. “So the question is, what are the Republicans in it for?””
He has extolled the value of racial purity, is vehemently anti-immigration, has cultivated close ties with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and was a speaker at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, in Dallas.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, 59, is widely criticized around the world for systematically dismantling his country’s nascent democracy during his 12 years in power — but that hasn’t stopped him from emerging as a darling of many on the right in America.
Orbán told a cheering crowd of conference delegates that he and other conservatives were in a battle to protect Western civilization against the forces of liberalism and mass migration.”
Trump did not sign Illinois’ loyalty oath that says he won’t advocate for overthrowing the government
“The pledge, a vestige of the McCarthy Red Scare era, is not mandatory, but has been signed by candidates for decades, including by Trump in 2020 and 2016.”
Biden says it well:
Trump is a threat to our democracy!
Scary:
Donald Trump’s “Dictator” Promise Is No Joke
“The MAGA base is cheering on Trump’s antidemocratic rhetoric, which the media should take very seriously.”
Scarier:
In The Atlantic’s January/February 2024 issue, 24 writers imagine what a second Trump term would look like.
IF TRUMP WINS
“The staff of The Atlantic on the threat a second term poses to American democracy.
This page will be updated as more stories publish.
David Frum on autocracy
Read an editor’s note from Jeffrey Goldberg.
Anne Applebaum on NATO
McKay Coppins on the loyalists
Caitlin Dickerson on immigration
Barton Gellman on the Justice Department
Sophie Gilbert on misogyny
Zoë Schlanger on climate
George Packer on journalism
Sarah Zhang on science
Franklin Foer on corruption
Michael Schuman on China
Adam Serwer on the courts“
“The Atlantic”: Trump’s second term would be worse
“Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne Applebaum and McKay Coppins from “The Atlantic” discuss with CNN’s Jake Tapper.”
Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails
Trump 2.0: A second term would see him pick more and uglier fights on immigration
“Now, as Trump campaigns for a return, he is promising a second term with no holds barred. Though many of his promises are bluster, his four years in office are hard evidence that any administration dedicated to reducing all types of immigration has a lot of tools at its disposal to do so.
A future Trump administration could be most successful in cutting legal immigration, which he promises to do. He pledges to restore and expand the so-called “Muslim Ban,” this time barring immigration from even more countries. He could also use that authority to impose other sweeping immigration bans, making it harder for legal immigrants of all kinds — much as he did in his first term. And he could bring back the “invisible wall,” policies designed to throw sand in the gears of our legal immigration system and bring it down by attrition.
If legal immigration levels are cut dramatically, it would likely exacerbate our serious national labor shortage and make the U.S. a less desirable destination for the world’s best and brightest.”
Take a Closer Look at Trump 2.0 by J.E. Dean
Ken Buck blasts his party’s hardliners for ‘lying to America’
““Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America,” Buck said.”
Republican Rep. Ken Buck laid into his own party Sunday, blasting those who continue to propagate the lie that the 2020 election was stolen for “lying to America.”
“Everybody who thinks that the election was stolen or talks about the election being stolen is lying to America,” the Colorado Republican said during an interview in CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Buck didn’t stop there.
“Everyone who makes the argument that January 6 was, you know, an unguided tour of the Capitol is lying to America. Everyone who says that the prisoners who are being prosecuted right now for their involvement in January 6, that they are somehow political prisoners or that they didn’t commit crimes, those folks are lying to America.”
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