Similarly, it might seem like overkill to make Trump fight off four indictments related to his former presidency even as he campaigns for a second term. No other president has been indicted even once after serving in that high office. Trump claims persecution, but these cases, too, have all arisen from Trump’s behaving as though […]
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Trump’s $454M Penalty Is Exceptional Because Trump Is an Exception
Similarly, it might seem like overkill to make Trump fight off four indictments related to his former presidency even as he campaigns for a second term. No other president has been indicted even once after serving in that high office. Trump claims persecution, but these cases too have all arisen from Trump’s behaving as though […]
Read MoreMr. Attorney General, Tear Up That Memo
Rachel Maddow, in an interview with NPR’s Terry Gross concerning Maddow’s 2020 book, Bag Man, which recounted Agnew financial misdoings while in office, offered a view of how the effort to distinguish President Nixon’s liability to impeachment from Vice President Agnew’s might have turned out differently. Prosecutors, she recounted, went through an elaborate choreography to […]
Read MoreWhy Did Rich Mitt Romney Ever Bother With Politics?
When things inevitably got more heated—Romney did want to win, after all, and he was losing—Romney’s public remarks about Obama got sharper. He decided to say whatever he needed to say to get his fellow Republicans behind him. A trade of sorts: I’ll give lip service to your fixations, you vote for me. Not only […]
Read MoreWhy Did Rich Mitt Romney Ever Bother With Politics?
When things inevitably got more heated—Romney did want to win, after all, and he was losing—Romney’s public remarks about Obama got sharper. He decided to say whatever he needed to say to get his fellow Republicans behind him. A trade of sorts: I’ll give lip service to your fixations, you vote for me. Not only […]
Read MoreClip and Save: The Biggest Republican Hypocrites on Biden Impeachment
The February letter, which was also shared with TNR, didn’t promise to hand over years of Hunter Biden’s financial records, as Republicans requested, but it did offer a chance to meet directly with his legal team. The letter also argues that the Oversight Committee is overreaching in its investigation of Hunter Biden because he is […]
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