Tag Archive for President Donald J. Trump

Let’s Be Clear: Mueller Punted, Mueller Failed

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  Let’s be clear. Mueller punted. Mueller failed. Scream all you want to the high heavens for the release of the full Mueller report. It won’t matter. We know the key findings. I’ve been biting my lip, so to speak, for days, weeks and months, refusing to engage…

Mueller Fails to Conclude Trump Colluded With Russia, Leaves Open the Question of Obstruction of Justice

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Mueller Report Delivered to Congress, Attorney General Barr Releases Summary Letter – By Glynn Wilson – In one of the most disappointing moments in the history of American democracy and jurisprudence, Attorney General William Barr released a short, four-page letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing the key findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report after…

Anticipating the Outcome of the Mueller Investigation and Report

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It’s the last day of winter on Wednesday, March 20, and the blue sky is finally visible here after months of foggy, rainy weather and overcast skies. Mobile has taken over from Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon as the rainiest city in America. I’m…

Trump Feels Cornered, Yet He Still Refuses to Condemn Hate and Violence

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By Robert Reich – What does a megalomaniacal president of the United States do when he’s cornered? We’ll soon find out. House Democrats are beginning a series of investigations and hearings into Donald Trump. Senate Republicans have begun to desert him: Twelve defected on the wall; seven refused to back Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.…

Should the President be Added to the Terrorism Watch List?

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – Is it time, or past time, to add the president of the United States to the terrorism watch list? According to an op-ed posted on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Watch website: The atrocity in New Zealand shows us, once again, that we’re dealing with an…

When Will America Fire Trump?

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America Has Already Fired Trump – By Robert Reich – Special counsel Robert Mueller’s soon-to-be-delivered report will trigger months of congressional investigations, subpoenas, court challenges, partisan slugfests, media revelations and more desperate conspiracy claims by Donald Trump, all against the backdrop of the burning questions: Will he be impeached by the House? Will he be…

U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama to Join Democrats and Republicans Voting Down President Trump’s National Emergency Declaration for Southern Border Wall

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By Glynn Wilson – U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama is signaling that he will join other Democrats and a few Republicans to vote against President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to reroute Department of Defense money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. By a vote of 245-182, the House…

Every Day Is a New Low in Trump’s White House

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The president steps over bright ethical and moral lines wherever he encounters them. Everyone in America saw it when he fired my boss. But I saw it firsthand time and time again. Editor’s Note: Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, was named acting director of the bureau after President Donald Trump fired…

Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe Makes the Case that Trump is ‘The Threat’

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SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Another Sunday morning, another disjointed show on Face the Nation, with moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan misframing the issues in the never ending pretense of mainstream media to be “fair and balanced” and appeal to Democrat and Republican viewers and please corporate advertisers.…

We Should All Be Talking About the Green New Deal

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SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – What has the media world come to when a sensational tabloid stoops to engaging in extortion NOT to run a sex scandal story about a celebrity billionaire, and the rest of the press runs with it? Personally I could care less if Amazon’s Jeff Bezos sent dick pics…

Fake News Clickbait Strikes Again: Everybody Falls for It

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  So much for hope that the mainstream media and the Democrats are going to save us from Trump. They have been Zucked again. As I was working on my weekly column on Super Bowl Sunday, I knew something was not quite right with the world. It’s a…

Public Trust in Trump Government to Handle Problems Falls to New Low

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By Glynn Wilson – The level of trust Americans have of the federal government’s ability to handle problems has sunk to the lowest point in more than two decades, according to a new survey from the Gallup Poll. Only 35 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust and confidence…

U.S. Intelligence Threat Assessment Highlights Russian Election Tampering, Not Mexican Border Security

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By Glynn Wilson – The top cabinet leaders in charge of every United States intelligence agency, all appointed by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by the Senate, directly contradicted the president’s claims about the existence of a national security threat on the country’s Southern border Tuesday in testimony before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.…

Doomsday Clock Set at Two Minutes Before Midnight Apocalypse

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By Glynn Wilson – One day before U.S. President Donald J. Trump blinked and caved into demands by Democrats in Congress to reopen the federal government with no agreement on funding for his ill-conceived border wall, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists board met in Chicago and kept the hands on the Doomsday Clock set…