Up against (another) damning article, this one in the Atlantic, revealing his character, Donald Trump is again demanding we accept his denials as true.
Trump lies about everything, including his commitment to military families. As I reported earlier this week, while Trump claims he has received “many, many” bodies of fallen soldiers at Dover AFB, the truth is he has been there exactly four times.
Trump showed his disdain for things like sacrifice back in 2015 when he first insulted John McCain for getting shot down over Vietnam. Trump is exactly who he said he was.
The president of the United States, from the moment he regained the office, has been step-by-step following the autocrat’s playbook. He has gone after universities for not obeying his decrees.
He has extorted law firms for having on staff, or just once-upon-a-time having had on staff, people who crossed him. He has targeted for prosecution former aides who challenged him. He has arrested a local judge for not helping him round up migrants for deportation.
Some years ago I needed a spare paddle for my self-steering gear. I was in Spain, but was on my way to Gibraltar so had it shipped to the marina I was going to tie up in.
NEW -- Kash Patel has hawked a sketchy supplement to undo the effects of the COVID vaccine, promoted the QAnon cult, spread Trump's lies about a stolen election, and already has a 60-name enemies list of Trump critics.
Soon he could the FBI director.
Should he win confirmation, it would put an end to the concept of the FBI as a non-political law enforcement agency, and unwind the reforms put in place after the abuses by J. Edgar Hoover.
Republicans and Democrats call him Trump's most dangerous pick.
Reading back through this before filing, I was taken aback that someone could do and say the things Patel has over the past years and STILL likely be the next FBI director.
NEW -- Donald Trump incurred no legal consequences for his Jan. 6, 2021, attempted coup, and now members of his mob who assaulted police officers in his name that day will no longer be held accountable, either.
Trump has lied, repeatedly, about what the people who were sent to prison for this Jan. 6 actions did.
No, grandma taking selfies was not sent to a super max.
Here are some examples of what his "hostages" and "political prisoners" did:
They included Trump supporters like Andrew Taake, who received 74 months at a federal prison in Beaumont, Texas, for pepper-spraying police officers and hitting one with a metal whip.