President Trump’s view of international relations can be summarized in three words: “Might makes right.” Trump clearly agrees with his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, who recently told CNN: “We live in a world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.”
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. changed America for the better by helping our nation make progress toward achieving his dream of ending racism and ensuring equality for all. But as we honor King with a national holiday, President Trump is doing all he can to reverse the great civil rights leader’s historic accomplishments.
When the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that was designed to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro ended in spectacular failure in 1961, President John F. Kennedy didn’t blame anyone but himself.
The National Guard soldier who was killed, and her fellow guardsman who was grievously wounded in a shooting attack near the White House, paid a tragic price for President Trump’s wrongful and unnecessary deployment of Guard members to cities run by Democrats.
Growing numbers of Americans are realizing President Trump is a raging bull in a china shop, recklessly destroying the effectiveness of federal agencies, making America less affordable, increasing unemployment, endangering our health and corrupting our justice system.
If President Trump really wanted to release the Epstein files, he could have done so at any time since taking office, without waiting for Congress to pass legislation, as both the House and Senate did Nov. 18 with only a single House member dissenting.
President Trump has often made contradictory statements about whether he will try to serve an unconstitutional third term. We shouldn’t dismiss his threats as trolling or a joke. An attempt by Trump to stay in power illegally is a real possibility. It would pose a grave threat to the survival of our constitutional democracy.
President Trump has turned his office into a giant ATM, providing him and his family with billions of dollars. Now The New York Times reports he “is demanding” taxpayers pay him about $230 million to settle his claims that the Justice Department improperly investigated him.
President Trump is reportedly considering giving preferential treatment to white Christians from South Africa and Europe seeking to enter the U.S. as refugees. If he moves forward with policy change, it would be a blatantly racist attack on diversity.
President Trump’s weaponization of the Justice Department to punish people who investigated, prosecuted or simply angered him continued last Thursday with the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, my law school classmate, for mortgage fraud and false statements.