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.
In the fight over the partial federal government shutdown, congressional Democrats are working for the American people. Congressional Republicans are working for President Donald Trump.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a tragedy not just for him, his family, friends and supporters. It was an American tragedy—the triumph of bullets over ballots to settle our political differences. When this happens, we all lose, and our country is wounded.
On his hit TV show “The Apprentice,” host Donald Trump could exercise his absolute power to dismiss contestants with just two words: “You’re fired.” As president, Trump now acts as if he has the absolute power to fire federal officials. He doesn’t.
Terrified that the National Rifle Association and other groups will mobilize gun owners to defeat them for reelection, too many members of Congress — mainly Republicans — have long refused to adopt commonsense gun safety measures in effect around the world.
The moral of the ancient fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is clear: Don’t make a false report, or people won’t believe you — even when you tell the truth — and won’t take the correct action. Fast forward to today, when America is led by a president who cries wolf. President Donald Trump regularly makes false claims, denying the truth and substituting his made-up version of reality. He demands we believe whatever he says, denouncing anything contradicting him as “a hoax.”
President Trump — who regularly denounces anything he dislikes as “fake news,” even when it is accurate — is now demanding that Smithsonian Institution museums undergo an overhaul to present a fake version of history that erases America’s flaws.
President Donald Trump sounded like a 19th-century European colonialist justifying the subjugation of “savage natives” in “darkest Africa” when he recently ordered a federal takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C, and deployed 800 National Guard troops in the city.
In the 1978 film “Superman,” the hero performs many impossible feats, including traveling backward in time by flying around Earth at super speed. President Trump, who seems to fancy himself an all-powerful “Super President,” appears eager to go back in time as well, in an effort to return America to “the good old days” of his youth.
Five years after a Minneapolis police officer brutally murdered a handcuffed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes, prompting worldwide protests against wrongful police killings of Black people, the Trump administration has taken a giant step back from police reform.