Steve Benen
Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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The display doesn’t show a commanding figure; it shows a flailing politician pretending to convey strength.
What the president doesn’t seem willing to grapple with is the degree to which this fiasco was his fault, not the justices’.
Among the questions surrounding the renaming of Palm Beach’s airport: Will the Trump Organization try to profit?
We have no idea when, where or by whom the $10 billion for the president’s pseudo-governmental entity would be spent.
Trumpism is defined in large part by a lowering of standards. The bureau is apparently just keeping up.
The secretary was already facing calls for her resignation. Recent allegations likely make her political standing even shakier.
In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low. It’s worth asking why.
If the incumbent president is looking for someone who’s actually mishandled classified information, he ought to look in a mirror.
