Let us confess that Robert S. Mueller III’s performance was not what we wanted. We had hoped that he would be vital and eloquent, and, more importantly, that he would bring down Trump with some startling revelation of wrong-doing. In fact, he was not particularly stirring in his testimony (The Washington Post called him “Faltering.”)…

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On November 29, 2018, Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen “pleaded guilty to lying to Congress when he insisted that Trump was not pursuing plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow after January 2016, casting Trump’s repeated claims that he had no business interests in Russia in a new light” (Washington Post, 2018). As…

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 In the 24 hours since the end of the mid-term election, we’ve all had plenty of time to catch our breath and reflect on a few things.  I’m just kidding, there’s been a mass shooting in California, Trump has fired Jeff Sessions with a view to escaping the closing jaws of the Mueller probe, and…

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So I read, in the papers and on the web, that even the Koch Brothers (or, the ones who are well enough to participate) have come to the end of their patience with the Trumpster. They have begun to criticize him. They have directed their networks to work against him. They have even said that…

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If you’re anything like us, you’ve wondered how anyone…anyone at all!…could continue to support Trump given all the evidence of just what a scam artist he really is. Well, unfortunately, here’s a bit of explanation. Remember “Reverend” Jim Bakker? The televangelist who was Tammy Faye’s other half? And who was accused of raping his secretary…

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As always, the web is looking wild and woolly in an age of Trump. Check out some of the following: Glance at this piece by Kate Briquelet over on the Daily Beast about Trump’s reported $30K payment to a doorman at Trump Tower to kill a story about his infidelities and possible love child. Makes…

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