As a former Moscow correspondent, I’ve seen how dictators operate – up close. I’ve watched the Kremlin thunder its satellites into submission and witnessed KGB agents seize protesters in an instant. Now, seeing Donald Trump criminally prosecute his political enemies, threaten free speech and TV broadcast licenses, move the military into U.S cities, and send […]
Washington – On January 21, 2017, Donald John Trump raised his right hand and, with just the hint of a smile of self-vindication, took an oath “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.” “We the People,” the Constitution begins, and its foundation stone is the right of […]
In his short White House tenure, Donald J. Trump has set some kind of record for histrionic temper tantrums against the media — whether CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times or, most recently, MSNBC for revealing his 2005 tax return. He’s actually pursuing a well-worn path of American presidents blaming the press for […]
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