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The Grift That May Cost Trump the Election

From the Left / Joe Conason /

If Kamala Harris and Tim Walz win the White House on Nov. 5, the Democrats may owe their triumph to the notorious character flaw that plagues the Republican Party of Donald Trump: an irresistible urge to grift.

In an election likely to be determined by a very narrow proportion of votes in a few states, the difference between winning and ...Read more

Trump, Musk and the Hideous Campaign of Hate

From the Left / Joe Conason /

Long before Donald Trump declared he would run for president, his first political adviser articulated the central idea that has come to define both candidate and campaign.

"Hate is a stronger motivator than love," said Roger Stone in 2008 -- and that corrosive outlook is obviously what still drives the Watergate-vintage dirty trickster and ...Read more

MAGA's Nazi Infestation Just Got Worse

From the Left / Joe Conason /

How unsurprising is it that former President Donald Trump appeared recently at an event supposedly devoted to opposing antisemitism -- and proceeded to deliver a speech dripping with antisemitic innuendo and contempt for American Jews?

Like so much of what Trump says and does, his remarks at the "Combating Antisemitism" affair in Washington, ...Read more

Exploiting Fear Is What They Do

From the Left / Joe Conason /

Of all the falsehoods, evasions and plainly loony remarks by former President Donald Trump during his ill-fated debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, perhaps it was to be expected that his ridiculous lie about the endangered pets of Springfield, Ohio, would go super viral.

While the Republican candidate declared himself the winner "by a ...Read more

'Russia, Russia, Russia' Is Not a Hoax

From the Left / Joe Conason /

Years before former President Donald Trump seized upon the Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen, he insistently promoted another supersized falsehood -- namely that charges of Russian interference in the 2016 election were "a hoax." His minions in the media, from Fox News down to the lowliest web trolls, have incessantly...Read more

Trump's Arlington Cemetery Visit: Unsavory and Unsurprising

From the Left / Joe Conason /

Try for just a moment to imagine the explosion of anger on the right if a Democratic presidential candidate -- or any Democratic candidate -- barged into Arlington National Cemetery for a campaign photo op. Imagine the fury on Fox News if such a Democrat had then posted video of herself, on TikTok, with an idiotic grin and thumbs-up pose over ...Read more

Military Service, Partisan Smears and the Parody of Patriotism

From the Left / Joe Conason /

The Trump campaign's attack on the military record of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz -- who served honorably as a volunteer in the National Guard for 24 years -- invites us to remember the military service of former President Donald J. Trump.

Except there isn't anything to remember concerning Trump's military service since he never served. Neither ...Read more

 

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