New York Times, and the Washington Post. It was also a gift to the book business. There was, publishers found, an apparently insatiable hunger for anti-Trump screeds. One after another of these tomes hit the bestseller lists. While there were the inevitable differences among them in style and perspective, virtually all shared a single theme: Trump was not just a president whose politics the authors disliked; he was the worst person ever to hold the office, unique in his bigotry, corruption, ignorance, stupidity, egomania – indeed, in the estimation of many, comparable to Hitler. In general, the author paid very little if any attention to Trump’s actual political ideas, programs, or accomplishments; instead, their focus was on his personality and personal views, real or imagined – and, by extension, on the supposed attitudes of Trump’s supporters, whose very enthusiasm for him was treated as a character flaw and, indeed, an existential threat to American democracy, tole
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Actor and director Rob Reiner said Sunday on MSNBC that the Republican Party had become the “party of white nationalism.”
Reiner said, “To me, Donald Trump is the greatest gift to the Democratic Party you could ever have. There was a very famous quote by Rick Wilson. He wrote a book called ‘Everything Trump Touches Dies,’ and his whole life, whether it’s his businesses or his political career, he is a loser. Ultimately, he lost the White House. He was impeached twice. He lost the Senate. He lost the House. He lost seats in Georgia. To me, the Republican Party is being consumed and taken over by this false idol. You talk about a false idol. You see that golden statue moved into CPAC. I mean, they’re bowing down to a false idol.
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‘This Acquittal Sends Three Dangerous Messages to Future Presidents’
We just lived through history but what was the point? Fourteen experts explain what Trump’s fast, unusual second impeachment will mean for America.
Members of the National Guard patrol the area outside of the U.S. Capitol during the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. | AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana
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For the first time in American history, a U.S. president has been impeached twice.
And for the second time, Donald Trump was acquitted of high crimes and misdemeanors as Republicans rallied around him, some even ignoring the proceedings before them. So is impeachment a broken process or did this still matter?
Rick Wilson, one of the co-founders of the anti-Donald Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project, is facing scrutiny for possible federal wire fraud linked to a GoFundMe he used to raise .
water, throws it in his own face and goes, i m a sea captain, we re going to ride it out, boys. throw it in the bucket. he wants it. i always think of around him, how exhausting it must be to be in that orbit. choose to do it. every person, like every person who leaves goes, god, it was crazy in there. right. rick wilson, a republican strategist, who we have on the show, wrote a book called everything trump touches dies. yes. and i actually think i think it s a really interesting title. it sort of reminds me of rogue in x-men . sure. everything she touches sucks the life s blood out of you, whatever it was, and kills you. do you ever worry about that? worry about what? the thing about rogue, it s not just people that she kissed who die, it s people who go against her and there are many people who have already destroyed themselves because they ve so gone after trump that they, themselves, it blows back they ve gone down to his level.