Tag: Pardons

• Trump’s predictable denouement

  What’s been going on this week, much like what happened last Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, was not too hard to predict. Trump is melting, much like the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. What’s strange is that Trump isn’t the first president to suffer this, it’s just that his case…

  Mark

  January 14, 2021

  Politics 2021

  Capitol attack, Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, January 6, Malignant narcissism, Pardons, Richard Nixon

• Trump to flee the USA? I’d bet on it

  At one of Trump’s recent rallies he said this: Running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me. Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life, what am I going to do? I’m going to say ‘I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics.’ I’m…

  Mark

  October 22, 2020

  Politics 2020

  Bill Barr, Christopher Wray, Crime, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Humor, Humor theory, Impeachment, Pardons

• Reading the tealeaves on the Trump end game

  If it’s true that thirty Senate Republicans would convict Trump in an impeachment trial (if a secret vote were allowed), then perhaps what’s needed is a plausible reason they could openly vote to convict Trump. The obvious reasons don’t appear to be enough. Senate Republicans don’t seem to be bothered by his grifting, and likely…

  Mark

  October 17, 2019

  Life 2019

  Donald Trump, Impeachment, Pardons, Republican