Bob Woodward’s book will give Trump a new chance to be outraged
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A war is breaking out in the GOP between Trump and the more mainstream elements of the party.
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest. He lives in Washington DC
Tuesday
Monday
Thanks to Mueller and Manafort, Trump faces a battle on all fronts
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The former campaign manager heads to trial tomorrow.
Wednesday
Is Trump going supernova?
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Tariffs and turncoat lawyers could soon dwarf the President’s other problems.
Monday
Donald Trump is going full neocon
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The president who campaigned on extricating Washington from wars in the Middle East seems intent on starting a fresh one.
Friday
Trump flings Putin in his critics’ faces
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The Russian president may yet come to Washington, DC, which will only make them madder.
Wednesday
Trump’s fawning performance in Helsinki has only lent credence to the worst theories about him
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The legacy of his presidency may be to fortify suspicions of Moscow and his chum Putin.
Monday
After flirting with Putin, is Trump putting ‘America first’?
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The Helsinki summit, which was intended to smooth relations with Moscow, is having the reverse effect.
Friday
What’s the purpose of Trump’s forthcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin?
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A diligent press corps is trying to force him to say what he will do or say when he meets his Russian chum. But Trump himself may not really know.
Tuesday
Brett Kavanaugh is a Republican’s dream Supreme Court Justice
After reciting the usual homilies about the need to interpret the American Constitution as it was written, President Trump appeared visibly bored once his nominee for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, took the podium. Who could blame him? There was little Trump could do to inject much excitement into the proceedings and it’s never as
Tuesday
Trump is behaving like a caudillo in trying to intimidate Harley-Davidson
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Tariffs are a huge political gamble, one that the GOP is eyeing with mounting apprehension.
Monday
Donald Trump’s inability to care what his critics think is paying off
Donald Trump is becoming a restaurant critic. This morning he weighed in on the Red Hen restaurant, which is located in Virginia and denied service over the weekend to his press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. According to Trump: The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs
Wednesday
Trump is still on the ‘offenseive’ over immigration
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As the President consolidates his hold on the GOP and defies his detractors, he is relying on women as a kind of protective force field.
Tuesday
How splitting up families gave Trump the biggest crisis of his presidency
For the Democrats, the mounting furore over forcibly separating children from their parents at the border offers a golden opportunity before the midterm elections to tar Donald Trump as a heartless autocrat, a modern-day Baron Bomburst ruling over Vulgaria with his very own Child Catcher. Do a Caratacus Potts and Truly Scrumptious lurk in the
Thursday
James Comey is a man obsessed with his own myth
Oh, dear. The myth that James Comey has sedulously cultivated of himself—the ascetic warrior for truth, the vigilant sentinel of liberty—is coming in for a bit of a pounding today. In his report to Congress on Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded, “While we did not
Tuesday
Donald Trump's dictator complex
The reviews are coming in for Donald Trump’s performance in Singapore and they aren’t pretty. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times says Trump was ‘hoodwinked’. Ari Fleischer, the former press spokesman for George W. Bush, says ‘This feels like the Agreed Framework of the 90s all over again. NK gave its word to abandon
Wednesday
Welcome to the jungle: Centrist Democrats charge through California primaries
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Moderates held off challenges from the far-left and right through their state’s unorthodox electoral system.
Monday
Should Germany expel American ambassador Richard Grenell?
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The diplomat’s comments to Breitbart have caused German politicians to question his suitability.
Tuesday
Donald Trump and the art of the conspiracy theory
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From the White House, the president offers what amount to daily lessons in the objurgatory arts.
Thursday
Donald Trump goes on the warpath with North Korea
So much for the “World Peace” that Donald Trump bragged he would create at the June 12th Singapore summit. In a wildly inappropriate letter that veered between a bullying and lachrymose tone, Trump bowed to the inevitable in canceling the summit with Kim Jong-un. He had to do it before Kim did. Already Kim had the upper
The sorry state of Trump’s affairs
Washington, DC It was a petulant Donald Trump who appeared at a White House press briefing on Tuesday with the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in. When a reporter asked if Trump had confidence in the deputy attorney-general, Rod Rosenstein, given the latest complicated twists in the investigation into collusion with Russia, Trump snapped that Moon