Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium and the European Parliament's Brexit representative, used the now-widely seen photo released by Angela Merkel's office to mock Trump on Twitter. https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1005763366118477825 In the first one, he implores Trump, "Just tell us what Vladimir...
We are building up to a major confrontation in this country and maybe the First Amendment is going to be the hill that we die on. So be it. Let's put the battle there and let's get it there...
Donald Trump does not have a particularly expansive memory. While I know President Joe Biden is currently being scrutinized for having a few senior moments — which, considering the fact that he's 81 years old, shouldn't be surprising. But...
It is almost impossible to discern what exactly took place in Singapore while we all slept. A wholly non-binding agreement - a statement - got signed. But, the statement included no provisions for human rights abuses, no provisions for...
Zero collusion will soon be followed up by zero conspiracy, in Trump's lexicon of mantras. https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1020104140557496320 Bloomberg: Vladimir Putin told Russian diplomats that he made a proposal to Donald Trump at their summit this week to hold a referendum to help resolve...
An interesting day has dawned in America when the Kremlin knows more about the travels of top administration officials than we do. The White House verified John Bolton’s upcoming trip to Russia only after the Kremlin broke the news. Radio...
What is Donald Trump going to do? Even members of his own party think that his new BFF Mohammad Bin Salman is a murderer, saying things like, “There’s no smoking gun. There’s a smoking saw,” after their meeting Tuesday...
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (left, left above) caused quite an international kerfuffle last week when iPhone video of her dancing with a group of friends at a supposedly private party was leaked to the press… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21A3tS6_vs OMG! The resulting hyperventilation...
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is a man in deep political trouble. For years, the power player in Israeli politics, Netanyahu barely scraped out an electoral victory in the last Israeli elections, then, in that Israeli parliamentary way that we with a...
Rachel Maddow reported last night that after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin finished  briefing a bipartisan group of House members yesterday about the admin’s decision to drop sanctions against Manafort’s BFF Oleg Deripaska, he complained to reporters about having having to take a...

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