Top Stories published by Voluble by Robin Alperstein in May of 2017

Le GOP: C’est Trump

Trump’s tweets the morning of May 8th trying to discredit Sally Yates are unspeakably disgraceful; in their own way, they and his smear campaign are worse than his unfounded lies about President Obama, because she is not a former President with all the power and good will and money that that…


Le GOP: C’est Trump — A Coda

As a coda to yesterday’s blog post (written before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing), I offer the following observations based on the testimony of Sally Yates and James Clapper, the reporting that Obama warned Trump not to hire Flynn, prior news reports, and the actions…


Unbearable

I woke up multiple times in the middle of the night thinking about Trump’s actions, McMaster’s selling the United States down the river, and the Republican senators and house members’ and Fox news’ dismissal of the gravity of Trump’s actions as a nothingburger simply because he is the president. The…

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