Opinion · 114th Congress
Mitch McConnell Could Be the Superhero to Stop Trump
Over the next two years, at least, the Kentucky Republican will be the most important force for “truth, justice and the American Way” in Washington.
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Over the next two years, at least, the Kentucky Republican will be the most important force for “truth, justice and the American Way” in Washington.
But the abiding truth was that few of Tower’s former Democratic Senate colleagues liked him or were willing to break party lines to defend him.
In the eyes of his supporters, Trump had all the right enemies.
. … Doesn’t he tell his supporters to go vote for Trump at some point?”— Donald Trump, Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 3.
The undeniable truth is that Trump has already lost an election that a rational Republican might well have won.
The truth is we won’t know until the end of the week, when post-debate polls come in, what the full extent of the damage is (if there’s much damage at all).
Hillary Clinton: “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.” Donald Trump: “Because you’d be in jail.”
The unavoidable truth is that the idea of Gary Johnson remains far more appealing that the reality. This is — sadly enough for the nation — the most unequivocal “Which side are you on, boys?”
As reporters, we’re told to fact check what candidates say but to ignore the rhetoric in fundraising emails and to accept a standard that often falls well short of the complete truth.
You’ve also got Trump out there absolutely hammering free trade and these big trade deals. The president is handing Donald Trump a club to hammer her with.” End of an Era?
In fact, as The Washington Post reported, “Just before noon, it was 82 degrees and humid at ground zero, although it was probably a bit cooler when Clinton had left two hours earlier.”
[Manafort Resigns From Trump Campaign] For a candidate campaigning as a truth teller unbound by political correctness, Trump has consistently devalued the worth of the spoken word.
Last week’s Washington Post/ABC News survey gave Clinton an 8 percentage point lead over Trump.
And then there was the critique that probably most rankled Trump, with his claims to dubious billions: “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy.”
special House committee created by the Republicans ended its two-year investigation by saying it found no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton surrounding the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post
Former Trump adviser Barry Bennett, also speaking on CNN, called the speech — and the Trump campaign’s defense of it — “horrific staff work.”
Telltale omission: Giuliani said nothing about Trump loving people from front to back.
[ Trump Picks Mike Pence ] In the hours after Roll Call broke the news on Thursday that Trump had chosen Indiana Gov.
But, in truth, the end came earlier when the sighs had it.
This comes, not by chance, at the same time that white resentment of blacks and other minorities has reached a boiling point, stoked in part by the racist and populist politics of the Trump presidential