Abbreviated pundit roundup: Nunberg creates more headaches for an embattled...
We begin today’ s roundup with Aaron Blake at The Washington Post:There have been few more surreal moments in the Russia investigation — indeed, in the entire Trump era — than the one we just...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Meeting North Korea's dictator, porn star payout,...
Just another normal week in a normal White House, right? We begin today’ s roundup with Paul Waldman at The Week and his analysis of Donald Trump’ s deflection in the Stormy Daniels scandal:This...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Special election preview, Trump's cave to the...
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its take on the need for Democrats to run in every race, even in deep red areas:Regardless of who wins the special House election in Pennsylvania on...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Mueller subpoenas the Trump organization
We begin today’s roundup with analysis from Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman regarding the Russia investigation:There are few other publicly known examples of Mr. Mueller using subpoenas. In...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Cambridge Analytica scandal, Trump's tantrums and...
We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times and her analysis of Donald Trump’s “high-tech dirty tricksters”:Cambridge Analytica, the shadowy data firm that helped elect Donald...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump chooses Bolton, adding to White House chaos
We begin today’s roundup with this excellent analysis by Jonathan Stevenson, senior fellow for U.S. defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, of what Army Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump and his brand are a huge liability for the GOP
We begin today’s roundup with Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns at The New York Times and their analysis of the Republican Party’s Donald Trump troubles:Polls and every recent election show that Mr....
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's lawyers make a mess of things
We begin today’s roundup with Margaret Hartmann’s analysis of the clown show that is Michael Cohen and his lawyer:From his assertion that marital rape is legal to his insistence that a $130,000...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Scott Pruitt's brazen corruption
We begin today’s roundup with The Washington Post and its take on EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt’s corruption:ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ethics were already in question...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The revelations about corrupt Scott Pruitt keep...
We begin today’s roundup with Scott Bixby at The Daily Beast and his piece on EPA administrator’s Scott Pruitt’s corruption:Not since Louise Linton—the Real Housewife of the United States Treasury who...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The raid on Trump's attorney
We begin today’s roundup with Rick Wilson’s take on the Michael Cohen raid:Cohen, far from being the super lawyer to a billionaire real estate tycoon, really only has one important job: covering up...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Comey slams Trump as an unethical and dangerous liar
We begin today's roundup Michiko Kakutani’s NYT book review of James Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty”:Decades before he led the F.B.I.’s investigation into whether members of Trump’s campaign colluded with...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Michael Cohen names Sean Hannity as a client
We begin today’s roundup with analysis by Laura Coates at CNN of Michael Cohen’s disclosure that FOX host Sean Hannity was a client:Fox host Sean Hannity just helped the government's case against...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Comey memos, protecting Mueller and more
We begin today’s roundup with Stephen Collinson at CNN and his analysis of the Comey memos:If House Republicans thought they were helping President Donald Trump by forcing the release of James Comey's...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's history of lying, Conway's defensiveness...
We begin today’s roundup with Ben Schreckinger at Politico who outlines how Donald Trump’s Russia defense is falling apart:[F]light records obtained by POLITICO, as well as congressional testimony from...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's embattled VA nominee, Cohen to take the...
We begin today’s roundup with John Cassidy’s analysis of Donald Trump’s embattled Veterans Affairs nominee Ronny Jackson:[W]hatever comes of the allegations against Jackson, there is virtually nothing...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Corrupt Pruitt, White House chaos and more
We begin today’s roundup with Elaina Plott’s analysis at The Atlantic of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s defense of his unethical behavior:In the hierarchy of Donald Trump-era scandals, from the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Mueller's questions, the Republican tax scam and...
We begin today’s roundup with Margaret Hartmann at New York magazine and the topic of the leaked Mueller investigation questions:The questions mostly cover topics Mueller is already known to be...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Giuliani makes things even worse for Trump
A noun, a verb, and a damning admission. Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani couldn’t help worsening the situation for his already legally imperiled client by appearing on TV this week to dig the hole...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: West Virginia primary day, Trump's legal strategy...
We begin today’s roundup with Michael Tomasky and his piece at The Daily Beast on the West Virginia GOP Senate primary. Tomasky grew up in West Virginia and offers his perspective:West Virginia has...
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