Abbreviated pundit roundup: Putin's puppet
We begin today’s roundup with Aaron Blake’s analysis of the weakness of Donald Trump:For the third time this week, President Trump has been forced to walk back something he said about Russia. First it...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump threatens his critics
We begin today’s roundup with Colbert King’s take on Donald Trump retaliating against his critics by threatening to revoke their security clearances:Yes, this plan to revoke security clearances comes...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Cohen claims Trump knew and approved of infamous...
CNN reports that Michael Cohen told Donald Trump in advance about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russian agents offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. David Graham at The Atlantic dives into the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's defense gets even more absurd
We begin today’s roundup with Max Boot’s analysis of the Trump Team’s defense in the Mueller investigation:What has been lacking so far is the “smoking gun.” Cohen may just supply it, if his purported...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump guts auto emission standards
We begin today’s roundup with The Los Angeles Times and its editorial on the Trump administration’s decision to weaken fuel economy standards:If successful, the Trump administration would be stunting...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Special election in Ohio, Manafort trial and more
We begin today’s roundup with Amber Philips at The Fix and her take on today’s special election in Ohio:President Trump won this district in the northern Columbus suburbs by 11 points in 2016, and...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Nunes admits to putting party over country
We begin today’s roundup with reaction to a leaked recording of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes admitting his priority is covering up and protecting the president. First up, Julian Zelizer at CNN:More than...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Omarosa, Obamacare and more
We begin with Michelle Goldberg’s analysis of Omarosa’s time at the White House:Omarosa Manigault Newman, the reality show villain who campaigned for Donald Trump and followed him into the White House,...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump lashes out against free speech
We begin today’s roundup with the powerful op-ed by retied Navy admiral William H. McRaven, who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, which is an open letter to Donald Trump:I would consider it...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Trump standard for revoking security clearances
We begin today’s roundup with USA Today’s editorial on Donald Trump’s threats to revoke security clearances of those he dislikes:While Brennan will survive just fine without a security clearance,...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A culture of corruption
We begin today’s roundup with Joan Walsh at The Nation and her take on how Trump runs his business and the White House like a mob boss: [T]his is the president we’re talking about here. His fluency in...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Family separation, racism in the GOP, culture of...
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its critical reminder that there are still families separated as a result of Trump’s draconian border policies:While family separations have slipped...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Kavanaugh hearing, Trump's erratic behavior and more
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson and his analysis of Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior:President Trump’s incoherence grows to keep pace with his desperation. These days, he...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A constitutional crisis
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from The New York Times on Donald Trump’s contempt for the Constitution:Twenty months into the job, Mr. Trump has yet to grasp that the highest law of this...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Remembering September 11th, Trump's devastating...
We begin today’s roundup with a powerful op-ed by Army veteran Joe Quinn, who writes in The New York Times about losing his brother on September 11th, his fight for justice and the war in...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's crazy conspiracy about Puerto Rico death...
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on Donald Trump’s denial of thousands of deaths in Puerto Rico:[T]here is little question that things could have been handled much...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Kavanaugh nomination in trouble
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on the latest in the Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault allegation scandal and Kavanaugh’s denial:As in the case of so many...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Opposition to Kavanaugh grows
SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s support is at a historic low. Maria Caspani writes up the Reuters/Ipsos poll:A growing number of Americans said they opposed President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: GOP rallies behind Kavanaugh and continues to...
We begin today’s roundup with Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng, Sam Stein, and Maxwell Tani at The Daily Beast on the Republican strategy to ram through the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh without an...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Belligerent Kavanaugh evades questions, Ford's...
If it’s true that SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh didn’t sexually assault Christine Blasey Ford, why is he so opposed to an FBI investigation of an event he supposedly had no knowledge of and no...
View Article