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Supporting Trump: the GOP's Equivalent of the Iraq War Vote
In the Time Capsule thread (now up to #66), I’ve been chronicling some of the ongoing words, deeds, and gestures that the Republican party has decided to swallow from its nominee. This parallel “Trump...
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'A Fundamental Decency': The Difference Between Rob Ford and Donald Trump
A sign two years ago for then-mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, whose style many have likened to Donald Trump’s. Ford died of cancer early this year; a reader explains an important contrast with Trump. (Mark...
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Trump Time Capsule #67: 'Unfit'
The incumbent President of the United States said today that one of the two possibilities to succeed him is “unfit to serve as president” and is “woefully unprepared” to do the job. You can see Barack...
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Trump Time Capsule #68: We Wuz Robbed
Noting it for the long-term record: August 1, 2016 — four days after the end of the Democratic convention, three days into the Captain Khan disaster (for Trump), on the same day as the post-convention...
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Trump Time Capsule #69: 'Cows!'
Just another day on the Trump campaign. (Detail from Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, The Prado, Madrid / Public Domain)Too much, too fast. To jot some of this it down, for the long-term...
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Cows! Squirrels! Airplanes! The Many Thoughts of Donald Trump
Last night I mentioned the resemblance between Donald Trump’s frequently distractable discourse—I don’t like mosquitos! Back to Mike Pence!—and Danny DeVito’s famous “Cows!” scene in Throw Momma From...
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Donald Trump, Aerospace Engineer
In an item earlier today I quoted a Boeing engineer who was dumbfounded / amused by Donald Trump’s off-hand comment that he “never liked that plane, structurally” about the mighty Boeing 777.Several...
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Update from Philip Rucker on Trump as Aerospace Guy
Previous items today concerned Donald Trump’s reaction to an airplane crash that was noted briefly on Fox News, while he was in the middle of a major newspaper interview. Trump said he’d “never liked...
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What's (Less) the Matter With Kansas
This week’s election news out of Kansas was the defeat in the GOP primaries of some of the hardest-line Tea Party Republicans, at both the Congressional and local- andstate-legislative level. The most...
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Trump Time Capsule #70: 'An Unwitting Agent of the Russian Federation'
I first met Michael Morell more than 25 years ago, when he was a young economic analyst for the CIA and I had returned from several years in Japan. It was at an unclassified meeting about economic...
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Trump Time Capsule #71: Someone's Lying About the GOP Platform on Ukraine
Let’s take this in sequence, because each step matters.1. Two weeks ago at the GOP convention in Cleveland, the Republican platform was altered to remove any reference to arming Ukraine in its...
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Challenging the Premise of the 'Trump Time Capsule'
In the 70-plus installments collected here, I’ve been recording (some of) the ways Donald Trump differs from people who have previously come so close to the presidency.Here are two readers who disagree...
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Trump Time Capsule #72: 'Most Reckless President in American History'
Noted as part of the ongoing record, the extraordinary statement signed yesterday by 50 veterans of national-security policy in Republican administrations, arguing that Donald Trump would be “a...
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Trump Time Capsule #73: 'The Second Amendment People'
Noted for the record: Today, August 9, 2016, was the day the Republican standard-bearer made a joke in public about his Democratic rival possibly being shot to death:To the best of my knowledge, this...
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Trump Time Capsule #74: 'Founder of ISIS'
Some say that the man on the left is the founder of ISIS. Donald Trump says it’s the man on the right. Who can really know? (DOD photo of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, via Wikimedia; Reuters photo of the other...
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Trump Time Capsule #75: Trials by Military Tribunals
In an interview with the Miami Herald today, a man who could become the next president said that if it were up to him, U.S. citizens suspected of terrorist involvement could be sent to Guantanamo and...
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Maybe Ryan and McConnell Are the Real Patriots?
In the Trump Time Capsule series, I have noted once or twice, or a million times, that “responsible” Republicans like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are embarrassing themselves and their party by...
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Trump Time Capsule #76: Brains Trust
Betsy McCaughey (Cmte to Reduce Infant Deaths)Donald Trump embraces his status as an outsider to the world of politics and policy. He says that once in office, he would attract “all the best people.”...
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Trump Time Capsule #77: 'Freedom for the Thought We Hate'
This morning, from Donald Trump:Donald Trump on Twitter (as part of a longer tirade today against media coverage of the election)Actually, that’s a pretty good working definition of what freedom of the...
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Trump Time Capsule #78: 'Undisclosed Cash Payments'
This is a breaking-news placeholder, for “what we knew, when” purposes:One month ago, the Republican platform was altered to remove any reference to supporting Ukraine in its struggles against Russia...
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