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Trump Time Capsule #119: 'That Makes Me Smart' vs. 'They Don't Pay'
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in a famous dissent. Donald Trump begs to differ. (Wikimedia Commons)After Donald Trump became the...
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'Only the Little People Pay Taxes'
Following installment #119 in the Trump Time Capsule series, which contrasted Donald Trump’s “they’re freeloaders!” complaint about NATO allies with his own “that makes me smart!” comment about not...
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Trump Time Capsule #120: 'I Thought Lester Did a Great Job'
Just after Monday night’s debate, Donald Trump said that moderator Lester Holt had done “a great job. Honestly, I thought Lester did a great job.” You don’t have to take it from me. You can watch the...
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Trump Time Capsule #121: USA Today
The USA Today logo.USA Today came into existence early in Ronald Reagan’s first term. Since then it has covered eight presidential races: Reagan-Mondale, Bush-Dukakis, Bush-Clinton, Clinton-Dole,...
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Trump Time Capsule #122: Cuba, Foundation
Just for the record:1) Cuba. Kurt Eichenwald today documented in Newsweek that Trump companies did business in Cuba during Fidel Castro’s regime, which according to Eichenwald’s documents was an...
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Trump Time Capsule #123: Tweets at 3 a.m.
Donald Trump, in the middle of last nightLate in her losing primary campaign against Barack Obama eight years ago, Hillary Clinton put out her “3 a.m. phone call” ad. The idea was that real presidents...
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Trump Time Capsule #124: Taxes
I'm at a high school reunion in California, and in theory away from the news, but this can't go without brief mention for the record: the NYT story saying that Donald Trump’s near-$1 billion declared...
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A Simple Way to Think About the Election
I think this is simple, rather than simplistic:The people who are for Donald Trump, are for him. And almost nothing he can say or do, or that can be said or revealed about him, will undercut that...
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Trump Time Capsule #125: Willie Horton
Sean Spicer, the head strategist and communications director for the Republican National Committee, today on Twitter.In the language of politics, to call a strategy a “Willie Horton-Style Attack” is to...
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Trump Time Capsule #125A: 'I Never Sent That Tweet You Just Saw'
Sean Spicer on TwitterOur story so far:1) This morning, as noted in installment #125, a tweet came out from @SeanSpicer, “strategist” for the Republican National Committee, celebrating the fact that...
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You Think the Campaign Is Bad? Just Wait Until It's Over
Imaginative recreation of Aaron Burr preparing for his duel with Alexander Hamilton. After his service as vice president, Burr got into legal trouble, though not for the crime-in-history’s-eyes of...
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Trump Time Capsule #126: My Brush With History, and With Supermodel Vendela
Today in Vanity Fair, its editor Graydon Carter, who in his Spy days with Kurt Andersen originated the idea of Donald Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian,” has a stinging essay about Trump as the...
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Trump Time Capsule #127: A ‘Chinese’ View of the Election
Unfortunately, Charlie Chan was not available for an interview with Fox. (Wikimedia)Whatever happens to him at the polls 34 days from now, Donald Trump has already deeply changed public discourse in...
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Trump Time Capsule #128: 'Against Donald Trump'
In previous installments I’ve mentioned editorial statements for Hillary Clinton, and against Donald Trump, from unexpected sources. For instance, the Cincinnati Enquirer, which had endorsed only...
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Trump Time Capsule #129: 'Nobody Says It the Other Way'
Before anyone writes in to point it out: of course a public figure mis-pronouncing a certain place’s name, when visiting that place, doesn’t “matter” in any real sense. It usually just reflects a lack...
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Trump Time Capsule #130: 'China Would Go Bust So Fast'
As you might have heard, Donald Trump visited Nevada yesterday. When not instructing the locals on how to say the state’s name, he gave a quick interview to Jim Snyder of News3 in Las Vegas, which...
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Trump Time Capsule #131: Three Markers
On the state of the race, with two days until the next Clinton-Trump debate and 31 days until the election:1) Former Republican Senators and Representatives Oppose Trump. Over the weeks we’ve noted the...
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Trump Time Capsule #132->∞: 'You Can Do Anything. Anything You Want.'
Good God.Via David Fahrenthold (of course) at The WashingtonPost:That is all.Except of course for Paul Ryan and his “respectable” comrades saying: He’s fine! Let’s put him in command! And now, via...
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Trump Time Capsule #133: Modern Manchurian Candidate
Here are some things that happened yesterday that in any other election year would have been major developments in themselves. But yesterday, October 7, the Day of the Tape, most didn’t even make news...
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Trump Time Capsule #134: 'Trump Is a Monster! Vote for Trump!'
Donald Trump, from his real (Android) personal Twitter account, in his only dispatch since the release of his “You can do anything you want” tape.This is a day unlike any other I recall in many decades...
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