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On Monday, Darline Graham Nordone announced she would run to replace her recently deceased brother Lindsey Graham as a US Senator representing South Carolina. Should we be troubled that blood relation to a prominent legislator seems to be her primary qualification for the job?
Top officials will always side with ICE agents over the people they killed, even when the incident merits patience and neutral investigation. The government has proven that it will immediately and blatantly lie and mischaracterize, even when there is clear evidence to the contrary.
Donald Trump is floating a 20% fee for commercial passage through the Strait of Hormuz, reminiscent of a small-time mafia protection racket.
So dead set are the Republicans on keeping Democrats out of power and enabling President Donald Trump that they will hide a potentially dying old man away and deprive four and half million people of proper Senate representation.
Those of us not inexplicably under Trump's spell have to watch a sleezy, transparent conman degrade the office of the presidency and make decisions based not on what helps the country and its people but on what fattens his and his immoral family's wallets.
If Democrats continue to look good in polling for November's elections, expect Trump to continue to undermine the credibility of our system. And do not be shocked if he directs the federal government to take dubious actions in states in which results are going against his Republican sycophants.
The inescapable conclusion is that Trump is once again sidelining (or in this case, actively hindering) addressing the rising cost of living, which was likely the main reason he was elected, in favor of focusing on his own pet interests and priorities.
President Donald Trump decided to make renovating the pool one of his top priorities, but we are all familiar by now with the Trump duet of incompetence and corruption.
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Donald Trump broke his promises about the outcome of the war in Iran. He spent huge amounts of taxpayer dollars to essentially strengthen, enrich, and legitimize a ruling regime he claimed was so evil and dangerous that it had to be eradicated.
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At the White House UFC event, Josh Hokit regurgitated the bizarre and baseless rumor of former first lady Michelle Obama being born a man. Just like so much that involves or surrounds Trump, Hokit's comment was unnecessarily malicious and divisive.
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