Category: Politics

He played down the coronavirus. But he has hyped up just about everything else.

The posture of the president and his allies contrasts with a widespread sense around the NFL, and among Democratic strategists, that Trump is in a weakened position and that his efforts to drag pro football into another debate in the culture wars could backfire.

Both parties are aggressively using the courts to try to shape every stage of the process.

Democrats, led by presidential nominee Joe Biden, denounced Trump’s actions as revelations from Woodward’s book fueled a sense of outrage.

The Justice Department now serves as a jurisprudential Secret Service.

The GOP has trodden gently around Trump’s hyperbolic and false claims about voter fraud. The party’s preeminent election lawyer says the costs could be dire — not just for democracy, but for his party.

In new book ‘Rage,’ Trump says he deliberately played down threat of pandemic and says he feels no responsibility to better understand the anger and pain of Black Americans.

What’s going on with the last two big legislative debates before Congress this year

In early February, Trump was privately warning about the danger posed by the virus — even as his administration did little to prepare.

The question with Trump is often whether he’s deliberately misleading people or he believes his own hype. A new Bob Woodward book suggests that, on the coronavirus, it was the former.