Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 election being “stolen” is about as big as they come, but it’s still not the biggest or even the most dangerous one he’s told. If his followers hadn’t fallen for this other lie, the election so-called “big lie” wouldn’t even have been possible.
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We as a society don’t pay attention to the people receiving apologies. Our attention is so laser-focused on the person doing the apologizing, we don’t realize that it takes two to tango. We demand humility in the person who’s apologizing. But we never stop to think that accepting an apology should be done with humility too. It shouldn’t be used as an excuse to criticize someone else or lord it over them.
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Donald Trump is an everyday citizen now. He can’t assert executive privilege because he doesn’t have standing. Because of this, any judge who sees Trump’s lawsuit come before him has only one real choice, under the law. He or she must bang that gavel, stare Trump’s attorney in the eye, and say, “Case dismissed!”
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ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith was emphatic: “Jon Gruden’s career is over. It’s over.” But then he said something I found simply unbelievable: “I cannot imagine even a white male with influence and connections and some degree of power that can overcome what The New York Times reported and what we all now know.”
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What if Mitch McConnell’s was actually right about torpedoing the Jan. 6 commission? What if he was actually doing Democrats a favor?
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You all know them. You may wish you didn’t. Or that they’d go away — I know I sure do. I don’t wish them any ill (most of them, anyway). I just wish they’d retire from public life because they’re more annoying than a piece of popcorn stuck in your teeth and more overexposed than a roll of film (you remember those) that’s been left in the sun all summer. In Alaska.
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