Donald Trump has overtly taken the side of dictators including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Viktor Orbán, and Kim Jong Un over the past eight years, most likely because he admires the way each has crushed efforts toward democracy and ruled their respective nations with an iron fist. Now U.S. intelligence agencies say their big worry […]
Donald Trump is coming under fire for bragging about how well he got along with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The former president told podcaster Tim Pool that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had warned him that North Korea was the “single greatest threat” facing the nation. But Trump said he turned it around with […]
Numerous scary details came out of Donald Trump’s recent interview with Time magazine, but few were more eye opening than an exchange that, in my opinion, didn’t garner the attention it deserved. When asked about his authoritarian rhetoric regarding being a “dictator for a day” and “suspending the Constitution,” Trump responded, saying, “I think a […]
An unnamed woman was denied a top-secret security clearance this year due to being a “close” relative of an authoritarian dictator of an unnamed country, according to a publicly available document from the Defense Department’s Office of Hearings and Appeals. The administrative judge in the case ultimately decided to deny the clearance in what appears […]
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said in an interview that his former boss, former President Trump “doesn’t have the brains” to be a dictator, as questions arise about what a second Trump term would look like. Conservative French outlet Le Figaro asked Bolton if Trump had dictatorial tendencies in an interview published Thursday. “He […]
John Bolton named what’s missing from Donald Trump when asked if he thinks the former president shared dictator-like characteristics with Julius Caesar. “He hasn’t got the brains! He’s a property developer, for God’s sake!” Trump’s former national security adviser recently told France’s Le Figaro newspaper in an interview translated by The Telegraph. The remarks from […]
Years ago an attorney on my staff suggested to me that the country was headed into a storm that most folks may not be able to fathom until it was too late. I half-heartedly listened to his thoughts. But I thought that what he was saying was mostly poppycock. It turns out that he may […]
Kamala Harris on Saturday criticized Donald Trump’s cajoling of Russia to attack Nato allies of the US who don’t pay their dues, saying the American people would never accept a president who bowed to a dictator. The vice-president’s comments, in a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC’s The Weekend, represent some of the strongest criticism to date […]
People in El Salvador are voting in presidential and legislative elections that are largely about the trade-off between security and democracy. With soaring approval ratings and virtually no competition, Nayib Bukele – the self-described “world’s coolest dictator” – is almost certainly heading for a second term as president. El Salvador’s constitution prohibits re-election, but Mr […]
Georgia Rep. Mike Collins (R-Athens) is facing both support and criticism for a recent message on social media featuring a suggestion that undocumented immigrants be put on flights from “Pinochet Air.” The post made on X, formerly known as Twitter, was written in response to recent reports that undocumented migrants had attacked members of the […]
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has been working to guard against the “unprecedented threats” facing American democracy, a White House official said on Monday, responding to Donald Trump’s comments that he wanted to be a “dictator for one day” if elected to a second term. During a speech on Saturday, Trump repeated a statement […]
Trump, the New York Young Republican Club’s 111th Annual Gala Keynote speaker, delivered. “We want to liberate America because we’re in a country that’s in a lot of pain right now, a lot of hurt,” Trump told the crowd, during his 80-minute long speech. “This campaign is on a righteous crusade to rescue our nation […]