279 Biden electors appointed as of Friday, December 4, 2020
As of Friday December 4, 279 electors pledged to Joe Biden had been appointed at the state level. More may be appointed in the coming…
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Imagine: Hitler in the White House–Scheming to hold on to power
Trump and co-conspirators move to sow confusion, delay vote certifications, and win “contingent election” in the House (Updated November 19, 2020)
The Elephant in the Room: Russia’s Role in the Demonstrations
Lethal incompetence: Masks
International Law and the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani
A pro-Russian Republican conspiracy and cover-up?
When and how did America lose her soul?
American Policy: Khashoggi’s assassination, human rights, and international law
Khashoggi Affair: Murder most foul!
All the evidence suggests that the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was premeditated, and carried out on the instructions…
Khashoggi Affair: A Prince must go—or two
Guest article — developing Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East adviser, has been urging the president to stand by the prince, according to…
Devil’s Bargain: The Kashoggi Charade
Developing In the first days after Jamal Kashoggi’s “disappearance”in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, press accounts quoting Turkish officials and also…
Opinion: Leaked transcript of private two-hour conversation between Putin and Trump in Helsinki
We have received through a chain of secret channels a “transcript” of the secret conversations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin which took place at…
Americans Are Lost in the Weeds, and Google Doesn’t Help
Continuing Google Censorship Google continues to censor The Trenchant Observer, not displaying search results on hot topics such as the Christopher Steele Dossier. In fact,…
REPRISE: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
Originally Posted By: The Observer January 18, 2016 Today is Martin Luther King day in the United States, a national holiday. It is a good…
The Christopher Steele dossier on Trump’s collusion with Russia and subsequent corroboration
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak with Trump on May 10, 2017 at the White House Whatever the story of the…
Former CIA chief John Brennan testifies he warned Russians about intervention
Developing In testimony on Capitol Hill today, former CIA Director John Brennan statd that, in a telephone call on August 4, 2016,…
More on the “Golden Showers” dossier prepared by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele: Sources
British press reports add considerably more detail to the story regarding the credibility of the “Golden Showers” dossier prepared by ex MI6 agent Christopher Steele.
Particularly intriguing is the Christmas death of fomer KGB chief was was reportedly a go-between between Putin and a key associate.
Analysis: Russia scandal closes in on Trump
With revelations of the Sessions and Kushner meetings with the Russian ambasador, the circle of suspicion is tightening around President Donald Trump himself.
Are we to believe that all of these people who had contacts with Russian officials were all free-lancing, and that Trump had no knowledge of their activities, during a prolonged period in which Trump made absolutely no criticism of Vladimir Putin or any of Russia’s actions?
Flynn represents an extraordinary danger for President Trump, as he may have been at the center of contacts with the Russians
The Trump Paradox: “Making America Great Again” without the values that have made America great
The great paradox of President Donald Trump is that he promises to the American people that he will “make America great again” but in practice appears to want to do so without honoring and defending the values that have made America great in the past.