There’s being fortunate in your enemies, and then there’s having enemies who are helping you take the first step in your political comeback.Donald Trump and his adversaries want profoundly different things in the long run — Trump wants to be back in the White House; Democrats want him in ...
Perhaps T.S. Elliot was wrong. July, not April, is the cruelest month, at least for GOP presidential contenders trying to supplant Donald Trump.Before July, the campaigns have excuses for why the momentum hasn’t kicked in yet. They can say they’re just in exploratory-committee mode, or ...
One of the most absurd claims the leading candidate for the GOP nomination makes about himself and his term in office is that he restored global respect to the United States. He said it frequently when he was in office, and stressed to Bret Baier three weeks ago that he’s running again ...
WASHINGTON — Inevitably, there comes a rebellion against inevitability. Voters have been told that Donald Trump is the all-but-inevitable Republican nominee and that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, operating atop a mountain of cash, will inevitably be Trump’s only significant challenger.Voters, ...
Some of the fiercest attacks against Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents came from Trump himself, especially in barbs aimed at Hillary Clinton.That’s why in the indictment, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith cited some of Trump’s own speeches from his 2016 election ...
In the wake of Donald Trump’s latest indictment, two basic defenses have been offered: He did nothing wrong, and it doesn’t matter that he did anything wrong.So far, most of his defenders are more comfortable making the latter argument.Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is one of the few exceptions. ...