Washington In the first half of January, Americans saw President Donald Trump at his best. Trump ordered a January 3 drone strike that killed Iranian terror leader Qassem Soleimani in response to Iranian proxies who rushed the U.S. embassy in…
The big three networks have been dutifully airing the impeachment hearings since last week, but CBS’s move on Tuesday to truncate its coverage suggests that some TV executives are rethinking that decision. One can’t blame them. Watching congressional hacks pore…
Washington One of the greatest characters I have encountered in Washington died years ago. He was the legendary political operator, Paul Corbin. He had worked for John F. Kennedy and more closely for Bob Kennedy. He was loyal to the…
“He may be an SOB, but at least he’s our SOB.” That’s a famous quote attributed to FDR, who was allegedly speaking of a certain Latin American dictator. I’ve thought of it as I’ve watched our president’s supporters eviscerate Michael Cohen,…
Washington At one point during his hours of testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen was asked what “breaking point” prompted him to split with Trump. “There…
To begin at the beginning, I’m at the Breakers, a spectacularly built and situated resort in Palm Beach, Florida. I’m here to give a speech to the Four Arts Community Center. The speech was yesterday, immediately after a lovely lunch…
Our David Catron is doubtless right that “to get the full impact of Cohen’s performance” one would have to watch the entire nine hours. But who the hell would want to? I’d rather have 10-penny nails driven through my eye-balls….
Michael Cohen is back in town and, as expected, put on a Pecksniffian public performance Wednesday for an appreciative audience consisting of Democrats, the media, and miscellaneous TDS sufferers. Assisted by that preeminent paragon of veracity, Lanny Davis, he pitched…
UPDATES will be put at the top. 12:11 p.m. EST Nothing much to post because it’s all been boring. Cohen is contradicting himself. Don, Jr. makes an interesting insight: Right around now, Michael Cohen realizes what we all knew from…