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by David French The New York Times, December 4, 2025 In their military campaign in South America, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth aren’t just defying the Constitution and breaking the law. They are attacking the very character and identity of the American military. To make this case, I have to begin in the most boring…
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The president said lawmakers who appeared in a video committed “seditious behavior” and should be arrested and put on trial for treason. Excerpts , reprinted from the Washington Post, November 20. 2025 By Maegan Vazquez, Dan Lamothe and Jeremy Roebuc President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who publicly exhorted…
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President Trump was reacting to a video that reminded members of the military that they are not supposed to obey illegal orders. Reprinted from the New York Times, November 20, 2025 By Shawn McCreesh President Trump accused a group of Democratic lawmakers of sedition in an outburst on social media Thursday morning and said their…
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John Thune (South Dakota) (202) 224-2321 United States Senate SD-511, Washington, DC 20510 Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) (202) 224-5972 211 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC, 20510 Chuck Grassley (Iowa) (202) 224-3744 137 Hart Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC, 20510 John Cornyn (Texas) (202) 224-2934 517 Hart Senate Office Bldg., Washington, DC, 20510 Joni Ernst…
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by David Ignatius The Washington Post, June 10, 2025 Democrats have gotten the border issue so wrong, for so long, that it amounts to political malpractice. The latest chapter — in which violent protesters could be helping President Donald Trump create a military confrontation he’s almost begging for as a distraction from his other problems…
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March 30, 2025 Guest Essay New York Times By John W. KekerRobert A. Van Nest and Elliot R. Peters The writers are the senior partners at the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters. President Trump this month issued an executive order clearly intended to destroy the venerable law firm Perkins Coie, a firm that…
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The first account (A) is from the 2022 Final Report of the Select Committee. The second account (B) is from the 2024 Interim Report on the Failures and Politicization of the January 6th Select Committee (prepared at the direction of Congressman Barry Loudermilk, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on House Administration)…
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Dear Senators, I think we can all see the President is not well. It is not to his benefit–or the Nation’s–for him to be surrounded by blind loyalists. When was the last time a president of either party insisted that his cabinet nominees accept a fiction of such consequence as this one, that a presidential…
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New York Times, Feb. 8, 2025 By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. Don’t get distracted. Don’t get overwhelmed. Don’t get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and…
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Nicholas Kristof New York Times, February 5, 2025 The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.” By my calculations, Elon Musk probably has a net worth greater than that of the…