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Trump’s 180 Executive Orders a Con Game to Fluff Flagging Election Hopes

Keith GirardAugust 10, 2020

Donald Trump has signed executive orders fast and furiously, most to political ends. (Photo: MPG Collage) Donald Trump has issued almost as many executive orders as President Obama during his full two terms in office, even though he sharply criti...

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Trump, GOP Leave Out Role of Illegal Guns in Criticism of Urban Crime

Keith GirardJuly 24, 2020

Donald Trump and his GOP cohorts have been trying to make urban violence a political issue, but they have failed to mention a leading problem–the flow of illegal guns from lax gun-law states to the nation’s cities....

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Congress could lose its power of oversight leading to an authoritarian government. (Photo: US Capitol)

Trump Attacks on Congress Turning US into Weimar Republic

Keith GirardDecember 17, 2019

Donald Trump, GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell and other Republican lawmakers are taking a page out of Hitler’s assault on the German Weimar Republic....

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