Steve Berman

Opinion Contributor

Steve Berman is a transplanted northerner living in the Atlanta area. For over 30 years, Steve has been a technology entrepreneur, creating, building, and selling businesses. Steve has been writing about politics and social issues for nearly a decade. It started with a “diary" on RedState, and quickly moved on to professional writing. He has written for other well-known web publications and was one of the original writers who helped Erick Erickson launch The Resurgent in 2016.

Steve’s work has been published by Fox News, and he has been cited on the New York Times opinion page, and quoted by the Washington Post. He is excited to be involved with the latest project, The First, as an opinion writer.

A Jewish believer in Christ, Steve lives and worships with his family in the Atlanta suburbs, after moving to central Georgia from New Hampshire over 28 years ago.

COMPLETE: Trump Phone Log and Smoking Guns | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Apr 1, 2022

“Be there, will be wild!” tweeted Donald Trump on December 19, 2020. On January 6th, was going to “stop the steal,” though every lawyer who filed case after case in court after court alleging the election was stolen reaped nothing but shame and embarrassment. Trump’s last throw of the dice was to use impossible legal shenanigans to …

RUSSIA: Patton Was Right. Putin’s Not the Problem | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Mar 30, 2022

The final months of World War II was a turbulent and fraught time for the West’s relationship with the Soviet Union. Stalin, having spent millions of lives driving back the Nazis, while staying out of the Pacific and China theaters, was keen to swallow as much buffer territory as possible. Churchill and Roosevelt knew this, …

BIDEN vs WHITE HOUSE: Who’s Running This Country? | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Mar 28, 2022

“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever,” President Ronald Reagan famously said. “The bombing begins in five minutes.” He said it in 1984 during a sound test on a hot mic. Of course, he was joking, but the sentiment behind the words was real. On Saturday, President …

Will Progressives Treat Ketanji Brown Like Biden Treats Kamala Harris? | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Mar 25, 2022

President Biden promised a billion dollars in humanitarian aid to Ukraine on Thursday. Good. He also said that Putin uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, the response would be “in kind.” He appeared lucid, present, and, for the most part, prepared. Good for our president, because we need him to be at his best during this …

UKRAINE: This is NATO’s War Plan, Not Putin’s Failure | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Thu, Mar 24, 2022

When Russia’s “little green men” took over Crimea in 2014 with little more than a demonstration by Ukrainian forces, serious people took notice. In the eight following years, Ukraine’s armed forces have remade themselves into a NATO-style military. I’m increasingly convinced what we’re seeing now is not only the failure of Putin’s plan, but the …

ISRAEL: “It’s Complicated”, Jews Disagree on Ukraine | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Mar 22, 2022

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wanted to address Israel’s Knesset, like he did with the European Parliament and the Canadian Parliament. But the best offer he got was an informal Zoom session that lawmakers were able to access from home. The Knesset was in recess, Speaker Mickey Levy was not about to call it into a formal session, …

Putin’s Coming Purges: We Must Warn Russians | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Mar 18, 2022

Ordinary Russians aren’t getting the message the world is trying to send. Instead, they’re getting a full dose of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda and disinformation machine. Without access to the “free press” outside their spoon-fed “federal channels” they are being fed the Kremlin’s line, and getting prepped for a massive purge the likes of which have not …

WORLD GOVERNMENT? Putin is Going to Lose. What is Zelensky’s U-24? | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Thu, Mar 17, 2022

Ukraine is beating Russia. Improbable as that outcome seemed just a few weeks ago, it appears that not only will the Russians not achieve their military and political goals, but also that Ukraine is fully capable of winning the war solo. Not without enormous loss, however. The website Oryx has been tracking documented equipment losses by Russian …

NUKES: Trump Predicted Putin’s Battlefield Nukes, and Did Something About It | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Mar 14, 2022

“I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it. Anything can happen. But I often think of nuclear war.” — Donald Trump, in 1990. “[I]f someone decides to annihilate Russia, we have the legal right to retaliate. Yes, it will be a catastrophe for humanity and for the world…but we will ascend to heaven …

CRAZY TRAIN: Biden Is Dividing the West | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Mar 9, 2022

Ukrainian air force pilots will be flying Poland’s MIG-29 jets. Or not. The Republic of Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a short statement worth repeating here in full. The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 …

Blat of the West | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Thu, Mar 3, 2022

I’ve been struggling with something that seems to have been hand-waved away for now, given that we pretty much know Vladimir Putin’s intentions, seeing them with our own eyes. But I ask myself why, because everything that’s so obvious to so many before the Ukraine invasion points to a bad outcome for Russia and Putin. …

BIDEN: Condolences for Ukraine. America, build more bridges! | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Mar 2, 2022

My expectations were deliciously low, like getting a New York pizza slice at a shopping-center parking lot carnival food truck. Even so, President Biden delivered a tasteless, bland experience. I was headed for bed at 9:30, just about the time he started to gaffe the TelePrompTer text. When I awoke this morning, I found I …