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CRIMEWASHING: Indictments Galore for Trump | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Aug 2, 2023

The “presumed innocent” chorus has begun with the latest set of indictments against former President Donald Trump. Sure, it goes, the guy lies, steals, cheats, and members of his former senior appointees have called him everything from a “f**king moron” to “racist, misogynist and bigot;” BUT, that’s doesn’t make it illegal. Puh-leeeze! Stop with the crimewashing. In fact, …

INDICTMENTS: You Can’t Outsmart Justice | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Jul 28, 2023

Former President Donald Trump’s valet texted that he had a “family emergency 🤫” (he really texted the emoji) come up when he changed plans in late June 2022—the weekend after Trump’s legal team received a subpoena from Department of Justice investigators asking for surveillance footage. Following that, a series of texts that even Inspector Jacques …

DESANTIS: The Dean Scream of Slavery | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Jul 24, 2023

I am not the first to point out that Gov. Ron DeSantis has a Dean streak running through his campaign. Twenty years ago, Howard Dean was the dynamic frontrunner of the Democratic Party, poised by pollsters to beat out John Kerry, Dick Gephardt and Joe Liberman in the New Hampshire primary six months away. Between July and the Iowa …

REBUNKED? The Debunked Stories Keep Coming Home to Roost | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Fri, Jul 21, 2023

As recently as late May—2023, this year—polls show that six in ten Republicans believe the 2020 election was illegitimate, which is about the same as it was in the fall of 2022. That has fallen from over 70 percent back in 2021, so at least some Republicans have grown tired of believing in empty fantasies …

DELUSIONS: The Left’s Real Agenda | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Jul 18, 2023

When I was a teenager, I watched as magician David Copperfield, on live television, vanished the Statue of Liberty. Of course, as we all know now (and pretty much knew) that he didn’t really make the icon in New York go away. The laws of physics and all being pretty much established as truth, even I knew it …

A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Jul 12, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO, and NATO said as much in its communiqué Tuesday. The long document mentions Ukraine 45 times in 90 numbered paragraphs, and establishes a NATO-Ukraine Council. Specifically, NATO said it would “support” Ukraine in defending itself against the “Russian war of aggression against Ukraine” though the meaning …

NORMAL PLEASE: What We Really Want | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Tue, Jul 11, 2023

We want the normies to run things. We want normal people, who get up every day, go to work, do their jobs competently, and come home to put some chicken on the grill. We are 15 months and 4 days before Election Day 2024. That’s a very long time. For comparison, it’s been 16 months …

SAY IT: Someone Owes Trump a Thank You for SCOTUS | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Jul 3, 2023

It’s a given that modern Marxists-parading-as-liberals not only oppose actual conservatives, but also believe them to be evil incarnate. Therefore, no bounds of political “Geneva convention” rules apply to their tactics. This has been true since the red-baiting days of the 1950s. In the last 100 years, social experimenters and red revolutionists have always been …

SCOTUS Missed This Important Thing | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Wed, Jun 28, 2023

I am happy that the Supreme Court shot down the assertion that state legislatures can operate free from their own judiciary review under state constitutional authority, or free from the executive branch fulfilling its duties to citizens. As David French tweeted, they “nuked it from orbit.” To lawyers, the law is a hammer and every issue …

PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Jun 26, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin is known as “Putin’s chef.” In America the term would be “a fixer,” kind of like Roger Stone. if Stone had access to advanced military hardware and could raid prisons to build a gang around a core of professional thugs. In Russia, this is not an uncommon arrangement. Russian omnicrat Vladimir Putin himself …

Would a Jury Send Hunter to Prison, But Not Trump? | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Thu, Jun 22, 2023

If I won the (U.S.) presidential election, my first act after the inaugural festivities would be to ask for the real intelligence files on alien bodies and craft held at Area 51. Then I’d promptly declassify it. Who cares about the intergalactic NDA and intellectual property rights agreement, enforceable by planetary destruction, that every president …

A Pox on Joe Rogan | Steve Berman

By Steve Berman
Opinion Contributor

Mon, Jun 19, 2023

The country once dodged a bullet. This time it might hit its target. It’s January 11, 2017, and then-President-elect Trump’s transition team—a disorganized three ring circus led by clowns—found Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. too much of a crank to seriously consider as leader of a panel on vaccine safety. RFK Jr. is of course the son of …