In 1989, Donald Trump purchased full page ads in four New York newspapers, including the New York Times, calling for the return of the death penalty after a white jogger was brutally attacked in Central Park.
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Sabrina Haake is a 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. Her columns are published in Alternet, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Out South Florida, Raw Story, Salon, Smart News and Windy City Times. Her Substack, The Haake Take, is free.
The latest version of Trump’s mood-contingent tariffs took effect Thursday, prompting Trump to post-boast two minutes before midnight that “BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN TARIFFS” are now pouring into the U.S. He skipped the part where American companies pay those tariffs, which soon will trickle down to consumers in the form of higher prices.
We now know that Trump is taking care of Ghislaine Maxwell because the convicted child sex trafficker was just moved from maximum security to a “luxury” minimum-security facility.
Deputy AG, Todd Blanche, without a court reporter or oath, has now “interviewed” Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking minors for Jeffrey Epstein, hopes for clemency to avoid spending the rest of her life in prison.
Yesterday I played tennis with a couple of players I’d never met before, at Chicago’s Waveland Park, next to a leafy municipal golf course built in 1901.
As the death toll rises in Texas, Trump has done everything but tap dance naked to deflect the media from discussing climate change (hoax), or how his staff cuts to the National Weather Service (600 cuts in May) likely affected flood warnings.
Concentration camps are often compared to prisons, but that comparison is inaccurate. In the United States, inmates arrive in penitentiaries only after they have been convicted of serious crimes, under criminal processes constrained by the U.S. Constitution at all times.
Trump’s reckless bluster about his “spectacular military success” in Iran has just been thoroughly debunked.
Temporarily upstaged by war in the Middle East, last week’s Senate Armed Services hearings suggested war might be brewing closer to home. Trump seeks an unprecedented $1 trillion defense budget that will be used, in large part, on American soil.
When border czar Tom Homan threatened to arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Trump goaded Homan on, telling reporters, “I would do it if I were Tom. I think it's great!” adding, “Gavin likes the publicity, but I think it would be a great thing.”
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