Author: Marc Fisher
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In fun-house mirrors of Trump White House, disarray can look like victory
For a president who often sees himself as standing tall against powerful forces that only want him to fail, things were looking up. The tax cuts were selling well, he had gotten credit for a pretty good State of the Union address, employment numbers were good, and his approval rating was improving. Any other president…
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More Trump tapes surface with crude sex remarks
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, already under siege for vulgar comments about forcing women into sex, also had crude, sexually explicit conversations in a series of radio interviews over the past 23 years, even noting how “voluptuous” his daughter was. On a new batch of recordings from Howard Stern’s radio shows aired Saturday by CNN,…
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Ferguson violence broke the mold in 3 ways — one of which is just unfolding now
Even as the president, live from the White House, said “there is inevitably going to be some negative reaction, and it will make for good TV,” the news channels split their screens to show police shooting tear-gas canisters at protesters in Ferguson, Mo. — a presidential appeal for calm competing against frightening scenes of angry…