 Views & Opinions |
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Journalists are warning that Donald Trump should be believed when he threatens to punish his enemies in a prospective second term. But the media spent eight years telling the public not to believe a word Trump utters, notes journalist Bernard Goldberg. So, which is it? asks Goldberg. "Is [Trump] a compulsive liar or a man who should be taken at his word?" |
It's not really about honesty, says Goldberg. It's about politics. "Donald Trump is a liar when calling him a liar helps Democrats and he's a truth-teller when calling him that helps the Democrats." Goldberg doesn't think Trump could follow through on his more authoritarian promises anyway. For one thing, the American system has a lot of checks and balances in place to prevent that — including a Supreme Court majority that, though conservative, wouldn't go along. Just look at Trump's first term. He made a lot of promises on the campaign trail that he couldn't enact once in office. Hillary Clinton never was put behind bars. "I wouldn't vote for Donald Trump even if he ran unopposed," Goldberg says. "But the United States has survived a Great Depression, two World Wars, 9/11 — and we'll survive four more years of Donald Trump if he's reelected." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, Dec. 15. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Bernard-Henri Lévy, philosopher, filmmaker and author |
Terrorism is a family affair. The same barbarism is at work when one deports children from Mariupol as when one takes hostages from the kibbutz of Kfar Aza. The same savagery is at work when one slaughters and massacres like monsters in Bucha or at the kibbutz Be'eri. |
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By Pierre Kory and Marybeth Pfeiffer, physician and investigative reporter |
With the worst of COVID behind us, annual deaths for all causes should be back to pre-pandemic levels — or even lower because of the loss of so many sick and infirm Americans. Instead, the death toll remains "alarming," "disturbing" and deserving of "urgent attention," according to insurance industry articles. |
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By J.T. Young, former congressional staffer |
Democrats are not worried because Biden is not leading; they are. The left would be worried about Biden's age — rightfully and understandably so — if Biden were leading and making the decisions. |
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By Brantly Womack, senior faculty fellow of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia |
It might seem that Putin's victory is just around the corner. He can wait for the withering of Ukrainian internal capabilities and external support, and then complete his project of victory with the installation of a puppet government. But victory would not be so easy. |
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