Washington Post (November 20)
“Even Republicans’ preferred witnesses are implicating Trump.” At Tuesday’s hearings by the House Intelligence Committee, “it was striking that the stories” told by the witnesses selected by the President’s party, “simply added to the evidence that President Trump abused his office and twisted long-standing U.S. policy in Ukraine to serve his personal political interests.”
Tags: Abuse, Evidence, Hearings, House Intelligence Committee, Implicating, Republicans, Trump, U.S., Ukraine, Witnesses
Washington Examiner (November 18)
The impeachment proceedings seem “surreal” because the evidence is so real. “The pace in which these stark revelations have come to light makes it hard for the voting public to process them. Any one of these developments would cause a media circus for weeks in a normal administration, but the sheer breadth of Trump scandals helps to diminish the profile of each particular one.”
Tags: Diminish, Evidence, Impeachment, Media circus, Normal administration, Revelations, Scandals, Stark, Surreal, Trump, U.S.
New York Times (November 11)
“The president and his allies ask Americans to reject the evidence before their eyes” even though “the case for weighing the impeachment of President Trump boils down to a few simple points.” Welcome to “the disorienting defenses of Donald Trump.”
Tags: Allies, Defenses, Disorienting, Evidence, Impeachment, Reject, Trump, U.S.
Washington Post (November 6)
“Many assume that public opinion will not change with public testimony. However, as we saw with the start of formal impeachment hearings, the public is moved by new information. The danger for Trump is that Americans will see for themselves the incontrovertible evidence that he hijacked government funds for his own political gain.”
Tags: Danger, Evidence, Funds, Government, Hearings, Hijacked, Impeachment, Political gain, Public opinion, Testimony, Trump
Washington Post (September 9)
“It’s true that Trump likes making deals. He’s just not very good at it. In fact, he may be the worst dealmaker ever to occupy the Oval Office. The abrupt disintegration of his accord with the Taliban provides the latest evidence that he’s too impetuous and ignorant to be a successful negotiator…. Trump is a better dealbreaker than dealmaker.”
Tags: Accord, Dealbreaker, Deals, Disintegration, Evidence, Ignorant, Impetuous, Negotiator, Taliban, Trump, Worst
Newsweek (April 17)
“The Mueller Report will be interesting for what it tells us about the evidence Congress will be considering in determining whether to impeach Donald J. Trump for obstruction of justice.” Most of “the offenses, including the felony campaign crimes we already know Trump has been accused of by federal prosecutors, are more serious than the offenses the Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton for not long ago.”
Tags: Clinton, Congress, Evidence, Felony, Impeach, Mueller Report, Obstruction of justice, Prosecutors, Trump
CNN (January 3)
“Evidence is mounting that the US-China trade war is dealing a blow to the American stock market. Stocks plunged on Thursday after Apple (AAPL) blamed a big sales miss on slowing growth in China and rising trade tensions. China’s massive manufacturing sector… has tumbled into contraction. And trade trouble helped fuel the biggest one-month decline in US factory activity since the Great Recession.”
Tags: Apple, China, Contraction, Decline, Evidence, Great Recession, Growth, Manufacturing, Plunged, Stock market, Tensions, Trade war, U.S.
Institutional Investor (December 14)
“Institutional investors have long been skeptical that impact funds can deliver the returns they need to meet their investment objectives.’ But Impact Capital Investors a consortium of multiple investment firms is attempting to make the case with convincing evidence that investors “don’t have to trade high returns for so-called impact investing, or investing with social, environmental, and other objectives.”
Tags: ESG, Evidence, Impact funds, Investors, Objectives, Returns, Skeptical
Chicago Tribune (October 30)
“The caravan of several thousand people coming north through Mexico has stirred all sorts of fears here at home…. But the actual grounds for fear are sparse.” Some won’t complete the journey. Many will apply for asylum. Only a small percentage will eventually make it into the U.S., either legally or illegally. Furthermore, “a body of evidence indicates that immigrants in general are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.”
New York Times (April 10)
“Mr. Trump has spent his career in the company of…grifters, cons, sharks, goons and crooks. He cuts corners, he lies, he cheats, he brags about it, and for the most part, he’s gotten away with it, protected by threats of litigation, hush money and his own bravado.” Not, apparently, much longer. “Mr. Trump now has real reason to be afraid. A raid on a lawyer’s office doesn’t happen every day.” In fact, it only happens when investigators have real “reason to believe they’d find evidence of a crime there and that they didn’t trust the lawyer not to destroy that evidence.”
Tags: Bravado, Cheats, Cons, Crime, Crooks, Evidence, Goons, Hush money, Lawyer’s office, Lies, Raid, Threats, Trump
