Author: Quin Hillyer
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Trump’s rioters are neither hostages nor patriots
One of the most distressing things about the Donald Trump movement is seeing putative “conservatives” make excuses for the 2021 Capitol rioters. The same people who usually defend police and castigate rowdy protesters suddenly jettison their law-and-order pretensions and join former President Donald Trump in describing rioters as “hostages” and “patriots.” Progressive journalist Bill Lueders…
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Trump may have transgressed, but his $464 million bond is grossly excessive
Many of us appalled by former President Donald Trump’s lifetime of dishonesty may take schadenfreude in the massive financial judgments now threatening his business empire — but the sizes of those judgments, and the bonds pertaining to them, are utterly unwarranted. Appeals courts should grant temporary injunctions to halt the bond collections and delay enforcement…
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PERSPECTIVE: A Trump nomination would halt GOP victories
It will be eight years on June 16 since Donald Trump made his theatrical entrance into the 2016 presidential race, descending an escalator into the lobby of Trump Tower in New York and dragging the nation’s politics down with him. No reasonable assessment of his effect on public conduct and national unity can conclude anything…