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  • Letters From an American
    America Redacted
    September 13, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Department of Health and Human Services have been altering the weekly scientific reports issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the course of the coronavirus pandemic. They believe the reports are undermining Trump’s cheery pronouncements about the disease, and claim there is a “deep state” at the CDC determined to hurt the president.

  • Letters From an American
    Please Stay Behind the Yellow Line
    September 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic and face unprecedented assaults on our national government, it also feels wrong not to.

  • Letters From an American
    Bob Woodward Has Another Scoop: It is NOT Good for the President
    September 10, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Over the course of 18 interviews, Trump spoke for nine hours to journalist Bob Woodward. He had apparently been angry at his aides for shielding him from Woodward before the journalist published his book Fury in 2018, thinking he could charm Woodward into presenting him in a better light, as he had shaped coverage of himself in the tabloids in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. Trump was wrong.

  • Letters From an American
    All This for a Branding Effort?
    September 9, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen says Trump never wanted to win the election
  • Letters From an American
    Paul Manafort in the Spotlight Again
    September 8, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The fifth volume of the Senate Intelligence Report came out on August 18 and, in the storm of other news, has gotten less attention than it should have. According to Republicans—as well as the Democrats on the committee—in 2016, Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was actively working with a Russian intelligence officer.

  • Letters From an American
    Heather Cox Richardson: Looking the American Soldier in the Face
    September 5, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Multiple sources are confirming a story about Trump’s contempt for the military, which said, among other things, that Trump called soldiers “suckers” and dead service members “losers.”

  • Letters From an American
    Trump and the Troops
    September 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The Atlantic published a story detailing Trump’s contempt for military service and the self-sacrifice of those killed in the line of duty. Trump is reacting with panic.

  • Letters From an American
    Who Owns Law and Order?
    September 3, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Why is Trump so hell-bent on reelection? He has made it clear he doesn’t particularly like the job.

  • Letters From an American
    Men in Black?
    September 2, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    And, Michael Flynn doesn't get a "get out of jail free card"
  • Letters From an American
    Twitter Is Ablaze — Not Portland
    September 1, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Trump is exaggerating the violence in cities to the point of caricature — countering statements by local and state law enforcement.



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