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I warned you people.
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NEW -- A lot of the people who predicted Trump would rule like an autocrat if he returned to power are today confessing they got one key detail wrong.

They did not foresee it could happen so fast.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
They Foresaw Trump’s Rush To Autocracy — They Just Didn’t Think It Would Happen So Fast
From his creation of a ‘papers-please’ police force to unilateral military actions to his disregard of court orders, even those who warned it would happen are alarmed.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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NEW -- ICE and Border Patrol agents do not wear name tags. They don't identify themselves in their encounters with civilians. Many wear masks to hide their identities.

Donald Trump has created a de facto secret police force to terrorize communities.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump And Stephen Miller Have Created A Secret Police Force In Plain Sight
After promising to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Trump is instead using militarized immigration agencies to terrorize cities where he is unpopular.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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NEW — If you watched Trump’s speech purportedly about the economy today, it might explain why they giving him cognitive exams.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Falsely Claims Economy Is Great As Grocery Prices Rise And Jobs Picture Gets Worse
In a Detroit speech supposedly about the economy, Trump spent the majority of his time on stage repeating his usual lies and grievances about everything else.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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NEW -- Trump and Stephen Miller keep bragging about the might-makes-right imperialism that let them confiscate Venezuela's oil.

They neglect to mention how corrosive and nasty it is -- or how it almost certainly will not bring down gas prices here.

www.huffpost.com/entry/nasty-...
Trump Boasts Of Confiscated Venezuelan Oil But Neglects To Mention How Nasty It Is
The country’s crude oil is heavy, too thick to flow through a pipeline without dilution, and is filled with corrosive chemicals that can destroy refineries.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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NEW -- On the 5th anniversary of his coup attempt, Trump, lying, claims he had nothing to do with the violence that injured 140 cops and left five dead in the coming weeks.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Repeats Lie That He Had Nothing To Do With Jan. 6
The president reminded House Republicans he said "peacefully and patriotically" in his pre-coup rally and blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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NEW -- Great news for losing presidential candidates!

Used to be that you could ask for a recount and file lawsuits.

Now, thanks to American voters having normalized what Trump did on Jan. 6, you can also attempt a violent coup! Without fear of consequence!

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
With His Post-Jan. 6 Comeback, Trump May Have Normalized Coup Attempts
He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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NEW: TAKE THE OIL!!

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
In Venezuela Takeover, Trump Makes It All About The Oil
The president, who claimed to oppose involvement in “nation building,” also said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for an indefinite period.
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January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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NEW — Ignore the naysayers. Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs absolutely worked. They liberated Americans from their jobs.

(In addition to making most things more expensive.)

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs
Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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NEW -- What the hell was that?

And why?

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation
The president keeps claiming Joe Biden left him a disaster and he is fixing it. In fact, Biden handed over a good economy that Trump made worse with his tariffs.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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NEW -- Donald Trump has set free convicted fraudsters, cop assaulters, money launderers, even a drug kingpin who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

So why not a notorious child sex trafficker?

Why not, say, Ghislaine Maxwell?

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Pardoned Fraudsters, Cop-Assaulters And A Drug Lord — Is Ghislaine Maxwell Next?
The president has said he has the right to pardon the world’s most notorious living child sex trafficker and has repeatedly refused to rule it out.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ACTUALLY NOT NEW AT ALL -- Donald Trump is a deeply damaged human being.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Stands By Unhinged Post, Calls Rob Reiner ‘Deranged’ And ‘Very Bad For Our Country’
The president claimed that the famed director had been murdered because of his criticism of Trump.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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NEW -- LOOK IF ANYONE DID ANY WAR CRIMES IT WAS THAT ADMIRAL GUY OVER THERE WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump And Hegseth: We Had Nothing To Do With That Thing That Looks Like A War Crime
Both blame the commanding admiral for killing shipwrecked survivors of an attack – an act the DoD’s own manual specifically describes as illegal.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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NEW — Admiral Bradley? Allow us to introduce you to the underside of this large bus.

Large bus? This is Admiral Bradley.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
White House Throws Commanding Admiral Under The Bus In Killing Of Alleged Drug Boat Survivors
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the apparent war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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NEW -- Trump's golf tab tops $70 million since returning to office and is on pace to exceed $300 million by the end of his term.

Three hundred million.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Second-Term Tab For Trump’s Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million
The total would double the $151.5 million taxpayers shelled out for him to play golf during his first term.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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NEW -- Trump calls a female reporter "piggy."

The response from the White House press corps? Not a peep.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
'Quiet, Piggy': Trump Insults Female Reporter Asking About The Epstein Files
The reaction from the White House press corps to a personal attack on a colleague has been muted — in an apparent attempt to avoid losing further access.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Trump was credibility accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He said his celebrity allowed him to grab women by the genitals. A jury found he had jammed his fingers up a woman's vagina.

A little context for the WH's denials of any wrongdoing.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump's Account Of His Friendship With Epstein Doesn't Line Up With Trove Of New Documents
Trump frequently socialized with the late child sex trafficker and once said admiringly that Epstein liked beautiful women “on the younger side.”
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November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Since Trump and his aides keep lying about grocery prices, here are the facts:

Food inflation in Biden's last year: 1.8 pct.
Food inflation since Trump began his trade war: 3.1 pct.

Trump has nearly doubled grocery inflation.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Finally Meets A Problem His Lies Cannot Overcome: Rising Grocery Prices
Trump keeps claiming that prices are ‘way down’ — but with food inflation running nearly twice the rate as it was in Biden’s last year, Americans are not fooled.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Your homework for this Friday night:

1) Read his answers out loud.
2) Tell me he's not out of his mind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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You will be shocked, shocked to learn that Trump’s claims about fentanyl and lethal U.S. maritime strikes are false.

Shared my thoughts with @svdate.bsky.social about the real reasons the U.S. is lawlessly attacking these vessels.
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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NEW -- Trump's claim that the alleged smugglers he is summarily killing without charges or trials are bringing deadly fentanyl to the US is a total lie.

DoD, in fact, has told Congress that they haven't found that opioid in the debris. Only cocaine.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump’s Summary Killings Of Dozens Aboard Boats Appear Based On A Massive Fentanyl Lie
The president has said multiple times that the destroyed vessels were carrying the lethal opioid, but officials have told Congress the boats were carrying cocaine.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NEW -- When the going gets tough, the president goes golfing.

Using $3.4 million of your tax dollars.

While 700k federal workers remain furloughed and another 700k are forced to work without pay.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Marks Full Month Of Government Shutdown With $3.4 Million Golf Trip To Florida
The Air Force One trip is his 13th visit to his Palm Beach country club since he returned to office and brings his taxpayer funded golf total to $60.7 million.
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October 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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NEW -- Thinking about criticizing Katie or Stephen Miller? Reconsider, unless you want to get your citizenship revoked.

(Unclear what role, exactly, Katie Miller has in deciding who gets de-naturalized and deported. The White House would not say.)

www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-...
Stephen Miller's Wife Threatens To Revoke Trump Critic’s Citizenship After He Insults Her
Katie Miller, wife of top White House aide focused on immigration and extrajudicial boat killings, got angry that Cenk Uygur called her and her husband liars.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The Times' artful wording has naturally Raised An Important Question, namely: What precisely did the White House communications director call me to dissuade me from contacting Stephen Miller directly?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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NEW -- Usually Trump's "sir" stories just have beefy grown men crying because of their gratitude for him.

This one one instead makes his own staff in the WH, at Treasury, at USTR and at Customs sound like ignorant fools who know nothing about their jobs.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Creates Another Hero Myth About Himself, This Time Making His Aides Sound Like Fools
The president now claims that staff at his own agencies couldn’t figure out where new revenues are coming from until he told them to “check the tariff shelf.”
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October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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NEW -- When Donald Trump reneged on his promise to leave the East Wing alone and demolished it instead, it wasn't the first time he has destroyed history that got in his way.

He did it back when he built Trump Tower, too.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Surprised Trump Is Destroying History? He Did The Same Thing Building Trump Tower.
Trump broke his promise to leave the East Wing alone — the same way he reneged on a promise to preserve art deco friezes on a building he tore down in 1980.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM