Reality Check—Coronavirus: Donald Trump’s Katrina James Campion March 24, 2020 Columns, Reality Check Stop me if you heard this before: Unpopular Republican president that citizens generally view as incompetent is confronted with a crisis and bungles it… badly. Yeah, 2005, August, George W. Bush. Hurricane Kat...
Reality Check– THE LAZARUS WEEK: Joe Biden Rises from Political Oblivion to Become Democratic Front Runner in One Insane Week James Campion March 10, 2020 Reality Check What transpired on Super Tuesday 2020 is by far the most stunning political comeback I have ever witnessed. Former Vice President Joe Biden nearly swept through the fourteen states like a firestorm, many of...
Reality Check– THE IRAN MISTAKE Forget Impeachment, Crimes, Lying, Stupidity & Sucking Up to Tyrants – This is the Worst Part of the Worst First Term James Campion January 8, 2020 Columns, Reality Check We are at the brink of war with Iran. The executive branch is at war with Congress. The Senate and the House are at war. A game show host is in charge of all this. Welcome to 2020. What a shock.&nb...
Reality Check–NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE FOR TRUMP: Mass Exodus of GOP in Congress Tell a Different Tale James Campion December 11, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I have spent weeks hammering Republicans who have contorted their broken ideologies and done mind-bending about-faces on morality and Russia and free trade and exploding deficits and a ton of other apparently ...
Reality Check: GOP, THE RULE OF LAW, AND THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY: Trump’s Guilt is Absolute, So Who Will (or Won’t) Do Something About It? James Campion October 30, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Defenders of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors are running out of stuff. And, man, they’ve tried all the stuff; denied it ever happened (quid pro quo on military aid to another nation unless it dug ...
Reality Check: PRESIDENT TERRORIST: Trump’s Attack on American Interests in the Middle East Sets Up Next 9/11 James Campion October 23, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “You are creating a Frankenstein.” —Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to President George H. W. Bush, 1989. The president of the United States has now gone complete...
Reality Check: DOES DONALD TRUMP WANT TO BE IMPEACHED? James Campion October 9, 2019 Reality Check “Let me make something 100 percent clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in co...
Reality Check: GAME SHOW HOST + PRESIDENCY = IMPEACHMENT James Campion October 2, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a...
Reality Check: How Bad Can Trump’s Tax Returns Be (Spoiler Alert: He Thinks They’re Really Bad) James Campion May 15, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Come on, admit it. Even if you continue to defend Donald Trump despite everything, aren’t you the least bit curious as to why he has never released his tax returns despite every candidate since Richard Nixon do...
Reality Check: Trump vs. Kim II: This Time, It’s Even More Stupid and Just as Meaningless James Campion March 6, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I know much should not be expected from a game show host posing as president, but this one takes the cake—even for The Donald. How he has been twice-suckered by the North Korean dictator is beyond comprehension...
