“How many different ways does Trump need to tell you he’s going to rule as a dictator before you believe him?” Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, praised Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday night for his authoritarian leadership during an event at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or […]
WHITE HOUSE — Retiring U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley forcefully defended American democracy and the Constitution on Friday, as he handed the reins of the military’s top post to his successor, General Charles Q. Brown Jr. “We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion. […]
“The purge happening at the Department of Defense, in the middle of a messy transition, should worry us all.” Fears that a possible slow-motion coup is in progress in the United States continued to grow on Wednesday, as observers sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump’s decision to install “extreme Republican partisans” at the Pentagon after […]