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1) From Max Rego's 6-7-26 THE HILL article entitled "Four Takeaways from Trump’s Explosive Interview":
[T]he interview got a bit heated more than 35 minutes in, after the president [...] repeated his false claim that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” in favor of former President Biden and said that “it’s happening again right now in California.”
In the Golden State, vote-counting is still ongoing — with 73 percent of the vote counted as of Sunday morning, according to Decision Desk HQ.
While Democrat Xavier Becerra will advance to the November general election, according to Decision Desk HQ, whom he will face is uncertain — Republican Steve Hilton, in second, leads Democrat Tom Steyer by 4.78 points.
Trump criticized California for the delay in tallying,
asking [Kristen] Welker, “Do you think it’s appropriate that they have
an election and five days later, they’re nowhere close to picking a
winner?”
The president then said that election officials in California are “crooked,” along with Welker and her media colleagues [...].
Welker
replied, “To be fair. I’m not crooked,” and attempted to move the
conversation along. She also repeatedly noted that there is no evidence
that the 2020 presidential election or the California primary was
rigged.
“You’re either crooked or you’re stupid,” the president
responded. “You play right into their hands with this crap. You know
that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they’re
rigged.”
Trump later said, “Your elections are crooked, and you’re crooked, and ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked.”
“And so is ABC and CBS and CNN.” He then called NBC News a “one-sided crooked network.”
“Sorry.
Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a
good time,” the president added, before taking off his microphone and
tossing it to the ground.
To read Rego's entire article, click HERE.
2) From Ben Blanchet's 6-7-26 HUFFPOST article entitled "'Dude Is Losing His ****': Trump Clowned For Rage Quitting On 'Meet The Press'":
Journalist Ahmed Baba used the clip to declare that the president "unravels when his delusional unreality faces the slightest pushback."He wrote, "When he's out of his sycophantic bubble, he's forced to grapple with the fragility of his lies, the backlash to his overreach, and his mounting political weakness. He can't handle the truth."
To read Blanchet's entire article, click HERE.
3) From Ralph Nader's 6-1-26 COUNTERPUNCH article entitled "Tyrant Trump’s Thunderous Corruption, Cruelty, and Lawbreaking":
Trump’s wrecking, endangering, and weakening of America worsens by the day, as he doubles down and calls his critics “deranged,” “demented,” “wackos,” “weak,” “low-IQ,” “crazy,” and “treasonous.” Moreover, his vicious expletives expand by the day.
However, the Tide is finally turning against the failed gambling Czar and Netanyahu dittohead. Trump’s relentless greed is starting to undermine his dwindling support, despite his control of the Republican primaries. The headlines tell the story of his decline, and not just in the polls, with approval ratings down to 35%. The majority of Americans polled – nearing sixty percent – want him impeached and removed from office. This demand comes without the backing of the Democratic Party leadership, still skittish about mounting an Impeachment Drive. The case for Impeachment is aided and abetted daily by Trump’s outrages [...].
So, the water in the Senate GOP’s cauldron may be starting to boil. They know about Nixon’s experience in 1974 coming off winning 49 out of 50 states in the 1972 election. With Nixon’s polls sinking after the Watergate scandal (a quaintly modest one-time crime, compared to Trump’s hundreds of continuing scandals), the Congressional GOP saw itself sinking in the 1974 elections. A delegation of GOP Senators went to the White House and told Nixon, “Mr. President, your time is up.” Nixon resigned days later.
One can envision something similar today. Trump is an unstable lame duck outlaw, including violating congressional authorities. Republicans have to face the voters in November. They are likely to lose the House. The Senate has 20 Republican Senators up for election compared to only 12 Democrats. They have a three-vote margin now. Trump, given his economy, his chosen wars, his unrestrained greed and self-enrichment, is making prospects of a Democratic win in the Senate more possible.
Had the Democrats not ceded half the states (the red states) to the Republicans decades ago, leaving behind remnants of their organized presence, almost all the Republican Senators running this year could be at risk. Instead, only about six have competitive races – thank you, obtuse Democratic Party.
To read Nader's entire article, click HERE.
4) From Alfred W. McCoy's 6-3-26 COUNTERPUNCH article entitled "After America":
Since most Americans came late (if at all) to the realization that their country was indeed an imperial power, and a stunningly powerful one at that, they have generally remained oblivious to its aging and the inevitable erosion of global power that accompanies such aging. Ever since, in the late eighteenth century, English scholar Edward Gibbon published his monumental, multi-volume study, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, succeeding imperial rulers have tended to assume that their imperial realms would last, like ancient Rome’s, half a millennium or more. Adolf Hitler, with his dream of “the Thousand-Year Reich,” was hardly the only one to share such an illusion [...].
In his second term, President Trump’s foreign policy has further weakened the U.S. global position. At the western axial end of the Eurasian continent, he compromised NATO, the largest and longest-lasting alliance in modern military history, by pressing Denmark, a founding member of the alliance, to cede its sovereign territory of Greenland, creating a serious crisis and compelling the Europeans to begin acting autonomously when it came to both trade and defense issues.
At the eastern end of Eurasia, Trump’s intervention in Iran and the blocking of key oil supplies to Asia, thanks to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, weakened longstanding bilateral alliances with Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. The thousands of missiles the U.S. has fired at Iran have also reduced its ability to defend the island of Taiwan and forced Washington to begin withdrawing stocks of missiles from South Korea — exposing both the limits of its military power and Asia’s lowered priority.
As the New York Times editorial board put it after Donald Trump’s recent Beijing summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping (where the U.S. president showed a “worrisome lack of interest” in Taiwan), “America’s inability to defeat Iran’s much smaller military has raised questions about whether it could help defend Taiwan from a mainland invasion.” If China ultimately takes that island, the U.S. defensive perimeter in the Pacific would be pushed back from the “first island chain” (Japan-Taiwan-the Philippines) to the “second island chain” (Japan-Guam) — inflicting a major geopolitical blow on the U.S. by crippling its capacity to aid its Asian allies.
More broadly, the Trump administration’s plans, as stated in its recent National Security Strategy, for “a readjustment of our global military presence” by shifting forces into the Western Hemisphere would be tantamount, if fully implemented, to a unilateral surrender in what foreign policy experts have come to call “the new Cold War” with Beijing and Moscow.
To read McCoy's entire article, click HERE.
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