Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Trump’s gone from sitting in court getting sued to suing. At the Cannes Film Festival a filmmaker played his movie, The Apprentice, a biography about Trump as a young man building his real estate empire in Manhattan, his first marriage to Ivana, his friendship with Roy Cohn. Who knows how much was true. But it…
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Surely, I thought, this isn’t true. Not even the Trump-MAGA crowd would boast that one result of Trump’s election would be a “Unified Reich.” “Reich.” Like Hitler’s Third Reich. But there it was, on Trump’s Truth Social account, among messages flashing across the screen: “Trump wins!!”, “Economy booms!” and – yes – a headline with…
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Taunting Trump, Biden quipped, ‘He’s not a good loser – but he is a loser.’ Taunting again, mocking Trump saying ‘injecting bleach’ might stop coronavirus, quipped, ‘I think that’s what he did. That’s why he’s so screwy.’ Biden also said when he took office inflation was 9% – even CNN couldn’t shallow that one, pointed…
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Memorial Day My publisher called with good news – my memoir, about 50 years of politics, from Reagan to Trump, is going to be published in August. As we talked I asked, What do you read these days for news? He mentioned The Free Press. So, I went to their website, signed up, and today…
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You couldn’t make this stuff up. Trump posted on Truth Social that Biden’s Justice Department: ‘AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE’ when it searched his home at Mar-a-Lago, for classified documents. When she read Trump’s post Marjorie Taylor Greene’s eyes popped – minutes later she took to Twitter: ‘The DOJ and FBI were…
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After 70 years, North Carolina’s school segregationists are nearing their cherished goal: destroying the public schools and replacing them with racially segregated private schools. And you, the taxpayer, are paying for it. On May 17, 1954, 70 years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional. Across the South, and…
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Pompous, mean tongued, to abolish slavery – in 1856 – Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner tore into two senators who owned slaves, calling one ‘a noise-some, squat, nameless animal,’ saying the other had a mistress, ‘the harlot, slavery.’ Sitting at his desk in the empty Senate chamber two days later, head bent, leaning down writing, Sumner…
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A Hollywood star growled Trump’s like ‘Hitler’ on TV. Trump roared Biden’s a ‘total moron’ at a rally. There’s not much kindness left in this election. ‘The past isn’t dead it’s not even past’ is an old truth. Reading dry tomes, diaries, following threads, Erik Larson just wrote a book about the firing on Fort…
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Today’s blog, which responds to Carter’s post “Deceit and Betrayal,” was written by a thoughtful reader who prefers not to be named. I agree with their opinion, and I can’t say it any better. Carter, you have written a column accusing President Biden of “deceit and betrayal,” reporting that he had “refused to send Israel…
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Watergate sunk Nixon. Jimmy Carter was elected. Two years later Jesse Helms ran for reelection. In…
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We Americans are angry this Christmas. 77 million voters were so angry they elected Trump. 75…
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‘You tell a lot of good stories about Reagan, like his saying a prayer for the…
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