Scholar Reza Aslan explains why it's time to treat Trump as an enemy of the state -- before it's too late

Scholar Reza Aslan explains why it's time to treat Trump as an enemy of the state -- before it's too late: As we now understand, white evangelical Christians form the core of Donald Trump’s support, despite the president’s abundant and well-publicized personal failings. A recent poll by PRRI revealed that 75 percent of white evangelicals support Trump, apparently an all-time high. This group that has long insisted that a president’s “moral character” was of primary importance has evidently and abruptly changed its collective mind. This article was originally published at Salon It is hardly breaking news that Trump would fail …

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers: The 101st Airborne Division chaplains have fired the longstanding Jewish lay leaders at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, allegedly without providing any reason, effectively ending Friday night Shabbat services for Jewish soldiers and their families.

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers

Army investigates 101st Airborne chaplains accused of dismantling on-post programs for Jewish soldiers: The 101st Airborne Division chaplains have fired the longstanding Jewish lay leaders at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, allegedly without providing any reason, effectively ending Friday night Shabbat services for Jewish soldiers and their families.

REVEALED: Trump used his ‘John Barron’ alias to lie about his wealth — and sneak onto the Forbes 400

REVEALED: Trump used his ‘John Barron’ alias to lie about his wealth — and sneak onto the Forbes 400: Jonathan Greenberg, an investigative reporter who used to write for Forbes, has written an extensively documented article for the Washington Post detailing how President Donald Trump once used his alias “John Barron” to lie about his personal wealth. Specifically, Greenberg says that, while writing up Forbes’ annual list of the 400 richest people in America in 1984, he received a phone call from a Trump Organization official who went by the name of John Barron and who informed …

'Quislings, collaborators and stooges': MSNBC's Scarborough rips into Trump's Fox News 'apologists'

'Quislings, collaborators and stooges': MSNBC's Scarborough rips into Trump's Fox News 'apologists': Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-FL) believes that defending President Donald Trump will “forever stain” the reputations some leading Fox News conservatives. Writing in The Washington Post, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe slammed the “miserable crew” attacking special counsel Robert Mueller. “These are desperate times for the quislings of Trump,” Scarborough observed. “The cost of collaborating with President Trump in the continued debasement of American democracy is becoming far too high.” He observed that “the …

Trump's Homeland Security will begin tracking news outlets, journalists and ‘social media influencers’: report

Trump's Homeland Security will begin tracking news outlets, journalists and ‘social media influencers’: report: The U.S. National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) will begin creating a database to track and monitor hundreds of thousands of news outlets, journalists, bloggers, and “social media influencers,” in the latest Trump-world development of what sounds like a bad dystopian novel. If you’ve never heard of the National Protection and Programs Directorate, don’t be alarmed, few have. If you think it sounds like something out of a World War II era spy novel, or “Nineteen …

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Trump is still the least popular president of all time according to Nate Silver

Trump is still the least popular president of all time according to Nate Silver: Allies of Donald Trump have increasingly been pushing back on stories of his intense unpopularity. Trump is falsely claiming that his approval rating is higher than Obama’s and Fox is thumping his seven-point increase in the past month. Even liberal outlets like New York magazine are reporting that Trump’s numbers are “on the rise.” But Trump is benefitting from low expectations. Because he’s still the least popular president of all-time according to numbers tracked by …