Author: Bob Weeks
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Remarks: Donald Trump Hosts a Breakfast for GOP Senators at the White House – November 5, 2025
Analysis of remarks by President Donald Trump. He uses an authoritarian-populist influence style that trades procedural restraint for speed and dominance, using fear-laden narratives and high-certainty promises to justify institutional shortcuts and identity-based mobilization.
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Fact-Check: Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview on Indictments, Presidential Records, and Retribution
This interview excerpt demonstrates President Donald Trump’s consistent approach of reframing legal accountability as persecution, misrepresenting legal standards and facts, using grievance-based rhetoric to deflect from direct questioning, and presenting subjective characterizations as established facts.
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Fact-Check: President Trump’s Claims About the Insurrection Act
President Trump’s statements about the Insurrection Act during the October 31, 2025, interview with Norah O’Donnell contained multiple significant factual errors.
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Comey Argues Vindictive and Selective Prosecution
Seeking to dismiss the government’s case, James Comey argues vindictive prosecution and selective prosecution.
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Summary of James B. Comey’s Motion to Dismiss Indictment
This motion presents a fascinating challenge to a federal criminal prosecution based on congressional testimony. Let me break down what’s happening here and why the defense believes these charges should be dismissed before trial.
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President Trump Sits Down with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell: Trade Deals, Government Shutdown, and Foreign Policy Tensions
In a wide-ranging interview at Mar-a-Lago on October 31, 2025, President Donald Trump defended his trade agreement with China’s President Xi Jinping, announced plans to resume nuclear weapons testing after more than 30 years, and took a hard line on the ongoing government shutdown while blaming Democrats for refusing to extend funding.
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How President Trump Is Dismantling Our Democracy, One Piece at a Time
CREW’s detailed report argues that President Donald Trump’s second administration, beginning in January 2025, has pursued a coordinated and incremental erosion of democratic norms through corruption, politicization of justice and the military, regulatory retaliation, and suppression or distortion of public information.
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Trump, Biden, Obama Votes
In this statement attributed to Donald J. Trump, he asserts that Joe Biden received 15 million more votes in 2020 than Barack Obama did in 2012 (81 million vs. 65.9 million). Trump further claims Biden “beat” Obama in every swing state among Black voters despite those voters supposedly “hating him,” concluding that the 2020 election…
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Misleading on Gerrymandering
The meme simplifies a complex issue by equating disproportional outcomes with gerrymandering and by ignoring structural and geographic factors that explain seat distribution.
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Why don’t you make the vaccine safe?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that during a 1980s meeting between Wyeth (now Pfizer) and the Reagan administration, pharmaceutical executives demanded immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits, claiming vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe,” which led to the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
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About Trump Derangement Syndrome
Making accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a textbook example of political pathologizing – that is, framing disagreement as evidence of mental illness or “sickness.”
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Donald Trump Addresses a Business Leaders Dinner in Tokyo – October 28, 2025
Analysis of a speech given by President Donald J. Trump in Tokyo.