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tremendous content
Feb. 19, 2024
14 Times Donald Trump Had the Best, Most Beautiful Props From gaudy gold sneakers to Sharpie-scrawled notes on a scandal, no one shows off sketchy documents and merch like the former president.
trump indictment
June 13, 2023
The DOJ Tried to Give Trump a Pass. He Wouldn’t Take It. The government gave the ex-president a chance to get away with willfully retaining classified documents. He refused to take it.
By Eric Levitz
Wyoming GOP Declares Liz Cheney Woman Without a Party The state party no longer recognizes the outspoken Trump critic as a Republican.
By Benjamin Hart
When the Capitol Riot Came Home A police chief’s words to a reporter on January 6 upended a little New Hampshire town and roiled state politics.
By Shawn McCreesh
conservatism
Feb. 24, 2021
Trump’s Reconquest of the GOP May Have an Upside for Democracy Averting minority rule requires radicalizing Senate Democrats. The GOP renewing its vows of fealty to Trump facilitates that task.
By Eric Levitz
The Kindler, Gentler Twitter Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway think Donald Trump’s absence has already made the platform a healthier place.
By Intelligencer Staff
capitol riot
Feb. 11, 2021
Trump’s Treatment of Pence During Capitol Riot Was Even Worse Than We Knew The president learned his veep was in danger, then almost immediately castigated him on Twitter.
By Benjamin Hart
transition liveblog
Jan. 28, 2021
Biden Moves to Undo Trump Health Policies: Live Updates President Biden is signing executive actions that expand access to health care amid the pandemic and begin unraveling his predecessor’s policies.
By Intelligencer Staff
Republicans Who Condemned Trump Are Being Condemned by the GOP Arizona Republicans were censured for wavering from their support of Trump, while GOP reps who voted for impeachment face early primary challengers.
By Matt Stieb
Trump Repeatedly Pressured Justice Department to Help Overturn Election After DOJ leaders refused to file a Supreme Court lawsuit, Trump nearly fired the acting attorney general just days before the attack on Congress.
By Chas Danner
Don’t Fall for Trump’s Latest Distraction Leaving the White House in disgrace is his most cunning diversion yet.
By Benjamin Hart
inauguration
Jan. 20, 2021
By Benjamin Hart
7 Ways Trump Changed Sports Forever He left a permanent imprint — and not entirely in a bad way.
By Will Leitch
president trump
Jan. 19, 2021
We’re Lucky the Trump Presidency Wasn’t Worse Electing an authoritarian reality star brought us mass death and insurrection. But it’s also left us with a fighting chance to fortify our democracy.
By Eric Levitz
Could Trump’s Going Away Ceremony Be a Ghost Town? Invites for the final event of Trump’s presidency suggest there are concerns it may be poorly attended.
By Matt Stieb
the end stage
Jan. 18, 2021
Trump Plans to Issue at Least 100 Pardons and Commutations on Tuesday He is also reportedly still considering whether or not to try to preemptively pardon himself and his family members and aides.
By Chas Danner
president trump
Jan. 13, 2021
In Twist Ending, Trump Presidency Revealed to Be Morality Tale By putting victory above all else, the greedy old man lost what he valued most.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Jan. 12, 2021
As ‘Woke Capital’ Turns on Trump, the GOP Turns on ‘Small Government’ The movement for “small government” is starting to realize that it has more influence over the state than it does over the corporate sector.
By Eric Levitz
Bill Belichick Can’t Escape Trump That Easily The Patriots coach declined a Medal of Freedom, but his and other Trump-friendly sports figures’ legacies remain linked to the president.
By Will Leitch
capitol riot
Jan. 11, 2021
The Trump Reckoning Spreads to the Golf World Becoming a pariah in pro golf will impact some of Trump’s least-dysfunctional businesses as he faces $900 million in loans coming due by 2024.
By Matt Stieb
impeachment
Jan. 11, 2021
By Benjamin Hart
White House Forced Out U.S. Attorney Amid Effort to Overturn Election in Georgia The top federal prosecutor in Atlanta, Byung Pak, was reportedly told to resign because Trump was upset he didn’t help find voter fraud in Georgia.
By Chas Danner
The Silence of the Damned Without his tweets, it’s like Trump’s presidency is already over.
By Olivia Nuzzi
Trump Also Made Call to Pressure Georgia Election Investigator The president called the state’s top elections investigator on December 23 and urged them to “find the fraud.”
By Chas Danner
the republican party
Jan. 7, 2021
The GOP’s Leaders Are Ditching Trump. Will His Base Ditch Them? After Wednesday’s insurrection, the divide between the Republican old guard and their party’s voting base is larger than ever before.
By Eric Levitz
president trump
Jan. 6, 2021
This Is What Trumpism Without Trump Looks Like Trump mobilized a white-supremacist tradition that he cannot control.
By Sarah Jones
Impeach and Remove Trump Now The president just incited a violent insurrection. He can’t be allowed to remain in power another day.
By Eric Levitz
georgia senate runoffs
Jan. 5, 2021
4 Big Questions About Post-Trump Politics That the Georgia Runoffs May Answer Today’s election will provide our first clues about what American politics will look like in the post-Trump era.
By Eric Levitz
georgia senate runoffs
Jan. 5, 2021
The Strangest Moments From the Last Meaningful Trump Rally In a speech to boost support for Republican candidates in Georgia, Trump frequently went after other GOP figures for not supporting his coup attempt.
By Matt Stieb
conservatism
Jan. 4, 2021
House GOP Admits It Opposes Democracy, Not Voter Fraud House Republicans claimed that they object to affirming Biden’s victory out of concern for voter fraud. A colleague just called their bluff.
By Eric Levitz
Did Trump Break the Law by Pressuring Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes? Former prosecutors and legal experts suggest that the president could be criminally liable for his phone call to Georgia’s secretary of State.
By Matt Stieb
contested election
Jan. 3, 2021
Futile Ploy to Overturn Election in Congress Divides GOP Republicans in the Senate and House are publicly at odds over a pointless plan to block the certification of Biden’s win out of loyalty to Trump.
By Chas Danner
the national interest
Jan. 3, 2021
By Jonathan Chait
extraterrestrials
Jan. 2, 2021
Trump and UFOs: The Greatest Hits How the president handled the incredible extraterrestrial developments that broke while he was in office.
By Matt Stieb
Senate Overrides Trump’s Veto of National Defense Authorization Act But a last-ditch effort to increase COVID stimulus checks to $2,000 failed.
By Chas Danner
that happened
Dec. 29, 2020
The Time Trump Ranted About Hair Spray Quality to Coal Miners A moment that spoke to the president’s strange, contradictory brand of masculinity.
By Eve Peyser
wishful thinking
Dec. 28, 2020
Trump Is Still Pretending He Won the Nobel Peace Prize The superimposition of the Nobel Prize over a clip of Trump with Arab and Israeli leaders implied that he won the humanitarian award. He has not.
By Matt Stieb
coronavirus stimulus
Dec. 27, 2020
Trump Keeps Golfing As Jobless COVID Aid Expires, Shutdown Nears The president’s refusal to sign the bipartisan omnibus spending bill, which includes $900 billion in COVID relief, is already having consequences.
By Chas Danner
that happened
Dec. 21, 2020
The Time Trump Signed Into a Holocaust Museum Like It Was a Bar Mitzvah A look back at the many times the Trump administration accidentally — and not so accidentally — disrespected Judaism.
By Eric Levitz
Barr Pans Trump’s Coup Schemes in Final Press Conference The outgoing attorney general reiterated that he is not onboard with some of the extreme measures the president has reportedly been seeking.
By Chas Danner
The All-Time Funniest Photos of President Trump His presidency is almost over, but these images will live forever.
By Intelligencer Staff
make showers great again
Dec. 16, 2020
Trump Has Finally Achieved His Policy Dream: Harder Showers The administration rolled back regulations on showerheads, meaning the president will no longer have to worry about water “very quietly dripping out.”
By Matt Stieb
post-presidency
Dec. 15, 2020
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Neighbors Want Him to Retire Somewhere Else: Report The president’s Palm Beach neighbors reminded him that he can’t technically live at the “winter White House” due to an agreement he made in 1993.
By Matt Stieb
that happened
Dec. 15, 2020
The Time Trump Told Boy Scouts About Sexy Yacht Parties The president’s address to the Boy Scout Jamboree featured attacks on enemies and underlings, as well as risqué tales of his own greatness.
By Margaret Hartmann
department of justice
Dec. 14, 2020
Trump: Attorney General William Barr Will Resign Next Week Barr and Trump were closely aligned until after the election, when the AG refused to sign on to the president’s baseless fraud claims.
By Matt Stieb
‘GOP Lawmakers Are Scared’: Republican Insiders Vent About ‘Stop the Steal’ Party operatives sound off by text on Trump and his loyalists’ desperate legal antics.
By Ben Jacobs
coronavirus vaccine
Dec. 13, 2020
White House Staffers Among the First to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine: Report As a reward for a months-long coronavirus disinformation campaign, top Trump staffers will be some of the first to receive doses of the vaccine.
By Matt Stieb
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