During his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in July, Donald Trump doubled down on a well-worn riff about one of his administration’s major foreign policy achievements. Because he “got along very well” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he had persuaded Kim to stop conducting ballistic missile …
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Fact checking columns have been around for some time but gained new popularity with the rise of Donald Trump as a way for news outlets to appear adversarial toward a politician whose rhetoric is consistently, thoroughly detached from reality, without doing the legwork. Nine years after he first started running …
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The publisher behind Kristi Noem’s new political memoir, No Going Back, may be wishing they could take it all back. On Monday, Noem again ducked questions about her claims of meeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, once again refusing to discuss her interactions with world leaders when questioned by …
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After shooting her own dog, Kristi Noem now seems to be gunning for Joe Biden‘s pooch, Commander. In a trainwreck of an interview, Noem defended a passage where she seems to suggest Commander should be shot. She also defended her decision to remove a part of the book where she …
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