Ron Lewis

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Aides to all four other living US presidents tell CNN’s @Sam_Waldenberg and @jeffzeleny that they haven’t spoken to Trump about Iran. Trump claimed today that a former president endorsed the war by telling him “I wish I did what you did.” cnn.com/world/live-new…

Secretary Hegseth lacks the emotional maturity for this job. He is incapable of explaining the American position without being belligerent, and he is acting surprised that the things he was presumably briefed would happen are happening.

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. "These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless. "And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. "The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. "Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now." - Charles Pierce

Congress Is Betraying America's Founders by Ceding Power to Trump The concentration of power in the modern presidency isn’t an accident. It’s the result of Congress giving up its authority. Commentary, only on @AppleNews: apple.news/A3BI6GaKRSCig-…

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulating by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House, according to WaPo. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/wh…

The president and Republicans in Congress are doing all they can to stifle voter registration ahead of the midterm election. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

Donald Trump’s plan to steal the 2026 midterm elections is already underway.

We’ve been raising the alarm for weeks about Trump’s attacks on our elections — now we’re getting details about how they might be planning to do it. Let’s be clear: there’s no national emergency. This is a plot to interfere with the will of voters.

URGENT Trump Iranian missile claim unsupported by U.S. intelligence, say sources reut.rs/4b2LktI reut.rs/4b2LktI

President Trump has repeatedly insisted that non-citizen voting is widespread in U.S. elections. But research shows it's extremely rare. time.com/7381495/trump-…

President Trump “misused the State of the Union ritual in ways so radical as to call the ritual itself into question,” @davidfrum argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…

President Trump tonight claimed that the man who killed Iryna Zarutska on transit in Charlotte last summer "came in through open borders.” The man charged with the murder is an American whose Facebook page says he was born in Charlotte, the Charlotte Observer reports. charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-…

Opinion: Voters wanted Trump to talk about prices and the cost of living. But all the president did was tell Americans that everything is great. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

Egregious lies about US elections. Numerous false claims about the economy and tariffs. Fictional figures. A claim that a US-born murder defendant "came in through open borders." A promise to always protect Medicaid after slashing funding for Medicaid. Much more. Fact-checking Trump's State of the Union: cnn.com/2026/02/24/pol…

Throughout President Trump's State of the Union, ABC News live fact-checked some of his statements that may have been exaggerated, need more context or are false. Trump continued to claim that he ended eight wars — despite evidence to the contrary. abcnews.link/JOLY2Wf

President Donald Trump made false claims in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks. cnn.it/4rCUXpX

Congratulations to our hometown Olympian, @laila_edwards21, on bringing home the gold! 🥇

🥇From one Clevelander to another, congratulations to Laila Edwards and @usahockey on bringing home the GOLD! #LetEmKnow