By Robert Romano On Twitter on April 20 , President Donald Trump has said if there’s an upside to the DNC lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Wikileaks and Russia , he said “we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI…” But according to the DNC’s filing , the committee may have destroyed all the evidence of the alleged hack […]

By Robert Romano When Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with President Donald Trump on April 12 , the President was assured that he was not the target of any investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Bloomberg reports . This raises an interesting question: Why is there even a special counsel then? On March 2, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself “from […]

By Robert Romano President Donald Trump is back to the issue that got him elected more than any other and transformed the U.S. electoral map in 2016, and that is rejecting the 11-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that had been proposed by former President Barack Obama. On Twitter on April 17, Trump appeared to rule out the TPP once and for all : […]

By Robert Romano Indivisible.org is at it again, openly organizing more than 2,300 school walkouts on April 19 and April 20 to call for a “nationwide protest of our leaders’ failure to pass laws that protect us from gun violence,” urging more nationwide gun control laws in the wake of the Parkland, Fla. massacre in February. The purpose of the protest is purely about […]

By Robert Romano “It might have been a mistake.” That was former FBI Director James Comey appearing on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos that aired April 15 , admitting that on Jan. 6, 2017 when he assured then President-Elect Donald Trump that he was not under FBI investigation for Russia collusion, it was very misleading. Comey had just […]

By Robert Romano “By the way, we just found out, I was just coming down, Michael Cohen… is a very talented lawyer, he’s a good lawyer at my firm, it was just reported that it wasn’t this Michael Cohen they were talking about. So, all night long, […]

By Robert Romano The U.S. is vulnerable to installing imported, vulnerable computer hardware from China and elsewhere with hidden backdoors on critical infrastructure, like the power grid, water systems, hospitals, air traffic control, communications and defense-related systems. And the American people may not find out about it […]

By Robert Romano House Speaker Paul Ryan is not running for reelection in 2018, but apparently intends to serve out his term as House Speaker. That brings the wave of House Republicans retiring or running for different offices this cycle up to 40. That, after the $1.3 […]

By Robert Romano “It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense.  It’s an attack on what we all stand for.” That was President Donald Trump’s reaction to the FBI raid of the residence and office of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Later, on Twitter, Trump declared , “Attorney–client privilege is dead!” The President is right. The Sixth Amendment […]

By Robert Romano Diamond and Silk, two pro-Trump commentators, have scored a significant concession from Facebook after the social media site labeled their videos “unsafe to the community.” The pair say their social media traffic was doing great but that suddenly it had been throttled in recent months, with many users […]

By Robert Romano Two key arguments are often made by those warning of a trade war with China, which is that Beijing could inflict major damage by cutting off the export of rare earth metals and by dumping its $1 trillion horde of U.S. treasuries. But on […]

By Robert Romano One of the most evil aspects of Nazi ideology was the dehumanization of its opponents: the Jews, communists, Poles, Gypsies, gays and so forth. It was a necessary precondition, psychologically, for what ultimately became mass murder. But it takes other forms, too, that are […]

By Robert Romano In the past month, President Donald Trump has levied a 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, hit China with $60 billion of tariffs for intellectual property theft and steel dumping, got South Korea to give major concessions on steel dumping […]

By Robert Romano On March 2, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself “from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.” Arguably, as far as recusals go, it was too broad and did not narrowly list what specific part […]

By Robert Romano Parkland surviving student David Hogg has now expanded his national gun control campaign to seek to silence dissident voices, including Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, after Ingraham mocked Hogg’s rejections from some colleges. Hogg then threatened to wage a national boycott of prominent advertisers on Ingraham’s program , resulting in 17 advertisers pulling out the program as of this writing. Fortunately, so far, […]