The text of the indictment of Donald Trump provides a compelling chronicle of serious misconduct. It is a remarkable document with internal support from an… Read More »The Trump Indictment: Necessary But Not Sufficient
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal continued its remarkable campaign to downplay Donald Trump’s criminal misuse of presidential records. It did so with a desperate… Read More »Mara-a-Lago Mysteries and the Wall Street Journal: a Coda
My August 16 post was titled “Mar-a-Lago: The Questions and the Shame.” Since that time, some significant information has become available, but those vital questions… Read More »The Mar-a-Lago Mysteries and the Wall Street Journal
I admit to being among those who initially doubted the wisdom of the dramatic execution of a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. I tended to assume… Read More »Mar-a-Lago: The Questions and the Shame
It has been little more than a month since the last Bulletin, but our President has been far from idle in generating New Lows. There… Read More »Trump New Lows Tracker. Bulletin No. 6 (Updates and Nos. 18-22)
One of the collateral effects of the focus on Donald Trump’s treatment of women has been to distract attention from several other problematic aspects of his candidacy, including the Trump Foundation. Shortly before the disclosure of the 2005 Trump video tape, we had asked a friend of long standing, Suzanne Garment, to write a guest blog on the subject of the Trump Foundation, a subject that we believe deserves renewed consideration. (The Clinton Foundation has raised serious issues, but rather different ones, which we hope to address in a separate blog).
Suzanne Garment is a tax lawyer who has specialized in foundation work in recent years. She is also the author of Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics, and for several years wrote a weekly column, “Capitol Chronicle” in the Wall Street Journal.
Read More »Guest Blog. The Donald J. Trump Foundation: Why Should We Care?