Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Majestic: Across the street this morning in Milford
My view through the window above my writing desk.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/majestic-across-the-street-this-morning
1 day ago
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Renee Nicole Good. Say her name. Remember this day. This is where we are, and this is what is happening in the United States of America on January 9, 2026.
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Donald Trumpâs dictator budget
This week, our president announced that he would like the nationâs defense budget, which already stands at $1 trillion, to be increased by $500 billion, or $600 billion.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-dictator-budget
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What ICE agents are doing in this country has been described accurately as âGestapo tactics.â Law enforcement officers in every state in the Union have been using Gestapo tactics to arrest, harass, beat, kick, and kill U.S. citizens for years.
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Renee Nicole Good, shot dead in Minneapolis, is not alone
By Lucian K.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/renee-nicole-good-shot-dead-in-minneapolis
3 days ago
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Since Miller was not there at the beginning of time, but I was, I will take this time to set forth how hard the âironâ laws of the world are when they apply to the United States. The answer is, not very.
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Is there anyone on earth stupider than Stephen Miller?
The short answer is no.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/is-there-anyone-on-earth-stupider
4 days ago
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So, you call up your spray-tanned and tattooed Secretary of War, and you tell him, go get that fuckstick Maduro in Venezuela and put him in jail in New York City and take their oil.
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Pipeline wars
Letâs say you are an American president, and you decide that with all the oil being produced in your own country â the U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/pipeline-wars
5 days ago
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You may be wondering what the Washington Post has to say about yet another foreign adventure this time around? The Postâs editorial headline says it all: âJustice in Venezuela.â
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A long, long way from Watergate
Every time an American president wakes up in the morning and decides this would be a good day to dispatch the American military to a foreign land for reasons of alleged national security masking plund...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-long-long-way-from-watergate
6 days ago
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First a hurricane, then the Gulf of America, then Venezuela! Yet another victory for his Sharpie!
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Trumpâs plan for Venezuela: A hope, a prayer, and golf
Boy, are the think tank and media foreign policy poohbahs stumped after Trumpâs big kidnapping of Mr.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-plan-for-venezuela-a-hope
7 days ago
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Donald Trump says itâs okay to arrest and prosecute foreign presidents, but according to his Supreme Court, itâs not okay to arrest and prosecute an American president. That makes about as much sense as electing Trump president.
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Prosecuting presidents
Donald Trump says itâs okay to arrest and prosecute foreign presidents, but according to his Supreme Court, itâs not okay to arrest and prosecute an American president.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/prosecuting-presidents
8 days ago
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Shock and awe all over again. Oil all over again. Taking back what was âstolenâ from us, all over again. Blood will be spilled, all over again. Blood is just as red and bodies are just as dead in our backyard as they are 10,000 miles away.
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Insanity redux: Shock and awe in Venezuela
Almost the only difference between what you saw on television today and what you saw in 2003 is that Donald Trump didnât put on a flight suit and land on an aircraft carrier to announce his Venezuelan...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/insanity-redux-shock-and-awe-in-venezuela
8 days ago
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Our constitutional republic is groaning under the weight of 250 years of unconscionable political and moral mendacity. On July 4, Trump will make a fool of himself as he did with his incredibly misbegotten parade last summer. We can do just the opposite.
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On its 250th birthday, our constitutional republic is failing the people it was founded to serve
We have become way too accustomed to the idea that the founders of this country did not foresee the damage that could be done by a madman serving as president.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/on-its-250th-birthday-our-constitutional
9 days ago
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Happy new year from Tracy and me and the menagerie in Milford!
Weâll see you next year, every one of us ready to go get âem.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/happy-new-year-from-tracy-and-me
11 days ago
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This country has dumbed-down and red-necked itself into a level of promiscuous depravity and dishonor that would have been unimaginable to my own parents and grandparents, not to mention my ancestors.
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Fuck this year
Everybody is doing their annual wrap-ups, cataloging the ups and downs of 2025, celebrating the rise of the resistance, predicting success in the midterms in November, trashing Trump and MAGA.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/fuck-this-year
12 days ago
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With his bullshit meetings at Mar a Lago, heâs got his headlines. Heâs got his photo ops. Hell, he pushed the Epstein files right out of the headlines. You remember the Epstein files, donât you?
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Back to back nothingburger meetings at Mar a Lago: WTF is going on?
Do you know what week it is?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/back-to-back-nothingburger-meetings
12 days ago
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Pipsqueak Epsteinâs long shadow is ruining Donald Trumpâs Christmas. Heâs ruining Donald Trumpâs presidency. BwwwaaahhhâŠsobâŠsobâŠ
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The long shadow cast by a tiny man
Letâs see nowâŠIâm trying to figure out how long Donald Trump has been a household name.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-long-shadow-cast-by-a-tiny-man
15 days ago
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My advice as an aging engineer: Channellock pliers can move smoothly from handling problems under the hood to problems of a culinary bent. When they go on sale, make sure that you buy two.
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Holiday emergency instructional: What to do with a recalcitrant zip-closure cheese bag
Lucian V (right) and Violet (rear) wanted cheese toast for lunch on Christmas day, so I got out a loaf of excellent sourdough bread from Better World, our local coffee shop/bakery/book and gift store ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/holiday-emergency-instructional-what
16 days ago
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I was sitting on a pew in St. Markâs just before the reading began when I smelled patchouli and felt a whoosh of feathers and fur to my right and turned to see Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend and a couple of other friends as they slid down the pew.
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Iâve been wondering what Donald Trump would be up to over the holidays at Mar a Lago besides playing golf and visits to special masseuses whom no one has yet âstolenâ from him. Turns out heâs all fired-up about the Naval version of âCall of Doodie.â
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Uh-oh. Somebody has been playing with his Legos again.
Iâve been wondering what Donald Trump would be up to over the holidays down at Mar a Lago besides days of golf followed by pre-burger visits to special masseuses whom no one has yet âstolenâ from him.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/uh-oh-somebody-has-been-playing-with
19 days ago
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We are already waist deep in waters that threaten to swamp the First Amendment, the 14th Amendment and every other Constitutional provision that Donald Trump doesnât like, including the 22nd Amendment that limits a president to two terms in office.
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Bari Weiss is the Pete Hegseth of journalism
Do you have any idea how much of a bumbling just-picked-up-a-paintbrush amateur Bari Weiss is in her new job as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/bari-weiss-is-the-pete-hegseth-of
20 days ago
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Greatness will forever elude this small, pathetic creature in a suit and polished shoes, because greatness cannot be packaged and named like a product or a building. It can only be lived and then accorded by others.
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John F. Kennedy's stolen honor
I hadnât given much thought to the meaning of the word âhonor,â in years, and now I canât think of anything else.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/john-f-kennedys-stolen-honor
21 days ago
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If the goal of releasing the Epstein files is to make those men who joined Epstein in sexually assaulting and raping underage girls accountable for their criminal actions, itâs not going to happen.
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Whatâs happening tonight with the Epstein files is exactly what happens in a completely corrupt police state
If the goal of releasing the Epstein files is to make those men who joined Epstein in sexually assaulting and raping underage girls accountable for their criminal actions, itâs not going to happen.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/whats-happening-tonight-with-the
23 days ago
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Perfection is a series of mistakes that collects incremental bits of wisdom in a process that never ends. Progress is never quite getting where you want to go. You end up where life takes you. Thatâs how you know youâre human.
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Musk and Trump and their AI master race
I was standing at the sink after dinner last night scraping a plate when I started thinking about the new iteration of the word, âscrape.â You see it used all the time to describe how Artificial Intel...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/musk-and-trump-and-their-ai-master
24 days ago
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Susie knew the mainstream media would swallow her bullshit like a martini in some mahogany-paneled boĂźte in Georgetown. Thereâs your news for you.
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Susie Wiles states the obvious. Media swallows it whole.
Why is everyone surprised?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/susie-wiles-states-the-obvious-media
25 days ago
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It wonât be death by a thousand cuts. A few deadly stabs in the back will do. The generals didnât smile when he delivered right-wing applause lines at Quantico. They wonât be smiling when they slip the knife in, either.
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Major Hegsethâs stupid plan of revenge
All you really need to know about Pete Hegseth is that his rank when he left his service in the Army National Guard was Major.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/major-hegseths-stupid-plan-of-revenge
26 days ago
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This man, who refers to himself in the third person as âTrump,â is our president. Making sense of him isnât working now, if it ever did. We are in a race between his unraveling and the unraveling of our country.
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Donald Trump desecrates the memory of Rob Reiner and everything else he touches.
By now you have no doubt heard of Donald Trumpâs post on Truth Social this morning about the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/donald-trump-desecrates-the-memory
27 days ago
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Lucianâs battalion is in exactly the same area at the south end of the post at Fort Carson where I served back in 1969 and 1970. The Army, as my mother used to say, is just a âbig small town.â
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Guarding the border, night and day
My son, First Lieutenant Lucian K.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/guarding-the-border-night-and-day
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This is so gross and creepy, I can't even.
The photo is one of a number from the âpersonal collection of Jeffrey Epsteinâ released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-so-gross-and-creepy-i-cant
30 days ago
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Heâs got portraits of himself on every surface in the White House. How long until we get in the car and drive down the street headed for the 7-ll in the mini-mall on the corner, and heâs staring down at us from a billboard or the side of a building?
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This is what it must be like to live in North Korea
Somehow, we havenât been told who or how or when, but someone in the White House talked Trump into struggling up the stairs into his big 747 Air Force One that he doesnât like anymore, and going somep...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-what-it-must-be-like-to-live
about 1 month ago
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Snow has got us for the second day in a week, and Iâve been got by a bug as well, so Iâm taking the night off. Soup and crackers and Pedialyte and early to bed for me tonight.
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Under the weather
Snow has got us for the second day in a week, and Iâve been got by a bug as well, so Iâm taking the night off.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/under-the-weather-f37
about 1 month ago
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Our politics have gotten only as far as junior high school, but weâre all still in kindergarten when it comes to learning to live together. Sharing is hard because so few of us have learned that when you share, you gain as much as you give up.
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The most difficult thing to teach in kindergarten
What is so hard about sharing?
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-most-difficult-thing-to-teach
about 1 month ago
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The only way any of these pardons makes sense is if Donald Trump was paid off to set these drug dealers and murderers free. This isnât hypocrisy. It is terrorism committed against the American people and our system of laws.
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Trump is pardoning drug dealers like the White House has a drive-thru
Itâs gotten really hard to say what the worst thing is about Donald Trump, but right up there near the top has to be the machine-gun rapidity of his criminality.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-pardoning-drug-dealers-like
about 1 month ago
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It's so cold, the Delaware iced up, and I'm taking the night off
As ever, I have plenty of help relaxing from Tuli and The Box Cat.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/its-so-cold-the-delaware-iced-up
about 1 month ago
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Trumpâs staggeringly ignorant and juvenile introduction to the document is on White House stationery. It is enough to turn your stomach and make you cry for your country.
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Trump makes the racist Great Replacement Theory official U.S. policy
Trump did it with the nationâs official National Security Strategy report that was published late last night on the White House website.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-makes-the-racist-great-replacement
about 1 month ago
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The press covers the Epstein story like its a football game, with one side or the other gaining or losing yardage. But it's not a game. It's a crime.
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We need more moral outrage about Epsteinâs and Trumpâs crimes
I had intended to write a column tonight about the pending release of the Epstein grand jury materials from Florida, where he was investigated, but not federally indicted, for crimes including solicit...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/we-need-more-moral-outrage-about
about 1 month ago
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It looks like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Jean Pirro, and Dan Bongino have arrested the guy who bought enough components to put together galvanized pipe, wires, steel wool and kitchen timers and produced two elaborate duds.
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Capitol bombing suspect arrested today has not been pardoned by TrumpâŠyet!
The far reaches of the wingnut-o-sphere have spent the late afternoon and early evening attempting to tie a 30-year-old man who lived with his mother in a four-bedroom Colonial in the suburbs of Washi...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/capitol-bombing-suspect-arrested
about 1 month ago
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Steel yourself
Unless I miss my guess, a new Big Lie is on the way.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/steel-yourself
about 1 month ago
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This is the way stories about the demise of a cabinet secretary classically begin: The knives are out for Schmucko at the Department of Mistakes Were Made. This time itâs more like the bazookas are out for Champagne Pete.
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In the bunker with Pete
This is the way stories about the demise of a cabinet secretary classically begin: The knives are out for Schmucko at the Department of Mistakes Were Made.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-bunker-with-pete
about 1 month ago
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Thatâs where all his payoffs are. No more paper trails. No more electronic trails. No more evidence of corruption. It all happens out there in a mysterious, impenetrable land called crypto. What other conclusion can you draw?
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Our president is a thief. What other conclusion can you draw?
News outlets are reporting this morning that former Honduran president Juan Orlando HernĂĄndez has been released from a federal prison in West Virginia after Donald Trump gave him a âfull and complete ...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/our-president-is-a-thief-what-other
about 1 month ago
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I have been working on a column for tomorrow called âWhat other conclusion can you draw?â I can report that a night off with the Box Cat and Tracy and the rest of our menagerie has been restorative.
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It may not look like it, but...
I have been working on a column for tomorrow called âWhat other conclusion can you draw?â
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/it-may-not-look-like-it-but
about 1 month ago
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Crime pays. That has always been Trumpâs motto. Crimes have victims, and the question this country faces every day is, when will enough of Trumpâs victims in this county be mad enough to fight back?
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There is no such thing as a war crime to Donald Trump
Tomorrow, two of Donald Trumpâs loyal underlings, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, will get on an airplane owned by the U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-war-crime
about 1 month ago
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a fanatic who has hired other fanatics such as Vinay Prasad to carry out an ideological assault on the healthcare of more than 300 million Americans because Donald Trump empowered them.
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What is going on right now at the FDA will cause thousands to die
Most of the shenanigans and just plain idiocy involve this guy, Vinay Prasad, an RFK Jr.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/what-is-going-on-right-now-at-the
about 1 month ago
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Bullets donât care who they kill or where. Sadness from loss abounds when war is made and even when it ends. It is equally sad that this fact is not remembered by leaders who inflict war on soldiers and civilian victims.
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The D.C. National Guard shooting is so wrong on so many levels
Letâs begin with the egregious error that in August, the Capital and West Virginia and Louisiana National Guard were deployed in Washington D.C.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-dc-national-guard-shooting-is
about 1 month ago
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âTwas the night before Thanksgiving When all through the disgusting, gilded, marbled, half-demolished White House Not a Stephen Miller was stirring, not even a louse
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A Mar a Lago Thanksgiving
âTwas the night before Thanksgiving
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/a-mar-a-lago-thanksgiving
about 2 months ago
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Where is it written that speaking out in defense of liberty is an illegal act? In the minds and morals of these people who want to destroy laws and lives and the Constitution itself.
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Hegseth is not fit to carry Senator Mark Kellyâs laundry
Oh boy, is Senator Kelly in trouble now.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hegseth-is-not-fit-to-carry-senator
about 2 months ago
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Stay tuned. Donald Trump has been trying to get Comey charged with a crime for nine years. This may be the week when we learn whether or not the charges he has ginned-up will stick.
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Comey indictment dismissed in confusion of cases challenging Halligan's appointment and behavior
A federal judge in Virginia, Cameron McGowan Currie, dismissed the indictment of James Comey today in a ruling which involved whether interim U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/comey-indictment-dismissed-in-confusion
about 2 months ago
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Trump knows Republicans are going to lose the House and might lose the Senate. If that happens, heâs going to face another Bill of Impeachment in the House and trial in the Senate. Trump hasnât got enough gold leaf to paper over his ego if that happens.
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Trump is vulnerable. Hit him. Then hit him harder.
The raging trash fire that is the so-called âpeace planâ for Ukraine is all the evidence you need that Donald Trump has not only lost the narrative, heâs lost the last clue he ever had about the locat...
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-vulnerable-hit-him-then
about 2 months ago
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The whole thing sounds like a typical Trump cobbled-together total clusterfuck at this point. Stay tuned. By midnight, they might be pushing the line that Little Green Men threw the thing down from a hovering UFO.
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So-called "peace deal" already falling apart
The Witkoff-negotiated âpeace dealâ is now being reported as not a U.S.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/so-called-peace-deal-already-falling
about 2 months ago
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Trump has his nose shoved so far up Putinâs ass, itâs amazing he can see enough to play golf. The question is, why? This week, we got our answer: Trumpâs âpeace dealâ will make him and his family and his gang of American oligarchs much, much more wealthy.
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Trump's so-called peace deal: It's an unmitigated, out in the open, in broad daylight slobbering kiss on Putin's ass
The âpeace dealâ isnât a ceasefire.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-so-called-peace-deal-its-an
about 2 months ago
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The way you beat a tyrant is standing up to his tyranny. Six members of Congress gave us an example of exactly that on Tuesday. Each of them is under special guard by Capitol Police because of threats to their lives by MAGA followers of Donald Trump.
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The Bill of Rights for soldiers
What you have to understand about the military is that it functions as a nearly absolute autocracy within the democracy that governs the rest of the country.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-bill-of-rights-for-soldiers
about 2 months ago
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Our future is somewhere in one of those multi-acre data-centers that are popping up everywhere there is a fallow field that used to grow soybeans before Trump killed that market with tariffs.
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How do we know the drug boat videos arenât fake?
I had breakfast with my old West Point friend, Gary Moyer, this morning, and out of the blue he said we have entered a time when we wonât be able to tell whatâs real, and what isnât.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/how-do-we-know-the-drug-boat-videos
about 2 months ago
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Comey will walk free one day soon, and he will be able to sit back and watch Donald Trump try to lie his way out of a whole bunch of evidence that shows his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein is the one corrupt thing he wonât get away with.
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This is what you get when incompetence meets ignorance and tips the hat to arrogance
James B.
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/this-is-what-you-get-when-incompetence
about 2 months ago
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