davidboddiger
David Boddiger
davidboddiger
Weekend Editor, Splinter

that would be the best case. so far biden’s main weapon is his myth of inevitability. take that away and you have a gaffe prone guy who is grossly unplatable to the progressive wing of the party who seems to be trying to take trump on head to head on who can say the dumbest quotes, and his credential seems to be that Read more

How about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Or for that matter, straight-up extortion? Read more

Decades of national enquirer unpublished shenanigans. Read more

Why is Trump only focusing on Biden and not Warren or Sanders? Does he hope that Biden is his opponent because he feels like he has no chance against the others? Read more

The 10 or so weeks between him hopefully losing re-election and the time the new president is sworn in and takes office is going to be INSANE. Just imagine Lame Duck Pres. Trump acting on every impulse??  Read more

Its almost like Trump subtly cops to stuff to see what he can get away with. Though, I know the truth is he’s just stupid and doesn’t think about what comes out of his mouth.
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In a sense this story really illustrates what an ignorant, egotistical and, for all of us, dangerous person Trump is. Has Hunter Biden enriched himself by his connection to Joe? No doubt about it. Could Trump and his campaign, if they played their cards right, made political hay with this? For sure. Trump, however, Read more

Here’s a worst case scenario... Republicans suddenly realize they’ve gotten as much as they possibly can from Trump, that he’s too far gone to save, and they push for impeachment before Pelosi. Totally taking any righteous fury from elected Democrats and making them look cowardly and overly political in their Read more

Hmm, if only there was a system of checks and balances in place for this type of behavior... Read more

Because this happened once already, this is the “get ahead of the story phase”. Which happened exactly once already after the Trump tower meeting. Read more

The call was all about corruption. To be clear, we're they talking about corruption there or corruption here? I can't tell anymore.  Read more

Well, THAT female president. Let's not pretend that Hillary Clinton is an easy stand-in for "any female candidate." Read more

So, he admitted to breaking only one law? Not 2? Read more

noticed that too. Stupid people talk like that. Fractured syntax, agrammatical. Hallmark of stupid.
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I am damned if I can understand why the press continues to do “chopper talk” at all. Many of his most outrageous whoppers are deployed during these things. It’s just egging him on.   Read more

I imagine he is so anti-environment that he just likes burning the fuel. He probably runs the ac and the heater at the same time.  Read more

I just wanted to contribute a Trump apologist explanation for this. Some of you may recall that I have a pro-Trump friend who believes in him wholeheartedly. She drives me nuts, but her perspective comes in handy at times like this. Read more