Ever feel like there’s like nine “worst kept secrets in DC” in journalism circles regarding Trump that are nonetheless not really written about?
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It’s very strange.
aug 25, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
If we all live long enough, there will be a banquet.
aug 25, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
“As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.” Hunter S. Thompson~
aug 25, 2025, 7:23 pm • 66 14 • view
I wish Thompson was around for this shitshow. Reading The Great Shark Hunt Vol. 1 now and some of his articles while covering Nixon sounded as if he were covering the trump administration.
aug 25, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like Congress😄😄😄
aug 25, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 1 • view
Sounds like tech ceos
aug 25, 2025, 8:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Unfortunately it's a big tent😵
aug 25, 2025, 8:11 pm • 3 0 • view
The biggest secret is Trump's child rapes (and potentially child murders) with Epstein. Might be the only thing that actually stops Trump short of his dictatorship overextension backlash, and Trump is doing every totalitarian playbook action to overshadow it.
aug 25, 2025, 7:42 pm • 2 1 • view
Yes. So many secrets. But you feel like a conspiracy theorist for saying so.
aug 25, 2025, 7:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Does one have to do with an ear? Or at least a hand?
aug 25, 2025, 8:03 pm • 3 0 • view
I read that Sy Hersch decided not to report Nixon beating his wife Pat so badly that she was hospitalized. The trading access for silence is worse than ever before, I imagine.
aug 25, 2025, 8:08 pm • 4 0 • view
Whoa
aug 25, 2025, 11:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Waited til he wrote a book in 2015 to tell folks about it. www.democracynow.org/2018/6/20/sy...
aug 25, 2025, 11:58 pm • 2 0 • view
“He says of his decision not to report on Nixon beating his wife, “I was obtuse to the notion that it was a crime. … I didn’t get it.”” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow
aug 26, 2025, 12:03 am • 3 0 • view
70s were wild...
aug 26, 2025, 12:38 am • 1 0 • view
I’m 75 and never knew this!
aug 26, 2025, 12:39 am • 1 0 • view
Every damn day…
aug 25, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Maggie's saving it all for her next book.
aug 25, 2025, 7:48 pm • 5 0 • view
He drinks. At Hegseth levels.
aug 26, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Access journalism isn't about breaking the big story it's about keeping the access.
aug 25, 2025, 11:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Only nine?
aug 25, 2025, 8:00 pm • 21 0 • view
That we know of
aug 25, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Did they ever explain his walking on the roof?
aug 25, 2025, 7:28 pm • 4 0 • view
I still have my money on indulging the old man who insists he has always planned developments from aerial perspectives and if they won't take him up there to hover in Marine One he by God is getting on that roof to plan his ballroom.
aug 25, 2025, 7:31 pm • 5 0 • view
And in years to come all the Very Serious People in the media will be going on about how 'everyone' knew so there was no need to inform the public was there?
aug 26, 2025, 3:08 pm • 3 0 • view
We keep getting photos of Trump and his bruises, videos of him dragging his leg, and his sunken, orange face & dead eyes It screams “the media is trying to tell us without actually trying to tell us,” and whether it’s bc they’re lazy or terrified of backlash, it’s still cowardly
aug 26, 2025, 3:18 pm • 2 1 • view
I for one resent having to do so much thinking about JD Vance
aug 26, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve seen folks argue both scenarios, that he’ll be so much worse & more effective in authoritarian rule than Trump, or that he’ll wilt so quickly because he’s no trump that MAGA will eat him for lunch. I have no idea which one I believe & im not looking forwards to finding out
aug 26, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 1 • view
This one goes to 11.
aug 25, 2025, 7:24 pm • 4 0 • view
The 9 circles of hell....
aug 25, 2025, 8:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Am I the only one that remembers FDR's wheelchair.
aug 26, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
In 2016 there was a rumor that Trump, over the years, had paid for as many as 8 abortions. Nothing solid ever surfaced about it.
aug 25, 2025, 7:47 pm • 2 2 • view
The lack of reporting around his “assassination attempt” is stunning. The dude’s ear is the one pristine part of his decrepit body, and everyone just acts like he didn’t go around with a diaper-sized bandage on the side of his crusty-ass head.
aug 25, 2025, 7:29 pm • 21 1 • view