Donald Rettmann

Donald Rettmann

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Donald Rettmann
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Donald Trump didn’t “drain the swamp.” He refilled it. “No one has ever put all of Trump’s scandals in one place and added them up, so Americans could see the full scope of his corruption. Until now”. open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

open.substack.comDonald Trump didn’t “drain the swamp.” He refilled it.We spent the fall quietly filming a documentary about what he’s turned Washington into. One week before the election, you’re going to see all of it.
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MAGA is a Daycare for Adult Children. “The research says they can see your pain just fine. It says your pain feels good to them. And it says they need it. That is not strength. That is the most pathetic form of emotional dependency a human being can exhibit”. open.substack.com/pub/lucasbea...

open.substack.comMAGA is a Daycare for Adult ChildrenIn the summer of 2025, psychologist Craig Neumann did something no researcher had done at this scale before.
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Trump’s collusion with Russia is real. It’s time to reopen the investigation. In one week, the president cut an illegal fuel deal with Putin and may have switched off the warnings that keep Ukrainians alive, for his own political benefit. open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

open.substack.comTrump’s collusion with Russia is real. It’s time to reopen the investigation.In one week, the president cut an illegal fuel deal with Putin and may have switched off the warnings that keep Ukrainians alive, for his own political benefit.
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“But sometimes, paying close attention to the lesser sins of an immoral, megalomaniacal president can tell us something important. Today, I examine what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool says about a White House in free fall and a president who can’t win”. theintercept.com/2026/10/14/t...

theintercept.comReflecting on the Trump EraTrump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation should have been an easy lift. But it quickly became a monument to failure.
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Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism Eric W. Dolan July 23, 2025 www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...

psypost.orgTrump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissismSupport for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lo...
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Trump is working for Putin. “But at this point, how much more evidence is necessary to assess that Trump has undermined U.S. national security and is working for Russia? And how much longer will Republicans in Congress continue to protect him”? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comOctober 10, 2026So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.
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“The fact that the United States Constitution and foreign affairs appear to be at the mercy of one man and the loyalists he has around him undermines the principles of our democracy. The fact that his mental acuity has collapsed is an immediate calamity”. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

open.substack.comOctober 1, 2026John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...
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The Trump administration violates the Constitution every day. One example is the misdirecting of funding that Congress had appropriated. “And OMB is directing the agency to direct its grant dollars in ways that are very different from law passed by Congress”. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

open.substack.comSeptember 23, 2026Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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“I am angry in a way that doesn’t switch off, and underneath the anger sits something worse, a bone-deep disappointment that 77 million selfish, gullible pricks looked at everything he is and voted for it anyway”. open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...

open.substack.comTHE DOOR BITCH OF MAR-A-LARDO JUST GOT FUCKING SERVEDA sook with the nuclear codes banned the press over negative stories. Fifty years of precedent and both of his own judges have already told him exactly where to shove it.
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Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina Are ALL MAGAs kiddy diddlers? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

yahoo.comConvicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North CarolinaA pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “ha...
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“In 1968, former vice president Richard M. Nixon won the presidency after promising that he would not continue to use the federal government to protect Black rights in the South. With that promise, racists made a permanent move from Democrats to the Republicans”. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

open.substack.comAugust 28, 2026The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that took place on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., is remembered today primarily because it was the occasion when the final speaker, the Reverend Dr.
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“THIS BRASS HAS BIG BALLS: Major Who Called Trump's BULLSHIT goes on record! The Trump administration has spent eighteen months betting that nobody in uniform would ever say the quiet part into a CNN camera. Meet the bloke who just lost them the bet”. open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...

open.substack.comTHIS BRASS HAS BIG BALLS: Major Who Called Trump's BULLSHIT goes on record!The Trump administration has spent eighteen months betting that nobody in uniform would ever say the quiet part into a CNN camera. Meet the bloke who just lost them the bet.
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“Never before in American history has an attorney general been confirmed who was as corrupt as Todd Blanche. The Department of Justice is already in shambles.” “And,” Luttig added, “he will further ruin the Department of Justice.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

open.substack.comAugust 15, 2026On Monday, August 10, Todd Blanche took the oath of office as attorney general, administered by federal appeals court judge Emil Bove, another of Trump’s defense lawyers before moving to the Departmen...