BY KEN NEAL Oklahoma’s senators have the opportunity to hold an honored place in U.S. history. They simply have to oppose a deranged president. Tulsa’s Sen. Jim Inhofe has the most to gain and the least to lose by simply speaking the truth about Donald J. Trump: The president has repeatedly obstructed justice during the…
BY JOE CONASON Some blessed day, America will be rid of the Trump Administration. But the “normalization” of misconduct by this president’s entourage will leave indelible stains – one of which will bear the name Jared Kushner. Unlike his constantly blithering and blabbering father-in-law, Kushner usually goes about his self-serving business in the White House…
BY JOE CONASON Behind the straight-shooting, ramrod demeanor always mentioned by his friends, Robert Mueller possesses a shrewd intelligence. He demonstrated that strategic acuity on Wednesday morning when, with a few carefully selected sentences, he wielded his own reticence to deliver a crushing blow to Donald Trump [and a hard shot to Attorney General William…
BY JOE CONASON The Republican message from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Mueller report, featuring Attorney General Bill Barr, was perfectly blunt: Forget that any of this ever happened – unless and until we can figure out how to blame Hillary Clinton. All of those “conservative” worthies including the chief law enforcement officer…
BY JOE CONASON Although Robert Mueller filed his massive report with the Justice Department, the special counsel must have known he was actually forwarding an impeachment referral to Congress. Between his decision to forgo a criminal indictment of the president and his incriminating recital of the president’s 10 instances of potential obstruction of justice, Mueller…
