If, like me, you’re looking for the Republican wall of support for Donald’s many madnesses to begin collapsing, don’t cheer yet. Just start paying very close attention, because this first crack in the wall has caused some creaking noises. What we need, of course, is for key conservative stalwarts, people like Trey Gowdy, to start […]

Donald Trump Jr. just contradicted a whole bunch of White House denials of Russian contacts By Aaron BlakeThe Washington Post, July 10 at 8:33 AM Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged Sunday that he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton in June 2016. The news, which was first reported by the New […]

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY THE DAILY BEAST TANGLED WEB Team Trump Secretly Met Rep of Accused Russian Crime Family Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner held a Trump Tower meeting with the lawyer of an accused Russian criminal hell-bent on overturning U.S. sanctions against Russia. By NICO HINES, The Daily Beast, 07.10.17 1:00 AM ET LONDON—The Russian woman […]

Starrindissent is not intended as a forum for either party, for Democrats or Republicans, but rather as a bulletin board for opposition to Donald Trump. But we still live in a two-party democracy, and just as only Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump could have won the presidency in November — a vote for anyone but Ms. […]

  Next week Donald Trump will get his fond wish to shake hands with Vladimir Putin, perhaps even to sit down and talk with him. For the rest of us it will be a perilous moment because Trump—and many Americans—seem to believe that the new Russia is rather like America and Putin roughly like Trump. […]

From Watergate to Russia-gate Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Special Counsel Robert Muller   From The Boston Globe By Philip Heymann, June 29, 2017 Denying that there was any evidence of his committing an obstruction of justice, President Trump has issued thinly veiled threats to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Like my mentor 45 years ago at […]

Trump won, and Amy Siskind started a list of changes. Now it’s a sensation. Amy Siskind, who spent 20 years working on Wall Street, now publishes a popular weekly list keeping track of changing norms in America as a result of Donald Trump’s presidency. (Paul Kingsley) By Margaret Sullivan, Media Columnist, The Washington Post, June 25 at 8:40 PM […]

The Washington Post this morning reported that “U.S. intelligence agencies had sourcing deep inside the Russian government capturing Vladimir Putin’s direct instructions to damage Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning and help elect Donald Trump.” The Post’s story provides a highly detailed and well reported account of how the Obama administration learned of the Russian cyber […]

REBECCA SOLNIT: THE LONELINESS OF DONALD TRUMP ON THE CORROSIVE PRIVILEGE OF THE MOST MOCKED MAN IN THE WORLD   By Rebecca Solnit, First posted on Literary Hub, May 30, 2017   Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more, […]

Jun 16 2017 Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on recent statements by the president: “I’m growing increasingly concerned that the president will attempt to fire not only Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible obstruction of justice, but also Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein who appointed Mueller. “The message the president is sending through his […]