Peter Murmann

PM: I watched a couple of hours of debate on the first day of the Senate impeachment trial when the two parties fought over the rules. It was interesting to watch the arguments but the senate leader had counted the votes and all amendments to the rules were voted down 53 to 47. Every single [Read More]

It will be interesting to see whether the numbers go up at the end of the trial.

Source: Fivethirtyeight.com

I have two sentiments about impeachment. One the one hand, I am sad that Trump whose actions are clearly worse than what Nixon did and that he will not get removed from office and I pitty Republicans who have to defend actions that are indefensible. But I also acknowledge that congressmen and senators reflect accurately [Read More]

This opinion piece by a Harvard history professor in the WSJ is very clever and very fun to read. Impeachment Was on the Family Table This Thanksgiving Most admitted they hadn’t been paying close attention. Opinions were nevertheless served. Thanksgiving is over and, predictably, impeachment couldn’t be kept off the table. We tried to avoid the [Read More]

All eyes and ears are what Cohen said this week about been directed by Trump to pay hush money. Pecker cooperating with the special council is clearly worrisome for Trump. The New Yorker reports other interesting facts that suggest to me that Trumps chance of getting elected another term of gone down substantially down this [Read More]

After 6 countries ganged up on Trump, he refused to sign the final communique. Trump is breaking all the rules but so far we have not seen that he can create more value than he destroys.
Let’s hope this chapter ends after 4 more years.

Here is the full twitter record of Trumps response to the being Wolffed.

This week in Trumpland. As [url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html]excerpts of Wolff’s book Fire and Fury appeared in New York Magazine[/url], the White House released a statement than I republish below. Bannon calling the Trump family meeting with Russians as “treasonous” in my mind has raised the stakes considerable for Trump. It is truly getting interesting and [Read More]