Year: 2019
WSJ Slams Trump for Parroting Russian Propaganda About Afghanistan
“We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President.”
— The Wall Street Journal editorial page slamming President Trump’s comments earlier this week which echoed Russian propaganda when he defended the Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.
Pelosi Defends Tlaib — Kind of
“I wouldn’t use that language. I don’t — again establish any language standard for my colleagues but I don’t think it’s anything worse than what the president has said.”
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by NBC News, on a viral video of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) saying “we’re going to impeach the motherf**ker.”
U.S. House Still More Christian than General Populace
88%
Pew Research: “The 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives and is slightly more religiously diverse overall than the prior Congress. Still, 88% of the members are Christian, compared with 71% of U.S. adults overall.”
New House Optics Bode Ill for GOP
“The visuals of new House should send a shiver through anyone who cares about future of Republican Party. One side looks like America and our future, the other looks like board meeting of a 1950’s corporation. A basic law of politics: be for the future not past.”
— GOP strategist Stuart Stevens, on Twitter.
Why Did Trump Lie about the Reason for the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
In long, rambling session with reporters before his cabinet meeting yesterday, Donald Trump made a bizarre ahistorical assertion that attempted to whitewash the reason the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979.
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” Trump said. “They were right to be there. The problem is, it was a tough fight.”
That may be the Kremlin’s view of what happened, but it runs counter to the assessment of the U.S. government under both Republican and Democratic administrations dating back to the invasion.
So why is Trump, the putative president of the United States, toeing the Russian government’s line here?
