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COMPLETE: Trump Phone Log and Smoking Guns | Steve Berman

COMPLETE: Trump Phone Log and Smoking Guns | Steve Berman


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“Be there, will be wild!” tweeted Donald Trump on December 19, 2020. On January 6th, was going to “stop the steal,” though every lawyer who filed case after case in court after court alleging the election was stolen reaped nothing but shame and embarrassment. Trump’s last throw of the dice was to use impossible legal shenanigans to …

RUSSIA: Patton Was Right. Putin’s Not the Problem | Steve Berman

RUSSIA: Patton Was Right. Putin’s Not the Problem | Steve Berman


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The final months of World War II was a turbulent and fraught time for the West’s relationship with the Soviet Union. Stalin, having spent millions of lives driving back the Nazis, while staying out of the Pacific and China theaters, was keen to swallow as much buffer territory as possible. Churchill and Roosevelt knew this, …

BIDEN vs WHITE HOUSE: Who’s Running This Country? | Steve Berman

BIDEN vs WHITE HOUSE: Who’s Running This Country? | Steve Berman


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“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever,” President Ronald Reagan famously said. “The bombing begins in five minutes.” He said it in 1984 during a sound test on a hot mic. Of course, he was joking, but the sentiment behind the words was real. On Saturday, President …

Will Progressives Treat Ketanji Brown Like Biden Treats Kamala Harris? | Steve Berman

Will Progressives Treat Ketanji Brown Like Biden Treats Kamala Harris? | Steve Berman


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President Biden promised a billion dollars in humanitarian aid to Ukraine on Thursday. Good. He also said that Putin uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, the response would be “in kind.” He appeared lucid, present, and, for the most part, prepared. Good for our president, because we need him to be at his best during this …

UKRAINE: This is NATO’s War Plan, Not Putin’s Failure | Steve Berman

UKRAINE: This is NATO’s War Plan, Not Putin’s Failure | Steve Berman


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When Russia’s “little green men” took over Crimea in 2014 with little more than a demonstration by Ukrainian forces, serious people took notice. In the eight following years, Ukraine’s armed forces have remade themselves into a NATO-style military. I’m increasingly convinced what we’re seeing now is not only the failure of Putin’s plan, but the …

ISRAEL: “It’s Complicated”, Jews Disagree on Ukraine | Steve Berman

ISRAEL: “It’s Complicated”, Jews Disagree on Ukraine | Steve Berman


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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wanted to address Israel’s Knesset, like he did with the European Parliament and the Canadian Parliament. But the best offer he got was an informal Zoom session that lawmakers were able to access from home. The Knesset was in recess, Speaker Mickey Levy was not about to call it into a formal session, …

Putin’s Coming Purges: We Must Warn Russians | Steve Berman

Putin’s Coming Purges: We Must Warn Russians | Steve Berman


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Ordinary Russians aren’t getting the message the world is trying to send. Instead, they’re getting a full dose of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda and disinformation machine. Without access to the “free press” outside their spoon-fed “federal channels” they are being fed the Kremlin’s line, and getting prepped for a massive purge the likes of which have not …