Nicole Lafond
Remember Mark Sanford? If you were a Golden Duke: Duke of Dukes voter this last time around, you most certainly will.
One year ago today the CDC announced the first case of COVID-19 in the United States.
Most of us weren’t going to believe it until we saw it.
There are less than 24 hours left of the Trump administration.
And the President is leaving behind a sicker, more divided and more violent nation than the one he inherited four long years ago.
Back in 2018, Trump had one of his most dramatic bromance breakups yet.
If you recall, it was back when excerpts of Michael Wolff’s new book “Fire and Fury” were trickling out. Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was quoted in the book calling the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donnie Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and a Russian lawyer “treasonous.” Trump dumped him immediately and in brutal fashion.
Trump was formally impeached for the second time yesterday afternoon.
But the process began in real time while the Capitol was being mobbed by his supporters last week.
The spectre of violence is already chilling democracy in a handful of ways.
President Trump used his first public appearance in front of reporters since a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol last week, resulting in the deaths of five people, to test out whether his old defenses still carried any water.
It is the last full week of the Trump presidency and if last week was any indication of how long this week will feel, we should be prepared for another interminable one.