Round Two begins for Donald Trump. It will be messy.
Scott Gilmore: The president is facing something he has avoided much of his life: accountability. It is just the beginning of a slowly rising blue tide in America.
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Scott Gilmore
Scott Gilmore is a former diplomat and social entrepreneur who works in (and writes about) the United States, Africa and Asia. His disclosures are many and can be found here: http://linkd.in/1DDzoKv.
Why is Trump the most impervious U.S. president in history?
Scott Gilmore: America’s president is a liar and fraudster whose scandals, which would have destroyed any politician before him, mean nothing
Christine Blasey Ford, Chrystia Freeland and a bunch of angry men
Scott Gilmore: In both the NAFTA negotiations and the Kavanaugh case, there has been a stark contrast in behaviour between the sexes
Trump gives a press conference, and the world laughs (with him?)
Scott Gilmore: A year ago, this spectacle would have sparked several international crises. Today, the world is mostly laughing at the U.S. president.
Don’t kill supply management for Trump, kill it for us
Scott Gilmore: The defence of supply management is shamelessly insulting and costly. So why will no political party do the right thing?
The daily humiliations of Donald Trump
Scott Gilmore: The American president faces a barrage of daily embarrassments and insults that would undo most of us. How does he do it?
Will it even matter if Donald Trump is impeached?
Scott Gilmore: The odds of impeachment have gone up considerably. But we forget impeachment does not remove a president from office.
Mad Max might just pull this thing off
Scott Gilmore: The leader of Canada’s newest political party is well placed to at least outperform the Greens. And he might do even better than that.
Cohen pleads guilty; Manafort convicted. And Trump goes on.
Scott Gilmore: Either of these events would have destroyed a presidency. But when it comes to America’s president, there is no tipping point.
It’s not what the Church has done, it’s that we don’t really care anymore
Scott Gilmore: The latest scandal unmasks far more than the institutional rot of the Catholic church—it reveals a profound shift in society and human history