When Donald Trump Tweeted that Obama had ‘wiretapped’ Trump Tower, he apparently got the technical language wrong, but he got the deeper truth correct.
If candidate Trump was not listened to by the US government, he may have been the only person in the world not to be subject to such intrusions on personal liberty.
Once upon a time, Vladimir Putin out of sheer spitefulness and rage, named an ambassador to the United States.
His name is Sergey Kislyak, and you can see his ominous image above.
There is no word yet on whether the individuals pictured in his immediate vicinity have been charged with treason.
The Duran’s Peter Lavelle sat down recently to give his take on the attempts to find a parallel between Donald Trump and previous US presidents.
While Trump is certainly a unique phenomenon, it turns out he is also quite like Andrew Jackson, America’s 7th president, in his powerful populist appeal and determination to take on the establishment.
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