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Lucian K. Truscott IV (page 16)

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives in rural Pennsylvania and spends his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better. You can read his daily columns at luciantruscott.substack.com and follow him on Twitter @LucianKTruscott and on Facebook at Lucian K. Truscott IV.

Donald Trump at a Trump owned building in mid-town Manhattan (Getty/Spencer Platt)

Want to know how low Trump can go?

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Trump has reached the top, and he is not enjoying himself at all

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Michael Wolff; Donald Trump (AP/Carolyn Kaster/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Snowed in

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The curious case of Donald Trump’s campaign for president

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(AP/Harry Harris)

A bluesy winter night in New York with Slim Harpo

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The legend of Big Chicken

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Sunday mornings coming down

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Congress fiddles while America burns

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Roy Moore; Doug Jones (Getty/Salon)

There’s good news and there’s bad news

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American Taliban

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Al Franken (AP/Dennis Van Tine)

Sacrificing Al Franken in order to capture the moral high ground is not a strategy

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Charlie Rose; Matt Lauer; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

I’m in the media elite, and you’re not

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Michael Flynn; Donald Trump (AP/Susan Walsh/Getty/Nicholas Kamm/Salon)

Mueller has a roadmap and the end game is nigh

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Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (Getty/Mikhail Klimentyev)

Why Trump lies

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Roy Moore (Getty/Scott Olson)

WTF is wrong with Roy Moore?

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Trump won’t stop lying about Russia

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Fake bookshelves and fake news

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Robert Mueller; Paul Manafort; Donald Trump (Getty/AP/Salon)

Mueller indictments beg the questions: why Manafort? Why Papadopoulos? Why now?

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Trump is guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman

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You don’t cut taxes with two wars and 240,000 troops overseas

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Trump is unable to do his job and fails to do his duty

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George Allen, 2012; Roy Moore, 2017 (AP/Cliff Owen/Getty/Scott Olson)

The coming election season will be the year of the lunatic voter

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Nixon and Trump: what happens when presidents unravel

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Living with Trump’s new normal is driving me crazy

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