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Lucian K. Truscott IV (page 9)

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 and Edward Gallagher (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

The war crimes president: Donald Trump doesn’t understand the damage he’s causing to the military

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Mike Pompeo and Bill Taylor (AP Photo/Jeff Malet Photography)

Mike Pompeo, secretary of nothing: Unlike Bill Taylor, he’s a disgrace to West Point

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s body count: He’s not just a narcissist and a liar. He’s a killer

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Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, arriving to his arraignment in New York County Criminal Court, plead not guilty to state mortgage fraud charges on June 27, 2019 in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

He’s back! Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort resurfaces — at the heart of Ukraine inquiry

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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

It’s about the oil, stupid: Trump wants to end the forever wars, except the one about oil and money

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Bill Taylor (C), the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, arrives at a closed session before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees October 22, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Taylor was on Capitol Hill to testify to the committees for the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Who is Bill Taylor? I’ve known the guy who rocked Capitol Hill this week for 50 years

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Donald Trump (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Salon)

America is being held hostage by a bloody madman — and he’s in the White House

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Kurt Volker, Gordon Sondland and Bill Taylor (Getty Images/US State Department/Salon)

We’re going to impeach Trump’s sorry ass — thanks to a few brave citizens

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Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Down the rabbit hole with all the president’s men: Barr and Pompeo go hunting

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Police pepper spray at anti-Trump protesters during clashes in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017.  (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Donald Trump was impeachable the day he took office: Two and a half years later, we’re finally there

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Stephen Miller and Corey Lewandowski (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Corey Lewandowski, Stephen Miller and the wages of contempt in TrumpWorld

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Afghan security forces inspect the aftermath of Sunday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Eighteen years and counting: Are we ever getting out of Afghanistan?

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Men stand with pistols strapped at their sides at a gun rights rally on the steps of the Capitol Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The gun lobby’s most pernicious myth: There is no “good guy with a gun”

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Donald Trump (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Donald Trump: Full up to the eyeballs with hate. He won on that once, and hopes to do it again

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(Getty/Chip Somodevilla/AP/Mikhail Metzel/Salon)

Mass rallies, crazy decisions, grandiose posturing: This is what living in a dictatorship feels like

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People gather at makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. (AP/Andres Leighton)

It’s not Democrats who are making guns a political issue: It’s all the dead bodies

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Tucker Carlson (Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

It’s not just David Duke and the KKK anymore: It’s Tucker Carlson and Fox News Network who sell hate

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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Andrew Yang participate in the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP/Paul Sancya)

The price of a leaderless Democratic Party

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(Getty/Chip Somodevilla)

Democratic 2020 strategy must be gloves off, abandon all subtlety:”Trump will kill your dog!

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President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump is gambling racism will win for him in 2020

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Donald Trump; Jeffrey Epstein (Getty/AP/Salon)

Jeffrey Epstein is Donald Trump’s idea of the perfect man

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(Getty/Kevin C. Cox)

Trump’s fake patriotism was sophomoric and insulting. So of course his voters loved it

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The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. (AP/Julia Le Duc)

This is the week it became accurate to compare Trump to Hitler

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Getty/Alex Wong)

Mitch McConnell is the second worst human being on the planet

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