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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Eleven: The End of the Beginning
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Eleven: The End of the BeginningBy Horus Alas CNN first reported Oct. 27 that initial charges from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sweeping investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election could be expected as early as Oct. 30. Three Trump campaign officials: George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates and former chairman Paul Manafort, were in fact, indicted yesterday on federal charges…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Nine: A Fistful of Paper Towels
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Nine: A Fistful of Paper TowelsBy Horus Alas I’m sure you’ve seen the images by now. President Trump stands in a church in San Juan, Puerto Rico surrounded by disaster-stricken Puerto Ricans who are somehow smiling and taking pictures of him on their phones. With the swish of a volleyball player throwing the ball into the air before a serve,…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Ten: Assaults on Freedom of the Press
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Ten: Assaults on Freedom of the PressBy Horus Alas “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” James Madison authored the above quote as…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Eight: A Tale of Violent Ends
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump, Part Eight: A Tale of Violent EndsBy Horus Alas When I pitched this article at our final Bloc meeting of the semester, I originally intended to focus on a retrospective overview of the Sinister Saga series. We’ve been running “The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump” articles since February of last year. As a writer, it’s been a rewarding experience documenting the…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump: Part Six
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump: Part SixBy Horus Alas By the time you read this, I will perhaps be on an airplane, flying over the Gulf of Mexico. Or maybe I’ll have already made it to the environs of the Aeropuerto Internacional Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero—but that’s a story for another time. In any case, I won’t be in the D.C.…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump—Part Seven, or: The Autocrat Addresses Congress
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump—Part Seven, or: The Autocrat Addresses CongressBy Horus Alas Within the hour of the conclusion of President Trump’s Address to Congress this evening, NBC’s Andrew Rafferty and Ali Vitali remarked, “It was Donald Trump at his most presidential.” Yeah. Frighteningly, damningly, vexingly—yeah. Our initial commentators have a good point, and I must acknowledge it as such. The man we saw addressing…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump: Part Five
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump: Part FiveOdysseus had been away from home for 20 years. The first 10 of these he spent fighting at Troy, as recounted in the Iliad. The second 10, he spent questing his return home, as recounted in the Odyssey. He arrived home at Ithaca to find his wife, Penelope, being courted by suitors. Upon this realization,…
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The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump: Part Four
Read more: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump: Part FourThe last time I wrote one of these pieces, I was nearly in despair over the state of this year’s presidential election. To briefly recap, since launching his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump has managed to issue inflammatory and divisive remarks against Muslims, Mexican immigrants, women, people of color collectively and numerous other demographics. In…
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The White Insurgency of President Trump
Read more: The White Insurgency of President TrumpBy Horus Alas Shortly after the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay for the Oct. 2017 issue of The Atlantic, “The First White President,” I received a text asking, “Did you read the new tanehisi [sic] Coates essay? Bruh white people can’t handle it.” I had read the essay. I haven’t yet responded to that text,…
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Blog: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump – Part Three
Read more: Blog: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump – Part ThreeNovember of 2015 was ending. As the brisk autumn air began to give us forebodings of the winter ahead, Donald Trump recovered his momentum on the campaign trail, having briefly stumbled behind fellow outsider candidate Ben Carson in Republican polling. For months, the Trump campaign had dominated other Republican candidates’ efforts in the presidential primary…
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Blog: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump – Part Two
Read more: Blog: The Sinister Saga of Donald Trump – Part TwoDonald Trump launched his presidential campaign with a 45-minute speech at his Trump Tower headquarters on an otherwise uneventful day in June 2015. There wasn’t a lot of substance to his speech. The business-mogul-turned-Republican-candidate promised that as president, he would pursue a select few policies: crush the Islamic State, beat China at trade, make America…
