Donald Trump

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  6/25/2022
  

  Trump's Incitement Against Shaye Moss over the Georgia Vote Count Carries on a Dark American Tradition

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Whether for casting ballots or counting them, Trump was quick to blame Black Americans for his defeat, carrying on an ignominious tradition of casting Black political participation as illegitimate and dangerous. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  6/15/2022
  

  Garrett Graff: A "Conspiratorial Mindset" Links Trump and Nixon Actions

  Garrett Graff, author of "Watergate: A New History" argues that both January 6 and Watergate were the logical culminations of the broader politics of the Trump and Nixon administrations and the movements that sustained them. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/14/2022
  

  Prosecutor: The Two-Prong Test that Could Determine Trump's Legal Risk

  Isaac Chotiner interviews former federal prosecutor and current law professor Barbara McQuade about the prospects of a criminal case against Trump over January 6. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/10/2022
  

  Simon Balto: January 6 Not an Anomaly in American History

  "Americans need to understand that what the terrorists at the Capitol did that day wasn’t the anomaly people think it was within the long history of the United States."

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• 6/12/2022
  

  Trump’s Involvement in the January 6 Conspiracy Is Easy to Prove

  by James D. Zirin

  A veteran prosecutor explains that the legal standards for conspiracy put Trump in the crosshairs. Whether he faces consequences for the attempted coup, however, is a question of politics. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/20/2022
  

  Nicole Hemmer Reviews Martin and Burns's "This Will Not Pass"

  by Nicole Hemmer

  The book by two political reporters portrays the dire contrast between a Republican Party willing to do anything to hold power between November 2020 and January 2021 and a Democratic Party enmeshed in business-as-usual. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/2022
  

  Conservative Matthew Continetti Says GOP Must Dump Trump. Does History Show they Can (or Want To)?

  Concern about whether the Republicans can adopt a post-Trump conservatism reflects a long history of elite conservatism embracing and mobilizing demagogic populism. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/16/2022
  

  Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How History Says Trump's Cult Will End

  "The other big story is that his agenda and his methods are being continued at the state level. These states are really laboratories of autocracy now, like Florida, Texas."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/12/2022
  

  New Trump Book Shows Promise, Peril of Writing Very Recent History

  by Paul M. Renfro

  The Presidency of Donald J. Trump is an ambitious and compelling book, one that covers a great deal of territory, but sometimes is hindered by the ongoing tendency of its subject to focus on himself, says historian Paul Renfro.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/12/2022
  

  New Book Offers First Historians' Take on Trump Presidency

  Julian Zelizer is the editor of a collection of essays by an all-star lineup of historians taking stock of the Trump presidency. He discusses the book and the challenges of putting the recent, contested past in perspective. 

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• 4/12/2022
  

  On "Smoking Guns"—Yesterday and Today (and Tomorrow?)

  by Jim Zirin

  As text messages between Donald Jr. and Mark Meadows surface, it seems the last roadblock to a prosecution of Donald Trump over January 6 is a lack of will, not a lack of evidence.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/6/2022
  

  Trump Can't Just Erase History the Way Nixon Tried to Do

  by Tim Naftali

  "The newly reported Trumpian gap may actually be easier to fill in, and therefore less of a threat to the historical record than Nixon’s."

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• 4/10/2022
  

  After 50 Years, "The Godfather" Still Has Fresh Lessons For Us

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  Francis Ford Coppola couldn't have anticipated the Trump presidency and its aftermath, but his 1972 masterpiece nevertheless helps uns to understand it. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/4/2022
  

  What I Learned when Donald Trump Tried to "Correct" the Record

  by Julian Zelizer

  "As an academic historian, I never expected to find myself in a videoconference with Donald Trump."

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  3/10/2022
  

  Trump's "Sh*thole Countries" Remark is Nothing American Churches Haven't Said for Generations

  by Kathryn Gin Lum

  American missionaries in the nineteenth century prefigured the former president's comments by forming a worldview of a "blessed us" and a "backward them." 

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• 3/13/2022
  

  Richard Nixon Made one of the Most Successful Political Comebacks in History. Trump Ignores His Playbook

  by Donne Levy

  Donald Trump is departing in multiple ways from the comeback strategy of Richard Nixon. Is this a political mistake, or a reflection of a different Republican Party and a different age of politics? 

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• SOURCE: People's World
  2/14/2022
  

  Historians Urge Stronger Anti-Fascist Commitment or US Risks Following Weimar Germany

  by Berry Craig

  The coalition assembled by Donald Trump includes enough white nationalists, violent extremists, and anti-democracy ideologues that the Biden administration's faith in institutional protections may be insufficient to contain it through normal means. 

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• 2/13/2022
  

  Trump and Grover Cleveland Have a Lot in Common – Will that Include Winning Two Non-Consecutive Terms?

  by Michael A. Genovese

  With roots in New York state, a predilection for young women, and campaign scandal, Donald Trump has plenty in common with Grover Cleveland as he seeks to replicate Cleveland's unique political accomplishment. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/2022
  

  "He Never Stopped Ripping Things Up": Trump's Habitual Document Destruction

  Donald Trump's personal defiance of the Presidential Records Act appears to have been widespread, purposeful, and illegal. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/2022
  

  National Archive Had to Retrieve White House Records from Mar-a-Lago

  In an odd twist that no one could have seen coming, the Trump administration appears to have violated legal requirements for the preservation and security of presidential records.