All posts tagged "Cover-Up"

Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle wants assurances that the GOP will do to Trump what it insists Democrats should have done to Biden -- remove him from office when he shows signs of cognitive decline.

In a new opinion piece, McArdle argued that "a good deal of what [Trump] says is nonsense. But it’s mostly the same kind of nonsense he’s been spewing for years. That said, it’s reasonable to worry about Trump’s cognitive capacity."

As Trump ages, the odds of "creeping senility" will increase, McArdle wrote, and it will be up to Republicans to do something about it, not cover it up like the Democrats are accused of doing with Biden....

Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler, identified as Employee #5 in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents indictment of former President Donald Trump, gave an interview on MSNBC Wednesday night — and revealed new details about the things he saw as he was ordered to help transport boxes.

In particular, Butler told anchor and legal expert Ari Melber, Trump's repeated claims that he had a legal right to declassify and take the documents stands in stark contrast to the efforts he seemed to take to conceal what he was doing from the authorities.

Melber began by playing a clip of Trump decrying the charges: "They're breaking every law to persecute us. It's been one witch hunt and phony investigation after another. These are ridiculous indictments. The single greatest witch hunt of all time. It's all run by the DOJ. It's crooked stuff. They're crooked people. Deranged Jack Smith."...

A book that delves into the cover-up a film documenting the horrors suffered by victims of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been deemed too violent for Google's advertising program.

A police investigation into the shooting of a New York City college football player is a "mere cover-up," says the lawyer for four fellow football players who witnessed the shooting.

Former New Orleans Police Officer Jeffrey Lehrmann was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for his part in the cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings, our partners at the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported today.

The CIA's deputy director of operations personally oversaw the cover-up of the death of a detainee at a secret agency facility in Afghanistan, a magazine article alleges.