All posts tagged "Sidney Blumenthal"

A political operative sounded the alarm on a Supreme Court justice whom he believes is President Donald Trump's chief enabler.

During an episode of Court of History, journalist and former senior Clinton White House advisor Sidney Blumenthal explained the thinking behind a recent article he wrote for The Guardian about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

"When you look beneath the surface, and you see certain dissents and statements and opinions, you find that Kavanaugh is playing an instrumental key role on Trump's key issues," Blumenthal said. "And he's really the most politically attuned, the one who is acting most like a political operative, and the results are catastrophic."...

Donald Trump has been criticized by a former aide who believes the president is personally profiting from the war in the Middle East.

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as the White House Communications Director in Trump's first term, claimed that the Trump family is aiming to leverage the war and position of Donald Trump to build family wealth. Speaking to Legal AF, Scaramucci issued a warning to Trump and claimed corruption within the administration had hit a new high.

"People don't feel like he [Trump] is helping them at all," Legal AF host Sidney Blumenthal said. "He's welched on all of his promises in his second term. But more than that, there's something else going on. He's building a kleptocracy. He's stealing like crazy, from what I hear....

A former White House adviser questioned President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles after her explosive Vanity Fair interview dropped last week — suggesting she may have devised the move as "retribution."

Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, argued that Wiles could be positioning herself as the "innocent bystander at the circus presiding as an enabler," in an opinion piece published in The Guardian Tuesday.

Blumenthal described how Wiles plays a role: she shirks responsibility, shrugs things off and blames others. ...