Ed Rogers

Ed Rogers

LATEST STORIES BY ED ROGERS

 

ROGERS: Democrats fear Attorney General William Barr, you can smell it

With well-choreographed leaks and hyped headlines, the Democrats and their allies in the media want to create a feud between special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr. The goal: Suggest that the attorney general acted inappropriately and obscured the real conclusions of the the special counsel’s report. But after hours of stagecraft and stump speeches in the form of questions from both sides of the aisle, two real questions remain: Is there any daylight between the attorney general and the special counsel? And is the basis for the hearing, as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters, now “over”?

May 5, 2019 Columnists
U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks during a press conference on the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report at the Department of Justice April 18, 2019 in Washington, DC.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

ROGERS: Trump's loyal commentators are beginning to make their break

It was expected that President Donald Trump received some backlash from his supporters when he agreed to reopen government without first securing funding for the border wall. But the ferociousness of some conservative commentators’ attacks was surprising. Perhaps parts of the loyal Trump commentariat are using the president’s capitulation on the wall to reorient to an honest place with the Trump presidency. Specifically, they need to create some distance from Trump World in order to establish credibility, reasonably disagree with the president and express dismay at his outbursts and behaviour.

January 31, 2019 Columnists
U.S. President Donald Trump inspects border wall prototypes in San Diego, California on March 13, 2018.
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