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Dana Milbank

Dana Milbank

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The Trump chaos is back. Get used to it.

20.12.2024 6

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Trump suddenly discovers that America is already great

07.12.2024 400

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My new tractor will either extend my life or end it quickly

23.11.2024 40

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Trump is already Making America Gape Again

I had hoped to spend the week writing about a topic other than politics. But suddenly, it was 2017 all over again. My phone lit up with alerts that...

15.11.2024 60

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Retreat is not an option

You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows downstream and is...

09.11.2024 100

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Who are we, America?

01.11.2024 300

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So, what did you think of Harris’s October surprise?

RALEIGH, N.C. — Kamala Harris brilliantly executed her October surprise. What, you didn’t see it? That’s by design. In this pivotal state —...

30.10.2024 9

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Why I’m not quitting the Post

On Thursday night, at the Pulitzer Prize Awards Ceremony in New York, my Post colleagues were feted for winning top honors in three categories. A...

28.10.2024 550

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Does the truth still count for anything? In 11 days, we’ll find out.

26.10.2024 300

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Donald Trump’s hysterical closing argument: Save the cows!

They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. And now, they’re banning the cows. Or so says Donald Trump. No bull! “Kamala even wants to...

19.10.2024 650

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Trump upgrades his con to Category 5

12.10.2024 550

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Who put these oddballs on the ballot? Could it be … Satan?

04.10.2024 300

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At debate, Vance whines: You weren’t supposed to fact check me!

02.10.2024 100

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To save the birds, I’m killing my farm

27.09.2024 100

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How Trump made this the most dysfunctional Congress in 164 years

18.09.2024 10

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Are assassination attempts now just a ‘fact of life’?

This month, after a school shooting in Georgia claimed four lives, Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, argued that school shootings are just a...

18.09.2024 100

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Fox News cleans up another Trump mess

The reviews were almost universally savage after Donald Trump’s debate debacle, in which the former president ranted about migrants eating pets...

13.09.2024 10

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Get your popcorn for the great debate: Trump vs. Trump

06.09.2024 4

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In a test of character, Trump shows his true grift

30.08.2024 9

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Republicans and Democrats agree: It’s all about Trump

24.08.2024 100

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Joe Biden, forgotten but not gone at the DNC

‘Dark Brandon’ imagery keeps sneaking into Kamala Harris’s convention. A portion of a floor pass for the Democratic National Convention...

22.08.2024 10

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DNC protests devolve into farce

For a while, I couldn’t find a single protester outside the convention, much less a Chicago seven. A demonstrator is arrested during a...

21.08.2024 100

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Did Joe Biden get the send-off he deserved?

20.08.2024 20

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Republicans want Trump to drop the insults — but that’s all he’s got

They all might as well ask Trump to abandon Mar-a-Lago and move into a double-wide. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks...

17.08.2024 200

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‘Weird’ doesn’t begin to capture the Trump-Vance campaign

As Democrats play to massive, raucous crowds, the Republican ticket is busy courting angry young men. Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov....

10.08.2024 300

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Trump’s ‘disciplined’ campaign is unraveling

The out of control Trump — suppressed in recent months with varying degrees of success — is back. Former president Donald Trump at a...

02.08.2024 200

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Can Kamala Harris keep up her momentum?

Democrats are uncommonly unified and motivated, while Republicans are scrambling. Vice President Harris greets supporters in Westfield, Mass.,...

31.07.2024 10

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The world has changed, and Trump needs a mulligan

The former president is back to firing off random, late-night rage posts from his social media account. Republican presidential nominee Donald...

26.07.2024 200

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Biden flips the script — and Republicans forget their lines

It’s a disoriented GOP that must ask: What now? The scene outside the White House on Sunday. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) ...

22.07.2024 100

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Trump uniting the country? That’s so last week.

The Republicans are squandering all the sympathy and goodwill — and any hope of the country healing. Donald Trump during the final day of...

19.07.2024 70

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Are we really going to give Trump a pass? C’mon, man.

The national discussion needs to shift back to where it should be: on Trump’s fitness for office. Former president Donald Trump speaks at a...

12.07.2024 100

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Rural America is vanishing. This tiny county is fighting back.

Opinion Rural America is vanishing. This tiny county is fighting back. Tensions between development and rural character are playing out across...

10.07.2024 40

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It’s not fair, Mr. President, but it’s reality

His interview with George Stephanopoulos did nothing to reassure people worried about a Biden defeat. President Biden speaks with ABC's George...

06.07.2024 200

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The debate’s biggest loser? The truth.

The truth needed a standard-bearer in Atlanta, and President Biden wasn’t up to the job. The first 2024 presidential debate between...

28.06.2024 60

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Jamaal Bowman was a Democratic Trump. Now he’s gone.

It’s an encouraging sign that there is a critical mass on the left who can say: Stop. (Photos; Yana Paskova for The Washington Post, Jabin...

26.06.2024 90

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You have no idea how hard it is to be Donald Trump

Decapitation, electrocution and expectoration are just a few of the emerging hazards. Former president Donald Trump on Capitol Hill on...

14.06.2024 100

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As Biden rallies the free world, Trump serves a higher cause: Himself

In Phoenix, at his first post-conviction campaign rally, Trump portrayed a dark and desperate America. Former president Donald Trump at a...

07.06.2024 650

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Another Committee to Confirm Our Conspiracy Theories comes up short

Republicans could not prove that Anthony Fauci influenced the CIA on the covid lab leak theory. Anthony S. Fauci, the former director of the...

04.06.2024 200

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One verdict is already in, and Trump lost — his focus

30.05.2024 30

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In closing, Trump’s team takes the jurors for idiots

Trump lawyer Todd Blanche treated jurors as if they were deaf or slow. “THAT. IS. A. LIE!” he bellowed at them. Former president Donald...

30.05.2024 200

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Trump’s fascist talk is what’s ‘poisoning the blood of our country’

No, Trump isn’t Hitler. But his copycat words lead nowhere good. Former president Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Charleston, S.C., on...

24.05.2024 400

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Republicans discover a secret elixir that cures dementia with one dose

There is a shot that cures incoherence? How can I get some? Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on...

21.05.2024 200

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Now playing off-Broadway: Trump’s synchronized sycophants

17.05.2024 200

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Melania Trump, absent from court but a central figure in the trial

Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen testified in seamy detail about hush-money allegations. Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former...

14.05.2024 80

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Trump’s trial is just like prison — for reporters

Mar-a-Lago it isn’t. Donald Trump and defense attorney Todd Blanche at the New York Supreme Court on Thursday. (Jeenah...

10.05.2024 60

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Caught in Stormy’s tempest, Trump gets a taste of his own medicine

It isn’t clear how her testimony will affect jurors, but the defendant’s angry response was unmistakable. In a courtroom sketch, Stormy...

08.05.2024 50

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To the Gaza protesters helping to elect Trump: Give it a rest

You must have been doing for the last eight years what Trump has been doing in court the last three weeks: Napping. Eric Suter holds an...

03.05.2024 30

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This tiny flower teaches us all we need to know about growing old

Opinion This tiny flower teaches us all we need to know about growing old By Dana Milbank Columnist | Follow author...

26.04.2024 100

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Is Trump: (a) Lincoln, (b) Mandela, (c) Jesus or (d) all of the above?

Former president Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a campaign rally in Conway, S.C., on Feb. 10. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

12.04.2024 50

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Trump swindles his followers — again

Former president Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, speaks at a rally in Green Bay, Wis., on Tuesday. (Mike Roemer/AP) Listen...

05.04.2024 200

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