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Sorry Pete, Your Dream Job Is Just Clean-Up on Aisle Five

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The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Ten Reasons Dems Are Low-Key Hopeful for Trump’s Second Term

22.01.2025 20

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Why It’s Not Just The Weather That’s Chilling D.C. Right Now

18.01.2025 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Under Trump’s Thumb, Zuckerberg Has No F---s Left to Give

08.01.2025 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Jimmy Carter Was the Anti-Trump Who Made America Great

31.12.2024 20

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Three Presidents. One Country. What Could Go Wrong?

20.12.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Trump Should Dump Kash Patel & Pete Hegseth for His Own Good

Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. Similarly, supporters of the next president should not let him drive the nominations process for his new...

04.12.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Why Trump’s Clown Cabinet of Deplorables Is a No-Joke Circus

There has never been a week like this one in the long history of U.S. presidential transitions. There have of course, over the past two and a half...

16.11.2024 50

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Trump Having Putin on Speed Dial Isn’t Funny, It’s Terrifying

So, let me get this straight, according to Bob Woodward’s new book War, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national...

09.10.2024 30

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: The Real Losers of the Walz-Vance Debate: Every Voter Watching It

There is no question that the big loser at Tuesday night’s CBS vice presidential debate was the audience. It is not just that the debate was...

02.10.2024 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: The Worst Political Violence of 2024 May Lie Ahead—Thanks to Trump

It says something about the times in which we live that a second apparent assassination attempt against a former U.S. president is not the most...

17.09.2024 5

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Kamala Harris Won Debate by a Knockout—but Her Fight Is Far From Over

If Tuesday night’s presidential debate were a boxing match it might have been stopped by the referees in its very first moments when Kamala...

11.09.2024 10

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Why Trump and Putin Now Need Each Other—Desperately

When Donald Trump first heard on Thursday morning that Vladimir Putin had endorsed Kamala Harris for president, he must have been shattered. Not...

06.09.2024 20

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Kamala Harris Hits It Out of the Park, CNN Not So Much

A big question was answered during the CNN interview of Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Viewers saw...

30.08.2024 100

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Ignore the Media Haters. The ‘Harris Honeymoon’ Is Far From Over

They’re baaaa-ack. Well, actually, truth be told, they never left. They are America’s political media elites and they are still up to their old...

13.08.2024 60

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Tim Walz Is the Biden That Harris Needs—Same Vibes, Same Base

Kamala Harris has chosen. She has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate and in so doing she has both set the terms for the 2024...

06.08.2024 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Kamala Harris Has a Tough VP Choice to Make—and Tim Walz Should Win It

A lifetime ago in American politics which is to say a couple months ago on your calendar, I had the good fortune to attend a dinner party at the...

30.07.2024 2

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Here’s How President Trump Would Run Roughshod Over Our Democracy

This May and June, leaders from Washington’s policy, political, legal, and national security communities got together to imagine what for many of...

30.07.2024 10

New Republic

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Bullet? Shard of Glass? Welcome to Donald Trump’s Ear Wound Theater

On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray triggered a firestorm when he told a congressional hearing on the assassination attempt against former...

26.07.2024 3

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf

Opinion: Kamala Harris Must Be the Candidate. This Is How She Beats Trump

It is time for the Democratic Party and the people of the United States to unite in support of Vice President Kamala Harris to be the next...

21.07.2024 4

The Daily Beast

David Rothkopf