Opinion Philip Bump America’s least American president Donald Trump isn’t making America great again. He’s making it into something else entirely. Today at 7:00 a.m. EDT 7 min 912 Donald Trump stands behind an American flag at a campaign event last year. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) The facts of the case of Kilmar Abrego García are uncomplicated. An immigrant to the United States, he successfully convinced a court that he should not be returned to his home country of El Salvador because of threats he and his family faced from gangs in that country. He was sent to a prison there anyway, in what the Trump administration described as a mistake. The Supreme Court determined nearly a month ago that the administration had to do everything possible to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return; every indicator, however, is that neither the president nor his administration has done much of anything at all. Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter Instead, Pres...
The 2020 election was neither stolen nor rigged: A primer September 15, 2022 12 min 60 A person in a “Stop the Steal” cowboy hat at the “Protect Our Elections Rally” at the Arizona Federal Theater in Phoenix. (Cassidy Araiza/The Washington Post) Analysis by Philip Bump A professor at a university in Utah issued an appeal this week: Is there a resource that he can present to students to dispel them of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen? Why people believe that the presidential contest was tainted by fraud is often complex and fundamentally detached from the available evidence. It must necessarily be; there is no good evidence that anything more than a scattered handful of fraudulent votes were cast. But the point is well-taken. As someone who has tracked scores of claims over the past 22 months, I am not aware of any compendium explaining that lack of evidence. Cut through the 2024 election noise. Get The Campaign Moment newsletter. So allow this article to serve as one. ...