Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

If you think Barr's Justice Department will take a single step to confront Trump or his cronies with any kind of challenge, think again. His hyper-maximalist vision of executive power borders on the fetishistic.

No bully - and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever - is ever satisfied with just one day's worth of your lunch money.

No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.

Even the most liberal reporters I know have a sense of drive and curiosity about what the Clintons are hiding, because they know it's always something.

Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.

Donald Trump's racism is of course an ongoing feature, not a bug.

Trump would rather submerge himself in the lake of fire for a thousand years than talk about Russia again. It's the subject he can never avoid, never fully wash out.

Trump's 2016 effort could afford to be a shambolic circus; nothing was on the line. He never expected to win and so the rotating cast of campaign managers didn't really matter.