Gary McCarty
Gary McCarty
Trump Takes a (Bad) Page Out of the Biden Playbook and Has the FBI Raid a Critic’s Home
Donald Trump is playing dumb to the whole situation, but the FBI has raided the home and office of a prominent critic of the president, John Bolton, who used to…
Writing from Stage MAGA Right, President Trump Advises Zelenskyy to Take the War to Russia
President Trump has found his voice now that he’s handing off the pursuit of peace in Ukraine to Europe and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Trump almost even tipped his hand — that…
Appeals Court Throws Out Trump’s $454 Million Civil Fraud Fine; AG James Faces Possible Investigation
A New York appeals court has thrown out a $454 million civil fraud fine against Donald Trump and his organization, but the panel split on whether the president had actually…
Russia Delivers One Big Not-So-Beautiful ‘We’re in Charge’ to Trump and European Leaders
While Donald Trump spent a virtually silent and invisible day at the White House, Sergey Lavrov — Putin’s foreign minister — issued some rather revealing comments about the president’s recent…
Okay, So Now the Next Summit in the Peace Process is ‘Sort of’ Down to Two — Putin and Zelenskyy
It was hard to tell who was moderating the European leaders’ conference at the White House on Monday, Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin. At one point, Trump even interrupted a…
As Illusion of Trilateral Summit Looms, European Leaders Call for Ceasefire, Security Guarantee
I previously gave the possibility of a summit involving President Trump, President Zelenskyy and President Putin a 5 percent chance of ever occurring, and I stand by that prediction as…
NBC to Take Its Peacock Logo Back from Cable Channels and Change Name of MSNBC in Selloff
NBC, the National Broadcasting Company, started in 1926 and now owned by Comcast, is getting ready for a yard sale of its cable channels by year-end. Up for sale are…
Team Trump Goes on the Offensive as It Appears the Chief Caved to Every Demand of Putin
As Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy and leaders from the EU, NATO and several European countries head to Washington, D.C. for a round of talks with President Trump and his team, the…
Trump to Hand Zelenskky the Putin Hot Potato on Monday as He Exits Stage MAGA Right
President Trump is moving quickly to do a Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of the war in Ukraine. He has invited Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy to the White House on…
Putin Plays Trump Like a Fiddle in Alaska to Restore Global Standing; French TV Calls Summit ‘a Disaster’
President Trump met with FOX’s Sean Hannity for an interview following his three-hour summit with Vladimir Putin and a brief press conference. Trump rated the summit a “10” (has he…
‘There’s No Deal Until There’s a Deal’ — None Dare Call the Putin-Trump Alaskan Summit a Failure
President Putin of Russia spoke first, praising the “neighborly” nature of today’s summit with President Trump in Alaska. Then, Trump took the stage and said pointedly, “There’s no deal until…
All Right, You Modern-Day Luddites: When It Comes to AI, You Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
I don’t think there’s any doubt that AI (Artificial Intelligence) will eventually eliminate jobs, even high-paying ones, so naturally there is a palpable angst when the topic comes up. I…