One of the consistencies of Donald Trump’s politics is that he always believes that he is the smartest person in the room and that everyone else is an idiot. Of course, the person who thinks they’re the smartest person in the room is usually the village idiot, which pretty much sums up the current state of the country. PoliticusUSA is not beholden to any political party or special interest. We are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump has tried to play both sides of the Epstein case. The president publicly says he wants the records made public, while…
Author: Frank M. Everett
The cracks in Trump’s cover-up of Epstein have been forming and growing for months. Next week will finally be the time when all this comes to light. None of this would have happened without four House Republicans defying Trump and signing the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation requiring the DOJ to release the records. PoliticusUSA pulls no punches. Support our independent news and opinion by becoming a subscriber.Democrats would not have obtained the necessary number of signatures without Reps. Massie, Greene, Boebert and Mace sticking to their decision and not giving in to pressure from Trump to…
Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 election so Republicans could maintain a majority in the House was always wrong. stupid idea. Political scientists who have studied the impacts of gerrymandering have found that gerrymandering does not rig elections or strengthen majorities.PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.In 2023, the Institution for Social and Policy Research (ISPS) at Yale and Harvard University analyzed all potential simulations of national gerrymandering scenarios.Their conclusion:Taken together, the data show that most electoral bias cancels out at the national level, giving Republicans an advantage of just two seats in…
There has always been a disconnect between conservatives who support Donald Trump and what Donald Trump is. Conservatives have elevated someone who was born rich and never expressed any understanding or concern for the problems of the non-rich to lead a right-wing populist movement. Well, Trump supporters thought it was a movement. Donald Trump always thought he was building a community that would love him.PoliticusUSA is 100% independent and not beholden to any special interest or political party. Support us by becoming a subscriber.It is also difficult to understand that social conservatives thought that a man who had dozens of…
This new Marjorie Taylor Greene is something else. Donald Trump is desperate to stop House Republicans from voting to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files. Why Trump is so desperate to stop Republicans on a bill that, if it came to his desk, he could simply veto is a bit of a mystery, but one suspects that Trump doesn’t want to be put in the position of openly defending Epstein by vetoing the bill.PoliticusUSA is not beholden to any special interest or political party. We are 100% independent. Support our work by becoming a subscriber.On Friday evening, Trump…
There has always been a practical reason why states did not adopt redistricting in the middle of the decade. Besides the basic fact that this is undemocratic, there is also the possibility that it won’t work, or that it backfires on the party trying to force its way to a midterm majority in the House.PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.Trump’s poll numbers have the look and stink of a term-limited president who is about to become a lame duck as the opposition party appears poised to return to power. Republicans could have come…
There has always been a question regarding Trump’s cover-up of the Epstein scandal.For what?Why does Donald Trump so desperately want to hide the Epstein files from the American people? Why isn’t Trump releasing the files? Why is Trump trying to claim these files are a Democratic hoax when it’s Republicans who have been demanding their release for years?PoliticusUSA is not beholden to any political party or special interest. We are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.The main question is always why?The generous response used to be that Trump didn’t want the records made public because they would embarrass…
In every presidential election, some voters always make a choice and vote for a candidate they may not be very enthusiastic about. Sometimes, later in a president’s term, if the economy deteriorates or things look bad, a group of people will regret their vote.All the usual political cycles seem to have accelerated under Donald Trump’s second administration. After his first term, Trump left the White House as one of the least popular presidents in history. When he returned to the White House in 2025, he was still not popular, but he had a net positive approval rating. PoliticusUSA is not…
It seems that Donald Trump never understood much. The man that his pedo friend Jeffrey Epstein called crazy, doesn’t know the difference between executive orders and laws, seems to have no idea what’s in most of the things he signs, doesn’t understand and refuses to believe how tariffs work, and because he doesn’t read, he never accepts new information.Trump has always had a habit of taking something he hears and transforming it in his mind into what he wants. Republicans wanted Trump to talk more about inflation and affordability after losing in the 2025 election.What Republicans didn’t mention to Trump…
For much of the last decade, Donald Trump was able to get whatever he wanted or needed from House Republicans, through praise, flattery, threats, or all of the above, in some combination. Trump had the House Republican conference wrapped around his finger. House Republicans were terrified of Trump because he could end their careers with a harsh word and a primary against them. PoliticusUSA news and opinions are 100% independent. Support us by becoming a subscriber.While House members are perpetually running for office, Trump had a group of lawmakers who needed him and couldn’t afford to upset him.The political reality…