Donald Trump
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Editorial: Don’t be fooled by the GOP’s defense of Trump; the indictments are serious
This week’s criminal indictment of ex-president Donald Trump is historic news that can’t be overstated, ignored by those turned off by politics, or dismissed by Trump supporters spewing…
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Editorial: Trump charged: One question remains
On Tuesday, ex-president Trump got the kind of sordid notoriety that only a true publicity hound could relish: He became the first former or current president to be…
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Editorial: Trump shows why taxes, power should be closely monitored
The consternation in Congress about whether to make public six years’ worth of ex-president Donald Trump’s tax information was overly wrought by a Congress, and media pundits, fearful…
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Editorial: Is Trump the face of the GOP’s decline or its hope?
Even if you somehow like the man, it doesn’t change these facts: Trump’s a tax cheat, a sore loser, a habitual liar, a thief of presidential records who…
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Letter to the editor: State GOP must eschew Trump to regain relevancy
The recent election was a disaster for the Vermont Republican Party.
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Letter to the editor: Pigs are better people than one of our former leaders
I have never met a pig that is sexist, or racist, or homophobic.
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Editorial: A sea-change in expectations, Trump’s path to the ash heap
We don’t pretend that the next two years, with a divided Congress and a presidential election coming in two years (and with Trump in the mix), will be…
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Editorial: Trump’s troubling trove
The latest news that a top-secret document describing a foreign government’s military defense readiness, including its nuclear capabilities, was found among the documents at ex-president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago…
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Editorial: Trump’s travesty wreaks havoc on others
Seemingly, the troubling aspects of the Trump drama never end.
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Letter to the editor: Trump and his mob face punishment
Who isn’t disgusted by Trump and his disgusting mob of supporters who attacked and ransacked the Capitol Building in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6? We need to eject…
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Letter to the editor: We must impeach, convict and disqualify Trump
Americans are deeply shocked by the attack on American democracy that occurred in Washington DC on Jan. 6. It was a horrific sight to see armed terrorists swarm…
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Addison County State’s Attorney, Sheriff, High Bailiff condemn Trump’s attempted coup
ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County State’s Attorney Dennis Wygmans, Sheriff Peter Newton, and High Bailiff (-elect) Dave Silberman released the following statement on January 7: Yesterday, at…
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Trump’s refusal to concede hurts the democratic process
MIDDLEBURY — President Donald Trump’s refusal to recognize former Vice President Joe Biden as president-elect has prevented collaboration between his team and Biden’s. “I would say this is…
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Editorial: Trump’s lies destroy freedom; one antidote is ‘digital civics’
“The war for truth is now the war to preserve our democracy,” is how New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman summed up the state of the union in the wake…
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Editorial: Biden may win, but Trumpism reveals nation’s ugly underbelly
We have to confess we desperately wanted to run the headline in today’s paper that proclaimed, in large type across the front page: “America to Trump: YOUR FIRED!”…