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Lucian K Truscott IV

@LucianKTruscott

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A writer for more than 50 years, I'm a journalist, novelis and columnist on Substack and Salon, proud father of 3 great kids, and resident of Milford, PA.

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@LucianKTruscott
Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
"Lock her up" is Trump's "Heil Hitler." Calling for the jailing of your political opponents without trial isn't a joke. It's a call to outright fascism
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Texas has the highest percentage of gun owners in the nation. They're supposed to be the NRA's "good guys with guns." Where were they in Uvalde?
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4 years
We are witnessing the birth of a movement — and the downfall of a president. The 2020 campaign is in the streets, and we are winning.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
There is no such thing as exaggerating what Donald Trump is capable of. If it means more money for him an his Republican pals, he'll kill your dog.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
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Currently a resident of the solitary confinement wing of a cellblock in a federal lock-up in Washington, D.C., Manafort is keeping a secret for Trump that will get him out of jail and get him paid-off in millions by the Russians.
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4 years
Can we put aside for the moment his corruption, ignorance, incompetence, arrogance, racism, stupidity, criminality, greed and buffoonery, and remember that Donald Trump is a pig?
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4 years
Right in front of our eyes, Trump is in retreat. He's hiding behind his fence, in his bunker. It isn't Black Lives Matter on trial. It's him.. He is losing and he knows it and he's scared. This is the moment we have waited for. Remember these days. They will go down in history.
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6 years
We talk about the “founding fathers” of this nation, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, who attended the Constitutional Convention. Well, this nation had founding mothers, as well. One of our founding mothers was a slave, Sally Hemings.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Something happened over the midday break today. I think several Senators realized they don't want a raging alcoholic on the court, even one who's a right winger. The FBI investigation has become the lifeboat they're all jumping into. They're about to throw Kavanaugh overboard.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
LTC Alexander Vindman met every requirement for promotion to Colonel but one: he spoke truth to power, a fatal offense in Donald Trump's America.
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4 years
In the Truscott family, we never forget and this is why.
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4 years
Trump got beaten by the very fires he lit to win the White House. He stoked racism and hate, and the fire is consuming him. He shined a light on the ugliness that has always been there, and now that people can see it clearly, they are recoiling from racism and from him.
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4 years
Everything we suspected about Donald Trump has come true. He is a fascist. He comes right out and says it. Even his friends have admitted it now.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Donald Trump’s fatal flaw: It's hard to pick which of Trump's many defects is the worst, but there is one.
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4 years
The week that Donald Trump lost the election. He might recover from the virus, but he can't recover from being himself.
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4 years
Trump is going out the way he came in: Lying, cheating and stealing
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5 years
Donald Trump has tested positive. He didn't catch the virus, but the virus caught him, and he's on life support.
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4 years
Trump is a cornered rat. He was contemptuous of the virus — now it is inside his own White House. He is a desperate and dangerous man, trapped in a disaster of his own making.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
3 years
This is Tatiana Perebeinis, who was killed yesterday along with her two children by a Russian mortar in Irpin, Ukraine. She was working for the SE Ranking company in Kyiv.
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3 years
This photo is history in flesh and blood, history that cannot be rewritten, cannot be buried, cannot be denied, because we are alive to tell it.
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6 years
The Moscow Trump tower project is evidence that his deal with Putin was a two-way street. Putin wnoted puppet in the WH. Trump wanted money. It was a deal they couldn't resist.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
ALERT: I have a big story on the New York Times op ed page tomorrow, Friday. Much controversy on the way!
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
Trump is preparing the ground for a totalitarian dictatorship — but we can stop him if we get angry and stay angry. 200,000 dead ought to be enough to do it.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
7 years
If you don't think after the Seychelles meeting that Erik Prince reported straight back to Trump and Kirill Dmitriev reported straight back to Putin, you're dreaming.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Trump got beaten by Muriel Bowers, Mayor of Washington D.C. She painted "Black Lives Matter" in gigantic yellow letters on 16th Street in sight of the White House. The troops she demanded be removed from her city are gone. She is in charge in Washington, not Trump.
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3 years
Liz Cheney is driving the 1/6 investigation into Watergate territory by indicating that the Mark Meadows texts show a conspiracy between members of Congress and Trump to interfere with the operations of the government.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
My cousin Shannon Lanier and I after a CBS interview that will air Thursday 8:15 am. Grandson of a slave owner and a grandson of a slave and the same slave owner. Brothers, Jeffersons.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
2 years
It's a con job. They're just ridding themselves of a cancer they found on one of their legs so they can continue stomping on everyone they don't like. Don't fall for it.
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4 years
Republicans are no longer a political party. They’re a mob
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4 years
Regarding the sad death of RBG: Don't get depressed. Get angry. Get even. Get out and vote.
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4 years
No rallies, no Death Star: Trump’s campaign is disintegrating before our eyes. The biggest vote in 2020 belongs to the coronavirus, and it's voting against Trump.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
Donald Trump is a cheap, penny-pinching bastard who wants to steal another election so he can keep enriching himself in office. Impeaching him might not remove him now, but it will beat him in 2020.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
You wanted to know what American fascism looks like? It looks like Trump's executive order for meat packers to stay open, despite the covid-19 running rampant through their workforce. Back to work you underpaid immigrants and rural working class Americans! Shut up and die!
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Trump got beaten by Colin Kapernick: Roger Goodell admitted the NFL made a mistake when they outlawed "taking a knee" in protest against police brutality. It's going to be a nightmare for Trump this fall as he watches whole teams take a knee during the National Anthem.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
A wannabe dictator never cries: Except maybe for himself because nobody appreciates him enough and the governors don't thank him for all the help he gives them
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Lucian K Truscott IV
7 years
Trump is powerless because he doesn't understand being president. He just plays one on TV.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
I have seen the future: Donald Trump is going to get worse. The only thing he hasn't done yet is arrest Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
Can we stop tiptoeing around the fact that Donald Trump is behaving like a dictator?
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
He is the Pout Monster in Chief. He didn't honor our war dead. He just sat there and sulked and scowled and steamed.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Donald Trump is going to wish he had loved WikiLeaks less and the rule of law more, because his love of WikiLeaks is very likely what will take him down.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Poor Donald Trump! All the guy wanted was to be president, and look at him now! He's going to be a defendant!
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donnie Jr. Have to drive back to the east coast because she tested positive when they arrived in SD. There is a god.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Christmas among spies. Spending the holidays in Beirut didn't make much sense unless you were 27 and had lost your mind.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
Why doesn't a White House reporter ask Trump what exactly he thinks $1200 (or better still, $600) will pay for? Does he think it will cover rent? Or food? Or utilities? All three? This is the "how much is a gallon of milk?" question. When will a WH reporter ask it?
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
He's a lying thieving incompetent ignorant traitor. Impeachment would be way too kind an end for him. He belongs in Leavenworth, broken, beaten, and bankrupt.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
I don’t know exactly how, or exactly when, but this year is the beginning of the end. By this time next year, MAGA is going to stand for Make America Gleeful Again.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Donald Trump will kill people to win. His strategy for November: if they're not my voters, let 'em die.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Once you get locked into a serious binge of prevaricating and lying and general ugliness, the tendency is to take it as far as you can...we had two jugs of Adderall, six Big Macs, two tubs of KFC Extra Crispy, a galaxy of downers, laughers, screamers..
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Donald Trump has made a decision that he is not the president of the United States of America, but president of the red states of America. Trump has embraced a new confederacy, and he is their Jefferson Davis, and a new civil war has been joined
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Korbachar looked at Kavanaugh and saw an active alcoholic. He knew she had his number and couldn't stop himself from lashing out. He's a mean drunk. Out of control and he wants to be a SC justice.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
3 years
The birthday boy has notched another year in his belt, and trust me, there's room for more.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Donald Trump hadn’t even gotten the Republican nomination for president yet, and everywhere you looked around the Trump campaign, there were Russian spies at work. It was Putin’s plan, and Trump was its beneficiary.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
The intelligence agency of a hostile power went all in to steal the election for Donald Trump. He's not a president. He's a puppet.
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5 years
White supremacy in a coat and tie. It’s not just David Duke and the KKK anymore; it’s Tucker Carlson and Fox News Network who sell hate
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6 years
Trump's enemies list will backfire on him. He's not shutting them up, he's cutting them loose, and what they know will put people in jail.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
His name was Cardinal Spellman. The Catholic church knew about the problem of sexual abuse and harassment much longer ago than they admit. Even cardinals were guilty.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
The next time Trump has Stephanopoulos over to the Oval Office for a lecture on the Way the World Works, he’s going to call off the election, turn to the camera and say, now what are you going to do?
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
American apartheid Confronting the Wolf within us: This country still treats too many of its black citizens like slaves
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
We're impeaching his sorry ass, and America is in debt to one whistleblower and a pair of foreign service officers, Marie Yovonavitch and Bill Taylor
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
My last Village Voice cover story with a by-line. January 2016.
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7 years
When the man under investigation fires the man investigating him... Dead man lying
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4 years
This is all the evidence you need that the virus is not going to frighten people away from the polls in November. More people will turn out, not less. This is the show of courage that scares Trump and his allies. This is how we win. #Wewillnotbedominated 4/
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Operation Faithful Patriot? Try Operation Frightful Idiot. Trump has ordered more soldiers to the border with Mexico than we currently have fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Watching news about Kavanaugh and Trump tonight, it feels like we're at war. A war on women. A war on immigrants. A war on truth. We are at war.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
We need to quarantine Donald Trump: He's confused, ignorant, afraid, and his lies and inaction are killing Americans
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4 years
Here's a motto for the Biden campaign: Liberty and Justice For All It's what Democrats have always stood for. It's who we are. #LibertyandJusticeforAll
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3 years
I am reposting this column because it has attracted so much attention as a FB post. Here is a link to the column on my Substack Newsletter:
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5 years
Bill and Mike's excellent adventure! These two galumps went to Rome looking for Joseph Mifsud. They may find more than they bargained for.
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The war crimes president: Donald Trump is destroying good order and discipline in the military on purpose.
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2 years
In memoriam: They didn't die in a war, but fighting in a war changed them forever: Lucian K. Truscott Jr., Lucian K. Truscott III, Francis Meriwether Truscott
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
The one word you won't find in the whistleblower complaint is Russia, but Trump's debt to Putin is clear. He didn't just want dirt on Biden from Ukraine. He wants Zelensky to surrender in the war between Ukraine and Putin's Russia.
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4 years
Fear and loathing in the Rose Garden: "My vice president had taken off his shirt and was ripping pages from his Bible and slapping them onto his bare chest to facilitate protection from the women in the Fake News media he knew would be ogling him..."
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Lucian K Truscott IV
5 years
He looks like a tick.
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5 years
Trump is the OJ of American politics. When he murdered democracy and went looking for "the real killer," he found Joe Biden.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
4 years
Trump got beaten by the protesters. This week he felt it necessary to erect a 10 foot high fence around the White House, some three miles of it by some accounts. And yet the protests go on, and the protesters keep coming. He is surrounded.
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4 years
I'm starting to feel a landslide coming Remember how the 2016 election results were analyzed? Trump won because a lot of voters were angry. Well, there's a whole new crop of angry voters out there and they aren't Trump's.
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5 years
Mike Pompeo, secretary of nothing: Unlike Bill Taylor, he's a disgrace to West Point
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4 years
UPDATE: NY Times has rescheduled my op ed. It's now going up online Monday morning and running in the paper on Tuesday.
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Lucian K Truscott IV
6 years
Republicans wanted someone who cared even more than they did about getting rich off the fat of the land and fuck everybody else. They wanted a perfect Republican, and they’ve got him in Donald Trump.
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