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July 23rd, 2020 - The Lincoln Project today released a new video, “Failure,” highlighting the last several months’ worth of President Trump’s often erratic and erroneous comments on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As new daily cases continue to rise to double what they were in April, President Trump offered little guidance and support during his Tuesday briefing. “President Trump is incapable of handling the multiple crises we face. Because of his failures, America, a country with 5% of the world’s population, has 25% of the world’s new coronavirus cases,” said Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project. He continued, “We need a president who is ready and able to lead America.” And then there is this. July 24th, 2020 - The Lincoln Project today released a new video, “Maxwell,” taking aim at President Trump’s recent well wishes for accused, child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell has been charged with helping to recruit, train, and manage a harem of young wom...

Reproduced in its entirety the AXIOS article below acknowledges there are things wrong, sloppy, and even unethical about Wolff's book. But nonetheless, he does get a couple of things right. There are definitely parts of Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" that are wrong, sloppy, or betray off-the-record confidence. But there are two things he gets absolutely right, even in the eyes of White House officials who think some of the book's scenes are fiction: his spot-on portrait of Trump as an emotionally erratic president, and the low opinion of him among some of those serving him. Why it matters: Wolff captures the contempt some Trump aides have for the president and his family. Axios' Jonathan Swan notes that this includes people you see trumpeting their loyalty to him. So Wolff's liberties with off-the-record comments — while ethically unacceptable to nearly all reporters — have the effect of exposing Washington's insider jokes and secret languages,...