Inside Trump’s financial ties to Russia and his unusual flattery of Vladimir Putin

Donald Trump was in his element, mingling with beauty pageant contestants and business tycoons as he brought his Miss Universe pageant to Russia for a much-anticipated Moscow debut. Nonetheless, Trump was especially eager for the presence of another honored guest: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump’s new favorite slogan was invented for Nazi sympathizers

• ‘America First’ was Charles Lindbergh’s motto in the 1930s

Trump must be destroyed thoroughly

It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again.

Dozens of lawsuits accuse Trump of not paying his bills, reports claim

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been sued at least 60 times by individuals and businesses who accuse him of failing to pay for work done at his various properties, according to two published reports.

We salute Muhammad Ali as a great American

We salute #MuhammadAli as a great American. Sadly, we need to acknowledge that Donald Trump wouldn’t even allow him to come into America.

Haley compares Trump’s divisive rhetoric to that of Charleston church shooter

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Thursday she wishes Donald Trump communicated differently because bad things result from divisive rhetoric, as evidenced by last June’s massacre in Charleston.

Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump

On the 24th floor of Trump Tower, in an office two floors below Donald Trump, Felix Sater was trying to revive his career. The Russian-born businessman had already done a stint in prison for stabbing a man in the face with the stem of a margarita glass, and he was now awaiting sentencing for his role in a Mafia-orchestrated stock fraud scheme — all the while serving as a government informant on the mob and mysterious matters of national security.

Why Russians love Donald Trump

If the populations of the rest of the world’s G20 countries could vote in the U.S. election, they’d overwhelmingly vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. That’s according to a recent poll by Germany’s Handelsblatt publishing group and YouGov, the online pollster. But there’s one country where the former First Lady takes a backseat to the billionaire Republican front-runner from New York, and that’s Russia.

Could Trump be impeached shortly after he takes office?

• It’s highly improbable, but law scholars and political junkies are speculating about it.

Trump is unfit to be president

Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.

Trump would be ‘impeached’ for his China tariff, Chamber’s Donohue says

• U.S. Chamber’s Donohue uses a bit of hyperbole to make his point: It’s American consumers and businesses that would pay the price.

Donald Trump’s wild ride

As he piles up GOP delegates, the nation braces for a very difficult 2016

Texts: God Trump is a loathsome human.

FBI Special Counsel Lisa Page

“God [T]rump is a loathsome human.”

Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue

• In 1989 five black and Latino boys were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman jogging in New York City. Leading the charge against them was a real estate mogul whose divisive rhetoric can be found in his presidential campaign today

Trump could be Nixon or Hitler

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.

Donald Trump’s Art of the Steal

• How the real estate magnate took the Republican Party from its old bosses

Text: You get all our OCONUS lures approved?

FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok

“You get all our OCONUS lures approved? ;)”

2015 Lie of the Year

Donald Trump’s ‘campaign misstatements’ named the ‘2015 Lie of the Year’

Texts: What an utter idiot

(After exchanging an article about Trump):

Trump is going to break your heart

As a young man, I learned that sometimes that hot chick you’re dating is also completely crazy and, as much fun as it is to go out with her, it’s going to end badly. That’s Donald Trump, the super hottie of the “I Hate the GOP Establishment with a Burning Passion That Has Rendered Me Insusceptible to Reason” crew. He’s sexy, he likes to party, and he certainly puts out — in the sense that he fulfills your fantasies about giving it to the RINOs good and hard.