Earlier this week, fifty Republican national-security experts released an extraordinary public letter condemning their party’s Presidential nominee, Donald Trump. “From a foreign policy perspective,” they wrote, “Donald Trump is not qualified to be President and Commander-in-Chief.” Michael Chertoff, the former Homeland Security Secretary and one of the signers of the letter, joins The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos to discuss the split within the national-security community, his view of Hillary Clinton, and his warnings against the risks of a Trump Presidency.
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Letter from Biden’s Washington
Donald Trump Did This
On abortion, Arizona, and the 2024 Presidential election.
By Susan B. Glasser
The Political Scene Podcast
How Should Reporters Cover Donald Trump?
As Trump faces his first criminal trial in New York, reporters continue to encounter challenges in covering the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee and his supporters.
Our Local Correspondents
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At his criminal trial, the ex-President has to sit there while potential jurors, prosecutors, the judge, witnesses, and even his own lawyers talk about him as a defective, impossible person.
By Eric Lach
Our Local Correspondents
Who’s Afraid of Judging Donald Trump? Lots of People
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By Eric Lach