Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | June 1, 2023 Recent developments have further imperiled former President Donald Trump as Special Counsel Jack Smith appears close to deciding whether to indict Trump for taking and retaining classified and top-secret documents that did not belong to him. A recent Washington Post report indicated that boxes of documents were removed from their […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 18, 2023 Many congressional rules are relics of the past that need to be changed to bring Congress into the 21st century. The obvious rule that’s front and center right now is the debt ceiling limit. The Debt Ceiling Limit Why do we even have a debt ceiling limit? […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 11, 2023 On Wednesday, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was arrested and charged with 13 federal crimes – seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making false statements to Congress. With so much in the news this week […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | May 4, 2023 Former President Donald Trump and his coup plotters failed when they tried to steal the 2020 election. Election deniers failed when they tried to win key statewide elections in 2022. That hasn’t stopped MAGA Republicans, triggered by Trump’s lies, from continuing to try to rig elections and […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 27, 2023 Attacks on our democracy are rising, led by efforts to suppress voices, voters, and even books. Voices This week, state Democratic Representative Zooey Zephyr, Montana’s first transgender lawmaker, was censured and barred from the House floor for the remainder of the session on the grounds that her words violated […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 20, 2023 After former President Donald Trump, Fox News apparently did more than anyone else to promote and spread the false claim and accompanying lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. In doing so, Fox made a dangerous contribution to undermining the confidence of millions of Americans in the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 13, 2023 A dangerous anti-democracy movement is rapidly growing in the ranks of Republican officeholders and activists. It was unleashed when former President Donald Trump refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power after he lost the 2020 presidential election – a first by a U.S. President. Instead, […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | April 6, 2023 Our democracy is under attack and seriously threatened. These attacks crystallized in 2020 when then-President Donald Trump attempted to steal the election he had lost, the first attempted presidential coup in our nation’s history, and the lead role he played in unleashing the January 6 insurrectionist attack […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 30, 2023 Presidential and congressional candidates from both parties, a feckless Federal Election Commission (FEC), and a Supreme Court majority extremely hostile to campaign finance laws have combined to eviscerate federal contribution limits – a key to restricting political money corruption in Washington. The result: a campaign finance system […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 23 , 2023 With the support of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, extremist House Republicans are out to defend former President Donald Trump without regard for any criminal activities in which Trump may have engaged. These Trump followers show little interest in defending him on the merits in the four criminal […]
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