Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | March 2, 2023 Kevin McCarthy got the votes he needed to become House Speaker in January by giving the extremist wing of House Republicans pretty much everything they wanted. In doing so, he empowered the most extreme of these House Republicans, including Representatives Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, James Comer, Marjorie […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 23, 2023 The Trump-led insurrection that culminated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol did not end with the certification of Joe Biden as President. Welcome to The Insurrection: Part II. The goal is the same – ensure that former President Donald Trump or a Trump-like candidate becomes […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 16, 2023 The legal walls are closing in on former President Donald Trump as a multitude of legal threats have moved to a new, dangerous stage for Trump. Here’s where things stand: Fulton County, Georgia Today, Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney released five pages of a special grand jury’s report on […]
Fred’s Weekly Note returns next week. In the meantime, catch up on these recent op-eds: ✔️ Trump’s Hush Money Is News Again. Here’s Why We Should Care. A criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump being restarted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg raises vital issues of both election integrity and accountability, Ambassador Norman Eisen (ret.), E. […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | February 2, 2023 Children are often told the story of George Washington telling his father, “I cannot tell a lie. I chopped down the cherry tree.” That story is, ironically, untrue. But this next presidential story is true. By the time he left office in January 2021, The Washington Post […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 26, 2023 On Tuesday, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis indicated that a special grand jury has recommended multiple indictments as a result of its investigation of the efforts of former President Donald Trump and his collaborators to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Willis said that her decision […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 19, 2023 We knew this was coming. Last year, there were signals that Congress would have to deal with increasing the debt limit ceiling sometime in the second half of 2023. “Extraordinary measures” could extend that deadline closer to the end of the year. Today, much earlier than expected, we hit the […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 12, 2023 They came to Washington last week ready to represent the constituents who had given them the honor of serving in Congress. They were 39 freshman Republican House Members. Harsh reality quickly set in. Last week, they sat around as a Greek chorus while 20 extremist Republicans forced […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | January 5, 2023 “There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible, and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths […]
Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note | December 22, 2022 On November 4, 2020 — one day after Election Day 2020 — Rick Perry, Trump’s Energy Secretary, contacted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with a proposal. Perry proposed an “AGRESSIVE [sic] STRATEGY” to have Republican-controlled state legislatures in key battleground states override the voters and […]
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