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Sunday thought Comedy and tragedy Robert Reich Mar 30 Friends, The past week has been another horror show, and I share your anxiety and sleeplessness. But the past week also reveals the utter incompetence of Trump and his regime. Even  The   Wall Street Journal   criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to dismiss “Signalgate” as a hoax, calls Trump negotiator Steve Witkoff “out of his depth in dealing with world crises,” and condemns the administration for thinking “it can bully its way through anything by shouting Fake News.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) instructs the administration to “ own it and fix it .” During the ensuing uproar, Witkoff goes off the deep end,  telling  Tucker Carlson that Vladimir Putin is “straight up” and not a “bad guy,” claiming he’s “100 percent” certain Russia “doesn’t want to overrun Europe,” and embracing Russia’s claim that people in the seized Ukrainian territory “want to be under Russian ru...

  If you agree with the above statement, I hope you’ll consider upgrading to a paid subscription. It is the only way that I can sustain The Warning. All you need to do is click here: A Cabinet of fools Steve Schmidt Mar 25 There is no sentence that I can write that can open the eyes of the willfully blind, the defiant deaf, or the numbed, anesthetized or indifferent to comprehend what they do not wish to see or hear. Nevertheless, there is an urgent need to write about this moment. There must be a record laid down that makes clear some people saw the danger. Whatever fate has in store for us all, there will never again be any legitimate argument to be made that things will turn out alright as America slips towards doom. Historians will record that there was never, ever a real question about the coming catastrophe after Jeffrey Goldberg published this astonishing  story  (gift link) in  The Atlantic  on March 24, 2025. Here is the headline: “The Trump Administrat...