Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — What happens when you incite an insurrection to prevent the congressional certification of the 2020 election results? Turns out you get invited to speak at a high-profile gathering of GOP elected officials and conservative activists. As outrageous as that appears, this is exactly what we’re seeing with the...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — What happens when you incite an insurrection to prevent the congressional certification of the 2020 election results? Turns out you get invited to speak at a high-profile gathering of GOP elected officials and conservative activists. As outrageous as that appears, this is exactly what we’re seeing with the...WW…

Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View articles on CNN. (CNN)Donald Trump desperately wants you to believe the only reason Joe Biden won the 2020 election by so many votes was because it was the "." Trump served up his latest variation of this fallacy on , saying "we have so much evidence" to support his claims but the judges "won't allow us" to submit it.That's a lie. The truth is Trump's lawyers have had...…Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View articles on CNN. (CNN)Donald Trump desperately wants you to believe the only reason Joe Biden won the 2020 election by so many votes was because it was the "." Trump served up his latest variation of this fallacy on , saying "we have so much evidence" to support his claims but the judges "won't allow us" to submit it.That's a lie. The truth is Trump's lawyers have had...WW…

Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — Kanye West declared Saturday night he’s running for president “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States. #2020VISION.” I can see it now: Kanye as president, his wife Kim Kardashian as first lady,...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — Kanye West declared Saturday night he’s running for president “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States. #2020VISION.” I can see it now: Kanye as president, his wife Kim Kardashian as first lady,...WW…

Anatomy of a hate crime. On Saturday, April 19, retweeted far-right “journalist” Paul Sperry, whom the Anti-Defamation league has “an anti-Muslim blogger” for his years of spewing . The Sperry that caught Trump’s eye read: “Let’s see if authorities enforce the social-distancing orders for mosques during Ramadan (April 23-May 23) like they did churches during Easter.” Later that day Trump continued to stoke the flames of bigotry at his daily press conference, defending his retweet by suggesting that Muslim-Americans would have more rights than Christians when it came to places of...…Anatomy of a hate crime. On Saturday, April 19, retweeted far-right “journalist” Paul Sperry, whom the Anti-Defamation league has “an anti-Muslim blogger” for his years of spewing . The Sperry that caught Trump’s eye read: “Let’s see if authorities enforce the social-distancing orders for mosques during Ramadan (April 23-May 23) like they did churches during Easter.” Later that day Trump continued to stoke the flames of bigotry at his daily press conference, defending his retweet by suggesting that Muslim-Americans would have more rights than Christians when it came to places of...WW…

Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more on CNN. — On Saturday, former President George W. Bush released a offering words of support for a nation rocked by a staggering loss of lives and livelihoods during the coronavirus pandemic. In less than three minutes, a somber-voiced Bush expressed gratitude to the nation’s medical professionals, called on...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more on CNN. — On Saturday, former President George W. Bush released a offering words of support for a nation rocked by a staggering loss of lives and livelihoods during the coronavirus pandemic. In less than three minutes, a somber-voiced Bush expressed gratitude to the nation’s medical professionals, called on...WW…

Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign is desperate to stop people from reminding America that Trump called warnings about the threat of the coronavirus a “hoax.” I found that out firsthand after an appearance Sunday morning on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show, where I mentioned Trump’s history of belittling the threat of the coronavirus. One of the examples I cited was Trump’s at his Feb. 28 rally where he declared that the Democrats’ criticism of his handling of COVID-19 was their “.”  Later Sunday, to my surprise, the “Trump War Room,” a Twitter account that is managed by the Trump campaign and...…Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign is desperate to stop people from reminding America that Trump called warnings about the threat of the coronavirus a “hoax.” I found that out firsthand after an appearance Sunday morning on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show, where I mentioned Trump’s history of belittling the threat of the coronavirus. One of the examples I cited was Trump’s at his Feb. 28 rally where he declared that the Democrats’ criticism of his handling of COVID-19 was their “.”  Later Sunday, to my surprise, the “Trump War Room,” a Twitter account that is managed by the Trump campaign and...WW…

Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — We are witnessing a dangerous effort by some on the right to normalize the cancer known as “White nationalism” in America. And unless we counter it vigorously, we risk seeing more Capitol-type attacks going forward.Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been a leader in this campaign, recently the White nationalist...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — We are witnessing a dangerous effort by some on the right to normalize the cancer known as “White nationalism” in America. And unless we counter it vigorously, we risk seeing more Capitol-type attacks going forward.Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been a leader in this campaign, recently the White nationalist...WW…

Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — Donald Trump probably could not have been a worse person to lead Americans through the Covid-19 pandemic.This is a man who “fueled confusion and conspiracies from the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic,” as PolitiFact recently documented in its annual “ designation. The nonpartisan group gave its 2020...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — Donald Trump probably could not have been a worse person to lead Americans through the Covid-19 pandemic.This is a man who “fueled confusion and conspiracies from the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic,” as PolitiFact recently documented in its annual “ designation. The nonpartisan group gave its 2020...WW…

Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View articles on CNN. — It’s been over a month since Donald Trump was soundly defeated in the 2020 election. Since then, Trump has had numerous days in court to prove his baseless claims of voter fraud or other voter irregularities – yet.The Trump-requested recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia have been completed and failed...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View articles on CNN. — It’s been over a month since Donald Trump was soundly defeated in the 2020 election. Since then, Trump has had numerous days in court to prove his baseless claims of voter fraud or other voter irregularities – yet.The Trump-requested recounts in Wisconsin and Georgia have been completed and failed...WW…

Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — In 2018, when pop megastar Taylor Swift criticized GOP candidates in her home state of Tennessee and urged people to vote for their Democratic opponents, Donald Trump responded that he now liked Swift’s music After Swift’s tweets on Saturday to “dismantle” the US Post Office – which she viewed as his way “to...…Opinion byLink Copied!Ad FeedbackEditor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View on CNN. — In 2018, when pop megastar Taylor Swift criticized GOP candidates in her home state of Tennessee and urged people to vote for their Democratic opponents, Donald Trump responded that he now liked Swift’s music After Swift’s tweets on Saturday to “dismantle” the US Post Office – which she viewed as his way “to...WW…