The Lean to the Left Podcast

With Donald Trump now hiding away as a private citizen at his swanky resort in South Florida, and the new Biden administration now underway, Not Fake News writer Chris Waldron offers a brief “autopsy” of this failed presidency. As we all know, the picture isn’t pretty. So take a listen to “End of Trump Administration: An Autopsy” from Not Fake News.biz. I’ll narrate. Become a supporter of this pod...

Thanks for connecting with NFN Radio News brought to you by Not Fake News.biz. I’m Bob Gatty, founder and editor of Not Fake News. A new day filled with hope has arrived, but America's new president, Joseph R. Biden, now must confront twin pandemics that threaten our nation, and the extent to which he succeeds will largely determine the well-being of every single one of us. That’s our topic for to...

Finally, the end of the Trump presidency is at hand. Take a listen to “An Ignominious but Fitting End” From Not Fake News.biz. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support .

There’s a lot of blame to go around when it comes to Trump and his misguided and illegal effort to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden. Yea, the guy probably would have done all of this on his own because he simply can’t abide the fact that 7 million fewer people voted for him than Biden. Remember when he said he might have to leave country if Biden beat him, it would be that embarrassing? But the fa...

Donald Trump is known for a lot of things. Being loyal to people who support him, people who willingly do his bidding, is not one of those things. In fact, he has a history of screwing over people who have done everything on his behalf, people who have sacrificed their careers, their reputations, and have even gone to jail in his name. Now, a number of those lunatics who attacked the Capitol and C...

There are all sorts of rumblings now that some members of law enforcement as well as some Republican members of Congress could have helped that mob attack the U.S. Capitol January 6 when the vote to make Joe Biden’s election official was being taken. That’s an incredible thing. Imagine what it must have been like with these mobsters smashing windows and breaking down doors to get in as you’re hidi...

Finally, we are getting rid of Donald J. Trump But as Chris Waldron of Not Fake News points out in a blog published today, our nation is still “under siege” and that’s not going to dissipate any time soon as even as they were leaving Washington last week, rioters and insurrectionists were planning a return. What could lie ahead is chilling to think of, especially with the Biden-Harris inauguration...

I just read that Cumulus Media has ordered its right-leaning talk-show hosts to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, or face termination if they fail to comply. That was great news, shutting down an important source of vitriol that helped fuel last Wednesday’s mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump and the Republicans are also getting hit where it hurts. Corporate donors...

Right wing extremists – read that domestic terrorists – are planning even more violence, more attacks on the Capitol during the January 20 inauguration and at every state capital across the country. The Washington Post detailed much of this today, and those warnings had better be heeded. In the meantime, there is much hand wringing in Washington about what to do about Trump. Democrats want him out...

The flames of hate and distrust that Donald Trump has stoked among his true believers are still burning and America had best be braced for more violence when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are inaugurated January 20. I just hope that all of the law enforcement agencies involved, from the Secret Service to the FBI and everything in between will be ready to deal with everything from snipers and would-b...

And so today there were two significant developments that coincidentally occurred at the same time, one in the halls of Congress in Washington, DC, and the other in Delaware, where President-elect Joe Biden has his headquarters. In Washington, momentum began to get rid of Donald Trump – either by invoking the 25th amendment or rushing through impeachment. It was all because of yesterdays’ riots, w...

Today has been a dark day in the history of our nation as the effort by Donald Trump to hang on to the presidency turned into violence, at least one death, and disruption of a constitutionally required joint session of Congress. Many people must share the blame for this tragedy – Trump, for inciting an insurrection and Congresspeople and Senators for aiding and abetting him by going on with his ef...

Donald Trump’s desperation to hang on to power is almost embarrassing – almost. I don’t know about you, but I kind of enjoy seeing him grovel and beg…such a loser. Remember when he said America would get tired of winning? That was a crock then and it’s a bigger crock now. The phone call the other day that he made to the Georgia secretary of state was classic Trump. He just can’t help himself. Just...

I’m wondering today how it has come about that so many of the people whom we’ve elected have become so self-focused, so blind to anything except their own ambition, that they’ll do just about anything to succeed. Yea, Trump’s that way – probably the champion of that attitude. But he’s got a lot of company in the United States Congress when it comes to “blind ambition,” and we’re going to see a nas...

What’s it like being the chair of the Democratic Party in a South Carolina county that’s been dominated by Republicans for years? Why would a soft-spoken retired corporate executive from New Jersey want to use retirement time to buck those odds. Our guest today is Don Kohn, who heads the Horry County, South Carolina Democratic Party and he’s going to provide us with some answers. This is a guy who...

Isn’t it amazing that all of a sudden Republicans in Congress are suddenly getting religion when it comes to deficit spending? That didn’t happen, of course, when it was time to pass that gazillion dollar tax boondoggle for the rich, but now that millions of Americans are in desperate financial straits from the coronavirus pandemic, worries about deficit spending are rearing their ugly head. Typic...

There’s just one more hurdle before the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can be written in stone, and that’s the January 6 session of Congress when lawmakers officially tabulate the electoral college results by state. While that usually is just a routine exercise that attracts little attention, this year that session is expected to be yet another chapter in Donald Trump’s sordid effort to o...

President Trump’s behavior is getting increasingly unhinged and now it’s jeopardizing the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans. That’s the subject of today’s podcast. Take a listen to Madman Trump from Not Fake News.biz. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support .

Audio Corrections: Our guest today is former New Jersey Congressman and Governor James J. Florio, for whom I worked for two years as chief of staff during his years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jim Florio was a high school dropout who joined the Navy as a teenager, went on to become an attorney, a state assemblyman, a congressman, and finally a governor, serving his state in that post fro...

Our guest today is former New Jersey Congressman and Governor James J. Florio, for whom I worked for two years as chief of staff during his years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jim Florio was a high school dropout who joined the Navy as a teenager, went on to become an attorney, a state assemblyman, a congressman, and finally a governor, serving his state in that post from 1990 to 1994. A p...

Donald Trump keeps acting crazier and crazier, coming up with hairbrained schemes to try to hang on the presidency, which seems like a job he really doesn’t like – except for the TV exposure and the adoration of his die-hard fans. But the way he’s been acting recently have made me wonder if maybe some of those mental health experts who have warned about his mental state might be right. Is the pres...

Will Donald Trump become a “shadow president” and use that perch as a way to maintain power? Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, thinks so, and he should know. He’s become one of Trump’s closest friends – if Trump actually has such a thing as a friend. But what if that happens? What if Trump sets himself up as a fake president in Mar-a-Lago, holds court, invites supplicants in to k...

It took more than 40 days for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to acknowledge the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the presidency and vice-presidency, respectively, compared to only one day when Donald Trump won in 2016.Why did it take so long? Well, McConnell, not wanting to get in Trump’s crosshairs, waited until the Electoral College officially declared Biden and Harris the winn...

Historians will mark December 14, 2020, as one of the most consequential days in the history of our country. On that day, the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States became official, and even reluctant Republican senators said it's time to accept that fact. On that day, the first inoculations of the Covid 19 vaccine were administered. Indeed, it was a day that will long be...