Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

by Lanny Davis – 1/31/20 Here are three myths about the Iowa caucuses that I believe the “Conventional Wisdom Media” have propagated and that need to be corrected. Myth #1: There are progressive and moderate “lanes” inhabited by different Democratic candidates. Nonsense. All five Democratic candidates are pro-choice, pro-reasonable gun control, pro-ObamaCare and universal health care, pro-increasing […]

by Lanny Davis – 12/11/19 Tuesday night’s decision by the House Judiciary Committee to recommend impeachment on two counts of Donald Trump for on Abuse of Power and constitutional violations and obstruction of a congressional impeachment and (illegal violation of subpoenas) are quite serious. They are also quite different than the circumstances and charges faced […]

by Lanny Davis – 11/25/19 Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd has achieved a reputation for being an independent Republican with intellectual integrity. He has also indicated he won’t be running for reelection. Recently he said he was not yet willing to vote for impeachment based on the evidence developed so far in the public record. […]

by Lanny Davis and Anthony Scaramucci – 11/21/19 One of us is a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton and learned about decoding Donald Trump’s words from his former attorney, Michael Cohen. The other is a conservative Republican who voted for Mr. Trump, served briefly as his White House communications director and thus also has experience trying to […]

by Lanny Davis and Anthony Scaramucci – 10/29/19 One of us is a lifelong liberal Democrat. The other is a lifelong conservative Republican. One of us strongly opposes Donald Trump’s presidency and worked for President Bill Clinton. The other supported the president during his campaign and briefly worked for him in the White House. We […]

by Lanny Davis – 9/24/19 The same media – the same fact checkers — who focus on Donald Trump and tell him, “facts matter” have virtually ignored the facts about whether Hunter Biden actually did anything wrong while serving on the board of the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma. Here is one typical example from a […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/24/19 There are three reasons why House Democrats during Wednesday’s public hearings should support, not criticize, former special counsel Robert Mueller’s decision to stick to the facts and evidence and to refuse to offer his own opinions on the evidence of Trump’s apparent attempts to obstruct justice. First and foremost is […]

by Lanny Davis – 4/24/19 When you have a president who even his most ardent supporters admit lies frequently, a president who knows he lies and doesn’t care because he knows his supporters don’t care, it is important to identify what Mr. Mueller actually wrote in his report compared to Trump’s efforts to lie about […]

by Lanny Davis – 6/19/18 A very very long time ago, CNN created a program called “Crossfire.” I was a guest on the show many times during the Clinton impeachment time period. I remember thinking – this is the way America should be debating the issues. On the facts, on the merits, avoiding (as much […]

by Lanny Davis – 4/16/18 On Saturday night, April 13, the great CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed one of his panelists about Comey’s justification for violating over a half-century of Justice Department policies in Republican and Democratic Administrations when he sent his October 28 2016, letter to congress that cost Hillary Clinton the presidency. Comey has […]