Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

by Lanny Davis – 4/16/18 A friend of mine wrote me a reminder about a chapter in my book devoted to one of the nation’s most unhinged Hillary Haters (right behind Donald Trump): former New York Coty Mayor Rudy Giuliani. As I have written before, the not-publicity-shy Giuliani, who touted himself all over the media […]

by Lanny Davis – 4/10/18 James Comey’s book comes out next week. While promoting “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation should face some tough questions. First, will he correct the postelection distortions by “friends and associates” meant to justify his decision to send the Oct. […]

by Lanny Davis – 2/1/18 The visible tip of the iceberg was James Comey’s Oct. 28, 2016, letter to Congress. All data proves that, but for that letter 11 days from Election Day, Hillary Clinton wins the presidency. But evidence suggests that below that iceberg tip was, in effect, a “deep state” campaign, comprising certain […]

by Lanny Davis – 2/1/18 I keep asking myself: If a Democratic president had conducted himself — or herself — as Donald Trump has in the first year, would I favor the beginning of an impeachment process? I ask all Republicans who care about our constitution and the future of our country to ask the […]

by Lanny Davis – 12/7/17 The chances of Donald Trump being impeached increased geometrically in the last several days for the felony of attempting to obstruct justice when he admitted that he knew about Michael Flynn misleading the FBI and subsequently asked then FBI Director James Comey not to continue his investigation of Flynn. If […]

by Lanny Davis – 11/20/17 Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 17, 2017: I am here, along with hundreds of others, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the election of William Jefferson Clinton as the 42nd president of the United States in November 1992. There is much that could be written about the great achievements of Clinton’s […]

by Lanny Davis – 11/8/17 The latest polls show that Trump and his core political advisors who celebrate how well he is doing with his “base” are wrong. His base is shrinking – every week, every month. The big Democratic win Tuesday night by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, rejecting the Ed Gillespie campaign, which […]

by Lanny Davis – 10/25/17 I have told this story many times in print and on the air. Now it is even more important to repeat it. In the spring of 1966, my junior year at Yale College, a classmate of mine who would be called gay today, but back then much worse words were […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/25/17 I hear President Trump and his White House strategists referring to the “Clinton model” when attacking the political motives of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and of some members of his prosecutor team. They seem to be referring to Clinton defenders in 1999 such as myself, who often criticized on TV […]

by Lanny Davis – 7/16/17 I read some weeks ago that “White House sources” described the need for “a Lanny Davis” or to follow the “Lanny Davis model” to do crisis management for Donald Trump. It was nice to be a noun (better than a verb or adjective), but that isn’t quite accurate: I was […]