Donald Trump commutes sentence of former Chicago gang leader | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Hoover, 74, is the co-founder of Gangster Disciples, a gang described in court documents as "large and vicious" that sold "great quantities of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs in Chicago"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/donald-trump-commutes-chicago-gang-leader-sentence 

 

Biden slams Trump's job record: "He is already Herbert Hoover!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrT3UKQ9yyo

Interview with historian Nicole Hemmer (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast)

Nicole Hemmer is a political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the interplay of social movements, electoral politics, and political culture in order to probe the complexities of political identity and practice in the 20th century United States.

In this bonus episode, Jess and Dr. Hemmer discussed the rise of the Evangelical right, why Newt Gingrich was so effective at whipping the GOP into shape, and some fun J. Edgar Hoover counterfactuals.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-44ptp-1a38f3a8

Trump economic record: Worst jobs numbers leaving office since Herbert Hoover | Fortune

...During Obama's eight years at the helm of the nation, U.S. employment maintained a 1% annualized return. That growth level did start to climb during the Trump years; as of February 2020 employment was increasing on a 1.5% annualized basis during his presidency. Yet in the final tally Trump will leave office having overseen a -0.5% annualized job growth rate...

https://fortune.com/2021/01/11/us-economy-jobs-numbers-trump-compared-past-presidents-worst-record-since-hoover/

The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal | Alternet

Today’s Republicans would have fit right in to Herbert Hoover’s administration.....
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-tax-scam-kills-new-deal