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![Since the stomach-turning assassination attempt against Donald Trump, some have wondered whether it is required to shade the truth about him in light of that awful event. Since the stomach-turning assassination attempt against Donald Trump, some have wondered whether it is required to shade the truth about him in light of that awful event.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AP24199047981519.jpg?w=132)
Robbins: GOP rivals rewrite what they feel about Trump
Since the stomach-turning assassination attempt against Donald Trump, some have wondered whether it is required to shade the truth about him in light of that awful event.
![The eruption and metastasis of anti-Semitism emanating from both far Left and far Right has prompted some to point to the poor and worsening state of Americans’ knowledge about the 20th century’s genocide against the Jews. The eruption and metastasis of anti-Semitism emanating from both far Left and far Right has prompted some to point to the poor and worsening state of Americans’ knowledge about the 20th century’s genocide against the Jews.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BHR-L-ROBBINS.jpg?w=132)
Robbins: A journalist’s quest to document evil & courage
The eruption and metastasis of anti-Semitism emanating from both far Left and far Right has prompted some to point to the poor and worsening state of Americans’ knowledge about the...
![Anything Trump did or does in office, and likely anything that can be said to relate to what he did or does in office, is going to be immunized territory. Anything Trump did or does in office, and likely anything that can be said to relate to what he did or does in office, is going to be immunized territory.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BHR-L-ROBBINS-01.jpg?w=132)
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Robbins: High Court gives Trump free ‘reign’ in White House
Anything Trump did or does in office, and likely anything that can be said to relate to what he did or does in office, is going to be immunized territory.
![Left to right, Amit Benjamin, Natanel Haziz and Shai Abargil talk about life in the Israeli Army. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Robbins.) Left to right, Amit Benjamin, Natanel Haziz and Shai Abargil talk about life in the Israeli Army. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Robbins.)](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/all3.jpg?w=117)
‘The world doesn’t know what really happened’
Military service famously bonds Israelis of every conceivable background.
![A Gallup poll released last October found that Americans’ trust in the media has dropped to an all time low. Nearly 40% of Americans say they have no confidence at all in journalists. A Gallup poll released last October found that Americans’ trust in the media has dropped to an all time low. Nearly 40% of Americans say they have no confidence at all in journalists.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BHR-L-ROBBINS-01_0a1e1a.jpg?w=132)
Robbins: Journalism takes a hit, and so does America
A Gallup poll released last October found that Americans’ trust in the media has dropped to an all time low. Nearly 40% of Americans say they have no confidence at...
![Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction for denying that he was a drug addict when he was one was supposed to damage his father’s re-election chances, or so went the prevailing punditry. Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction for denying that he was a drug addict when he was one was supposed to damage his father’s re-election chances, or so went the prevailing punditry.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Biden_15611_fafdde.jpg?w=132)
Robbins: Hunter Biden not alone in fighting addiction
Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction for denying that he was a drug addict when he was one was supposed to damage his father’s re-election chances, or so went the prevailing punditry.
![Those who have orchestrated many of the anti-Israel protests have followed the Proud Boys’ lead... there have been enough not-so-peaceful ones to know that those who preach the rule of law to the Right aren’t so quick to insist on it to the Left. Those who have orchestrated many of the anti-Israel protests have followed the Proud Boys’ lead... there have been enough not-so-peaceful ones to know that those who preach the rule of law to the Right aren’t so quick to insist on it to the Left.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BHR-L-ROBBINS-01_e61ff4.jpg?w=132)
Robbins: Leftist mobs take page from Proud Boys playbook
Those who have orchestrated many of the anti-Israel protests have followed the Proud Boys’ lead... there have been enough not-so-peaceful ones to know that those who preach the rule of...
![Found guilty of 34 separate felonies by a 12-person jury that took only a few hours of actual deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict that he was a bona fide criminal, Trump is now officially not only a con man but a convict. Found guilty of 34 separate felonies by a 12-person jury that took only a few hours of actual deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict that he was a bona fide criminal, Trump is now officially not only a con man but a convict.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BHR-L-ROBBINS.jpg?w=132)
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Robbins: Donald Trump, long a con man, now a convict
Found guilty of 34 separate felonies by a 12-person jury that took only a few hours of actual deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict that he was a bona fide...
![On Oct. 7, when, just hours after Hamas terrorists committed to killing Jews invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,200 of them, 30 Harvard student organizations pronounced Israel to blame. On Oct. 7, when, just hours after Hamas terrorists committed to killing Jews invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,200 of them, 30 Harvard student organizations pronounced Israel to blame.](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/rvardnl003_8c4848.jpg?w=117)
Robbins: Antisemitism rots Harvard’s elite foundation
On Oct. 7, when, just hours after Hamas terrorists committed to killing Jews invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,200 of them, 30 Harvard student organizations pronounced Israel to blame.
![The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly around the magazine’s Manhattan office. “I don’t know how this could have happened,” Kael muttered. “Not one person I know voted for him.” The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly around the magazine’s Manhattan office. “I don’t know how this could have happened,” Kael muttered. “Not one person I know voted for him.”](https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/OCR-L-PRESPRIMARY-0420-10.jpg?w=126)
Robbins: ‘Crazies’ pushing Biden right out of office
The morning after the 1972 election in which Richard Nixon defeated liberal Democrat George McGovern by 23 points, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael wandered glumly around the magazine’s Manhattan...