Ryan abandons Trump  —  Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans on a conference call Monday morning that he's done defending Donald Trump and will focus on maintaining his party's increasingly imperiled House majority, according to sources on the call.  —  The message amounted to a concession …

Priebus declares RNC standing behind Trump  —  In an emergency call with members of the Republican National Committee, Chairman Reince Priebus declared that the party remained firmly behind Donald Trump, despite the tape of his lewd remarks about groping and making advances on married women.

Is Trump a Sufferable Evil?  —  The Republican party is looking down the road to disaster.  —  The emergence Friday of the disgusting Trump tape was a gift to the Republican party.  It provided an occasion, at the very last minute, for the party to dump a fundamentally unworthy and radically unfit nominee.

Why Did NBC News Sit on the Trump Tape for So Long?  —  As the political world ponders whether the past 72 hours have delivered a fatal knockout blow to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the nation's media observers have been bedeviled by a separate question: Why did NBC News hold its story …

Pat Robertson: It's ‘macho’ for Trump to grab women ‘by the p*ssy’ without permission  —  Pat Robertson on Monday declared that Donald Trump was the “clear winner” of Sunday night's presidential debate, and the televangelist asserted that the GOP candidate's admission that he groped women was simply “macho” talk.

Donald Trump's threat to imprison Hillary Clinton is a threat to democracy  —  There is no way to sugarcoat this: At Sunday night's presidential debate, Donald Trump threatened to throw Hillary Clinton in jail if he wins the presidency.  This — threatening to jail one's political opponents — is how democratic norms die.