Truscott was describing a Shapiro campaign stop he attended in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Journalist and novelist with a career of more than fifty years, a West Point graduate who joined The Village Voice in 1970 and covered the Stonewall riots. Author of the novels Dress Gray, Army Blue and Heart of War, and a daily columnist on American politics, the military and authoritarianism. Writes the Lucian Truscott Newsletter on Substack and earlier wrote Journal of the Plague Years. Dress Gray spent 13 weeks on The New York Times hardcover list and was adapted into a 1986 television film.
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Lucian K. Truscott IV writes Lucian Truscott Newsletter and writes Journal of the Plague Years .
Recently: “Trump’s utterly incompetent fumbling bumbling criminal DOJ fails again” on Lucian Truscott Newsletter (October 2026); “A day of anxiety at the vet” on Lucian Truscott Newsletter (October 2026); “Trump’s one real talent: Destabilization” on Lucian Truscott Newsletter (October 2026); “Of course we were cats at the Milford Halloween party tonight!” on Lucian Truscott Newsletter (October 2026); “How am I supposed to write a column with this going on?” on Lucian Truscott Newsletter (October 2026); “We owe Amy Acton a debt that is impossible to pay” on Lucian Truscott Newsletter (October 2026).
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