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9th Circuit Court Of Appeals On The Verge Of Dealing Trump’s Travel Ban Another Blow
While the court said it doesn’t expect to hand down a decision today, it’s clear that opponents of Trump’s travel ban have the advantage.
Monthly Archives: February 2017
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Trump’s Numbers Continue To Tank As 60% Of Americans Don’t Think He’s ‘Level-Headed’
Overall, the poll reflects a resounding rejection of Trump as a person and the agenda he has worked to implement over the course of his first several weeks in office.
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Kellyanne Conway Demands That The Press Show More Respect To Trump
Kellyanne Conway claimed that the press is not showing proper respect to Trump, which is why the president continues to attack the media.
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Disaster Looms For GOP As 35% Of Americans Have No Idea Trump Is About To Gut Their Health Care
The political implications of 35% of Americans not knowing that Obamacare and the ACA are the same things will be a complete disaster for Republicans after people realize that Trump has demolished their health insurance.
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Trump Is Losing The Media War As CNN Isn’t Putting Up With Anymore White House Lies
The Trump White House suffered another defeat in their war with the media today as CNN immediately shot down a Sean Spicer lie about why the network turned down an offer to interview Kellyanne Conway.
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White House Admits They Use Fake News Label To Punish Press That Criticize Trump
Deputy Assistant to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka, said that the White House is going to continue calling the media fake news until the press stops being critical of Trump.
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Vice President Pence Forced To Break Senate Tie As Betsy DeVos Confirmed As Education Secretary
Republicans rammed through the unqualified nomination of Betsy DeVos as Vice President Mike Pence was forced to break the 50-50 Senate tie, as the Trump privatization of public education has begun.
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Anderson Cooper Destroys Trump Terror Lies: ‘I know we covered attacks, I was there’
“Not only did we cover many of the attacks on that list, we covered them heavily. I know, because I was on the ground reporting a number of them.”
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Ralph Reed Attacks Democratic Opposition to Betsy DeVos as ‘War on Religion’
Ralph Reed cites ‘War on Religion’ but as Al Franken has said, “She is fundamentally incompetent” to lead the Department of Education.
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Opinion: Trump Is Attempting to Delegitimize Barriers To His Tyranny
Trump spends no small amount of time casting aspersion on the judiciary, the press, and the intelligence community; because they do their jobs.
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Trump Claims He Doesn’t ‘Know Putin’ But He Bragged About Their Relationship in 2013
Donald Trump claimed this morning ‘I don’t know Putin,’ but in 2013, he said proudly, ‘I do have a relationship with him.’
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Trump’s List of Attacks Were Covered Extensively by the Media He Says Ignored Them
“Worth noting,” CNN’s Jim Acosta observed with great relish. “WH was able to assemble this list… from media reports.”
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Al Franken Torches Spineless GOP Colleagues For Not Opposing Betsy DeVos
The Minnesota Democrat said the Senate should simply tell Devos, “Thank you for your time. We’ll let you know,” and move on to a candidate that is actually qualified to lead the department.
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Trump Bizarrely Says He Knows Obama Likes Him Because He ‘Can Feel It’
For years, the current president questioned Obama’s birthplace and legitimacy as a U.S. president. The idea that Obama likes him is a foolish one.
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Trump’s Pick For Labor Secretary Hired An Undocumented Immigrant To Clean His House
For someone vying to head the U.S. Department of Labor, Puzder certainly has a lot of problems in his own personal labor department.
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Anti-Trump Group Trolling The President By Sending Him Books For Valentine’s Day
Though the new U.S. president is unlikely to start picking up books anytime soon, it’s clear that his opposition is strong and already finding new ways to resist his agenda.
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CNN Considers Banning Kellyanne Conway While Conway – Naturally – Lies About it
CNN says they rejected the offer of Conway due to her lack of credibility. She lied about it, but Mika Brzezinski told CNN “you are not the first.”
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Democrats Are Breaking Mitch McConnell As Majority Leader Whines About Trump Nominee Blockade
Senate Democrats are blocking President Trump’s nominees. Judging by Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) whining remarks on the Senate floor, the efforts are getting under the skin of the Majority Leader.
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Fox News And Trump Are Conspiring To Spread Fake News To Discredit Protesters
Fox News is not only the Trump endorsed cable news network. Fox is also working with the White House to spread fake news that discredits anti-Trump protests.
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White House Promises To Provide A List To Support Trump’s Lie That Terror Attacks Go Unreported
During a press gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer promised to provide a list to reporters of terrorist attacks that were not reported by the media.
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Trump Tries To Scare America Into Obedience With False Claim Of Unreported Terrorist Attacks
President Trump tried to scare the American people into obeying him by uttering a completely false claim that the press is not reporting on terrorist attacks.
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Paul Krugman Warns Against Media Normalization of Trump
“The big risk is still that the media will start to normalize, and worse, become intimidated and obsequious. Don’t let it happen!”
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Opinion: GOP Operative Calls On Media To Expose Trump Treason
The days of pretending that what is happening under Trump isn’t “serious†are over; it is time for a concerted media push-back.
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Trump Will Make State Visit to UK But He Will Not Be Allowed to Address Parliament
“I feel very strongly that…our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons.”
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Bipartisan National Security Experts File Brief Against ‘Ill-Conceived’ Muslim Ban
“In our professional opinion, this Order cannot be justified on national security or foreign policy grounds.”
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Washington Attorney General Says Trump is ‘A Bully and Can’t Take Defeat Like a Man’
Ferguson pointed out that the president’s actions are not above challenge: “That is not the law and frankly, it cannot be the law in our country.â€
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Admiral Mike Mullen Says Steve Bannon Does not Belong on National Security Council
“Putting aside for a moment Mr. Bannon’s troubling public positions, which are worrisome enough, institutionalizing his attendance threatens to politicize national security decision making.”
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America’s Embrace of Diversity Was Center Stage at The Super Bowl Last Night
“Some expected Gaga to go off on a politcal riff during half-time show. Instead, she let her music send message of unity. She was spectacular”
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Stung by Steve Bannon Rumors, Donald Trump Claims ‘I Call My Own Shots’
“I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!”
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Donald Trump Turns on TV Then Rants That ‘Fake News’ Lies About Negative Polls
CNN had just reported on Donald Trump’s new low approval numbers when presto! He tweeted that “negative polls are fake news”
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Opinion: Trump’s Crazy Chaos Is a Distraction From GOP Atrocities
Ryan isn’t bothered with Trump’s atrocities. He is thriving on Trump’s chaos to “slip in his own deplorable but more mundane agenda†without anyone noticing.
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Donald Trump Delivers The Worst Presidential Interview In Super Bowl History
Trump gave the worst Super Bowl interview in the history of the new tradition because he used the biggest television audience of the year to lie to and mislead the American people.
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Hypocrite Trump Is Playing Golf Today, After Years of Criticizing Obama For Golfing
The then reality-TV show host trolled then President Obama with a viciously relentless energy over golfing, and yet, just two weeks in, President Trump is not only on vacation, but golfing.
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Bernie Sanders Says What The Media Won’t: Trump Is A Fraud Who Lied To Voters
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump a fraud, and he pointed out the ways that Trump has lied to the voters during an interview on CNN’s State Of The Union.
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Democrats Rock Super Bowl Sunday By Demanding A Full FBI Investigation Into Trump
Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shook up Super Bowl Sunday by demanding a full FBI probe into what the Russians have on President Trump during an interview on Meet The Press.
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With One Answer Paul Ryan Reveals Why Republican Obamacare Repeal Will Be A Disaster
During an interview on Meet The Press, Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) gave a single answer on Obamacare repeal that revealed why the attack on the ACA would be a disaster for the American people.
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Anxiety, Fear, and Life Itself: The Human Costs Of The Trump Presidency
Like the financial costs to the taxpayers of this country, these human costs will continue to add up, and for anyone with a moral compass these costs are far more concerning and troubling.
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Dissent, Democracy, and Deliberation Are on Trump’s Chopping Block
James Madison said representatives should be able to “withstand the temporary delusion” to “give time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.”
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Trump’s Justice Department Files Notice it Will Appeal Muslim Ban Ruling
The Justice Department issued notice it will appeal Trump’s Muslim ban ruling, calling it an executive order, giving the lie to Trump’s claim that it was a DHS ban
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Now Donald Trump is Claiming His Muslim Ban is From Homeland Security
“What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?”
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The Economist’s Editors Calls Donald Trump ‘An Insurgent in the White House’
“The bleak cadence of last month’s inauguration was still in the air when Donald Trump lobbed the first Molotov cocktail of policies and executive orders”
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Trump fumes, vows to act, after judge lifts travel ban
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denounced a judge who lifted a travel ban for citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, vowing that his government would reinstate it as affected travelers scrambled for tickets to try to quickly enter the United States.
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Opinion: Mass State Department Exodus Is a Really Bad Sign
“You don’t run foreign policy by making statements, you run it with thousands of people working to implement programs every day. To undercut that is to undercut the institution.â€
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Robert Reich Suggests Breitbart, Bannon and Trump Were Behind Berkeley Agitators
Reich says Berkeley’s “made-for-TV images of a riot” were too much of a good thing for Milos Yiannopoulos, Breitbart News, and Steve Bannon
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Trump’s Amateurish White House Thinks Poland Invaded Belarus
Trump was not the least bit interested in news about Russian incursions into Ukraine, which are anything but the product of overheated White House imaginations.
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Trump Shared A Fake News Story To Fool Americans About His Muslim Ban
While his Muslim ban was sinking under the weight of popular backlash, President Trump tried to boost support for his Executive Order by promoting a fake news story on his Facebook page.
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Kellyanne Conway Calls People Who Like Facts Haters As Her Bowling Green Massacre Lie Gets Worse
Kellyanne Conway, the Trump counselor and infamous spokeswoman for “alternative facts”, is blaming “haters” for all of the flack she’s getting for making up a fictional massacre to justify Trump’s Muslim ban.
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Thousands March In London Demanding The British Government Withdraw Invitation To Trump
Thousands of people are marching on Parliment in London and demanding the British government withdraw its invitation to President Trump for a state visit.
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Democrats Use Trump’s Attack On Judge As Ammo To Block His Supreme Court Nominee
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) showed President Trump that there would be consequences for his outburst against the judge who temporarily halted Trump’s ban. Schumer said that Trump’s behavior had lifted the bar even higher for confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee.
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Trump Throws a Tantrum Against the Rule of Law After Smack Down By Judge
Donald Trump lashed out at a Bush-nominated federal Judge who blocked his Muslim ban, calling the judge a “so-called judge”.
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Fox News Loses it Over Nancy Pelosi Telling the Truth About Steve Bannon
“It shows the depths that they will go to try to disparage someone and the desperation, really, of the liberals,” whines Kimberly Guilfoyle
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Trump White House Blows A Gasket After Crushing Defeat On Muslim Ban
The Trump White House did not react well to a federal judge’s order blocking their Muslim travel ban nationwide.
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Friday Fox Follies – Putting the “Liar” in Familiar
Twenty years of Fox “News” Fakery and claiming only it tells the truth, created an Emperor Trump and an audience, both impervious to facts.
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Opinion: Lock Him Up – Virginia Seeks Contempt of Court Charge Against Trump
“When federal judges rule, government officials – up to and including the president – are supposed to obey or risk being held in contempt of court.â€
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Bush-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Travel Ban Nationwide
“What the judge announced today was nationwide. The president’s executive order does not apply.”
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America Tells Trump He Is A Terrible President With Record High Disapproval Rating
Donald Trump has set a record by registering the highest disapproval rating of any newly elected president in the history of polling.
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Arizona Republicans Want To Fine Charities $1000/Day For Helping Refugees
A group of Arizona state legislators is proposing a bill that would find charities in the state $1000 a day for helping to each refugee that they help to settle.
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Incompetent Trump Accidentally Shuts Down All Tourism With Executive Order
Immigration lawyers are warning that in his rush to ban Muslims. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order also contained language that shut down all tourism to the United States.
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Donald Trump Is Going On Vacation And It Is Going To Cost You An Estimated $3 Million
It is estimated that Trump’s first vacation as president could cost taxpayers at least $3 million for the weekend.
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Democrats Burst Trump’s Bubble With Vow To Block Any Repeal Of Wall Street Reforms
After President Trump had signed two executive orders that weakened protections for consumers that are in place to help prevent another financial crisis, Senate Democrats vowed to put up a firewall and block any Trump repeal of Wall Street reforms in Congress.
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Germans Try to Warn The United States About Donald Trump with Der SPIEGEL Cover
Der SPIEGEL magazine’s new cover shows that the Germans know exactly who President Trump is and what he is doing to the United States of America’s cherished liberty.
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Trump’s Mexico Wall Fantasy Is Crumbling As More Republicans Are Refusing To Pay
A growing number of Congressional Republicans are voicing opposition to paying for Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border. Congress may not be able to fund the wall because many members of Congress don’t want to give Trump the money.
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Trump Busted In Big Lie As Government Admits In Court 100,000+ Impacted By Muslim Ban
The Trump White House was lying when they claimed that a few people or hundreds were impacted by President Trump Executive Order Muslim ban. The government admitted in court that the real number of visas that have been revoked is 100,000+.
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Trump Disingenuously Takes The Credit For Jobs That Were Created Under Obama
At a meeting with his economic advisory council on Friday, President Trump took credit for a January 2017 jobs report that he had nothing to do with as for nearly two-thirds of the month Obama was president.
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Kellyanne Conway Plays the Victim of Media Bullying for Inventing Massacre
Factchecker Daniel Dale called her excuse “highly dishonest – links to old story about fears there were more refugee terrorists. There weren’t”
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Kellyanne Conway Gets Caught Lying About a ‘Massacre’ That Never Happened
Conway speaks of the Bowling Green massacre“ that ‘Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered,’ when it actually never took place
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In ‘Special Interest Giveaway’ Senate Republicans Kill Anti-Corruption Rule
“One of the top priorities of President Trump…was to allow oil and gas companies to cover up payments and bribes to foreign dictators”
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Under Trump Women’s Reproductive Rights Reeling Under Onslaught of Anti-Choice Bills
Indiana SB 118 “Removes provisions allowing a pregnant woman to decline to view the fetal ultrasound imaging and hear the fetal heart tone.”
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Trump Lashes Out on Twitter at ‘Professional Anarchists’ With Hilarious Results
“wait there are people being paid?? did my check get lost in the mail. also how do u become a professional anarchist? do u need a degree”
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Opinion: Top Security Experts: Bannon on Security Council Is Truly Scary and Crazy
“Trump is unhinged and ignorant. Bannon is nuts and malicious. If not supervised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, their decisions could endanger the world.â€
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Trump Scrapped Version Of Holocaust Remembrance Message That Recognized Jewish Victims
The decision by the Trump White House to change the statement was intentional, not accidental.
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New Poll Shows That Trump’s Muslim And Refugee Ban Is Terribly Unpopular
To make matters worse, Trump’s approval rating now stands where George W. Bush’s did after Hurricane Katrina.
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Nancy Pelosi Says She Supports Legislation Requiring Trump To Be Mentally Examined
The country is just 13 days into the new administration, and a psychological exam of the new president is already long overdue.
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Trump Is Throwing Tantrums And Humiliating Himself When Confronted By World Leaders
It is being reported from inside the government, that Donald Trump is throwing tantrums during calls with world leaders when he is confronted about his policies.
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Uber Boycotters Win As CEO Steps Down From Trump’s Economic Advisory Council
The power of protest has made President Trump even more toxic. After a customer rebellion, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told employees that he is stepping down from Trump’s economic advisory council.
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House Republicans Just Voted To Allow Severely Mentally Ill People To Buy Guns
House Republicans have voted 235-180 to overturn an Obama administration that blocked Social Security disability recipients with mental disorders from buying guns. Less than two weeks into Trump’s presidency and Republicans have given the mentally ill easier access to guns.
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White House Accused Of Turning Off Recording Equipment During Trump/Putin Call
A foreign policy expert is accusing the White House of turning off the recording equipment so that the public couldn’t get details of a call between Trump and Putin.
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GOP Sen. Pat Toomey’s Office Flooded with Complaints of Being Unavailable to Constituents
Constituents reported being unable to even leave a message with Senator Toomey’s offices for two weeks.
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Trump’s Presidency Is Crashing And Burning As 40% Of Americans Want Him Impeached
A new PPP poll reveals that the number of Americans who want President Trump impeached has jumped from 35% to 40% in one week.
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Fear Of Protesters Forces Trump And Harley Davidson To Hold Meeting At White House
After it was reported that threats of protests got a presidential visit to a Harley Davidson plant in Milwaukee, WI canceled, the Trump administration has announced that the President will be meeting Harley Davidson execs and union leaders at the White House.
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Trump Gets Navy Seal Killed By Moving Forward On Operation Without Sufficient Intelligence
Donald Trump bungled his first operation as Commander-in-Chief. Trump ordered the raid without “sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations,” according to a Reuters report. For this, the Trump administration blamed Obama. Again.
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Trump Attacks Separation Of Church And State With Vow To Totally Destroy Johnson Amendment
President Trump’s vow to totally destroy the Johnson Amendment at the National Prayer Breakfast was an attack on the separation of church and state, and a big blow to efforts to get special interest money out of politics.
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Unpresidential Trump Uses National Prayer Breakfast Insult Arnold Schwarzenegger
It’s been a “total disaster” Trump said of Arnold’s ratings on the Apprentice, seeming to miss the irony in this projection.
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Trump threatens U.C. Berkeley after protests stop far-right speech
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to cut funding to the University of California at Berkeley after protesters smashed windows and set fires at the liberal-leaning school, forcing the cancellation of an appearance by a far-right Breitbart News editor.
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If Twitter Rants and Phone Calls are a Foreign Policy, Donald Trump’s Sucks
A short list of Trump attacks include China, Germany, Mexico, Iraq, and Iran, always without bothering to have studied the details first
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Trump Adds Hanging Up on Australian Prime Minister to Foreign Policy Disasters
Trump called Turnbull, berated him on an agreement he hadn’t even studied yet, then abruptly hung up on him 25 minutes into a 60-minute call
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Trump Voter Shocked When Her Syrian Family Members Were Deported For No Reason
One of the president’s supporters was left in disbelief after a handful of her Syrian relatives were deported.
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Elizabeth Warren Turns Up The Heat On Trump, Calls SCOTUS Pick A ‘Gift’ To Corporations
“Let’s not mince words: The nomination of Judge Gorsuch is a huge gift to the giant corporations and wealthy individuals who have stolen a Supreme Court seat.”
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Trump Threatening Mexico With Military Invasion If They Don’t Deal With ‘Bad Hombres’
“You aren’t doing enough to stop them,” Trump said. “I think your military is scared. Our military isn’t, so I just might send them down to take care of it.”
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On The 12th Day Of Trump, House Republicans Vote To Allow Coal Mines To Poison Our Water
House Republicans passed a resolution on Wednesday that overturned an Interior Department rule that prohibited coal companies from polluting the water sources near mines.
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Democrats Need Just One More Vote To Kill The Nomination Of Betsy DeVos
Senate Democrats are within one vote of killing the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Education Secretary after both Republican Senators Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski announced that they would vote no on DeVos.
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Greenpeace Calls Senators Who Voted To Confirm Rex Tillerson Spineless
After the Senate had voted 56-43 to confirm Donald Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, Greenpeace released a blistering statement that said Senators who voted to confirm Tillerson had left their spines at home.
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Trump Ally Roger Stone Goes on Russian TV to Defend Russia From Hacking Allegations
“I think it’s pretty established that the Russians did not hack the DNC. That’s a falsehood.”
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Opinion: Muslim Ban Protecting Trump Profits Is Impeachable Offense
Three Muslim nations Trump exempted from his ban on Muslims have Americans’ blood on their hands but he profits by protecting the terrorists.
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PFAW Says Gorsuch an ‘Unacceptable Nominee Who’d Put Ideology Above the Constitution’
“Gorsuch is an ideological warrior who puts his own right-wing politics above the Constitution, the law and the rights of everyday people.”
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Trump Hijacks Black History Month Event With Unhinged Rants About Fake News And The Media
President Trump couldn’t help himself. During what was supposed to be a listening event, Trump hijacked the platform to complain about fake news, media bias, and to call the press the opposition party.
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Behind Closed Doors Republicans Cling to Bogus “Obamacare Light” Scheme
Behind the closed doors of the Republican retreat, Republican members expressed concern over the lack of progress on the ACA repeal.
“I’m hearing a lot of members say that they want Obamacare-light. And that’s not what we promised the American people.”
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Republicans Commit A Crime Against The Senate To Jam Through 2 Trump Nominees
Senate Republicans unilaterally changed the committee rules to jam through Trump nominees Tom Price and Steven Mnuchin without Democrats being present.
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This Is What An Illegitimate President Looks Like: More Voters Think Cheating Helped Trump Win
A new poll finds bad news for President Trump on two fronts, voters aren’t buying his claims of voter fraud, and they say that if there was voter fraud, it likely benefitted Trump.
