Month: January 2017

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‘Not Negotiable’: Mexican President Again Says His Country Won’t Pay For Trump’s Wall

Peña Nieto’s remarks come the same day Trump repeated his promise to get Mexico to pay for the project.

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Federal Ethics Chief Slams Trump’s ‘Meaningless’ Conflict Of Interest Plan

The president-elect will likely spend much of the next four years distracted by controversy instead of addressing the multitude of challenges the country faces.

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GOP Prohibits CBO From Reporting How Much ACA Repeal Blows Up the Deficit

The new Republican rule implicitly instructs the CBO not to say how much it will cost taxpayers to repeal Obamacare, because it is frightening.

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Trump Busted Using Empty Fake Folders As Conflict Of Interest Docs At Press Conference

That big stack of papers and folders that Trump claimed were the documents he used to turn his business over to his sons turned out to be empty fakes.

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Law Firm Overseeing Trump’s Conflict Of Interest Is Russia’s Law Firm Of The Year

Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse: even the people dealing with Trump’s conflict of interest have a conflict of interest.

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Cory Booker Makes Democrats Proud With Testimony Against Trump AG Nominee Jeff Sessions

Senate Democrats have been going easy on Sen. Jeff Sessions because he is one of their own. Sen. Cory Booker broke with “senatorial courtesy,” by testifying and telling the truth about Sen. Sessions’ record on civil rights. Video of Sen. Booker’s testimony: Booker said, “I know that some of my colleagues are unhappy that I’m…

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Trump Refuses To Answer Whether Or Not He Had Contact With Russia During Campaign

Donald Trump was asked point blank if he had any contact with Russia during the campaign, and the president-elect refused to answer the question.

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CNN Stands Up To Bully Trump And Dares Him To Point Out Inaccuracies In Russia Report

After Trump had called them “fake news” at his press conference, CNN fired back with a statement challenging Trump to point to the specific inaccuracies in their reporting.

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CNN Reporter Stands Up And Challenges Trump At Press Conference For Calling Them Fake News

As Trump was ranting about how it was “fake news” that he has connections and may have been compromised by Russia, CNN’s Jim Acosta stood up and directly challenged the president-elect’s claim that they are fake news. Trump refused to take a question from CNN.

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Birther Donald Trump Cracks And Can’t Handle Getting Back What He Dished Out

In a press conference Wednesday morning, the Trump entourage is outraged that the media would dare run stories about terrifying reports that might explain President-elect Donald Trump’s bizarre love for Putin. But this is Donald Trump, who spent eight years referencing non-credible sources to create a fake conspiracy about President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.

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Trump Goes Conspiracy Crazy And Suspects The Intelligence Community Is Out To Get Him

Trump began his first press conference with a conspiratorial claim that the intelligence community leaked the info that he has been compromised by Russia.

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Al Franken’s Dramatic Exposure of Sessions’ Civil Rights Record Gets Crickets

Through his questioning, Senator Al Franken exposed Jeff Sessions’ lies about his civil rights record in his questionnaire to the committee.

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Increasingly Hysterical Trump Claims Intel Agencies Are Taking ‘One last shot at me’

In a frenzy of denials, Trump cried ‘fake news,’ accused intel agencies of taking a shot at him, and lied about his business ties to Russia

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PFAW Accuse Jeff Sessions of ‘Putting His Extreme Ideology Above the Constitution’

PFAW assert that “the burden was on Senator Sessions today to show that he’s fit to serve as attorney general. He failed miserably.”

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Witch-Hunter-in-Chief Trump Now Claims Russia Rumors Are a ‘Witch Hunt’ and ‘Unfair!’

The man who orchestrated witch-hunts against President Obama and Hillary Clinton now cries, ‘FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!’

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Obama Isn’t Saying Goodbye, He Is Setting The Stage For The Next Great Fight

For President Obama, his farewell address wasn’t so much of a retirement party, but a transitional speech that offered hints at what his post-presidential career will hold.

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Obama Cuts Trump Off At The Knees With A Single Brilliant Thought In Farewell Address

President Obama never mentioned Donald Trump’s name, but when he discussed the need for workers to stand together it was clear whose tactics he was talking about.

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Obama Ticks Off A Record Of Making History That Trump Will Never Touch In Farewell Address

President Obama reminded America of record of achievement that Donald Trump will not be able to get near during his farewell address in Chicago.

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Obama’s Approval Rating Hits 60 Percent As He Prepares To Bid Nation Farewell

There is a clear difference between the way Americans look at the current president and the incoming president, and it doesn’t bode well for Trump.

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Irony Alert: Comey Refuses To Comment Publicly On Possible Trump-Russia Investigation

“I would never comment on investigations … in an open forum,” the FBI director said, straight face intact.

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Obama Is Putting The Pieces Into Place For A Serious Investigation Of Trump

It is being reported that the release of intelligence reports on Russian election interference and Trump are because the Obama administration is putting the pieces into place for a serious investigation into President-elect Donald Trump.

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Trump’s Plan Is To Govern by Cyber Distraction

Trump will cyberbully people for defending a free press or for condemning his juvenile and malicious mockery of disabled people to distract us from the actual business of governing.

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Bombshell Report Claims Russia Has Damaging Personal And Financial Information On Trump

CNN is reporting that the intelligence community is investigating claims that Russia has compromised Trump and has damaging personal and financial information on the president-elect.

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Sen. Al Franken Obliterates Republicans For Having No Plan To Replace Obamacare

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) tore apart Republicans on the Senate floor for having no plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.

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Trump’s Approval Rating Plunges To Historic New Low Days Before Inauguration

America is not giving Donald Trump a warm welcome to the White House as a new poll found that Trump’s job approval rating has dropped seven points to 37% over the past month.

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Trump Offers Chair Of Vaccination Committee To Anti-Vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Donald Trump has picked anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to chair a committee on the safety and scientific integrity of vaccines.

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Opinion: Democrats Are Too Nice When Dealing with Racist Republican Jeff Sessions

Democrats are wasting air time playing Nice Guys and praising Sen Jeff Sessions, which is typical Senate behavior and typical of Democrats, for whom reaching across the aisle is a value.

But those times are gone, and they are dealing with a dangerous racist who has been nominated to be the Attorney General.

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America Is Already Turning Against Trump As 61% Demand Replacement With Obamacare Repeal

Trump and Republicans are playing with fire as a new poll shows that large majorities of Americans are demanding that Republicans pass a replacement bill immediately after Obamacare repeal. If Republicans don’t repeal and replace, President-elect Trump is going to be blamed.

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Trump Press Secretary Demands Chuck Schumer Denounce Protests Against Trump

What Republicans really want is an end to dissent, to not only delegitimize critics but to actually prevent them from speaking.

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Woman Kicked Out Of Jeff Sessions Confirmation Hearing For Laughing At GOP Propaganda

A woman was removed from Jeff Sessions’ Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for literally laughing out loud at Senate Republican attempts to whitewash their colleague’s anti-civil rights record.

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President Obama Puts Another Nail In Big Oil’s Atlantic Ocean Oil Coffin

By rejecting “dangerous seismic airgun blasting,” Obama ensured “East Coast communities can finally take a well-deserved sigh of relief.”

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Donald Trump Flouts Anti-Nepotism Law to Name Son-in-Law Senior Advisor

As George Takei says, “This isn’t a dynasty. The emperor doesn’t get to appoint his son-in-law as chief advisor. There are rules and laws against this.”

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Bernie Sanders Shatters Trump’s Propaganda By Telling The Truth About Obamacare Repeal

During a CNN town hall, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) cut through Trump’s dominance of cable news to tell the American people the truth about Obamacare repeal that Republicans are desperately attempting to hide.

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Trump Daughter, Son-In-Law Will Remain Connected To Businesses While Working In D.C.

They’ve removed themselves from some of their business ties. But that’s not nearly enough.

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Democrats Storm The Senate Floor And Social Media To Save Obamacare From GOP Repeal

“Our message to the Republicans is simple and straightforward: You are not going to get away with it.”

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Schumer Sends GOP Its Own 2009 Letter Promising Tough Standards For Presidential Nominees

These standards are particularly important given the fact that many of Trump’s picks haven’t provided the proper ethics disclosures.

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Trump’s Nominees Are Set For Confirmation Without Proper Vetting

The head of the Office of Government Ethics called “The announced hearing schedule for several [Trump] nominees “of great concern.”

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Obama Obstruction Payback: Democrats Threaten To Delay Trump Cabinet For Weeks

Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer made it official during remarks on the Senate floor; Democrats are prepared to delay confirmation of Trump’s cabinet by weeks if the president-elect’s nominees are not properly vetted.

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Elizabeth Warren Drops The Hammer On Trump With Bill To Implement the Emoluments Clause

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and a slew of Democrats are taking aim at Donald Trump with new legislation that would force him to release his tax returns and divest himself of potential financial conflicts of interest.

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If Trump Is Talking, He’s Lying: Fact Checkers Find 96% Of Trump Statements Some Degree Of False

Of all the statements evaluated by PolitFact, only 4% of Trump statements were graded as 100% true. This means that 96% of Trump statements contain some degree false or misleading statement. In other words, if Trump is talking, he’s probably not telling the whole truth.

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Steve Doocy Says Jeff Sessions Racist Remarks Are Just a ’20-year-old’ Joke

Steve Doocy referred to Sessions’ racism as “That 20-year-old joke” but “saying that the Ku Klux Klan is OK is not a joke.”

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Senate Democrats Need Your Help to Fight the Obamacare Repeal GOP Death Panels

Senate Democrats will be fighting as hard as they can Monday night to fight what they dubbed “the Republican plan to make America sick again” by repealing Obamacare, also known as the Orwellian Death Panels Republicans have been warning you about for years. Except this time they are real.

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In a Single Tweet, Meghan McCain Reveals GOP’s Cruel Disregard for Common Decency

“This Meryl Streep speech is why Trump won. And if people in Hollywood don’t start recognizing why and how – you will help him get re-elected”

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Kellyanne Conway Accuses Meryl Streep of Inciting People’s “Worst Instincts”

Kellyanne Conway is busy trying to silence Meryl Streep by accusing her of inciting people’s “worst instincts” in her Golden Globe speech, during which Streep asked people to join the Committee to Protect Journalists and never actually spoke President-elect Donald Trump’s name.

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Criticized at Golden Globes, Trump Takes to Twitter to Heap Abuse on Meryl Streep

Trump never won an Emmy but called Streep “overrated” as she accepted an award for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment”

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Meryl Streep Blisters Trump And Defends Press Freedom In Must See Golden Globes Speech

Meryl Streep used her acceptance speech after she received the Cecil B. Demille Award to speak out against Donald Trump and defend press freedom at the Golden Globes.

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Trump Calls On Congress to Investigate NBC for Reporting Russian Attack

Of all issues implicated by Russian spy measures, Trump’s top priority for intel committees is a congressional investigation into NBC.

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Bernie Sanders Becomes A Massive Thorn In Trump’s Side With One Statement On Social Security

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pounced after Trump’s incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus said that he doesn’t think Trump wants to meddle with Social Security and Medicare. Sanders showed in a statement that if Republicans move to mess with the beloved programs they will have a Bernie Sanders problem.

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Mitch McConnell’s Obamacare Replacement Dodge Is The Death Panel Republicans Warned Us About

Mitch McConnell’s refusal to provide a time frame or specifics on Obamacare replacement suggests that Republicans may deliver on those death panels that they spent years warning the American people about.

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Donald Trump Is Very Upset That The Media And American People Are Mocking Him

Donald Trump’s incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer is whining that Trump is not getting the respect that he deserves. It is clear that the president-elect and his team are very upset about a perceived lack of respect from the media and the American people.

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No, We Don’t Need to Be “Fair” To Donald Trump

Subtly will get us nowhere right now, and it’s not called for. It is actually a huge mistake to fall for the genteel approach in the face of such a threat.

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Trump Disgraces The Presidency By Attacking Meet The Press For Not Pushing His Propaganda

President-elect Donald Trump ignored all of the world’s issues and instead focused his wrath on Chuck Todd and Meet The Press for not giving Kellyanne Conway more time during their interview to push lies about Russian hacking.

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Trump Chief Of Staff Turned Into A Defenseless Mess When Forced To Admit Russian Hacking

Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, did everything he could to point the finger at the DNC but was eventually forced to admit that Russia was responsible for the hacking and election meddling during an interview on Fox News Sunday.

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Obama Shows A Reverence For The White House That Is Lacking In Narcissist Trump

During an interview on ABC’s This Week, President Obama showed respect and reverence for the White House that has been completely lacking in the egocentric approach of Donald Trump.

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The Party of Life Must Vote for Life: All Eyes on Obamacare

It is time for the party of life to live up to their convictions and stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and continue to fund Planned Parenthood.

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Anarchists threaten to disrupt Trump inauguration, police say ready

Anarchist groups have threatened to shut down Republican Donald Trump’s swearing-in as U.S. president, but police in Washington said they believe the thousands of security officers assigned to the event will be able to head off any disruption.

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Rachel Maddow Shows You How to Spot Trump’s Big Fat Intelligence Briefing Lie

If you are curious how to spot Trump’s Russian hack lies for yourself, Rachel Maddow tells you how. Just two ingredients are required: First, you need the declassified version of The Office of the Director of National Intelligence report available to literally everybody who wants to read it (here) and Donald Trump’s own words. As…

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Elizabeth Warren Slams Senate Republicans Over Trump Nominee’s Ethics

“The @SenateGOP are bypassing important steps to make sure these billionaire cabinet nominees are free of dangerous conflicts of interest.”

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U.S. spy chief ‘resolute’ on Russia cyber attack, differs with Trump

The top U.S. intelligence official said he was “even more resolute” in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats during the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved.

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In emotional farewell speech, Michelle Obama praises diversity

First lady Michelle Obama made an impassioned case for embracing diversity and welcoming all religious groups on Friday in a not-so-veiled message to her husband’s successor two weeks ahead of Inauguration Day.

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Donald Trump’s ‘Man on the Can’ Musings Embarrass America and Endanger Us All

In recent days, Trump has embarrassed himself both over China and Mexico, tweeting off-the-cuff ruminations about issues of critical importance

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Always Our President: Massive Lines Form For Tickets To Obama’s Farewell Address

The long lines to get tickets to see one of the best modern presidents say farewell are indicative of the feelings of a majority of this country.

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Trump’s Crime Wave Cabinet Is Trying To Dodge Disclosing Conflicts Of Interest

A letter from Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub is warning that the Republican Senate Majority is about to confirm Trump nominees who have not provided sufficient information or disclosed potential conflicts of interest.

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Bernie Sanders And Democratic Leaders Rise Up And Plan Nationwide Rallies To Save Healthcare

Sens. Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer along with Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi are rallying and leading a national day of action on January 15 to save healthcare.

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Trump Lays The Groundwork For Impeachment With Tirade Defending Russian Hacking

President-elect Donald Trump couldn’t help himself and dug the hole deeper by spending Saturday morning offering up a full-throated defense of Russia and their hacking during the US presidential election.

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Michele Bachmann Advising Donald Trump is the Ignorant Advising the Uninformed

“Our government has been perverted to be used to advance an ungodly agenda” and “undermine American values both abroad and here at home.”

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Friday Fox Follies – Newsical Chairs

2017 opens on a high note for Friday Fox Follies. Now that she’s NBC bound, Tucker Carlson, the personality I take the most delight in skewering, has been given Megyn Kelly’s show on the Fox “News” Channel. Here’s the GRAND announcement from the whiny man/boy himself, with my [partial] transcription: We began this show at…

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Editorial Cartoon: American Voodoo

Health insurance is not for the ‘little people’…

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Calls Grow For Select Committee After Report On Russian Election Meddling Devastates Trump

Both advocates and members of Congress are calling for a Select Committee investigation after top US intelligence agencies released a report that finds that Russia influenced the presidential election to support Donald Trump.

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Damning Intelligence Report Finds Russia Intentionally Influenced The Election For Trump

The Director of National Intelligence released a summary of the report to the public and the judgments of the FBI, CIA, and NSA was damning for Russia and Trump.

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Trump Meets With Intelligence Community Then Lies To Protect Russia

President-elect Trump met with the intelligence community on Friday and then released a misleading statement that verged on baseless lies to protect Putin and Russia.

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Democratic Senators Refuse To Join House Dems In Objecting To Electoral College Results

Although there were at least 5 Democratic Senators attending the joint session, none of them would join a House Democrats in objecting to certification of the Electoral College results.

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Paul Ryan Unleashes Security Guards To Prevent Planned Parenthood From Delivering Petitions

Planned Parenthood tried to deliver 87,000 petitions to Speaker of The House Paul Ryan’s office, but they were greeted by six security guards as the leader of “The People’s House” closed his office and refused the petitions.

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Obama Makes Astounding History With Longest Job Growth Strength In 75 Years

As Donald Trump touts dubious to flat out untrue claims of saving or creating hundreds of jobs, President Obama will leave office with the longest consecutive job creation streak in 75 years.

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Twitter – and the Governator – Heap Mockery on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice Insecurities

“I wish you the best of luck and I hope you’ll work for ALL of the American people as aggressively as you worked for your ratings”

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Trump Tweets His Pathetic Insecurities as Post-Trump ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Slumps

“Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got “swamped” (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. “

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Trump Attacks on Clinton and CIA Director Brennan Lead us Down a Slippery Slope

This is a slippery and dangerous slope down which Trump and his surrogates have embarked. This is how dictatorships function, not democracies

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Trump To Abandon Campaign Promise And Ask Taxpayers To Fund His Border Wall

One of Trump’s first acts as president will be showing his supporters that he was just playing them for suckers. Will they notice?

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U.S. Intelligence Report Finds That Top Russian Officials Rejoiced After Trump’s Win

“American intelligence agencies intercepted communications in the aftermath of the election in which Russian officials congratulated themselves on the outcome.”

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Trump Still Won’t Admit Russia Carried Out Election Hack In Latest Twitter Tantrum

As more information comes out, Trump is becoming increasingly alone in his politically suicidal mission to defend Russia instead of the U.S.

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Ex-CIA Director Leaves Transition Team After Trump Trashes Intelligence Community

“Effective immediately, Ambassador Woolsey is no longer a Senior Advisor to President-Elect Trump or the Transition.”

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VP Joe Biden Smacks Down Trump By Telling Him To Grow Up And Be An Adult

Vice President Joe Biden told Trump to grow up and be an adult. The Vice President also made it clear that put up or shut up time is coming for Trump and Democrats can’t wait for the president-elect to be exposed.

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Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, And Bernie Sanders Have A Bill To Kill Trump’s Muslim Registry

Sens. Corey Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and other Democrats have introduced a bill that would prevent president-elect Trump from creating a federal religious registry.

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Florida Attorney General Who Took Illegal Trump Cash Gets White House Job

President-elect Trump has rewarded Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi with a White House because she took his illegal campaign contribution and dropped an investigation into Trump University.

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Senate Democrats Introduce Amendment That Would Block Obamacare Repeal

Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) have introduced an amendment that would derail the Republican fast-track repeal by forbidding Republicans from considering any legislation that increases insurance premiums and out of pocket costs.

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Trump And Paul Ryan Are Lying: ACA Repeal Will Take Health Care Away From 24.5 Million

Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and other Republicans are lying about the impact of Obamacare repeal. According to an analysis by ACA expert Charles Gaba, repeal will result in 24.5 million Americans losing their health insurance.

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Democrats Zero In On Trump Corruption With Call For Investigation Of HHS Nominee

Senate Democrats are calling for the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Trump’s HHS nominee, Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) for making $300,000 in trades in healthcare stocks while pushing legislation that would impact the stock price of the companies Price owned shares in.

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Trump Trusts Russian Operative Assange but Not America’s Intelligence Community

In the continuing saga surrounding the overarching question of whether or not Donald J. Trump is really an American, or a Russian operative, it is getting a little clearer that defector Donald is intricately aligned with Russia and its interests; he has shown absolutely no allegiance to America, its people, or its security interests.

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