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Rachel Maddow Blasts WH Officials For Standing By Trump As He Defends White Supremacists
“In terms of people actually working in the administration, apparently everybody is fine, nobody is leaving, they’re all okay with it.”
Daily Archives: Wed, Aug 16th, 2017
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Internet firms shift stance, move to exile white supremacists
The wave of internet crackdowns against white nationalists and neo-Nazis reflected a rapidly changing mindset among Silicon Valley firms on how far they are willing to go to police hate speech.
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Phoenix Mayor Tells Trump To Cancel Upcoming Rally And Clean Up His Charlottesville Mess
Within the span of about a week, the President of the United States will have endorsed white supremacists and announced that he’s pardoning a man who racially profiled Latinos.Â
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Surveys contradict Trump claim that Comey had lost FBI confidence
Annual employee surveys released by the FBI on Wednesday show former Director James Comey was highly regarded, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim when he fired Comey this year that he had lost the confidence of the agency’s workers.
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Ex-CIA Head Says Trump’s Response To Charlottesville Has Done ‘Lasting Harm To American Society’
“If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.”
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New York Times editor testifies in Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit
The editor of the New York Times editorial board on Wednesday took the witness stand in a lawsuit filed by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who claims that a June editorial in the paper defamed her by linking her to a 2011 mass shooting.
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GOP Congressman Calls Out Trump For ‘Failing’ To Strongly Condemn White Supremacists
“The president needs to be crystal clear that hatred has no place in our society, but he is currently failing at it.”
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House panel to hold hearing on white supremacist threat
The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing next month about threats from extremist groups, including domestic terrorism, following a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend.
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The Entire US Military Has Now Openly Broken With Trump And Denounced Racism
The men in charge of all the branches of the US military have denounced racism and broken with President Trump’s encouragement of racists.
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Fox News Can’t Find Any Republicans Who Are Willing To Go On The Air And Defend Trump
Fox News’s Sheppard Smith announced during his program that they couldn’t find a single to Republican who would come on his show and defend Donald Trump’s comments about white supremacists and Nazis being good people. Max Tani of Business Insider tweeted: Shep says he couldn't find any Republicans to come on to defend Trump today:…
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Twitter shutters accounts of U.S. white supremacy website
Twitter Inc on Wednesday suspended accounts linked to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, keeping up pressure from Silicon Valley on white supremacists after weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Baltimore removes four Confederate statues after Virginia rally
By Gina Cherelus (Reuters) – Baltimore removed four monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy before dawn on Wednesday, working quickly so the city could avoid protests like the one organized by white nationalists that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. The statues, including one of General Robert E. Lee and another of General Thomas “Stonewall”…
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U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a ruling that prevented Arkansas from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood following the release of controversial videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group.
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Trump Busted In Huge Lie As CEOs Forced Him To Shut Down Business Councils
It wasn’t Donald Trump who shut down the presidential councils, but CEOs who shut Trump after they decided in a conference call to collectively resign.
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Right Wing Activist Retweeted By Trump is Navy Intel With Suspended Security Clearance
The right-wing activist retweeted by President Donald Trump is a Navy intelligence officer named John Michael Posobiec III, whose security clearance is currently suspended, according to NBC News.
In other words, Trump is being Trump.
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Suspicions Grow As Former FBI Counterespionage Chief Working on Trump Russia Moves to HR
In a move called a “hitch” in the Trump Russia probe, former FBI counterespionage chief Peter Strzok has left special counsel Robert Muller’s Trump Russia FBI investigative team for the Human Resources department, according to a scoop by ABC News.
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Humiliated Trump Kills His Manufacturing Council After CEOs Flee The Toxic President
A humiliated Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is ending his manufacturing council after CEOs fled him in the wake of his Charlottesville remarks. Trump tweeted: Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)…
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Virginia rally victim’s message ‘magnified,’ mother tells memorial
“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her,” Heyer’s mother Susan Bro said to long and loud applause from those gathered at the city’s 1930s era Paramount Theater.
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Democrats Turn Up The Heat With Resolution To Censure Trump For Encouraging White Supremacists
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), senior Member of the House Judiciary Committee and former Chairman and Ranking Member of the Constitution Subcommittee, along with Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) have filed a motion to censure and condemn President Trump for encouraging white supremacists.
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Trump Neglects Presidential Duties By Blowing Off The Memorial Service For Heather Heyer
Instead of attending the memorial service for Heather Heyer, Donald Trump did the bare minimum by tweeting about her once.
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In Pictures: Americans Stand Strong Against Hate At Heather Heyer Memorial
People carrying guns to provide security in the event of far-right protesters stand outside the memorial service for Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia
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Finally, A Republican With Some Guts As Lindsey Graham Calls Out Trump By Name For Dividing America
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did what other Republicans have refused to do. He criticized the President by name and told Trump that he is dividing America and that many Republicans don’t agree with his rolling out of the welcome mat for David Duke.
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Virginia city holds memorial service for woman killed in violence
A 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville was being remembered on Wednesday at a memorial service in this southern U.S. college town.
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German politicians accuse Trump of trivializing Nazi violence
Senior German politicians on Wednesday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of trivializing violence by white supremacists in Virginia and called for a clear rejection of their ideology.
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Republicans Rapidly Flee Trump As His GOP Support Has Dropped 12 Points Since June
The signs are growing that Trump’s base is shrinking. The new Marist Poll finds that Republican support for Trump has dropped 12 points and strong Republican support for the President has dipped 14 points.
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Ex-RNC Official Explains How Trump Screwed The Whole Republican Party By Supporting Racists
Ex-RNC spokesperson Doug Heye brought up a fantastic point after Trump’s press conference. There is no way that Republicans can ask for support from minorities after the President’s full throated defense of racists.
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Trump Tries To Distract From His Racist Woes By Taking Credit For Not Starting World War III
President Trump tried an obvious at distraction by attempting to take credit for North Korea not attacking the US.
