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Tue, Oct 20th, 2020

He Would Explode: Ex-CIA Officer Says Intel Officers are Terrified to Brief Trump on Russia

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Donald Trump is not a very big fan of briefings. He is not briefed anywhere near as much as his predecessors. The memos to Trump also have to be broken down in ways that he can more easily understand them. read more

Wed, Sep 21st, 2016

The Vile, Anti-Semitic, ‘Brownshirt-y’ War of Trump Supporters Against Journalists

“MAYBE A FEW JOURNALISTS DO NEED TO BE WHACKED...MAYBE THEN THEYD STOP BEI[N]G BIASED HACKS. KILL EM ALL STARTING W/ KATY TUR.”

Fri, May 6th, 2016

On Holocaust Remembrance Day Trump Ignored Calls to Repudiate Anti-Semitism

"Trump legitimizes and raises up the profile of the white nationalist movement in the United States...It’s this type of rhetoric that has escalated to genocide in the past."