British Monarchy agrees to suspend UK Parliament for about 30 days in order to force the UK to exit from the European Union pronto (deal or no deal). This will end all efforts to block the "Brexit" altogether.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-49495567
Mississippi officials confirm multiple cases of voting machines changing votes in GOP governor runoff
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/459067-mississippi-officials-confirm-multiple-cases-of-voting-machines-changing
Trump lashes out at Fox News in extraordinary rant over critical coverage of him, calling for 'new outlet'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-twitter-today-fox-news-democrats-tweets-a9082316.html
After Lawrence O'Donnell's tweet & on-air segment last night, POTUS' legal team has sent a letter to NBC telling them legal proceedings could be pursued if there's no retraction or apology for factually stating that "Russian oligarchs" co-signed loans to Trump (court documents include loan applications co-signed by Russian "oligarchs"). Suing means Trump would be required to disclose financial records to disprove the reported facts. Trump suing means it's true. Also O'Donnell source read the court documents.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-sends-legal-demand-comment-msnbcs-lawrence-o-donnell-1235171?
Deutsche Bank has Trump’s taxes and loan applications cosigned by Russian oligarchs: report
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/deutsche-bank-has-trumps-taxes-and-loan-application-cosigned-by-russian-oligarch-report/
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) says he will resign at the end of the year, citing health problems
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/08/28/sen-johnny-isakson-r-ga-says-he-will-resign-at-the-end-of-the-year-citing-health-problems/
Trump Offers Pardons To Aides Who Will Fast-Track Wall Before Election Day: Report | The president has told aides troubled by his orders not to “worry” about flouting any laws, The Washington Post reported.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pardon-law-breaking-aides-washington-post_n_5d65eabce4b063c341f76ced
Trump orders aides to seize private land and disregard environmental rules - Trump in desperate attempt to plant fencing posts to save humiliation after failing on his 2016 promise
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mexico-border-wall-trump-2020-election-private-land-environment-a9081441.html
Before He Was Running Against Donald Trump, Joe Walsh Was Trying To Be Donald Trump
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katenocera/joe-walsh-barack-obama-donald-trump
With Amazon in Flames Trump Moves To Illegally 16.7 Million-Acre Alaskan Tongass Rainforest For Illegal Logging
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/amazon-flames-trump-moves-open-167-million-acre-alaskan-rainforest-corporate
Trump+Republicans are trying to sell America’s public lands to foreign bidders before the election
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-27/trump-arctic-grand-escalante-oil-drilling
Fracking in U.S. and Canada linked to worldwide atmospheric methane spike
https://www.newsweek.com/fracking-u-s-canada-worldwide-atmospheric-methane-spike-1454205
Satellite Photos Indicate North Korea is Building a Nuke-Launching Submarine
https://www.thedailybeast.com/north-korea-satellite-photos-indicate-kim-jong-un-is-building-a-nuke-launching-submarine
Democratic debate appears set for 10 candidates after Tom Steyer fails to qualify |
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democratic-debate-appears-set-10-candidates-after-tom-steyer-fails-n1047131
Trump administration admits Secret Service 'statement' used to ban Playboy journalist from White House does not exist
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ban-journalist-playboy-brian-karem-court-secret-service-white-house-a9082501.html
Trump administration leaving menstruating migrant girls 'bleeding through' underwear, claims lawsuit detailing 'appalling conditions' at border
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-immigration-migrant-children-border-lawsuit-period-tampon-latest-a9081341.html
Donald Trump: Three decades, 4,095 lawsuits
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/
Trump calls his Doral golf resort ‘magnificent’ while inspectors find cockroaches crawling in kitchens, rat droppings and green mould
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-hotel-doral-golf-resort-g7-summit-2020-a9082321.html
Phoenix Voters 'Say Yes to the Future,' Rejecting Koch-Backed Effort to Ban Light Rail Expansion in Least Sustainable US City
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/phoenix-voters-say-yes-future-rejecting-koch-backed-effort-ban-light-rail-expansion
U.S. has paid more than $1M in interest for late bailout payments to farmers — “We had farmers waiting at the door from 7 o’clock in the morning to 7 o’clock at night. And if you’ve only got two people working at the counter ... it was just overwhelming,” one official said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/u-s-has-paid-more-1m-interest-late-bailout-payments-n1046401
National Congress of American Indians Condemns President’s Continued Use of the Name ‘Pocahontas’ as a Slur | “NCAI condemns the President’s continued use of the name ‘Pocahontas’ as an insult for political gain. Not only does it disrespect Pocahontas’ legacy and life, it likens her name to a slur. For centuries Native people have endured such slurs – from ‘R*dskins’ to ‘Injuns’ to ‘savages’ – that the forces of racism and intolerance deploy to dehumanize our people, mock our cultures, and interfere with our inherent right to control our own lands and destinies,” said NCAI CEO Kevin Allis. “These pejorative terms dismiss our rightful place as this country’s First Americans, and ignore the immense contributions that tribal nations and peoples have made and continue to make to America. Silence in the face of such divisive behavior and degrading rhetoric is complicity. We call on all Americans to denounce the continued use of such terms and the sentiments they express.”
http://www.ncai.org/news/articles/2019/08/28/national-congress-of-american-indians-condemns-president-s-continued-use-of-the-name-pocahontas-as-a-slur
► Trump was over a billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out. This is how he made a come back
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/
► Trump was first compromised by the Russians in the 80s. In 1984, the Russian Mafia began to use Trump real estate to launder money. In 1987, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Yuri Dubinin, arranged for Trump and his then-wife, Ivana, to enjoy an all-expense-paid trip to Moscow to consider possible business prospects. Only seven weeks after his trip, Trump ran full-page ads in the Boston Globe, the NYT and WaPO calling for, in effect, the dismantling of the postwar Western foreign policy alliance. The whole Trump/Russian connection started out as laundering money for the Russian mob through Trump's real estate, but evolved into something far bigger.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/is-there-a-case-for-trump-putin-collaboration-years-before-the-campaign/2018/08/16/00578f1e-9440-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html
► In 1984, David Bogatin — a Russian mobster, convicted gasoline bootlegger, and close ally of Semion Mogilevich, a major Russian mob boss — met with Trump in Trump Tower right after it opened. Bogatin bought five condos from Trump at that meeting. Those condos were later seized by the government, which claimed they were used to launder money for the Russian mob. (NY Times, Apr 30, 1992)
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/30/nyregion/entrepreneur-who-left-us-is-back-awaiting-sentence.html
► Felix Sater is a Russian-born former mobster, and former managing director of NY real estate conglomerate Bayrock Group LLC located on the 24th floor of Trump Tower. He is a convict who became a govt cooperator for the FBI and other agencies. He grew up with Michael Cohen--Trump's former "fixer" attorney. Cohen's family owned El Caribe, which was a mob hangout for the Russian Mafia in Brooklyn. Cohen had ties to Ukrainian oligarchs through his in-laws and his brother's in-laws. Felix Sater's father had ties to the Russian mob. This goes back more than 30 years.
► Trump was $4 billion in debt after his Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt. No U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in through Bayrock (mentioned above). Bayrock was run by two investors: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia. Bayrock partnered with Trump in 2005 and poured money into the Trump organization under the legal guise of licensing his name and property management.
► Semion Mogilevich was the brains behind the Russian Mafia. Mogilevich operatives have been using Trump real estate for decades to launder money. That means Russian Mafia operatives have been part of his fortune for years. Many of them owned condos in Trump Towers and other properties. They were running operations out of Trump's crown jewel. (Mogilevich's role today is unclear).
► One of the most important things that is often overlooked is that the Russia Mafia is part and parcel of Russian intelligence. Russia is a mafia state. that is not a metaphor. Putin is head of the Mafia. So the fact that they have been operating out of the home of the president of the United States is deeply disturbing.
► From Craig Unger's AMA: "Early on, a source told me that all this was tied to Semion Mogilevich, the powerful Russian mobster. I had never even heard of him, but I immediately went to a database that listed the owners of all properties in NY state and looked up all the Trump properties. Every time I found a Russian sounding name, I would Google, and add Mogilevich. When you do investigative reporting, you anticipate drilling a number of dry holes, but almost everyone I googled turned out to be a Russian mobster. Again and again. If you know New York you don't expect Trump Tower to be a high crime neighborhood, but there were far too many Russian mobsters in Trump properties for it to be a coincidence."
► So many Russians bought Trump apartments at his developments in Florida that the area became known as Little Moscow. The developers of two of his hotels were Russians with significant links to the Russian mob. The late leader of that mob in the United States, Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov, was living at Trump Tower.
https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate
► According to a Bloomberg investigation (March 16, 2017) into Trump World Tower, “a third of units sold on floors 76 through 83 by 2004 involved people or limited liability companies connected to Russia and neighboring states.”
► In July 2008, the height of the recession, Donald Trump sold a mansion in Palm Beach for $95 million to Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch. Trump had purchased it four years earlier for $41.35 million. The sale price was nearly $54 million more than Trump had paid for the property. Again, this was the height of the recession when all other property had plummeted in value.
► In 2013, Federal agents busted an “ultraexclusive, high-stakes, illegal poker ring” run by Russian gangsters out of Trump Tower. In addition to card games, they operated illegal gambling websites, ran a global sports book and laundered more than $100 million. A condo directly below one owned by Trump reportedly served as HQ for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” connected to Semion Mogilevich.
► Rudy Giuliani famously prosecuted the Italian mob while he was a federal prosecutor, yet the Russian mob was allowed to thrive under his tenure in the Southern District and Mayor. And now he's deeply entwined in the business of Trump and Russian oligarchs. Giuiani appointed Semyon Kislin to the NYC Economic Development Council in 1990, and the FBI described Kislin as having ties tot he Russian mob. Of course, it made good political sense for Giuliani to get headlines for smashing the Italian mob.
► A lot of Republicans in Washington are implicated. Boatloads of Russian money went to the GOP--often in legal ways. The NRA got as much as $70M from Russia, then funneled it to the GOP. The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee lead by McConnel got millions from Leonard Blavatnik. In the 90s, the Russians began sending money to top GOP leaders, like Speaker of the House Tom Delay. Unger's book alleges that most of the GOP leadership has been compromised by RU money.
► At the Cityscape USA’s Bridging US and the Emerging Real Estate Markets Conference held in Manhattan, on September 9, 10, and 11, 2008, Trump Jr. was frank about the tide of Russian money supporting the family business, saying "...And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets."
► Eric Trump told golf reporter James Dodson in 2014 that the Trump Organization was able to expand during the financial crisis because “We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”
► Russian oligarchs co-signed Trump's Deutsche Bank loans
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lawrence-odonnell-source-says-russian-oligarchs-co-signed-trumps-deutsche-bank-loans
Outcomes that show Trump is taking orders (or cues) from Putin:
► At the end of 2018, Putin and his allies started making a strong push for a resolution that would justify their country’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and reverse an 1989 vote backed by Mikhail Gorbachev that condemned it. The Putinists’ goal was to pass the resolution by Feb. There is no one on this side of the Atlantic who thinks the USSR was justified in invading Afghanistan. And out of nowhere, on January 2nd, Trump came out strongly supporting Russia's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/04/defying-history-moscow-moves-defend-soviet-war-afghanistan/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-cracked-afghan-history-11546560234
► Trump went against American intelligence on North Korean missiles. He told the FBI he didn't believe their intelligence because Putin told him otherwise. "I don't care, I believe Putin"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/18/i-believe-putin-trump-dismissed-us-advice-on-north-korea-threat-says-mccabe
► Trump met in secret with Putin the G20 summit in November 2018, without note takers. 19 days later, he announced a withdrawal from Syria. As a note, Trump conducted FIVE completely private meetings and conferences with Putin, and has gone to great lengths to prevent literally anyone, even people in his administration, from learning what was discussed
► Trump refused to enforce sanctions legally codified into law - and in some cases reversed standing sanctions on Russian companies
► He has denounced his own intelligence agencies in a press conference with Putin on election meddling - and publicly endorsed Putin's version of events
► Trump pulled out of the INF treaty with no explanation, which allows Putin to create long-range hypersonic missiles that threaten Europe with impunity. The US already has all the weaponry that the INF would ban the development of, so this offers us literally nothing, while allowing Russia to develop powerful new weapons to challenge our allies
► And of course, Trump continues to threaten to pull out of NATO, a move so catastrophically stupid, so inconceivably cosmically myopic, I truly can't express the profundity of the idiocy. Pulling out of NATO would be like the only guy in a prison yard with a shotgun just throwing it over the fence for absolutely no reason, suddenly giving the people with crude homemade shivs complete power.
► In summation: Trump was $4 billion in debt and the Russians bailed him out.
West Virginia Repblican Senator Mike Maroney is now one of 27 people who have been arrested as part of a prostitution ring in Marshall County.
https://wchstv.com/news/local/west-virginia-sen-mike-maroney-arrested-as-part-of-prostitution-ring
Trump’s Unpardonable Admission About His Border Wall | The president wants to spend billions of taxpayer dollars for a project that he acknowledges is largely symbolic—even if it breaks the law.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trump-pardons-border-wall/596962/
Trump campaign attacks Democrats: "This is our country, not theirs"
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-campaign-attacks-aoc-democrats-this-is-our-country-not-theirs-67633221952
Australia is to formally investigate foreign interference in its universities amid rising concerns about Chinese influence on campuses. The push follows reports of students and staff "self-censoring" on sensitive political issues such as the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49492206
The ultra-rich are illegally buying cheetahs as pets and it's leading to their extinction
If Monmouth wasn't a qualifying poll they would have released it. Imagine the conspiracy theories if they buried the poll.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/28/africa/somaliland-cheetahs-gulf-intl/index.html
A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49481716
Fox isn’t working for us anymore!
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459105-trump-criticizes-fox-which-isnt-working-for-us-anymore
USCIS confirms: As of October 29, children born to U.S. service members outside of the U.S. will no longer be automatically considered citizens. Their parents will have to apply for citizenship on their behalf.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-children-born-abroad-citizenship
CEO of the largest private prison corp in the US decries anti-ICE protests, @AOC, @NeverAgainActn, and people who “defamed the American flag” (?) per internal email I obtained: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/1RXd1xIdEpfl51xtVC1nmq …
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1166747978255745035
New audio from Portland clashes reveals supposed "independent reporter" Andy Ngo's close ties to the Proud Boys and other far-right groups — "He went in with us and he went out with us."
https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2019/08/28/right-wing-brawlers-discussed-a-hammer-fight-while-being-filmed/
Key Dems on House Judiciary say @POTUS plan to host next G7 at his Doral country club "the latest in a troubling pattern of corruption and self-dealing by the President" and will investigate as part of the Committee's impeachment investigatio
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1166801222940184582
In response to @BreitbartNews ejection, @BetoORourke spox @aleighacavalier says campaign 'believes in the right to a free press and works hard to ensure the campaign reflects that,' while 'Breitbart News walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech' ...
https://twitter.com/davidsiders/status/1166775436526804993
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDE4EtUVUAA7uB1.jpg
"Beto for America believes in the right to a free press and works hard to ensure the campaign reflects that. However, whether it's dedicating an entire section of their website to "black crime," inferring that immigrants are terrorists, or using derogatory terms to refer to LGBTQ people, Breitbart News walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech. Given this particular Breitbart employee's previous hateful reporting and the sensitivity of the topics being discussed with students at an HBCU, a campaign staffer made the call to ask him to leave to ensure that the students attending the event felt comfortable and safe while sharing their experiences as young people of color."
As Alabama GOP Calls for Ilhan Omar's Expulsion From Congress, Minnesota Dem and Her Allies Hit Back: "Well, the Klan has spoken."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/alabama-gop-calls-ilhan-omars-expulsion-congress-minnesota-dem-and-her-allies-hit
Autoworkers vote overwhelmingly for strike at Ford, GM, and Chrysler plants
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/28/auto-a28.html
Fox News Personalities Tell Trump 'We Don't Work For You' After President's Latest Attack on Network (
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-fox-news-we-dont-work-you-1456633
Kirsten Gillibrand Drops Out of Democratic Presidential Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/us/politics/kirsten-gillibrand-2020-drop-out.html
Children of US Troops Born Overseas Will No Longer Get Automatic American Citizenship
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/28/children-us-troops-born-overseas-will-no-longer-get-automatic-american-citizenship.html
"We support the troops!" Unless they're:
Gay
Trans
Immigrants
POWs (the president himself said he likes soldiers who weren't captured, in other words, he likes dead soldiers more than captured soldiers.)
Black
Latino
Stationed overseas, because nothing says "we support you" like "no, your kid isn't a citizen."
Trump's record on military and vets:
Children of deployed US troops will no longer get automatic American citizenship if born overseas during deployment (August 28, 2019)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/08/28/children-us-troops-born-overseas-will-no-longer-get-automatic-american-citizenship.html
Requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall (August 2, 2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-green-light-on-the-border-wall-as-trumps-supreme-court-victories-mount
Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuting war criminals (July 31, 2019)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/trump-orders-navy-to-rescind-medals-given-to-prosecutors-who-failed-to-convict-seal-eddie-gallagher
Trump denied a United States Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his scheduled citizenship interview (July 17, 2019)
https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/07/17/marine-veteran-not-allowed-into-us-for-citizenship-interview/
Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign (July 4, 2019)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/07/trump-july-fourth-rally-hatch-act-violation.html
Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-demands-us-military-chiefs-072002784.html
Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence for a better "aesthetic appearance" (June 7, 2019)
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/06/06/some-troops-to-spend-the-next-month-painting-border-fence-with-mexico/
Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)
https://qz.com/1637160/trump-slams-veteran-mueller-in-d-day-interview-at-normandy-cemetery/
Trump started his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-trashes-bette-midler-wwii-dday-memorial-event-844515/
Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported on June 4th, 2019)
https://www.newsweek.com/tiffany-trump-child-support-payments-would-have-been-stopped-donald-if-she-joined-military-prenup-1442203
Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain (May 27, 2019)
Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)
Trump pardoned war criminals (May, 2019)
Trump purged 200,000 veterans healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment process and enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)
Trump deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)
He complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral (March 20, 2019)
He diverted military housing funds to pay for border wall (Feb 15, 2019). A judge subsequently denied this. In July 2019, SCOTUS ruled that Trump could in fact divert military housing funds to pay for his wall.
He refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, and forced a branch of the military to go without pay. This branch of military was forced to work without pay, otherwise they would be AWOL. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise (Dec 22, 2018 – Jan 25, 2019)
He didn't pay the Coast Guard, forcing service members to rely on food pantries (Jan 23, 2019)
He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (Jan 22, 2019)
He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)
He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)
When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1. As a reminder, the Trump administration's goal was to dismantle the CFPB, installing Mick Mulvaney as the director, who publicly stated the bureau should be disbanded. (Jan 26, 2019)
He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)
He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)
He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)
He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)
Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise. He didn't give them a 10% raise (Dec 26, 2018). He initially tried to give the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. This was before Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't.
He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays (Dec 19, 2018-present)
He got three Mar-a-Lago guests to run the VA (unknown start - present, made well-known in 2018)
He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)
He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)
He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)
While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain - but other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)
He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and maked them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)
He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)
Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many veterans to run out of food and rent. “You can count on us to serve, but we can’t count on the VA to make a deadline,” one veteran said. (reported October 7, 2018)
Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)
Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)
He forgot a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacks her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)
He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)
He blocked a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)
He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)
He deported veterans (2017-present)
He said he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)
He said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong (Oct 3, 2016) (note: yes, he said it's 'because they aren't strong.' He didn't say it's 'because they're weak.' This distinction is important because of Snopes)
Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)
Trump attacks Gold Star families - Myeshia Johnson--gold star widow, Khan family--gold star parents, etc. (2016-present)
Trump sent funds raised from a January 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)
Trump said "I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people" because he went to a military-style academy and that he has "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military". (2015 biography)
Trump said he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015)
Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)
For a decade, Trump sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. “While disabled veterans should be given every opportunity to earn a living, is it fair to do so to the detriment of the city as a whole or its tax paying citizens and businesses?” - 1991
Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.
No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations, and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service
Marriott International announced that it will discontinue single-use bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel at its 7,000 properties worldwide.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/459127-marriott-bans-single-use-shampoo-bath-gel-bottles
Trump's Plan to Host G7 at Doral Golf Resort Will be Probed by House Democrats for Constitutional Violations
https://www.newsweek.com/house-democrats-investigate-trump-host-g7-doral-golf-resort-1456653
Jon Ossoff Is Seriously Considering A Run For Senate In Georgia
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/darrensands/jon-ossoff-johnny-isakson-georgia-senate
I watched the segment. He clearly laid out that this was a single source and had not been verified. He kept saying "If true. . . " before discussing the implications. While borderline irresponsible from a journalistic perspective, he let the viewers know that he still did not have verification. If you listen to Rush or Hannity for ten minutes they lie about everything at all times.....MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell says he was 'wrong' to report thinly sourced Trump finances story
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-deutsche-bank/index.html
Beto has always allowed anyone to come to his public events and Breitbart has put plants at several of his events this week:
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1166513412609904643?s=20
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1166391330769182722?s=20
He did not allow Breitbart at a private event at a HBCU, so they threw a temper tantrum. All he is now saying is they can continue to come to events like normal and he will still wipe the floor with them when they try to ask "gotcha" questions, just like he repeatedly did this week. There is a time and place for confronting racists and Beto has been doing it the last several years (need I remind you of the viral kneeling video last year?), but that place is not in a classroom giving a platform for racists to be disruptive.They will have access to Public events, not the private events that the reporter was kicked out of.
Reminder: Potential Trump Lawsuit Against Lawrence O'Donnell Could 'Backfire' by Making Deutsche Bank Docs Part of Discovery
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-threat-to-sue-lawrence-odonnell-could-backfire-by-making-deutsche-bank-docs-part-of-discovery/
Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/industrial-farming-one-worst-crimes-history-ethical-question/
Orangutan population falls by 25 every day - and food we eat is to blame: A century ago there were more than 230,000 orangutans living throughout South East Asia. Today, that number has shrunk to 41,000 in Borneo and 7,500 in Sumatra, the only places where they can be found.
https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/orangutan-population-falls-by-25-every-day-and-food-we-eat-is-to-blame/
Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent. It doesn’t take a stable genius to see the magnitude of this conflict. Or how destructive it is to our national security.
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1166867471862829056
Cherokee Nation Is Coming to Congress
https://newrepublic.com/article/154821/cherokee-nation-coming-congress
Monsanto used former top DOJ official involved in Epstein deal to quash felony case
https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-monsanto-used-former-doj-lawyer-involved-in-epstein-case-to-quash-felony-charges-090028623.html
Trump slow-walks Ukraine military aid meant to contain Russia
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/28/trump-ukraine-military-aid-russia-1689531
Monsanto executive here discusses "beat the shit" out leaders of "Moms Across America" group that challenged health safety of its Roundup weedkiller. Emails produced in lawsuit related to allegations regarding the weedkiller, AKA glyphosate
https://twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/1166805189678047233
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