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Post subject: Re: You've been Trumped!
Posted: Wed 10 Jan , 2018 6:44 pm
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Trump is now threatening to change the libel laws because he doesn't like what the Wolff book has to say about him:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... se-to-book
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Speaking from a prepared statement before a Cabinet meeting, Trump blasted the current laws as “sham and a disgrace.” “Our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values and American fairness,” he told reporters. “We're going to take a very, very strong look at that.”


Again, he attacks the courts because they ruled against something he wants:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... urt-system
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President Trump on Wednesday blasted a federal court decision preventing the administration from winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, his latest attack on the U.S. legal system. “It just shows everyone how broken and unfair our Court System is when the opposing side in a case (such as DACA) always runs to the 9th Circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts,” Trump tweeted.

..Trump was responding to a decision from U.S. District Judge William Alsup, which said the government cannot begin shutting down the program while the move is being challenged in court.

He also lashes out at Feinstein's release of the Fusion transcript. And at the Russia investigation, for what, the hundredth time?I guess he assumes that if he repeats something enough, everyone will believe it eventually.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... fusion-gps
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The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace. Must have tough Primary!
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The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!
Yeah, but it's totally OK for Republicans to release bits and pieces of testimony in attempts to discredit the Russia investigation. This crap would be tiresome enough if Trump was still just a reality TV star, but he's supposed to be the president - in other words, represent all Americans and not just himself.



I did find this funny:
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/36 ... ur-country
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Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says in a new interview that he is running for Arizona's Senate seat "for the good of the country,"
This is the guy Trump rescued from federal charges with a pardon. I doubt Arizona voters are as stupid as Arpaio thinks:
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the sheriff lost his bid for reelection by double digits on the same night Trump won the presidency

btw, former White House ethics chief Walter Staub is also blasting Zinke over his favoritism toward Florida's Republican governor. http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ling-youre

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Posted: Thu 11 Jan , 2018 7:23 pm
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Another first for Trump:

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/36851 ... ear-powers
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More than a dozen former nuclear launch officers are calling on Congress to rein in President Trump’s ability to launch nuclear weapons, saying they are more worried about Trump now than before he took office.

...“The president has had ample opportunity to educate and humble himself to the grave responsibilities of his office. Instead, he consistently shows himself to be easily baited, stubborn in his ignorance of world politics and diplomacy, and quick to brandish nuclear threats. The reality of this presidency is worse than we feared.”

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Posted: Thu 11 Jan , 2018 9:15 pm
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The quality of the ambassadors Trump is giving the world:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wor ... e-couldnt/
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Peter Hoekstra, the newly minted U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, held his first news conference with the Dutch media at his new residence in The Hague on Wednesday.

It did not go well.

...“Everybody there had one question: That crazy statement you made, are you going to withdraw it?” Roel Geeraedts, a political reporter at the Dutch television station RTL Nieuws, said in a phone interview about the event. “We were not getting answers, so we all kept asking it.”
It seems that European reporters have little patience with the delusions of our crazier politicians. :)

Apparently, there's a video of this train wreck of a press conference here:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/trump ... 4303811503



Edit: forgot I had more serious news bookmarked to share:
http://thehill.com/regulation/368425-pl ... s-up-storm
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The Trump administration’s expected plan to transfer the licensing of gun exports from the State Department to the Commerce Department has Democratic lawmakers and foreign policy advocates readying for a fight.

The proposal under review by the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has yet to be made public, but experts fear it will lead to less oversight of commercial sales of assault weapons like submachine guns and flame throwers to foreign buyers.

...Democrats are particularly upset with one potential change in the proposal. Shifting oversight from the State Department to the Commerce Department, they say, would eliminate congressional review that’s now required under the Arms Export Control Act for any commercial sales of lethal weapons worth $1 million or more.
Together with the news item I posted a few days, it's pretty clear that the Trump administration is looking to promote arms sales and decrease oversight.:
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/36787 ... les-report
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President Trump will reportedly unveil a new proposal that asks U.S. diplomats and military attachés to provide additional support to increase American arms sales.

...A senior official in the Trump administration [said] ...“We want to see those guys, the commercial and military attachés, unfettered to be salesmen for this stuff, to be promoters,” the official said.


What fantasy world is Trump living in?
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... im-jong-un
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"I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un,” Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “I have relationships with people. I think you people are surprised.”
That bipartisan immigration meeting Trump televised to show his competence as president, where he was reasonable and said he'd sign whatever agreement Congress reached?
Guess what - he lied.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3685 ... ation-deal
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A bipartisan group of senators says they have clinched a deal to provide protections to young immigrants known as Dreamers, but are facing pushback from President Trump and GOP leadership. Sens. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Thursday the group of six senators has locked down an agreement amongst themselves on pairing a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program with a border security package. "We've got this bipartisan group. We are at a deal. ... It's the only game in town," Flake told reporters.

But Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) were told during a Thursday meeting with President Trump at the White House that he was not ready to sign on to the bill.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html
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The Trump administration announced Monday that it will terminate the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them to face deportation.

The administration said it will give the Salvadorans until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the United States or find a way to obtain a green card, according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. After earthquakes hit the country in 2001, Salvadorans were granted what is known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, and their permits have been renewed on an 18-month basis since then.
Note that these people have been living legally in the US for nearly 20 years and many have raised kids here. I agree that this sort of temporary immigration status, renewed indefinitely, is no way to do it - but do you really think they're likely to get a green card under the Trump administration? And this statement from DHS doesn't seem to show an ounce of compassion for their dilemma, which is to take their kids back to a gang-ridden country they've never known, abandon them, or suddenly become illegal immigrants:
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Others urged Nielsen to consider the approximately 190,000 U.S.-born children of Salvadoran TPS recipients. Their parents must now decide whether to break up their families, take their children back to El Salvador or stay in the United States and risk deportation.

Senior DHS officials told reporters Monday that Salvadoran parents would have to make that choice. “We are not going to get involved in an individual family’s decision,” said the official, whom the agency did not allow to be quoted by name.
They're not the first to face this problem, of course. I believe a lot of the others fled the US and immigrated to Canada.

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Post subject: Re: You've been Trumped!
Posted: Fri 12 Jan , 2018 2:15 pm
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... anies-150k
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Eric Trump's charitable foundation paid nearly $150,000 to President Trump's business during the 2016 campaign... The younger Trump's foundation, now called Curetivity, paid a total of $145,145 to four Trump companies in 2016, down from $322,000 the year before, according to the report. Of that, $98,730 went to President Trump's Westchester golf resort in New York, while smaller amounts were distributed to Trump's clubs in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., the Bronx and the Trump SoHo hotel.

...Forbes reported last June that Trump previously insisted that his son's foundation pay the Trump Organization for the events, despite the fact that the services could be offered for free.

Forbes also reported that Eric Trump had in the past falsely claimed that his charity uses Trump Organization locations completely free of charge.

Trump openly says that he wants Mexico to lose enough in the NAFTA negotiations that it will essentially pay for his favorite wall. What a way to negotiate an international deal - admit you're trying to screw your partners rather than come to a fair agreement for all parties.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... order-wall
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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump said that a "good deal" in NAFTA negotiations could effectively return enough money to the U.S. to pay for the border wall.

..."They can pay for it indirectly through NAFTA," Trump told the Journal. "We make a good deal on NAFTA, and, say, I’m going to take a small percentage of that money and it’s going toward the wall. Guess what? Mexico’s paying."

We appear to have a president who won't visit western countries where there may be protests against him - and lies (blaming it on Obama, his usual scapegoat) when he gives a reason.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -to-london
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Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018

Trump weighed in after multiple media outlets in the United Kingdom reported that he was leaning against a trip to open the new U.S. facility in Nine Elms, south-west London. The Guardian reported Thursday ... that Trump "backed off" the idea of visiting the U.K. amid fears of protests. The newspaper reported that no date for a state visit for Trump had been set.

The move to relocate the U.S. embassy to Nine Elms has been in the works for years, stretching back to 2008 when the State Department under President George W. Bush announced that it signed an agreement with a real estate developer to purchase the property

And, of course, this is being widely reported in the US and condemned internationally:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... le-comment
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President Trump sparked bipartisan backlash on Thursday evening following reports that he referred to Haiti and African nations as "shithole countries" during a heated Oval Office meeting with lawmakers to discuss immigration.

Trump reportedly grew frustrated with restoring protections for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and African nations as part of an immigration deal and suggested the U.S. instead bring in more immigrants from countries such as Norway, the prime minister of which he met Wednesday.
Interesting that he also wants to return families who have been living safely and productively in the US for up to 15-20 years to these so-called "shithole countries." Which certainly suggests that he's applying the term to all people from these countries rather than to the current conditions in them.

And a Fox news host apparently defended his remarks, which the other mainstream news outlets have condemned.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... gotten-men
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Fox News host Jesse Watters defended President Trump's reported remark... "If you're at a bar, and you're in Wisconsin, and you think they're bringing in a bunch of Haiti people, or El Salvadorians, or people from Niger, this is how some people talk," he said. "Is it graceful? No," he added. "Is it polite or delicate? Absolutely not. Is it a little offensive? Of course it is. But you know what? This doesn't move the needle at all."

"This is who Trump is ... and if he offends some people, fine," Watters concluded.
So the standards of conduct for the US president should be equivalent to how "some people" (AKA racists) talk at a bar? How low we have sunk.


http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... e-comments
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"Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country," Trump tweeted. "Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings - unfortunately, no trust!"
A pity his parents never read the story "The boy who cried wolf" to him when he was a child. Given his record of lying repeatedly over so many easily things that can easily be disproved with objective evidence, who's going to believe him? Especially when the reporters submitted the story earlier to the White House for comments and didn't get a denial then.

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Posted: Fri 12 Jan , 2018 9:39 pm
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Well, at least we know who the toadies and liars are:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... o-shithole
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Two GOP senators said Friday they "do not recall" President Trump's reference to "shithole countries" during an Oval Office meeting on immigration. Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) issued a joint statement saying they did not recall the president making the exact comments and called out Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) for confirming the comments.
Unfortunately for their credibility, the GOP still has a few honest people:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... d-shithole
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Friday that his fellow South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham (R), who attended a bipartisan meeting with President Trump and lawmakers Thursday, confirmed a Washington Post account of Trump's remarks calling Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations "shithole countries."
I disagree with Lindsay Graham on many things, but I respect him for directly confronting Trump on his remarks during the meeting.



Apparently unrelated to Trump's latest comments:
http://thehill.com/policy/international ... nder-trump
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The U.S. ambassador to Panama has resigned from his post, saying he can no longer serve under President Trump, according to multiple reports.

"As a junior foreign service officer, I signed an oath to serve faithfully the president and his administration in an apolitical fashion, even when I might not agree with certain policies. My instructors made clear that if I believed I could not do that, I would be honor bound to resign. That time has come," Feeley said in his resignation letter, according to Reuters.

In a statement, the State Department said Feeley decided to retire for “personal reasons.”

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Posted: Mon 15 Jan , 2018 7:20 pm
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More lies from Trump, apparently directed at gullible Twitter followers:
http://thehill.com/latino/368947-trump- ... -democrats
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DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military.
Hoping, of course, that they don't realize HE nixed the bipartisan agreement the senators brought him. And how exactly does letting DACA recipients stay in the country (together with the taxes they pay) take money away from his precious military build-up?

btw, what's up with the bizarre capitalization of the word military?



And more evidence of who Trump is listening to, instead of experts in the government:immigration
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... t-activist
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Trump retweeted Jack Posobiec, who is well-known for promoting debunked “alt-right” conspiracy theories.
...Among the debunked conspiracy theories that Posobiec has promoted is "Pizzagate," which falsely claimed without evidence that a pedophile ring was being run out of a D.C. pizzeria with the involvement of top Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

...This isn’t Trump’s first time retweeting the far-right figure. He also shared a tweet by Posobiec about shootings in Chicago, as Trump was facing backlash for his comments about the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.


While Trump is getting criticism from just about every country in the world over his "shithole countries" immigration remarks, one group of people is quite happy that he wants only people from countries like Norway:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... -same-page
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White supremacist Richard Spencer, an organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year, lambasted conservatives defending the president on Fox News for pretending the remark was not racial in nature. “It’s obviously all about race, and to their credit, liberals point out the obvious,” he told The Times.

The Daily Stormer, the largest neo-Nazi website online, welcomed Trump's reported remark, saying ...“This is encouraging and refreshing, as it indicates Trump is more or less on the same page as us with regards to race and immigration,”

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Posted: Tue 16 Jan , 2018 3:23 pm
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http://www.newsweek.com/trump-mar-lago- ... ort-758877
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American taxpayers reportedly paid $6.6 million in airfare alone this year for President Donald Trump’s frequent trips to Mar-a-Lago, his luxury resort in Florida. The figure was revealed in a report on Monday in The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed Department of Air Force records obtained by the conservative group, Judicial Watch.

Since moving into the White House in January, Trump has spent 40 days at his Palm Beach resort,
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On Friday, Trump reportedly told friends dining at Mar-a-Lago that they “all just got a lot richer,” after signing the GOP tax bill into law.



https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... bm/550538/
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The Cold War came to an end, somehow, without any of the world’s tens of thousands of nuclear warheads being fired. But there were decades-worth of close calls, high alerts, and simple mistakes that inched world leaders shockingly close to catastrophe.

Saturday’s terrifying, 38-minute episode in Hawaii will not go down as one of those close calls ...
But the episode did reveal the glaring deficiencies of an early-warning system that can easily misfire, along with some frightening truths about the speed at which policymakers and presidents must make decisions in the event that missiles really do fly. “
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Entering this complex array of political signaling, high-tech surveillance, and careless tweeting, is the Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review, the first since 2010. Originally slated for release next month, a draft of the document leaked this past week shows the Trump administration is lowering the bar for what would trigger an American nuclear response. It includes an entire section about non-nuclear strategic attacks that could spur an American nuclear response: cyber warfare, massive blows to critical infrastructure, and certain catastrophic attacks on civilians.

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Posted: Wed 17 Jan , 2018 2:35 pm
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http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... ssia-storm
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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon ... now faces multiple subpoenas — from Capitol Hill and special counsel Robert Mueller — stemming from investigations of Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election. The House Intelligence Committee issued a pair of subpoenas, for both documents and testimony, when Bannon declined to answer some questions during an all-day interview on Tuesday, according to multiple sources.

Earlier in the day, The New York Times reported that Mueller last week served Bannon a separate grand jury subpoena.

...Multiple sources told The Hill that Bannon indicated to lawmakers that he would answer questions about the Trump campaign, but not about his work on the transition team or in the White House. Bannon, alongside his lawyer, said he would only answer those questions when he speaks to Mueller.

That stance infuriated lawmakers. Sources described the meeting as a “total free-for-all” and “brutal.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/36926 ... -testimony
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Bannon refused to answer questions related to his time in the White House and on the transition team during 10 hours of testimony before the panel, according to lawmakers, cabining his responses to his stint on the campaign.

That limitation was at the request of the White House, ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told reporters when the interview broke on Tuesday evening.

Bannon’s counsel conferred with the White House after the committee issued a subpoena, Schiff said, “and was instructed by the White House to refuse again to answer any questions concerning the time during the transition and his time in the administration.”
Edited to add this story. This is unbelievable, even given what we've seen from Trump and cronies so far - the witness in an investigation relaying the questions he's asked to the person under investigation and asking whether he should answer them. How can anyone not call this corrupt?
http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... ring-house
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An attorney for former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon reportedly relayed questions to the White House in real time while his client was testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Bannon's attorney Bill Burck was communicating with the White House counsel's office via phone to check on whether it would allow Bannon to answer certain questions.





http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... -have-left
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About 60 percent of top-ranking career diplomats have left the State Department, McClatchy reported.

The number of people seeking to join the foreign service has also decreased, with applications dropping by half, according to the news outlet, which cited recent data from the American Foreign Service Association.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... signs-amid
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A majority of the members of a National Park Service advisory board resigned their posts Monday night in protest of how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has treated them, according to a new report.
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A hell of a way for Trump to run the government:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... g-policies
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he prints out President Trump's tweets and takes them into consideration while planning foreign policy.

.. "It allows me to now begin to think about, all right, how do we take that then into – if it’s a foreign policy issue, is it – what is it he’s tweeting about, how do we take that and now use it?"

...The former ExxonMobil CEO said Trump is "world-class at social media," according to CNN, and that printing out the tweets is "not a bad system" since he doesn't know what the president will tweet ahead of time (emphasis mine).
Wonderful. Foreign policy based on whatever Fox news segment Trump happened to be watching before he tweeted. And given the conspiracy theorists and white supremacists Trump has retweeted, we're probably lucky if it's just Fox.




This seems like suspicious timing given Trump's shithole countries remarks, which included Haiti. And isn't this called discrimination, assuming that people are all the same based on their national origin?
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... work-in-us
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had removed Haiti from a list of countries whose citizens are permitted to apply for low-skilled work visas, Reuters reported Wednesday night. In a regulatory filing, DHS cited "high levels of fraud and abuse" from Haitians who use the program as well as a “high rate of overstaying the terms” from the visa recipients.


Are Kelly and Trump's spokesperson Sanders on the same page with their stories?
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -testimony
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The White House did not tell former chief strategist Stephen Bannon to invoke executive privilege and refuse to answer questions in Congress's Russia investigation, ... ” White House chief of staff John Kelly said on Fox News when asked if Bannon was instructed to assert executive privilege. “Steve has had very, very little contact with the White House since he left,” Kelly said, with the “exception of a few phone calls.”

The comments appeared to counter claims by Rep. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, [who] told reporters Tuesday that Bannon’s counsel conferred with the White House after the committee issued a subpoena to force him to testify and Bannon "was instructed by the White House to refuse again to answer any questions concerning the time during the transition and his time in the administration.”

...lawmakers from both parties ... characterized the limits Bannon tried to place as a form of executive privilege.

....White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters ..."Any time you have congressional inquiries touching upon the White House, the Congress should consult with the White House prior to obtaining confidential material. This is part of a judicial-recognized process. We want to follow through that." Sanders said.
In other words, what Sanders is describing is executive privilege.


Edit: And here we go again, in this cycle of evidence and denial. :D
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpos ... story.html
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The House Intelligence Committee has postponed a planned Thursday afternoon interview with Stephen K. Bannon, a former White House adviser and architect of President Trump’s campaign, after his lawyer protested the panel had not given them enough time to coordinate with the administration about what he could discuss.
White House staff must be getting whiplash, by now, trying to decide what Trump wants them to say and what they can get away with.

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Posted: Thu 18 Jan , 2018 5:41 pm
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From the Washington Post's conservative columnist:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ri ... lame-game/
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The Republican gambit to blame Democrats — who control neither the House, Senate nor White House — for failure to keep the government running was always a long shot. ... Nevertheless, they’ve tried to convince dubious voters that Democrats are creating a shutdown because of that party’s desire to protect “dreamers” under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. That’s daft since, once again, a majority of Republicans are available to vote for a spending bill with no DACA fix.

Then the Republicans started digging themselves into a hole. President Trump declared he would sign any DACA deal agreed upon by Democrats and Republicans. When they gave him one, he erupted and made a racist remark. Then Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the majority leader, and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) said they would not bring a spending deal including a DACA fix to their floors for a vote, even though it would pass, because the president would reject it. (How they can predict what Trump will do, I have no idea.)

Worse yet, McConnell let the cat out of the bag that the problem is Trump. “I’m looking for something that President Trump supports, and he has not yet indicated what measure he is willing to sign,” McConnell said. “As soon as we figure out what he is for, then I would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels.”

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Things likely to get lost in the shutdown drama:


http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... ator-quits
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One of the State Department's most experienced negotiators resigned Friday, becoming the latest veteran member of the country's diplomatic corps to leave. Sources told Foreign Policy that Joshua Black, a chief U.S. sanctions and counterterrorism expert at the United Nations, stepped down from his post due to a growing disillusionment with the Trump administration.
Sorry, Florida. You're not off the hook, either:
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... -was-not-a
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Trump administration officials have not yet decided whether to allow offshore drilling near Florida’s coasts, a key official said Friday, despite Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s statement otherwise.

Walter Cruickshank, the acting director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), did not back up Zinke’s statement last week that Florida is off the table for drilling.
btw, the governor of every newly-threatened state with a coastline, except Georgia and Maine,* seems to has asked the Trump administration not the drill. As far as I know, Zinke hasn't told any of them he won't drill or conduct pre-drilling seismic testing.

*And Maine's governor is seriously anti-environmentalist. An article in the recent Yankee magazine mentions how he logged a tract of state land in the middle of the new national monument, likely at a higher cost to the state government than the profits they got. The implication is that it was spite that the Obama administration approved the monument.



http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/36 ... ies-report
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to significantly reduce its overseas work to fight disease due to coming funding cutbacks, according to an internal email reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Unless it gets new funding, the CDC will be cutting down its work against diseases from 49 countries to 10 countries starting in October 2019, the Journal reported.
I expect everyone realizes how quickly diseases can spread around the world these days...




http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... -influence
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United States officials were reportedly worried that China attempted to sway the opinions of White House senior advisor Jared Kushner by utilizing business interests. According to a new report in The New Yorker detailing Kushner’s relations with China, the president’s son-in-law spoke with China’s ambassador to the U.S. about both policy and business. The report, however, said the information gathered by officials “wasn’t conclusive,” noting China may have misrepresented the talks.


Why the interview with the porn star only came out now, instead of 2011.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... -interview
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The personal lawyer of President Trump threatened to sue a tabloid magazine if it published an interview with the former adult film star who says she had an affair with Trump, according to a new report Friday.
Personally, I couldn't care less who Trump has sex with, or even pays off, as long as it's not with taxpayer funds. But this pattern of using his lawyers to intimidate the media...



And for those of us who don't think it's anyone's business to make everyone else conform to their religious beliefs:
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/36 ... ortion-ban
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President Trump on Friday called on the Senate to pass a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. "I call upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it to my desk for signing," Trump said in his address to the March for Life, an annual march against abortion in Washington, D.C.

Trump touted the various anti-abortion policies his administration has enacted, including action the Health and Human Services Department took Friday rescinding Obama-era guidance aimed at preventing states from defunding Planned Parenthood.

... "We are protecting the sanctity of life and the family as the foundation of our society."
The bill itself is unlikely to pass the Senate, which acts as a brake on the more volatile House.


FYI, Trump's changing positions on abortion:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... -abortion/
Including this pre-election statement:
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CBS releases an excerpt of its interview with Trump that aired Sunday morning. Asked again about abortion, Trump’s position seems to change yet again.

“The laws are set now on abortion and that’s the way they're going to remain until they’re changed,” he said, according to CBS’s transcript. “I would’ve preferred states’ rights. I think it would’ve been better if it were up to the states. But right now, the laws are set.... At this moment, the laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way.”

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Schumer is a politician like any other (and about as trustworthy IMO), but I suspect he's reporting this accurately. It certainly fits Trump's behavior so far.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3699 ... with-jello
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Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday blasted President Trump as an unreliable negotiating partner, fuming that working with him is “like negotiating with Jell-O" after a failure to secure a deal to avert a government shutdown.

...Schumer said Trump agreed to try for a four- or five-day government stopgap spending measure to give him and congressional leaders just enough time to reach a deal.

But then, Schumer said, the president changed his mind. “Several hours later he called back. He said, ‘So, I hear we have a three-week deal.’ I said, 'No, Mr. President, no one is even talking about a three-week deal,' ” Schumer recounted.

“Then a few hours later they called back again, ‘Well we’re going to need this, this, this in addition,’ ” Schumer said. “Things they knew were far, far right and off the table.”

Personally, I think a big part of the budget problem is that we have a president who only wants to win and not to compromise. Also that he has an inflated opinion of himself as a negotiator, while having used his power, money and lawyers to "win" all his life (until things like Trump University caught up with him, of course)

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My base state is to say "they are all scoundrels," but I've reached the point of adding, "but these guys are so, so much worse."

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... -gop-alarm
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Congressional Republicans and conservative groups are expressing worry that President Trump’s decision to slap hefty tariffs on imports will hurt consumers and the broader economy and lead to retaliation by major trading partners.

Trump made his first hard move toward a more protectionist trade strategy Monday when he imposed significant tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.

...The president defended the tariffs Tuesday during a signing ceremony, saying they will “benefit our consumers” and “create a lot of jobs.”

http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... 6-election
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President Trump asked Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe during an Oval Office meeting last year whom he voted for in the 2016 election, according to a new report.
...Trump also reportedly expressed anger at McCabe over the thousands of dollars in donations his wife, a Democrat, received for her failed Virginia state Senate bid in 2015 from a political action committee led by former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who is closely tied to the Clintons.

One former U.S. official told the Post that McCabe thought the conversation with Trump was “disturbing,” and one person told the newspaper that special counsel Robert Mueller is interested in the talk.

...[this] follows an Axios report Monday that said Wray threatened to resign after Attorney General Jeff Sessions pressured him to remove McCabe from his post.

...Trump on Tuesday denied that Wray threatened to resign... "No. He didn't at all. He did not even a little bit," Trump told reporters.


http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... epa-grants
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A group of scientists is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for blocking scientists who receive agency funding from serving on the EPA's advisory boards. The non-profit Protect Democracy, representing the Union of Concerned Scientists, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, claiming the policy claiming the policy violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act and “is an attack on science itself.”

...The Union of Concerned Scientists slammed the policy as a way “to make it easier for Pruitt to delay, rollback, or dismantle the EPA regulations that are designed to protect clean air, water, and public health.”

“Under the guise of improving advisory board balance, Pruitt is using this directive to populate advisory boards with industry-funded scientists and state government officials who have made a career fighting federal regulations,” Josh Goldman, a senior policy analyst, wrote about the lawsuit.



Remember how Trump claimed he'd drain the swamp and reduce lobbying?
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/ ... obby-firms
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The successful Republican drive to overhaul the tax code, which consumed much of the legislative agenda in 2017, resulted in a bonanza of business for Washington’s law and lobby firms.


And just FYI:
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/37034 ... nvolved-in
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The Pentagon has used a loophole in law to continue training, equipping and otherwise assisting Afghan security force units that have committed “gross violations of human rights,” according to a previously classified report released Tuesday.

...SIGAR’s investigation was requested by 93 members of Congress after news reports alleged a Pentagon policy kept U.S. troops from reporting when Afghan police and militia officials sexually assaulted children in a practice known as "bacha bazi" — or "boy play."

U.S. troops were allegedly punished when they did report the abuse. The SIGAR investigation was completed in June, but classified until this month.

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The Trump administration is making it easier for medical providers to object to procedures on religious grounds. Will patients suffer as a result?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch ... ou/551231/
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...national press conference announcing the creation of a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department of Health and Human Services. The new office was established to hear complaints from medical professionals... who feel they have been pressured into providing medical services that conflict with their religious beliefs. If the office finds there was a violation, they could issue a corrective action

...On Friday, HHS followed up by issuing a proposed rule that would affect as many as 745,000 hospitals, doctors’ offices, and nonprofits. It would require them to post notices of protections against religious discrimination on their job applications and employee manuals, and it would allow HHS to enforce protections for religious medical providers. The new rule would cost about $312.3 million in the first year alone to implement.

... reproductive-rights advocates worry the new rule could go further than past medical religious-freedom regulations, allowing almost anyone who works in the health field to refuse to provide a wide array of services. Meanwhile, it doesn’t require the religiously objecting doctors to refer patients elsewhere.

It seems that this sort of objection has already risked lives, in addition to inconveniencing patients:
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One 2000 case involved a New Jersey labor-and-delivery nurse named Yvonne Shelton, whose Pentecostal faith meant, to her, that she could not participate “directly or indirectly in ending a life․” In 1995, Shelton’s hospital admitted a patient who was “standing in a pool of blood” and diagnosed with placenta previa. The doctor ordered an emergency C-section, and Shelton was told to scrub in to assist. But when she learned the procedure would terminate the pregnancy, Shelton refused to participate, delaying the procedure by 30 minutes, the hospital claimed. Shelton was fired after refusing another job within the same hospital.

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http://thehill.com/policy/finance/37036 ... mer-regime
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The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told employees that the agency’s days of routine, aggressive regulatory and enforcement action “are over.” Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney declared “a new mission” for the bureau in a Tuesday memo to agency staff, first reported by ProPublica and confirmed by The Hill.

...The acting director said the bureau would re-evaluate every aspect of its regulatory and supervisory functions from investigative procedures to which issues rulemakers must prioritize.

Don't forget your identity papers...
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... in-florida
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U.S. Border Patrol agents boarded a Greyhound bus in Florida on Friday, checking passenger IDs and eventually taking one woman into custody, according to video posted online by a Florida immigration advocacy group.

The video, shared by the Florida Immigration Coalition, shows two officers identifying themselves as Border Patrol agents after boarding a Greyhound bus in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The officers can be seen asking passengers for identification. One passenger told local state CBS4 the agents were asking for “a U.S. identification or a passport with a stamp of entrance.”

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An eyebrow-raising read:
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Inside the Dysfunctional Relationship of Donald Trump and Theresa May
Forget closer transatlantic ties and a state visit to London, it’s been a year of public clashes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... heresa-may
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During formal phone calls between the two leaders, May finds it almost impossible to make headway and get her points across, one person familiar with the matter said. Trump totally dominates the discussion, leaving the prime minister with five or ten seconds to speak before he interrupts and launches into another monologue.

In one phone conversation during 2017, Trump complained to May over the criticism he’d been getting in British newspapers. Amid warnings that Trump would face protests in the streets when he arrived, he told the prime minister he would not be coming to the U.K. until she could promise him a warm welcome.

...In the secure bunker underneath the prime minister’s office, her advisers listened in to the call in astonishment at Trump’s demand.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... rump-probe
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is moving at a far faster pace than previously known and appears to be wrapping up at least one key part of his investigation -- whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Mueller has quietly moved closer to those around Trump by interviewing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI Director James Comey in recent weeks, officials said. His team has also interviewed CIA Director Mike Pompeo, NBC News reported.

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/37 ... deployment
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San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has reportedly quit a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advisory committee that focuses on broadband deployment.

..."It has become abundantly clear that despite the good intentions of several participants, the industry-heavy makeup of [the committee] will simply relegate the body to being a vehicle for advancing the interests of the telecommunications industry over those of the public,” Liccardo said in his resignation letter.

All hail the Great Leader, who is an environmentalist it seems ;)
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... s-by-trump
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The Trump administration has installed signs inside the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) headquarters celebrating “environmental achievements” by the EPA in President Trump’s first year in office.

The “Year of Great Environmental Achievements” poster highlights five actions by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, mostly in rolling back Obama administration policies: his proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan, his proposal to repeal the Clean Water Rule, “cleaning up contaminated sites,” providing “confidence for American families” and providing “certainty” for the economy.

It also has four photos of Trump, three of which also have Pruitt.
I wonder how much these worshipful posters cost us?


I swear, Trump sounds more and more like a high school kid sometimes - oooh, they disrespected us...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... lestinians
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President Trump on Thursday threatened to cut even more aid money to the Palestinians if they don’t come to the table for peace talks with Israel.

“That money is on the table and that money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace,” Trump said during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

...“They disrespected us a few weeks ago by not allowing our great vice president to see them,” Trump [also] said.
However, Isaelis are not necessarily happy about Trump cutting aid to Palestinians
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/worl ... itter.html
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The relationship between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is complicated. Israel has accused the agency of perpetuating the Palestinian refugee problem, while at the same time valuing the education, health care and food assistance it provides to more than two million Palestinians registered as refugees in the West Bank and Gaza.

Without the agency’s assistance, Israelis worry they would have to shoulder the cost. Any drastic cut in funding, either to the agency or to the Palestinian Authority and its security forces, would most likely destabilize these areas, according to experts.

Even some Israelis who are generally critical of the Palestinians, and would eventually like to see the United Nations Relief and Works Agency disappear, expressed reservations about any sudden cut in donations.


...and, lastly...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... den-toilet
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The Guggenheim Museum offered President Trump a solid gold toilet from its collection as a "long-term loan" for the White House.

Trump and first lady Melania had asked to borrow a Van Gogh painting from the museum, but the Guggenheim responded that it could not accommodate the request and offered the toilet instead, according to The Washington Post.

...The 18-karat, fully functioning toilet was used as a temporary interactive exhibit in one of the museum’s bathrooms. The piece, titled “America,” has been described as satire mocking excessive wealth.

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... on-sources
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) loosened regulatory compliance standards Thursday for certain sources of air pollution previously considered "major."

...The previous standard had been enforced since 1995. “Major” air pollution sources are subject to much stricter rules for what they must do to reduce emissions such as mercury compounds and benzene.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... tal-review
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The Trump administration has decided to cancel an Obama-era environmental review on how blocking hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Minnesota from mining would impact the surrounding wilderness, The Washington Post reported Friday.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-enviro ... down-clock
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Outdoor retailer Patagonia wants to remind the public that time is ticking down for the Trump administration to continue protecting two national monuments. Patagonia, along with the The Wilderness Society, The Center for American Progress and The Conservation Lands Foundation, projected a countdown clock Wednesday night on the front of a Bureau of Land Management building in Denver.

The projection is part of Patagonia's ongoing actions to protest the Interior Department's decision to rollback national monument designations at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah.

The designations officially end a week from now, on February 2 at 9am EST.


http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... wh-counsel
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President Trump attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last summer but was stopped after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign, according to a new report.

Meanwhile, Trump is not having a good time in Europe:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... a-at-davos
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The crowd at a Q&A session with President Trump at the World Economic Forum booed after he attacked the media.

...The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab was also booed on Friday after he said Trump's leadership was victim to "biased interpretations."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... le-meeting
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President Trump on Friday ignored questions from reporters during a meeting with Rwanda's president about his reported comments referring to African nations as "shithole countries."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... s-dc-hotel
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After raising millions, a pro-Trump super PAC [America First Action super PAC] then spent thousands of those dollars at the Trump International Hotel in Washington and in payments to close Trump advisers, according to filings first reported by The New York Times.

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This is quite shocking:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... women-aclu
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The Trump administration is engaging in the most flagrant violation yet seen of the constitutional right to an abortion by preventing undocumented women held in detention centers from seeking medical treatment, constitutional lawyers have warned.

...The new policy was introduced in March 2017 – two months after Trump’s inauguration – in the Office of Refugee Resettlement, ORR, a federal agency responsible for the custody of about 5,000 unaccompanied children who enter the US illegally... some are found to be pregnant on arrival as a result of rape.

The rule change was the brainchild of Trump’s appointee as director of the ORR, Scott Lloyd. His selection to lead such a sensitive outpost of the federal government raised eyebrows as Lloyd had virtually no experience working with refugees or children. He did, however, have a long track record within the anti-abortion movement.

...The rule change... instructed custodial centers to stop taking “any action that facilitates” access to an abortion. Women would be redirected to “counseling centers” where they would be given ultrasounds of their fetuses and advice on alternatives to terminating the pregnancy.
Who came up with the list of counseling centers? Healthcare experts? Government sources? No, an anti-abortion group.
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The Center for Investigative Reporting later revealed that the list of approved counseling centers was compiled by an anti-abortion group, Heartbeat, that strives to make abortion “unwanted today and unthinkable for future generations”.
And Lloyd is blatantly pushing his agenda - personally.
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[Lloyd wrote a memo] in the case of ... Jane Poe, an teenage immigrant who was pregnant as a result of a rape in her native country and who had threatened to harm herself unless she were allowed to end the pregnancy.

... “Certainly, it is understandable that a woman who is pregnant from the vile actions of a criminal would want to terminate her pregnancy. I do not, and am in no position to, judge anyone who has taken such an action.”

Nonetheless, he goes on to say: “I cannot authorize our program to participate in the abortion requested here, even in this most difficult case … Implicit here are the dubious notions that it is possible to cure violence with further violence, and that the destruction of an unborn child’s life can in some instances be acceptable as a means to an end.”... “We have to choose, and we ought to choose to protect life rather than to destroy it.”
Never mind that it's still perfectly legal for a woman to have an abortion in the U.S. - HE wanted to force this young woman to carry the child of her rapist.

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That is so disturbing, inky. :(

Anyone going to watch the State of the "Uniom" address?

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