10/30/2017 Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, was indicted today on 12 charges which could put him behind bars for decades. The indictment was signed by Robert Mueller, who was named special prosecutor May 17. The indictment focuses on an entity first created by Manafort in 2005 for political consulting, called Davis Manafort Partners. In 2011, Manafort created DMP International ...
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10/27/2017 All women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct/harassment/assault are lying according to the White House. The various claims about Trump’s inappropriate sexual behavior span three decades and include unwanted groping and kissing, entering backstage dressing areas of Trump-owned beauty pageants (a behavior he confirmed to Howard Stern). Ex-wife Ivana Trump once used the term raped when describing how ...
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10/24/2017 Jeff Flake has had enough. Today the Republican Senator from Arizona announced he would not seek re-election. “I couldn’t sleep at night having to embrace the president or condoning his behavior or being okay with some of his positions,” he said. “I just couldn’t do it — it was never in the cards.” Flake said he found himself appalled, again and ...
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10/19/2017 President Trump said he would give his administration a perfect “10” for its response to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. His rating of a 10 came despite that even almost a month after Hurricane Maria made landfall, only 22% of the country has electricity and 28% of the people do not have access to clean water. About 78% of the hospitals ...
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10/18/2017 On October 4th, four US Special Forces soldiers were ambushed and killed in Niger. The president, notably vocal on almost all topics was mute when it came to the nation’s loss. Silence on the deaths. The next day, the first of the remains came home to Dover Air Force base in Delaware. Still, no comment came from the president, ...
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In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., found themselves in a precarious legal position. For two years, prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had been building a criminal case against them for misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump SoHo, a hotel and condo development that was failing to ...
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10/13/2017 In yet another attempt to torpedo Obamacare, President Trump last night signed an executive order stopping payments to health insurers that help millions of middle-income Americans afford coverage. The move comes two and a half weeks before open enrollment for 2018. the Department of Health and Human Services said it will immediately end these monthly payments, a move that could push ...
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The theory is simple: Cut taxes and people will have more money to spend. Increased spending will heat up the economy and create more jobs. This in turn will increase the number of incomes the government can tax, thereby offsetting the loss in tax revenue from the tax cut. The problem is that there is no proof that any previous ...
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10/10/2017 Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee tweeted that the White House has become an “Adult Day Care Center”, in response to the President’s morning attack on him. It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. — Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) October 8, 2017 Earlier that day, Mr ...
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10/9/2017 Speaking Monday in the coal-mining state of Kentucky, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said he would be issuing a new set of rules overriding the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s drive to curb global climate change. “The war on coal is over,” Pruitt declared, adding that no federal agency should ever use its authority ...
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