Domestic Issues

2/22/2018 It a confusing round of statements, President Trump said that he thought it would be a good idea to allow treachers to carry fire arms.  he then tweeted that he did not make the statement.  He then said He thought it would be a good idea for some teachers to be armed.  It’s comforting to have a President who ...

2/21/2018 The Republican-led Florida House of Representatives on Tuesday decisively blocked a move by Democrats to debate a ban on assault weapons in Florida, six days after a massacre that took 17 lives at a Broward County high school. The bill (HB 219), which would ban the sale and possession of semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines like the kind used ...

2/21/2018 New charges have been filed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates.  The charges were put under seal by the court, hiding the details and nature of the charges. Both Manafort and Gates have pleaded not guilty to previous charges. However, there were rumors that Gates was about ...

2/21/2018 The Washington Post today exposed the shady history of Melania Trump’s immigration.  It also suggested that Melania’s parents are in the United States as part of chain migration, the very policy the President is trying to end. Chain migration is the practice of giving preferential immigration treatment to the family members of recent approved immigrants. Once an immigrant becomes ...

2/20/2018 People around the country have had enough. They have had enough of the sensless killings tht the government does nothing about.  In a recent poll, 62% of Americans said Trump is not doing enough to prevent mass shootings and 77% say Congress is doing an inadequate job on the issue. During President Trump’s tenure, two records have been set for ...

2/19/2018 Donald Trump is America’s worst president, says a New York Times opinion piece that’s based on a survey of 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section. The survey was conducted by Brandon Rottinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, and Justin S. Vaughn, an associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Idaho History ...

2/19/2018 President Trump took some time out of his busy schedule Friday to visit the hospital where survivors of the deadly school shooting are recovering. “It’s very sad something like that could happen,” Mr. Trump said to reporters at the hospital, Broward Health North. In his remarks, the president focused on praising law enforcement officials and doctors; he hailed the ...

2/17/2018 President Trump no longer claims that Russian interference in the 2016 elections is a hoax.  He no longer claims that it is a fabrication.  Not after Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller today indicted 13 Russians for conspiracy to defraud the United States. The indictment lists in detail the activities of Russians doing their best to interfere in the elections.  In addition, ...

02/16/2018 A former Playboy model who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006 detailed for the New Yorker her experience with the future president and the system by which he and his friends kept his affairs quiet. The model, Karen McDougal, described a legal agreement—one she willingly signed but claims she did not fully understand—that silenced her. She also ...

2/16/18 Shortly before the presidential elctions of 2016, Candidate Trump promised members of the NRA he would not let them down.  They then provided him with $30 million in campaign support and donations.  His speach to them in May 2016: