Domestic Issues

2/2/2018 A memo produced by Republican staffers was supposed to contain proof that the FBI abused its surveillance authority while investigating the Trump Campaign ties to Russia.  It didn’t. Produced by the office of Republican Devin Nunes, the memo contained classified information and was widely criticzed for being biased and incomplete.  In March of 2017, Nunes was accused of innapropriate ...

1/10/2018 The Washington Post has done a wonderful job of tracking all of President Trump’s lies.  Today they announced that he told his 2000th lie in only 355 days in office, by far a record of any President. Even more disturbing than the total number of lies the President has told, is that the average number of lies per day ...

01/23/2018 President Trump loves to travel to his resorts.  He likes the fluffy beds.  He likes the chocolate cake.  He likes the golf.  But perhaps what he likes the most is that his resorts get to charge the US tax payers for his support staff to accompany him. One would think that the President would waive fees his resorts charge ...

1/22/2018 First Lady (but not first “Trump Lady”) decided not to accompany her husband to Davos this week, instead opting to visit a Washington museum and then travel to Florida.  A White House communications director cited “scheduling and logistical issues” as the reason. The unexpected announcement came 10 days after the Wall Street Journal reported a hush money payout to Porn ...

1/20/2018  Satire. Americans were cheering Trump’s latest achievement.  Nobody thought he could do it.  There were the naysayers who said he couldn’t go more than six months.  The line in Vegas was eight months.  But like the champion he is, the President beat the odds and kept the government open for almost an entire year. “Trump’s the man!”  said Larry ...

01/19/2018 Donald Trump was asked by Fox News in 2013 “Who’s getting fired, who’s going to bear the brunt of the responsibility if indeed there is a shutdown of our government?”  His answer – “…The top.. the president is the leader…”.  Looks like President Trump should look in the mirror and say “You’re fired”.  We won’t hold our breath.

1/16/2018 Most of the members of the National Park Service Advisory Board have tendered their resignation over frustrations with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, The Washington Post reports. Nine of the 12 board members quit Monday night, citing Zinke’s refusal to convene the citizen advisory panel or discuss matters with it since he came into office last March. Zinke has drawn criticism for a number ...

1/15/2018 Ivana Trump on Monday denied her ex-husband is racist after he reportedly called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries”. “I don’t think Donald is racist at all,” the president’s first wife told “Good Morning Britain.” “Sometimes he says these things which are silly, or he doesn’t really mean them … but he’s definitely not racist, I’m sure of that.” ...

1/15/2018 Chuck Hagel, a former two time Republican Senator from Nebraska and Secretary of Defense decided to not pull any punches today when he said President Trump is “An Embarrassment”. President Donald Trump has “intentionally divided the country and the world” said the former Secretary of Defense to the Lincoln Journal-Star for a story published this weekend.  “The president is ...

1/13/2018 President Trump again today decried "Fake News", and claimed the Wall Street journal misquoted him during a taped interview. The discrepancy stems from a point in the interview where Trump talks about his relationships with world leaders.  From the recording, it very clearly sounds as though he says "I have a a good relationship with Kim Jong Un", which ...