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Playing Through, Staged Attack
Monday, February 18, 2019
Tweet-a-Lago:President Trump spent the fourth day of his declared national emergency playing golf. From the White House press pool, “After uneventful ride, motorcade arrived at the Trump International Golf Club at 9:12 am.” At 2:24, “President Trump was at the …
Nauert Withdraws, Golf Emergency
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Nanny State:Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman nominated by President Trump to be ambassador to the United Nations, has withdrawn herself from consideration. Nauert revealed during her clearance for the job that she’d had a nanny working for her family …
National Emergency, Wikileaks Connection
Saturday, February 16, 2019
National Emergency: President Trump faces a political fight over his declaration of a national emergency to grab billions of dollars for building his southern border wall. “The Congress cannot let the president shred the Constitution,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority …
Trump to Declare Emergency, Amazon Exit
Friday, February 15, 2019
National Emergency: President Trump plans to sign the spending bill that lacks money for a southern border wall then declare a national emergency to build it anyway, The White House announced yesterday. “The president is once again delivering on his promise …
Manafort Lied, Wall on its Way
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Liar, Liar: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lied to federal investigators even after he had agreed to cooperate and tell the truth in the Special Counsel investigation into Russian election interference, a federal judge has determined. The judge voided Manafort’s …
He’ll Build it Anyway
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Wall Complex: President Trump tweeted last that he’ll be getting $23 billion for border security even though a joint committee of legislators agreed on less than $1.5 billion. Trump wrote, “Looking over all aspects knowing that this will be hooked up …
Border Deal with No Wall
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Fact and Fiction:President Trump took his fight for his border wall to El Paso in a big rally last night as congressional negotiators announced they had reached a deal on border security. The deal, according to The NY Times,provides $1.375 billion …
Talks Fail and Shutdown Looms
Monday, February 11, 2019
Border Breakdown: Talks about paying for border security broke down yesterday as Democrats insisted on a limit to the number of illegal immigrants detained in the US. They want to cap it at the number of beds available, which would be …
Virginia Real, Five Minutes is Up
Saturday, February 9, 2019
The Virginia Mess: Amidst a political mess in which three top Virginia political leaders have been involved with incidents of white men wearing blackface, the politician under the most pressure to resign today is the one who’s actually black. A second …
Tabloid Blackmail, Going Big Green
Friday, February 8, 2019
The Scandal Sheets: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who’s also the owner of The Washington Post, has gone public with what he describes as attempted extortion and blackmail by The National Enquirer, whose publisher David Pecker is a close friend of President Trump. Bezos …
