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Misadventures of a minority-elect President 51

Trump’s desperation to deflect attention from his Russia scandal is growing, Trump’s White House staffed with multimillionaires, our Presidential twit is still delusional about Twitter and how he uses it, trying to stifle dissent any way he can – illegally or not, law firm fired for enabling Trump kleptocracy, ten weeks of Trump fail, LA Times expose delves into the many reasons Trump lies, chipping away at President Obama’s accomplishments, trying to impede the Congressional investigation into his Russia ties, prophylactic tweeting about Hillary Clinton as his presidency implodes around him, Trump’s brazen corruptness never ceases to amaze, reorganizing the White House after disastrous beginning of his illegitimate presidency, right-wing media tries propping up Trump’s wiretapping fairy tale and more.

Trump’s Protests Over Russia Investigation Hit a Crescendo article from the Fiscal Times on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-protests-over-russia-investigation-134900278.html

Trump’s White House stuffed with multimillionaires article from the World Socialist Web Site. –
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/03/trum-a03.html

TRUMP: ‘If you issue hundreds of tweets and every once in a while you have a clinker, that’s no so bad’ article from Business Insider on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-issue-hundreds-tweets-every-201237428.html

Americans’ Right to Protest is in Grave Danger Under Trump, United Nations Warns article from Information Clearing House. –
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46787.htm

“The right to protest is fundamental to American democracy. The country was born, after all, out of decades of civil disobedience by people angry about taxation without representation. (In Washington, FWIW, we are still angry.)

But according to United Nations human rights investigators, this very basic principle is under attack. Over the past few months, on the heels of a fresh wave of organizing by liberals, at least 19 states have introduced measures that would criminalize peaceful protest. In places such as Minnesota, Michigan and Iowa, Republican lawmakers have proposed laws that would stiffen penalties for demonstrators who block traffic. In North Dakota, GOP leaders are pushing a bill that would allow motorists to run over and kill agitators, as long as the crash was accidental. In Indiana, conservatives want to instruct police to use “any means necessary” to remove activists from a roadway. Opponents worry this could lead to more brutal police response.

Colorado lawmakers are considering a big increase in penalties for environmental protesters. Activists who tamper with oil or gas equipment could be, under the measure, face felony charges and be punished with up to 18 months behind bars and a fine of up to $100,000. A bill pending in the Virginia state legislature would dramatically increase punishment for people who “unlawfully” assemble after “having been lawfully warned to disperse.” Those who do so could face a year in jail and a $2,500 fine…”

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Misadventures of a minority-elect President 47

Trump finding it hard for a President with a 36 percent approval rating to threaten those he loathes and make deals, calls for new standards for presidential candidates amid growing concerns over Trump’s mental health, Trump’s delusions aren’t making America safe at all, making a mistake after telling everyone ‘we don’t make mistakes,’ Trump is costing America billions of dollars because people don’t want to come to his America, one key allegation in Trump’s Russia dossier confirmed, majority of Americans disagree with minority-elect President Trump’s hard line stances on climate change, Trump’s deranged cable news obsession, what must be done in the time of Trump – who must be held accountable, Trump’s outlook going from bad to worse, Trump has GOP gerrymandering to blame for his issues with the “Freedom Caucus,” Trump can still make a comeback – though it’s highly improbable, Trump’s White House happens to ‘find’ material supporting Trump’s fraudulent wiretap claims, beware of Trump’s phony ‘terror’ list designed to gin up fear of Muslims in support of his unconstitutional Muslim ban, claims that Russia aided Trump in the 2016 GOP Primary too, Trump’s former National Security Adviser seeking immunity to tell his story in Trump’s Russia scandal, killing civilians at an alarming rate by ramping up America’s illegal wars in the Middle East and more.

Trump fails at the art of the political deal article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-fails-at-the-art-of-the-political-deal-090015929.html

Expert calls for new standards for presidential candidates mid growing concerns over Trump’s mental health article from AOL News. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/29/expertnew-standards-presidential-candidates-trump-mental-health/22018005/

Poll shows Americans trust some media outlets more than Trump article from AOL. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/30/poll-shows-americans-trust-some-media-outlets-more-than-trump/22018350/

Tomgram: Rajan Menon, Making America Insecure Again article from Tom Dispatch. –
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176260/tomgram%3A_rajan_menon%2C_making_america_insecure_again/

“Terror attacks like the recent one in London send a shudder through Americans. Since 9/11, they have been the definition of what TomDispatch regular Rajan Menon calls “national (in)security.” They’ve also been the lifeblood of a media machine that loves to focus 24/7 on immediate and obvious horrors (especially against folks like “us”). In the age of Donald Trump, preventing such attacks has, if anything, become even more the essence of what American security is all about.

And yet, in the context of the insecurity to come in this world, they are essentially nothing. It is, of course, a terrible thing when some disturbed fanatic or set of fanatics gun down or run down innocent civilians in London, Berlin, Paris, or San Bernardino (as it should be, but in our American world isn’t, when a U.S. plane or drone kills innocent civilians in distant lands). But if, for a moment, you stop to think in either nuclear terms (as in the pairing of North Korea’s unnerving leader Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump) or in climate change terms, then those attacks are the smallest of potatoes when it comes to national insecurity. If you really want to think about acts of “terror,” consider what Donald Trump and his climate-denying crew at the Environmental Protection Agency and elsewhere in his administration would like to do to the environmental policies of the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Trump’s urge is clearly to negate every positive act of the Obama administration when it comes to reining in the use of fossil fuels — from the Paris climate agreement to the Clean Power Plan aimed at shutting down coal-fired power plants. In the end, if a Trump presidency takes this country out of the climate change sweepstakes entirely, if it opens the flood (and fracking) gates yet wider on the development of fossil fuels of every sort while tamping down the development of alternative energy sources, you’re talking about an act of terror on a scale that would once have been inconceivable. What the Trump administration is already trying to do should lead to constant headlines of a sort that would put the recent London ones to shame. However, because the full impact of Trump’s climate terror won’t strike home until the era of our grandchildren or even great-grandchildren, because his version of terror will be enacted on a time scale that plays havoc with our usual sense of history and of our own lives, he’ll undoubtedly get only the most modest of attention for it — while Khalid Masood, the London killer, and his successors will remain the eternal headliners du jour…”

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Misadventures of a minority-elect President 34

A little insight into Trump’s delusion over fraudulent wiretap claims – which apparently runs extremely deep, pondering whether or not Trump is trying to fail, Trump has perfected the role of Propagandist-in-Chief, Trump’s hardcore alt-right wingnut adviser Bannon’s dangerous domination of National Security, Trump’s stealthy attack on oversight he doesn’t want you to know about, Trump’s dystopian budget, even without his budget passing Trump is bankrupting Americans, Trump’s orgy of unnecessary cruelty, Trump’s defense of his wiretap conspiracy theory goes horribly awry, Trump screws over people in default on student loans, White House apologizes to Britain for Trump’s bogus wiretap bluster, reports of an actual Nazi as one of Trump’s top advisers, Trump’s new era of Militarism and mendacity and more.

Trump suggests little-notice interview between Fox News host and Paul Ryan helped fuel his explosive wiretap claims article from the Business Insider on Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-suggests-little-noticed-interview-163819394.html

Trump vs. House, Senate, His Attorney General, and FBI Director on Obama’s ‘Wiretap’ article from the Daily Beast. –
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/16/white-house-pushes-wiretap-claim-despite-evidence.html

Bannon’s Dangerous Domination of National Security article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/bannons-dangerous-undermining-nsc

GCHQ dismisses ‘utterly ridiculous’ claim it helped wiretap Trump article from the Guardian. –
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/gchq-denies-wiretap-claim-trump-obama

“British intelligence officials have denied an allegation that the UK helped former president Barack Obama “wiretap” Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

The claim was repeated by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, on Thursday and dismissed as “utterly ridiculous” by a GCHQ spokesperson.

The spokesperson added in a statement: “Recent allegations made by media commentator judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored…”

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