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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 26

Trump’s out-of-control wiretapping claims getting worse, Trumpism as an existential threat, his love affair with WikiLeaks appears to be over, more on Trump’s Iranian money laundering scheme, Trump’s Keystone XL story falls apart, White House confusion on Trump being target of investigation, the serious threat Trump poses that no one is talking about, Trump lied about revitalizing inner cities, choosing instead to shred affordable housing, Trump doesn’t want his disastrous Obamacare replacement named after him, it appears Breitbart might be turning on Trump, conflicts of interest Iranian style, double standards in Trump’s land of delusion, anti-Trump resistance groups growing, Trump’s threat to harm Americans if Trumpcare fails and more.

Is Trumpism an existential threat? article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/is-trumpism-an-existential-threat-100032958.html

This may be the worst defense of Trump’s Obama-wiretapped-me claim – literally article from the Washington Post. –
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/08/this-might-be-the-worst-defense-of-trumps-obama-wiretapped-me-claim-literally/

“Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, which means he’s in charge of investigating President Trump’s evidence-free allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped his offices.

But Nunes doesn’t seem particularly worried that the current president accused the former president of a crime. Echoing so many Republican defenses of Trump’s tweets, he suggested Tuesday that Trump’s allegation simply shouldn’t be taken at face value.

Here’s what Nunes said:

The president is a neophyte to politics. He’s been doing this a little over a year. And I think a lot of the things that he says, you guys sometimes take literally. Sometimes he doesn’t have 27 lawyers and staff looking at what he does — which is, I think, at times refreshing and at times can also lead us to have to be sitting at a press conference like this, answering questions that you guys are asking. But at the end of the day, I think tweets are a very transparent way for a politician of any rank to communicate with their constituents. So I don’t think we should attack the president for tweeting.

There are a couple straw men here. One is the idea that Trump needs “27 lawyers” reading his tweets before they go out. The implication is that Trump didn’t really know what he was saying would be a big deal…”

Donald Trump team attacks WikiLeaks over CIA files, despite President once saying he ‘loved’ them article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/donald-trump-team-attacks-wikileaks-131700701.html

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