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List of Trump Scandals and Corruption
Trump Scandals Pass By, Lose Spotlight To New Trump Scandals
Donald Trump has been involved in so many scandals since becoming President that many slide by despite their seriousness because they’re so quickly supplanted by a new scandal
Trump scandals risk inuring Americans to government corruption
Rachel Maddow reviews a list of less reported but no less outrageous current Trump administration scandals and notes that beyond the big Trump Russia scandal, Americans must retain their ability to be shocked by corruption and demand action be taken.
Bill Barr Is Systematically Removing U.S. Attorneys Connected To Trump Investigations
Barr fires U.S. attorney who investigated Trump allies
Attorney General William Barr is facing accusations that he is removing U.S. Attorneys to protect President Trump and his allies. This comes after the sudden firing of key U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman.
Attorney General Barr Under Fire For Dismissal Of NY Prosecutor Geoffrey Berman
In the wake of the dismissal of top Manhattan prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, who was investigating members of President Trump’s inner circle, Attorney General William Barr is under fire
Richard Donoghue, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told his staff Thursday that he will become the top deputy to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen.
Donoghue is the second U.S. attorney in New York to leave his post in recent weeks. His former counterpart in Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman, was recently fired after overseeing several investigations that rankled President Donald Trump.
CNN reported that the Department of Justice was considering replacing the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn with an ally of Barr. CNN noted that this particular post “wields significant influence by virtue of its jurisdiction and recently has investigated individuals close to President Donald Trump.”
The push by Barr to install one of his buddies comes after he forced Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney from the Southern District of New York, out of his position.
As Rachel Maddow pointed out on Thursday, Barr appears to be methodically removing powerful U.S. attorneys connected to investigations that involve Trump.
William Barr ‘Decapitates’ Third U.S. Attorney’s Office
Attorney General William Barr’s pattern of removing the leadership of three key U.S. Attorneys’ Offices that have ongoing investigations related to Donald Trump, and replacing them with loyal footmen.
Three Reasons to Impeach Bill Barr
Bill Barr has earned himself a congressional impeachment inquiry. Whether “grappling” with the word “suggest” OR corruptly trying to tank Mike Flynn’s knowing, voluntary and intelligent guilty plea to lying to the FBI OR weaponizing the Department of Justice by investigating the investigators OR now, as reported in a recent Newsweek article, his efforts to put in place plans to contest November’s election results by having Trump announce that China interfered in the election and declaring a national emergency as a way to keep Trump in office or . The time has come to hold Barr accountable.
Calls For William Barr’s Impeachment Grow
Attorney General William Barr has performed many impeachable acts Rep. Madeleine Dean tells Joy Reid. Joy Reid and her panel discuss whether Barr can be impeached in the Senate, or removed from office under pressure from the public.
Hundreds Of Ex-George W. Bush Staffers Endorse Biden
Kristopher Purcell, a member of 43 Alumni for Biden, explains why hundreds of Republican ex-staffers under George W. Bush are coming together to endorse Joe Biden and says, “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation.”
Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false or misleading claims in wild anti-Biden monologue | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has long been fond of turning supposedly official events into de facto campaign rallies. Even by his own standards, though, his Tuesday speech was extreme.
Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false or misleading claims in wild anti-Biden monologue
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, at what was billed as a “press conference” in which he would give remarks about China, Trump delivered a rambling 52-minute monologue filled with pre-scripted attacks on Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
Russia Paid Bounties To Kill US Troops, US Intel Says
News reports claim Trump knew since March that Putin had placed and paid the Taliban $$ bounties $$ to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan.
A New York Times report claims that U.S. intelligence told Donald Trump in March that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill coalition troops, including U.S. troops. Trump has yet to respond and instead has advocated for Russia’s return to the G8. Aired on 6/26/2020.
Former National Security Council member General Barry McCaffrey and former special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Brett McGurk on why they believe the national security process is broken amid reports the U.S. had intelligence that Russia offered and paid the Taliban bounty to kill U.S. troops. Aired on 6/30/2020.
Former GOPer Slams Trump’s Inaction On Russia’s Soldier Bounties
Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, NBC News has confirmed. Political strategist and advisor to the Lincoln Project Steve Schmidt joins Joy Reid to discuss allegations that Donald Trump knew about this, and did nothing.
Veterans Call Out Trump Over Paid Killings of U.S. Troops
Description from Youtube “Mr. Trump, you’re either a coward who can’t stand up to an ex-KGB goon or you’re complicit’ — These veterans are calling out Trump for allegedly ignoring the paid killings of U.S. troops”.
Army Veteran Hits Trump Over Russian Plot Against Troops
The Trump White House is under fire for its response to Russia paying bounties to kill U.S. troops. Veteran Paul Rieckhoff tells MSNBC’S Ari Melber Trump must be “dragged in front of the American people” to face accountability.
NYT Reports Putin Put Bounty on US Troops. Trump’s Silence is Deafening
The New York Times reported that Russian President Putin offered to pay Afghan militants to kill US soldiers. Trump reportedly was briefed about this months ago yet has said and apparently done nothing about it. Trump’s disturbingly cozy and subservient relationship with Putin is a danger to our country, our military men and women and all of our citizens.
Trump WH Blasts Leaks And Media, Not Russia, On Bounty Intel
Reacting to damning headlines about intelligence showing Russia put bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the White House blasted… leaks and the media, not Moscow. Peter Baker of The New York Times reacts. Aired on 6/30/2020.
Trump’s Response to Putin’s Bounty on US Troops – “There Have Not Been Many Attacks on Us”
After the New York Times reported that Russian President Putin put bounties on the heads of US soldiers, Trump’s response is to deny any knowledge, disclaim any responsibility and say there really weren’t “many attacks” on our men and women in uniform. That is little consolation to the soldiers who were injured and the families who lost loved ones.
Trump Invites Republicans, Bars Democrats from Briefing on Putin’s Bounty on US Troops
Trump decides that he will brief ONLY Republican House members on the recent revelation that Putin put bounties on the heads of US Troops. What can possibly be keeping the Republicans silent in the face of what we have learned about Trump and Putin? Here is one possible explanation.
Trump has proved during his time as President how much of a hypocrite he is by engaging in many of things he falsely accused Obama of.
Amazing how Trump tells Obama to “Take Responsibility for your mistakes” when Trump NEVER admits he’s wrong or takes responsibility for ANYTHING!
Trump Seeking Chinese Reelection Help Exposed
How Trump Misled U.S. On Coronavirus While Seeking Chinese Reelection Help
Description from Youtube; “Chris Hayes: “Donald Trump simply cannot separate his own personal interests from the interests of the country. It is his core character defect as president. And it is now at the core of our current ongoing national disaster.” Aired on 6/18/2020.
Bolton: Trump asked China to help him win in 2020
In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, US President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help to win re-election.
John Bolton says Trump ‘not fit for office’
President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz the president doesn’t have “the competence to carry out the job.”
Trump Wanted China To Interfere In 2020 Election, John Bolton Claims
According to John Bolton’s new book, Donald Trump pleaded with President Xi of China to buy more agricultural products from the midwest so that he could win those states in this year’s election. While this might not be as nefarious as other plots the President has hatched with foreign powers, it does show that the President knows he messed up big time, and that he’s at the mercy of the very people he screwed over.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/trump-china-coronavirus-188736
POLITICO has compiled a list of 15 times the president hailed China for its push to prevent a pandemic in the early months of 2020 — an effort that ultimately failed:
Jan. 22, Twitter:
“One of the many great things about our just signed giant Trade Deal with China is that it will bring both the USA & China closer together in so many other ways. Terrific working with President Xi, a man who truly loves his country. Much more to come!”
Jan. 24, Twitter:
“China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!”
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Jan. 29, Remarks at signing ceremony for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement:
“And, honestly, I think, as tough as this negotiation was, I think our relationship with China now might be the best it’s been in a long, long time. And now it’s reciprocal. Before, we were being ripped off badly. Now we have a reciprocal relationship, maybe even better than reciprocal for us.”
Jan. 30, Fox News interview:
“China is not in great shape right now, unfortunately. But they’re working very hard. We’ll see what happens. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries.”
Feb. 7, Remarks at North Carolina Opportunity Now Summit in Charlotte, N.C.:
“I just spoke to President Xi last night, and, you know, we’re working on the — the problem, the virus. It’s a — it’s a very tough situation. But I think he’s going to handle it. I think he’s handled it really well. We’re helping wherever we can.”
Feb. 7, Twitter:
“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days … Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!
Feb. 10, Fox Business interview:
“I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control,” Trump said. “I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that’s a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard.”
Feb. 10, campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.:
“I spoke with President Xi, and they’re working very, very hard. And I think it’s all going to work out fine.”
Feb. 13, Fox News interview:
“I think they’ve handled it professionally and I think they’re extremely capable and I think President Xi is extremely capable and I hope that it’s going to be resolved.”
Feb. 18, remarks before Air Force One departure:
“I think President Xi is working very hard. As you know, I spoke with him recently. He’s working really hard. It’s a tough problem. I think he’s going to do — look, I’ve seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done, and he wants to get it done fast. Yes, I think he’s doing it very professionally.”
Feb. 23, remarks before Marine One departure:
“I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He’s working very hard. I think he’s doing a very good job. It’s a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He’s working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?”
Feb. 26, remarks at a business roundtable in New Delhi, India:
“China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control.”
Feb. 27, Coronavirus Task Force press conference:
“I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He’s working very hard, I have to say. He’s working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller.”
Feb. 29, Coronavirus Task Force press conference:
“China seems to be making tremendous progress. Their numbers are way down. … I think our relationship with China is very good. We just did a big trade deal. We’re starting on another trade deal with China — a very big one. And we’ve been working very closely. They’ve been talking to our people, we’ve been talking to their people, having to do with the virus.”
Republicans are the “Do Nothing” Party
Republicans and Trump are the ones who DO NOTHING except give tax breaks and Welfare handouts to the Wealthy, while DOING NOTHING for average Joe Americans.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses Mitch McConnell’s Do-Nothing Senate Republicans, who have refused to serve as a check on Donald Trump’s power or take up the nearly 400 bills passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. Fortunately, voters can send many of them packing come November.
The above video exposes how Republicans are hypocrites who engage in, and condone Socialism for the Rich in the form of corporate bails-outs, tax payer funded sports stadiums, farm subsidies (22 billion in 2019 when Trump was President), but harsh “pull yourself by up by your own bootstraps” Capitalism for everyone else.
Trump occupied most of his time doing nothing except watching TV, eating hamburgers, golfing and attacking perceived enemies on Twitter with “Mean Tweets”.
It’s an outrage that Mitch McConnell is the “Majority Leader” when in fact, he represents the “Minority” of Americans in this country. It’s an outrage how much control he has over everything and how he can legally block what the Majority of Americans want.
The above chart shows some of the legislation Democrats has passed in the House since taking over in 2018. Mitch McConnell has blocked every single one of these.
So when Trump says “Do Nothing Democrats”… it’s another LIE added to his over 30,000 existing lies, false and misleading statements (as claimed by fact checkers). Republicans are the ones who “DO NOTHING” for Average Joe Americans
https://www.leoweekly.com/2021/01/nothing-republicans-want-power/
Per the above article: The Do Nothing Republicans Only Want Power
“In the 1850s, there was a political movement called the Know Nothings. They were fundamentally populist, but they also were intensely xenophobic, racist (although they opposed slavery), and anti-Catholic and Irish. Their name derived not from professed ignorance, but because they were instructed to say, “I know nothing,” when asked about their organization. The Know Nothings evolved into The American Party, which had a short life as a major political party.
It would be understandable if you think I’m comparing them to today’s Republican Party. I’m not, because as questionable as their philosophy was, they believed in using government to do something. Today’s Republican Party, by contrast, is the Do Nothing Party, in Washington, in Frankfort, and throughout the country.
When I worked as a Senate staffer in the 1970s, Republicans actually wanted to do things. They wanted to protect the air and water. They wanted to protect consumers. A lot of them aggressively worked to get us out of the Vietnam War. They believed in a limited, but strong federal government that could help make life better and safer for their constituents.
When I arrived in Congress in 2007, Republicans still cared about education and health care, and while we differed on the details and the urgency, most Democrats and Republicans recognized we could frequently work together to pursue a more perfect union.
Then came the Tea Party, and then came Trump, and now the Republican Party doesn’t want to do anything except to keep Democrats, and citizens, from trying to make the country better.
Let’s review the issues facing the country.
On education, the Do Nothing Republicans want to cut federal spending and undermine public education through charter schools. They don’t want to do anything about $1.7 trillion in outstanding student debt.
On health care, the Do Nothing Republicans tried for eight years to repeal the Affordable Care Act without offering an alternative, and the Trump Administration consistently sabotaged the Act, aka Obamacare, through executive action.
On infrastructure, the Do Nothings promised a major initiative and never came up with one, and in fact, opposed a Democratic measure that passed the House.
On immigration reform, the Do Nothings blocked comprehensive reform in 2013, and during the Trump years did everything they could to make immigration more difficult and crueler, while doing nothing to fix our broken system.
On virtually everything else — the climate crisis, voting rights, housing, poverty and food security, pension reform, cybersecurity, big tech, and, of course, gun safety — you name it, the Do Nothings are, and have been, missing in action.
Their record and their attitude as legislators — their first responsibility under Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution — is not just dismal, it’s nonexistent.
I don’t think it’s unfair to conclude that the Do Nothing Republican Party cares about only three things: cutting taxes, eliminating government regulations and filling the federal courts with conservative justices.
Indeed, that’s all they’ve done when they have controlled the White House and Congress.
What could be stronger evidence of their lack of interest in legislating than the fact that they did not even propose a platform at their convention last year?
And that brings me to Mitch McConnell, the leader of Do Nothingism, who refused to bring 400 House-passed bills to a Senate vote over the past two years and calls himself the legislative Grim Reaper. His raison d’être has been to fill the federal courts with young, conservative judges. The critical question is: To what end?
McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, has built his legacy by blocking Democratic judicial nominees and filling federal court vacancies with young, conservative and sometimes woefully unqualified judges, as if that is an accomplishment in itself. And what could he possibly expect the country to get out of those judges? I would argue that he doesn’t know and doesn’t care; he simply wanted an electoral issue to motivate conservative voters. In other words, it’s just another example of how the Do Nothing Republican Party only wants to be, as in be in power, and not to do, as in do something for the American people”. By John Yarmuth
Is Trump Planning to use Voice of America as Propaganda Network?
With the firing of the entire staff at the Voice of America and replacing with a Trump Loyalist as CEO, some fear Trump plans to use it as a state-run Propaganda Network. This appears to be yet another move by Trump to take over the United States Government and turn it into a Dictatorship.
Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump’s stripping the leadership from the U.S. Agency for Global Media and replacing it with Michael Pack, who cites Steve Bannon as his mentor, and a new set of board members and officials loyal to Trump. Aired on 6/19/2020.
Voice of America top officials resign as Trump-appointed CEO takes over international network | CNN Business
theTwo top officials at Voice of America resigned on Monday as an appointee of President Trump prepares to take control of the international network and other US federally-funded media operations. The resignations were long in the making.
New York (CNN Business)Two top officials at Voice of America resigned on Monday as an appointee of President Trump prepares to take control of the international network and other US federally-funded media operations. The resignations were long in the making.
The Trump administration had been trying to get its nominee, Michael Pack, through the Senate confirmation process for two years.
Earlier this month, after Trump applied additional pressure, the Republican-controlled Senate voted Pack through, adding to a sense of apprehension at Voice of America, VOA for short, about what comes next.
Some journalists at VOA fear that Pack — best known for making films with a conservative bent — will interfere with the organization’s independent newsroom and turn it into a pro-Trump messaging machine.
Trump’s War With The Press and Attacking Reporters
Given his frequent outbursts when he takes reporters’ questions, it’s easy to see that Trump hates the mainstream media. His stance is the product of decades of interactions with the press that he now calls “the enemy of the American people.”
The reason Trump hates the press is because they expose his LIES and outrageous behavior.
According to fact checkers, Trump has made over 30,000 false or misleading statements since becoming President
Echoes of Nixon in Trump’s War on Press
Blasting the media has been a hallmark of President Trump’s strategy, and he has championed the prosecution of those who leak White House secrets, threatening to do the same to journalists. But this strategy isn’t new — it has echoes of a pattern set during the Nixon era
GOP Senator Jeff Flake Blasts Trump’s War On Press
Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) addresses President Donald Trump’s “fake news” rhetoric as reminiscent to Stalin’s in this a passionate defense of media and free press.
Trump Attacks Reporter Yamiche Alcindor For Quoting Him Directly
Trump Security escorts Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos out of a Donald Trump event
Sarah Sanders accused of sharing ‘doctored’ video to justify CNN ban
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has been accused of sharing a “doctored” video which exaggerates the actions of CNN reporter Jim Acosta to justify suspending his credentials.
Trump loses it, erupts in feud with reporter over Jared Kushner’s lies
Trump Uses Coronavirus Briefing To Attack Media Covering A Pandemic
Trump got an assist from a far-right reporter during his coronavirus briefing in his attacks on the media, dismissing a valid question from another reporter there about the virus’s impact on the economy. Fmr. RNC Chairman Michael Steele reacts.
Trump attacks journalists for asking ‘snarky’ questions on coronavirus testing in US
‘You’re A Terrible Reporter’: Pressed On Coronavirus, Trump Berates NBC’s Peter Alexander
NBC News Peter Alexander speaks with Andrea Mitchell about the president’s attack during a press briefing on coronavirus. Aired on 03/20/2020.
Trump Attacks CNN, NBC Reporters At News Conference: ‘You Are A Rude, Terrible Person’
President Trump calls out CNN’s Jim Acosta at a White House news conference, saying, “The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.” Trump also tells NBC’s Peter Alexander, “I’m not a big fan of yours either.”
Trump calls CNN reporter ‘rude, terrible person,’ ‘enemy of the people’
At a news conference at the White House Nov. 7, President Trump told CNN reporter Jim Acosta, “When you report fake news … you are the enemy of the people.”
Trump Undermining Freedom of the Press
Trump has repeatedly attacked the concept of an independent press. He’s called critical coverage “fake news” and journalists “the enemy of the American people,” made threats to change libel laws and revoke licenses, and his battles with CNN led him to try to interfere in the AT&T/Time Warner merger.
This demonstrates his unwillingness to respect and uphold the Constitution, and disdain for the crucial foundations to our free society. Bottom line: Trump’s threats against freedom of the press are also threats against American democracy.
TRUMP CALLING THE PRESS “THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE”, “LAMESTREAM MEDIA” AND BEHAVING LIKE A WANNA-BE DICTATOR
Video shows the shocking similarities between Ruthless Dictators and Trump
Trump stated regarding North Korea’s brutal dictator Kim Jong Un… “He’s the head of a country and he’s the strong head. Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
Leaders who’ve called the press ‘enemies of the people’
President Trump is not the first leader to label journalists as “enemies of the people” and creators of “fake news.” Here are other political and military leaders that have used similar rhetoric to attack the press.
In a bizarre scene like you’d expect to see in a place like North Korea, Cabinet members, from Reince Priebus to Elaine Chao took turns praising Trump and the privilege of working him. These sad people understand that the only way to stay in Trump’s favor is by telling him how great he is.
All the while, not a word from Republicans about this outrageous display. If Trump were a Democrat, their hair would be on fire. Just goes to show what hypocrites Republicans are.
Trump Author: President Donald Trump Deeply Would Like To Be A Dictator
Tony Schwartz co-wrote “The Art of the Deal” with Donald Trump and he thinks the thought of starting World War III excites Trump. Schwartz also contributed to the new book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.” He joins Joy Reid to discuss the mental stability of the President.
Fox News Shepard Smith Goes Off on Trump about his lies and calling the News Media “Fake News”
Trump & his administration are engaging in tactics used by Nazis
Military Leaders Speak Out Against Trump
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.” General James Mattis
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton explains why he cannot support Donald Trump
Col. Wilkerson: ‘An overwhelming victory for Biden is the best way to stop this tyrant’
Trump is no longer hiding that he’s a brazen authoritarian, so desiring of control and power that he’s willing to turn our once peaceful cities into war zones.
Retired general issues dire warning after Trump’s threat
Retired General John Allen discusses his warning that President Trump’s military threats could be “the beginning of the end of the American experiment.”
Trump Criticized By Former Defense Secretary, Former Military Leaders
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis wrote a takedown of President Trump in a new op-ed and a group of retired four-star military officers also recently criticized Trump’s leadership.
James Mattis tears into Trump, calls him a threat to the constitution
In an interview with the Atlantic, Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis denounced Trump for dividing the country: “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”
Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis broke his silence on President Donald Trump Wednesday (June 3), roundly denouncing a military response to the country’s civil unrest in a statement published by the Atlantic.
World Leaders Condemn President Trump’s Protest Response
Trump, Barr Building ‘Thugocracy’ With Secret Police
Steve Schmidt, former senior Republican strategist, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump putting Bill Barr in charge of an unmarked collection of federal police. Aired on 6/5/2020.
Trump wanted to deploy 10,000 troops to D.C. to deal with protests
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Earlier in the day Thursday, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told reporters on Capitol Hill that she agreed with the remarks made by Mattis, Trump’s former defense secretary, who said he was “angry and appalled” by Trump’s response to the protests over Floyd’s killing.
We are seeing more Republicans and former military leaders becoming more vocal about their differences with President Trump, but what does this really mean for the country and upcoming election? Former Republican Strategist Steve Schmidt joins Stephanie Ruhle to break it down.
Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has “drifted away” from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticized the President’s response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.
“We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it,” Powell, a retired general who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”
The comments from Powell, the first African American secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, add to a growing list of rebukes made in recent days by former top officials who have expressed discontent with Trump’s strongman approach to the protests sparked by the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in late May by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark A. Milley, says he was wrong to accompany President Donald Trump on a walk through Lafayette Square that ended in a photo op at a church.
More Military Leaders Speak Out Against Trump’s Protest Response
Former Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson and retired Four-Star Army General Barry McCaffrey join Andrea Mitchell to discuss the continued criticisms from military leaders against Trump’s response to protests within the country, particularly in the nation’s capital. Aired on 06/08/2020.
Retired Adm. Mike Mullen on US military leaders speaking out against Trump
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen joins Chris Wallace on ‘Fox News Sunday.’
4-Star U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey say Trump is a “Serious Threat to our National Security”
Former commander of US ground forces in Iraq blasts Trump as ‘racist’
If there’s a precedent for a president inspiring this kind of pushback from the retired brass, I’m not aware of it.
This month’s developments, including the Lafayette Square scandal, led him to believe he had to step up and speak up. As David Freed wrote for The Atlantic yesterday:
“I believe the president is a racist,” he told me. “The statement has to be made.” For a former officer of Sanchez’s rank to openly brand the president a bigot — as he does in a 1,322-word statement on racial injustice — is unprecedented, military historians say.
“The overtly racist comments and discriminatory actions of our current President,” Sanchez wrote, “have convinced me that this administration does not actually view racial diversity as a pillar of American strength, and that it is choosing to actively ignore many elements of our Constitution.”
Freed noted that Sanchez, the retired former commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, has become “the first high-ranking military officer to call out the president for racism.”
Sanchez is not, however, alone among retired military leaders condemning Trump. Indeed, his public concerns come just two weeks after retired Adm. Bill McRaven, the former commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, perhaps best known as the Navy SEAL who oversaw the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, expressing related criticisms.
“This fall, it’s time for new leadership in this country,” McRaven said, adding, “President Trump has shown he doesn’t have the qualities necessary to be a good commander in chief…. The country needs to move forward without him at the helm.”
As regular readers know, in recent weeks, the public has heard related Trump criticisms from former Secretary of Defense James Mattis and former Secretary of State Colin Powell — who have eight stars on their shoulders between them.
Retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis and retired Navy Adm. Michael Mullen, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, also spoke out in the wake of the Lafayette Square debacle. Around the same time, the public heard from retired three-star Admiral Joseph Maguire, who worked for Trump as an acting director of National Intelligence, and who publicly aligned himself with the criticisms of Trump levied by Mattis and Mullen.
They were joined by retired Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who also spoke out against Trump’s divisive politics.
89 former defense officials say they are ‘alarmed’ by Trump’s threat to use the military to end nationwide unrest
They said that the president is betraying his oath to support and defend the Constitution by threatening to use the military to quash protests.
89 former defense officials say they are ‘alarmed’ by Trump’s threat to use the military to end nationwide unrest.
Dozens of former defense officials, including a handful former secretaries of defense, spoke out in one voice against President Donald Trump and his response to the nationwide protests in an op-ed published in The Washington Post Friday.
Trump Declares War On American Citizens
Police Riots: Trump Declares War On American Citizens
Trump is no longer hiding that he’s a brazen authoritarian, so desiring of control and power that he’s willing to turn our once peaceful cities into #warzones.
The Washington Post analyzed hours of video footage and obtained audio of police communications and other records to assemble the most complete account to date of the June 1 crackdown on protesters in Washington D.C..
Late in the day on June 1, demonstrators gathered near the White House, on the edge of Lafayette Square, to protest police abuse following the death in custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Similar protests had erupted across the country. Many were peaceful, but some included property destruction and clashes with police.
At about 6:30 p.m., just north of the White House, federal police in riot gear fired gas canisters and used grenades containing rubber pellets to scatter the largely peaceful demonstrators. Their actions cleared the way for the president, surrounded by the nation’s top law enforcement and military leaders, to walk to the historic St. John’s Church for a three-minute photo op. Watch how a remarkable hour of Trump’s presidency unfolded.
Title from YouTube: Trump Is Acting Like A ‘Bumbling Autocrat’, Not A Democratic Leader
Description from YouTube: Chris Hayes: “American citizens are being intimidated by their own military helicopters. This is not how a democratic president acts. It’s how a bumbling autocrat acts. Aired on 6/2/2020.
Unidentified, Armed Federal Troops Raise Accountability Concerns
Rachel Maddow looks at the disturbing development in Washington, D.C. in which federal police are amassing with insignia, badges, nameplates or other identifying markings, risking confusion for civilians but also raising questions about what is behind the creation of this force. Aired on 6/5/2020.
Anderson Cooper calls BS on Barr’s defense of Trump’s photo-op
Attorney General Bill Barr says that forcibly dispersing a crowd of protesters near the White House had nothing to do with President Donald Trump photo-op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church. CNN’s Anderson Cooper says the timeline of events shows otherwise.
‘Performing fascism’: Masha Gessen on Trump’s dictatorial turn
ITV News Washington Correspondent Robert Moore reports from the US capital, where he watched “heavily armed troops taking up position at strategic locations across the city.”
“In this city of monuments and power – in which civilian authority is paramount – we are witnessing something extraordinary.”
Police attacks on journalists covering George Floyd protests echo Trump’s war on press
New Security Video Shows Events Leading Up To George Floyd’s Arrest
NBC News obtained over 60 minutes of security footage from a nearby restaurant showing some of the events leading up to George Floyd’s arrest and eventual death. Some of the footage shows two officers arriving at the scene around 8 p.m., removing a man later identified as George Floyd from a car parked on the street, handcuffing and questioning him before eventually walking him across the street as another police car arrives.
Lindsey Graham: Hypocrite & Partisan Hack
Lindsey Must Go ad produced by Lindsey Must Go PAC exposes how Graham is a Trump Boot-Licking Toady and a two-faced Hypocrite, who a is unfit to serve in ANY capacity of elected office.
In March 2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham brushed off accusations of partisanship and invited critics to hold his feet to the fire after he opposed President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. His reasoning? It was an election year.
“I want you to use my words against me,” the South Carolina Republican said. “If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, ‘Let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.'” But on Saturday, less than 24 hours after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, Graham tweeted, “I will support President @realDonaldTrump in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg.”
Jesse Dollemore discusses the ad produced by Lindsey Must Go PAC, showcasing his hypocrisy and disloyalty. Further, Jesse talks about Graham’s betrayal of John McCain who Lindsey Graham claims was his “best friend.”
Former Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner discusses why he thinks Lindsey Graham went from being a Trump Critic to one of his biggest supporters
Lindsey Graham Stonewalls Merrick Garland’s Confirmation Hearing
Steve Schmidt explains how Lindsey Graham’s character decay led to a rotten Congress
Description from YouTube; “Republican Senator Lindsey Graham lost a major donor… Richard Wilkerson, the former chairman and president of Michelin North America, penned an op-ed this week saying that he would be pulling his support from Graham and supporting his Democratic opponent because of the way Lindsey stabbed his best friend John McCain in the back”.
Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans put politics and their careers above doing what was right for this country and the American people, by failing to remove Trump from office.
Lindsey Graham said in October 2019; “If you could show me that Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing”. When it was proven there was a quid pro quo, Graham dismissed it and gave Trump a pass. Everyone knows, if Trump were a Democrat, Graham and Republicans would be outraged and Gung-Ho for impeachment and removal.
This video exposes Trump’s Lawlessness and his out-of-control Wanna-Be Dictator conduct. This is a threat to democracy, the constitution and the well being of the United States. Lindsey Graham and his fellow Republicans are enabling and being complicit in Trump’s outrageous, lawless conduct by doing nothing.
In 1998 Lindsey Graham advocated Impeachment against Bill Clinton, yet failed to advocate Impeachment against Trump for far worse than offenses Clinton committed.
Lindsey Graham 12-18-1998: Nixon failed to comply with subpoenas from Congress, causing Impeachment
This exactly what Trump did, only worse. Trump failed to comply with subpoenas from Congress to provide ANY documents and BLOCKED witnesses from testifying.
Lindsey Graham Double Standards over Bill Clinton & Donald Trump
In the above video, Michael Cohen admits at the direction of Trump, he violated Campaign Finance Laws by paying off women to keep silent to help make sure Trump was Elected. This is a Federal Crime. Lindsey Graham and Republicans has said virtually nothing about this.
Bill Clinton was impeached for less.
Lindsey Graham stated; “if this body [Congress] determines that your conduct as a public official is clearly out of bounds in your role . . . because impeachment is not about punishment. Impeachment is about cleansing the office. Impeachment is about restoring honor and integrity to the office.”
On 09/27/2018 at the Brett Kavanaugh hearing Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham went on an insane tirade which included statements such as; “This is the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics” and “Boy, y’all want power… I hope you never get it” while entirely disregarding Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.
Democrats should have immediately called Graham out and reminded him how he and Republicans filibustered and blocked EVERY Judicial Nominee of President Obama’s including his Supreme Court Nominee, Merrick Garland who they REFUSED to even consider.
Video Shows How Republicans Blocked Obama’s Judicial Nominees
When BUSH was president, Democrats approved his conservative judicial nominees. Republicans refused to be as fair & decent to President Obama. They engaged in “Mean Spirited” Partisan Obstruction instead of patriotism and doing what was right for this country and the American people.
The above video exposes how Graham blocked every Judicial nominee of Obama’s. Amazing that NO ONE has called him out on this and his Hypocrisy.
Lindsey Graham’s obstruction of President Obama’s nominees is why Harry Reid had no choice but to invoke the “nuclear option” to stop Graham’s and Republicans filibustering Judicial nominee’s of Obama’s.
And Graham had the NERVE to go on a self-righteous hissy fit over women testifying about Brett Kavanaugh’s abusive conduct and Democrat’s opposition to his becoming a Supreme Court Justice after evidence showed Kavanaugh LIED on several occasions.
For years, Lindsey Graham made accusations about President Obama and Hillary Clinton being responsible for four (4) Americans deaths in Benghazi at a US Embassy.
60 Americans died when George W. Bush was President. There were no endless investigations by Republicans into those deaths… proving the endless Benghazi investigations were politically motivated.
Benghazi Hoax Debunked
It’s clear that Lindsey Graham and other Republicans constant comments about President Obama being responsible for Benghazi was motivated by partisan hate for President Obama and to “Get” Hillary Clinton.
Mueller Report Obstruction of Justice Highlights
Fox News Andrew Napolitano explains how based on the Mueller Report, Trump obstructed justice multiple times.
Trump’s War With Twitter & Social Media
Trump Freaked When Twitter FINALLY Fact-Checked One of His THOUSANDS of Lies
Majority Of Americans Like That Twitter Called Out Trump’s Lies
According to new polls, a majority of Americans agreed that Twitter should have labeled Donald Trump’s tweet as false and added a disclaimer and a link to the real facts, compared to just 26% who thought Twitter was out of line to do that. The President can’t get the American people on his side for anything, and that’s likely because he has never been on their side.
Trump signed an executive order targeting tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google and the pivotal internet law that provides them broad legal immunity over content posted by their users.
Trump is so thin-skinned that he can’t stand criticism and wants to SUE anyone who criticizes him. That’s why he wants Section 230 eliminated.
The order attempts to roll back liability protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Under Section 230, internet companies have broad immunity from liability for the content their users post on their platforms. The draft order would open the door for the Commerce Department and the Federal Communications Commission to reinterpret the law and allow the Federal Trade Commission to create a tool for users to report bias online.
Legal experts say only congress has the authority to make changes to Section 230 so Trump’s order is unenforceable.
Politicians Want to Destroy Section 230, the Internet’s First Amendment
It’s Not Section 230 President Trump Hates, It’s the First Amendment
President Trump’s recent threat to “unequivocally VETO” the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) if it doesn’t include a repeal of Section 230 may represent the final attack on online free speech of his presidency, but it’s certainly not the first. The NDAA is one of the “must-pass” bills that…
It’s Not Section 230 President Trump Hates, It’s the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech.
This executive order was in response Twitter placing fact check links by his false claim about voter fraud
Trump Throws Childish Tantrum On Twitter After Getting Fact Checked
While Twitter has fact-checked Trump’s false claims on mail-in ballots, they have not taken down his tweets in which he makes false accusations about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
Fox Pundits Comments about Joe Biden Fit Trump
The Daily Show produced a video of Fox Pundits making negative comments about Joe Biden but made it to look like they were talking about Trump. Amazing how well their comments fit Trump
Outrageous, Offensive Comments made by Trump
Access Hollywood tape exposed Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women by grabbing them by the P***Y.
In this video, Trump engages in the most Disgusting, UN-Presidential conduct ever seen by a President of the United States by impersonating Peter Strzok having intimate relations with Lisa Page at a rally in front of supporters and children.
Title from Youtube: Trump implies Democrat’s dead husband is ‘looking up’ from hell
Description from Youtube: Trump attacked Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and her late husband, Rep. John Dingell, during a rally on Wednesday, implying the former congressman was “looking up” from hell
Title from Youtube: Trump Makes Crude, Petty, Personal Attacks on Biden at Rally
Description from Youtube: ‘He was only a good vice president because he knew how to kiss Barack Obama’s ass.’ — President Trump took his attacks on Joe Biden to new heights during this Trump rally in Minnesota.
Lawrence O’Donnell dissects the “Jekyll and Hyde presidency” in what President Donald Trump said Wednesday after his unscripted ranting at a Phoenix rally
Two Minutes of Trump Trashing Women
How a REAL President Leads and Inspires
Historian Jon Meacham reflects on how past presidents have stirred the nation amid times of crisis, as the nation faces a grim milestone: 100,000 dead from coronavirus.
An hour-by-hour comparison of Trump and Obama responding to school shootings
Warrantless Surveillance to Include Web Browsing History of Any American
Mitch McConnell & Republicans want to expand Warrantless Surveillance to Include Web Browsing History of any American
Mitch McConnell Wants To See Your Browser History
Democrat Ron Wyden Opposes Warrantless Government Surveillance of Americans’ Internet Browsing History
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers
Per the above article; Under cover of redressing what President Donald Trump and his allies call the FBI’s “witch hunt” over collusion with the Kremlin, McConnell, via an amendment to the PATRIOT Act, will expressly permit the FBI to warrantlessly collect records on Americans’ web browsing and search histories. In a different amendment, McConnell also proposes giving the attorney general visibility into the “accuracy and completeness” of FBI surveillance submissions to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court. Versions of the amendments circulating Monday were shared with The Daily Beast.
“Under the McConnell amendment, Barr gets to look through the web browsing history of any American—including journalists, politicians, and political rivals—without a warrant, just by saying it is relevant to an investigation,” said Wyden, who has been trying to ban warrantless surveillance on such records.
McConnell’s amendment blocks the FBI from seeking the “content” of web browsing and searching conducted by Americans. But it explicitly permits the warrantless collection of “Internet website browsing records or internet search history records.” Barr and other attorneys general approve guidelines for conducting such surveillance.
These are the 37 Senators that voted to let the FBI seize your internet history without a warrant
A key amendment to the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020 (H.R. 6172) that would have required authorities to obtain a warrant before gaining access
Per the above article;
These are the 37 Senators that voted to let the FBI seize your internet history without a warrant
27 Republicans and 10 Democrats voted against the amendment and 4 senators were no-shows. One of the senators that didn’t vote is under self quarantine due to a staff member testing positive for COVID-19. But where were the other 3 senators? Here’s who voted against the Wyden-Daines Amendment to the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020 that would have blocked McConnell’s plan to let FBI collect web browsing history without a warrant:
Carper, Thomas R. (D-DE)
Casey, Robert P., Jr. (D-PA)
Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)
Hassan, Margaret Wood (D-NH)
Jones, Doug (D-AL)
Kaine, Tim (D-VA)
Manchin, Joe, III (D-WV)
Shaheen, Jeanne (D-NH)
Warner, Mark R. (D-VA)
Whitehouse, Sheldon (D-RI)
Barrasso, John (R-WY)
Blackburn, Marsha (R-TN)
Blunt, Roy (R-MO)
Boozman, John (R-AR)
Burr, Richard (R-NC)
Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Cotton, Tom (R-AR)
Fischer, Deb (R-NE)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS)
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
Johnson, Ron (R-WI)
Lankford, James (R-OK)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Perdue, David (R-GA)
Portman, Rob (R-OH)
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Romney, Mitt (R-UT)
Rubio, Marco (R-FL)
Shelby, Richard C. (R-AL)
Thune, John (R-SD)
Tillis, Thom (R-NC)
Toomey, Patrick J. (R-PA)
Wicker, Roger F. (R-MS)
Young, Todd (R-IN)
Contact your elected officials and tell them not to vote for the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020
While this amendment has failed, the bill it was a part of still hasn’t the House of Representatives. There’s still time to contact your elected officials and tell them not to vote for the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020 in its current form with Mitch McConnell’s privacy violating amendment in tow. The FBI and DOJ should not have access to the search and internet history of American citizens without a warrant, but that’s exactly what Congress is set to pass unless Americans step up and make their voices heard.
Fact check: Did senators vote to allow access to web history? Only for counterterrorism
The Senate voted on a Patriot Act amendment. But access to Americans’ web histories isn’t as easy or widespread as this claim implies.
Per the above article: “37 senators voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant.”
A viral Facebook post says Americans missed a big moment in privacy rights.
Some provisions of the 2001 Patriot Act – which greatly expanded government intelligence gathering in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks – expired this year amid GOP gridlock.
The legislation has drawn criticism over the breadth of surveillance it enables.
The U.S. House reauthorized the three lapsed intelligence programs this March, and the U.S. Senate passed its own version May 14, making changes that sent the bill back to the House. Before final passage, though, the Senate by the narrowest of margins defeated an amendment that would have limited access to internet browser and search histories.
The background
The statement implies this was a vote to enable internet history access without a warrant. The government has actually been able to do that for nearly 20 years.
That was among many powers granted by the 2001 Patriot Act. Section 215 can be used to compel third parties (such as internet service providers) to produce information related to intelligence investigations (not law enforcement investigations).
This has long been considered compatible with the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, since the Supreme Court has said since the 1970s that protection does not apply to records held by third parties, according to Robert Chesney, director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He noted this interpretation is now “under pressure,” but still in place.
Section 215 allows government investigators to obtain internet browsing history or search queries, but there are limitations, Chesney said.
For an American, the power may be used only to obtain web history related to a counterterrorism or counterintelligence investigation. (For a foreign national, any foreign-intelligence purpose can justify access to online history.)
The request must be approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, made up of 11 federal judges from around the country. The court was established by Congress through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to approve electronic surveillance, physical search and certain other forms of investigative actions for foreign intelligence purposes.
Earn It Bill… New Threat To Internet Freedom
How a proposed bill to protect children could actually chip away at your privacy
Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate.
That’s what the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed and hopes to pass into law. The so-called EARN IT bill, sponsored by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), will strip Section 230 protections away from any website that doesn’t follow a list of “best practices,” meaning those sites can be sued into bankruptcy. The “best practices” list will be created by a government commission, headed by Attorney General Barr, who has made it very clear he would like to ban encryption, and guarantee law enforcement “legal access” to any digital message.
The EARN IT bill had its first hearing today, and its supporters’ strategy is clear. Because they didn’t put the word “encryption” in the bill, they’re going to insist it doesn’t affect encryption.
This bill says nothing about encryption,” co-sponsor Sen. Blumenthal said at a hearing. “Have you found a word in this bill about encryption?” he asked one witness.
It’s true that the bill’s authors avoided using that word. But they did propose legislation that enables an all-out assault on encryption. It would create a 19-person commission that’s completely controlled by the Attorney General and law enforcement agencies. And, at the hearing, a Vice-President at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) made it clear [PDF] what he wants the best practices to be. NCMEC believes online services should be made to screen their messages for material that NCMEC considers abusive; use screening technology approved by NCMEC and law enforcement; report what they find in the messages to NCMEC; and be held legally responsible for the content of messages sent by others.
You can’t have an Internet where messages are screened en masse, and also have end-to-end encryption any more than you can create backdoors that can only be used by the good guys. The two are mutually exclusive. Concepts like “client-side scanning” aren’t a clever route around this; such scanning is just another way to break end-to-end encryption. Either the message remains private to everyone but its recipients, or it’s available to others.
The 19-person draft commission isn’t any better than the 15-person commission envisioned in an early draft of the bill. It’s completely dominated by law enforcement and allied groups like NCMEC. Not only will those groups have a majority of votes on the commission, but the bill gives Attorney General Barr the power to veto or approve the list of best practices. Even if other commission members do disagree with law enforcement, Barr’s veto power will put him in a position to strongarm them.
The Commission won’t be a body that seriously considers policy; it will be a vehicle for creating a law enforcement wish list. Barr has made clear, over and over again, that breaking encryption is at the top of that wish list. Once it’s broken, authoritarian regimes around the world will rejoice, as they have the ability to add their own types of mandatory scanning, not just for child sexual abuse material but for self-expression that those governments want to suppress.
This is 2020’s SOPA & PIPA and is not getting coverage because of the coronavirus
Unsafe Working Conditions at Meat Packing Plants
Meat processing plant workers fear for their safety
Trump signed an executive order to keep meat processing plants open through the pandemic, despite union concerns for workers’ safety. One organization says that 20 workers have died from the coronavirus. Over 20 facilities have already closed due to infections or fear of infections, leading to concerns of a meat supply shortage.
Meat Processing Plants Prove Particularly Vulnerable To Coronavirus
Rachel Maddow looks at a trend in meat processing plants, particularly in the Midwest, but all over the United States having a hard time controlling the spread of coronavirus among their employees, and in some cases having to shut down operations entirely. Aired on 04/20/2020.
Workers Voice Concerns As Meat Plant Re-Opens Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, talks with Rachel Maddow about the concerns of workers at a JBS meat processing plant in Colorado where five employees have already died from COVID-19. Aired on 4/27/2020.
Meat Plants Become COVID-19 Hotspots After Poor Handling Of Outbreaks
Rachel Maddow looks at how inadequate response at the federal, state, local, and facility levels to outbreaks of coronavirus cases in meat processing plants around the United States have turned those plants into sources of community spread. Aired on 4/27/2020.
COVID-19 Crisis Deepens As Iowa Meat Plant Presses Return To Work
Sheriff Tony Thompson of Black Hawk County, Iowa, talks with Rachel Maddow about his frustration with the Tyson meat plant that is at the center of a major coronavirus outbreak, and the state and federal leadership that is pushing a dangerous re-open agenda that further imperils his community. Aired on 04/29/2020.
Under Trump, Formerly Stalwart CDC Goes Soft On Meat Plants
Rachel Maddow looks at how the CDC’s guidance on worker safety against COVID-19 infection in meat processing plants appears distinctly, and unusually, less forceful than CDC guidance has been in other situations in different presidential administrations. Aired on 04/28/2020.
Governors from REPUBLICAN Red States tell workers they’ll lose unemployment benefits if they refuse to return to jobs
Governor Kim Reynolds threatens no unemployment benefits if Meat processing plant workers quit
How To Keep Meat Packing Plants Safe During Pandemic
United Food and Commercial Workers Union International President Marc Perrone joins Morning Joe to discuss the surge in coronavirus cases among workers in U.S. meat packing plants. Aired on 05/26/2020.
Trump Threatened to Withhold Funds from Michigan over Mail-in Voting
Trump calls plans for expanded mail-in voting in Michigan illegal, without citing a specific law, and threatened to withhold funding to the state – the latest Republican move to try to undo steps aimed at making it easier and safer to vote during the coronavirus pandemic.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson: “To me, it is also a reflection of what will be happening in our state in the months ahead, which is an effort to misinform and confuse voters about their rights in the state.” Aired on 05/20/2020.
Trump fulfills ‘cartoonishly evil’ hypothetical; threatens
Rachel Maddow replays testimony from Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan at a Donald Trump impeachment hearing in which she describes a hypothetical situation in which Donald Trump attempts to extort political favors from a state in need of emergency funding, a situation that Trump has managed to make real. Aired on 5/20/2020.
Trump Threatens To Withhold Funding For Michigan Because They Expanded Voting Access
Trump is furious that the swing state of Michigan has mailed out absentee ballot applications to all 7.7 million residents in the state, meaning that we could see record turnout from Michigan in November. In an angry and factually incorrect tweet, Trump said that he would consider withholding federal funding for the state of Michigan as a result of this, but he’s said nothing about the multiple red states who have done the exact same thing.
Heroes in the Time of Trump
Heroes in the Time of Trump
Seems like we’ve been hoping one hero would emerge to save our country from a corrupt administration. Truth is, we’ve had many heroes in the time of Trump…
This video shows how Trump has managed to evade consequences for his disgusting and despicable conduct his entire life.
One of the first Hero’s to come forward… Sally Yates
Fiona Hill rebukes Republicans for ‘fictional’ Ukraine narrative
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman: FIRED for telling the Truth
Whistleblower delivers damning testimony on Trump response
Rick Bright, senior advisor with the National Institutes of Health, warned there’s still not enough testing capability in the US. “The virus is still spreading everywhere,” Bright told the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing.
Bright was ousted last month as director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a government agency that procures vaccines for the national stockpile. Bright claims his ouster was retaliation for his criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, including Trump’s touting of the drug hydroxychloroquine.
“There were some attempts to bypass that rigorous vetting process that caused me great concern,” Bright testified. But Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar slammed Bright’s claims, saying he “literally signed” the application for FDA authorization of hydroxychloroquine.
Adam Schiff Deliver His Closing Remarks In The Senate Impeachment
Title from YouTube; “Impeachment witnesses outline Trump quid pro quo”
Description from YouTube; “Two weeks. Twelve witnesses. The House Intelligence Committee wrapped up some of the most monumental moments on Capitol Hill in decades before leaving town for the Thanksgiving recess”
Witnesses left scattered in wake of Trump impeachment scandal
Former CIA Director John Brennan Testifies On Collusion With Russia
Former CIA director John Brennan testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on interactions between Trump campaign officials and the Russian government that warranted further investigation. “I was convinced in the summer that the Russians were trying to interfere in the election,” he says. “And they were very aggressive. It was a multi-faceted effort and I wanted to make sure that we were able to expose as much of that as possible.”
What is truly astounding is how Republicans chose to ignore every one of the heroes who came forward to protect and defend this country. History will not forget.
When you look at how Republicans has behaved for the past 20 years, it should come as no surprise.
