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2018

EPA Head Violates Hatch Act Barring Gifts

31 March 2018

Pruitt, as fanatical a climate-change denier as you want to meet was Trump’s appointee for Director of the Environmental Protection Agency.  He served from Feb 2017 until July 2016.  His tenure was distinguished by the fact that there were at least 14 different federal investigations for corruption, conflicts of interest and ethics.    Leasing a condo in D.C. for less than $50 a night from a lobbyists whose clients were regulated by EPA.
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On what planet in what multi-verse is this not a gift from a prohibited source in violation of government ethics rules? From the US Office of Government Ethics :

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Where Are the People of Color in Group Photo of White House Interns?

31 March 2018

The lack of people of (obvious) color in this photo were an omen of things to come.  About this time secret white power hand gestures and neo-nazi pins in White House photos were being explained away as coincidences. You know, “Move along, these are not the droids you’re looking for”.  I wonder if Kelly and McMasters regret serving Trump?  
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I do not know anything about the qualifications of these interns and so I assume they are well qualified. However, I believe there are equally qualified people of color who would have gladly accepted a WH internship. After all, “serving the office

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Trump’s State Of Mind Is Cause For Alarm

19 March 2018

This WaPo opinion  piece about Trump’s state of mind in threatening to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating if Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign, prompted my own speculations.  Since then there’s been an avalanche of tell-all books and articles by former administration officials like John Bolton, family, psychiatrists, fixers, senior government executives, fired government executives like James Comey, and even the ghost writer for The Art of The Deal that say what we’d only begun to grasp back then:  Donald Trump is unwell and dangerously unfit for the office he holds.

If Trump is guilty of impeachable offenses and criminal acts, and I believe he is, firing Mueller makes perfect sense. He cannot allow Mueller’s investigation to continue to its logical conclusion. The odds are better than even that Republicans will do no more than sharply rebuke his actions while coaxing into the midterms with a fervent prayer that they retain their majority. Some short-lived civil unrest and then back to business as usual. A small price to pay considering the alternative for him. If he underestimates the strength of the GOP backlash, he is still better off firing Mueller than he would have been if Mueller is allowed to conclude his investigation. I believe Trump to be guilty of treasonous acts (conspiring with a foreign power to harm our nation) and criminal acts (money laundering and pay-to-play foreign policy). With charges like these looming at the end of the investigation what recourse does he have but to fire Mueller?

 

Andrew McCabe, FBI Deputy Director Fired

17 March 2018

We stood with Comey, McCabe, Vindman, and a legion of others fired for doing their jobs.

Do you see the irony in a regime that would rather lie on credit than tell the truth for cash alleging that McCabe was fired for a lack of candor? And to anyone who says McCabe’s firing is only circumstantial evidence of guilt, I say just like winning the Powerball 10 times in a row is only circumstantial evidence of fraud.

Porn Actress Sets Up Fundraiser To Pay Legal Fees for Suit Against Trump

14 March 2018
It’s not cheap defending oneself from the lies and distortion of Donald Trump.  You got to be willing to brawl.   And that takes money.  So why not a fundraiser for the porn actress Stormy Daniels to raise money for her suit to void an NDA barring her from talking about her sexual encounters with Trump in exchange for $130,000 Trump paid through his fixer? Three years later, August 2020, a California court orders Trump to pay Ms. Daniel’s attorney fees.

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My initial reaction was “no way” but upon further reflection I changed my mind. I do not care how Trump leaves our House, just that he get gone. Her motive is immaterial. Good can result from the basest of motives. He wipes his arm pits with our constitution and spits on our flag every day that he is in office. I put donating to her defense fund along side colluding with our enemy to undermine one of our most cherished institutions (free elections), profiteering from the Office, rank nepotism, diminishing our nation’s standing in the world, blatantly disrespecting women, selling the lives of our children to the NRA, dissing our proven allies, and such a lack of empathy or attempted understanding of our citizens of color that no other word but racist will do. And on and on and on. Considering that Trump will do anything, I mean anything, to profit from the exploitation of our nation’s vulnerabilities and avoid exposure, the question for me cease to be whether I should donate, but how much.