President Trump, Week 9

Here's this week's shockingly long list of incompetence coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning 2 PM Friday, March 17th to 2 PM Friday, March 24th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

Remeinder, all of these infractions would've warranted a mocking press conference if the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R,' and most of them would've sparked an investigation.  A few of these would've EASILY justified calls for impeachment.  Instead, Republicans run from the non stop embarrassments and revelations, in a never ending attempt to prevent themselves from having to admit how horrifically bad Trump is at being President.  It's kind of like 'The Fugitive,' only with self imposed ignorance.

Anchors away!

• For some reason, after apologizing to the British Government for implying they worked with former President Obama to wiretap Trump Tower before the 2016 election, the Trump Administration insists they never apologized
• Trump's deflection from taking blame for his Obama wiretapping story begins with him insisting he only got this from Fox News
  
• Senate Judiciary Chair Dianne Feinstein feels as if Trump will resign the minute the Senate starts questioning his ties to Russia. Two days earlier she was described as being "shaken and pale" leaving an intelligence briefing on the growing Trump/Russia scandal
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rushing judges to 12 cities to help expedite deportations 
• Trump accuses a German reporter who asked a legitimate question he didn't like of spreading 'fake news'
  
• The Justice Department's own investigation into Trump's claims 'President Obama wiretapped him' doesn't confirm and/or validate Trump's claims
• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson only allowed Fox News to cover his meeting at the DMZ on the Korean Peninsula
• According to Representative Jason Chaffetz, the person who was arrested for unauthorized entry onto the White House grounds was roaming the grounds for 15 minutes, and had even rattled a door handle on the White House itself, attempting to get entry.  I mention this because President Obama was blamed for every Secret Service mistake during his presidency, so...
• Trump appoints a woman who's been the leader of a designated hate group as a delegate to the 61st Session of the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women
• GOP congressmen are now calling for Trump to apologize to former President Obama for his false wiretapping claim
  
• A Russian bank doing business with Trump, via an e-mail server tied directly to the Trump Empire, says it's innocent of doing so.  They said they were hacked to make it look like they'd been working with Trump
• The Ukrainian Government has asked multiple times to talk with Trump's former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort, in regards to his connections to a former Ukrainian government's corruption scandal
• Many people are calling for Trump Advisor Sebastian Gorka to resign for his connection to the Hungarian Nazi collaborators Vitézi Rend, a group that's banned in the US
• Three Senators are calling for an investigation into Sebastian Gorka's naturalization application.  It's illegal to not list any groups you're a member of, especially illegal ones, so Gorka likely illegally procured his citizenship
• Rex Tillerson, in response to the question of why he doesn't take the media with him, says he doesn't need them.  By the way, he's the sitting Secretary of State
• A photo surfaces of Sebastian Gorka wearing a Vitézi Rend uniform and medal, discrediting his claim he only wore the medal because it was his fathers
  
• After not showing up for three previous meetings with Veterans Groups, Trump cancels his latest meeting at the last minute.  He was supposed to meet with veterans groups to talk about fixing the VA
• Fox News contributor Andrew Napolitano, the man White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer insisted was his 'source' for the 'British helping President Obama spy on Trump' claim, says he got his information from a discredited CIA operative who was speaking on Russian sponsored media
• Trump, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the US, goes on Twitter to claim Germany doesn't pay enough for the US involvement in NATO, implying the United States preserves German security
• After Trump's foolish Twitter claim about Germany and NATO, Ivo Daalder, who served with NATO from 09-13, publicly calls Trump out, saying "sorry Mr. President, that's not how NATO works."
  
• The entire White House is frantically trying to peg the 'former President Obama wiretapped Trump' claim on Fox News
• The House Intelligence Committee says there's no evidence to validate Trump's 'former President Obama wiretapped me' claim
• The Senate Intelligence Committee orders long time Trump friend and advisor Roger Stone to not destroy anything he has related to Russia, pending further investigation
• Trump is spending another weekend, his 5th of 9 total, at Mar-A-Lago 
• It's reported that Trump does very little work while at Mar-A-Lago, instead spending most of his time golfing and wining/dining private guests
• Heath and Human Services Secretary Tom Price insists TrumpCare, the Trump/GOP replacement for the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, will "eventually" cover everyone, but not initially
• A regular citizen seems to have been able to sneak into Trump's private Mar-A-Lago study, take a selfie, and post it on social media, while Trump was staying at Mar-A-Lago
  
• The GOP continues to insist former President Obama golfed FAR more than Trump, a laughable and easily disproven allegation
• The White House admits TrumpCare will change the current rules, meaning health insurance will not be available to everyone, directly contradicting Trump's campaign promise of "insurance for everyone, guaranteed!"
• A report surfaces the White House has hired spies to keep an eye on the activities of senior cabinet officials
• Trump's White House Budget Advisor Mick Mulvaney, in one of the most tone deaf comments ever uttered, insists it's fair to cut funding for Meals on Wheels because he cut costs in his office, like forgoing business cards.  Apparently he's unaware seniors and veterans can't eat his business cards
• Trump's budget dramatically cuts funding to rural airports, meaning many of them will likely shut down
  
• Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, states there's strong "circumstantial evidence" that the Trump campaign team and Russia worked together to influence the Election of 2016 
• Trump has golfed at least 10 times in two months as President
• Trump throws a Twitter temper tantrum prior to FBI Director James Comey and CIA Director Mike Rogers' testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, about connections between Trump's 2016 campaign and the Russians
• In front of the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director Comey confirms that the FBI is indeed investigating the connections between the Trump 2016 campaign team and the Russians, meaning they're investigating whether American citizens colluded with a hostile foreign government, otherwise known as treason
  
• At the same House Intelligence Committee hearing, FBI Director Comey states, "I have no information that supports those tweets," in regards to the Trump's 'former President Obama wiretapped me' tweets 
• The House GOP seems to be FAR more bothered by the White House leaks to the media than they are about the President's campaign team committing treason with the Russians, or Trump's outright lying about wiretapping
• At the same House Intelligence Committee hearing, CIA Director Mike Rogers quite pointedly states nobody in President Obama's White House asked Britain to spy on Trump
• Sean Spicer snaps at a reporter who questioned Spicer's claim that Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, only played a limited role in the Trump 2016 campaign
• Sean Spicer than claims Trump personal and campaign confidant, and former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn was only a "volunteer for the campaign"
  
• Trump goes crazy on Twitter after the House Intelligence Committee hearing with Comey and Rogers, with Trump inaccurately claiming Comey and Rogers insisted Russia "did not influence the election process." What they said was no direct evidence connecting Trump to the Russians has been found, but they've been investigating since July and currently have multiple investigations open, and continuing
• Sean Spicer avoids answering a question about Trump and his family's travel expenses, all of which are being paid for by the tax payers.  Trump's family's travel expenses, after 60 days, are comparable to some Administration's entire travel costs, for their full term
  
• From FBI Director James Comey at the House Intelligence Committee hearing:  Russia wanted to hurt American Democracy, hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign and help Trump's
• The Trump campaign, at the RNC in Cleveland, pressured the GOP to weaken their pro Ukrainian policy, favoring a pro-Russia policy
• It's revealed the hacks of the Clinton campaign's e-mail and servers were actually conducted by Russian Intelligence agencies, with the hacker Guccifer 2.0 only acting as a front for the hacking 
• Trump campaign foreign policy advisor (a title which his campaign team now denies, although it's well documented) Carter Page's role in the Trump/Russian connection is exposed as far greater than previously admitted
• Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee, and the lead investigator into the Trump/Russia affair, states he has no idea who Trump advisors Carter Page and Roger Stone are
  
• Trump takes credit for NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick having not been signed by a new NFL team, adding about NFL teams, "They don't want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump"
• Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, has made an eyebrow raising decision to NOT attend what would be his first official NATO meeting in April, instead making time on his calendar later in the month to go to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin
• It's revealed far right news outlets Breitbart and InfoWars, two news sources Trump watches, stands by and quotes religiously, are both under investigation for possibly colluding with the Russians
  
• The New York Times releases a story of a Ukrainian Parliament member releasing documents which show former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort not only took payments from the pro-Russian party in Ukraine, but he tried to hide the payments in an offshore account as payments for computer supplies
• In what some people are interpreting as an attempt to get Trump under control, it's announced Ivanka Trump, Trump's daughter, will get an office and a security clearance in the West Wing, but won't be listed as an actual government employee.  Ivanka had previously stated, only a few months ago, that she'd have NO White House role
• Trump advisor and personal friend Roger Stone, in an attempt to discredit the FBI's comments about his role in the Trump/Russia Affair, attacks the FBI, insisting the FBI got us into Iraq.  It was former Vice President Dick Cheney, manipulating CIA findings, which got us into the Iraq War
• Ivanka Trump's clothing and accessory company is the target of a class action lawsuit which alleges she's using her White House connections as an unfair advantage against competition
• White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway tried to diminish Trump's connections to Michael Flynn, Carter Page, Trump campaign advisor J.D. Gordon, and Roger Stone, insisting Trump never really knew them
  
• Trump openly threatened the members of the far right House Freedom Caucus with primary challenges if they don't vote for TrumpCare
• It's revealed that Trump Tower was indeed wiretapped, in 2013, but it wasn't some super secret President Obama spy mission.  It was wiretapped because Russian mobsters were using Trump Towers as their headquarters
• Trump apparently owes $300 million to a bank which was part of a global money laundering scheme
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer insists there will not be a vote in the US Senate on Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch without answers from the White House on Trump's Russian connections
• Trump Supreme Court Nominee Neil Grouch, a man with a history of anti-woman comments, is rude, disrespectful and talks down to Senator Amy Klobuchar at his confirmation hearing
• Senator Al Franken goes after Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch for his court ruling which allowed an employee to be fired because he left a disabled vehicle to avoid from freezing to death
• Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire 10 years ago, with the specific task of promoting Vladimir Putin.  This directly contradicts Trump White House claims that Manafort never worked for the Russians
• Russian Lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov, a prime witness in a US Federal case involving Russian money laundering, was thrown out of a 4th floor window in Russia.  The lawyer's name had been redacted from legal documents in the case.  The lawyer who had kept Gorokhov's identity secret, so he wouldn't get thrown out of a 4th story window, was recently fired US Attorney Preet Bharara, a man who was fired by the Trump Administration.  Bharara's likely replacement, Marc Mukasey, is a lawyer who worked for the defendant in the case, a defendant Gorokhov was scheduled to testify against
  
• Sean Spicer insists the repeal of Obamacare is complete.  That's nowhere near true
• Wall Street Journal reports Trump's continued lies are depleting his trust at home and overseas
• Some are starting to question whether Trump's the US's first atheist President.  They point to a lot of strong evidence which actually backs up their theory, evidence which is a lot stronger than the "evidence" Republicans used to claim President Obama was a secret Muslim
• The Trump family minus dad (Don Jr., Eric, Ivanka, the spouses and their kids) take a skiing vacation to Aspen, and charge the US taxpayers for the entire cost of their vacation.  A reminder, they're not government employees, outside of advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner
• While in Russia last summer, Trump campaign advisor Carter Page has secret meetings with the leader of Russia's largest oil company, a close friend to Putin.  Page was offered a brokerage fees commission on the sale of 19% of the Russian oil company's stock.  Why? No one is quite sure
• Sean Spicer further annihilates his credibility with his 'Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort had a "very limited role"' comment
  
• In a clear attempt to run cover for Trump and the White House, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes goes to media and to Trump himself to reveal Trump's personal communications and the communications of Trump associates might have been intercepted by intelligence agencies conducting surveillance on foreign targets in the three months after the election.  This is something we already knew, as this is how Michael Flynn's communications were discovered.  None of what Nunes states validates Trump's 'former President Obama wiretapped me' claim
• It's reported the Secret Service is going bankrupt trying to stretch their budget to cover the White House, Mar-A-Lago, NYC and Trump family vacations
• Rep. Nunes' Trump claims creates more questions than answers, particularly why the Trump transition team, in the final months of President Obama's tenure, were making calls to foreign individuals without the Obama White House being aware of them
• Trump Advisor Roger Stone calls the House Intelligence Committee the P-word, a derogatory term for a part of the female anatomy
  
• Trump's nominee for Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta refuses to say if he'd try to stop companies from poisoning their own employees
• Trump lost 10 GOP votes after he met with the GOP about TrumpCare
• Rex Tillerson comes under criticism for his lack of knowledge and understanding of the job of Secretary of State
• In 2000, Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort was trying to get a visa for a Russian Billionaire, this over FBI objections
• Trump rescinds protections for people with large, overwhelming student loan debt
• Due to the Secret Service's request for immediate additional funds being denied, the Secret Service will likely cut cyber-crime investigations to cover the cost for Trump's Mar-A-Lago trips
• A report out states the FBI has proof that Trump campaign officials were in communication with Russian operatives who were coordinating the release of information designed to damage Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign
• Comedian Samantha Bee, on her television show, proves Trump Advisor Sebastian Gorka, a man who insists he's not part of the Hungarian Nazi collaborators Vitézi Rend, actually adopted their secret lower case 'v.' in his signature as a way to identify oneself to other Vitézi Rend members
  
• Defense Secretary James Mattis is under attack from the GOP for not appointing Republican loyalists into top positions in the Defense Department
• Donald Trump Jr. attacks the Mayor of London hours after London suffers a terrorist attack
  
• In an effort to win over the far right House Freedom Caucus, the White House is in talks to remove mandatory coverage requirements, including maternity and Mental Health Care, from Insurance Industry policy requirements
• All of Secretary of States Rex Tillerson's secret ExxonMobile climate change e-mails have mysteriously been erased
• A man who has repeatedly bragged about his connections to Trump, Felix Sater has popped up as another possible connection between Russian mobsters and Trump
• It's reported Michale Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page and Roger Stone are all specifically under investigation by the FBI over their Russian ties
• Energy Secretary Rick Perry is angry about the election of Texas A&M's first openly gay student body president, going as far as to actually question the legitimacy of the election
  
• Rep. Nunes, after apologizing to House Democrats on his House Intelligence Committee, refuses to deny whether the new information he shared might have come directly from the White House itself
• Trump, who said Obamacare was the worst thing ever, now reverses course, saying he'll be fine keeping it
• Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet in a room of white men to discuss women's health
• On Thursday the 23rd, Trump and GOP leadership pull the scheduled vote on Trumpcare, strongly signaling Obamacare will stay the law for now
• Trump's Time Magazine interview is non-sensical and belligerent, finishing with the 'hard to believe it came from a US President's mouth' line, "I can't be doing so badly, because I'm President and you're not!" 
• Rex Tillerson orders US Embassy's to identify "populations warranting increased scrutiny," but doesn't explain what he means or how he wants them to proceed
  
• Data firm Cambridge Analytica, a firm funded by the Trump backing billionaire Mercer Family, claims to have collected psychological profiles on over 200 million voters
• Trump, a man who claims he's a great negotiator, demands a final vote in the US House on TrumpCare without any further negotiations
• Rep. Nunes admits he has no information on whether Trump and his Administration were surveilled 
• Trump Advisor Roger Stone tries to defend himself by sending CNN's Jake Tapper a long deranged letter defending his Russian ties and connections, and vilifying President Obama
• Sean Spicer insists ending maternity care coverage will not lead to higher costs.  It will
• Democratic Representative Mark Pocan says he has seen damning intelligence community evidence which shows collusion between the Trump's 2016 campaign and the Russian Government for the specific purposes of illegally throwing the election to Trump
  
• Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says Trump has "perfect genes"
  
• Speaker of the House Paul Ryan apparently sprints to the White House to tell Trump they do not have the votes for TrumpCare to pass, and that he needs to pull the bill
• Senior Trump Advisor Steve Bannon tells Trump to create a Republican Representative Enemies list of anyone who doesn't vote for TrumpCare
• TrumpCare dies (for now) as it is pulled from the House Floor prior to a vote, a stunning defeat for Trump and the GOP who have control of the House, Senate and the Presidency, and who were touting this as their signature piece of legislation
  

SWEET MOTHER OF GOD...

By the way, it's funny to see how many Republicans are violently outraged at me for putting out this easily fact checkable list of infractions every week.  Their first comment is how this is just liberal talking points (not true) and how I'm only pushing a 'liber-tard' agenda (nope - just an agenda of documenting).  They ask why I don't 'give him a chance.' For anyone with the slightest bit of common sense, Trump's chance disappeared after the first week of transgressions.  The point of this list is to point out how Trump's allowed to get away with this nonsense because Republicans and Trump supporters have bi-polar outrage.  Are you telling me if Hillary Clinton had 1/100th of these infractions, the GOP wouldn't be investigating her?  Of course they would.  They'd be trying to invent a 4th branch of government, The Investigative Branch, to focus on the real, and made up, outrages they'd be demanding Clinton be investigated for.  For God's sake, there was a #Pizzagate rally for moron rightos on Saturday, and people actually showed up!

This list is just a list, and if you don't like it, that's on you, not me!