President Trump, Week 20

Here's this week's list of ignorance, treason, buffoonery and incompetence coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning 2 PM Friday, June 2nd to 2 PM Friday, June 9th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

(THROAT POUCH!!!)

The disclaimer: this list is designed to point out the incredible double standard of the Republican party.  If the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R,' everything on this list would've had at least warranted press conference condemnation from the Republicans.  Many of these issues would've started immediate Congressional investigations, and some would've VERY JUSTIFIABLY started impeachment proceedings.  The Comey testimony from Thursday alone would've ended the career of a Democratic Attorney General, Vice President and/or President.

But the shocking amount of silence coming from the ranks of the Republican Party is screaming the truth; most Republicans are trying to ensure no one ever throws this unqualified orange gorilla butt wart out on his urine soaked ear.

The Republicans are cowards with an agenda.  What they're saying is "of course we would've thrown out a Democrat for 1/100th of the violations Trump's done, but since he's our guy, and since we have no morality whatsoever, we don't care as long as there is an 'R' next to his name."

This is the US Presidency in human centipede form.  Prepare for the worst!  Onto the countdown!

• Trump son-in-law and Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner, and his supporters, are claiming his back channel communication to the Kremlin is nothing new, as they say Obama did the same thing with Iran.  The only problem with their story, it's not true
• Officers who served under National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are begging him to quit, stating he's only being used by Trump "for the stars on his collar."  They say he's only dragging the US military through the mud to validate Trump policy
  
• Moronic spawn of Trump, Eric, is getting criticized for his promotion of Trump campaign merchandise, violating the separation Trump is supposed to have from his sons who are running the blind trust
  
• In a troubling story, as European leaders reject Trump and fear Putin, they've turned to a new ally to forge stronger trade relations, China
• The Special Counsel Robert Mueller has now expanded his Trump/Russia investigation to include Trump's Former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and reports are it may eventually expand to include Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• Trump's Budget Adviser Mick Mulvaney apologizes for attacking the Congressional staff behind the Congressional Budget Office, and then proceeds to attacks them again for exposing his 2 trillion dollar math error in the latest Trump budget
  
• Jim Acosta of CNN openly called out EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, who was on the defensive after Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement.  Pruitt, who insisted everyone who disagrees with him is a "climate exaggerator," was put on point by Acosta who asked, "what if you're putting your head in the sand on this?"  
  
• A new outright battle is waging in the White House as Trump son in law and Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner and First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump are going head to head with Senior Presidential Adviser, walking septic tank, and man expected to be the real President of the United States at this point, Steve Bannon
  
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway was being purposely coy when she implies Trump might not let the Former FBI Director James Comey testify before Congress on June 8th, even though the President doesn't really have the power to stop him without invoking an immediate lawsuit
• Rep. Devin Nunes, of the House Intelligence Committee, and a man with close ties to Trump, asked the US spy agencies to reveal the names of US Individuals and/or organizations contained in the classified intelligence on Russia's interference in the election, a process called 'unmasking.'  Nunes specifically and solely criticized former President Obama's Administration in his request.  Nunes was seeking the unmasking in late 2016
• George Conway has changed his mind and has now decided he doesn't want to take the position of head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division 
  
• Scott Pruitt quotes a now thoroughly debunked New York Times Column from a notorious anti-climate change zealot as the the justification for Trump's exit from the Paris Agreement
• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson states the US will continue to reduce carbon emissions even though we are no longer in the Paris Agreement, which leads to asking the question 'then why leave the Paris Agreement in the first place?'
• Trump and his Justice Department are threatening Inauguration protesters with 80 years of prison time for protesting, as they've added 'urging to riot,' 'conspiracy to riot' and 'destruction of property' to the heavy handed 'felony rioting' charge the protesters were already facing
  
• Trump's search for a new FBI Director is very weird.  The candidates are summoned to a White House meeting with Trump, Vice President Pence and AG Sessions.  Trump spends 10 to 20 minutes talking about himself, seeming distracted.  There's no process for potential interviewees, outside of random.  The entire process is being described as 'chaotic'
• Trump claims to be a Presbyterian, but a new story seems to expose his Christian faith is just an act.  Before the Inauguration, Trump met with two Christian leaders, both Presbyterian pastors.  Trump bragged about doing very well with Evangelicals in the polls, before asking the pastors "what are you then?"  They said Presbyterian, to which Trump asked, "But you're all Christians?"  Reminder, he claims to be a devout Presbyterian
  
• A group tied to the Trump Campaign, the Remembrance Project, a group raising money for families who had a family member killed by an undocumented immigrant, and used the family members to promote Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, has yet to deliver any of the funds they raised for the families they exploited
• Trump uses a terrorist attack on London as justification for his Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim travel ban in the United States in the hours after the terrorist attack occurred
  
• Trump's team put together a "Pittsburgh not Paris" rally in support of Trump's insanely foolish withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.  The rally was held in Virginia(???), without Trump, who skipped the rally so he could go golfing for what is likely his 40th golf day since taking office  
• A great time to remind you how much Trump complained about the amount of time former President Obama golfed, which isn't even 5% of the time Trump has golfed
  
• More nooses are found outside of the MLK Memorial in DC, after Trump insisted the USA doesn't have a growing racism problem.  Trump has yet to condemn most of this blatant racism
• At the press conference where Trump announced his withdraw from the Paris Agreement, he touted his tax bill currently "moving through Congress."  There is no tax bill currently moving through Congress.  It's not clear if he thinks there is a bill moving through Congress, making him delusional, or he just made it up, so he's lying
  
• Another weekend, another series of large marches against Trump, as the #MarchForTruth was conducted in over 150 cities nationwide, a march geared to encourage approval of an independent investigation, not just a special counsel, for the Trump/Russia investigation.  Estimates are the marchers numbered in the six figures
  
• Former Republican Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has stated he will front the 15 million dollars to cover America's financial commitment to the Paris Agreement, a direct condemnation of Trump's decision to withdraw from the Climate Agreement.  He also said he is willing to lead America in the continued fight against Climate Change, verse Trump, who likes to golf
• The church Trump allegedly attended when he was a child, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, has disavowed him
  
• It's reported the reason Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is not eager to fill roles in the State Department is that he's terrified of leaks.  He's incredibly undermanned at State, choosing to try to do everything via two assistants only
• In one of the more tasteless things Trump has done (not a short list either), Trump within 12 hours of a terrorist strike in London takes to Twitter to attack the Mayor of London for being too nice to Muslims, encouraging people to succumb to their anti-political correct hatred, and to start openly discriminating, "for our future"
  
• Trump also outright lied about what the Mayor of London said, criticizing the mayor for something he did not say
• The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan blows off Trump like he's blowing off an internet troll, which is actually all Trump really is
• While Trump is attacking London's Mayor after the terrorist strike, the rest of the world's leaders are sending their condolences
  
• A UK professor rips Trump's moronic response to the terrorist strike in London by stating (and I quote): "Were you genetically engineered to be stupid?"
• It should be pointed out Trump has said FAR more about the London terrorist strike in 12 hours than he did in the four days after the Portland, Oregon terrorist strike
  
• Senator Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee is asking the question many people should've asked by now, 'how exactly did the Russians know the best ways to help Trump during the Election of 2016?'
• Trump apparently applied for a 6 month extension on his taxes, with no explanation on why he needed it
• Late night comedian John Oliver, on his show Last Week Tonight, did something no-one else in US media has been able to do, take Trump's entire 'leaving Paris Agreement' speech, and exposed it as outright lies, dishonest numbers, and fraudulent statements
  
• John Oliver is also the only one who has pointed out France is directly taunting Trump by inviting US citizens to immigrate to France and make it their new home
  
• Trump apparently is desperate to fire White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, but he apparently can't find anyone who actually wants to take the job
• Deutsche Bank is refusing a Congressional request to hand over any information they might have in regards to Trump/Russia connections
• Trump's lack of urgency and inability to find willing candidates to fill Administration jobs is seriously jeopardizing American safety.  The lack of staff at State and the FBI is leaving gaping holes in our security net
  
• Senior Presidential Adviser Steve Bannon, and son in law and Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner's pet project, the Strategic Initiatives Group, a domestic think tank they dreamed up as their own version of the NSA, is no longer, as internal squabbling, lack of funds, and lack of competent staff has killed the project
• Trump, in a sign he's admitting his Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim ban is going to lose at the Supreme Court, is now attacking his own Department of Justice for submitting the "watered down" and "politically correct" version of the bill for SCOTUS consideration.  This also points to what he and his staff have all been denying, but we've known as fact; the ban was always just meant as a way to discriminate against Muslims
• Trump's speech to NATO wasn't only a surprise for the world, but for for his own national security team, as Trump decided, on his own, to do some last minute editing prior to giving the speech, without telling anyone.  Specifically, Trump removed any reference to the Article 5 provision, an article which touts the commitment of member countries to help defend other member countries.  It'd be interesting to see if he'd had any contact with the Russians that morning...
  
• White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway criticizes media for covering Trump's Twitter tweets, when Trump himself has said it's his preferred method of communicating with the people
• The GOP is putting a plan in place to encourage social media, vocal, and even physical attacks on the news media in the USA, an attempt to turn them into the "real villain" for 2018.  They're strategy is it would allow their candidates to not have to address media questions about Trump
• Jared Kushner's family apparently owes Chinese investors 250 million dollars, and are having a hard time accumulating the funds.  US banks are very wary of leading to the Kushners.  Considering the Kushner's, to apply for a loan, would have to reveal their financials to the financial institution in question, and potentially their financial relationship to Trump himself, this should send up a million red flags
  
• A former Trump campaign staffer said some of the Trump aides are "probably too stupid" to know collusion with the Russians is illegal
• For goodness sake, will someone PLEASE take Trump's phone away from him!  After being rightly criticized for attacking the Mayor of London after the terrorist strike there, Trump doubles down 
  
• Major UK politicians from most of their political parties are insisting Trump be banned from entering the UK after his embarrassing and ignorant attacks on the Mayor of London, after the terrorist attack there
• Trump has decided to not use executive privilege to block former FBI Director James Comey from testifying in front of Congress, something which would have immediately drawn far more justified calls for a independent investigation
• Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stumbles all over herself as she tries to explain how Trump didn't just undermine his own Administrations argument.  In legal briefings to defend Trump's Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim ban, they're insisting it's not a travel ban, but in Twitter attacks on the Mayor of London, Trump himself is calling it a "travel ban"
  
• Trump blames the Democrats for blocking his nominees to Ambassadorships but he has yet to put forward names for the vast majority of them, making blocking them impossible
• EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, insisting the coal industry is hiring like crazy, touts how Trump has inspired the industry to hire 50,000 new workers since the beginning of the year.  The actual number is a few hundred, 586 to be exact
• Only 28% of the US population thinks it was the right decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.  Only 19% 'strongly agree' with Trump's decision
  
• Trump has decided to privatize the Air Traffic Controllers of America, something which will undoubtedly lead to much higher airline costs and far less safe airline travel
• The decision by Trump to privatize the Air Traffic Controllers will also likely mean the end to small rural airports, as the way you cut costs to a program like Air Traffic Controlling is to shut down the less profitable, or money losing, operations.  This means many of the same people who voted for Trump will likely have to drive hours to get to their nearest airport
• IN ANOTHER BOMBSHELL STORY, for the first time, the Russians are revealed to have targeted the election itself, as an NSA report stated the Russians targeted a US voting software supplier in 2016, although there is, as of yet, no evidence any votes were affected by the hacking
  
• It's also reported the Russians tried very hard to hack Elections officials in the days before the election in 2016.  How successful they were remains unknown
• Experts believe Trump's Twitter blabs where he called his Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim ban a "travel ban" are equal to official Presidential Proclamations, and pretty much annihilate his case to get the ban reinstated
  
• The Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had a swanky speaking engagement to Oil Industry Trade Group at a Trump Hotel, meaning his 'official' government meeting made money for Trump
• After a disastrous two days on Twitter, Trump's surrogates are all now insisting everyone shouldn't take Trump's tweets so seriously.  A reminder: Trump prefers Twitter, because it allows him to speak directly to his supporters
• In more funny counting news, the supporters of the "Million Canadian Deplorables March" have claimed 5000 people showed up to support Trump in Canada's capitol of Ottawa, but the local police officials dispute that, saying less than 100 showed up according to their unofficial count.  One things for sure, it was nowhere near 5000
  
• A new report out states Trump has already soured on his Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as he might be the next Trump appointee to get fired.  The main concern seems to be not whether to fire him, but how it'd be received with everything else that's going on
• It's now reported the Russians did indeed get some access to Illinois voter records, with up to 80,000 compromised to the Russians, this according to a member of the House Intelligence Committee
• David Rank, the Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Beijing has quit, due to Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
  
• The Trump International Hotel in DC received over 270 thousand dollars from Saudi Arabia, part of a lobbying effort Saudi Arabia partook in to stop victims of terrorist attacks from being able to sue sponsors of terrorism
• A major Trump supporter in California stabbed an African American man to death after a political argument at a bus stop.  No condemnation from Trump
• The Wall Street Journal, one of the more conservative 'legitimate news' newspapers in the country, has called out Trump's insensitive and ignorant Twitter fight with the Mayor of London
  
• Rex Tillerson, the US Secretary of State, visited New Zealand, one of the more gentile countries on the planet, and it didn't go well.  According to Gardiner Harris, a correspondent traveling with the State Department, "I've been in motorcades for a couple of years now...I've never seen so many people flip the bird at an American Motorcade..."
  
• Ignorant spawn of Trump, Trump Jr., defended his dad attacking the Mayor of London using made up quotes by stating, "he's been proven right every time."  No, not even close...
• Have you ever wanted to punch a whale?  Well thanks to Trump, now you can! Trump is green lighting the process of seismic surveying, where they push loud bursts of compressed air through water, assaulting all marine life anywhere near the site.  The Administration is approving 5 Incidental Harassment Authorizations geared to allow drilling companies to "injure or disturb" ocean animals in their quest for oil
  
• IN ANOTHER BOMBSHELL STORY, apparently AFTER Michael Flynn was let go from the Administration for illegal contact with the Russians, Trump and his staff were still trying to find a way to ease unilateral sanctions on Russia's Oil industry, arguing a decrease in Russian oil production would be bad for the USA...(?)
• Moronic spawn of Trump, Eric, called the Trump/Russia investigation the "greatest hoax of all time," while at the same time promoting a new hotel chain venture under the Trump name
• The supposed Saudi Arabian 110 billion new arms deal is not real.  An investigation into the supposed arms deal states there are NO contracts, only letters of interest or intent.  Many are offers the defense industry thinks the Saudi's will be interested in eventually, but there's no actual contracts signed.  This means every statement Trump and his Administration made about the arms deal were lies
  
• IN ANOTHER BOMBSHELL STORY, Senator Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Russian hacking of the election system itself in 2016 is much broader than the NSA leaked memo hints.  He also said a US election will eventually be hijacked by the Russians, because the attempts by Russia to infiltrate the US's elections system did not end in 2016
• In an amazingly short sided approach to trade, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stated the Chinese trade policy will focus own specific issues, not an overall broader trade policy
• In one of the more stupid moves ever, Trump says he's going to live tweet the testimony James Comey will be delivering to Congress
  
• After a few Middle Eastern countries cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar, Trump tweeted his full support of the move.  Slight problem; the US currently has Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar, with 11,000 American troops, a key launch point of attacks agains ISIS
• It also should be mentioned that during Trump's visit to the Middle East only a few weeks ago, he was trying to sell Qatar weapons, pitching "beautiful" US made military equipment
• Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education is refusing to state whether she would send tax payer dollars to schools who openly discriminate.  She clearly wants to say "Damn right I will" but she knows she can't, so she ends up sounding like a complete idiot trying to not answer the question from Sen. Jeff Merkley over and over again
• Apparently 4 law firms turned down Trump when he requested representation for the Russia/Trump affair.  They either were concerned he was guilty, concerned he wouldn't pay, or concerned he would refuse to listen to them
  
• In a statement I never thought I'd ever say, Canada is taking the lead from the USA.  Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada has issued a solid rebuke to Trump, the 'Trudeau Doctrine,' designed to strengthen NATO without the USA
• How Christian!  Charitable monies raised by the Eric Trump Foundation, money intended for children's cancer treatment, was in turn funneled not to dying children, but to Trump's businesses, and in turn Trump's pockets
  
• Trump told the GOP they could put solar panels on the border wall but only if they said it was his idea.  The idea of solar panels on our southern border has been an idea bandied about for years
• The new tactic for bullies in America's schools is to threaten their targets by invoking Trump's name
• It's reported Russia has hacked Qatar's state news agencies and planted a fake news story to increase tensions between Qatar and the US and it's Middle Eastern allies.  All it needed was Trump to take the bait (cue the sound of a fisherman trying to reel in the fish)
  
• In an attempt to clear up the confusion of whether Trump's tweets are to be trusted or not, Sean Spicer, the Press Secretary, says Trump's tweets are "official statements" by the White House.  This directly contradicts the numerous White House spokespeople who've been frantically insisting over the last three days everyone shouldn't take Trump's tweets seriously
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions offered to resign when he discovered Trump had soured of him.  Apparently the White House turned down his offer, probably because the list of people who'd be willing and qualified to become the new Attorney General would be limited
  
• Former FBI Director James Comey told Attorney General Jeff Sessions he no longer wanted to be left alone with Trump after Trump requested Comey drop the Flynn investigation, otherwise known as obstruction of justice
• Trump asked newly appointed Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coates to intervene and to curtail the FBI's Trump/Russia probe, during a meeting in March.  After discussing the conversation with others, Coats felt for him to intercede would've been inappropriate
• I want to point out, especially with the latest revelations from Comey and Sessions, and the lack of any US Attorneys, it's clear the Department of Justice under Trump has been a comically terrifying mess
  
• The Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, Michelle Lee, has resigned her position
  
• First Amendment advocates have pointed out Trump blocking people on Twitter actually violates of the First Amendment of the Constitution.  Trump HAS TO make himself available to the public 
• A former Trump aide says Trump feels as if Twitter is his own personal newspaper, and Trump's incapable of being reigned in on it
• Sean Spicer will not confirm if Trump still backs Jeff Sessions as Attorney General
  
• James Comey is set to testify that even though he told Trump he wasn't under investigation, it was for specific elements (Russian urine tape), not overall.  This directly contradicts Trump's claims he told him there wasn't anything Trump did wrong.  Trump lied, again
• Former National Security Adviser and treasonous bastard, Michael Flynn, apparently had a super secret Twitter account, but before you get excited, he basically only used it to tell his idiot son to shut up
  
• In a sign the damage might already be too much to repair, the US Ambassador from Qatar is openly asking why Trump is attacking them with hate tweets on Twitter.  "We are surprised.  No one approached us directly"
• It's Infrastructure Week at the White House, where Trump's planning on announcing how he's going to promote trillions of dollars of infrastructure improvement while only leaving 200 billion in the budget for it. The answer, apparent after his Air Traffic Controllers solution, is privatization, with likely most Federal transportation projects sold off to the highest bidder, and turned into a for profit industry.  This will cost us more, will provide a far less quality product, and will not be updated regularly or with the proper budgets, because profit will become the most important thing
  
• Former Justice Department Communications Director Matthew Miller states Trump souring on AG Sessions likely points to Sessions rebuking a Trump request to oversee a coverup.  He pointed to what we already know as corroborating evidence
• IN ANOTHER BOMBSHELL STORY, apparently the head of the DNC in 2016 Donna Brazile was concerned by the evidence voter registration and absentee voting lists might've been sabotaged by hackers.  She warned the Department of Homeland Security, and informed the RNC's head at that point, Reince Priebus, the current Secretary of State, their party might have experienced the same problem.  She wanted to release a joint statement, but Priebus refused to sign it, our even acknowledge her concerns (!!!)
  
• The Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper states what we are seeing right now with Trump/Russia makes Watergate pale in comparison
• James Clapper went onto say, "of course" the intelligent assessments cast doubt on the "legitimacy of Trump's election." This would be the first time one of the former heads of the Intelligence Community openly questioned whether the Election of 2016 was legitimate
  
• Trump, clearly scared of the upcoming testimony against him, hastily summoned Republican Senators Marco Rubio, Cory Gardner, Tom Cotton, and Todd Young, and Representatives Lee Zeldin and Francis Rooney to a dinner at the White House the day before testimony begins.  The suspicion is that Trump was giving them marching orders on how to change the subject of Trump/Russia to Obama, Obama, Obama!
• It's announced Trump has picked Christopher Wray as the new FBI Director.  Wray is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's lawyer from the Bridgegate scandal...you can't make this crap up
• Moronic spawn of Trump, Eric, states those who oppose his father are "not even people."  I think they are, I know I am.  This seems more like a sniveling little brat throwing a temper tantrum
  
• Jeff Sessions ends the Justice Department's practice of allowing settlements which called for third party payments, usually community organizations, saying all they are is a "slush fund" for special interests
• Seven states are suing the EPA for ignoring the science which shows a certain pesticide is directly linked to causing brain damage.  Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, thinks it appropriate to use, and even has undone labor rules, with Pruitt now allowing children to handle the pesticide
• When Trump pulled the USA out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, he quoted incredibly misleading statistics which pointed to India and China being FAR worse than the US is at CO2 omissions.  The truth is the US is by far the biggest culprit, and India/China have committed to dramatically decreasing their dependence on fossil fuels.  India and China are now meeting to become the new guiding partners on climate change initiatives worldwide, while Trump praises coal, a fuel source which will never come back.  Trump's the guys who when he saw cars everywhere said "it's time to invest in big horseshoe!"
  
• Former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts stated the Russians likely didn't change any votes in the election, because they knew that would lead to war, a war they'd likely lose, but they definitely did everything outside of that, more to help Clinton lose, than to help Trump to win
• In blockbuster testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence and Mike Rogers, the NSA Director both refused to acknowledge if Trump had asked them personally to interfere or discredit James Comey's FBI investigation into the Trump/Russia scandal
  
• In blockbuster testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dan Coates completely annihilated Trump's allegations that former President Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump.  "In the 10 years since the Freedom Act was enacted...there have been no instances of intentional violations of Section 702 (FISA)."
• It should be noted that both Coats and Rogers refused to answer unclassified questions in an unclassified hearing about their interactions with Trump, signifying they're trying to protect him politically
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump had an Us Weekly cover where she talks about how much she disagrees with her dad.  Two points - first, she's clearly concerned about her own brand as her doing a cover story about this is clearly designed to distance herself from her dad.  Second, if she disagrees with him on stuff, she's sure quiet about it in the meetings she has with him
• People loyal to Jeff Sessions are livid Trump refuses to say if he still stands by the Attorney General
  
• When the Pentagon found out former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was trying to open up more back channels with Russia, they were aghast by his actions, namely because they were aware of the alleged interactions between the Russians and the Trump campaign in 2016
• During blockbuster testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Martin Heinrich was visibly upset about Coats, Rogers, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe refusal to answer if they even had talked to Trump bout Comey's investigation.  "I think your unwillingness to answer a very basic [non-classified] question speaks volumes." 
• Most of the FBI is outraged at Trump's out of the blue nomination of Christopher Wray as the new head of the FBI, actually calling it a "slap in the face"
  
• The Pentagon is openly distancing itself from Trump in regards to his comments and actions towards Qatar
• James Comey has released his opening statement in advance of his testimony to the Senate, and in it reiterated Trump's demand for loyalty from the Director of the FBI
• Comey reiterated that he felt pressured by Trump to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn
• Comey also revealed Trump brought up the Russian hookers story to him, on his own.  Trump insisted there was nothing factual involved with the story.  Comey said nothing
  
• Legal experts, going over James Comey's released testimony, say the pre testimony statements present enough evidence to be able to charge Trump with an impeachable offense, with some calling it the "most shocking single document" about a President since Watergate
• Apparently Trump's anger is reaching new, unexplored levels as this White House resembles a dumpster fire
• Trump has named Jeffery Clark to be the Justice Department's top environmental lawyer.  Clark was at one point a main lawyer for BP after they toxified the entire Gulf of Mexico with their oil rig
  
• As Trump was supposed to be delivering a speech about his self designated Infrastructure Week, he decided to instead spend most of his speech in Ohio bad mouthing Democrats in Congress for obstructing his agenda, an agenda which so far hasn't gone to Congress
• VP Pence abruptly cancelled his appearance on PBS NewsHour to talk about Infrastructure Week.  The cancellation was due to the release of the Comey opening remarks
• The New England Journal of Medicine states Trump is making America more hostile and more mentally ill, as part of their study of how Presidential Elections influence mental and physical health and behavior
  
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway states Trump has confidence in Jeff Sessions, and is almost immediately contradicted by the White House on her claims
• Former Mexican President Vicente Fox openly taunts Trump over his love of taco bowls, stating "just eat a (blank-ing) taco"
  
• Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein declined to pledge full independence to the special counsel investigating the ties between Trump and Russia
• Even though the vast majority of his Administration remains unfilled, without even a nominee for most seats, Trump has already put forward his second group of Federal Judges to be approved, clearly signifying judges who sign his loyalty pledge are his biggest priority
  
• Do you remember when Trump and his supporters demanded there be no investigation into the legit requests of the Green Party to have computer security experts investigate election computer systems to see if there were signs of hacking?  I sure do!  The Right even went onto personally insult anyone who dared suggest looking into the security of our election computers, calling them sore losers and 'snowflakes'.  The latest NSA document not only shows the Green Party was correct in putting forward their request, but also was underestimating the real threat.  Russia did indeed extensively attack American Election computers
  
• Trump's nominee to be the new FBI Director Christopher Wray purposely misled investigations into deaths at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004
• Supposed Christian Trump mocks Iran, and it's terrorism victims, after a terrorist attack in their country.  He stated they brought it upon themselves
  
• In a direct dismissal of Trump policy, China and the state of California are working on their own climate agreement, outside of US Federal government influence
• North Korea, ONCE AGAIN, has launched missile tests, this after Trump, 10-12 missile launch tests ago, stated if they did one more, there would be consequences.  So far, nothing from Trump on ANY of the launches
  
• There have been numerous Republican based stories in the hours leading up to Comey's testimony which are either completely misquoting Comey (in an effort to say he's vindicated Trump), saying he's nothing (that it's a minor story), or outright attacking Comey as a political hack (only out to get Trump).  All of them are wrong
• A report out says the Native American Communities of the US would be hardest hit by the enacting of Trumpcare, reversing a positive trend which has only occurred due to ObamaCare
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, he started off by calling Trump a liar.  After Trump had repeatedly expressed confidence in Comey, and initially said Comey was fired because he harassed Hillary Clinton too much, and then went public in multiple formats to say Comey was fired because of the Russia Investigation, Trump then settled on he fired him because he was running the FBI poorly. "Those were lies, plain and simple, and I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them and I'm so sorry that the American People were told them"
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey admitted the reason he was documenting his meetings with Trump was because he frankly did not trust him.  "I was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of our meeting, so I thought it really important to document"
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey stated he felt his job as Director of the FBI depended on if he "demonstrated loyalty" to Trump.  Considering he was fired, it appears (from his perspective) he did put the USA's best interests ahead of Trump's
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee he feels, after Trump repeatedly stated it, he was fired solely because of the Russia investigation.  "I take [Trump] at his word - I was fired because of the Russia Investigation
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey admits to leaking he details of an Oval Office meeting with Trump to prompt an independent investigation of the Russia probe.  "I needed to get that out into the public square"
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey states the investigation into the Russia matter showed Attorney General Jeff Sessions was compromised to the Russians.  When asked Comey refused to answer what specifics led the FBI to believe Sessions was compromised, he stated they knew Sessions was going to recuse himself anyway, so they felt the problem had a solution already (in regards to the FBI investigation)
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey affirmed he felt Special Investigator Robert Mueller will include a formal investigation into whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice as part of their overall investigation.  This, unintentionally, indicated the Special Counsel is indeed investigating Trump for obstruction of justice
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey confirmed that Former National Security Adviser Micahel Flynn was definitely under investigation for lying to the FBI in regards to his relationship with the Russians.  "That was the subject of the criminal inquiry"
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey specifically addresses Trump's Twitter claim that he had tapes of his meetings with Comey and he threatened to release them.  Corey's response: "Look I've seen the tweet about tapes.  Lordy, I hope there are tapes"
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, one of the undeniable themes Comey put out was how even though the Russia probe wasn't currently targeting Trump personally, that could definitely change and change fast
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey very clearing implied the 36 page Steele Dossier contained "credible allegations."  The Dossier is full of allegations specific for Trump, and when Republican Senator Richard Burr asked about concerns about blackmail potential, Comey responded ""Yes if the FBI receives a credible allegation that there is some effort to co-opt, coerce, direct, covertly on behalf of American power, that's the basis...an investigation is opened."  He refused to answer anything further in open session
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, when asked by Senator Tom Cotton whether he believed Trump colluded with Russia, Comey answered, "That's a question I don't think I should answer in an open setting"
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY, Comey states directly that Russia absolutely compromised our election on multiple levels, without a doubt, and warned the Russian will indeed be back to try to do it again
  
• IN BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY FROM FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY,  Comey cast doubts on Vice President Pence's story he was unaware of concerns about Flynn before he resigned.  He said, in response to whether Pence was aware of Flynn's issues, "My understanding is that he was.  I'm trying to remember where I get that understanding from.  I think from former acting Attorney General Sally Yates."
  
• Speaker Paul Ryan dismissed most of Comey's Bombshell testimony, stating since Trump's new at government, he deserves a mulligan.  WOW!
• The Republican strategy with Comey seems to be focusing the word "hope."  They want to ignore the rest of Trump's sentence, where he was clearly pressuring Comey into dropping the Flynn investigation.  They also want to overlook the time line, being the day after Flynn was let go.  They also want to avoid acknowledging the situation, with the extraordinary move of asking everyone else to leave the room, including the Attorney General, before talking about what Trump hoped Comey would do for him
  
• Trump is openly contesting two of Comey's claims; that he told him to let go of the probe of Michael Flynn and that he asked for Comey's loyalty
• Oh good.  I was wondering what a complete moron thinks...Ignorant spawn of Trump, Trump Jr., took to Twitter to condemn the Flynn investigation overall. "Flynn stuff is BS"
  
• Trump's new FBI Director Nominee Christopher Wray has ties to Russia himself.  Wray is a partner at King & Spalding, a law firm which represents Rosneft and Gazprom, two of Russia's largest state controlled oil companies
• In a major No-Duh, Trump might not have been aware of the 11,000 troops we have on the ground in Qatar, prior to bashing Qatar
  
• Senate Intelligence wants answers from Jared Kushner and they want them by next week
• Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders comes out with a rousing defense of Trump after Comey testified he's a liar.  "No, he's not!"  That's all she said
  
• At least 6 former US Attorney's feel as if the burden has been reached to charge Trump with obstruction of justice
• Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz's official public statement in defense of his client is littered with typos, including a misspelling of the word 'President'
  
• After the Comey testimony, Republicans are running scared in Washington DC, terrified of the media and constituents
• Many experts are expecting Jeff Sessions to be removed as Attorney General relatively quickly, especially after Comey's bombshell that he was compromised by the Russians
• The fallback defense of Trump seems to be what some are calling the 'Toddler Defense.'  it's a take off on what Paul Ryan was pushing, where the excuse for Trump's incompetence and crimes is "he's learning as he goes," like a toddler
  
• After Trump blabbed there were tapes of his conversations from the Oval Office, Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to acknowledge is there is a recording system in place in the Oval Office/White House
• Trump's lawyer Marc Kasowitz is attacking Comey saying he had "unauthorized disclosures" of "privileged information" when he leaked his personal memos to the press.  Most legal experts claim Comey did nothing wrong
• Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is ignoring the governors of western states, including many Republican ones, and is trying to undo local conservation plans put into place when the Federal government failed to act
  
• It's pointed out the Republicans who dined with Trump were indeed Trump's staunchest supporters during the Comey testimony
• Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos defended her Departments slow response time to Democratic Politician inquiries.  A reminder, Trump has ordered all Federal agencies to openly ignore information requests from Democrats.  DeVos says her department is not doing that; it's just traditional mail is very slow
  
• IN ANOTHER BOMBSHELL STORY, in Britain, Teresa May and the Conservative Party lose big in the snap elections, going from having an outright majority to having the largest party, but not a majority.  Many people point to the insults from Trump (a May ally) directed at the Mayor of London, after recent terrorist attacks, as having soured the public to the May's party, the Conservatives
  
• Jared Kushner announces plans to meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee
• Trump finally took to Twitter after the Comey testimony and basically decided to take the "I know you are but what am I" defense.  He claims Comey lied the entire time, he was completely vindicated (?!?) and Comey is a leaker, the new worst thing you can be for a Republican.  Trump didn't seem to mind 'leakers' in the past...
  
• Numerous Republicans are now freaking out they have to campaign for their own seat while carrying the weight of Trump on their backs too
• Ignorant spawn of Trump, Trump Jr., states the Dow Industrial Average exonerates his dad from any crimes and criticism.  FYI, the Dow is where it's at due to Former President Obama, period
• Trump's attempted grandstanding over Comey's testimony could be more obstruction of justice.  If his lawyer follows through with his threat and Trump's tweets, filing a complain, the DOJ really has no authority over a private citizen.  If they take it to the Senate Judiciary Committee, they're technically filing an investigation because they didn't like someones testimony.  Legal experts clearly know Comey hasn't broken the law
  
• The Trump Administration has abstained from signing onto an international accord which would've combated tax evasion by companies operating in multiple countries
• Senator Chick Grassley, a Republican, blasted Trump and the White House legal team for attempting to limit Congress; ability to obtain information from the Executive Branch.  "This is nonsense"
• Reports are Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, is trying to find some sort of 50 vote coalition to pass Trumpcare out of the Senate without public input or floor debate.  So far the reports are they have only 45-47 votes
  
• Trump is moving to reopen hundreds of deportation cases for undocumented immigrants who have deep ties to the United States, a group former President Obama had given reprieve 
• In another interesting note from Michael Flynn's amended financials is the fact he was working to get nuclear power plants built throughout the Middle East
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is stating she's actually concerned now about Trump's health
• The case Juliana v. the United States is going to trial after a federal judge denied the Trump Administrations appeal to drop the case.  In the case, the plaintiffs, a group of young people, are suing the government and the fossil fuel industry, saying through their actions and coordination, they've violated their right to a livable climate
  
• Forgetting the obvious impact to our climate, an issue Trump and his Administration do not care about, a study of Trump's cuts to the energy efficiency programs show it will indeed lead to lost jobs and decreased tax revenue
• Senator Marco Rubio insists he wasn't standing up for Trump during the Senate Intelligence Committee briefing, when he clearly was
• New York Attorney General is looking at investigating moronic spawn of Trump, Eric, after the revelations his charitable organization was feeding it's money back to Trump instead of to sick kids
• Trump is proposing slashing the budget for the US Holocaust Museum by 3 Million.  How anti-semitic of him...
  
• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he's not at all concerned the Federal Government is bringing in far less tax revenue than forecasted
• The House Intelligence Committee has demanded both a copy of the Comey memos of his meetings with Trump, and any recordings Trump may have of his interactions with Comey in the White House, "to the extent they exist"
• Trump's nominee for the US Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Joseph Otting, lied when he said he has a degree from Dartmouth College.  He actually has a certificate from a program that is offered for four weeks, over two years from the National Association of Credit Management, who leased some space from Dartmouth to hold their seminars years ago
  
• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Middle Eastern countries to back off it's escalation of aggression towards Qatar, and then 90 minutes later, Trump once again criticized Qatar publicly, slamming them in a press conference, contradicting his own Secretary of State
• After Trump claims he'd "never demand loyalty from anyone," CNN plays a tape of him demanding a loyalty pledge from a campaign audience
  
   
• Trump has said he is 100 percent willing to testify under oath about his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey.  Whether he actually would do so, or would be allowed to do so, remains a mystery
• White House Media Director Dan Scavino was informed he violated the Hatch Act when he tweeted to Trump supporters that they should help defeat Republican Justin Amash.  He's been reprimanded and trained further from the Office of Special Counsel.  He'd be getting prosecuted right now if he was a Democrat 
  
• Infrastructure Week this year was the worst EVER! To round it up, Trump held a press conference with some binders which he insists was an environmental impact study for a Maryland highway.  He insists it was worthless and could be done "better" with just a few sheets of paper.  He might have been drunk
  
• Trump tweets his approval of the House's dismantling of all of the banking regulations put into place after the economic crash of 2008, when greed nearly ruined this country
• The French President Emmanuel Macron is openly trolling Trump with an anti-climate change website, 'Make our Planet Great Again'
  
• Trump's diet is once again under scrutiny as it's revealed he was always eating fast food on the campaign trail, either McDonalds or Wendy's
  

How is this even possible???

At the same point in Former President Obama's first term, he was being attacked for made up political faults, such as his inability to pay down a deficit which exploded when W. Bush had the bills for two wars, Medicare Part D, and his tax handouts for the wealthy come due the day after Obama took office (THIS WAS ALL OBAMA'S FAULT, SO AND WHY HASN'T HE FIXED IT YET!!!), or for being unqualified (he was only a community organizer!).  The right was attacking Obama to scare people into believing any initiatives he accomplished would be massive failures (DEATH PANELS!  $10 A GALLON GAS!).  And Republicans had spent two weeks relentlessly attacking Former President Obama for putting dijon mustard on a hamburger, with a smug 'he's out of touch with us REAL Americans' bravado.

If Republicans cared about America as much as they scream it, Thursday would've been the end of the Trump Administration.  Instead, they're incompetent and corrupted to the core.  Remember that when the next Democratic President is being formerly investigated because of a handshake, or liking a Canadian beer, or a crime committed by the former son in law of the 2nd assistant for the lower office of soybean management at the Department of Agriculture (what did the President know and when did they know it?!?).

These 20 weeks of lists will serve as political record of the failure of our country; not only in the electing of such an unqualified idiot as President, but as a condemnation of how one political party has brainwashed themselves into being FAR more important than the beliefs and ideals of America. The Republican Party has placed themselves as the highest authority in the land, and their hatred of Democrats, their unwillingness to concede any ground to them, will be a scar on the history of this country.

I love the USA, the Constitution, and the principles the United States of America was built on more than I love any political party.  Republicans will label me as a fool.  I label them traitors.  

Which side are you on?

2018 is EVERYTHING!!!