President Trump, Week 35

Here's this week of mind numbing incompetence coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning Monday September 11th to Sunday September 17th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

(A Juggalo - more popular than Trump.)

Most 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 a Congressional investigation.  At least half this list would've been used by Republicans as validation for a Special Prosecutor, and a few of these would've EASILY justified calls for impeachment.  Instead, every Republican has decided to write pleasant reviews of the menu and service they received on the Titanic as it sinks.  The unwillingness of the Republican leadership to acknowledge something is seriously wrong at this point means they themselves are complicit.

Like a pro-Trump rally, lots of good parking still available!  Let's begin!

• Starting off with a Bang!  The FBI is reportedly looking into whether the Russian Government funded news outlet Sputnik helped to influence the 2016 election.  This after former Sputnik Washington Correspondent Andrew Feinberg, who was fired in May, handed over a cache of e-mails to Yahoo and the FBI.  He was also interviewed by the FBI on September 1st
• Trump says, in reference to Category 4 Hurricane Irma trashing most of Florida, leaving millions without power, flooding many major cities and causing billions in damage, the US got "a little bit lucky"
  
• As predicted, three GOP incumbents have announced they will not be running for another term, choosing retirement rather than running with Trump over their heads
  
• Pope Francis states that Trump can't be pro-life if he gets rid of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, DACA (the Dreamers Act)
• Pope Francis also went onto call climate change deniers "stupid." The White House has numerous high level people, including Trump, who are climate change deniers
  
• Appearing on Fox News on the anniversary of 9/11, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was part of a discussion which tried to link 9/11 memorials with Confederate memorials
• Trump's voter Fraud Commission has come back with its initial findings, and they point to Trump trying to find made up reasons to embark on a full fledge voter suppression act, one which will be targeted towards minorities, the poor, and Democrats
• William Gardner, the Chairman of Trump's Advisory Commission on Election Integrity has suggested voter turnout would be much higher with poll taxes and literacy tests, even though, historically, those tactics were successfully put into place to limit the amount of voters
  
• Gardner might not last long anyway as he is being asked to resign for insisting the election results for Connecticut were fixed
• Ms. Texas tears into Trump at the Ms. America pageant, for his tone deaf, and inappropriate comments about the racists in Charlottesville
• For the second time in the last two weeks, a Russian politician has made a comment which points to the Russians playing a far larger role in Trump and the election of 2016.  Member of the Russian governing body, the Duma, Vyacheslav Nikonov, stated while the American intelligence agencies were sleeping, Russia "stole the president of the United States."
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary, when pressed strongly on former Trump Advisor Steve Bannon's '60 Minutes' interview, went on the attack, smearing former FBI Director James Comey in an effort to validate Trump's firing of the Director for not being loyal enough
• A Russian billionaire with close ties to former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort has been released from jail but is likely going to extradited to the USA from Austria, according to his lawyer
• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in DC plans on suing Treasury officials over their lack of providing details of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his luxury obsessed wife using a government plane to fly to Fort Knox, Kentucky just so they could catch the solar eclipse
• Lawyers for Trump had pressured him to remove Presidential Advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner due to his possible ties to Russian involvement in the 2016 election
• The State of California is officially suing Trump over his decision to end DACA
  
• It appears the Trumpcare replacement for ObamaCare is likely not going to get another vote before the end of the month deadline, meaning Trump has failed spectacularly at what was a campaign guarantee
• Steve Bannon also was very critical of the Trump campaigns numerous meetings with the Russians.  "I don't know why people had to have meetings with other countries."
• Trump's likely nominee as the Administrator of the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Howard "Skip" Elliott, is a freight rail industry executive with no pipeline or government experience 
  
• Senator Diane Feinstein vows to have Donald Trump Jr. testify in public to the Senate Judiciary Committee "come hell or high water."

Republicans really need to read the next three entries and think about what they have done to this country.

• Trump's 9/11 remembrance video did not feature anything but images of Trump.  No victims, no families of the victims, and no first responders.  The video was just repeated images of Trump himself
  
• Trump, a man who insists Twitter is his primary source of communicating with the masses, at no point released any 9/11 commemorating posts until well past the time the 2nd tower, the north tower, fell.  His posts were at noon and 1 PM (for the aforementioned video).  Nothing at 8:46 AM when the first plane hit the north tower.  Nothing at 9:03 AM when the south tower was hit. Nothing at 9:37 AM when the Pentagon was struck.  Nothing at 9:59 AM when the south tower collapsed.  Nothing at 10:07 AM when Flight 93 was crashed into a Pennsylvania field. And nothing at 10:28 AM when the north tower collapsed.  Nothing
  
• Trump did have some 9/11 commemoration ceremonies he attended, but to prove he's either mentally incompetent, or unable to allow anything to happen in his periphery without it being about himself, Bloomberg News reported Trump continued to talk during the moments of silence, unable to shut up as they were commemorating the victims of the attacks
  

This was his first 9/11, and he spectacularly failed in his leadership.  Republicans, you'd be openly weeping in the streets if President Obama had even swatted at a mosquito during a 9/11 moment of silence.  It's like you've all conveniently forgotten what actually happened on 9/11.  Or is it you're willing to step all over 9/11 victims, their families, and the 9/11 first responder's legacy to ignore the inexcusable behavior of your guy Trump...

• The future testimony of former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus could get interesting.  Considering it has been reported Trump treated both of them like absolute crap, including a last second denying of Spicer, a devout Catholic, the privilege of meeting the Pope, for no other reason outside of Trump got his jollies by denying it, their testimony could get interesting
• Trump officially names his 3rd White House Communications Director in the fist 8 months of his term, giving Hope Hicks the permanent job.  She had been the interim Director since Scaramucci left.  She is 28 years old and most of her previous work experience has been in modeling and helping to manage Ivanka's fashion brand
  
• After President Obama brought our strained relationship with Iran to amicable levels, Trump is vowing to reverse it all, calling for more aggressive fighting with Iranian forces outside of Iran, and funding militant groups within Iran, I'm guessing for the purpose of installing a new Shah
• It's reported Beverly Hills is taking a beating in regards to Trump's Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim travel ban.  It's halted numerous tourists who only wanted to come here and throw obscene amounts of money into the US economy.  It has dramatically lowered the revenue streams of high end retail locations, like Beverly Hills
• Trump Administration announces it is halting pollution control initiatives on Utah coal plants
  
• Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has rebuked testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee a second time because he's demanding immunity before he talks
• As the country is dealing with the aftermaths of two major hurricanes, it's pointed out that FEMA has over a third of their leadership positions still unfilled
• The latest rumblings from Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump/Russia points to Mueller indeed getting to the point where he's going for a knockout blow against Trump
  
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wants the Department of Justice to investigate former FBI Director James Comey.  Similar to the Administration's assertions President Obama wiretapped Trump, this 'investigation' is based on exaggerated claims and would waste tax payer money just to find him innocent of all allegations
• In another sign Trump's election has irrevocably damaged the US's standing in the world, many countries are now opting out of including the US in negotiations on new trade, economic and military deals
  
• It's common that most US Federal offices nationwide, and worldwide, hang the President's picture in recognition.  So far, Trump's image is nowhere to be seen in many federal buildings and installations
• It's reported that Trump friend and advisor Omarosa is despised by most of the White House staff.  She apparently is counterproductive, "frequently derailing internal meetings with irrelevant...interjections."
  
• The Trump campaign has begun handing over documents to the Mueller investigation
• Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is threatening China by insisting they abide with the latest international trade sanctions against North Korea.  What Mnuchin is threatening China with remains to be seen, as the USA needs China for trade far more than China needs the USA
• NBC's Katy Tur, in her book recounting the election of 2016, recounts the time Trump, getting ready to appear on MSNBC, stopped and kissed her on the cheek, without any warning, as he kept calling her "little Katy"
  
• Kansas Secretary of State who's running Trump's attempt at a massive voter purge, Kris Kobach, got massively smacked down in the committee's second meeting, when the Secretary's of State for New Hampshire and Maine absolutely took him to task for his unfounded allegations and his lack of understanding what residence standards for voters really are
• The Republican plan to hijack President Obama's final Supreme Court nominee has been successful, as Trump Supreme Court appointee Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding votes to reinstate the Texas GOP's incredibly gerrymandered voting maps
  
• A joint Congressional statement condemning White Supremacists is heading for Trump's desk, but so far it's unclear if Trump plans on signing it.  The White House is noncommittal 
• It's revealed the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is currently under a Department of Justice corruption probe, stayed at a Trump Hotel prior to meeting with Trump, but the White House says that's perfectly okay
• Rep. Eric Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee is claiming Trump ally Rep. Devin Nunes is outright obstructing the investigation into Trump/Russia in the US House
  
• House Democrats, getting zero support from Rep. Devin Nunes in the House Intelligence Committee, have sent Robert Mueller evidence that former National Security Advisor  Michael Flynn failed to disclose a $100 billion deal he helped broker between Saudi Arabia and a Russian state owned company.  He was supposed to disclose all contacts with foreign entities at the time, and he failed to disclose payments he received
• In the first few weeks of the Trump term, Russia immediately offered up a complete return to normalized relations with the United States.  Although the initial offer seems to have not been accepted, the message from the US State Department is they're currently working towards that goal 
• One of the biggest jerks alive, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's son, Michael Flynn Jr. is now formerly being investigated by the DOJ for his role in the Russian scandal, focusing on his work for his dad's lobbying firm
  
• Even former White House Advisor, and Nazi, Sebastian Gorka, has no idea what the exact role of First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump is in the White House
• Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin requested the use of a government plane for his honeymoon, something which isn't allowed.  His request caused the Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General to launch a formal inquiry 
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated what could be the most outrageous statement yet from a Trump official "[Trump] has done more for bipartisanship in the last 8 days than (former President) Obama did in the last 8 years." Obama's biggest political fault is he kept offering too many olive branches
  
• Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice testified to a House investigation that she had outed members of the Trump Administration after it was discovered the incoming Trump Administration, in December, had coordinated a meeting with United Arab Emirates crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan.  Flynn, Bannon and Kushner all met with him without disclosing the meeting to the Obama Administration, something which they were supposed to do
• Trump BFF Roger Stone is trying to get Trump to pardon the Bundy clan, the inbreds of the west, who occupied Federal land and threatened to kill federal agents, as well as local law enforcement officials
  
• Trump and Speaker off the House Paul Ryan are apparently pushing the Senate hard to get rid of the filibuster
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the sports network ESPN should fire host Jemele Hill for calling President Trump a White Supremacist, adding "I think this is a fireable offense."  It remains to be seen, after their own behavior, if anyone in the White House knows what a fireable offense actually is
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders likely broke the law when she called for a private business (ESPN) to fire an employee (Jemele Hill) for Hill's comments about Trump being a white supremacist.  The law reads: [Executive Branch employees] are prohibited from influencing the employment decisions or practices of a private entity "solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation." YEP! She did break that law.  Someone should get Colin Kaepernick on the phone...
  
• Also, considering Trump himself said there were good people who were White Supremacists, shouldn't the Administration feel Jemele Hill's comment was a compliment? 
• As Trump is insisting we should pay billions for his new Mexican border wall, which will not stop illegal immigration, Trump himself is refusing to pay a court ordered $17,000 remittance to a Scottish man over a disputed wall in Scotland near one of his golf courses
  
• In an effort to stop the leakiest Administration ever, National Security Advisor H.R.McMaster has ordered all government agencies to hold training sessions on why leaking information is bad
• Trump goes on a late night Twitter temper tantrum, raging against Hillary Clinton due to her book.  I never remember President Clinton, 10 months after winning his two elections, taunting H.W. Bush or Dole, nor either W. Bush or President Obama doing so.  This is sad
• To the horror of Republicans, Democratic leaders announce they've reached an agreement with Trump on a plan to save DACA.  Initially Trump acted as if there is indeed a plan, then acted as if there is no plan, and then implied he's open to a plan, before saying all plans are on hold. Art of the Deal kids!
  
• Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is drafting subpoenas for two FBI agents to testify, after the Department of Justice denied the Senate's request to have them testify. Reminder:  the DOJ said they would not interfere in the Russian probes
• Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, during a softball interview on Fox and Friends, absolutely slaughtered the easy questions about whether or not there would be a new Mexican border wall, talking instead how Trump is currently building "sample walls." She did not commit to anything more than upgrading the current existing sporadic wall the US currently has on the Mexican border
  
• Motel 6 hotels in Arizona are reporting all customers to ICE agents in an effort to help them uphold Trump's Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim travel ban.  ALL customers.  Motel 6 corporate is currently in scramble mode
• Allies of former FBI Director James Comey are accusing the White House of pushing a smear campaign against him, something the White House is clearly doing
• After justifying her position by claiming she'd be able to influence her father's decisions, First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump says it's "unrealistic" to expect her to influence her father's decisions
  
• Trump says his tax plan won't benefit the rich when every analysis, including ones from the right, state his tax plan will overwhelmingly benefit the richest Americans
• Trump keeps insisting the US needs to match China's 15% corporate tax rate.  China's corporate tax rate is 25%.  It's well documented.  There is no corporate tax rate in China at 15%
• It's revealed Trump demanded Jeff Session resign as Attorney General after Robert Mueller was appointed as special council.  When Trump found out about it, he verbally started assaulting Sessions, calling him an idiot, with Trump adding Sessions was one of his worst decisions.  When Sessions handed in his letter of resignation, Trump, after persistent urging from other members of the Administration inner circle, rejected Sessions resignation
  
• After Trump met with the sole African American Senator, Tim Scott from South Carolina, Trump only wanted to criticize the non-white supremacists in Charlottesville. He told reporters he said to Scott there were "pretty bad dudes on the other side also," referencing the non racists in Charlottesville.  He then continued to defend his "both sides" comments (where he said there are good Nazi's, KKK and racists) focusing all of his anger at the left leaning protesters.
  
• Senator Scott, talking about his Trump meeting, stated the likelihood Trump is "going have an epiphany is just unrealistic." "[Trump] is who he has been..."
• Even after his own Department of Justice, following Trump's wild goose chase, concluded the Obama Administration did not illegally surveil him, Trump once again insists Susan Rice, President Obama's National Security Advisor, illegally surveilled him
• North Korea seems to be ignoring Trump's threats.  They launched another missile into the Sea of Japan
• In what seemed like a staged event designed to pet Trump's narcissistic ego, Trump, while feeding Hurricane victims, complained the food service gloves did not fit him, and ripped them off.  If the gloves don't fit, Trump's a twit!
  
• Trump dodges the question of whether two major hurricanes causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage could be related to climate change by insisting the US is regularly barraged with much larger hurricanes.  1) We aren't and 2) this contradicts Trump's comments about the size and scope of these hurricanes, particularity comments he made about Irma, where he called it "largest ever recorded" "of epic proportion" and "they've never seen a category [storm] like this"
  
• Trump now says he supports a deal to help Dreamers affected by his DACA decision
• After London saw another terrorist strike, Trump tweeted "Another attack in London by a loser terrorist", and encouraged London to be "proactive and nasty!"  The United Kingdom is an ally
• UK Prime Minister Theresa May basically told Trump to stop speculating about terrorist attacks to promote his own personal agenda
  
• Trump took a swipe at ESPN's Jemele Hill and the network themselves, basically threatening them if they didn't apologize for Hill's comments about Trump being a white supremacist 
• Douglas Brinkley, a noted historian, stated he felt Chief of Staff General John Kelly and Attorney General Jeff Session are only taking Trump's abuse out of a sense of duty
• Trump calls Senator Bernie Sanders Medicare for All Bill a "curse".  If by that he means affordable healthcare for everyone, then sure...
  
• 29 Senators sign a letter urging Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to keep Title IX guidelines in place
• Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, defending his use of a government plane to fly to Kentucky during the eclipse, defended himself by saying he was from New York, and New Yorkers don't care about the eclipses.  Wha...?
  
• All Republicans who think even if Trump is gone, Vice President Pence will still be there might want to think again.  Pence's name appears in a lot of managerial roles when it comes to people contacting Russia.  As multiple media reports have pointed out, it's time to consider Pence completely engulfed in the Russia scandal as well
• On January 5th, prior to Trump taking office, Flynn, Bannon and Kushner met with King Abdullah II of Jordan to talk about private business deals to build nuclear reactors in Jordan, staffed and built by a Russian company, Rosoboron, who also happens to be an arms exporter currently facing US Sanctions.  This will ALL be illegal
  
• More evidence is coming to light that Trump Advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner's data operation Cambridge Analytica likely aided the 2016 Russian propaganda attack on US Citizens.  Numerous other White House Administration officials have been tied to Cambridge Analytica as well
• Former Trump Campaign Advisor Paul Manafort's Ukrainian BFF, who also is very pro Russia, has had his communications intercepted by federal investigators thousands of times over the last few years
• Special Investigator Robert Mueller apparently got a lot of eye-opening information from Facebook in regards to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, far more information than either the GOP House or Senate provided him, leading some to speculate if there will be a new avenue of investigation opened up
  
• Trump declared September 15th National POW/MIA Recognition Day, with a statement "never forget our heroes held prisoner and who have gone missing in action." That's great, but people pointed out Trump repeatedly attacked John McCain for being a POW, something he has yet to apologize for
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders doubles down on her illegal comments, where she called for a private company, ESPN, to fire an employee, Jemele Hill, for saying Trump is a white supremacist, which he is. Huckabee Sanders, this time, did this knowing it is illegal for her to do so, which makes her a fool
  
• Kansas Solicitor Genreal Stephen McAllister is one for Trump's US Attorney nominees.  He once cited Dred Scott vs. Sanford, the unforgivable pro-slavery Supreme Court verdict, a verdict which was the fuel for the Civil War, in an anti-abortion case.  WOW!!!
• It's pointed out Trump quickly blames Muslims for terrorists strikes in London, but still can't bring himself to blame racists/Nazis/KKK for the Charlottesville attacks
• It's revealed the head of Trump's Election Fraud Commission Kris Kobach and many of the commissioners are using private e-mail addresses to conduct public business.  This would be illegal, and something all Republicans cited as an unforgivable offense less than a year ago
  
• Robert Mueller has brought a money laundering expert into his commission as they are focusing on Kushner's foreign financial dealings
• Conservative Newspaper Editor/Journalist Bret Stephens states Trump voters were "bamboozled and sold on bulls*!t"
  
• After Trump's courting of racists/white supremacists/the KKK/Nazi's, the White House has significantly scaled back its annual gathering of the nation's historically black colleges
• The California Assembly has called on Congress to censure Trump after his response to the Charlottesville white supremacist uprising
  
• The California State Legislature also passed a sanctuary state bill, dramatically limiting the interaction local authorities would be allowed to participate in with Federal Immigration Officials, a direct rebuttal to Trump's immigration policies
  
• Trump was introduced for a speech at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland by his wife Melania.  He thanked her with a firm handshake.  NO WAY this would have been overlooked by the right if it was the past Administration
• It's pointed out Robert Mueller's warrant against Facebook is extremely significant.  To get the warrant, they had to show a foreign individual/agent/government had committed a crime in regards to the election of 2016, and that there is evidence of said crime on Facebook
• On a weather perfect Saturday in Washington DC, the pro-Trump 'Mother of All Rallies' is taking place.  How's it going?  Arial photos of the event show a completely empty mall between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.  The official Park Police estimate was 135-160 pro-Trump protesters.  It appears, from news coverage, the Insane Clown Posse 'Juggalos' rally was better attended, leading to hilarious news cut ins which were trying desperately to make the MOAR look anything but the utter failure it was
  
  
• After the Wall Street Journal and the Agency France Presse reported Trump has decided to NOT withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the White House is angrily denying the report
• National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster was flummoxed when asked to defend Trump's attack on Scotland Yard after the latest London terrorist attack
• The Pentagon directly contradicts the President by telling transgender troops they can re-enlist
  
• Trump is still refusing to release the full list of visitors he's met with at his private estate Mar-A-Lago
• Former Trump Campaign Advisor Michael Caputo lashed out, complaining the cost of having to lawyer up for the Trump/Russia ordeal has cost him too much money, adding no one on behalf of his former employer has called to offer any help
• A lot of focus has been on Trump's FEMA with the hurricane strikes, but an analysis shows the reason FEMA has operated as efficiently as it has was due to the diligence of Trump's predecessor, President Obama.  Since he took office, Trump's been, against recommendations, selling off the disaster relief trailers desperately needed for hurricane situations, even selling off 100 of the units a few days before Hurricane Harvey struck.  Because of Trump, the agency only has 1700 trailers left, and are having to put in an order for 4500 new ones, which will be at a premium price
  
• Trump goes Twitter Nutzoid!  Is a bizarre series of Tweets and retweets from early on Sunday morning, Trump posts narcissistic fan art, calls Kim Jung-Un "Rocket Man" in a diplomatic tweet, mysteriously suggests shutting down internet access to fight terrorism, and posts a GIF of him hitting a golf ball purposely at Hillary Clinton, and hurting her.  He's still trash talking an election HE WON, 10 months ago.  Trump is a the saddest human being ever...
  
• It's time for Trump's new game show, Stump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster!  For the second time this week, McMaster had to Rosetta Stone a Trump tweet for everyone, pointing out Trump's reference to "Rocket Man" appears to be a reference to North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Un
• People have been trying to find out as much as they can about the Russian Lawyer who met with Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort to offer the campaign dirt on Hillary.  Natalia Veselnitskaya is a bit on a mystery, but she does seem to have a lot of unexplained money for a woman who supposedly makes 50K a year; enough to buy million dollar Russian properties
  
• During Trump's Twitter temper tantrum, one of the people he retweeted is lana del fenty, @glamourizes, a woman who has a history of posting extremely crude and inappropriate things.  We all know if this was ANY Democrat, DC would stop and demand 10 investigations, and apologies from every Democrat ever
  
• It's also pointed out as Trump demands ESPN fires a host for calling him a white supremacist, which a rational person could deduce from Trump's own actions, he's laughing about posting a  Twitter tweet of a GIF encouraging violence against Hillary Clinton, where the punchline of the joke is "I HIT HER!"
  
• Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer made a special appearance at the Emmy Award show, making fun of Trump's obsession over crowd size
• Our UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley made excuses for Trump's inexcusable Twitter behavior, stating "he gets emotional'
  
• Now Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is saying the US could stay in the Paris Climate accord, directly contradicting the White House claims they were leaving it, in direct response to stories Trump was thinking of staying in the accord, after Trump proudly announced the US was rejecting it...GOT THAT!
  

The 9/11 missteps are so freaking unforgivable.  How does a Republican Party which has done their utmost to wrap their imagery and marketing in the aftermath of that terrible day tolerate such a tone deaf, inexcusable display of self serving egocentrism, at a time when we are supposed to be thinking of others.  Then again, this is the same Republican Party who on 9/11 posted about how everyone needs to show respect for the First Responders while they themselves have been the main catalyst for cutting off the needed medical benefits First Responders deserve, benefits for health issues caused by being at 9/11 strike zones.

The Republicans are the passive aggressive antagonist in a Mamet story, the catalyst for everything bad happening, but they remain silent as they hope things will get better without having to do or say anything.  "Just keep your mouth shut and it'll all be fine..."

Remember #2018IsEverything!  Keep demanding accountability, and keep denying any of this is normal.  If this ever becomes normalized, we're screwed for more than just one Presidential term.  Let's make Trump the anchor the Republican Party have tied themselves to.