President Trump, Week 41

Here's this week's list of insanity coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning Monday, October 23rd to Sunday, October 29th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

(Throat Pouch!)

Weekly explanation: If the President in the White House had a 'D' next to their name instead of an 'R', the same House and Senate Republicans who are purposely ignoring the disaster unfolding around them would be having a very different reaction.  Everything on this list would've garnered at least a press conference, many would've triggered official Congressional investigations, and some would've lead to impeachment proceedings.

Instead they're rats, scattering when the light is turned on; running in fear when they're asked to defend their President, a man THEY ALL VOTED FOR, less than a year ago.  They're cowards.

Everything on this list is from the seven days PRIOR to Indictment Day.  Let's soak up the past before we get to the present day fun.

Let's begin!!!

• Senator John McCain rips into Trump's military deferment excuse, bone spurs.  He doesn't mention Trump by name, but referred to those who got a sham doctor to claim the 'victim' had 'bone spurs' to get out of serving a tour in Vietnam
  
• The Digital Director for Trump 2016, Brad Parscale, is scheduled to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.  This will be the first interview he has done in regards to Trump/Russia
• Once again, former President Jimmy Carter, a relatively beloved statesman worldwide, has offered his help Trump with the North Korea situation.  He has officially talked to Lt. Gen. HR McMaster, the National Security Advisor, but has received only negative response
  
• Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) and Eric (Tweedle Dum) are planning on opening up a chain of 'plantation style' luxury hotels in communities with large African American populations
  
• The EPA has forbidden three agency scientists from speaking about climate change at a climate conference in Rhode Island
  
• Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of the Green Berets who was killed in Niger, confirmed Rep. Frederica Wilson's account of what happened in the nearly two week late condolence call Trump made to the widow.  Not only did Trump say the out of line comments about knowing what she and her husband signed up for, she also confirmed Trump at no point mentioned Sgt. La David Johnson's name, something Trump himself seemed to confirm over the weekend when he once again failed to mention Sgt. Johnson by name during a Fox News interview
• Mrs. Johnson went on to say Trump's call "made me cry even worse"
• CNN takes a direct swipe at Trump and his surrogates with their 'Apple, not a Banana' ad
  
• On cue:  Trump, on Twitter, accuses a military widow, Myeshia Johnson, of lying.  "I spoke his [Sgt. Johnson's] name from the beginning"
• A sign of how detached Trump voters are from reality, a poor Amazon worker in Pennsylvania, who's a die hard Trump supporter, is hoping Trump's tax breaks will help him buy food and basic necessities.  So far, it's looking like the middle and lower class will see a significant tax increase to pay for wealthy household's tax breaks.  Don't tell me the GOP wouldn't be making hay of this if it was a Democrat in the White House
  
• Republicans giggle with glee about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation focusing on the brother of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chairman, John Podesta, Tony Posdesta.  The reason they're focusing on Tony is his lobbying firm's ties to the former Chairman of the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort
• It's revealed Trump's first working trip to Asia will begin with a round of golf
  
• The Congressional Black Caucus, lead by the African American female members, is demanding an apology from White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly for his "reprehensible" smear against Rep. Frederica Wilson
• Members of the House and Senate were surprised (to say the least) to find out the US military has over 1000 soldiers in Niger, a fact coming to light in the aftermath of the deaths of four Green Berets
• EPA Director Scott Pruitt, a FORMER fiscal conservative, has increased his personal security detachment to 30 guards, up from 18
  
• Japan insits Trump's saber rattling has done the trick, implying war with North Korea is imminent
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions insists he will take out the vicious street gang MS-13 by targeting them just like the Feds targets Al Capone in the 1930's. O...kay...???
  
• First Lady Melania Trump is trying desperately to get her anti-bullying campaign back up and on it's feet.  I feel sorry for her.  I really think her heart is in the right place, but when your husband is the country's biggest bully, it takes away from your message
• Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to do a Twitter poll asking what would every household do with the mythical $4000 refund the average house will get.  To get the $4000 number, she took the White House's skewed numbers.  Most of the "average $4000 deduction" will actually go to the wealthiest Americans.  Twitter was not kind to Sarah
• The most damning charge against Trump, the one with the evidence to get a conviction today, Obstructing of Justice in the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, is getting interesting treatment from the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.  There seems to be a reluctance to go ahead with the charges.  They're handing the investigation off to Mueller, even though they could move ahead which charges themselves.  They're clearly avoiding being the ones to take the next step against Trump
  
• Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan had to frantically interrupt a meeting with Trump and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, when Trump proposed undoing former President Obama's name change of the tallest US mountain from Mount McKinley to Denali, the Native American name for the peak.  The two Alaskan Senators quickly insisted this was not a fight they wanted any part of
  
• The renaming of Denali does undeniably point out Trump's main goal sure does seem to be undoing everything former President Obama ever did, regardless of thought 
• After Trump threatened Senator John McCain, McCain laughed at the notion that Trump is scary
• Senator Bob Corker openly mocked Trump's planned attendance at a GOP policy lunch as a 'typical photo op.'
  
• Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is scheduled to meet with both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees this week
• A Trump supporter in Illinois has threatened to lynch Rep. Frederica Wilson for exposing Trump's mishandling of the call to Sgt. Johnson's widow
  
• Trump's Anti-Voting Czar Kris Kobach and his Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity wants every voter in America's personal information, but experts point out they don't have the means to keep that information secure
• To maintain the lie the Trump tax cuts will help all Americans, First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump spoke to a town hall in Pennsylvania and then on television, where she knowingly misrepresented the tax proposals
• Trump lashed out at Senator Bob Corker, insisting the popular Tennessee, twice elected Senator, who decided to retire, is actually quitting because he couldn't get elected again.  Corker responded "#AlertTheDaycareStaff
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders is desperately trying to create a differential between losing the four Americans in Niger and losing the four Americans in Benghazi.  The White House wants to avoid any further investigation into what actually happened in, and after, Niger
• A new poll shows the least popular Trump Cabinet Secretaries are Education's Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions
  
• A neutral Congressional report states climate change fueled disasters are costing the US hundreds of billions and will only get worse.  Meanwhile Trump and his Administration are still insisting there's no such thing as climate change
• Trump decided to market a Halloween themed Make America Great Again hat, this one in orange with a jack o'lantern face in the front.  I'll defer to Samantha Bee: "You...made a Trump hat...featuring...an orange ghoul?"
  
• Nicaragua has officially joined the Paris Climate Accord, leaving only the US and Syria as the only two countries who are boycotting it
• In a story which I guarantee is going to need further investigation, a two man Montana firm, Whitefish Energy, has been awarded the $300 million contract to rebuild Puerto Rico's electrical grid.  This contract has even Congress perplexed and raises concerns about potential skyrocketing costs to rebuild Puerto Rico, as there are far more cost efficient options to restore Puerto Rico's power.  The company's Chief Executive, Andy Techmanski, is an acquaintance of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, also from Whitefish, and Whitefish Energy is primarily financed by a private-equity fund founded and run by a prominent Trump donor
  
• It's pointed out Trump specifically fighting with Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and her defender, Rep. Frederica Wilson, is likely do the the fact both women are African American.  Sgt. Johnson was the only African American who died in the Niger ambush, and his family is, so far, the only one Trump disrespected
• Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has rescinded 72 documents on the rights of students with disabilities, calling them outdated.  The documents involve advice for parents advocating for their children, and advice on how schools can best utilize special education funding, two things which seem to have current applicability.  People point to DeVos' confirmation hearing when she clearly didn't know the purpose of the Disabilities Education Act, as a pattern of anti-disabled children bias from DeVos
  
• From Think Progress, EPA Director Scott Pruitt:  "True environmentalism, from my perspective, is using natural resources that God has blessed us with."  Think Progress calls that Orwellian.  I call that Bond villain
  
• Asked if he regrets backing Trump's Presidential bid, Senator Bob Corker says he "Would not do that again."
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders now says Chief of Staff John Kelly's clear lie about Rep. Frederica Wilson's speech at the FBI wasn't a lie because "it's what he felt"
• Conservative Senator Bob Corker: "[Trump] has great difficulty with the truth.  I think the debasement of our nation is what he'll be remembered most for."
  
• With all the things about Trump the GOP could be investigating (See ANY Trump list), House GOP announces they are going to probe the Justice Department decisions leading up to Election 2016, specifically the FBI decisions around Hillary Clinton
• The lawyers for the political opposition research firm who created the urine soaked Trump exposing Steele Dossier, Fusion GPS, are accusing Rep. Devin Nunes of trying to destroy the research firm as punishment for the dossier
• With all the things about Trump the GOP could be investigating (See ANY Trump list), Rep. Devin Nunes announces a new Russian Election 2016 probe, into Hillary Clinton, focusing on the Uranium One deal
  
• Trump's saber rattling might have encouraged the North Korea to start developing biological weapons.  A Harvard think tank feels North Korea might actually be stockpiling biological weapons
• Trump acknowledges no one really has any idea how much revenue, if any, his tax plan will generate
  
• A man screamed at Trump on Capitol Hill, bellowing "Trump is Treason," while throwing Russian flags at him
• As Trump claims Senator Bob Corker couldn't get elected dog catcher, CNN pieced together all the times Trump has used the term "...couldn't get elected dog catcher." He uses that term a lot
• A month after Trump Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was caught speaking to an industry group at a Trump Hotel, the head of his Small Business Administration, Linda McMahon, also spoke to an industry group at a Trump hotel, something her aides desperately tried to keep quiet
  
• Republican Senator Jeff Flake, a man who has butted heads with Trump numerous times, announced he would not be seeking another term in the Senate.  Referring to how the far right loons have taken over the Republican primary/caucus process, Flake stated "The path...to get the Republican nominations is a path I am not willing to take, and that in good conscience take."
• Do you want to know how low the Republican standards have gotten?  Republican Senator John Kennedy had an upbeat summation of a meeting Trump had with Republican Senators:  "Nobody called anyone an ignorant slut."
  
• After announcing his retirement, Senator Jeff Flake went to the Senate floor and unloaded on Trump, and called out Republicans trying to paper over their concerns about his behavior.  Flake: Trump engaged in "the impulse to scapegoat and belittle" threatening "to turn us into a fearful, backward looking people."
  
• Flake talking about the GOP:  You have excused Trump's "reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior" by claiming he's "telling it like it is"
• The DC Court of Appeals stopped the Trump Administration from halting the rights of a 17 year old illegal immigrant from legally getting an abortion.  Think about what standard an upheld ruling would have created for Trump. "We'll throw you in jail if you're thinking about an abortion"
• A new poll from The Military Times says the majority of American military officers have an unfavorable view of Trump.  53% disagree with him, while only 30% have a positive view
  
• The story about what happened in Niger continues to change as it's now reported the Green Berets were on a mission to get an ISIS recruiter.  Once again, if this happened under a Democratic Administration, this one revelation would be leading to multiple NEW investigations into the Democratic leadership
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was completely lost as she tried to answer questions about Senator Corker and Senator Flake's blistering comments about Trump.  She fell back to insisting both are wildly unpopular in their home states
• Sanders then insisted Trump is not focused on fighting with Senators, but rather trying to pass his tax reform bill, before coming back to say Trump was right to focus on attacking the Senators because he fights back
  
• Sanders then accused Senators Corker and Flake of grandstanding in front of the TV.  This evoked plenty of laughter as Trump is King Grandstander
  
• Scared of Billionaire and NBA team owner Mark Cuban's announcement he's thinking of running for the GOP nomination for President, against Trump, Former Trump Advisor Steve Bannon suggested he should run instead as a Democrat
• Trump's failure in Puerto Rico continues to get worse.  Reports are people are getting seriously ill, and bacteria outbreaks are skyrocketing, as many people are forced to used contaminated water sources for drinking and bathing
• Former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort is now the focus of yet another money laundering probe, this one being conducted by the Manhattan US Attorney's office
  
• For some reasons the State Department lied about where Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Afghan President Ashram Ghani.  They'd said the two had met in Kabul.  They had actually met at a military base.  No one knows why they felt the need to lie about that
• Undoing a major Obama era rule which allowed consumers to be able to sue banks for fraud and deceit, Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie breaking vote to undo rules which forced banks to stop demanding their customers surrender their right to sue the banks for malfeasance when opening up accounts.  Draining the SWAMP!
  
• The Trump Administration is frantically trying to NOT release Hillary Clinton emails from the time of the Benghazi attack.  A federal judge agreed to keep Clinton's emails secret.  You'd think the same people who insist she was doing things illegally during the raid would want to have this out in public, unless the emails disprove their narrative
• Secretary of Energy Rick Perry stated President Obama "discriminated"against the nuclear and coal power industries at an oil conference in Cape Town, South Africa
  
• Considering Trump doesn't have a dog, and the word 'dog' is in many of his most prominent insults, people are starting to wonder if Trump hates dogs.  DON'T TELL ME the Republicans wouldn't be running front page news if they discovered a Democratic President didn't like dogs
• Republican Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg calls Britain's vote to leave the European Union the dumbest political move ever, OUTSIDE of the election of Trump
• Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen sold four New York buildings to a mysterious cash buyer.  The transactions are raising a lot of questions
  
• Trump said "the meeting with Republican Senators yesterday, outside of Flake and Corker, was a love fest, with standing ovations and great ideas for USA." Or as Senator Kennedy recalled (mentioned earlier), "Nobody called anyone an ignorant slut."
  
• The Trump Administration, who's already announced plans to cut the National Parks Budget by 13% and fire 1200 full time National Park staff, now announces a plan for steep increases in costs to go the most popular National Parks, increasing the entry fees by double or more.  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says your paying more to get into the public land will help the parks stay protected and preserved.  Isn't that already the job of the Department of the Interior?
  
• After continued failure of Trump's Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim bans, Trump's trying again with announcement of a new "deep vetting" for people trying to enter the US from 11 countries.  Their latest attempt to make this legal focuses on a case by case review
• In a blockbuster revelation, after the Trump campaign and all of their associates insisted no one from their camp had any contact with Julian Assange and Wikileaks, it's revealed Alexander Nix, the CEO of Republican, and pro-Trump, data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, reached out to Wikileaks and Assange to ask for assistance in obtaining and publishing Hillary Clinton's missing emails.  Cambridge Analytica performed data mining and digital voter targeting operations for Trump 2016.  Assange is claiming he turned Nix down
  
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, in an interview about Puerto Rico hurricane recovery, states it will take "one and 100 years" to rebuild the island
  
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, in an interview about Puerto Rico hurricane recovery, stated "rich people, poor people, people in the middle - we're all in the same boat"
  
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, in an interview about Puerto Rico hurricane recovery, addressed people concerned about his ability to lead HUD by stating "people are so stupid"
  
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, in an interview about Puerto Rico hurricane recovery, stated "no matter what he says or does, [the media] criticizes [Trump]"
  
• The Justice Department is debating whether to disband the financial enforcement task force created during the Obama Administration in the wake of the housing crisis
• Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has decided he wants nothing to do with he bipartisan ObamaCare fix the Senate came up with in the wake of Trump defunding the program, a program which is still the law of the land
• The Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee on Wednesday approved four nominees to key posts in the EPA, including one who has ties to the chemical industry, but will lead the Office of Chemical Safety (Michael Dourson)
  
• Trump's promise to protect people's 401K savings accounts lasted less than 24 hours as he now says he's willing to negotiate how those accounts are factored to get his tax proposal passed
• Trump stated, in comparison, his memory is better than Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of the Green Berets who was killed in Niger.  This after Trump was asked if he would apologize for his clearly out of line remarks
• A lawyer Trump has nominated for a Federal Judge position, Jeff Mateer, insisted the treatment of Christians under the Obama Administration was just like the treatment of the oppressed in Nazi Germany...no really...
  
• Trump claims his Ivy League education is proof he's a civil person.  Those two things don't equate in any tangible way
• Trump's Anti-Voting Czar Kris Kobach, who writes a column for far right Nazi rag Breitbart, lifted lines for his October 24th column from a racist chain mail which was disproven but he LA Times in 2009
• The US Passport has lost a stunning amount of global mobility in the short time Trump's been in office, with 18 countries now having better passports than the US, compared to two years ago
  
• Trump's Ambassador to New Zealand, male model Scott Brown, is under investigation after stating inappropriate comments at a Peace Corp event in Samoa.  He was talking about how attractive the local women were and then went on to talk about how much money attractive women could make in the US as waitresses.  This was an international Peace Corps event
  
• Psychologists are actually encouraging Trump to seek help for a full blown social media addiction
• Gary Cohn, the Director of the National Economic Council, has announced he will be leaving the White House the minute the new tax bill is passed.  Nothing suspicious at all...
• Trump decided against deporting Chinese fugitive Guo Wengui when he discovered that Wengui is a billionaire and is a member of Mar-A-Lago
  
• Trump's FCC is going to loosen the media ownership rules even further, making it legal to own TV stations and newspapers in the same market, and making it easier for large media groups to gobble up additional TV and radio stations
• The two man Whitefish, Montana power company with a 300 million dollar contract to restore power in Puerto Rico, Whitefish Energy, has threatened to leave Puerto Rico and go back to Montana after throwing a Twitter temper tantrum about requests asking for more transparency on their contract.  Whitefish has ties to Interior Secretary Zinke and Trump
  
• Trump is blaming his Generals for the deadly Niger Ambush.  An investigation into what happened might shed some light on the truth
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump and her husband, Trump Advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner have had their sex music playlist uncovered on Spotify, featuring John Mayer, Bruno Mars, James Blunt and Adele
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Trump campaign is now trying to distance themselves from Cambridge Analytica, insisting they didn't really do anything for the campaign 
• Trump is supposed to announce his plans to fight the opioid epidemic in America, but Federal Health officials have no idea what he is going to propose
• Trump brags about having created the term "fake news" (didn't Fox News invent that?) and claims with the term, he's made a major contribution to society
  
• Experts looking into the Russian interference in the Election of 2016 have all said they must have had help from inside the US to be able to target as effectively as they did.  With the reveal that Trump's data mining company Cambridge Analytica had correspondence with WikiLeaks Julian Assange, the connection between Cambridge and the Russians is now bering re-evaluated
• On an interview with Trump, Fox News' Lou Dobbs gushed at how wonderful he was and praised him repeatedly, during the "interview." Don't tell me if a Democratic President had an interview like that the Republicans wouldn't have the network executives and the host at Capitol Hill for an immediate hearing
  
• Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, how is targeting clean air and clean water laws, laws we already know he is going to loosen.  His 'justification' is how these laws affect energy sector jobs, which they really don't
  
• Former far right Conservative Senator Tom Coburn, a doctor, states bluntly, "we have a leader who has a personality disorder"
• Major Trump backer, the ultra wealthy Rebekah Mercer, is now tied to the attempts by Cambridge Analytica's Alexander Nix to get access to Clinton's e-mails from Wikileaks.  Mercer tired to buy access to the e-mails but then decided against it, probably on advice from their legal counsel, that it would create "major legal liabilities." Imagine if we just found out a major Clinton donor was caught talking about trying to buy access to Trump's personal e-mails.  I'm sure the Republicans wouldn't investigate that at all...
• Even though the company running it feels as if it is losing too much money, Trump and his Administration are trying to force a coal plant in Arizona to stay open
  
• This is insanity.  58% of Republicans feel as if Trump is the hardest working President since WWII, more than Reagan and Eisenhower.  They say this knowing he has golfed once every 3.75 days since taking office
• Ronald Reagan Jr. Thinks Trump should be impeached
• Trump blames Russia for US tensions with North Korea.  Apparently he hasn't seen his own Twitter feed
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders is believing the press she's making up.  After insisting the Steele Dossier was proven wrong (which it wasn't) she told Fox News the probe into Russia was ending.  Quickly, thinking they had a major breaking story, Fox News followed up on what exactly the Department of Justice had told her and the Administration, to which Sanders had to admit no one at the DOJ had actually said anything about the investigation
  
• Trump feels he has the "best relationship"with Chinese President Xi Jinping solely because they both hold a position where the official title is 'President'
• The Secretary of Defense James Mattis, contradicts Trump again and insists the US is in no way rushing to war with North Korea
• Even Trump's ratings in the Fox News poll are taking a dive, bottoming out in that poll at 38%.  It's still 4-6 points higher than other polls
  
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions states that even though he's recused himself from the Russian investigation, he still might investigate the Steele Dossier, particularly the funding of the dossier, but NOT the original Republican Donor and candidate who funded the dossier, only Democrats who were involved
• Sessions then says people should just "say no" to opioids.  He clearly doesn't understand how addiction works
• Trump, after siding last week with Midwestern lawmakers to keep the current biofuels policies and guidelines in place, is now getting an earful from the pro-oil refinery lawmakers who feel as if the biofuels standards should be scrapped
  
• Trump Administration states it supports people who don't conform to typical definitions of male or female.  It's immediately pointed out this is only a platitude as the Administration has no intention of actually making policy to protect the rights of those people
• On a visit to Geneva, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, after viewing a statue of an individual curled up in a ball, stated "some days I feel like I need to do that. Curl up in a ball."  Can we check in on him...
  
• Trump has been asked by a upper level Tea Party member in Mississippi to stay out of the race out of fear Trump will alienate voters
• Trump's Federal Budget, which paves the way for his tax cuts without any Democratic votes, barely got out of the US House, as 20 Republicans actually voted against it, with their main argument being their constituents will end up paying far more in the long run
• Trump BFF Roger Stone warns of a "lethal" Republican scheme to remove Trump from the White House using the 25th Amendment
  
• Trump's nominee for the Director of the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement, Steven Gardner, is a coal industry consultant and a strong supporter of the practice of mountaintop removal mining
• The Government Accountability Office has agreed to investigate Trump's anti-voting voter fraud commission, led by Anti-Voting Czar Kris Kobach
• Politicians are stating their desire for Congressional hearings on what exactly happened in Niger, and afterwards
• Trump's pick to run the White House Council on Environmental Quality Kathleen Hartnett White once called for Texas to secede from he union to avoid federal regulations, especially environmental regulations 
  
• Quick sidetone - it's almost like Trump is going out of his way to find the absolute worst people  possible to run some of these governmental agencies
  
• Fashion icon Anna Winter has banned Trump from attending the Met Gala, the fashion event where Trump had proposed to Melania
• Trump doubled back on his promise to release all of the Kennedy Assassination documents (the ones scheduled to be released on October 26th anyway) and only allowed 2800 to become public
• Another former Trump Advisor, former CIA Director James Woolsey, was pitching a lobbying contract with two Turkish businessmen to help discredit a US based cleric, while he was advising Trump.  Woolsey was actually competing with the other person employed by Trump who was pitching the same idea to the same Turks, at the same time, Michael Flynn
  
• As Trump announced he's declaring the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency, it's noted that not only is he not dedicating any new additional funds to fight the problem, he's already cutting funds to fight the opioid epidemic by $97 million
• The Tesla Corporation is succeeding in the wake of Trump's epic failure in Puerto Rico, as they have brought solar panels to the island and are in the process of restoring electricity to hospitals
  
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has sent the head of the Office of Management and Budget suggestions to "alleviate or eliminate regulatory burden on energy production and economic growth."  They're calling for a faster route of approval
• Another report from Wilbur Ross, not released to the public, was specifically looking at shrinking some of the current US Maritime Sanctuaries and Monuments, to open them up to oil drilling.  They highlighted 11 marine sanctuaries and monuments to rip apart
  
• Democratic Senators are attempting to block Trump's pick to head NASA, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, who at one time ran a museum, is a right wing extremist, has no applicable scientific background and who denies climate change is happening
  
• Trump's FEMA had a game plan handed to them by President Obama's FEMA which told them what exactly to do if Puerto Rico was hit by a hurricane.  Trump's FEMA is refusing to release that game plan or talk about whether or not they are following it
  
• People are starting ask the question of why Barbara Ledeen, the GOP activist and staffer to Senator Chuck Grassley, in 2015, was allowed to start her own campaign to track down who hacked Clinton's e-mails for the purpose of exposing them, and whether or not she succeeded in her endeavor
• Whitefish Energy deal is dirty!  Details of the deal were leaked and it's obnoxious.  1) It was a no bid contract so they were able to set a lot of their own pricing.  2) This language is in it: [No one has] the right to audit or review the cost and profit elements of the labor rates specified herein." 3) Whitefish will get paid regardless of whether they actually finish the work, and specifically Puerto Rico will have no claim against Whitefish for their failure to complete the work.  4) The outlines for daily stipends in the contract are astronomical, including $332 per day for accommodations, and $80 a day, per person for food
  
• Whitefish Energy deal is dirty! Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who claimed to not know the people behind Whitefish Energy (a company from his own small town), now reveals his son worked for the company
  
• Whitefish Energy deal is dirty! The head of the investment company who bought Whitefish a month before they were awarded the contract for Puerto Rico, HBC Investments' Joe Colonnetta, is a major contributor and friend of Energy Secretary Rick Perry
  
• Whitefish Energy deal is dirty! People are trying to track down the supposed two full time employees listed for Whitefish Energy before the contract was awarded, but they've only been able to find the name of one of the individuals, Andy Techmanski, and nothing else
  
• Whitefish Energy deal is dirty! BuzzFeed tried to track down Whitefish Energy, heading to Whitefish, Montana.  They could not find them, eventually being directed to a "small cabin in a forested area" which was the supposed headquarters of a company just awarded a 300 million dollar no bid contract
  
• Republicans who insisted the deficit would not be raised under Trump's budget/tax bill, knowingly just added 5.5 trillion to the deficit with their vote on the budget resolution
• It's reported up to half of Trump's Twitter followers are fake accounts with hardly any activity on most of them
  
• The Russians apparently made a video featuring a fake Hillary Clinton having sex with a African American man, something they planned on deploying during the 2016 election to help Trump win
• It's likely Trump posed as a woman, Carolin Gallego, to write a letter to the New York Magazine praising himself.  In the letter 'Carolin' claims "all women love Donald Trump" and claimed to be his secretary.  Not only is the writing style EXACTLY like Trump's, searches for Ms. Gallego's existence are continuing to come up empty
  
• Trump and the Republican's policies are winning as billionaires control 6 trillion dollars, the most controlled by the small group of people since the early 1900's
• Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) takes a swipe at Hillary Clinton on her birthday.  Reminder, these are the people who WON the election.  They all look pathetic; mentally unstable
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway tried to blow off the clear connection between Trumps data mining company Cambridge Analytica and Wikileaks, a known front for Russian propaganda, by bringing up Hillary Clinton.  She then, after SHE brought up Hillary Clinton, accused CNN of continuing to bring up Hillary Clinton, as she kept talking about Hillary Clinton
  
• It's reported Trump's actions on Obamacare will raise premiums 7% - 38% higher depending on the state
• Trump's Commerce Department stated the economy grew at a blistering 3% for the third quarter.  This surprised many people considering the impacts of hurricanes on the US.  The Commerce Department stated energy industry output was not disrupted, but they hadn't figured in the full impacts of the hurricanes into the GDP
  
• While the US missed the deadline to enact sanctions against Russia, Sec. of State Rex Tillerson shuttered the State Department office for the Coordinator for Sanctions Policy
• To make up for all the charitable groups who are cancelling their events at Mar-A-Lago, A Trump fan club of wealthy white women, the Trumpets, are planning on holding a party at Mar-A-Lago on January 18th.  Mark your calendars kids!
• Experts are openly mocking the White House and Fox News' new strategy of insisting of a wild conspiracy theory involving Hillary Clinton called Uranium One.  Jeffery Lewis an expert of nuclear materials from the Middleburg Institute of International Studies stated the allegation is unbelievable, because frankly, the whole thing is unbelievable
  
• The Russian Lawyer who met at Trump Tower to offer the Trump Campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had coordinated her talking points and offer with the Kremlin, contradicting her story the Kremlin was not involved, as well as the story of Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) and others who insisted the contact was not from the Kremlin
• Senators are demanding answers on why the Administration is delaying the implementation of a new rules which would punish drug companies who deliberately gouge their customers for needed life saving medications
  
• Trump has spent 1.75 million dollars on decorations and renovations in the White House, a building which was pretty luxurious prior to his arrival
• Some GOP lawmakers are starting to openly question if Trump is suffering from early stage Alzheimers
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused the DNC of "colluding" with their then Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.  Seriously, that could be one of the dumber allegations I've ever read
  
• Sanders was then asked to explain Trump's allegations that Clinton colluded with Russia.  Sanders refused to answer the question
• Speaking at Minot Air Force Base, Vice President Mike Pence, a supposed Christian, stated "there is no greater force for peace in this world" than nuclear weapons
• It's announced Trump will shrink the size of two national monuments in Utah.  Bear Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments will be shrunk so that the areas can be opened up to drilling an mining
  
• The children of White House journalists were invited to visit Trump at the White House for Halloween.  Trump proceeded to insult the kid's parents to their faces, poking at them as his continued his fight against the media, with the kids
  
• Trump, who's insisting Hillary Clinton sold uranium to Russia, is demanding the release of State Department emails involving her.  Many people point to the emails would definitely clear her of the ludicrous charges, but since the State Department can't just do a document dump, Trump seems to be using the inability to quickly release the emails as cover
• A plaque has been erected at the sight of the Access Hollywood bus incident, where Trump bragged about being a sexual predator
  
• The Tax Policy Center has released a new analysis of the Trump tax cuts, and they report, AT LEAST a 2.4 trillion dollar increase in the deficit and NO meaningful growth will be likely
• The conservative news outlet the Washington Free Beacon admits they were the initial funders of the Steele Dossier, the report which exposed Trumps connections to the the Russians and his urine fetish
• It's revealed Robert Mueller's investigation, and the convened grand jury, is at a point where they're getting ready to file charges and/or seek to arrest at least one individual on Monday
  
• Dana Boente, the US Attorney of Eastern Virginia, and a man who has had numerous roles within the Trump Administration, resigned suddenly on Friday, adding to the mystery of the Mueller indictments being handed down on Monday
• It's pointed out Trump is clearly obsessed with bragging about his intelligence, and how others perceive his intelligence
  
• FEMA itself is now questioning the contract for Whitefish Energy to fix Puerto Rico's power grid
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, without hesitation, stated all 16 women who have accused Trump of either sexual harassment or sexual assault are all liars
• Frantic to deflect from the oncoming avalanche of disgrace, Trump supporters are going all in on Hillary Clinton.  Nazi, and former White house employee Sebastian Gorka says Clinton should be executed, and Fox News Host Sean Hannity threw a temper tantrum when he heard about Mueller fining charges, screaming for Hillary to be indicted 
  
• In a local story which is starting to raise concerns over the federal governments response time to a crisis, in West Virginia, a chemical/plastic/waste storage facility has been on fire for five days, clearly more than the local authorities can handle as far as fire management, and is spewing unknown hazardous chemicals into the air of the surrounding communities.  So far, response from Trump has been pretty much non-existent
• Trump, desperate to change the subject away from he Mueller probe, insists former President Jimmy Carter had some nice things to say about him
• Trump's former Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski claims the Mueller probe is going after people who really had nothing to do with Trump.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
  
• A question is being asked: did Trump staff conspire with Fox News to inflate the calls for Hillary Clinton to be jailed (and executed) knowing the indictments from the Mueller probe were coming?
• A major GOP billionaire donor, Seth Karman, made a speech talking about how Trump was a "threat to Democracy"
• The Trump team, looking like they just woke up after a drunken bender, clearly shaken by the indictments coming on Monday, went on the "offensive"(?), talking about how, as Kellyanne Conway tweeted, "this has been a tremendously successful week!" Yes it has!
  
• Twitter finally held a member of the Trump team to their rules as Trump BFF Roger Stone was permanently banned from Twitter for going on a bonkers, homophobic, threatening rant on Friday after the announcements indictments are coming from the Mueller probe
• Fusion GPS and the House Intelligence Committee have come to an agreement on the release of their funders, and the promise is made the information would remain confidential
• Trump's legal team is apparently in panic mode as they are trying to figure out who will be indicted
  
• While acknowledging his tweet taunting is not Presidential, Trump went ahead anyway.  He insisted the "sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!"  Michael Moore unleashed a brutal takedown which proved Trump was not only lying about his play closing early, but exposed Trump's not knowing the status of our armed forces, not caring about Puerto Rico, and Trump's attempt to try to deflect from the coming indictments.  He also pointed out it was the highest grossing play (non musical) of the summer, and posted a picture of a happy audience member, Trump Advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner
  
• Whoops!  Massive jackass Rep Steve King of Iowa went on a pheasant hunt with Donald Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) and tweeted about it, unfortunately his original typo was FAR more appropriate for King and Dee
  
• It's pointed out 900 hundred people have died since the hurricane hit Puerto Rico, but no autopsies have bene preformed, making it impossible to determine how many of those people are really dead due to consequences of Hurricane Maria
• A clearly panicking Trump called the Trump/Russia story a which hunt and peddled the wildly inaccurate and straw grasping Uranium One story, begging for someone to do something to hold the Democrats and Clinton accountable for not breaking the law
  
• Former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manfort is also under FBI investigation over a series of mysterious monetary wire transfers which occurred in 2012 and 2013
• Another poll, another record low approval rating for Trump
• After extraordinary pressure, the Whitefish Energy contract to fix the power structure of Puerto Rico is to be cancelled, according to a report
• Ivana Trump stated her ex husband was incapable of communication with his three kids until they were in college
  
• In a direct challenge, North Korea is planning on doing a missile test while Trump is either in China or in South Korea later in the upcoming week
• A division of the Kushner Companies (a family company of Presidential advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner) is under investigation in Maryland for shoddy upkeep of rental properties and for arresting tenants, detaining them on debt collection charges, enforcing a debtors prison mentality
  
• An angry Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke attacked the critics of the Whitefish Energy deal, first calling out the attempts by the "dishonest media" to tie him to the two man energy company, from his small hometown, which was the recipient of the obscenely profitable and large scale Puerto Rico energy grid re-build.  He claimed to have had no contact with he company...AFTER the contract was awarded
  
• Zinke then stated "only is DC would being from a small town be considered a crime" seeming to defend Whitefish Energy
  
• The new US Ambassador to Canada, Kelly Craft, insists both sides in the climate change debate are valid, saying she appreciates and respects both sides of the science.  There is only one side to science.  My guess is Canada is laughing their cabooses off at us
  
• Almost the entire Houston Texans team, plus numerous other NFL players, take a knee for the National Anthem to protest racial injustice in America, and to protest Trump directly
  
  
  

Dear God, what an incompetent jackass, leading an equally incompetent group of fools.  Like I mentioned at the beginning, my complete disgust includes all Republicans who are quietly watching this mess unfold and saying nothing.

As most of you are aware of, next week, Week 42, is already a doozie.  In the first day and a half alone I have pure gold, but for history sake, let's do one week at a time.  As you contemplate what I'm putting together for next week, enjoy Halloween and the thought of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

Remember, #2018IsEverything!  Make sure you get registered to vote.  Make sure five of your friends are registered to vote!  If you have off year elections in a week, make sure you show up in force!  Be prepared to fight every stinking day until we take this country back!  

Peaceful late fall landscapes to calm your nerves.  Peace!