President Trump, Week 42

Here's this week's comically long list of atrocities coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning Monday, October 30th to Sunday, November 5th. This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

Reminder: if the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R', all of these transgressions, without a doubt, would've at least warranted a ridiculing press conference from the Republicans.  Most of these things would've gotten their own committee hearing; quite a few on the list would've started an independent special investigation, and many things on this list, especially from Monday, would've gotten Republicans scrambling to write up impeachment papers.

Seriously, Monday, if it was a Democratic President, would've been the end of their term, with two indictments of former Campaign Staff/Administration Advisors, and a GUILTY plea for a hired campaign employee who happened to save most of his e-mails in regards to communications between the Trump Campaign and the Russians.  Even on Friday of last week, Trump actually did one of the things Nixon was thrown out of office for, threatening to use the DOJ to prosecute political opponents.

Instead, the Republicans are waiting to see if they can just turn the entire argument into how far the Presidential power of pardoning can go.  "What can we do?"  We all see that cab coming.

On with Indictment Week, aka 'Dear Lord this is long' week, aka Papdopoulos Week, aka Greek Week!

• The first indictment is handed down and former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is asked to turn himself into the FBI.  This is the first indictment agains the Trump Administration/Campaign from Special Counsel Bob Mueller.  Also included in this indictment is Manafort's former business associate Rick Gates
  
• Rep. Eric Swalwell, the Democratic Co-Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, points out that regardless of House GOP efforts to obstruct Mueller's investigation, Mueller is not messing around
  
• A former employee of Presidential Advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner states that Jared does not read.  It sounds like he can read, he just avoids it at all costs.  He also, as a grown man, still refers to his father as "daddy"
• Proving Trump's anti-NFL protest was really about African American players and not about respecting the flag, conservative pundit Tomi Lauren does a photo shoot where she disrespects the flag by wearing it as a cape and also as a fanny pack.  Trump, and all Republicans, don't seem to care about respecting the flag in her case
• Paul Manafort has surrendered himself to the FBI
  
• It's revealed Presidential Advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner had an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia last week, and has yet to reveal who he met with while there
• Trump, when campaigning, vowed "No new foreign deals" for him or his companies.  His sons Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) and Eric (Tweedle Dum) are about to initiate two new projects in India.  That would be a foreign country...
  
• The charges against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates are revealed and include money laundering, tax evasion and conspiracy against the United States.  They are accused of conspiring in a money laundry scheme for a decade in relation to their work for a Kremlin backed political party in the Ukraine, and was participating in such endeavors while working on the Trump campaign
  
• More is being known about Manafort associate Rick Gates.  He remained working with the Trump White House for the first two months of Trump's term, visiting often.  Gates has a history of working with Russian oligarchs as well
• They buried the lead!  With Manafort's indictment, a second BIGGER story was also revealed. Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI.  What false statements did he make? He lied about when he had conversations with an overseas professor who Papadopoulos understood had substantial connections to the Russian Government.  Papadopoulos said the professor had told him the Russians had Hillary Clinton's e-mails.  Georgie stated he met with the professor prior to being on the Trump campaign, which was not a true statement.  He was hired in early March of 2016, and met with the professor on March 14th, 2016.  He also lied when he claimed the professor was an unimportant figure, as he was under the assumption the professor had deep Kremlin connections.  He also lied about having limited interactions with an unidentified Russian woman, but in truth he had reached out to her multiple times to arrange meetings between high ranking Russians and Trump Campaign officials
  
• The Papadopoulos problem for Trump:  This proves the Trump campaign officially knew Russia had Clinton's emails in early 2016, and the Trump Campaign was making improper overtures to the Russian government
• Trump's 2020 campaign sent out a fundraising email featuring Eric (Tweedle Dum) asking for donations as his dad was still standing after today's announcements.  It should be noted Eric is not supposed to have anything to do with his dad's political career while he watches his dad's business interests in a supposed blind trust
  
• Three days after joining the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos sent an e-mail to seven campaign officials with the subject line "Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin." In April of 2016, he emailed Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski about Putin wanting to host the Trump team "when the time is right," and asked Corey, and another Campaign Advisor, Sam Clovis, about setting up the meeting, May 2016.  
• Papadopoulos met with the professor in April 2016, where the professor confirmed the Russian's did indeed have all of the Clinton emails.  Papadopoulos said he shared that information with a high ranking campaign official and a senior policy advisor the following day.  This was six weeks before Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) was approached.  Who were the high ranking officials Papadopoulos shared this with?  There is avery good chance one of these officials would've been current Attorney General Jeff Sessions
• A footnote in the George Papadopoulos pleading is also quite damning to the Trump team.  The footnote describes two top Trump Campaign officials reacting to Papadopoulos' coordinating of high-level Russian meetings.  They forwarded Papadopoulos' aforementioned email to another campaign official, where they needed to make clear Trump would not be the one sent to Russia.  The response was "Let's discuss.  It should be someone low level so as not to send any signal."  If it get's proven they knowingly sent a low level person in Trump's place because they new it was a improper contact, it shows Trump's team knowingly was colluding with Russia
  
• A US Federal court blocked Trump's ban on transgender troops serving in the US Military
• George Papadopoulos apparently lied to the FBI on the same day Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey for a loyalty pledge
• Paul Manafort and Rick Gates both plead 'not guilty' and were given home detention
  
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went in over her head in her press briefing.  When pressed on how George Papadopoulos' actions were not evidence of collusion, Sanders first insisted he was nothing more than a glorified delivery boy, ignoring the other damning evidence against the Trump campaign
  
• Sanders, in an effort to dislodge the press, opened with a weird math/tax/beer problem which had no relevance to the damning story of the indictments and/or George Papadopoulos
• The US Government asked for Manafort's bail to be set at 10 million dollars
• As Trump insists Paul Manafort had nothing to do with his campaign, I'll point out Trump's VP pick, Mike Pence, was a Manafort selection
  
• Among the many people chiming in on today's developments is former FBI Director James Comey, who Twitter trolled Trump from Iowa
  
• Reports are that George Papadopoulos, after being picked up by the FBI months ago, was likely being used to gather incriminating evidence against other Trump campaign personnel.  It's likely he could've been wearing a wire
  
• Trump is apparently reconsidering whether or not he's going to run again in 2020
• A top regulator for Wall Street is asking for Trump to veto the resolution which rolls back protections for consumers by allowing them to band together in order to sue the banks for wrong doing.  Most people feel as if Trump will sign the resolution
• Facebook admits that 126 million Americans may have seen Russian, pro-Trump political posts in Election 2016
• Religious (???) leader Pat Robertson begged Trump to fire Mueller and to pardon everyone in a frantic effort to get him to shut down the investigation
  
• Senator Chuck Grassley, who happens to have a staffer who was trying to track down the Clinton emails in 2015, fled through a secret door when asked about the Mueller probe
• Mueller's office stated that George Papadopoulos deal is only a small part of a large scale ongoing investigation...
• Trump stayed in the White House residence during the day, trying to weather the Indictment storm.  He apparently was furious as the news of the day unfolded.  Many staffers spent the day terrified
  
• Melania Trump is reportedly working on her anti-bullying initiative.  Not only is she having to deal with the Bully-in Chief, but apparently no one has any idea what exactly her prevention plans are.  She, nor her team, has shared any details
• Hillary Clinton blasts the Trump Administration on their inadequate equal rights stance for the LGBTQ community 
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway rips on political campaigns who get opposition research from 'Foreign Nationals.' I know she was trying to make a point about the Steele Dossier/Fusion GPS and the Clinton Campaign, but it's so amazingly ignorant of what exactly the Trump Campaign was doing when they were courting the Russians
  
• Former Senior Presidential Advisor and current racist jackass Steve Bannon is frantically trying to find someway he can stop the Mueller investigation from moving forward
• Trump's job approval tanks at 33%.  62% disapprove of Trump.  33% is lower than Former Presidents Obama or Clinton EVER received
  
• The American Bar Association has denounced another of Trump's judicial nominees as "not qualified."  Trump nominated Leonard Grasz for a seat on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.  Earlier, the ABA had called out Trump judicial nominee Charles Goodwin
• In a sign Trump's legal strategy might be changing, Trump personal lawyer Jay Sekulow seemed to move away from denying collusion with Russia, and is now starting to defend collusion as legal
  
• GOP Senators have scuttled an effort to protect Robert Mueller from potential action from Trump
• Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reiterate there is no authority for military action in North Korea unless there is an 'imminent threat'
• Former Trump Foreign Policy Advisor Carter Page unwisely decided to do an interview and it didn't go well.  He conceded he discussed Russia with George Papadopoulos and then stumbled through the rest of the interview over further questions about what he knew and when he knew it
  
• With the Papdopoulos plea, it's revealed the Russians specifically targeted Donald Trump and no other Republican candidate when it came to using Clinton's e-mails during the election
• Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross could also be in trouble.  Manafort and Gates' money laundering has a key country which was involved in the illegal activity, Cyprus.  Ross has his own multiple layers financial dealing with the financial rogue nation, which may or may not be connected with Manafort and/or Gates
  
• Chief of Staff General John Kelly made one of the more ignorant comments ever in regards to the cause of the Civli War.  In arguing the Confederate statues should stay up, he insisted the real cause of the war was not slavery (which it was) but an unwillingness to compromise on the issue between the north and the south.  There is no 'compromise' when it comes to slavery
  
• General Kelly also praised Robert E. Lee.  Robert E Lee killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, had slaves himself, thought slavery was great for African Americans and even considered the kidnapping of free African Americans to be shipped to the south to be sold into slavery as a 'battlefield prizes'
  
• General John Kelly also called for a special counsel to investigate the Democrats connections to the, easily disproven with a simple Google search, Uranium One scandal
  
• The American Chamber of Commerce is terrified of Trump negotiating the terms of deals with the Chinese
• According to reports, Paul Manafort was getting paid 600K a month from the pro-Russian party in the Ukraine
• Trump's former Campaign Chair Corey Lewandowski, a man who is in big trouble himself after being named specifically in Mueller documents from Monday, insist the real bad guys are the FBI, who should've warned Trump against bringing Manafort into the campaign 
• As we get a better idea of the level of infiltration into America the Russians committed with our social media, in order to help Trump win, it's revealed the Russians were trying to convince white conservative Americans that African Americans hated Christmas
• Trump finally breaks his Twitter silence on Monday's revelations and proceeds to say 1) all Manafort's issues were well before he was on the campaign, 2) the "volunteer named George" (a paid member of his campaign team) might have been a Democratic plant, 3) only focus on the massive tax cuts he is going to give the wealthiest Americans
  
• Senator John McCain rebutted Trump by insisting it's time for America to wake up
• Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is in trouble AGAIN! He's now being accused of violating finance rules with his dormant congressional campaign.  You can't convert a political donation into individual revenue, something Zinke did when he took a donated campaign RV worth 60K and sold it to another Republican candidate for 25K
  
• Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow for a second time insisted collusion is not crime.  It is
  
• It's pointed out that Trump's Twitter defense against Indictment Day mimics the response from Russia, almost like they coordinated their responses
• Trump refuses to answer if he plans on pardoning Paul Manafort 
  
• Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico Carmen Yulia Cruz lashed out at the Trump Administration for hastily cancelling a meeting between her and FEMA in Washington DC, AFTER she had flown to DC to take the meeting
• Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) fell for fake pizzagate type of social media post, 'liking' it before realizing it was a hoax
• Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos dressed up for Halloween as Ms Frizzle from The Magic School Bus, bringing ridicule, considering she's doing tremendous damage to the education system championed by the show
  
• Robert E. Lee's descendants are taking General Kelly to task for whitewashing their ancestors tarnished legacy
• The first outright denial.  Former Trump Campaign Advisor Sam Clovis insists he never once encouraged George Papadopoulos to contact or engage with the Russians.  Clovis is currently being considered for a high ranking position in the Department of Agriculture
• The EPA states it will bar certain scientists from serving on its independent advisory boards, opening up positions for industry-friendly scientists to serve as advisors on the panels
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in a misguided attempt to defend General Kelly's comments on the Civil War, stated, in reference to Robert E. Lee, "All of our leaders have flaws."  Lee was not an American leader, but a leader of the insurgent Confederacy and killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens to try to keep slavery legal.  That is not a 'flaw' one can easily overlook
  
• In making an attempt to discredit Common Core Education Standards, Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) exposed he doesn't seem to have a 5th grader's understanding of math.  He mistakes 'mean' for 'median'
• Robert Mueller is set to interview Trump's latest Communications Director, Hope Hicks, after she returns from a trip to Asia where she is accompanying Trump
• The heads of the social media companies were grilled extensively on Capitol Hill today as they were asked about their role in helping Russians infiltrate the American election process on behalf of Trump.  "Russians trying to influence our elections duped Americans"
• As Democrats make another push to impeach Trump, Fox News' political reporter was nearly pleading to not let the Democrats take control of the House in 2018, as it will surely lead to the impeachment of Trump
  
• Senator Al Franken absolutely tormented a Facebook Executive who refused to commit to denying foreign ads in the future.  'This is a simple question, yes or no'
• Genreal James Attis makes it crystal clear, nuclear weapons use on North Korea is NOT on the table
• George Papadopoulous, in a 2016 email, claimed the Trump campaign authorized his meeting with the Russians connected to Putin
  
• Donald Trump Jr. (Tweedle Dee) tried to make an anti-socialism argument, using his daughter as a prop, threatening to take away half of her Halloween candy.  Not only does his analogy fail to understand the tentpoles of socialism, he exposed he's a REALLY horrible father to his kid.  Then again, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree...
  
• The man who is prominent in the guilty plea of George Papdopoulos, "the Professor" Joseph Mifsud, a man who bragged about his contacts with the Kremlin, now insists he doesn't know anyone at the Kremlin
  
• As the Trump camp tried to distance itself from George Papdopoulos, reports are Trump held a meeting with him March 31, 2016, where they discussed Papadopoulos' idea of meeting with the Kremlin and Putin.  At the meeting were reported to be Trump, Papdopoulos, Campaign Supervisor Sam Clovis and current attorney General Jeff Sessions.  Trump, allegedly, was interested in the idea.  He "didn't say yes, but didn't say no." Clovis, allegedly, was concerned about the optics of meeting with the Russians, and Sessions, allegedly, rejected the meeting and asked everyone to never speak about the issue again
• That last part about Sessions is an interesting one, considering in October, Sessions told Senator Al Franken he was not aware of anyone in the campaign having further communications with the Russians

• Representative Devin Nunes is CLEARLY trying to help Trump deflect from the indictments as he is promising to bring the FBI and Democrats into testify on the Hill about issues involving the Steele Dossier
• In September of 2016, Papdopoulos met with another Trump Campaign Aide, Boris Epshteyn, who wanted to meet with the man who was supposedly the main source of information in regards to one of the more scandalous aspects of the Steele Dossier, the urine tape. Epshteyn claims he never met the source, but refused to comment any further
  
• Trump apparently watched Fox News talking about an 'extreme vetting program,' and then decided to issue orders, via Twitter, to the Department of Homeland Security to ramp up the program.  As always, he had absolutely zero details on what he was talking about or what he wanted them to do
• Paul Manafort has three passports and poses a significant flight risk
• George Papdopoulos told the Russians that Trump had given him the green light to set up meetings.  This message was sent soon after the RNC in Cleveland
  
• Someone placed a fake landmark designation on Paul Manafort's house, claiming it to be "the House that brought down a President"
  
• It's reported the brand positivity of Trump Hotels and of First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump's fashion line are now considered to be bottom ten, plummeting since Trump took the White House
  
• Obamacare enlistment for 2018 has begun.  The White House is not doing much to promote the sign up window, even though it is the law of the land
• Trump blames Senator Chuck Shumer for the Terrorist attack in NYC and promises immediate policy changes before all the facts and information are in
• How dangerous is Trump?  Right after the terrorist attack in New York City, Trump, using Fox News as his source of information, AND NO ONE ELSE, lashed out at Senator Chuck Schumer, blaming him for allowing the terrorist to enter the country in 2010.  Trump said, on two separate Twitter attacks, it was Schumer's "Diversity Visa Lottery Program" which allowed the terrorist into the country, causing Senator Jeff Flake to correct Trump, telling him Schumer was actually part of the 'Gang of 8' who got rid of the program.  Ne never once fact checked his allegations, only went with Fox News report and posted.  Moron...
  
• News outlets point out Trump apparently decided Fox & Friends news program was a better source of intelligence than his own Chief of Staff, John Kelly
• North Korea, a country who worships a bloviated evil dictator, accuses Trump of being "incurably mentally deranged" and a man who "absolutely needs medicine"
• Ukrainian Officials warned America of Russia's desire to use our social media to control the population years ago.  Social media companies ignored them
  
• The Trump Administration and their personal militant wing, ICE, are currently holding a 10 year old undocumented girl with cerebral palsy as bait to try to get other undocumented individuals to come get her.  She's currently being held in a facility in Texas.  The ACLU is suing to have the ten year old released
• Trump BFF Roger Stone's plan to get rid of Special Counselor Robert Mueller is blowing up in his face.  Stone was trying to get Mueller removed by initiating a wild goose chase investigation into the Uranium One conspiracy theory where Mueller was the key figure.  This is a laughable allegation, quickly disproven with a basic internet search
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders referred to two separate Presidents when she listed off JFK and Kennedy, who are actually the same President
  
• Trump, thank GOD, is not dumb enough to do the traditional visit to the South/North Korean border.  He'd be too much of a target, but I guarantee Republicans would be going nuts if a Democrat shied away from going there
• A former Mexican Ambassador reports the State Department is telling world leaders to stay at Trump Hotels.  That would be a massive conflict of interest on many levels
  
• It's pointed out Trump was quick to condemn the terrorist attack in New York City because the terrorist wasn't a white caucasian.  His reactions to terrorist strikes is dictated on the skin color and religious make up of the terrorist
• Facing opposition, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Trump are framing their desire for more subsidies for the coal and nuclear energy sector as a national security issue
• Senator Chuck Schemer strikes back at Trump asking if he wants to continue to fight terrorism, why is he cutting the funding to do so
• George Papadopoulos also lied on his resume to get his position within the Trump Campaign
  
• The Russians clearly were targeting Conservative Christians with the meme of Hillary Clinton boxing Jesus...yes that Jesus.  That was one of Russia's attempts to help Trump
• Education policy insiders expect Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to resign after her anti-education education policies collapse
  
• The Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and the Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio both confirmed that as Trump was hate tweeting at Senator Schumer after the terrorist attack in NYC, he never called either man to express support in any way
• The evidence is starting to mount that Attorney General Jeff Sessions did indeed perjure himself during questioning by Senator Al Franken, in regards to the Trump Campaign's interactions with the Russians
  
• Trump's lawyers have made an interesting argument to protect him, from charges of smearing the women who have accused him of sexual assault, by insisting his speech was 'campaign speech' or 'political speech' and hence not prosecutable
• Members of Trump's inner circle have started talking about the chaos Monday's Mueller announcements have created inside the White House, and are now encouraging discussion about Trump's possible end game
  
• Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to defend why exactly Trump went political with his attacks immediately after the New York City attack.  Sanders defended Trump's clear political attack by insisting it wasn't political
• Corroborating evidence is surfacing which validates Mueller's charges he brought against Paul Manafort
• Paul Manfort's super secret password is 'Bond007'
  
• After Charlottesville and Chief of Staff Kelly's comments on the Civil War, it's fair to say people are not sure what exactly Trump's feelings are in regards to slavery.  When asked to clarify his opinion on it, Huckabee Sanders called the question 'disgusting and absurd'
• FUN-NEE!  Trump says he doesn't remember George Papadopoulos' offer to help get the Russians on board with his campaign
• After reports state Trump's fuming over the Mueller probe, Trump insists he's "honestly really enjoying" himself
  
• At the confirmation hearing for the head of NASA, Trump's nominee, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, refused to acknowledge the science of climate change
• Tom Barrack, a close personal friend of Trump's and the head of a major pro-Trump Super PAC once held the mortgage on a property owned by Paul Manafort, a property the Feds are trying to currently seize
• Most major tech companies are now openly challenging Trump's decision on ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, the Dreamers Act
• After Chief of Staff Kelly said Trump is distracted because he's being investigated, Trump himself contradicts him and says he's not currently under investigation
  
• House Intelligence Committee is getting ready to interview former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and the man Trump tasked with delivering the letter firing James Comey, Keith Schiller, Trump's former bodyguard
• Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was actively re-posting tweets from Russian troll accounts trying to get Trump elected in the month leading up to the election
• Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA has now formally removed most of the top scientific advisors, and he never told them!  He's only willing to listen to corporate paid "scientists" for all of his "scientific data"
  
• Trump's pick to run the Export-Improt Bank, Scott Garrett, wanted to completely kill off the institution only 2 years ago.  His nomination is causing a divisive split in GOP circles
• Trump is threatening his own tax bill by suggesting they repeal the ObamaCare subsidy within the tax bill
  
• As Trump is trying his hardest to prevent everyone from signing up for ObamaCare, it's still the law of the land, so Former President Obama is stepping up and encouraging signups, as the sign up period begins
• As Trump is insisting Obama only raised taxes, and how his own tax cut will be the biggest of all time, both are pointed out to be blatantly false.  Obama's American Taxpayer Belief Act of 2013 was a tax break nearly twice as big as Trump's
• Trump is preparing to give Fox News their 20th interview of him since taking office.  If a Democratic President had that much favoritism to one network, the executives and hosts of that network would be top on Capitol Hill defending themselves
  
• Trump taking to Twitter to demand the death Penalty of the NYC terrorist, and calling the US legal system a laughing stock might jeopardize the prosecution of the NYC terrorist
• Many pundits looking at Trump's fury with the American legal system as a sign he's actually talking about his frustration at the Mueller probe
• Trump's nominee to be the CIA Inspector General, Christopher Sharpley, allegedly mislead or lied to Congress when he testified he was unaware of pending complaints filed against him.  There are two he was aware of
  
• Trump backed off his threat to send the New York Terrorist to Guantanamo Base, because he wants the US to torture him, after he realized the procedure to do so took longer.  He then once again possibly jeopardized the case against the terrorist by demanding an immediate death penalty
• Part of the indictment against Paul Manafort reveals his close proximity in his business dealings with "the most dangerous mobster in the word," Semion Mogilevich.  This means the most dangerous mobster in the world was at one point two steps away from Trump
  
• Charges against specific Russian officials are expected to be filed as evidence exists which ties them directly to the hacking of Hillary Clinton and the DNC's emails.  Those emails were used in an effort to get Trump elected
• As Trump gets ready to head to Asia, most experts criticize his agenda as too ambitious to get anything accomplished
• The White House has been asked numerous times to explain how exactly 'compromise' would have stopped the Civil War.  They have yet to be able to offer and explanation
  
• Secretary of Energy Rick Perry stated that 'righteous' fossil fuels will stop sexual assaults...yes he actually did.  He was telling a story of meeting an African girl who had lights on.  He equated that to stopping sexual assault, in a bizarrely phrased statement.  "When the lights are on, when you have a light that shines the righteousness, if you will on those types of acts."  Thanks fossil fuels!'
  
• What exactly is Rick Perry implying about Africa? 
• Former FBI Director James Comey's upcoming book is titled "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," an obvious swipe at Trump
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump, the daughter of a billionaire who doesn't seem to have a real purpose in her job, has a massive tax payer funded team of personnel, available 24 hours a day to address her every need
  
• The Trump tax plan has finally seen the light and it's a doozie.  It will remove the state and local income tax deductions for the middle and lower class, it gets rid of the personal exemption (which reduces the taxable income by $4,050 per person per household), takes that money and offers it up the the wealthiest Americans and largest Corporations, AND it will AT LEAST put a 1.6 trillion dollar crater in the deficit, the thing Republicans were insistent HAD TO be paid down only 11 months ago
  
• Trump's tax plan also scraps the $7500 electric vehicle tax credit
  
• Trump's tax plan inexplicably removes most tax credits for wind power, but leaves the tax credits for solar power largely in place
  
• Trump's tax plan curtails the Johnson Amendment, allowing churches to be able to officially endorse political candidates
  
• Trump's tax plan eliminates the deductions people can take for out of pocket medical expenses that exceed 10 percent go their annual adjusted gross income.  This removal hurts people with a disability, serious illness, and older Americans particularly hard
  
• Trump's tax plan eliminates tax credits for adoption services
  
• Trump's tax plan eliminated the tax deductions for medical companies who are doing research on rare diseases
  
• Trump's tax plan stops tax payers from deducting uninsured losses related to the destruction of their home, household items and vehicles in a federally declared disaster area.  If you are wiped out by a hurricane, flood, fire or natural disaster, you're on your own!
  
• Trump's tax plan fails to follow through on one of his campaign promises, to close the carried-interest loophole which allows wealthy Wall Streeters to avoid paying regular tax rates, instead paying a much lower tax rate.  Closing it would generate 180 billion over the next decade
  
• Trump's tax plan describes the wealthiest 1% (the upper class, the rich), people making at least 400K a year or more, as regular middle class families
  
• Trump's tax plan actually would not expand the child tax credit for the working poor, even though the GOP and Trump are touting it.  It will expand it for millionaires and billionaires, but not the working poor
  
• The man who Trump nominated to be the Chief Scientist at the USDA, Sam Clovis, first admitted he had zero scientific knowledge which validated his taking of the position, and then withdrew his name for consideration for the position.  A lot of that has to do with his name showing up repeatedly in the Papadopoulos guilty plea paperwork
• A political funder who has been a major driver of Trump's White Nationalist friendly policies, Robert Mercer, finally is feeling the heat being applied to him and his hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies.  Mercer is stepping down from the hedge fund, selling off his stake in far right Breitbart News and is cutting ties with far right douchebag Milo Yiannopoulos.  Don't be fooled, he's still absolute garbage
• Ex CIA Director John Brennan formally asked the leaders of the GOP to condemn the Russian interference into the 2016 campaign before the election, and they refused.  The next questions people need to be asking are what did they know, and when did they know it?
  
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump is facing criticism and pressure over the working conditions of her sweat factories that create her luxury fashion line. A coalition of human rights groups are planning on confronting her over her atrocious record
• Trump's anti-voting Czar Kris Kobach and his voter fraud panel have gone mysteriously silent as people are trying to figure out what they heck they are up to
  
• Trump's pick to be the Global Women's Issues Ambassador, Penny Nance is upset at the Disney movie Frozen, which she insists is anti-men
  
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions now admits he lied under oath only a few weeks ago, as he now admits he was aware of the Papadopoulos/Russian contacts
  

WOW!  I have to take a break and acknowledge he's actually making a decent appointment.  Picking Jerome Powell to head the Federal Reserve is a good choice (in my opinion).  He's a centrist who seems far more focused on the overall betterment of America, instead of 'banks only policy.'  One legit criticism is Trump's not re-nominating Janet Yellen, who's been exceptional at running the Fed.  Considering the people we know Trump has put forward for other jobs (see every Trump list), there's NO WAY ON THIS PLANET Trump picked Powell.  Someone must've ordered him to find a better candidate than Trump's first choice, the Sham-Wow guy.

That was your long distance dedication, now, back to the countdown!

• House Democrats are suing Trump to get him to release the documents related to his ownership of the Washington DC Hotel which represents a massive conflict of interest
• Reminder:  Republicans were red faced and spitting at the thought of government officials using private technology for official government business a mere 11 months ago, DEMANDING resignations.  First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump used a private email for official, supposedly secure(!), email communications with the US Treasury Department, for months after Trump took office, including discussing meetings she had with global leaders
  
• Presidential Advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner has turned over his documents to the Mueller probe, relating to his role in the firing of former FBI Director James Comey
• Manafort and Gates have been ordered to stay under house arrest
• America First Policies, a group co-founded by recent indictee Rick Gates, has received a request of documents from the Mueller probe.  This is bad news for Vice President Mike Pence, whose current Chief of Staff, Nick Ayers, is a leader at America First
  
• Trump's announcing a new policy of forcing all electricity customers to pay a 10.6 billion dollar ANNUAL bailout of the failing coal and nuclear power industries.  To do this, a surcharge will be levied on everyone's power bill
• Senate Democrats are calling for Jeff Sessions to re-testify to the Senate after it's been discovered he lied to them repeatedly
• Robert Phalen, an air pollution researcher and new appointee to an EPA critical environmental panel, stated, in 2012, the air needed to be dirtier so that children can breathe irritants, so their bodies can learn how to ward them off
  
• Near half of Americans are convinced Trump committed an election related crime
• One of Trump's promises is he would make drug prices more affordable.  He's not doing that.  On Thursday, Trump reversed a former President Obama policy which helped lower the costs of life saving drugs 
• A fun day for former Trump Advisor Carter Page! Page spent seven hours in front of the House Intelligence Committee, doing what all innocent people do, pleading the 5th, repeatedly, to prevent from answering incriminating questions.  He also refused to hand over documents pertaining to the investigation, repeatedly
  
• Trump's former Advisor, former USDA pick, and man who's mentioned in incriminating evidence, Sam Clovis, pretends to be a wholesome innocent Iowa guy, but an analysis of his activity with the Trump campaign, Clovis has an incredible amount of Russian connections from his tenure
  
• Trump admits he gets angry when the media reports he gets angry, calling it unfair...
• In a beautiful, Bansky-esque level of protest, a rebellious Twitter employee purposely took down Trump's Twitter account for a glorious 11 minutes.  Unfortunately it's been restored
• Trump bellyaches about his Twitter account being unavailable for 11 minutes by blaming it on a rogue employee, and by implying he is some underdog who is making a difference by finally getting the 'word' out.  Dude, "getting the word out"? You're the most visible person on the planet
• The media points out Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is constantly changing what Trump actually said, or making up completely out of the blue interpretations of his statements, likely because no sane person can actually defend Trump's actual statements
  
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump spoke about women empowerment at a meeting of the World Assembly for Women, stating the need for women to get into STEM education early.  Her backstory relevance aside, does she have any idea what the heck Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is doing to the American education system, and STEM programs?
  
• The attendance for First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump's speech was sparse, to say the least, as over half the seats were empty
  
• What a train wreck.  First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump stated "all too often, our workplace culture failed to treat women with appropriate respect," completely ignoring her own father's VERY public issues with treating women with respect
• According to Vox, a poll by the American Psychological Association said 59% of the American people feel as if the Trump era is the lowest point in American history
• Trump on all the vacant posts in his Administration: "I'm the only one that matters"
  
• Trump avoided the question when asked if Rex Tillerson would stay Secretary of State for the duration of his term 
• Trump is frustrated he can't (ironically) trump up charges against Hillary Clinton, and states he wants to order the Department of Justice and the FBI to prosecute her in a kangaroo court
  
• Energy Secretary Rick Perry promotes the Department of Energy's Energy storage program, a program which is designed to store energy for future needs. Perry calls it a "Holy Grail."  Apparently Trump disagrees, as he has pledged to cut funding for the DoE's energy storage program by 61%
• As the EPA stops scientists from speaking at a climate change conference in Rhode Island, it's revealed EPA Director Scott Pruitt, and EIGHT members of the EPA staff, will be speaking at a chemical trade group's conference next week at a luxury resort in South Carolina
  
• Another former Trump Campaign Advisor, J.D. Gordon, states Attorney General Jeff Sessions was very much aware of further contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign, insisting the campaign not discuss another advisor's proposed meeting with Moscow over fears it "might leak"
• Another former Trump Campaign Advisor, Carter Page, apparently told the House Intelligence Committee Attorney General Jeff Sessions was VERY aware of his trip to Russia during the campaign, another lie by the AG
• Trump ONCE AGAIN used the incredibly insensitive racial insult, 'Pocahontas,' to describe Senator Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry
  
• It should be noted Trump did this as the country kicks of Native American Heritage Month
• Trump's claim George Papadopoulos was only a coffee boy gets undermined again, as video of Papadopoulos speaking in Greece on behalf of Trump in December of 2016, after the election, comes to light
• The Hollywood sex scandal has hit the White House as a film partner of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Brett Ratner, has been accused of sexually assaulting six women.  Just so no one mistakes what I am saying, the true victims here are the women.  So far, no response from Mnuchin
• Trump is feigning ignorance, stating he doesn't remember much about the meeting he took with George Papadopoulos.  Trump bragged about how good his memory was less than a week earlier
  
• 60% of people polled are against giving wealthy people further tax breaks.  Overall, the Trump tax plan registers at 33% approval with 50% disapproval 
• Russian dictator Putin has apparently told aides he feels he's the direct reason why Trump won
• Native American and Environmental groups have vowed to fight Trump's decision to shrink certain National Monuments, to open up the lands for drilling and mining
  
• Trump's continued conferencing with Steve Bannon, after he was removed as a Senior Presidential Advisor a few months ago, could actually be breaking Federal law.  Former White House employees are forbidden from continuing to advise after they leave the White House
  
• Three far right Republicans are using the trumped up fake Uranium One story, a story pushed by Fox News, to try to force Robert Mueller out of his position as Special Council
• Trump's Mar-A-Lago has been mysteriously awarded a nearly 10% boost in foreign worker guest visas, over the previous year.  What was that about Trump's promise to "hire American"?
  
• Trump says the US is hitting ISIS "10 times harder" since the NYC attack.  It's hard to gauge what he means by that statement, but Pentagon stats, even with a liberal interpretation of the statement, don't back up Trump
• It's revealed, some of the emails from Podesta released by the Russians in an attempt to help Trump had been altered, to make them look more salacious 
• After a military judge handed down his sentence against deserting Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (dishonorable discharge, demotion in rank, no jail time) Trump went on a temper tantrum calling the ruling a "total disgrace."  He's saying that about a military judge
  
• People who are suspecting they're under the microscope of Robert Mueller's investigation are desperately trying to distance themselves from Trump and his inner circle
• 84% of Americans think Trump is looking to start a war with North Korea
• Ex DOJ officials are commenting that Jeff Sessions is looking more and more like a co-conspitator in the Russian crimes
  
• It's now definitively confirmed Former Trump Campaign Aide Carter Page did indeed meet with Russian officials from the Kremlin during his July 2016 trip to Moscow
• Trump seems to be trying to deport 300,000 central Americans and Haitians, currently in the US under temporary protected status, by Thanksgiving
  
• Trump's fourth abuse of judicial power in a week (after calling for the arrest and jailing of Hillary Clinton without charges, condemning a military judge's Bergdahl sentence, demanding the NYC terrorist is sent to Guantanamo to be tortured instead of tried in court) is even scarier.  Trump and the DOJ are asking the Supreme Court to discipline the lawyers for the ACLU who sued on behalf of a migrant 17 year old who was being held, partially, to prevent her from having an abortion.  They won, and Trump wants them punished for beating him
• The ACLU just secured the release of a 10 year old who was detained by Trump's brownshirts (ICE agents) as she was leaving a hospital after having surgery.  The young girl has cerebral palsy and was being held by Trump's ICE as a way to try to lure other family members into arrests
  
• Coal miners who are being offered training for better non-coal related jobs are refusing to get re-trained as they think Trump is going to save their aging fuel industry
• Trump, as he heads out to visit Asia, offers zero reassurance to Japan.  "Of course they're worried.  They should be worried" in regards to their proximity to North Korea
  
• As EVERYONE in the Trump Administration insists climate change is not real, the Government released a report which does affirm that climate change is real and humans are the driving force behind it
• Judge Richard Leon is being accused of purposely delaying a case on fair housing standards against the insurance industry, who've been fighting former President Obama's rules.  Leon is holding up the case until HUD Secretary Ben Carson can repeal the rules.  Legal precedent shows the consumers would win the case Leon is purposely holding up
  
• Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush had pretty harsh criticism of Trump in a new book. W. laments he feels he'll be the last Republican President.  H. W. calls him a "blowhard"
• Actor Robert Pattinson mocked Trump for deleting certain tweets about the actor, back when Trump seemed to be obsessed about Pattinson and his relationship with actress Kristen Stewart
• Fox News is under fire for pulling advertisement purchased by billionaire Tom Steyer calling for Trump to be impeached.  They pulled the advertisement after Trump publicly complained about the ads on Twitter.  They say it's because it upset some of their viewers
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses calls for a bill protecting Special Counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by Trump
  
• Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade stated it seems George Papadopoulos likely gave up four other people to the Mueller investigation, pointing to Mueller following prosecutorial procedure in conspiracy cases
• It's revealed Trump and his team are trying to coordinate a special meeting between Trump and Russian despot Vladimir Putin in Vietnam.  This was not a scheduled meeting discussed prior to the Asia trip
  
• Paul Manafort, a clearly shady character with multiple passports and money stashed away across the globe, is demanding to be taken off of house arrest as (as he lawyers claim) he's not 'Jason Bourne'
  
• Trump goes after former President's George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush for their criticism.  He claims, in a bit of a head scratcher, if he can disassemble their political party, "it speaks volumes about [their] legacy..."
• Trump then criticized former President W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, something he has a long history of supporting, as "one of the greatest foreign policy mistakes in American history."
• Experts are wondering why the Senate has not moved ahead with charging Attorney General Jeff Sessions with perjury, something he's clearly guilty of, by his own admission
• Since this week began, Trump's anger and decisive nature have reportedly left him further alienated from both his allies and the GOP 
  
• Trump and the Department of the Interior has pulled the US out of a global agreement to combat corruption in the fossil fuel industry, allowing the fossil fuel industry to not reveal how much they are paying in taxes.  This after the Trump tax bill is ladened with corporate handouts to the fossil fuel industry.  Coincidence?
• A new poll in France shows even the far right party in France whom Trump championed (and whom lost) has turned against Trump
  
• Trump is pressuring the Saudi government to list their mega oil company on the New York Stock Exchange, a move which would undoubtedly skyrocket the exchange, but leave American businesses susceptible to the Saudis
• It's revealed when Trump was in Hawaii, on his way to Asia, he make a specific stop to Trump Hotel Waikiki to promote his private hotel, while officially on an official state visit
  
• Trump was met in Hawaii with protester waiving signs saying 'welcome to Kenya'
  
• Protesters greeting Trump in Hawaii were in the hundreds.  Pro-Trump people? 3 were counted
• NBC News is reporting Robert Mueller has enough to charge both former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and his moron son, Michael Flynn Jr. in the Russian probe
  
• Former US Attorney Preet Bharara feels as if the potential for jail time for Paul Manafort is so high, he'll likely flip on Trump to avoid spending the remainder of his life in jail
• A host on CNN, Brian Stelter, finally called out White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway on her tendency of when anyone mentions Russia, she screams Clinton
• Leaked documents show another tenuous relationship between the Trump Administration and the Russians.  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was in a business venture with Putin's son-in-law.  Ross, though a maze of offshore investments, is a substantial investor in a shipping company called Navigator, a company which works in conjunction with Sigur, a Russian gas company run by Krill Shamalov (the SIL)
  
• It something which should not become normal, Trump tweeted his condolences to the victims of the latest US gun slaughter, a mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.  26 are reported dead.  A social media account with a 140 character limit should not be the first line of condolences
• After the shooting in Texas, and the shooting in Las Vegas which left 58 dead, and near 550 wounded, it's noted that Trump has offered nothing to stop these mass shootings outside of condolence wishes
• Latest ABC/Washington Post poll shows 2/3rds of Americans, 65%, feel as if Trump has accomplished little or nothing while being in office
  
• A while back, it was reported amongst the numerous failures at disclosure Presidential Advisor, and Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner failed to document was an investment in a tech startup called Cadre.  Now it's reported Cadre was a funneling service for wealthy Russian Oligarchs to invest into American tech companies.  Jared failed to disclose those connections as well
• Worthless moron Michael Flynn Jr. insists he is not going to go to jail.  Hear that Robert Mueller? He's double dog daring you!
• Trump made tone deaf comments in Japan, as he tried to threaten North Korea, but only reminded the people of Japan we nuked them twice. "No dictator, no regime, and no nation should ever underestimate ever, American resolve.  It was not pleasant for them, was it?"  You probably might not want to bring up in Japan
  
• Senator Lindsey Graham says Trump's calls for investigations into Democrats are crossing a line
• It's pointed out Trump actually committed a impeachable offense on Friday when he called for the Feds and the DOJ to investigate Clinton.  The second Article of Impeachment against Nixon was he sought to turn the power of the Justice Department and other Federal agencies against his political adversaries.  That's exactly what Trump was trying to do on Friday
  
• NFL players continued to protest the racial inequity in America, and Trump, as they knelt during the National Anthem
  

WOW!  Just wow...

Like I mentioned at the beginning, if this was a Democratic President, both Monday the 30th and Friday the 3rd would have been the end of their term in office.  With Indictment Monday, or Friday's Nixonian threats from Trump to sick the Department of Justice on his political enemies, either day would've been the justification for his removal from office.  Instead...

At least the Democrats started showing up, sweeping Tuesday's elections. Nice job!  Remember, 2017 wins are nice, but #2018IsEverything! Prepare to work twice as hard over the next year.