abuse of power

Obstruction of justice in plain sight: Hope Hicks fails to answer questions at direction of the White House

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Prior to her testimony on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, the White House asserted that former aide Hope Hicks has “absolute immunity” from being compelled by Congress to testify about her time working in the Trump administration. White House says Hope Hicks ‘immune’ from compelled congressional testimony: White House counsel Pat Cipollone sent a … Read more

The mainstream media is aiding and abetting Trump’s disinformation propaganda (lies)

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The mainstream news media is addicted to Twitter because it is an easy source for lazy stenographic reporting. Published “news” articles and television broadcasts almost daily begin with stories such as this: Trump retweets some 60 anti-Biden tweets, elevating some questionable accounts. Many of these “news” stories have captions like “Trump says…” and then stenographically … Read more

House Democrats begin oversight of Trump crime family in earnest

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House Democrats last Thursday made plans to dig deeper into President Donald Trump’s business and defunct charity, Planning to use Michael Cohen’s testimony as a road map for new investigations into Trump: The House Intelligence Committee said it anticipates bringing in for questioning the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. It also plans to … Read more

Obstruction of Justice in Plain Sight: It’s Time For Congress to Intervene And Do Its Constitutional Duty

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On Wednesday, the New York Times published a massive compendium of all the known incidents — and new reporting adding context to earlier reporting — of Donald Trump’s attempts to interfere, to impede and to obstruct the investigations of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the U.S. Attorneys in the Southern District of New York. Intimidation, … Read more

‘ I can’t tell where the lies end and the dementia begins’

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On Friday, President Trump held a press availability to make claims about his “big beautiful wall” on the Mexico border that was incoherent nonsense. Video Link.

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REPORTER: Mr. President, why not just go ahead and do the national emergency now? (talk over)

TRUMP: We’re building the wall now. We’re building the wall. People don’t understand that, they’re starting to learn. We’re spending a lot of money that we have on hand. It’s like in a business, but we have money on hand, and we’re building, I would say we will have 115 miles of wall, maybe a little more than that shortly. Uh, it’s being built. Some of it’s already completed. And in San Diego, if you look, it’s been completed. It’s really beautiful, brand new. Uh, we have other wall that’s under construction, and we’re giving out a lot of contracts. So we’re building the wall. It’s getting built one way or the other.

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