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Trump Watch May 14 2018

Day 455:

Keep the focus on inequality

Tax the rich, or eat the rich, let the rich decide.

Further Reading:

Zephyr Teachout just announced her bid for NY Attorney General!

West Virginia Republican Said Teachers Won’t “Have Any Significant Effect” On Elections. Then They Voted Him Out.

Trump Totally Supports Pruitt’s Decision to Wine and Dine an Accused Sex Offender

Giant Hog Farms Are Fighting for the Right to Keep Polluting. The Trump Administration Is on Their Side.

Most Americans want to kill ‘Citizens United’ with constitutional amendment: The odds of such a change happening? Next to nothing

67 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump

Team at the Education Dept that had been examining widespread abuses by for-profit colleges has been marginalized, killing investigations into possibly fraudulent activities at several colleges where top Betsy DeVos hires had worked | NY Times

Out of loopholes, Trump must disclose Stormy Daniels debt in next financial report

Why Trump’s new CDC director is an abysmal choice: Redfield worked closely with the Christian organization, Americans for a Sound AIDS/HIV Policy. The group maintained AIDS was “God’s judgment” against homosexuals, spread in an America weakened by single-parent households and loss of family values.

President Trump just unveiled a new White House ‘faith’ office. It actually weakens religious freedom.

Trump’s U-turn on Chinese mega-firm ZTE damages U.S. power and credibility

Romney: ‘Religious Bigot’ Should Not Give Opening Prayer At Embassy

Mueller’s Probe is Even More Expansive Than It Seems

President Trump Puts ‘America First’ On Hold To Save Chinese Jobs

Rubio pushes back on Trump: ‘Crazy’ to allow ZTE to operate in US without tight restrictions

Israelis kill 18 Palestinians in Gaza protesting U.S. Embassy move to Jerusalem

Israeli fire kills 37 at protests

Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Like to Talk Before Bedtime

Florida to monitor Broward election chief after judge finds ‘unlawful’ ballot destruction in Wasserman Schultz race

Most American Jews Do Not Want Trump to Move US Embassy to Jerusalem

White House Leaker Covers Tracks by Impersonating Coworkers

One Year Into Russia Probe, Trump Gripes He Needs Better ‘TV Lawyers’

Uber rebuffed Michael Cohen’s consulting offer despite promises to share White House insight: report

Qatari Investor Accused in Bribery Plot Appears With Michael Cohen in Picture Posted by Stormy Daniel’s Lawyer

Meghan McCain still waiting for public apology for White House aide’s comment about her father

The Mueller investigation is about to enter its 2nd year

Michael Avenatti’s Cryptic Tweets Stoking Suspicions of Another Bombshell

Michael Avenatti’s Mother’s Day bombshell, explained

Schumer hits Trump for offering aid to Chinese company: ‘How about helping American companies?’

Trump Choosing a ‘Jews Are Going to Hell’ Evangelical to Pray at the Jerusalem Embassy Is Offensive. But It’s No Accident

Why are we taking Donald Trump’s Korea diplomacy seriously?

Trumpism is fascism

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Call the “White House”:

Use this website to call one of Trump’s many properties he has not put into a blind trust yet, and let them know how you feel (be polite, they are workers just like us, but be firm).

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Monitor Trumps Conflict of Interests:

From CNN of all people.

The Atlantic

General Guides:

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