Trump Watch August 9 2018

Day 538:

Keep the focus on inequality

Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it

‘CEOs don’t want this released’: US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem

GDP vs human thriving: a “healthy” economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing

America’s 1% hasn’t controlled this much wealth since before the Great Depression

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

Further Reading:

Nunes Admits That Collusion Can Be A Crime In Secret Recordings At Fundraiser For Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Puerto Rican Government Quietly Admits 1,427 Died in Hurricane

There Will Now Likely Be Two Democratic Socialists of America Members in Congress

The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health Care

Ted Cruz Allows Last Shred of Dignity to Slip Away, Asks Trump for Help Campaigning

Tribune Media Terminates Merger Agreement With Sinclair Broadcast Group

Nunes on secret tape: Kavanaugh vote, then Rosenstein impeachment

Secret recording shows GOP’s Nunes saying Rosenstein impeachment would delay Supreme Court pick

Russia has breached Florida state election systems

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questions why US pays for ‘unlimited war’ but not Medicare-for-all

Infowars’ Alex Jones Wants Sandy Hook Parents’ Addresses Made Public

Today in Trump’s America: Rep. Devin Nunes admits to trying to protect Trump from legal jeopardy

Federal immigration judges accuse Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions of interfering with their autonomy

Ohio race just got closer after county finds hundreds of uncounted votes

‘I want to die’: Was a 5-year-old drugged after being separated from his dad at the border?

Now the Trump administration is trying to punish legal immigrants for being poor

Trump obliterates his dishonesty record: 132 false claims last week, 280 for July

Betsy DeVos Should Be Replaced By LeBron James as Education Secretary, Petition Says

99-Year-Old Nuremberg Prosecutor Calls Trump’s Detention of Children a ‘Crime Against Humanity’

Puerto Rico Government Quietly Acknowledges Hurricane Death Toll of 1,427

Devin Nunes at fundraiser audio clip 1

The Last Major TV Factory in the U.S. Is Shutting Down Because of President Trump’s Tariffs

Secret tape exposes different GOP talking points with donors

Russian Hackers Have Broken Into Some of Florida’s Voter-Registration Systems, Senator Says

U.S. Rep. Chris Collins says he will remain on the ballot for re-election despite insider-trading indictment

The Whole Republican Party Seems to Be Going to Jail Now

Hundreds of uncounted votes turn up in Ohio

 

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Monitor Trumps Conflict of Interests:

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