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Trump has given Fox News more than $5 million in free social-media advertising
The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website March 28, 2017:
We’ve become accustomed to tweets like this from President Trump.
Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.
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Trump approval hits new low after failure of health care bill
The following article by Matt Rocheleau was posted on the Boston Globe website March 27, 2017:
President Trump spoke during a bill-signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Monday.
President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has fallen to a new low in the wake of the failure to pass a new health care bill, according to the latest polling results from Gallup.
Just 36 percent of Americans surveyed between Friday and Sunday approved of the job Trump was doing as president, according to Gallup. Continue reading “Trump approval hits new low after failure of health care bill”
Trump Isn’t Running The Government Like A Business
The following article by Steve Chapman was posted on the National Memo website March 27, 2017:
Anytime a reporter interviews Donald Trump voters about their reasons for supporting him, you can count on one of them to cite his capitalist credentials. The president has “a businessman’s approach to running the country,” a Chicago business owner told a Chicago Tribune reporter in a story this week.
If only. Continue reading “Trump Isn’t Running The Government Like A Business”
Senate panel to question Jared Kushner over meetings with Russians
The following article by Jo Becker, Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman was posted on the New York Times website March 27, 2017:
Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin, according to administration and congressional officials.
The White House Counsel’s Office was informed this month that the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, wanted to question Mr. Kushner about meetings he arranged with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, according to the government officials. The meetings, which took place during the transition, included a previously unreported sit-down with the head of Russia’s state-owned development bank. Continue reading “Senate panel to question Jared Kushner over meetings with Russians”
Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia
The following article by Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous was posted on the Washington Post website March 28, 2017:
The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying to Congress in the House investigation of links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Washington Post has learned, a position that is likely to further anger Democrats who have accused Republicans of trying to damage the inquiry.
According to letters The Post reviewed, the Justice Department notified Yates earlier this month that the administration considers a great deal of her possible testimony to be barred from discussion in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by the presidential communication privilege. Continue reading “Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia”
Taunting Trump: How the Campaign to ‘Not Normalize’ Donald Is Driving Him Crazy
The following article by Peter Dreier was posted on the AlterNet website March 25, 2017:
The effort to not normalize Trump is a powerful way to withhold the things he craves most: public approval and esteem.
“Resistance” comes in many forms. In discussions about how to deal with the fear and alarm ignited by Donald Trump, no word has been used more frequently than “normalize.” Democrats and progressives engage in almost daily protest rallies to defy Trump’s agenda. But perhaps the most successful component of the anti-Trump movement has been its willingness to challenge his legitimacy. The popular slogan and hashtag “#Not My President” doesn’t mean that people think the November election results were rigged, but that Trump’s Electoral Vote majority doesn’t translate into a popular mandate and that his views and policies don’t reflect the popular will. The anti-Trump movement refuses to “normalize” a president whom they view as an authoritarian, even a neo-fascist, who violates that basic norms of democracy and the rule of law. By poking fun at Trump and exposing his narcissism, conflicts-of-interest, and pathological lies, his opponents are undermining his credibility and destabilizing his presidency as much as any marches and demonstrations. Continue reading “Taunting Trump: How the Campaign to ‘Not Normalize’ Donald Is Driving Him Crazy”
Trump’s Budget Endangers Those It Claims To Help The Most
The following article by Leo Gerard was posted on the National Memo website March 26, 2017:
After the president issued a budget last week slashing and burning environmental, labor and educational 
programs, the guy responsible for the thing, Mick Mulvaney, contended those financial massacres are the heart’s desire of the “steelworker in Ohio, the coal-mining family in West Virginia, the mother of two in Detroit.”
Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, asserted that members of my union, the United Steelworkers (USW), coal miners and urban parents are eager to kill off Public Broadcasting’s Big Bird, to drink lead-laden water, to breathe cough-inducing air and to work among life-threatening dangers. Continue reading “Trump’s Budget Endangers Those It Claims To Help The Most”
Fresh evidence Trump’s Russia headaches are not going away
The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch was posted on the Washington Post website March 24, 2017:
THE BIG IDEA: The drip, drip, drip of damaging Russia revelations continues, as White House efforts to change the narrative backfire.
— CNN reported late last night that the FBI has information that indicates associates of Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Clinton’s campaign: “This is partly what FBI Director James Comey was referring to when he made a bombshell announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. … The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings.” Three nuggets from the CNN report: Continue reading “Fresh evidence Trump’s Russia headaches are not going away”
President Trump’s cascade of false claims in Time’s interview on his falsehoods
The following article by Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website March 23, 2017:
President Trump had a remarkable interview with Time magazine on March 22 about falsehoods, in which he repeated many false claims that have repeatedly been debunked. Here’s a round-up of his key misstatements. Continue reading “President Trump’s cascade of false claims in Time’s interview on his falsehoods”