The
Drumpfster Fire
chronicles Week
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The
Drumpfster Fire
chronicles Week
7
A Talbot‑‑Heindl Experience LLC Zine By: Chris Talbot‑‑Heindl
March
4 2017
rumpf started tweeting some BS very early in the morning. He started by accusing Obama of wire tapping Trump Tower. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” He tweeted three more times about it. “How low has President Obama gone to tap [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” Turns out, he got the idea from Breitbart.
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ater in the day, it came out that his advisors were surprised by these tweets. Accusing a former president of crimes and threatening to sue is not something that advisors should be made aware of after the fact.
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rumpf’s supporters attempted again to have a good turn out in their #March4Trump. Unfortunately, they all must have been really busy because the turn out was abysmal. The largest gathering in Nashville, Tennessee had about 1,000 people, as compared to the 15,000 that showed up for the Women’s March.
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klahoma Republican Representative John Bennett who once compared Islam to cancer forced Muslims who wanted to see him at the Capitol to fill out a questionnaire from an Islamophobic hate group, called ACT for America, that included questions such as if they denounce Hamas and Hezbollah and “Do you beat your wife?”
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ormer Drumpf advisor Roger Stone went on an insult-ridden, rife with swears, twitter rant against Obama, the “CIA controlled Washington Post,” Ana Navarro, a twitter user that challenged him, journalist Yashar Ali, all while attending a Drumpf rally in Palm Springs. The twitter user simply asked “Do you know what libel is, Mr. Stone?” to which he replied: “Bring it! Would enjoy crush u in court and forcing you to eat shit- you stupid ignorant ugly bitch !” [sic]
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March
5 2017
BI Director James Comey, famous for misleading voters during the election in Drumpf’s favor, asked the Justice Department to publicly reject Drumpf’s assertion that Obama ordered his phones be tapped. He claimed the charge was false and must be corrected, but the Department would not release the statement.
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n an amazing use of our tax dollars, the White House decided to open an investigation into Breitbart and Drumpf’s accusation that Obama wiretapped Drumpf Tower during the election. The only people who seem to believe it are his Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders who claimed Drumpf is “going off information that he’s seen that has led him to believe that…And if it is, this is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that I think we’ve ever seen and a huge attack on democracy itself.”
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Sikh man in Washington state was working on his car when a piece of shit walked up and shot him saying, “Go back to your own country.”
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March
6 2017
ewly confirmed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, gave a speech to his new employees that was unbelievably tone deaf and whitewashing. He called slaves “immigrants.” “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There are other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.” Perhaps Carson should go visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture again.
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he Senate Republicans voted to eliminate a rule called the Fair Play and Safe Workplaces Rule. The rule would not allow companies with recent safety problems to compete for government contracts until they agreed to remedy their serious safety violations. A report found that 66% of the federal government’s largest contractors have at some point violated federal wage and hour laws. More than 33% of the largest OSHA penalties have been imposed on federal contractors. The elimination already cleared the House and will now go on to Drumpf who is expected to sign it – probably gleefully.
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ouse Republicans revealed their master plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which amounts to a system of tax credits to induce people to buy insurance on the open market. It repeals the individual mandate, which may mean that less healthy people get insurance, driving up the costs for those who need it most. To limit the exodus, the plan proposes a “continuous coverage incentive� which charges people a 30% penalty for any lapses in coverage. The 30% penalty would be charged for a full year before returning to the standard rate. This could be an issue for those without steady jobs.
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he Obamacare repeal and replacement plan eliminates the employer mandate, which requires larger companies to provide affordable insurance to their employees or face penalties. It also repeals the subsidies to help people pay deductibles and copayments.
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he Obamacare repeal and replacement plan also changes the subsidies for premiums and deductibles by age instead of income. Obamacare calculated the tax credits based on cost of insurance in your area and how much the person could afford to pay based on their income. Drumpfcare hands out tax credits on a flat basis, according to age, with no regard to income or cost of living in the person’s area. The people hit the hardest will be older Americans with low incomes that live in high-cost areas.
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n example of the change of subsidies under Drumpfcare: an elderly woman earning $20,000 in Lincoln, Nebraska currently gets a subsidy of $18,470 to help her buy insurance, deductibles, and co-payments. Under Drumpfcare, she would get $4,000 for insurance and nothing else.
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he repeal and replacement plan changes the expansion of Medicaid coverage for states post-2020. The expansion of Medicaid provided coverage to more than 10 million people in 31 states. It would also provide each state with a fixed allotment of federal money for each person on Medicaid. The program currently services more than 70 million low-income people.
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he Republican health care plan would increase the amount insurers can charge older customers. Under Obamacare, plans can charge their oldest customers up to three times the prices charged to the younger ones. Under Drumpfcare, insurers could charge older customers five times as much and gives states the option to set their own ratio.
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he Drumpfcare proposal would continue the coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, the ban on lifetime coverage caps, and allow people to remain on their parents’ health plans until they are 26, but all of these provisions face uncertainties since it will be on the open (read: deregulated) market.
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rumpfcare brings back the high-risk pools that were discussed previous to Obamacare. This would put all the sickest people in their own health care pool, with all healthy folks in a different pool. It would make high-premiums, thin coverage, and limitations specifically for those who are the sickest.
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espite Drumpf’s promise to expand treatment, Drumpfcare would cut a mental-health and addiction treatment mandate covering 1.3 million Americans. It allows states to decide whether to include those benefits in Medicaid plans, but Drumpfcare also reduces the Medicaid money and rolls back the expansion.
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he Drumpfcare bill gets rid of a provision meant to tax the incomes of insurance executives that top $500,000, for no apparent reason.
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he Drumpfcare proposal would also cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood clinics through Medicaid and other government programs. Currently, the federal government pays Planned Parenthood for services – like STI and cancer screenings.
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he White House issued a proposal to Planned Parenthood offering more federal funding if they refused to perform abortions. Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president of Planned Parenthood had this to say: “Offering money to Planned Parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept. Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is nonnegotiable.”
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rumpf signed another Executive Order – Muslim Ban 2.0. The new order repeated the 90-day ban on travelers, but removed Iraq from the list – as requested by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who worried it would get in the way of defeating ISIL. It exempts permanent residents and current visa holders, and drops the language giving certain religious groups priority. It also gets rid of the indefinite ban on refugees from Syria, opting for a 120-day freeze.
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uslim Ban 2.0 would also be phased in over the next two weeks to avoid the shitshow that happened in January that left families stranded at airports abroad. “This is a retreat, but let’s be clear – it’s just another run at a Muslim ban,” said Omar Jadwat, Director of the Immigrant’s Rights Project at the ACLU.
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rumpf sent his supporters an email about Muslim Ban 2.0, asking them to sign a petition in support of it. In his email, he used the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” to explain why the six countries that are mentioned are included, betraying the fact that it is, without a doubt, a Muslim Ban.
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uring the press gaggle, Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked to clarify what Drumpf meant by accusing Obama of wiretapping. Did he actually mean that wiretaps were authorized by the FBI? Spicer answered that the Russian investigation would also “determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.” He then waxed on about the dangers of leaks.
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hen pressed about FBI Director Jim Comey’s attempt to ask the Justice Department to shut down the tweet, Spicer went into full victim mode against anonymous sources. “So aside from anonymous sources saying that a conversation happened, I’m not aware that that occurred…So just to be clear, this is one of the problems that I think occurred in the whole first set of stories. People start taking things as fact because a series of off-the-record and anonymous sources say they do…”
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reporter asked if Drumpf would accept the findings of an investigation and accept them. Spicer admitted that he might not. “Well, I don’t think you would ever just blanketly say ‘I’m going to accept any outcome.’”
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t the close of the press gaggle, a reporter mentioned that it was unusual to have an off camera gaggle on a Monday and how there was less transparency than normal. Spicer lost it, “I just – I think that’s – don’t give me this ‘normally we do,’” The reporter went on, “It’s not about us, it’s about the American public seeing their President. And we have to –“ Spicer: “Wait, hold on. Seeing their President? This guy is in meetings all day. I’m trying – how many times did you complain about the President – “
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he Supreme Court announced it would not hear Gavin Grimm’s case of whether a transgender boy could use the boys’ bathroom at his high school. A divided Fourth Circuit panel ruled the school board’s bathroom policy unlawful and ordered school officials to let Grimm use the boys’ bathroom. The Supreme Court decided to send the case back to the lower courts, delaying what many trans people hoped would be an end to the bullshit.
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eports from the Migration Policy Institute and Center for Migration Studies came out that out of the 11 million undocumented immigrants, 60% have been here for at least a decade, 33% have children who is a citizen by birth, 30% own a home in the US, 89.8% have never been convicted of any crime, and 97.3% have never been convicted of a felony. More immigrants become undocumented by overstaying their temporary visas than crossing any imaginary line.
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March
7 2017
rumpf took to twitter early in the morning to blame Obama again: “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision.” Drumpf seemed to have his figures incorrect. 8 out of 182 of Obama’s detainees transferred reengaged in militancy. 113 of the 532 detainees transferred by President George W. Bush reengaged in militancy. So, 121 total, 8 of who were released by Obama. Apparently, he got the “news” from Fox & Friends.
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n the midst of promoting the Drumpfcare proposal, Representative Jason Chaffetz – who famously spent $775 of his campaign donors’ money on an iPhone - claimed that Americans had to make a choice, “So maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.”
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he Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Tom Price, attended the Press Briefing with Press Secretary Sean Spicer to speak about the Drumpfcare plan. He started by telling the #altfact that Medicaid has “decreased the ability for folks to gain access to care.” In fact, 10 million people got their health care from Medicaid since it was opened up through Obamacare.
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ecretary Price stated the point of Drumpfcare is “patientcentered healthcare, where patients and families and doctors are making medical decisions, and not the federal government.” This is, of course, in direct opposition to how Republicans treat women’s healthcare – like, for instance, refusing to allow federal funding or other funds through the healthcare bill to pay for procedures at Planned Parenthood.
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hen asked how he would respond to the opposition from conservative groups to Drumpfcare, Secretary Price stated that the new bill would be the beginning of the process. The same as Obamacare was supposed to be, but is now being repealed and replaced.
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ress Secretary Sean Spicer began his comments about Drumpfcare by bragging about how many pages it was. “Obamacare was an overcomplicated bill that served the special interests and not the American people. These over 974 pages that were passed and then we were told we had to read them…Our plan, in far few pages, 123 – much smaller, much bigger – so far we’re at 57 for the repeal plan and 66 for the replacement portion. We’ll undo this.”
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hen asked what provisions existed that would guarantee that the premiums would actually go down through Drumpfcare, both Secretary Price and Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed that competition would do that in an open market. But prior to Obamacare, the open market provided “competition” and no one could afford health insurance.
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number of reporters tried to ask what proof Drumpf had for his accusations against Obama – proof, or even just saying that proof existed –Spicer refused to answer and kept saying, “As the President said in the statement that he issued on Sunday, we’re not going to have further comment on this until this matter is resolved,” referring to a Congressional inquiry.
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reporter called Spicer outright, “Is the White House position that the President can make declarative statements about a former President basically committing a crime and then the congressional committees should look into that and basically prove it?”
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second reporter called Spicer out, “Because the White House wants this now to be handled by the legislative branch, and in confidence and in classification, can we count on the President to, himself, while this investigation is going on, to cease and desist using Twitter or any other public venue to make accusations that are in public but he will not respond to in public?” Spicer: “I’ll ask that and I’ll get back to you on that.”
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he chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, said that he has seen absolutely no evidence to support Drumpf’s allegation against Obama. But unlike other members of Congress, Nunes didn’t seem phased. “At this point we don’t have any evidence of that, but we also don’t have any evidence of many people who have been named in multiple news stories that supposedly are under some type of investigation.”
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hairman Nunes later stated that Drumpf was new to politics and that he wasn’t sure how serious Drumpf was about his allegation. “But at the end of the day, I think tweets are a very transparent way for a politician of any rank to communicate with their constituents. So I don’t think we should attack the president for tweeting,” he said.
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rumpf’s Office of Management and Budget has been searching for ways to fund his Great Wall, and started looking at doubledigit cuts to the Coat Guard, the TSA, and FEMA in a draft plan. The Coast Guard cuts include deactivating the Maritime Security Response Teams, which currently carry out counterterrorism patrols along sensitive waterways, which kinda seems like stealing from Peter to pay Paul.
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March
8 2017
rumpf recognized International Women’s Day in a tweet to assure us that despite everything he has said and done, he has “tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy.” Other times he felt the need to assure that he respects women in the last year include: in a debate after the Access Hollywood video was released where he said he could “grab them by the pussy,” after making fun of the Carly Fiorina looked, after he said Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever,” after he posted an unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz comparing her to a picture of Melania, when he claimed that he had more respect for women than Hillary Clinton dozens of times in different venues.
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he American Medical Association came out against Drumpfcare saying the subsidy scheme and stop of the Medicaid expansion would produce a “decline in health insurance coverage.” A Kaiser Family Foundation analysis concluded that older and lowerincome people would see a loss of financial support for insurance.
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ew anti-Obamacare ads started hitting the TV screens and airwaves. The ads target five Democrats running for reelection in 2018, using entirely misleading information. They continually mix Obamacare in with the health care system in its entirety. Obamacare was intended to provide options in the individual market for people who couldn’t previously afford health insurance. The “problems” were due to those who were able to finally afford health insurance being sicker than was originally expected. Those problems don’t affect the majority of people who are receiving their health insurance from their employers.
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awaii became the first state to ask a federal judge to block Muslim Ban 2.0. Lawyers wrote, “Given that the new executive order began life as a ‘Muslim ban,’ its implementation also means that the state will be forced to tolerate a policy that disfavors one religion.” They also listed different instances when the Drumpf administrations talked about Muslims or Islam when speaking about the ban.
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hen asked about the opposition to Drumpfcare by conservatives in Congress, Press Secretary Sean Spicer answered saying that there were a lot of businesses and conservative groups (lobbyists) who supported it. He listed a laundry list of them to prove his point. He then went on to say that Drumpf administration representatives would go on local radio and local television to tell people how great it is, “why we have a crisis right now in healthcare and why Obamacare is failing, but then secondly why the solution that the President has worked on with the House is the right one to bring down costs and to reinstitute choice.”
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reporter reporter asked if Drumpf was worried that every major doctors group have come out and said they have concerns about Drumpfcare. Spicer answered no. “…while I have respect for some of the work that some of these Washington, D.C.-based associations do, at the end of the day this is about patience and about the input from doctors who are on the front line of seeing patients.”
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t. General Mike Flynn, who was a National Security Advisor for a whole day before being forced to resign for misleading Vice President Pence and not at all for his connections to Russia, retroactively registered as an overseas lobbyist with the Department of Justice. He had collected $530k between August and November as a “foreign agent” for Turkish government interests. The swamp just keeps getting swampier.
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March
9 2017
epresentative Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) slammed Drumpfcare as legislators pulled the all-nighter to push the bill through the Ways and Means Committee. He called the bill “an act of malice” in response to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s comment that it was an “act of mercy.” “There is no mercy in a system that makes healthcare a luxury.” He then continued his attack on the bill as it removes coverage for mental health care. At about 4:15 am, he went on to slam Drumpfcare’s long-term care problems and enumerated how many seniors in each state would lose long-term care benefits because of the bill (6.9 million seniors across the country).
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n the early morning, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the Drumpfcare bill, after 16 hours of markup, but without a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score. A CBO score would tell them how much the bill will cost and how many people would lose coverage because of it. Democrats attempted amendment after amendment, including one to prevent enactment if the bill would raise out of pocket health costs, one to allow states to choose to keep Obamacare. Republicans shot down every amendment and passed it without the crucial information from CBO.
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uring the marathon debate the House Energy and Commerce Committee spent on Drumpfcare, Republican Representative John Shimkus proved just how little he knew about insurance and how little he cared about women or children when he suggested that the “mandate” he couldn’t abide with Obamacare was “men having to purchase prenatal care.”
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he House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the Drumpfcare bill on a party-line vote after a session that lasted more than 27 hours. Like the House Ways and Means Committee, Democrats proposed amendment after amendment, including one to preserve part of Obamacare that provides low-income people with financial assistance to help cover deductibles and out-ofpocket costs, one to eliminate the per-beneficiary allotment of federal money. Republicans shot down every amendment and passed it.
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ouse Speaker Paul Ryan gave a ridiculous presentation, complete with PowerPoint, on Drumpfcare. He said that insurance can’t work if healthy people subsidize unhealthy people. “It’s not working, and that’s why it’s in a death spiral.” This betrays that he has no idea how insurance works.
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yan continued, showing a triangle, calling it “people with preexisting conditions.” It was sized at about an eighth of the population. The Kaiser Family Foundation has estimated that a quarter of all Americans have pre-existing conditions that would make them uninsurable.
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he Office of Government Ethics (OGE) chastised the White House for not rebuking advisor Kellyanne Conway for endorsing Ivanka Trump’s line of products on Fox News. Stefan Passantino, Drumpf’s deputy counsel, claimed that Conway “acted inadvertently and is highly unlikely to do so again.” Director of OGE, Walter Shaub Jr. had this to say: “When an employee’s conduct violates [federal rules], disciplinary action serves to defer future misconduct. Not taking disciplinary action against a senior official under such circumstances risks undermining the ethics program.”
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enate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked point blank whether he believed that Mexico would foot the bill for Drumpf’s Great Wall. “Uh, no.” was his response.
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ccording to draft documents, Drumpf is considering more than $6 billion in cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It would cut public housing support, cut community development grants, and services like meal assistance. This after all his promises that he would fix the inner city – for black people, since he believes that only black people live there.
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he new head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told CNBC that he didn’t believe carbon dioxide is a “primary contributor” to climate change. This is direct contrast to the EPA’s conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations” because they cause global warming. He also disagreed to burning fossil fuels were the main cause of climate change in recent history.
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n a meeting with conservative groups who are opposing his health care bill, Drumpf said that if Drumpfcare fails, he’d let Obamacare implode and let the Democrats and Obama take the blame. He then chastised them for opposing the bill and accused them of “helping the other side.”
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reporter stated during the Press Briefing, “…Chirlane McCray said in a statement that Donald Trump should keep his hands off women’s bodies, women’s healthcare, and Planned Parenthood, which has done just fine without President Trump’s advice. I wanted to know what the response from the White House was on this.” Press Secretary Sean Spicer answered that Drumpf is pro-life and wanted to make sure that taxpayer money wasn’t being used for abortions. It isn’t; that’s illegal.
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hen answering any question about Drumpfcare during the Press Briefing, Press Secretary Spicer made sure to say Obamacare was “jammed through” by Democrats and how the Republicans were going to do the process correctly with an additional prong to create a three-pronged approach, despite jamming it through two committees without a CBO score.
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new report from the Congressional Budget Office came out that showed exactly how many people actually saw rate increases through Obamacare – the largest reason why Republicans say that Obamacare must be repealed and Drumpfcare adopted. The pool is a percentage of the 90% of people who have insurance, not provided by their employer, who aren’t the 85% of people who buy their own insurance through marketplaces that receive federal subsidies which shields them from increases – which is 3% of all Americans. The Drumpfcare plan actually de-insulates those who receive shields through federal subsidies, meaning that the group of people who are likely to see increases will grow exponentially.
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March
10 2017
new new study from the Public Religion Research Institute asked Americans of all different faiths about their impressions of religious discrimination. Every denomination (and Athiests) understood that Muslims faced way more discrimination than Christians, except White evangelical Protestants who believed the opposite. In reality, Muslims make up 1% of the population but are victims of 22% of the religiously motivated crimes. Crimes against all the Christian denominations combined only amount to 13.6% of the religious motivated crimes. That grouping makes 70% of the population. Jews are the group of people who are most likely to be the target of religious motivated hate crimes.
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ttorney General Jeff Sessions called for the immediate resignations of 46 US State attorneys. The firing was a surprise, especially for attorneys who believed they would continue on under Drumpf. This came one day after a Sean Hannity Fox News segment that said that Drumpf needed to “purge” Obama employees, and portrayed them as “saboteurs” who were responsible for the leaks. Members of Congress said they heard about the firings shortly before the American people did. Some prosecutors were actually told they had to be vacated by the end of the day.
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federal judge in Wisconsin issued a temporary restraining order against enforcement of Drumpf’s Muslim Ban 2.0 as it applied to the entry of the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum to the US. The plaintiff, fled Syria in 2014 and was granted asylum. His wife and his only surviving child are still living in Aleppo and their application for asylum had cleared the security vetting process and was headed for final processing when Drumpf’s Muslim Ban 1.0 halted the process.
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reporter asked Press Secretary Sean Spicer to speak about the so-called “deep state” that Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has been speaking about “actively working to undermine the President.” Spicer basically said yes. “Well, I think that there’s no question when you have eight years of one party in office that there are people who stay in government who are affiliated with, joined, and continue to espouse the agenda of the previous administration.”
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new jobs report was released. Despite Drumpf claiming that the jobs reports were “phony” or “totally fiction” in the past, he pointed to them to show how much he’s done in the first 50 days of his presidency. Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters, “I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly: ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’”
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eporters attempted to learn if the White House knew of Lt. General Flynn’s foreign lobbying ties when he was appointed. Press Secretary Spicer circled around the issue claiming that the lawyers that were consulted were private lawyers for private citizens and the capacity of a private citizen with a business… basically, he avoided the question.
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nother reporter attempted to talk about Flynn as well and get a straight answer. When Press Secretary Spicer gave a nonanswer, he asked a follow up, but to avoid follow ups, Spicer had earlier stated it was one-question Friday. Spicer: “You already got your question, John. We’re doing one-question Friday.” John: “But this in an important point.” Spicer: “No, it’s not, John.”
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ince Spicer would not answer a question about the legality of appointing Flynn, a different reporter asked about the judgment of that decision – selecting a man “as national security advisor when you had information that he had these dealing with Turkey…a controversial regime at this moment in time.” Spicer got defensive. “What exactly are you getting at? Because so far, he has impeccable credentials, he had a stellar career in the military, widely respected, and I think for you to start to impugn his integrity – “
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reporter pointed out that Drumpf and Press Secretary Spicer tweeting about the jobs report within an hour of it coming out “is a violation of the federal rule.” The reporter then asked if they were being counseled about it and about politicizing “what should be kind of nonpartisan.” Spicer defended himself by saying there wasn’t a TV station that didn’t report it. He ended with “So I apologize if we were a little excited. And we’re so glad to see so many fellow Americans back to work…”
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n the subject of Drumpfcare, a reporter asked, “Why not give everybody what Congress and Senators get? Can you address that, since Congress won’t?” Spicer didn’t answer the question, but instead went into his diatribe about giving people choices and his third-prong process spiel. The reporter then asked, “But specifically, the perception that somehow Senators and Congressmen get better care than the rest of us – can you address that?” Spicer answered that more choice will spur more competition, will spur lower costs.
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ress Secretary Spicer was asked why Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was flying to Asia without press. Spicer answered that press was invited on the trip, but would fly commercially rather than with Tillerson – something completely unprecedented. The reporter followed up saying that it would be difficult for press to travel to all three of those cities separately. Spicer claimed that it was due to the size of the plane which was due to fiscal responsibility.
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oger Stone, Drumpf’s former campaign advisor admitted that he was in private communication wtih one of the Russian hackers behind the Democratic National Committee email breach. The statement came after a report suggested he might have collaborated with Russian hackers.
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