#25 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: THE STORY IS STILL ABOUT RUSSIA

Did Trump and his cronies commit treason? Has the story always been about Russia and the election? Did Trump collude with Russia to hack and sway our election in his favor? Was Trump’s love affair with Wiki-leaks and Putin really so obvious? Is this malevolence instead of incompetence?

Ms Momocracy has written a few posts about TrumpRussia; here are just a few:

Here is the latest video from Keith Olbermann, my hero (I have a serious crush on this man):

We heard rumors of the Carter Page tape(s) last week and honestly, I thought, that is too good to be true. How dumb do you have to be to make a tape of yourself committing treason…

Where is this tape? If the British have it, can we get a copy? Pretty, please!

I recognize that right now we have a lot of just speculations but there is also that growing mass of more and more information that is starting to feel more and more like evidence of a crime.

Here is a link to Louise Mensch’s blog, Patribotics. Louise was a member of the British Parliament and is an investigative journalist, she is mentioned in Keith’s video. Please check out her blog articles if you feel like falling down the rabbit hole of TumpRussia.

Am I the only one that really-really-really hopes this pans out to be a treason indictment?

Resources:

Russia ‘targeted Trump adviser in bid to infiltrate campaign’, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/23/russia-tried-to-use-trump-advisers-to-influence-us-election-report

British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia

Russian thinktank gameplanned undermining of US election, sources say, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/19/russian-thinktank-putin-interference-us-election

April 22, 2017April 22, 2017

#24 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: HAVING TO MARCH FOR SCIENCE AND FACTS

Today, around the world, people marched for SCIENCE–science, facts, truth, climate change, the environment–yes, that just happened. Why? Because we live in a political time where logic and facts do not always enter into the equation. Some argue that science is not political and should not be political–but–IT IS!

Our leaders should believe in facts and science. Our leaders should protect the environment in which we live and work to improve upon it for our children and generations to come. Passing legislation to dismantle the EPA or eliminate regulations that help to protect the environment so that big businesses and the coal industry can profit is unconscionable.

Leaders have a social responsibility and unfortunately for us, we have a leader who is anti-facts, anti-science, and anti-human decency–he is incapable of doing the “right” thing.

I marched today in Princeton, New Jersey with my family and about 2000 new friends but what I am most in awe of, is how many sister marches took place around the globe–EVERYWHERE. This is truly unprecedented.

“While scientists and their allies have argued about and even occasionally protested on specific political topics over the years, taking to the streets in a sweeping defense of scientific truth itself and its role in policymaking seems considerably broader and, for the research world, more fundamental (1).”

I believe that taking to the streets to march is seen as a last resort for many in the field of science–but alas, it has come to that. #Resist

There were lots of wonderful signs and people; here are just a few.

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Mother of 3

Nurse

Colts Neck, NJ

Resource:

1 Historians say the March for Science is ‘pretty unprecedented’, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/22/historians-say-the-march-for-science-is-pretty-unprecedented/?utm_term=.bae5be1d4a41

April 21, 2017April 21, 2017

#24 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: JEFF SESSIONS NOT RECOGNIZING HAWAII AS A STATE

I have talked about Jeff Sessions before and the fact that I felt he was an inappropriate candidate for Attorney General, not only because I believe him to be a huge racist but also because he perjured himself during his confirmation hearing. You can read more about that in this Ms Momocracy post.

Well during an interview with conservative talk host Mark Levin, good old’ Jeff had this to say about the court system shutting down Trump “Muslim Ban”:

“I really am amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the president of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power,” Mr. Sessions said this week in an interview on “The Mark Levin Show,” a conservative talk radio program.

Sally Yates, acting Attorney General back in January, publicly declared she would not defend the immigration law stating she did not believe it was lawful and she eventually lost her job for standing up to Trump. A three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit also agreed with Yates back in February and put a stop to the original ban. This resulted in Trump and his cronies releasing a new “travel ban” that according to Trump, Stepford Stephen Miller and his inner circle was identical and basically a recycled version of the original ban. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson from Hawaii declared the second ban illegal, using Trump and his cronies own words as rationale for the illegality of the immigration ban.

Sessions sides with Don the Con, and sees no problem with a Muslim Ban or a ban that targets cultures or religions. Shocker…

Sessions seems to believe the Hawaiian judge did not have the right to put a stop to the travel ban—that a judge sitting on that “little Pacific island” should not be able to stop the President from doing something illegal—and for that Jeff Sessions’ you are Ms Momocracy’s D-Bag of the Day!

Resources:

Jeff Sessions Dismisses Hawaii as ‘an Island in the Pacific’, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/us/politics/jeff-sessions-judge-hawaii-pacific-island.html?_r=0

Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Tells Justice Department Not to Defend President Trump’s Immigration Ban, http://time.com/4654533/acting-attorney-general-sally-yates-immigration-ban-donald-trump/

6 Highlights From the Ruling on Trump’s Immigration Order, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/trump-travel-ban-ninth-circuit-ruling.html

Hawaii’s Trump travel ban ruling (full text), http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/politics/hawaii-travel-ban-ruling-full-text/

April 19, 2017April 19, 2017

#23 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: PEOPLE MUST LIE TO LOVED ONES ON DEATHBED

This article was in yesterday’s Washington Post and I have not stopped thinking about it. A man was on his deathbed and in his last moment of life his friends and family connected him with his ex-wife, who he had remained in close contact with and was considered to be his best friend. In order to provide him with comfort so he could pass away peacefully, she decided to tell him that Trump had been impeached and he was gone.

“I told him that everything’s going to be all right,” Teresa Elliott told The Washington Post. “And Donald Trump has been impeached.”

Really, it has come to this. It is time for this buffoon to go. I think we have all had enough and we should not have to lie to our loved ones as they pass away.

Impeach Trump so we can all have some PEACE!

Resource:

She wanted her ex-husband to die with a happy thought; she told him Trump had been impeached, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/18/she-wanted-her-ex-husband-to-die-with-a-happy-memory-she-told-him-trump-has-been-impeached/?utm_term=.6eb24403e3a5

April 16, 2017

#22 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: WILL NOT RELEASE HIS TAXES

Happy Easter to those who celebrate. I thought you might enjoy this 2015 Easter tweet from Don the Con:

Yesterday marches took place around the country, protesting Trump’s refusal to release his taxes. Since the 1970s, Presidential candidates have released their tax returns to the public in an effort to maintain honesty and transparency. In fact, every President going back to Gerald Ford has released their tax information. During the elections, Trump claimed he could not release his taxes because he was under audit. He eventually declared that only the “fake news” media wanted his taxes and the public did not care—uhh, YES WE DO!

Yesterday people took to the streets to demand that Trump release his taxes. Hundreds marched outside Mar-a-Lago and elsewhere and Trump took to Twitter to express his anger, as usual.

Yesterday the Electronic Privacy Information Center (yes, that is a thing) filled a suit against the IRS for failing to release the information as per the Freedom of Information Act. Why won’t Trump release the information? He said he would and then he said he won’t?

What has he got to hide? I can’t wait to find out.

Resources:

Trump asks why people are still talking about his taxes a day after protesters asked for his returns, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/04/16/after-a-day-of-marches-trump-asks-why-people-are-still-talking-about-his-taxes/?utm_term=.bc7b0dc9ffb2

Protesters Use April 15 To Demand Trump’s Tax Returns, http://www.npr.org/2017/04/15/524122918/protesters-use-april-15-to-demand-trumps-tax-returns

April 12, 2017

# 21 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP; ANTISEMITISM OR INSENSITIVE

Examples of the Trump Administration’s Anti-Semitism ……or not? What do you think?

1. Running a campaign that had vague veiled antisemitic messages. Was this purposeful, an appeal to Trump’s alt-right, white supremacy, base? Many thought so at the time. Many also thought Brietbart Bannon was behind this type of campaigning and I think they are right.

2. It was no surprise that after the election, there was a rise in antisemitism around the country. Many reporters would press Trump for a response to the rise in antisemitism and hate crimes. Here is a great example on how that typically went.

Yup, he would change the subject, talk about his large electoral vote win, claiming it was bigger than Obama’s (which was a lie), or when really pressed he issued a curt, “Stop it” into the news camera during a 60 Minutes interview on CBS. As you can imagine, that “stop it” was just as ineffective as when used with a toddler.

3. Then there was National Holocaust Remembrance Day where the White House releases a press statement that does not mention the 6 million Jews who suffered and died during the holocaust or antisemitism. When the press and public questioned this omission the WH released the following statement:

Hope Hicks, the Donald Trump administration spokeswoman, told CNN that, “despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all of those who suffered.”

All who suffered??? Why couldn’t you mention the jews on holocaust remembrance day….REALLY!!! This seemed purposeful.

4. Trump did not attend the Passover dinner at the WH; in fact, neither did his daughter, Ivanka, or his son in law, Jared, who are supposedly observant jews. What kind of message is that. Shame on them.

5. Yesterday, Spicey Spicer, misspoke during a press conference and it was a doozy.

“We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II. You know, you had a, you know, someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” Spicer said.

Yup, that just happened…not much of chance of recovery after that slip…unless you are in the Trump administration where people seem to tolerate, accept, and normalize horrible, offensive, behavior and comments on a daily basis.

Resources:

White House nixed Holocaust statement naming Jews, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/white-house-holocaust-jews-234572

White House Says It Deliberately Omitted Jews From Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement, http://time.com/4652863/white-house-statement-holocaust-remembrance-day/

Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories sound anti-Semitic. Does he even realize it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/26/donald-trumps-conspiracy-theories-sound-anti-semitic-does-he-even-realize-it/?utm_term=.90031f516278

The White House hosted a Passover Seder, but without President Trump, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/04/10/the-white-house-will-host-a-passover-seder-president-trump-probably-wont-be-there/?utm_term=.dd36a54f41cd

Spicer: Hitler ‘didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,’ although he sent Jews to ‘the Holocaust center’, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/04/11/spicer-hitler-didnt-even-sink-to-using-chemical-weapons-although-he-sent-jews-to-the-holocaust-center/?utm_term=.9d9dd6e579b1

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

#20 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: DEFENDING BILL O’REILLY

Bill O’Reilly has been in the spotlight today since the news broke he reached settlement with five, yes 5, women who claimed he sexually assaulted them. The settlement payment is reported to be approximately 13 million dollars. As advertisers began to pull their advertising from FOX and the O’Reilly show, one champion for Bill emerges. Guess who? Pussy grabbing Trump, that is who.

“Personally, I think he shouldn’t have settled,” Mr. Trump said in an interview in the Oval Office with Times reporters. “Because you should have taken it all the way; I don’t think Bill did anything wrong.”

“I think he’s a person I know well — he is a good person,” Mr. Trump said.

Trump instead of using the opportunity to publicly take a stance against sexual assault, workplace harassment or misogyny and stand up for the victims–he decides to side with the accused. Are you surprised? This is a man that bragged about grabbing pussy on film which aired during his campaign—and Trumpsters elected him anyway. Can we really be surprised by his depraved character now?

The interesting thing is Trump’s endorsement that O’Reilly is a “good guy” may actually backfire for O’Reilly and FOX. Remember who else Trump called a good guy? Putin, that’s who.

As of this afternoon 30 advertisers have pulled their ads from the O’Reilly Factor. I think it is about time companies start evaluating their relationship with Fox News. What role did Murdock and Fox play in the election of this buffoon? When will the people realize that when FOX uses gimmicks like fear mongering and pushes an alt-right agenda that they are degrading America and all the things that make it great. I am convinced FOX and the FOX FANATICS are one of the reasons (Russia/Putin also playing a role) the US and our Presidency is the laughing stock of the rest of the world.

Mother of 3

Nurse

Colts Neck, NJ

Resources:

Trump, Asked About Accusations Against Bill O’Reilly, Calls Him a ‘Good Person’, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/business/media/trump-oreilly-fox-murdochs.html

More major companies pull ads from ‘The O’Reilly Factor, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/327455-more-major-companies-pull-ads-from-the-oreilly-factor

April 4, 2017April 9, 2017

#19 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: FALSE VEILED GESTURES

Yesterday Trump announced he was donating his first quarterly salary to the National Park System and Trumpsters everywhere cheered, “Make American Great Again”—–but there are a few BIG problems with this faux generous gesture:

Trump started his Presidency with a feud with the National Park System. Remember when Trump’s biggest lie was that he claimed his inauguration was bigger than Obama’s and then repeated said lie over and over and over again in an effort to make it true. He called on the National Park System to prove his popularity, eventually forcing the National Park System to release this official photo. Trump actually received the photos the day after his inauguration but he doubled down on his lie (as he ALWAYS does), Spicey Spicer even at one point claimed the media had doctored the images.
2009, left, at President Obama’s first inauguration on the Mall in Washington. 2017, right, the image of President Trump’s inauguration. (National Park Service)
On January 20th, the National Park System account went “rogue” and released the photos and before you could say oppression, the Department of Interior had deleted the twitter account. Thankfully, nothing is ever really deleted on the internet and many had captured the original posts. This sparked tweets about Trump and his admin scrubbing the government sites of climate change and other data they don’t like, aka science/facts. Hence, the Alt US National Park Service Twitter account was formed.
As Trump’s agenda to dismantle the EPA in favor of BIG Coal and BIG business, to defund science and research, to deny climate change and other scientific facts became more clear, rouge US Agency twitter accounts grew in number daily in the early days of this new oppressive administration. Here is a list of some of those accounts, https://twitter.com/ariherzog/lists/alt-and-rogue/members Pissing off smart folks and arguing against science/facts….well, that used to be ineffective but in this “Post Truth” era, lies dominate. Looking at you FOX.
Trump’s decision to give $78,000 to the National Park System, is supposedly earmarked to preserve battle fields, sorry Yellowstone and other parks in need of maintenance. Originally he asked the press to decide where the money went, and changed his mind. Why? Knowing his personality and knowing this donation is insulting to an agency whose proposed budget will leave it on life support, I am calling this as I see it, a vindictive calculated MANipulative move. “”If Donald Trump is actually interested in helping our parks, he should stop trying to slash their budgets to historically low levels,” said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club. “America’s parks, and the people and economies they support, need real funding, not a giant fake check. Parks are a good investment and we must invest now if we want them to be around for our kids,” Brune added.”
Spicy you can take the “big (referring to physical blown up size, not referring to the value)” check and stick it you know where.

Resources:

Trump will donate first-quarter salary to National Park Service, White House says,http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-donate-salary-park-service-20170403-story.html

Here are the photos that show Obama’s inauguration crowd was bigger than Trump’s, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/03/06/here-are-the-photos-that-show-obamas-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-than-trumps/?utm_term=.928c1dfb3ae8

National Park Disservice; The Department of Interior took action after a tweet was shared via the National Park Service account unfavorably comparing the attendance at Trump’s inauguration with that at Obama’s, http://www.snopes.com/nps-twitter-account-shut-down/

It’s Not Just The Park Service: ‘Rogue’ Federal Twitter Accounts Multiply, http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/01/27/512007632/its-not-just-the-park-service-rogue-federal-twitter-accounts-multiply

Trump Donates Salary To National Parks Even As He Tries To Cut Interior Department, http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522518472/trump-donates-salary-to-national-parks-even-as-he-tries-to-cut-interior-departme

April 2, 2017April 2, 2017

#18 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: INCITING VIOLENCE

A Federal judge in Kentucky just ruled against Trump and his lawyers’ request to throw out a lawsuit that accuses him of inciting violence and I for one am grateful.

Three protesters are suing Trump for inciting violence after they were roughed up at a rally on March 1, 2016. They were pushed and punched and it was all caught on film as Trump screams, “Get ’em outta here.” Trump’s lawyers claim that he [Trump] did not want his fans to use force, but unfortunately like the travel ban, it is Trump’s own words and actions that are coming back to haunt him.

His comments about throwing people out, punching them in the face, and carrying them out on stretchers were nauseating and offensive to me during the campaign. This man has no class and his reaction to protesters is to exert dominance and harm. This was one of the many character flaws that I believed would have kept him out of office, but alas…that did not happen. A leader who encourages his fans to hurt those who protest him or don’t agree with him seems like a dangerous, unhinged man to me.

“At the rally, Trump repeatedly said “get ’em out of here” before, according to the protesters, they were shoved and punched by his supporters. Trump’s attorneys sought to have the case dismissed on free speech grounds, arguing that he didn’t intend for his supporters to use force. But Hale noted that speech inciting violence is not protected by the First Amendment and ruled that there is plenty of evidence that the protesters’ injuries were a “direct and proximate result” of Trump’s words (1).”

His fanbase was simply following his orders, his instructions. One of the men accused of harm and caught on film pushing the woman protester who was simply standing there, was wearing his Korean war uniform. In this article the reporter stated the man apologized to the Korean War Veterans Association but it does not mention if he apologized to the woman. I would like to think he did, if his lawyer allowed it. Perhaps he and the others who pushed, shoved and punched protesters were simply caught up in the moment and maybe they regret their behavior but I fear that may be wishful thinking on my part. I picture Jack from Lord of the Flies yelling, “‘Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!’” Trump, like Jack, is a power-hunger dictator who has a propensity towards evil and violence. You think I am exaggerating–watch the clips and his facial expressions.

“Bamberger later apologized to the Korean War Veterans Association, whose uniform he wore at the rally. He wrote that he “physically pushed a young woman down the aisle toward the exit” after “Trump kept saying ‘get them out, get them out,” according to the lawsuit (2).”

Here is a clip of some of the many times Trump incited and called for violence at his campaign rallies where his deplorable fanbase was eager to comply.

Mother of 3

Nurse

Colts Neck, NJ

Resources:

1 A judge rules Trump may have incited violence … and Trump again has his own mouth to blame, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/02/a-judge-rules-trump-may-have-incited-violence-and-trump-again-has-his-own-mouth-to-blame/?utm_term=.2302dfa0d5e4

2 Judge to Trump: No Protection for Campaign Rally Speech Inciting Violence, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-trump-no-protection-campaign-rally-speech-inciting-violence-n741731

April 1, 2017

#17 THINGS I HATE ABOUT TRUMP: RUINED APRIL FOOLS DAY

April Fools Day is supposed to be a day filled with pranks and silly jokes but with Donal Trump as President–well..at least today we can excuse his lies and tweets as possible bad jokes.

America is the laughing stock of the world. We have a leader who rants and raves on Twitter, who gets his news and perspective from FOX and other conservative sites, who holds grudges and acts like a toddler–every day is April Fools day as long as Trump is in office.

I think most Americans are spending today wishing it was all an April Fools prank.