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Misadventures of a minority-elect President 19

Trump’s budget destroys America while building up the Military-Industrial Complex, more false fabrications from Trump on the disastrous Yemen raid, more Trump falsehoods about immigrants and terrorist attacks in the U.S., Trump’s political reality convoluted by his dystopian fantasy, how Trump lies about his lies, don’t believe the new Trump, ethics course nixed for White House staff, Trump leak crackdown could backfire, more on Trump’s brown shirts in Congress protecting him, Trump’s campaign took illegal cash, undocumented communities organized and ready to fight Trump’s mass expulsion orders, Trump-Russia scandal growing, crime isn’t nearly as bad as the White House wants you to think it is and more.

Forget Trump’s speech. Look at his budget article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-central-mistake-in-trumps-budget-100052871.html

New Trump claims about deadly Yemen raid appear to be untrue article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-trump-claims-about-deadly-yemen-raid-appear-be-untrue

“Following up on a story we’ve been following, Donald Trump continues to face important questions about the first military raid he ordered as president, which tragically turned deadly. The fact that the Republican president is avoiding responsibility for what happened – and doesn’t appear to be telling the truth about the mission itself – makes the questions all the more serious.

As we’ve discussed, the plan was to acquire intelligence and equipment at an al Qaeda camp in Yemen, but the mission quickly went sideways: Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, a member of SEAL Team 6, was killed; several other Americans were injured; and by the end of the operation, multiple civilians, including children, were dead.

It’s been described as a mission in which “almost everything went wrong,” a dynamic made more complicated by U.S. military officials suggesting to Reuters that Trump approved the mission “without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations…”

3 Hard Political Truths That Trump Is Facing article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/3-reasons-trumps-grip-power-could-be-more-fragile-it-looks

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