Daily Archives: March 15, 2017

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 32

Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return released – possibly by Trump himself, Trump ramps up President Obama’s illegal drone strikes, Trump’s alt-national security council operating in the White House to collude with the European right, our fatally flawed political system enabled the rise of Trump when it should have prevented it, Trump signs executive order to grant himself the power to eviscerate federal agencies that might inconvenience the Trump cabal, alleged ‘shadowy deep state’ purportedly trying to sabotage the Trump cabal, Trump approval continues sinking thanks to TrumpCare, coincidences over Russian ties to Trump piling up, Trump’s budget slices and dices Americans and foreign aid, Trump’s paranoid work environment in the White House, top Trump ally questions validity of his wiretap claims, Trump continues breaking campaign promises by adding another leech from Goldman Sachs to his cabinet, Trump’s infrastructure boondoggle, Trump’s second biased Muslim travel ban blocked by Federal Judge in Hawaii, Medicaid head appointed by Trump exposing her intent to eviscerate recipients and more.

The wall around Donald Trump’s taxes cracks, a little article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-wall-around-donald-trumps-taxes-cracks-a-little-021916975.html

The last time we heard about Trump’s tax returns he wasn’t paying taxes. Suddenly he allegedly paid them in 2005, suggesting they may have been doctored or leaked on purpose…

Five Ways This Trump Tax Story Stinks article from Common Dreams. –
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/15/five-ways-trump-tax-story-stinks

Reporter who got Trump’s tax return questioned if Trump leaked it himself article from AOL News. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/15/reporter-who-got-trumps-tax-return-questioned-if-trump-leaked-i/21893897/

Donald Trump… Leaker-in-Chief? article from Common Dreams. –
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/15/donald-trump-leaker-chief

Trump administration secretly resumes CIA drone assassination program article from the World Socialist Web Site. –
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/03/15/dron-m15.html

“The Trump White House has secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to resume drone assassination strikes that in the latter years of the Obama administration had been largely reserved for the US military, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The Journal cited unnamed US officials revealing that the authorization was granted shortly after Trump visited CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia on January 21, the day after his inauguration. No announcement has been made as to the change in policy, and the White House as well as the CIA and the Pentagon have declined to comment on the matter.

According to the report, the authorization initially provided to the CIA was in relation to drone strikes in Syria, where the agency killed Egyptian Al Qaeda leader Abu al Khayr al Masri in an airstrike late last month.

It appears, however, that the policy has already been expanded globally, with an apparent CIA drone strike in Pakistan that killed two men, and a wave of strikes in Yemen—more in a single week this month than in any single year under the Obama administration—for which the Pentagon failed to take responsibility…”

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