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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president* with speculation over whether he will only be a one-term president – despite the fact that he may not even last through his first term as his corruption scandals continue imploding his already failed presidency, Donnie’s fraudulent past is going to haunt him and his entire family for years to come since Rico Laws could end up taking them down, how lying about being innocent on Twitter doesn’t make it true, with his house of cards about to be revealed it all its dubious glory the lies coming from Trump are growing exponentially, the Donald is already trying to delegitimize the 2020 elections because he knows he’s going to lose big time and much more.

Is Donald Trump Destined to Be a One-Term President? article from Truthout. –
https://truthout.org/articles/is-donald-trump-destined-to-be-a-one-term-president/

If we’re lucky, yes, given the fact that he never should have been ‘elected’ in the first place and probably won’t even last through his first term as his corruption scandals continue imploding his already failed presidency.

Michael Cohen delivered a dire warning to the Trump cult: There’s no evidence they will listen article from Salon. –
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/01/michael-cohen-delivered-a-dire-warning-to-the-trump-cult-theres-no-evidence-they-will-listen/

One would think Trump’s GOP enablers and co-conspirators would listen to Cohen but you can probably bet they won’t:

‘I did the same thing that you’re doing now. I protected Mr. Trump for 10 years.’ — Michael Cohen vehemently warned Republicans against protecting the president pic.twitter.com/HUxsRONxtV

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) March 1, 2019

Trump Is Now Facing Years Of Criminal Investigations article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/03/01/trump-is-now-facing-years-of-criminal-investigations.html

For more than 3 decades Donnie has committed many crimes and now it’s finally coming back to haunt his ignorant ass – and this time it may end up taking his family down with him:

The criminal investigations will be following Trump for years. https://t.co/yc9ImOVwYp pic.twitter.com/pMyH9k9OvA

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 1, 2019

Trump, cohen and the paradox of believing proven liars article from AOL. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/03/01/trump-cohen-and-the-paradox-of-believing-proven-liars/23681988/

The hypocrisy of Republicans trying to paint Cohen as a liar when all Trump does is lie about everything is comical:

“Throughout Michael Cohen’s testimony this week before the House Oversight Committee, Republicans repeated what would seem to be a simple rule of human nature: Never trust a person who has been proven to be a liar.

“I want everyone in this room to think about this, the first announced witness for the 116th Congress is a guy who is going to prison in two months for lying to Congress,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in his opening remarks.

But as more Republicans on the committee followed Jordan’s lead, that strategy quickly hit a wall.

“You’re a pathological liar. You don’t know truth from falsehood,” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz, scolded Cohen, who then swiftly turned the tables on his interrogators…”

Trump, Kim, Cohen, and the limits of the president’s power article from The New Yorker. –
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/trump-kim-cohen-and-the-limits-of-the-presidents-power

Cohen’s testimony and Trump’s failed foreign political theater folly with North Korea reveals how his problems with fact, truth and reality are devastating to his land of delusion.

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Potential treason by GOP leadership in the House and Senate begins today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* as they colluded with him to keep his crimes hidden – meaning they are just as guilty as he is, Trump’s treasonous actions are becoming glaringly evident, how Donnie’s illegal ‘National Emergency’ highlights his despotic delusions of grandeur, how the Donald’s delusions are getting worse as his alternate reality continues imploding, Donald J. Trump – the most corrupt president* in U.S. history – has made himself completely irrelevant, follow the money to see why our moronic president* declared his fraudulent national emergency and a lot of answers become crystal clear, when you listen to Cohen’s testimony to Congress it becomes glaringly evident why Trump and his GOP enablers are so terrified of him, the Don’s North Korea ‘summit’ – like his presidency – was a massive failure and much more.

Andrew McCabe says House and Senate Republicans Knew that Trump was under investigation article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/19/andrew-mccabe-expose-gop-trump-cover-up-in-congress.html

Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham and a host of other GOP leaders are guilty of Treason and collusion for aiding, abetting and covering up the crimes of the illegitimate president* currently occupying the White House if this is true:

Republicans knew about Trump being under FBI investigation and worked to cover up his potential crimes. https://t.co/q2ScSAvPc3 pic.twitter.com/YyAjACsAgZ

— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) February 19, 2019

Trump blatantly bends the rule of law to suit his whims article from The Week. –
https://theweek.com/articles/824441/trump-blatantly-bends-rule-law-suit-whims

Trump is delusional enough to actually believe he is above the law and that laws don’t apply to him, which is going to result in many rude awakenings as he drags his already failed presidency further down the drain.

Trump asked his acting AG to appoint an ally to oversee crucial SDNY investigations: report article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/trump-asked-his-acting-ag-to-appoint-an-ally-to-oversee-crucial-sdny-investigations/

Yet another case of the Donald blatantly trying to obstruct justice to try and save his sorry ass that backfired miserably…

Trump’s Efforts to Subvert Justice Reportedly Thwarted by People Just Ignoring Him article from Splinter News. –
https://splinternews.com/trump-s-efforts-to-subvert-justice-reportedly-thwarted-1832731169

There will eventually be hell to pay for aiding and abetting the treasonous felon currently occupying the White House – though currently he’s only an unindicted co-conspirator – so ignoring him is probably wise:

“The New York Times on Tuesday published a massive exposé on President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to subvert, deflect, and in some cases outright end the various investigations into his alleged criminal misdeeds. It’s a compelling if exhausting read, which goes to great lengths to show how Trump—increasingly frustrated by the prospect of actually facing serious consequences for his actions—has spent the past two years working to manipulate the levers of the criminal justice system to suit his own needs.

And yet there’s an undeniable subtext in the Times’ reporting: That Trump’s worst, most authoritarian inclinations are frequently stymied by the fact that those around him simply ignore his more outlandish directives.

Here’s a good example, in which the president asked then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to reinstate U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman—perceived by Trump to be a friend—to oversee the SDNY’s investigation into the president’s businesses, after Berman had recused himself (emphasis mine throughout).

He made the call to Mr. Whitaker to see if he could put Mr. Berman in charge of the New York investigation. The inquiry is run by Robert Khuzami, a career prosecutor who took over after Mr. Berman, whom Mr. Trump appointed, recused himself because of a routine conflict of interest…”

Maggie Haberman on Trump’s New York Times Attack: ‘That’s a Lie’ article from The Daily Beast. –
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maggie-haberman-on-trumps-new-york-times-attack-thats-a-lie

Once again Trump lied and ranted on Twitter about the New York Times, calling them the ‘enemy of the people’ in true despotic form for highlighting more of his corruption:

JUST NOW: “That’s a lie. I don’t know if he knows it’s a lie or whether he is telling himself this is true, whether his staff doesn’t tell him we are reaching out.”@maggieNYT on @realDonaldTrump claim the NYT didn’t reach out over new story.@NewDay pic.twitter.com/01QY6JsVaY

— John Berman (@JohnBerman) February 20, 2019

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* with how to resist his weaponization of ignorance during his illegitimate tenure, how the irrelevance of Trump is becoming glaringly evident, how the Don’s hypocrisy over anti-semitism is astonishing, on the stupidity of Donnie fraudulently trying to declare a National Emergency and why it – like everything else he does – will fail miserably, the dangers – and entertainment value – of a fake president* declaring a fake emergency won’t end well for the Don when his despotic delusions of grandeur go down in flames and much more.

Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump article from Truthout. –
https://truthout.org/articles/resisting-the-weaponization-of-ignorance-in-the-age-of-trump/

How ignorance – fueled by his endless lies and corruption – now rules the U.S. courtesy of the most illegitimate, ignorant president* in history.

The irrelevance of Trump article from The Week. –
https://theweek.com/articles/823270/irrelevance-trump

While Trump was off in El Paso trying to spread his lies and justify his racist border wall and partaking in his other blustery bull shit about a fraudulent border crisis – among other things – Congress was able to potentially reach an agreement that he isn’t happy about because it failed to include his $5.7 Billion dollar extortion attempt.

Trump hypocritically calls on Rep. Omar to resign – but the backlash was immediate and fierce article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/trump-hypocritically-calls-on-rep-omar-to-resign-but-the-backlash-was-immediate-and-fierce/

The fact that the Don was stupid enough to talk about someone else’s alleged racism is astonishing:

If that is the standard we are setting, than President Trump must resign as well. His anti-semitic and xenophobic rhetoric lead to the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting. Nothing he says can change that, and unlike Rep. Omar, he has never apologized. https://t.co/hkbZcNSAcV

— Carly Pildis (@CarlyPildis) February 12, 2019

Trump Has Most, Best, Greatest Hypocrisy On Anti-Semitism article from Crooks and Liars. –
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/02/trumps-hypocrisy-anti-semitism

If anyone should resign due to their anti-Semitic comments, it’s the lackluster lame duck president* currently occupying the White House:

“Trump hypocritically demanded Rep. Omar to resign over her criticisms of AIPAC, even after she apologized, but has never apologized for praising some very fine “neo-Nazis” during a White Supremacist march in Charlottesville that turned violent.

At a Cabinet meeting in the White House on Tuesday, Trump said this about Rep. Omar, “Anti-Semitism has no place in the United States Congress, and I think she should either resign from Congress or she should certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”

Trump piled on her with more over-the-top rhetoric, “What (Omar) said is so deep-seated in her heart that her lame apology — and that’s what it was, it was lame and she didn’t mean a word of it — was just not appropriate. I think she should resign from Congress, frankly. But at a minimum, she shouldn’t be on committees — certainly that committee.”…”

Trump’s tweet that Senate investigators found ‘NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION,’ explained article from Vox. –
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/13/18223148/trump-richard-burr-russia-collusion-explained

Trump is trying to deflect from the fact that his enablers and cohorts in the Senate are helping him try to make you believe that he’s innocent, which is about as far from the truth as you can get and purposely misleading for obvious reasons:

The Senate Intelligence Committee: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2019

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

The ignorance of listening to his Ministry of Propaganda begins today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* as it makes him look extremely idiotic, the delusions coming from Trump’s mediocre mind are getting worse, Trump’s tax reform scam is coming back to bite him in the ass as more Americans are getting screwed by it while just beginning to realize it, Donnie’s lie filled State of the Union address was quite revealing – in ways that don’t bode well for him, on the irony of having a president* that loves to harass and bully his enemies crying about presidential harassment, surrounding himself with the idiots he does isn’t working well for the Donald, how the myriad of criminal charges against the Don and his family could end up cutting his already failed presidency short and much more.

How Fox News Pushes Trump to Make Every Bad Decision article from The Daily Beast. –
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fox-news-pushes-trump-to-make-every-bad-decision

There is a dubious pattern to Trump’s bad decisions which is attributable to Fox faux news – his Ministry of Propaganda – which only compounds his idiocy:

In the wake of caving on the wall, President Trump is checking the response from Fox & Friends.

Left, Fox & Friends Saturday, 7:49 am
Right, Trump, 8:52 am pic.twitter.com/10ZvhuzNdn

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 26, 2019

Trump Could Be Our Laziest President Ever, According to Leaked Schedules article from Rolling Stone. –
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-leaked-schedules-789367/

Most of the Donald’s time is spent watching Fox faux News to get more ideas and confirm the delusions in his alternate reality while revealing that he is indeed unfit to be holding office.

A Complete Analysis Of Trump’s 106th Unpresidented Week As POTUS article from Rantt. –
https://rantt.com/trumps-106th-unpresidented-week-as-potus/

A look back at Donnie’s most recent failed week as president*.

Scoop: Insider leaks Trump’s ‘Executive Time’ – filled private schedules article from Axios. –
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-private-schedules-leak-executive-time-34e67fbb-3af6-48df-aefb-52e02c334255.html

The Don spends most of his time watching his Ministry of Propaganda and dicking off instead of running the country:

“A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump’s private schedule for the past three months.

Why it matters: This unusually voluminous leak gives us unprecedented visibility into how this president spends his days. The schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured “Executive Time.”

– We’ve published every page of the leaked schedules in a piece that accompanies this item. To protect our source, we retyped the schedules in the same format that West Wing staff receives them.

What the schedules show: Trump, an early riser, usually spends the first 5 hours of the day in Executive Time. Each day’s schedule places Trump in “Location: Oval Office” from 8 to 11 a.m…”

Trump claims in Super Bowl interview that football is popular again because he ended player protests article from ThinkProgress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-super-bowl-football-popular-again-ended-anti-nfl-rants-a5a7f9e2f459/

The delusions coming from Trump’s mediocre mind never cease.

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

We begin today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president* with yet another Twitter meltdown after caving and reopening the government – and the arrest of Roger Stone – as the pressure from his failed presidency continues driving him crazy while dragging him further down the drain, each passing week keeps getting worse for the Donald, shutting down the government may have been a ploy by Donnie to slow the investigations into his endless corruption so he may actually do it again, the Don’s constant, endless lying is quickening his imminent implosion, Trump’s hesitation to declare his fraudulent ‘National Emergency’ proves that it doesn’t exist, 7 ways – though there are more – to survive the next two years of Donald’s illegitimate presidency, the Don’s lack of intelligence is making him look like a total National Security threat, Trump is on a major losing streak – for obvious reasons, America’s media is still allowing the Donald to spread his lies and delusions with total impunity – which doesn’t bode well for the country and much more.

Trump Goes Berserk on Twitter: ‘We Will Build the Wall!’ article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/26/trump-goes-berserk-on-twitter-we-will-build-the-wall.html

Donald still can’t get his wall and now that more close associates are being arrested, his failed presidency is just about done but the bluster, bull shit and delusions never cease:

We have turned away, at great expense, two major Caravans, but a big one has now formed and is coming. At least 8000 people! If we had a powerful Wall, they wouldn’t even try to make the long and dangerous journey. Build the Wall and Crime will Fall!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2019

Trump Folds on Shutdown After Yet Another Historically Bad Week article from Truthout. –
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-folds-on-shutdown-after-yet-another-historically-bad-week/

After screwing hundreds of thousands of people by shutting down the government for over a month because of temper tantrums over not getting funding for his racist border wall and the announcement of yet another arrest of one of his many corrupt cronies, Trump’s troubles are only getting worse.

Trump tries to bounce back after horrible day damages presidency article from CNN. –
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/politics/trump-presidency-tough-day-shutdown-wall-roger-stone-mueller-investigation/index.html

Every day the Donald provides us more evidence that he is truly an illegitimate, failed president* who is in over his head.

Ann Coulter retracts her support for Trump over bill to reopen government, says she was ‘a very stupid girl’ article from Business Insider. –
https://www.businessinsider.com/ann-coulter-slams-trump-on-bill-maher-over-government-shutdown-bill-2019-1

Her extreme ignorance is one of the reasons that Donald shot himself in the foot and closed the government down for more than a month, and in a few weeks the stupidity is going to shift into overdrive again:

“Conservative commentator Ann Coulter lashed out at President Donald Trump Friday night over his signing of a bill that would temporarily open the government that did not include any money for his border wall.

Coulter slammed Trump for the concession, telling “Real Time” host Bill Maher *that the president had broken* “the promise he made every day for 18 months.”

“Now you’re finding out he’s a lying con man,” Maher said. “What was your first clue?”

Over laughs and shouts from the audience, Coulter replied “Okay, I’m a very stupid girl, fine.”…”

‘This Is A Cave, Not A Wall’: Internet Explodes Over Donald Trump’s Shutdown Cave article from The Huffington Post. –
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shutdown-cave-donald-trump-reaction_us_5c4c0844e4b0e1872d43da46

In 21 days when the Don still doesn’t get money for his racist wall, he’s going to dig himself another hole he won’t be able to slither out of:

Trump caved.

He announced he’s going to sign a wall-free temporary spending package to reopen the government.https://t.co/LN49mtlC6n

An early look at Saturday’s front page… pic.twitter.com/UNHHPazZlp

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) January 25, 2019

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Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:

Taking away Trump’s State of the Union address begins today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president* as House Speaker Pelosi brought up valid concerns that his increasingly unpopular shutdown is responsible for and why it’s time to shut him down, Donnie’s failed presidency keeps getting more corrupt with each passing day, Trump’s legal team is going to get him charged with Treason, how emulating Nixon is going to prove costly to the Don, two years into his fake presidency it’s not going well for Trump as his endless lies and corruption have sealed his fate, it appears that there are tapes of Trump’s guilt – as provided by the moron he calls his defense lawyer, the resistance to the Donald’s illegitimate presidency is growing, Mueller’s investigations are starting to take a toll on the Don as more of his corrupt cronies get arrested and so much more.

The shutdown just cost Trump his State of the Union address article from ThinkProgress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/the-shutdown-just-cost-trump-his-state-of-the-union-address-41cb69480706/

Taking away Trump’s bully pulpit where he will lie – again – to the public and anyone else foolish enough to listen to his delusional immigration fantasies is ingenious, so prepare for more Twitter tantrums.

Trump Is Losing His Mind Because Pelosi Won’t Fall For His Crazy article from PoliticusUSA. –
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/16/trump-is-losing-his-mind-because-pelosi-wont-fall-for-his-crazy.html

Pelosi isn’t biting on ‘the kernels of crazy’ Donald is tossing and it’s driving him nuts:

Trump is losing it because Pelosi isn’t falling for his crazy.https://t.co/OO5ndAb0TW pic.twitter.com/GloJiCf6lJ

— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) January 17, 2019

Impeach Donald Trump article from The Atlantic. –
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/

Why it’s time to bring the Don’s incompetence and illegality front and center to start talking about who he is and what he’s done.

President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project article from Buzz Feed. –
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/trump-russia-cohen-moscow-tower-mueller-investigation

Donnie just keeps digging himself a deeper hole he won’t be able to slither out of, and this one may cost him his entire failed presidency:

“President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.

Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. “Make it happen,” the sources said Trump told Cohen.

And even as Trump told the public he had no business deals with Russia, the sources said Trump and his children Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. received regular, detailed updates about the real estate development from Cohen, whom they put in charge of the project.

Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying about the deal in testimony and in a two-page statement to the Senate and House intelligence committees. Special counsel Robert Mueller noted that Cohen’s false claim that the project ended in January 2016 was an attempt to “minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1” — widely understood to be Trump — “in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.”…”

In apparent desperation, Trump turns to more fear-mongering article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/apparent-desperation-trump-turns-more-fear-mongering

Resorting to more lies about alleged prayer rugs from a 2014 conspiracy theory that were totally false to try and justify his ignorant, racist border wall isn’t going to work well for the Donald either…

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We begin today’s misadventures of our malevolent minority-elect president* with the perfect example of why he has absolutely no business being in the White House or running a country, 2019 is going to be a rough year for the Donald, every malicious deceptive act and never-ending lie perpetuated by our illegitimate, unindicted co-conspirator brings him that much closer to being removed from office, the longer the Don takes to pull his head out of his ass and end his shutdown, the worse he’s going to make things for himself, it’s time for the media to stop the sob stories over Trump supporters, Donnie’s Twitter melt downs are coming more fast and furious as his imploding presidency continues failing, for someone who claims to be innocent and not in collusion with Russia, Trump sure is making himself look guilty as hell and much more.

Trump Wall Dumb Dumb article from Splinter News. –
https://splinternews.com/trump-wall-dumb-dumb-1831614894

Yet another perfect example of why Trump has no business occupying the White House or running this country and why he is, always has been and always will be a massive fraudulent failure:

“I think they have been terrific, these are terrific patriots, a lot of them agree with what I’m doing,” President Trump claims when asked by ABC News’ @jonkarl about furloughed federal workers who haven’t been paid during the shutdown https://t.co/vaEuFDYovx pic.twitter.com/V76PnVQCde

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 9, 2019

Trump Absolutely Failed to Make a Case That His Border ‘Crisis’ Is a National Emergency article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-address-border-wall-national-emergency/

The Donald is having a hard time convincing anybody – aside from the minority of moronic minions that blindly support him – that a Border ‘crisis’ exists, aside from the humanitarian disaster he and his complicit cabal created.

WATCH: Trump rages at reporter for pointing out he did nothing on the wall for two years article from The Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/watch-trump-rages-reporter-pointing-nothing-wall-two-yearsv/

Trump’s wall is now a national crisis regardless of the fact that the GOP controlled Congress for two years and did nothing but now Democrats are in charge and they will bring him down so he needs to try and stall the inevitable for as long as he can:

It’s Accountability Time for the Orange Menace article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/house-democrats-trump-accountability-impeachment/

Donnie is going to face a long 2019 and the longer his shutdown drags out, the worse it’s going to get for him:

“Donald Trump will be held to account in 2019. The prospect that the president and his associates will face serious congressional oversight, and that this scrutiny will provide vital checks and balances for the remainder of his disastrous presidency, is no longer in doubt. The voters settled that question in November, when they swept Trump’s Republican allies out of the House committee chairmanships they had co-opted in the service of a legally and morally indefensible president. Representative Elijah Cummings, who will now take control of the powerful House Oversight Committee, got it exactly right when he said, “Voters made clear they wanted transparency, integrity, honesty, but they wanted something else: accountability.”

Of course, there is good reason to demand that the new Democratic-controlled House send the right policy signals by approving bills to raise wages, expand access to health care and education, and address the existential crises of inequality and climate change—even if the Republican-controlled Senate refuses to go along, and even if Trump threatens to veto those bills. But the most urgent pressure that Americans can bring to bear involves the revitalization of the oversight infrastructure that crumbled during the subservient tenure of former House speaker Paul Ryan. “The saddest part of the last two years was that Ryan completely gave up our responsibility for oversight in the House,” says Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Mark Pocan. “As a separate but coequal branch of government, we saw no responsible actions of oversight for anything that the president or his administration did.

“Now, we’ve got a lot of pent-up work that has to happen,” Pocan continues. “But we can do that at the same time that we’re passing legislation and putting ideas forward. And it’s not just the Judiciary and Intelligence and Oversight and Government Reform committees—the ones that are traditionally seen as the committees that do this—that will be stepping up.” Trump’s ablest critics will now be positioned to issue subpoenas demanding the release of tax returns and other records, to compel key figures to face questioning, and to expose failed policies and egregious conflicts of interest not just in the White House but elsewhere in the executive branch, like the departments of Defense, Labor, and Health and Human Services.

Representative Barbara Lee secured support in the last Congress for rescinding the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, which has been used by three successive presidents to justify military adventurism. But Ryan blocked her move, just as he blocked a bipartisan push by Representative Ro Khanna to end US support for Saudi Arabia’s brutal assault on Yemen. Now that Ryan is gone, the House must signal that it will no longer cede authority over decisions concerning war and peace to the White House. Groups that have long sought to rein in US militarism, like Peace Action and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, now have an opening to achieve dramatic policy shifts; Americans who are rightly fearful of this president’s impulsive nature should recognize that this is essential activism on behalf of accountability—and a saner foreign policy…”

If Trump Declares a National Emergency, He’ll Be Breaking the Law article from Truthout. –
https://truthout.org/articles/if-trump-declares-a-national-emergency-hell-be-breaking-the-law/

If Donnie is stupid enough to go there, he’s in for some Yuge disappointments and a can of worms he’s not prepared for.

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