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Donald Trump
300 Former Prosecutors: Multiple Felony Counts of Obstruction against Trump in Mueller Report
STATEMENT BY FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTORS (Medium.com) – We are former federal prosecutors. We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the federal system: as line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice. The offices in which we served were small, medium, and large; […]
Why did the Trump Admin. Obstruct UN Resolution against War Rape that Amal Clooney Supported?
Trump is a vulgar libertine with overwhelming support from evangelicals
The Democrats can Crush unpopular Trump in 2020, but only if they Run to the Left
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new CNN/SSRS poll of about 1,000 people shows that among a random sample of registered voters, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden each crush Trump by 6 to 7 points, even at this very early point in the campaign. Kamala Harris also wins, but by a smaller margin. This poll […]
Mueller thinks Trump Committed Obstruction: Why he Wrote to Barr and why Barr Lied
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment): Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky at WaPo broke the story that Special Counsel Bob Mueller wrote a sharp letter to Attorney General William Barr to protest the 4-page summary Barr put out before releasing the Mueller report to the public. The letter was private but someone just leaked it to WaPo. […]
The Seychelles Plot: Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner
The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about pre-election collusion […]
After Mueller: A Majority of Americans believes Trump is Guilty of Obstruction, wants him Impeached
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new Associated Press – NORC Poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53%, want Congress to go on investigating Trump even after the close of the Mueller investigation. (The raw data for the poll is here.) Since they saw Trump fire Comey after pressuring him to assure the president […]
Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian fundamentalists boost European Far Right with Dark Money Millions
By Claire Provost and Adam Ramsay | – ( OpenDemocracy.net) – US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of ‘dark money’ into Europe over the last decade, openDemocracy can reveal today. Between them, these groups have backed […]
America’s current Racism, Patriarchy and Fear of Immigrants Eerily look like 1919
1919 was the year Confederate General Stonewall Jackson’s statue was erected on a main thoroughfare in Richmond, Virginia
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