TRUMPERS: NEVER EVER EVER LET FACTS form your opinion!
Just keep on rewarding Big Pharma and their Bought & Paid For Congressmen!
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- "In reality, violent crime rates tend to decrease where marijuana is legalized.Denver saw a 2.2 percent drop in violent crime rates in the year after the first legal recreational cannabis sales in Colorado. Overall property crime dropped by 8.9 percent in the same period there, according to figures from the Drug Policy Alliance. In Washington, violent crime rates dropped by 10 percent from 2011 to 2014." - Alan Pyke
Draft Dodging Chicken Hawk criticizes the MILITARY?
STOP THE GOP RIGGED ELECTIONS AND VOTE THEM OUT!
Anyone who doesn't step forward and condemn this Intellectual Midget deserves to be OUT OF OFFICE!
Kevin Petersen Saying Trump was in a military school or academy. Is wrong
That is virtually the equivalent to the Boy Scouts Totally different
Trump being a 5 time Vietnam draft dodger, not once, but 5 times should have been reason enough for no USA citizen to vote for him
That totally shows his character
In his case. Lack there of
Nancy C. Wasserman At the time he was at NYMA , military schools were used to teach discipline to hard to manage boys. They were called incorrigible .
Not only are the President’s remarks not truthful, they are offensive to every man and woman who has ever worn this great nation’s uniform—including thousands currently deployed and in danger.
For someone who has never served and thinks he knows more than Generals with real combat experience to say these things is disgusting. It’s yet more evidence that President Trump is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief.
If he thinks our troops are not fighting to win, he needs to tell the American people why he’s ordering them to remain in harm’s way.
Apparently Draft Dodger in Chief Trump doesn't just have contempt for POWs.
From the article:
"President Trump attended a military academy, but never served in the armed forces. He received a total of five draft deferments in the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his heels, The New York Times reports. Trump has been previously criticized for being insensitive to the sacrifices made by service members and their families for the country: "You have sacrificed nothing and no one," said Khizr Khan, the father of an American soldier killed in Iraq, at the Democratic National Convention last year."
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House Dem forces GOP to take recorded vote on Trump tax returns
BY NAOMI JAGODA - 02/27/17
A House Democratic lawmaker attempted Monday to force a House floor vote on a resolution to request President Trump’s tax returns, but the effort failed on a party line vote, 229-185, with two Republicans voting "present."
The move was the latest in a series of Democratic efforts to push Congress to request Trump’s tax returns, and Democrats demanded a roll call vote to force Republicans to go on the record.
The two Republicans who voted present were Reps. Walter Jones (N.C.) and Mark Sanford (S.C.). Sanford is one of the Republican lawmakers who has in the past called for Trump to release his returns.
After the vote, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) fired at the GOP.
“Tonight, House Republicans made themselves accomplices to hiding President Trump’s tax returns from the American people," she said.
“Our security and our democracy have been endangered by Russia’s clear influence on the Trump Administration. The American people deserve the truth about Russia’s personal, political and financial grip on President Trump. If there’s nothing there, then what are Republicans afraid of?
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) offered a resolution that would have directed the House to request 10 years of Trump’s tax returns, have the House Ways and Means Committee review them in a closed session and then vote to send the information in the returns to the full House.
The resolution would also direct the House to “support transparency in government and the longstanding tradition of Presidents and Presidential candidates disclosing their tax returns.”
Pascrell read the text of his resolution on the House floor Monday evening, drawing a standing ovation from other Democratic lawmakers.
“Let’s shine a bright light on the president’s conflicts together,” Pascrell said after the bill was read. “We as a Congress and the broader American public can judge whether his decisions are being made for himself, his business interests, or for the greater good of the American people.”
Pascrell attempted to offer the resolution as a “privileged” measure. Under House rules, privileged resolutions have to be acted on within two legislative days.
But Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), the lawmaker presiding over the House, ruled that the resolution wasn’t actually privileged. Pascrell appealed the ruling, and lawmakers voted to table Pascrell’s appeal.
Democrats have expressed a desire to see the returns in order to learn more about the president’s conflicts of interest, because he has not sold his businesses. They have also argued that viewing Trump’s tax returns could be helpful in investigating Russia’s influence in the presidential election.
Trump was the first major-party presidential nominee in decades to refuse to release his tax returns. He frequently said that he wouldn’t make his returns public until the IRS finished auditing him. However, the IRS has said that an audit doesn’t prevent people from releasing their own tax information.
Some Republican lawmakers have also expressed interest in Trump releasing his returns. And Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she was open to Congress issuing a subpoena for the returns during its probe into Russian involvement in the election.
But House GOP chairmen have been cool about the idea of seeking Trump’s tax returns. When House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was asked earlier Monday if he would subpoena Trump’s returns, he said, “No, we’re not going to do that.”
Pascrell sent a letter earlier this month to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) asking him to request Trump’s tax returns from the Treasury Secretary so that they could be reviewed by the tax-writing panel in a closed session.
Brady responded by telling reporters that he would not seek Trump’s tax returns, citing privacy concerns.
"My belief is that if Congress begins to use its powers to rummage around in the tax returns of a president, what prevents Congress from doing the same to average Americans," he said.
The day after Brady made those comments, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) offered an amendment to the Ways and Means Committee’s oversight plan that would have directed Brady to request Trump’s tax returns. But the committee voted against the amendment on a party-line vote.
Pascrell isn't the only House Democrat this week trying to force a vote that would begin the process of investigating Trump.
The House Judiciary Committee will consider a resolution from Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday that would demand the Justice Department to hand over documents regarding Trump's business conflicts of interest and possible ties to Russia.
Nadler invoked a rarely used procedure that automatically triggers a House floor vote if the resolution isn't considered in committee within 14 legislative days.
As with Pascrell's measure, GOP members of the Judiciary Committee are expected to vote to prevent Nadler's resolution from moving forward.
Cristina Marcos contributed.
The Washington Post Just Asked A MAJOR Question Of Trump’s Administration, And He’ll Be LIVID
Trump’s young administration is fraught with trouble, but we all knew that already. Most of us probably haven’t thought of just how to frame Trump’s behavior since assuming the White House, but an enterprising writer at the Washington Post just did. Eugene Robinson, an opinion writer for the Post, wrote an entire op-ed based around the following question:
“Does Trump know he’s president?”
Well, does he? One of the things that Robinson points to as evidence that he doesn’t, or, at least, doesn’t know what he’s doing at all, is the fact that we had a bunch of government executives tell Europe, tell Iraq, even tell the U.N., not to listen to what Trump says. For instance, he said we’re going to take Iraq’s oil. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the press in Baghdad that we were absolutely not there to do that.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said that we absolutely support a two-state solution after Trump said we didn’t. Mike Pence told NATO that we’re fully devoted to them, after Trump has said repeatedly that NATO is obsolete and wants to cozy up to Russia.
He said that rounding up undocumented immigrants is “a military operation,” which supposedly means a “non-military operation,” and he was just using “military” as an adjective, according to Sean Spicer.
Not mentioned in Robinson’s article is Trump’s neverending Twitter temper tantrum, though he does mention Trump’s feud with the press. There’s also the fact that Trump loves hobnobbing with his rich buddies in Florida, to the point where he had a meeting on North Korea in plain view of his VIPs, who pay him a ton of money. He won’t divest from his businesses, which is creating massive conflicts of interest and may even be in violation of the Constitution.
He rushed out his Muslim ban and the courts promptly halted it, and we have to wonder if he even consulted with anyone knowledgeable about the law with that. The 9th Circuit just rejected the Justice Department’s request to put that case on hold pending a new order.
So when the Post has to ask if Trump even knows he’s president, we have to wonder the same thing. We also have to assume that Trump will be pissed if he hears about this op-ed because it makes him look like the buffoon he is, and he already hates the Post. Not as much as The New York Times or CNN, but he hates them enough. The answer to Robinson’s question is, “No, he doesn’t know he’s president, especially not in the same way every other president we’ve had knew they were president.”
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