#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 4, 2017 – Donald Trump’s lawyer revealed the president could withdraw money from the Trump Organization’s underlying trust at any time.
The intent of the trust was to prevent Trump from having financial access to his 400 businesses after inauguration.
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#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 4, 2017 – Using the Congressional Review Act, Donald Trump and members of the GOP rolled back an Obama-era law that required employers to keep accurate records of employee injuries.
Worker advocates criticized the repeal, saying its absence would allow employers to manipulate injury numbers and conceal workplace hazards from regulators.
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 4, 2017 -Donald Trump implied that Barack Obama’s administration was to blame for a gas attack in a rebel-controlled area of Syria, saying the attack had been a “consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution.”
#SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 4, 2018 – Trump announced he would deploy the National Guard to the southern border of the United States. Trump said of the decision, “We’re going to be guarding our border with our military. That’s a big step.”
Trump was not the first president to send National Guard troops to the border; both George W. Bush and Barack Obama also sent the National Guard to support border patrol.
#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 4, 2020 – After Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, confirmed there was no evidence that hydroxychloroquine could fight the coronavirus — or that it was safe — Trump said he was considering it for himself. “I may take it, OK? I may take it," he said. “And I’ll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it.”
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 3, 2017 – Donald Trump praised Egypt’s authoritarian leader President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, saying, “I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President el-Sisi.”
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April 3, 2017 – Donald Trump signed a bill eliminating rules that would have required internet service providers to ask consumer permission before sharing or selling private information.
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April 3, 2017 – Donald Trump stopped all funding for the UN Family Planning Agency, which supported women’s health and family planning efforts across the globe. In 2016 alone, American funding for the UNFPA prevented 100,000 unsafe abortions and 800,000 women from going without access to contraception.
#SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 3, 2018 – Alex van der Zwaan plead guilty to charges filed by Robert Mueller that accused van der Zwaan of lying to federal investigators about his contacts with the Trump campaign and a Russian intelligence operative named Konstantin Kilimnik Van der Zwaan was the first individual sentenced in Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation, receiving a 30-day sentence and a $20,000 fine.
LOL. He ain't seen nothing yet!
White House postpones Saturday garden tours due to anti-Trump demonstrations
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5230496-white-house-garden-tours-anti-trump-event-saturday-hands-off-rally-washington-dc/
Boy, the upcoming Reichsparteitag is gonna be lit!!!
Hold on to your desk!
Americans haven't been this worried about their jobs since the Great Recession.
https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-worried-unemployment-layoffs-recession-jobs-hiring-2025-3
When you've lost Joe Rogan...
Joe Rogan breaks with Trump, calling Venezuelan deportations ‘horrific’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-joe-rogan-deportations
Donald Trump is giving America the Taj Mahal treatment.
In short, no more tactics but one: exposing the monumental dangers of Trumpism, every day, week after week — the political magic of focused repetition.
Democrats' bind, and a way out
https://www.pmcarpenter.com/post/democrats-bind-and-a-way-out
Stop Trump.
Sen. Ruben Gallego blocks VA nominees to protest Trump’s plans to cut the agency's workforce
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-ruben-gallego-blocks-va-nominees-protest-trumps-plans-cut-agencys-rcna199257
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
April 2, 2017 – In regard to an ongoing lawsuit, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled Donald Trump may have incited violence against protesters during his 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky.
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April 2, 2018 – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from a lobbying firm called William & Jensen, paying $50 per day for the space (well below market rate according to the New York Times).
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April 2, 2020 – Jared Kushner, a White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law, asserted that the Strategic National Stockpile of ventilators and medical supplies was “supposed to be our stockpile — it’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.”
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