Saturday, November 4, 2017

This Week in Trumpland November 4, 2017

THIS WEEK IN TRUMPLAND, a sixty second primer on the path to Armageddon: “give me a lawyer dog” edition

Puerto Rico Governor seeks to cancel $300 million contract awarded by Trump administration to a power company consisting of only two employees that is backed by a large Trump donor
A Federal Court blocks Trump’s transgender military ban
Louisiana’s Supreme Court holds that a detained suspect who said “just give me a lawyer dog” when police questioned him was asking for an actual canine attorney and not invoking his constitutional right to counsel
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his partner Jim Gates are indicted
Secretary of State John Kelly suggests the civil war could have been avoided if people had been willing to compromise on keeping slavery
In response to a Russian terrorist who killed 8 people in NYC, Trump claims terrorism trial system “is a joke” and threatens to send suspect to Guantanamo Bay
Trump claims in a press conference that if the GOP tax plan doesn’t pass he will blame economic adviser Gary Cohn and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin
New proposed GOP tax plan has language that repeals part of ObamaCare
Trump and Jeff Sessions continue to deny knowledge of campaign contact with the Russians even as evidence mounts that they did have knowledge of those contacts
The NYPD moves closer to arresting Harvey Weinstein on rape and lewd conduct charges as more people accuse him and others in the entertainment industry of sexual harassment and assault
Democratic leaders start mandatory internal finger pointing, forsaking party for bigger book sales and personal aggrandizement
Energy Secretary Rick Perry claims fossil fuels can be used to limit sexual assault
A Twitter employee briefly deletes Trump’s account
Collins Dictionary declares the term “fake news” the word(s) of the year

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