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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