Inside the Right Wing Network Trying to Dismantle Higher Education. A new paper lays out the coalition of far right billionaires and think tanks behind the national assault on education.
“Donald Trump needs to be careful what he wished for — the Supreme Court’s decision now means Judge Chutkan will hold proceedings on whether Trump’s actions were ‘official acts’ of the presidency."
“This could be a trial before the trial, potentially RUINING Trump politically.”
-- Tristan Snell, former prosecutor who helped the State of New York win its $25 million judgment against Trump University.
@DemocracyMattersALot Sounds a lot like copium, but sure why not. They’ll need to set precedent for “official” vs. “unofficial” acts at some point anyway
I have the feeling that the SCOTUS decision was already made before Trump starting lobbying for "full immunity." I think the fascist judges told their useful idiot the play.
Through incompetence, negligence, and willful malice, Trump and the GOP have killed more Americans with COVID than were lost in America's ten most costly wars—COMBINED. KILLING AMERICANS IS WHAT THE GOP DOES BEST. #TrumpKills#GOPKills#GOP#COVID19#VoteBlueIfYouWantToLive
It's terrible when you realize the death rate from COVID was worse in the US than basically the entire developed world due directly to #Trump being incompetent.
They also successfully killed a huge swath of their voters by turning masks and vaccines into a political issue.
May 6, 2017 – Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, solicited investments from Chinese business owners by promising American visas in return. An ad for her event in China read, “Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.”
@DemocracyMattersALot not sure what the outrage is here. Many countries allow certain Visas in return for large investments. Have you looked into immigration polices in places around the world?
May 8, 2018 – Donald Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 agreement reached by seven countries after more than two years of negotiations. The deal granted billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement not to develop or acquire any nuclear weapons. The United States reimposed pre-deal sanctions on Iran.
May 7, 2019 – The White House blocked former White House Counsel Don McGahn from disclosing records to the House Judiciary Committee. The documents contain information about Trump urging McGahn to fire Mueller. They also reference subsequent conversations in which the president told his former counsel to deny the exchanges.
May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — though Flynn had pleaded guilty TWICE to lying to the FBI about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”