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Dominic Holden of Buzzfeed News tweets this pic of Trump merchandise from the inauguration.
You’ll never guess where the stuff was made.
UPDATE: And then came this tweet from the newly sworn in president. How ironic…
We will follow two simple rules: BUY AMERICAN & HIRE AMERICAN!#InaugurationDay #MAGA🇺🇸— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2017
After absolutely NO movement on President Obama’s SCOTUS nominee for 294 days, Senate Republicans have the nerve to say “the American people simply will not tolerate” Democrats blocking Trump’s SCOTUS nominees.
Let’s remember that almost 3 million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump.
Watch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell serve up some serious hypocrisy:
McConnell: “The American people simply will not tolerate” Democrats blocking Trump’s SCOTUS nominee https://t.co/9b6sqFrQTM— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2017
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Some news items you may have missed:
• Nick Sandell wishes you a shirtless Happy Happy New Year!
• Debra Messing says new Will & Grace episodes are not a done deal.
• Only 46% of Americans believe Donald Trump can handle an international crisis versus an average of 71% of his predecessors.
• Janet Jackson gives birth to her first child at 50.
• The Alabama NAACP is holding a sit-in at Sen. Jeff Sessions office until he withdraws his nomination for U.S. Attorney General.
• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed to offer free tuition at state colleges to hundreds of thousands of middle- and low-income New Yorkers.
• On New Year’s Eve, a federal judge issued an injunction blocking enforcement of federal protections that would have barred those in healthcare services to deny reproductive health services as well as services to transgender people based on “religious beliefs.”
• It’s been 159 days since Donald Trump held a press conference. Back in the summer days of the campaign, he excoriated Hillary Clinton for going 179 days with answering questions from the press. Hypocrisy?
Pat Robertson criticized First Lady Michelle Obama for wearing a sleeveless dress.
But when naked photos of incoming First Lady Melania Trump appeared (and there are lots!), Robertson called the nudes “pure art.”
#hypocrisy
Remember when Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of “selling access” to the government via donations to the Clinton Foundation? Which by the way never happened…
Check out the Trump situation:
First, Ivanka Trump tried to market her $10K bracelet thanks to her wearing it on 60 Minutes.
Now, the Trump boys, Eric and Don Jr., are literally selling access to soon-to-be President Trump.
Via Mediaite:
Donald Trump‘s adult sons are apparently behind a new nonprofit organization that’s offering access to the president elect – if you’re willing to pay up. The Center for Public Integrity reports that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are board members for the Texas-based Opening Day Foundation, which will be holding an event in D.C. on the day after Trump’s inauguration ceremony.
In the meantime, Opening Day is accepting donations that will go to unnamed “conservation” charities, and big donors will be rewarded with some high-value prizes.
According to a brochure published by TMZ, the organization’s biggest donors will be able to snag rewards like inauguration tickets, autographed guitars, and hunting trips with the president-elect’s children. The package offers go up to $1 million and the high-level perks include access to a “private reception and photo opportunity” with Trump.
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But let’s talk about that email server in the basement of a home protected by the US Secret Service, and installed by the US State Department.
Just saying…
You’ll recall just weeks ago Republicans railed against the DNC when an email from WikiLeaks seemed to confirm that Donna Brazile had leaked the Clinton campaign a debate question prior to one of the Democratic primary debates.
Outrage! Fury!
I wouldn’t hold your breath for the same reaction as we now learn that someone leaked debate questions to the Trump campaign as well.
From the New York Times report about Megyn Kelly’s new memoir:
Ms. Kelly writes that her problems started in August, the Monday before the first Republican presidential primary debate. She had just done a segment on her show, “The Kelly File,” that infuriated Mr. Trump. He refused to make his own scheduled appearance on her show unless she phoned him personally. “I almost unleashed my beautiful Twitter account against you,” she says he told her, “and I still may.”
Then, the day before the first presidential debate, Mr. Trump was in a lather again, Ms. Kelly writes. He called Fox executives, saying he’d heard that her first question “was a very pointed question directed at him.” This disconcerted her, because it was true: It was about his history of using disparaging language about women.
She doesn’t speculate where the leak came from. (She reports. You decide.) But that’s another unambiguous takeaway from this book: Parts of Fox — or at the very least, Roger Ailes, the network’s chairman until July, when he was given the boot after several allegations of sexual harassment were made against him — seemed to be nakedly colluding with the Republican presidential nominee.
Of course, the very first question Kelly asked was directed to Trump about his treatment and language towards women. Trump was so angry about the question he launched his much ballyhooed Twitter war against Kelly.
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Some news stories you may have missed:
• You know you want to see what baby panda kindergarten looks like at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China. #SuperCuteness
• Outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner and White House may have found enough common ground to pass a two year federal budget bill. See what can happen when Congress does it’s job? Will wonders never cease?
• After 20 years, a man issues an apology to a gay couple he taunted in public.
• Indiana Republican Brent Randall may oppose equal protections for LGBTs, but he believes in his right to have an active profile on a gay dating website. Btw, Randall erroneously believes Indiana state law protects LGBTs – a fact Gov. Pence and all of America is well aware is untrue.
• A month ago, the anti-LGBT group One Million Moms launched a boycott against Frito Lay/Pepsico due to the company’s “rainbow Doritos,” which was a limited run of colorful chips with the intent to raise money against bullying. Not only did the chips sell out in 24 hours, the company’s stock has gone up 10% in one month. Good job, OMM!
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| Pepsico stock rises 10% in the last month |
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And guess how many eleven hour Congressional hearings there were after those deaths?
.@LindseyGrahamSC opposed Sandy aid but wants help in South Carolina http://t.co/Fd4WFCr94g via @CNNPolitics pic.twitter.com/jXj7SVT8p0— CNN (@CNN) October 5, 2015