- Donald Trump hired a massage therapist from New Hampshire with no relevant experience to work at the Department of Energy which, among other things, manages our nation’s nuclear arsenal. He had been a part of the Trump campaign team. He was fired after DOE employees discovered a string of Islamophobic tweets on his account, some calling Muslims “maggots”. https://goo.gl/zDt7lu
- Tourists are afraid to visit the U.S. right now, due to Trump’s travel ban. And not just Muslim tourists — there’s been a major drop in tourism from all corners of the world and visible anxiety about coming to the U.S. An economic consulting firm projected that we may lose $10.8 billion in tourism spending this year. https://goo.gl/8im1r7
- Trump has chosen “a conservative doctor-turned-pundit with deep ties to Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry” to lead the FDA. https://goo.gl/u9pLVl
- Steve Bannon had no permanent address during the years in which he rose to power and became a major force in Donald Trump’s White House. In that time, he was extremely sketchy about the status of his legal residence for tax and voting purposes, and it’s possible that he created a felony offense by lying about it. He’s currently under an active criminal investigation by the State Attorney’s Office for Miami-Dade County. https://goo.gl/bUUUVN
- After asking him to stay in November, United States attorney Preet Bharara was suddenly called by Trump’s office personally and asked to resign. https://goo.gl/0G8ZH8 Forty-five other Obama-appointed attorneys were asked as well. https://goo.gl/MuZbRO Bharara refused and was promptly fired. He had been investigating Fox News for a potential SEC violation, as well as illegal phone hacking and surveillance when Donald Trump called him. As we know, Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch is a close friend of Trump’s. Bharara was also pursuing a case involving a Russian money laundering scheme. He was asked to look at Trump’s violation of the Emoluments Clause just days before receiving the call. https://goo.gl/9dmbyr
- Trump had his ninth golf course visit in his seven weeks as president. https://goo.gl/YKLKuW
- Trump claimed he would donate his salary to charity or put it into the Treasury Department. The White House has refused to offer any proof that this has occurred so far. https://goo.gl/OlWENN
- Kellyanne Conway suggested even wider surveillance of the Trump campaign, saying spying could have occurred through TVs, or even “microwaves that turn into cameras”. https://goo.gl/PkDDiR When asked to provide evidence, she said: “I’m not Inspector Gadget…I’m not in the job of having evidence.” https://goo.gl/l8hj8h The House Intelligence panel had requested any evidence of alleged wiretapping against Trump be provided by Monday. https://goo.gl/pxk6Tl
- After learning that longtime Trump ally and campaign team member Roger Stone interacted with Democratic Party hacker Guccifer 2.0, Stone attempted to play down the conversations as “innocuous”. Guccifer 2.0 is believed by the U.S. intelligence community to be a cover identity for Russian intelligence operatives. https://goo.gl/6hlhbu
- After Donald Trump took credit for the first jobs report of his short tenure, press asked Sean Spicer why Trump, who called all Obama job reports fake and misleading, would suddenly have faith. The response “they may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.” No evidence was provided. https://goo.gl/P0HzzC
- Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) tweeted a xenophobic article by Geert Wilders with the commentary, “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” https://goo.gl/DXpQ7S
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has continued to work from the shadows, now refusing to bring press along with him for a major diplomatic trip to Japan, South Korea, and China. This is unheard of. https://goo.gl/oD4wsR All this while Trump continues to strip power from the State Department. https://goo.gl/eWf8Op
The international community needs to grow a spine over this.
The Doctor Is Out 