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Trump says the first-100-days metric is "ridiculous." So who issued this plan last fall for the first 100 days? (link: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/contract/) donaldjtrump.com/contract

-Fastest NSA resignation (Flynn)
-Fastest FBI investigation
-Most unpopular in history
-Most ethical conflicts
-Most golf in modern history

Donald J. Trump‏
@realDonaldTrumpNo matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!

 

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[h=1]Trump on being judged on the accomplishments of his first 100 days, a tragedy in 3 tweets. [/h]

 

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Reuters Top News‏
@Reuters
[h=1]‘We’re dooming future generations’: What Trump’s lead program cuts could mean: (link: [url]http://reut.rs/2pKLn5S) reut.rs/2pKLn5S[/URL] [/h]

 

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Lol

Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.


Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.


Speaking at the conference at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr John Gartner, a practising psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.”


Dr Gartner, who is also a founding member of Duty to Warn, an organisation of several dozen mental health professionals who think Mr Trump is mentally unfit to be president, said the President's statement about having the largest crowd at an inauguration was just one of many that served as warnings of a larger problem.


“Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President. If Donald Trump really believes he had the largest crowd size in history, that’s delusional,” he added.


Chairing the event, Dr Bandy Lee, assistant clinical professor in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, said: “As some prominent psychiatrists have noted, [Trump’s mental health] is the elephant in the room. I think the public is really starting to catch on and widely talk about this now.”


James Gilligan, a psychiatrist and professor at New York University, told the conference he had worked some of the “most dangerous people in society”, including murderers and rapists — but that he was convinced by the “dangerousness” of Mr Trump.


“I’ve worked with some of the most dangerous people our society produces, directing mental health programmes in prisons,” he said.


“I’ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognise dangerousness from a mile away. You don’t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.”


Dr Gartner started an online petition earlier this year on calling for Mr Trump to be removed from office, which claims that he is “psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President”. The petition has so far garnered more than 41,000 signatures.


It states: “We, the undersigned mental health professionals (please state your degree), believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States.


“And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is 'unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office'."


The claims made in the conference have drawn criticism from some in the psychiatric establishment, who say they violate the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which states psychiatrists are not to give professional opinions on people they have not personally examined.


They have also been condemned by Republicans, including Connecticut Republican Party Chairman JR Romano, who accused the group of “throwing ethical standards out the window because they cannot accept the election results.”


Responding to the criticism, Dr Gartner said: “This notion that you need to personally interview someone to form a diagnosis actually doesn’t make a whole lotta sense. For one thing, research shows that the psychiatric interview is the least statistical reliable way to make a diagnosis.”


A spokesperson for Yale University told The Independent the panel at the conference abided by the Goldwater rule during the discussions, but that the organiser was "troubled" by the "silencing of debate".


“The panel at Yale School of Medicine abided by ‘the Goldwater rule'. Eminent psychiatrists were invited to speak about whether there are other ethical rules that override it, as in ordinary practise," said the spokesperson.


"The organiser, Dr Bandy Lee, agrees with the Goldwater rule but is troubled by its recent expansion (as of March 16, 2017) and the silencing of debate. She hopes that the public and politicians will understand that mental health issues are not to be used as a weapon, just as other health issues are not.


"Dr Gartner was invited as an activist and was not on the actual panel. The organiser emphasises that the event was independently organised and did not represent the views of Yale University or Yale School of Medicine.”


The doctors have said that even if it is in breach of tradition ethical standards of psychiatry, it was necessary to break their silence on the matter because they feared “too much is at stake”.


It is not the first time Mr Trump's mental health has been called into question. In February, Duty to Warn, which consists of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, signed an open letter warning that his mental state “makes him incapable of serving safely as president”.


The letter warned that the President’s tendency to “distort reality” to fit his “personal myth of greatness” and attack those who challenge him with facts was likely to increase in a position of power.

 

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[h=1]And now you know what a contract with Donald Trump is REALLY worth, don't you?
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And TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.

 

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And TRUMP IS STILL PRESIDENT.

I know...hard to believe isn't it...of course both candidates were horrible so can't really blame people for voting for him






Eric Garland‏
@ericgarland



When the history is written about Trump and the GOP, it will be that they sold US foreign policy for cash.


Trump inauguration donor's son was involved in NSC meetings on Venezuela exposed by 'Mic'mic.com



On Jan. 19, just a day before President Donald Trump's inauguration, a businessman named R. W. Habboush gave two donations to Trump's inauguration committee. One donation came in at $166,000 and a second at $500,000 — amounting to a whopping $666,000.


Two and a half weeks later, as detailed in an exclusive Mic report, Habboush's son Wadie found himself in a pair of high-level meetings at the White House. Wadie Habboush met with with National Security Council officials and Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon. The subject at hand was how to open up business with Venezuela, which is heavily sanctioned by the United States.


Wadie Habboush, who along with his father R. W. runs the Habboush Group, an energy investment and consulting firm, met on Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 with top White House officials, including Bannon. Wadie Habboush and another businessman named Gentry Beach arranged the meetings with the aim of lifting U.S. sanctions on Venezuela, which could pave the way for opportunities in the country for U.S. businesses. Beach has close ties to Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.

That the meetings took place at all — even before the revelations about R. W. Habboush's donations to Trump's inauguration committee — raised alarms among ethics lawyers and former officials on both sides of the aisle.

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"If this account is true, it raises serious questions about the conduct of foreign policy by the Trump administration," Mark Feierstein, who served on the National Security Council during the Obama administration, told Mic in early April. "Those meetings never should have taken place at any level, let alone with senior officials in the West Wing."

 

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I seem to recall Trump stating again and again that Hillary's WH would be pay for play...hypocracy

 

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Hypocrisy...I don't know why my phone keeps changing it to hypocracy

urban dictionary

hypocracy
What Democracy turns into when all of the politicians in your country are liars.


When no party/President that wins the election manages to keep its/his own ideology, and instead, keeps changing it every time it/he feels like it, that's no democracy. That's hypocracy.

 

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[h=1]While president, Trump has directly profited $90m from property sales--many to shadowy LLCs that don't list buyer identities or nationality. [/h]







41mBrian Klaas‏
@brianklaas
[h=1]This is exactly why ethics laws exist. They are being flagrantly violated. Our ethics checks & balances are failing. [/h]


Trump condos worth $250 million pose potential conflictusatoday.com

 

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1hElizabeth Landers‏
@ElizLanders
[h=1]I followed up w/ @WhiteHouse on where the voter fraud investigation stands as we approach 100 days- @CNNPolitics: [/h]


Trump was going to investigate voter fraud. What happened?cnn.com

 

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While president, Trump has directly profited $90m from property sales--many to shadowy LLCs that don't list buyer identities or nationality.









41mBrian Klaas‏
@brianklaas
This is exactly why ethics laws exist. They are being flagrantly violated. Our ethics checks & balances are failing.




Trump condos worth $250 million pose potential conflictusatoday.com

Oft used tactic for money laundering

 

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West Wing Reports‏
@WestWingReport
[h=1]Trump claims the unfiltered milk battle w/Canada shows how bad NAFTA is - not knowing that UF milk, a new product, is not part of NAFTA[/h]

 

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Tax reform is coming: The president says the package will be released on 'Wednesday or shortly thereafter' - just before his 100 day mark in office

 

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (right, today) initially set a goal of getting tax reform passed by August, but that deadline has slipped. Mnuchin now says the administration still hoped to get a bill passed well before the end of the year

 

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President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin walk back to the White House from the Treasury Department after Trump signed an executive order to review tax regulations

 

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President Donald Trump greets people as he arrives at the Treasury Department, which is next to door to the White House

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Mnuchin told reporters earlier in the day, during a briefing on the memos Trump signed this afternoon at Treasury, the administration was 'very close to coming out' with its plan

 

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'We'll be having a big announcement on Wednesday having to do with tax reform,' Trump said after signing an executive order dealing with another aspect of the code. 'The process has begun long ago, but it really formally begins on Wednesday'

 

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DON'T CELEBRATE YET: Trump needs to win over conservatives and moderate Republicans in Congress to get a tax deal. It's not going to be easy

 

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[h=1]Trump threatens to cut funding to sanctuary cities that defy his immigration crackdown[/h]

• Department of Justice has threatened to cut off funding for states and cities
• Targets include California, New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia
• Targets are known as 'sanctuary' areas for providing safe harbor for undocumented people
• Department said 'sanctuary' areas are 'crumbling under the weight of illegal immigration and violent crime'