Trump to GSA head: "go ahead with the transition"
Trump to followers on Twitter: "Nolo Contedre" (paraphrasing)

Trump to State legislators: "I want you to IGNORE your constituents and hand me the election on a silver platter!"
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/21/trump-state-legislatures-overturn-election-results-439031
It is time to END THIS MADNESS!

You really want to 'Make America Great Again'? You actually care about this country? Then call the Whitehouse, tell them you voted for Trump, and DEMAND that he concede the election and begin the transition process!
Your 'hero' clearly and objectively doesn't actually give a rats' ass about this country or about you, only his own ego and 'winning'; he is a traitor to everything you claim to care about, and is willing to burn it all down to the ground just to 'beat' someone he doesn't like. Is this really who you thought you were voting for!?
END THIS FARCE, NOW.
For all I care you can come back in 2024 with a REAL candidate and try again. But for right now THIS HAS TO *END*.

I'm not even kidding around with that statement. He's literally got Stage 4 BIden Derangement Syndrome, and in his political death-throes, he's actively sabotaging the United States he 'swore' to protect.
Legally speaking, he can continue to drag things out for weeks and weeks, apparently right up to the day Congress certifies the entire election, which is mere days before Inauguration Day. But by doing so he is hampering the ability of the incoming Administration to get anything whatsoever done, especially about the pandemic, but also with regards to national security.
Why, exactly, really, honestly is he doing this? Those of you who read my posts, friends and enemies alike, will probably be thinking "..oh, he'll say it's out of spite", but not in this case: Trump knows he's going to be in serious criminal legal trouble the very day he leaves office, and in fact I wouldn't at all be surprised if, the very day he actually conceded officially, that indictments would be brought against him, in lieu of his actually leaving office. He knows what crimes he's committed, he knows that his convictions on those future charges are inevitable, and he'll fight like the damned, tooth and nail, against all of it, regardless of what it does to the United States and it's citizens.
I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, that Donald Trump is a traitor, in spirit if not in legal fact. If the GOP led Senate had any actual morals and ethics as a body they'd be acting to pressure him to just give up and stop hurting America, stop hurting what's left of Americas' reputation with the rest of the nations of the world.

Get over it, Trump voters: Biden won the election. There was no voter fraud. Trump LOST. Accept it and move on. We're in the middle of a gods-be-damned pandemic and you people are insisting on dragging this process out? Seriously?
For once in his gods-be-damned life, Donald Trump needs to have some class and some grace and accept that IT IS OVER. For fuck's sake, his own family is telling him to just accept the loss and move on! Instead of doing what's right for the country, like a President is supposed to do, he's kicking and screaming like a spoiled 2-year-old who was told he's not getting the toy he wanted. It's damaging the country, it's hurting the American people, ALL American people, not just those who didn't vote for the son-of-a-bitch, and it has to STOP, NOW.

You people, your GOP 'legislators', you're all TOXIC. You're poisoning the entire country with this bullshit.
You hate China? You hate Russia? Guess what; you keep this shit up, they LAUGH and LAUGH and LAUGH even more at you, at *us*, because you're helping play right into their hands: sowing more and more chaos and division. For FUCK'S SAKE you may as well start learning to speak Mandarian and read Russian in Cyrillic, that's where this is heading.

President Trump has for the last 4 years encouraged extremist, lawless, violent White Supremacist organizations, villified peaceful protestors as 'criminals' when all they're doing is exercising their Constitutional rights in the quest for justice, and more recently, rewarding lawlessness by his rabid extremist 'supporters', who attempted to interfere with campaign and election proceedings by literally attacking opposition campaign staff on a public highway.

Seriously, Republicans: *IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR IN 2016!?* Is THIS what you want running this country for another 4 years!?
* Encouraging lawlessness
* Rewarding violence and extremism
* SUPPORTING RACISM
..and that's just the obvious stuff. Then there's:
* Dismantling the environmental regulations that will keep your kids and grandkids healthy
* Stealing your tax dollars to build useless border walls (that fall over!) solely for his ego
* Stuffing Federal courts with right-wing extremist neo-conservative Judges that will skew and compromise justice for decades to come
* Appointing a religious extremist to the Supreme Court, who will work to set back the womens' rights movement at least FIFTY YEARS
* Licking the bootheels of criminals like Vladimir Putin, a literal enemy of Democracy and an enemy of the United States
* Stealing from The Poor and the Working Class to give more money to The Rich
* Working to WRECK your healthcare, because to Trump and his cronies, you're NOTHING and don't deserve decent healthcare
* Speaking of healthcare: COMPLETELY dropping the ball on CORONAVIRUS, dragging out the Pandemic to 10 times longer than it had to be
..and so on, and so on, and so on. I could go on for HOURS, there are so many crimes and injustices that Donand J. Trump has committed against the United States that he was *sworn* to protect.

So haven't you had enough, Republicans? DO NOT RE-ELECT THIS SON OF A BITCH TRUMP, HE DOES NOT REPRESENT YOUR VALUES.

Soy milk is not 'milk'.
Almond milk is not 'milk'.
{insert plant name here} milk is not 'milk'.
These are all highly processed junk and cannot replace dairy milk.
Ever have fake cheese? It's garbage.
Non-dairy 'frozen dessert'? Garbage.
Sadly some people have no choice. Sad for them.
But you cannot say any of these 'plant based' things are actually good for you or the environment, they're all too highly processed.
Humans are omnivores, not herbivores. We do best on a widely varied diet that includes animal foods.
An all 'plant-based' diet for all humans would have a higher environmental impact than what we have now because plants are not calorie-dense or protein-dense, or even micronutrient-dense. There isn't enough arable land right now as things are, and you want people to have to depend on crops even more? Won't work. Then there's the fact that in some places in the world there is a fresh water shortage, and crops use massive amounts of water.
Meanwhile animals can and do eat things that humans cannot digest.
Should we treat animals more humanely? Sure. But we can't eliminate animal-derived foods from our diets without sacrificing our own health, vitality, and brain function for that matter. We've been evolving into omnivores for a long, long time now, and you can't just 'decide' to be an herbivore and expect to not have problems.
..oh, of course, unless you're willing to eat a very limited number of foods, in specific combinations, every single day, to get all the essential amino acids necessary to not be malnourished.
Infants and developing children cannot be fed a strict vegetarian diet; they 'fail to thrive', and can sicken and die. Pediatricians will warn vegan parents against this in the strongest terms. Fact.

https://ca.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-china/pelosi-trumps-reported-chinese-bank-account-raises-national-security-concerns-idUSKBN2762MS
I would say this is definitely a 'national security concern'.
Also he apparently has paid on the order of $177,000 in taxes to the Chinese government over the last 5 years or so, on whatever is in that bank account -- meanwhile he's evaded paying the IRS. Why is that?

Going into Election Day all you voters -- especially Republicans -- need to be reminded why Trump needs to LEAVE.
I've been feeding one month at a time but here's the full listing:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-889
It's time to take America back from the right-wing extremists and make the United States sane again.

4 'conservatives', 4 'liberals', and one Judge who is as 'neutral' as you can possibly find, as a tie-breaker when needed.
That's the only way the Supreme Court can possibly be fair and unbiased overall.

Full text of all crimes and atrocities can be found here.

JULY 2017

â" July 1, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted, âoeCrazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!â

â" July 1, 2017 â" After Trump requested state officials forfeit private voter information in his quest to substantiate claims of illegal voting during the 2016 election, 44 states and the District of Columbia refused to divulge citizensâ(TM) records. He tweeted, âoeNumerous states are refusing to give information to the very distinguished VOTER FRAUD PANEL. What are they trying to hide?â Trump has never offered credible evidence to support illegal votes swaying the 2016 popular vote, and the claims have been repeatedly debunked.

â" July 8, 2017 â" After Donald Trump left his seat among other world leaders during the G20 summit in order to attend another meeting, Ivanka Trump took his place. Given that Ivanka is his daughter, a business owner, and an unelected figure in the White House, many questioned the propriety of her presence at the high-level diplomatic meeting.

â" July 9, 2017 â" The New York Times reported Donald Trump Jr. âoewas promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign.â Trump Jr. admitted to the meeting, saying he went because the Russian âoemight have information helpful to the campaign.â Reportedly he left the meeting disappointed, and didnâ(TM)t uncover any useful information on Clinton.

â" July 12, 2017 â" In defending his son after news surfaced that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeated said again the Russia investigation is âoe"the greatest Witch Hunt in political history":.â

â" July 13, 2017 â" Donald Trump told Brigitte Macron, the first lady of France, that she was "in such good shape,â during his first state visit to France as president.

â" July 18, 2017 â" The United States military rented space in Trump Tower, amounting to a $2.4 million yearly expense. The stated reason for the payment was to retain space in the hotel should Donald Trump decide to sleep there. As of July, Trump hadnâ(TM)t spent a night in the Tower.

â" July 19, 2017 â" In an interview with The New York Times, Donald Trump said he would not have chosen Jeff Sessions to be the attorney general if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia investigation. This admission underscored his expectation of loyalty from his administration, and further suggested a simmering conflict between Trump and Sessions.

â" July 21, 2017 â" Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary after Donald Trump chose Anthony Scaramucci to serve as communications director. The Obama administration had three press secretaries in eight years, and each of them held their position for more than two years. Sean Spicer held the position for 182 days before quitting.

â" July 22, 2017 â" In a call to The New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, Donald Trumpâ(TM)s newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci ranted about White House staff in a stream of expletives and insults. Some of the highlights: Scaramucci called Chief of Staff Reince Priebus a âoefucking paranoid schizophrenic;â he said of Steve Bannon, âoeIâ(TM)m not Steve Bannon. Iâ(TM)m not trying to suck my own cock;â he threatened to fire the whole White House communications team; and he said of his federal financial disclosure, âoeTheyâ(TM)re trying to resist me, but itâ(TM)s not going to work. Iâ(TM)ve done nothing wrong on my financial disclosure, so theyâ(TM)re going to have to go fuck themselves.â Scaramucci was asked to resign the following week.

â" July 24, 2017 â" Donald Trump took aim at Attorney General Jeff Sessions again, calling him âoebeleagueredâ in a tweet about the Russia investigation.

â" July 24, 2017 â" Donald Trump insulted the House Intelligence Committeeâ(TM)s top Democrat, Adam Schiff, by calling him âoesleazyâ and âoetotally biasedâ on Twitter.

â" July 25, 2017 â" Donald Trump targeted both Jeff Sessions, the U.S. attorney general and a member of his own administration, as well as his campaign opponent Hillary Clinton, by tweeting, âoeAttorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!â

â" July 26, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted, âoeAfter consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow⦠Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming⦠victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.â Two judges later blocked Trumpâ(TM)s discriminatory memorandum.

â" July 26, 2017 â" The Trump administration began the process of rolling back an Obama-era rule that would have allowed 4.2 million more people to qualify for overtime pay. Obamaâ(TM)s legislation lowered the salary threshold at which employees would be eligible for overtime pay. Under the original proposal, any worker making $23,660 per year and working over 40 hours would either have to have their hours cut or their salary raised. The state of Texas awarded a temporary injunction, so Obamaâ(TM)s policy never took full effect. Trump eliminated that possibility.

â" July 27, 2017 â" White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned.

â" July 29, 2017 â" Donald Trump blamed China for remaining neutral amidst growing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea. His tweet came the day after North Korea tested a ballistic missile it claimed could reach the United States.

â" July 31, 2017 â" New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired Anthony Scaramucci ten days into Scaramucciâ(TM)s tenure as communications director.

â" July 31, 2017 â" Donald Trump dictated a public statement on behalf of his son, Donald Trump Jr., regarding a meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. President Trumpâ(TM)s dictation stated the meeting "primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children.â A subsequent release of Trump Jr.â(TM)s email thread on the topic indicated that the topic of the meeting was regarding Clinton and Russian support for Trumpâ(TM)s campaign.

August 2017

â" August 1, 2017 â" The Trump campaign chose a noted white nationalist, William Johnson, to serve among Californiaâ(TM)s delegates for the next presidential election. Johnson leads the American Freedom Party, which operates with the stated mission of upholding âoethe customs and the heritage of European American People.â Johnson said after his appointment to the delegation, âoeI can be a white nationalist and be a strong supporter of Donald Trump and be a good example to everybody.â

â" August 2, 2017 â" Secretary of State Rex Tillerson decided not to spend the $60 million allocated to the State Department for the express purpose of battling foreign propaganda, including disinformation campaigns from countries like Russia and China. One of Tillersonâ(TM)s aides, R.C. Hammond, suggested a major influence in Tillersonâ(TM)s anomalous decision to decline funding for his own department was an internal concern for the Kremlinâ(TM)s sensitivity about addressing Russiaâ(TM)s media influence.

â" August 2, 2017 â" Sam Clovis, Donald Trumpâ(TM)s nominee to be the top scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture, once ran a blog where he called progressives âoerace traders and race âtraitors.â(TM)â A USDA spokesperson justified the choice saying, âoeAll of [Clovisâ(TM)s] reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is, after all, an academic.â

â" August 2, 2017 â" During a single two-hour session in the situation room, White House officials said Donald Trump complained openly about his NATO allies, wondered aloud about how the U.S. could get a piece of Afghanistanâ(TM)s mineral wealth, and then repeatedly argued the U.S.â(TM)s top general ought to be fired.

â" August 2, 2017 â" Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted during her daily press briefing that the Boy Scouts of America never called the president to say his speech to their organization was the âoegreatest speech ever made to them.â This is contrary to claims Donald Trump had made to the Wall Street Journal.

â" August 7, 2017 â" By August of his first year as president, Donald Trump had confirmed only 45 percent of his nominees to executive branch roles. This is a lower rate than his three immediate predecessors: at the same points in their presidencies, Barack Obama had confirmed 72 percent of nominees, George W. Bush had confirmed 71%, and Bill Clinton had confirmed 73%. Of the 577 executive branch positions deemed essential by the Partnership for Public Service, Trump had only successfully filled 20% of them.

â" August 8, 2017 â" Donald Trump promised to unleash âoefire and fury like the world has never seenâ if North Korea threatened the United States with nuclear action. Trump delivered his warning of catastrophic nuclear action after Kim Jong-unâ(TM)s regime successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range capable of reaching the continental United States. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempted to downplay Trumpâ(TM)s bellicosity, saying, âoeI think Americans should sleep well at night, and have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.â

â" August 9, 2017 â" VICE News reported that White House officials, including Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, twice daily would deliver a folder to President Trump filled with positive news coverage and supportive tweets.

â" August 10, 2017 â" Frustrated by Congressâ(TM)s failed efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Trump doled out his critique in two tweets directed at the senator: âoeMitch, get back to work and put Repeal & Replace, Tax Reform & Cuts and a great Infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing. You can do it!â and âoeCan you believe that Mitch McConnell, who has screamed Repeal & Replace for 7 years, couldnâ(TM)t get it done. Must Repeal & Replace ObamaCare!â

â" August 12, 2017 â" During the âoeUnite the Rightâ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, neo-Nazis and former Ku Klux Klan members carried tiki torches and shouted slogans including âoeThe Jews Will Not Replace Us.â A white nationalist named James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others in the process. After the attack and Heyerâ(TM)s death, Trump he refused to explicitly rebuke the white nationalists. The president placed partial blame for the attack on the counter-protesters, condemning, âoehatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.â

â" August 14, 2017 â" After Donald Trump hesitated to condemn the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck Pharmaceuticals, chose to resign from Trumpâ(TM)s American Manufacturing Council. Frazier, an African American and one of the most powerful executives in the United States, explained his decision to leave in a public statement: âoeAmericaâ(TM)s leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting hatred, bigotry, and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal. As CEO of Merck and as a matter of public conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.â Trump took to Twitter, firing back, âoeNow that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from Presidentâ(TM)s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!â

â" August 14, 2017 â" The Trump administration began rolling back emissions standards for Americaâ(TM)s cars and light trucks. âoeWe are moving forward with an open and robust review of emissions standards, consistent with the timeframe provided in our regulations,â said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. In 2012, Obama drafted a plan to raise fuel efficiency standards to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The newly announced review was the first step to repealing these standards, and reopened âoequestions that have already been asked and answered,â according to the policy arm of Consumer Reports.

â" August 15, 2017 â" At a news conference about the âoeUnite the Rightâ rally in Virginia, Donald Trump said, âoeThere were very fine people on both sidesâ of the violence in Charlottesville.

â" August 15, 2017 â" After more CEOs resigned from his American Manufacturing Council, Trump claimed he had a line of executives waiting to join in their place. He tweeted, âoeFor every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!â

â" August 16, 2017 â" Donald Trump abruptly dissolved the American Manufacturing Council and the Strategy & Policy Forum, tweeting âoethank you all!â without further explanation.

â" August 17, 2017 â" Donald Trump lamented the removal of Confederate monuments, stating that such actions were âoeso foolishâ and âoesad.â He called these statues âoebeautifulâ and spoke to the âoehistory and culture of our great country being ripped apart.â He did not mention slavery in any of his tweets on the Confederacy.

â" August 18, 2017 â" Donald Trump fired chief strategist Steve Bannon. Trump later claimed that Bannon had been a âoestafferâ and âoehad very little to do with our historic victory,â despite the fact that Bannon was a top aide through the presidential campaign and key influencer in the White House.

â" August 20, 2017 â" The Trump administration ended a $400,000 federal grant for Life After Hate, an organization devoted to eradicating white nationalism and helping young people escape white supremacist gang membership. The grant money was awarded annually by the Countering Violent Extremism task force. Originally founded in 2011 by Barack Obama, the CVE task force sought to combat a wide range of violent ideologiesâ"from white nationalism to Islamic extremismâ"and presented $10 million in grant money to nonprofits pursuing that mission. Among all the CVE grant recipients, Life After Hate was the only one addressing white supremacy. The Trump administration defunded the group at a particularly pivotal moment: Life After Hate has reported a 20-fold increase in requests to help young white nationalists since Trumpâ(TM)s election.

â" August 21, 2017 â" Eight months into his presidency, the Secret Service exhausted the annual funding allocated to agents to protect the Trump family, mostly due to the frequency of the first familyâ(TM)s travels. By August 2017, more than 1,000 agents had already hit the federally mandated cap for salary and overtime allowances meant to last the entire year.

â" August 21, 2017 â" In a nationally televised speech on strategy in Afghanistan, Donald Trump gave no indication of how many troops the U.S. would commit to war efforts, nor any criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of those operations. Trump warned that âoea hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum for terrorists,â but gave no indication of the Pentagonâ(TM)s definition of success or failure. He concluded the address by saying simply, âoein the end, we will win.â

- August 21, 2017 â" The U.S. Secret Service spent substantial sums with Donald Trumpâ(TM)s businesses, including at least $137,000 on golf cart rentals at Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster. Based on a Government Accountability Office report, each trip to Mar-a-Lago costs the taxpayer $3 million in total.

â" August 22, 2017 â" During an Arizona rally, Donald Trump blamed American news media for the vehement public reactions after the white supremacist-led âoeUnite the Rightâ rally. He declared, âoeItâ(TM)s time to expose the crooked media deceptions⦠the only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news.â Trump drew applause for trumpeting his upcoming pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who he said was âoeconvicted for doing his job.â Arpaio had a reputation for illegally detaining Latinos on the suspicion that they were in the country without documentation. In July 2017, an Arizona judge convicted Sherriff Arpaio of criminal contempt for defying a court order to cease his practice of arresting Latinos based on their racial profile.

â" August 25, 2017 â" Following up on tweets he wrote in July, Donald Trump signed a directive to prevent transgender individuals from joining the military. The order gave Defense Secretary James Mattis the ability to decide if transgender members currently in the military could continue to serve.

-August 25, 2017 â" Sebastian Gorka, White House Deputy Assistant to the President, was ousted from office. Trump gave no explicit reason for his departure, but one White House official wrote, âoeSebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no longer works in the White House.â Long seen as a controversial figure who was outspoken about his anti-Islamic views, Gorka had said publicly that white supremacists were âoenot the problemâ in America. Gorka was a former editor at Breitbart News, aligning on many issues with fellow Breitbart leader Steve Bannonâ"who had been forced out of the White House one week earlier.

â" August 25, 2017 â" Donald Trump pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. An Arizona judge had convicted Arpaio of criminal contempt-of-court for âoeflagrant disregardâ of a court order to cease and desist his practice of racially profiling Latinos. U.S District Judge G. Murray Snow noted Arpaio made âoemultiple intentional misstatements of fact under oath,â and also told local news stations he would ignore the injunction and âoecontinue âdoing what he had always been doing.â(TM)â

â" August 30, 2017 â" After Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, Donald Trump visited Corpus Christi and told a small crowd the recovery from the hurricaneâ(TM)s devastation would be âoebetter than ever before.â His proposed budget slashed FEMA programs aimed at helping Americans get back on their feet after natural disasters.

Full listing can be found here.

JUNE 2017

â" June 1, 2017 â" Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, saying the global climate accord would âoeundermine our economy.â Signatories of the global pact promised to lower greenhouse gas emissions, in an international effort to keep global temperature below two degrees Celsius over the planetâ(TM)s pre-industrial levels. Besides Nicaragua, which eventually signed, the United States and Syria were the only countries to reject the agreement.

â" June 1, 2017 â" The Trump administration considered lifting Russian sanctions immediately after the inauguration, according to commentary from former State Department official Dan Fried.

â" June 1, 2017 â" At the onset of hurricane season, leadership positions remained vacant for the NOAA and FEMA. These agencies are responsible for monitoring weather patterns incoming for natural disasters and addressing natural disaster recovery, respectively.

â" June 2, 2017 â" White House lawyers met with the leaders of several federal agencies to order them not to comply with Democratsâ(TM) requests for oversight of agency activities. A White House spokesperson said the Trump administrationâ(TM)s policy regarding oversight is to âoeaccommodate requests of the chairmen, regardless of political party.â At the time, there were no Democratic chairmen because Republicans controlled Congress.

â" June 5, 2017 â" The U.S. Ambassador to China resigned from his position, citing Donald Trumpâ(TM)s decision to leave the Paris Agreement.

â" June 6, 2017 â" EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt claimed 50,000 jobs had been added to the coal mining industry. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the number was closer to 1,400.

â" June 6, 2017 â" In more than 50 cases nationwide, children were heard bullying classmates with calls for deportation, references to Donald Trumpâ(TM)s name, and blatantly racist language. One eight-year-old girl in California said to a black classmate, âoeNow that Trump won, youâ(TM)re going to have to go back to Africa, where you belong.â

â" June 6, 2017 â" White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced that Donald Trumpâ(TM)s tweets are official statements from the president.

â" June 11, 2017 â" Breaking with a longstanding custom, Donald Trump tried to cultivate a personal relationship with a federal prosecutor, Preet Bharara, after the 2016 election. Months after his firing, Bharara reported a sense of déjà vu listening to James Comeyâ(TM)s testimony regarding Trumpâ(TM)s bizarre interactions. Trumpâ(TM)s final call to Bharara, on March 9, 2017, was ostensibly to âoeshoot the breeze,â which Bharara found unethical and immediately reported to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He was fired the following day.

â" June 13, 2017 â" Since the election, 70 percent of the properties purchased from the Trump Organization have reportedly sold to anonymous LLCs rather than identified people. Before the election, only 2% of Trump properties went to anonymous companies.

â" June 13, 2017 â" On Twitter, Donald Trumpâ(TM)s account blocked a veterans group that had been critical of him. The group, VoteVets, represents 500,000 U.S. military veterans.

â" June 14, 2017 â" Officials announced that Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller would investigate Donald Trump for obstruction of justice. This was part of Muellerâ(TM)s ongoing investigation into Russiaâ(TM)s role in the 2016 election.

â" June 15, 2017 â" Donald Trump selected the person who planned Eric Trumpâ(TM)s wedding to run federal housing for the city of New York. In her new position, Lynne Patton, who had also helped organize some of Trumpâ(TM)s celebrity golf events, would control a multibillion-dollar budget to manage housing for thousands of New Yorkers.

â" June 16, 2017 â" In another rollback of a signature policy from the Obama administration, Donald Trump partially reversed Barack Obamaâ(TM)s effort to open diplomatic ties with the Cuba. Obamaâ(TM)s policy allowed American businesses and travelers to interact with Cuba for the first time in decades. Trumpâ(TM)s changes would âoeenforce the ban on tourism, enforce the embargo,â in response to what he called âoethe last administrationâ(TM)s completely one-sided deal with Cuba.â

â" June 16, 2017 â" The White House sought to soften a bipartisan bill crafted to put new sanctions on Russia and limit Donald Trumpâ(TM)s power to alter sanctions in the future.

â" June 16, 2017 â" Responding to special counsel Robert Muellerâ(TM)s ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Donald Trump tweeted, âoeI am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Huntâ. âoeThe manâ referenced here is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller to lead the Russia investigation and also issued a memo recommending former FBI Director James Comeyâ(TM)s firing.

â" June 19, 2017 â" Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry announced he did not believe carbon dioxide causes climate change. This view contradicts numerous studies conducted by agencies like NASA, the EPA, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

â" June 19, 2017 â" During a security clearance renewal process, Michael Flynn failed to disclose a business trip to the Middle East during which he represented Russian and U.S. business interests as they planned to build a series of nuclear reactors. Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland said of Flynnâ(TM)s omission, âoeGeneral Flynnâ(TM)s actions are part of a broader pattern of concealing his foreign contact, payments, travel and work on behalf of foreign interests.â

â" June 20, 2017 â" The Trump administration planned to cut more than 1,200 jobs from the EPA, shrinking the workforce by 15 percent while slashing the EPA budget by 31 percent.

â" June 20, 2017 â" Donald Trumpâ(TM)s budget cuts to address homelessness and low-income housing did not cut funding for one New York City housing developmentâ"the subsidized Starrett City housing complex. It happened that Trump held a stake in Starrett City, and made about $5 million dollars off the property in three months during 2016. (June 20, 2017) Trump Business Dealings Policy

â" June 21, 2017 â" Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos tapped the CEO of a private student loan company to lead the Federal Student Aid program. This program handles $1.3 trillion in federal student loans for American citizens.

â" June 22, 2017 â" Two senior intelligence officials told Robert Mueller that Donald Trump had approached them separately and requested they use their position to publicly announce the Trump campaign had not colluded with Russian operatives.

â" June 22, 2017 â" At a rally with supporters, Donald Trump asserted that a law should exist which requires all immigrants to support themselves financially for five years before receiving welfare aid. This exact law has existed since 1996. Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act restricting new immigrants to the U.S. from accessing federal benefits for a period of five years.

â" June 25, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted, âoeHillary Clinton colluded with the Democratic Party in order to beat Crazy Bernie Sanders. Is she allowed to so collude? Unfair to Bernie!â At the time, Trump was under investigation for colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

â" June 26, 2017 â" Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke flew on a charter plane from Las Vegas to his hometown in Montana, which cost taxpayers $12,375. Zinke and his staff used private and military aircraft multiple times.

â" June 27, 2017 â" Scott Pruitt and the EPA rolled back Obama-era protections that ensured drinking water was clean and safe for consumption.

â" June 27, 2017 â" The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts. The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines âoeDonald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!â and âoeTRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTSâ¦EVEN ON TV!â Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.

â" June 29, 2017 â" Donald Trump attacked TV news host Mika Brzezinski on Twitter, saying he had once seen her when she was âoebadly bleeding from a face-lift.â

â" June 30, 2017 â" MSNBC news anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski alleged the White House tried to blackmail them with an article about their relationship in the National Enquirer . The newly engaged co-anchors claimed they had texts and phone records from Trump advisers threatening to publish the Enquirer article if the pair did not contact Trump directly. The president apparently sought an apology for the coupleâ(TM)s unfavorable news coverage. Trump is a long-time friend and ally of David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer, and had leveraged the relationship before. The Enquirer then published a hit piece on Scarborough and Brzezinskiâ(TM)s relationship.

â" June 30, 2017 â" For the position of senior adviser in the Office of Gender Equality and Womenâ(TM)s Empowerment, Donald Trump appointed an activist who led a campaign to restrict transgender access to bathrooms. Under the Obama Administration, the Office of Gender Equality supported LGBT empowerment both domestically and abroad. Bethany Kozma, the activist and new senior adviser, has said in the past, âoeWith Trump, we now have a president who is focused on remedying the lawlessness of the previous administration.â

â" June 30, 2017 â" Referring to the Houseâ(TM)s passage of a second repeal-and-replace bill, Donald Trump tweeted, âoeIf Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!â If Obamacare were repealed without an alternative to replace it, 32 million Americans would lose health care coverage.

â" June 2017 â" Two anonymous White House officials told the New York Times that Donald Trump said Haitians âoeall have AIDSâ and Nigerian immigrants wouldnâ(TM)t ever âoego back to their huts.â Newly released immigration statistics, which reported 15,000 Haitian immigrants had entered the U.S. since he took office, reportedly ignited President Trumpâ(TM)s tirade. While the White House subsequently denied Trump had used the words âoeAIDSâ and âoehuts,â it did not deny the âoeoverall description of the meeting.â

â" June 2017 â" The Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. received $270,000 in payments from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for rooms, catering, and parking as part of a lobbying effort. This violates the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids government officials from accepting âoeany present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.â Donald Trump has retained an ownership interest in his businesses and thus could receive payments from foreign states.

Full listing can be found here.

May 2017

â" May 1, 2017 â" In an interview on Sirius Radio, Donald Trump praised Andrew Jackson as having âoea big heart.â Andrew Jackson infamously enacted the Trail of Tears, which forced 17,000 Cherokees to walk across the country and resulted in thousands of deaths. Trump also claimed, âoehad Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldnâ(TM)t have had the Civil War.â He continued, âoeBut why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?â

â" May 1, 2017 â" The White House moved to end funding for Michelle Obamaâ(TM)s âoeLet Girls Learnâ initiative, which educated young women and girls in developing countries.

â" May 1, 2017 â" The Department of Agriculture terminated Obama-era standards supporting healthy school lunches. Among initiatives eliminated were rules to lower sodium content in lunches and limit consumption of high-calorie chocolate milk. According to the most recent CDC statistics, 1 in 5 American children is obese. Commenting on the Trump administrationâ(TM)s changes, the Department of Agricultureâ(TM)s Sonny Perdue said, âoeI would not be as big as I am today without chocolate milk.â

â" May 1, 2017 â" Donald Trump ended an interview when pressed for evidence to support his claim that Obama had illegally ordered surveillance of Trump Tower during the 2016 election. Responding to follow-ups from the reporter asking for proof, Trump said, âoeI have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions. OK, itâ(TM)s enough. Thank you.â Trumpâ(TM)s claim of illegal wiretaps has been widely discredited, rebutted by both the FBI and the National Security Division.

â" May 2, 2017 â" Donald Trump referred to the system of checks and balances between the legislative and executive branches as an âoearchaicâ system. He followed this statement by claiming, âoeMaybe at some point weâ(TM)ll have to take those rules on, because, for the good of the nation, things are going to have to be different.â

â" May 2, 2017 â" Donald Trump appointed Teresa Manning, a former anti-abortion activist, to lead Title X for the Department of Human and Health Servicesâ"a program that allocates funding for family planning to Americaâ(TM)s low-income citizens. Teresa Manning was a lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee, the nationâ(TM)s oldest and largest pro-life organization.

â" May 2, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted that the country âoeneeds a good âshutdownâ(TM),â and argued that Senate rules should be change in order to lower the number of votes needed to break a filibuster.

â" May 2, 2017 â" During a CNN interview at a Women for Women International event in New York, Hillary Clinton blamed her election loss on a Russian meddling, a flawed candidacy, and FBI Director James Comeyâ(TM)s surprise announcement that the Bureau would investigate her emails just days before the election. Donald Trump took to Twitter to respond to her interview, posting Comey was, âoeThe best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!â and the âoephony Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election.â

â" May 1, 2017 â" The Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. received $30,000 from groups promoting Turkish-American relations as part of a convention at the Trump property. Among the attendees were the Turkish Ambassador and a high-level U.S. official. This could violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids government officials from accepting âoeany present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.â Donald Trump has retained an ownership interest in his businesses, and thus could receive payments from foreign states.

â" May 4, 2017 â" House Republicans narrowly passed a healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. In response, Donald Trump held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to celebrate what had been his only major legislative victory to date. He said, âoe[Iâ(TM)ve] only been a politician for a short period of time. How am I doing? Am I doing okay? Iâ(TM)m president. Heh! Hey, Iâ(TM)m president!â The American Health Care Act eventually failed to earn enough votes in the Senate and did not pass into law.

â" May 6, 2017 â" Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and Trumpâ(TM)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, âoeInvest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.â

â" May 8, 2017 â" The EPA announced it would not renew terms of employment for half of the scientists on its advisory board. These academics consulted the federal government on the scientific foundations and implications of new legislation. Among the committees affected would be the Board of Scientific Counselors, which evaluated whether scientific studies conducted by the federal government have met a sufficient standard of rigor.

â" May 8, 2017 â" White House advisers began drafting an executive order which would unilaterally withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement. In an attempt to rescue NAFTA, White House officials broke with custom and called the office of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directly, requesting that he convince Donald Trump to reconsider. One Canadian official suggested the Americansâ(TM) unusual diplomatic move could have been âoetheater.â He followed up saying, âoeMaybe theyâ(TM)re just learning how to be a government.â

â" May 8, 2017 â" In a legal brief defending Donald Trumpâ(TM)s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering âoegovernment purposeâ when assessing a lawâ(TM)s constitutionality. The âoegovernment purposeâ in the original Palmer v. Thompson case referenced Jackson, Mississippiâ(TM)s racially motivated decision to close five segregated pools rather than open them to African American citizens. The Supreme Court at the time ruled in favor of Jackson closing the pools, saying the cityâ(TM)s racial motive in doing so should not affect the courtâ(TM)s assessment of the actionâ(TM)s constitutionality. The Trump administration cited the case to justify its argument that religious bias ought not to affect the constitutionality of the travel ban.

â" May 9, 2017 â" Dan Heyman, a West Virginian journalist, was arrested after questioning Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about how the proposed health care bill would affect victims of domestic violence. In the aftermath of the healthcare billâ(TM)s introduction, Secretary Price had barred press access whenever questions about health care might be raised. On the day in question, Heyman approached Price while the secretary walked toward the capital in the morning. After the reporter held out his phone to record Price, Heyman was arrested for âoebreaching Secret Service agents.â Heyman spent seven hours in jail before he was released with a charge of willful disruption of governmental processes. Almost three months later, a state prosecutor found Heyman had broken no laws and would not be prosecuted for his actions.

â" May 9, 2017 â" Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in the midst of the FBIâ(TM)s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Before his dismissal, Comey had been leading the federal investigation into Trumpâ(TM)s potential collusion with Russia during the 2016 election. Comey was speaking to a crowd of Bureau agents when he heard the news and initially thought the announcement was a prank.

â" May 10, 2017 â" In the Oval Office, Donald Trump told the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador to the United States, âoeI just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job⦠I faced great pressure because of Russia. Thatâ(TM)s taken off.â

â" May 11, 2017 â" In a televised interview, Donald Trump admitted that he had the Russia investigation in mind when he fired FBI Director Comey. He said, âoeAnd, in fact, when I decided to just do it, said to myself, I said: This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, itâ(TM)s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they shouldâ(TM)ve won.â

â" May 11, 2017 â" Donald Trump signed an executive order to form a task force that would review purported voter fraud. Despite not having evidence to prove his claim that millions of people voted illegally, he returned to the issues of voter registrations and âoeelection integrityâ repeatedly. Trumpâ(TM)s ongoing argument about illegal voting has been widely discredited.

â" May 12, 2017 â" After Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Spicer, and President Trump each gave conflicting explanations for Trumpâ(TM)s decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump tweeted, âoeAs a very active President with many things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy.â Trump then added, âoeMaybe the best thing to do is cancel all future âoepress briefingsâ and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy????â

â" May 12, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted, âoeJames Comey better hope that there are no âoetapesâ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!â After the tweet, Comey was quoted saying, âoeLordy, I hope there are tapes.â

â" May 12, 2017 â" Attorney General Jeff Sessions changed criminal charging policy, instructing federal prosecutors to pursue the âoemost serious, readily provable offense.â! This shift returned to prominence the mandatory minimum sentences that had been against policy during the Obama administration. The last time the Justice Department held prosecutors to this standard, the number of federal prisoners skyrocketed almost 30 percent in ten yearsâ"from 172,000 to 220,000.

â" May 12, 2017 â" Morgan Lewis Tax Partners reviewed ten years of Donald Trumpâ(TM)s tax returns and reported that, with âoea few exceptions,â he had no financial ties with Russia. After investigation of Morgan Lewis, the Guardian found the tax firm had been named Russia Law Firm of the Year by an industry publication which ranks law firms by region.

â" May 12, 2017 â" The Environmental Protection Agency announced it would withdraw mining restrictions on Alaskaâ(TM)s headwaters, opening the door to a major mining facility in the area. This reversal came after an EPA study concluded the mine could decimate salmon populations in the area, and thereby harm native Alaskans whose culture depended heavily on salmon.

May 12, 2017 â" Donald Trump shared highly classified information with the Russian foreign minister and Russian ambassador at a White House meeting. The disclosure jeopardized the identity of a source that has infiltrated the Islamic Stateâ"an extremely sensitive piece of information. One U.S. official was quoted by the Washington Post as saying Trump had, âoerevealed more information to the Russian Ambassador than weâ(TM)ve shared with our own allies.â

â" May 16, 2017 â" A company called Summerbreeze LLC took out a $3.5 million mortgage on Paul Manafortâ(TM)s home in Bridgehampton, New York. The company never filed the paperwork with Suffolk County to indicate who was accountable for the multimillion-dollar mortgage, nor did the company pay the $36,000 in taxes incurred by the agreement.

â" May 17, 2017 â" Speaking to graduating cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard, Donald Trump said about himself , âoeNo politicianâ"and I say this with great suretyâ"has been treated worse or more unfairly.â

â" May 17, 2017 â" Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces. In May of 2017, McClatchy reported that Michael Flynn had been paid over $500,000 by the Turkish government, which had long been opposed to the United States allying with the Kurds.

â" May 17, 2017 â" Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government. Trump appointed him anyway.

â" May 18, 2017 â" Calling the Russia investigation a âoewitch hunt,â Donald Trump denied former FBI Director James Comeyâ(TM)s claim that Trump had asked Comey to end the investigation. Trump asserted, âoeThere is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign.â

â" May 18, 2017 â" Reuters reported the Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russian state officials or individuals with Kremlin ties during the final months of the 2016 election. Six of these 18 unreported contacts were direct calls to Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States.

â" May 18, 2017 â" White House Communications Director Mike Dubke resigned after just three months at his post, citing personal reasons. At the time of Dubkeâ(TM)s exit, Donald Trump was reportedly considering a bigger staff shakeup in the midst of a growing number of staff exits.

â" May 19, 2017 â" Four months after his inauguration, almost 700 positions still remained empty at the Center for Disease Control. The vacancies appeared at every levelâ"from administrative roles to scientific advisers to director-level positions.

â" May 21, 2017 â" In an effort to balance the budget after billions of dollars in new defense spending, Donald Trump proposed slashing $1.7 trillion over the next ten years from programs supporting low-income Americans. Among the social programs to lose substantial portions of their funding in the proposal were food stamps (losing $193 billion) and Medicaid ($800 billion). According to statistics from 2018, 42 million Americans depended on food stamps and 68 million Americans had their healthcare covered through Medicaid.

â" May 22, 2017 â" Due to the Trump administrationâ(TM)s ambiguity on the future of the Affordable Care Act, health insurance providers raised premiums substantially â" some by as much as 50% â" to account for the possibility that federal support may change at any time.

â" May 24, 2017 â" Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said that poverty was âoea state of mind.â The former neurosurgeon, now in charge of programs responsible for low-income housing, had previously said that low-income housing should not be a âoecomfortable setting that would make somebody want to say: âIâ(TM)ll just stay here.â(TM)â

â" May 25, 2017 â" During the NATO Summit in Brussels, Belgium, Donald Trump visibly pushed Montenegroâ(TM)s Prime Minister out of the way so he could to stand in front for a picture with other world leaders.

â" May 28, 2017 â" Despite releasing a budget that proposed cutting Medicaid by $800 billion only days earlier, Donald Trump tweeted, âoeI suggest that we add more dollars to Healthcare and make it the best anywhere!â

â" May 29, 2017 â" CIA Director Mike Pompeo said top-secret daily briefings must be short and filled with âoekiller graphicsâ to hold the attention of President Trump.

â" May 31, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted, âoeDespite the negative press covfefe.â He offered no follow-up and never explained the incomplete thought or potential misspelling.

â" May 31, 2017 â" The Trump administration created a new questionnaire for all visa applicants that asked applicants for their social media handles. The administration announced their intention was to examine the last five years of an applicantâ(TM)s internet activity.

â" May 31, 2017 â" The White House granted ethics waivers to 17 senior officials, including Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon. The waivers allowed Bannon to interact with Breitbart News, and Conway to interact with lobbyists and private clients.

Full listing may be found here. APRIL 2017

â" April 1, 2017 â" Michael Flynn received $45,000 from Russia Today, a state-sponsored Russian news channel famous for pro-Russian propaganda, in exchange for his speech at their annual gala. Flynn then failed to disclose the payment on his financial disclosure form submitted to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in February.

â" April 2, 2017 â" In regard to an ongoing lawsuit, a federal judge in Kentucky ruled Donald Trump may have incited violence against protesters during his 2016 campaign rally in Kentucky. While the judgeâ(TM)s ruling did not constitute a formal conviction, it did reject arguments from Trumpâ(TM)s lawyers to throw out the suit, finding the protestorsâ(TM) injuries were the âoedirect and proximate resultâ of Trumpâ(TM)s statements. Donald Trump yelled âoeGet âem out of here!â to his supporters, who subsequently shoved and punched the protesters.

â" April 3, 2017 â" Donald Trump praised Egyptâ(TM)s authoritarian leader President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, saying, âoeI just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President el-Sisi.â Just before meeting with Trump, el-Sisi sentenced 17 Egyptians to jail for taking part in protests against his regime. Due to his human rights offenses, the Egyptian leader had been barred from the White House for four years prior to meeting Trump.

â" April 3, 2017 â" Donald Trump signed a bill eliminating rules that would have required internet service providers to ask consumer permission before sharing or selling private information. Though the rule only applied to broadband companiesâ"leaving out internet data giants like Facebook and Googleâ"the privacy law had been a first step at protecting consumer information online. The protections originated from the Obama administration, but had yet to take full effect when Trump and House Republicans repealed them. The privacy law was one among 15 other Obama-era regulations dissolved using the Congressional Review Act.

â" April 3, 2017 â" Donald Trump stopped all funding for the UN Family Planning Agency, which supported womenâ(TM)s health and family planning efforts across the globe. In 2016 alone, American funding for the UNFPA prevented 100,000 unsafe abortions and 800,000 women from going without access to contraception.

â" April 4, 2017 â" Donald Trumpâ(TM)s lawyer revealed the president could withdraw money from the Trump Organizationâ(TM)s underlying trust at any time. The intent of the trust was to prevent Trump from having financial access to his 400 businesses after inauguration. However, the language of the trust certification did allow Trumpâ(TM)s lawyer to âoedistribute net income or principal to Donald J. Trump at his request.â

â" April 4, 2017 â" Using the Congressional Review Act, Donald Trump and members of the GOP rolled back an Obama-era law that required employers to keep accurate records of employee injuries. Worker advocates criticized the repeal, saying its absence would allow employers to manipulate injury numbers and conceal workplace hazards from regulators.

â" April 4, 2017 â" Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered the Justice Department to review consent decrees, a legal tool which allows federal officials to institute criminal justice reform in cases of police misconduct. A consent decree represents a legally enforceable pact between police departments and the courts, both agreeing on the need for reform and the method of its implementation. Following the police shooting of 18-year old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the Justice Departmentâ(TM)s investigation resulted in a consent decree! that outlined the specific terms of reform for the Missouri city. Among the terms were required body cameras for police officers, new police training on racial bias, and establishment of a Civilian Review Board that could independently review claims of excessive force. As of April 2017, police misconduct investigations were underway in the cities of Baltimore and Chicago after the shootings of Freddie Gray and Laquan McDonald. In reviewing consent decrees, Jeff Sessions had the power to place these investigationsâ"and any resultant police reformsâ"on a permanent hold.

â" April 4, 2017 -Donald Trump implied that Barack Obamaâ(TM)s administration was to blame for a gas attack in a rebel-controlled area of Syria, saying the attack had been a âoeconsequence of the past administrationâ(TM)s weakness and irresolution.â

â" April 5, 2017 â" The EPA proposed budget cuts to a program that trained construction workers in removing toxic lead-based paints and educated the public on the dangers of lead exposure. In 2014, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found blood levels above the danger threshold in 243,000 American children. Thirty-eight million American homes contained lead-based paints in need of removal, while only 14 states had programs to pick up the slack on lead removal after the federal budget cut.

â" April 6, 2017 â" In order to break a filibuster from Senate Democrats, Republicans fundamentally altered Senate voting procedure in order to force confirmation of President Trumpâ(TM)s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Before the change, Senate rules required 60 votes to confirm a new Supreme Court justice. After enacting the so-called âoenuclear optionâ to overcome Democratic objections, that threshold dropped to 51 votes.

â" April 6, 2017 â" The House Ethics Committee revealed Representative Devin Nunes was under investigation for possibly disclosing classified information without authorization. This followed an event on March 11, when Nunes exercised his powers as chief of the House Intelligence Committee to release sensitive information favoring President Trump just one day after Nunes discreetly visited the White House. In response to the new investigation, Nunes announced he would recuse himself from the House Intelligence Committeeâ(TM)s ongoing exploration of Russian intervention in the 2016 campaign. In his statement, he lashed out at the probe, saying it was âoeentirely false and politically motivated,â blaming, âoeseveral left-wing activist groupsâ for the investigation.

â" April 7, 2017 â" Donald Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian base in response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assadâ(TM)s chemical weapons attack on his own people. Assadâ(TM)s attack killed approximately 100 Syriansâ"including an estimated 25 children. Eric Trump said Trumpâ(TM)s decision to launch the assault was strongly influenced by Ivanka Trumpâ(TM)s heartbroken response to Assadâ(TM)s initial airstrike.

â" April 7, 2017 â" The United States Department of Homeland Security ordered Twitter to reveal the private information of a Twitter user, because the anonymous user had been critical of Donald Trump and may have worked for the U.S. government. Twitter refused to reveal the accountâ(TM)s identity, and then filed a lawsuit to counter the order. Following this, the DHS dropped their request for information.

â" April 7, 2017 â" Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received an unprecedented level of personal security, including supervision by federal marshals, which cost taxpayers about $1 million dollars per month. The last cabinet member protected by a federal marshal was the director of National Drug Control Policy, a position which fought drug-related violence and the import of illicit narcotics.

â" April 7, 2017 -The Senate confirmed Donald Trumpâ(TM)s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch took the seat left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Gorsuchâ(TM)s confirmation came after Republicans refused to consider Obamaâ(TM)s nomination of Merrick Garland for eleven monthsâ"a nearly unprecedented act in itself. Then Republicans made the historic decision to alter the Constitutionâ(TM)s rules regarding the number of votes needed for Supreme Court confirmation to block Democrats from using the same tactic.

â" April 8, 2017 â" A U.S. Navy strike group moved in range of the Korean Peninsula as a show of military force. The gesture further escalated tensions bordering on brinkmanship between Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un.

â" April 11, 2017 â" While discussing Syrian President Bashar al-Assadâ(TM)s chemical weapon attack, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Adolf Hitler âoedidnâ(TM)t even sink to using chemical weaponsâ during World War II. When reporters reminded Spicer that Hitler used chemical weapons to gas millions of Jews, Spicer replied, âoehe brought them into the Holocaust centers, I understand that.â

â" April 11, 2017 â" Donald Trump allegedly asked that FBI Director James Comey âoeget outââ"that is, release publiclyâ"the idea that the FBI was not investigating Trump. Trump added, âoeBecause I have been very loyal to you, very loyal; we had that thing you know.â

â" April 12, 2017 â" Education Secretary Betsy De Vos rolled back Obama-era protections put in place to help students with student loan payments. The Department of Education offered no immediate replacement of the protections against default. In the eight years before DeVosâ(TM)s repeal, 8.7 million Americans had defaulted on their student loans.

â" April 12, 2017 â" Budget director Mick Mulvaney said âoeletting people keep more of their moneyâ is the most efficient way of allocating resources. According to Mulvaney, âoewealth-transfersââ"programs that redistribute money from rich to poor, such as food stamps and Medicaidâ"constitute âoebad spendingâ and âoemisallocation of resources.â

â" April 13, 2017 â" Donald Trump and congressional Republicans eliminated the rule that enrolled all newly hired federal employees in an Individual Retirement Account. The rule, implemented by Barack Obama, was rolled back using the Congressional Review Act.

â" April 14, 2017 â" Donald Trump signed a bill that would allow states to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood.

â" April 14, 2017 â" Donald Trumpâ(TM)s administration announced the White House would no longer disclose visitor logs. Without the logs, Trump and White House officials could hold private meetings without oversight on visitor identity or affiliation.

â" April 14, 2017 â" Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he believes the United States should withdraw from the Paris Agreement!, a global initiative to address climate change. Nearly 200 countries have signed onto the Agreement. With the announcement, the United States and Syria became the only two countries to abstain from the agreement. (Nicaragua had initially held out for even stronger environmental protections.)

â" April 14, 2017 â" Candice Jackson, the person responsible for investigating civil rights complaints for the Department of Education, once criticized Stanford University for âoediscriminatory programsâ after finding the school had a tutoring program that offered study help to minorities. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appointed Jackson to the role of acting head for the departmentâ(TM)s Office of Civil Rights. In this position, Jackson was tasked with leading a team of 550 people to handle about 10,000 complaints per year.

â" April 14, 2017 â" In the wake of Donald Trumpâ(TM)s travel ban and âoeextreme vettingâ of certain foreign arrivals, demand for international travel to the United States plummeted. Tourism Economics, a travel analytics firm in Philadelphia, estimated 2017 would see 4.3 million fewer international visitors than the year beforeâ"resulting in lost revenue of $7.4 billion.

â" April 16, 2017 â" In response to marches around the nation demanding Donald Trump release his tax returns, Trump tweeted, âoeSomeone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!â No evidence exists to suggest that protesters were paid to march.

â" April 17, 2017 â" Donald Trump called and congratulated Turkeyâ(TM)s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan following the Turkish leaderâ(TM)s victory in a public referendum that majorly expanded his executive powers. Contradicting Trump, the U.S. State Department released a statement questioning the democratic legitimacy of the referendum, pointing out irregularities in the election results and bias in media coverage.

â" April 18, 2017 â" After a federal judge from Hawaii ruled against Donald Trumpâ(TM)s travel ban placed on several Muslim-majority countries, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he was âoeamazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacificâ could block the immigration ban.

â" April 18, 2017 â" In the wake of controversy about Donald Trumpâ(TM)s travel ban, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said the presidentâ(TM)s critics in Congress should âoeshut up and support the men and women on the front lines.â

â" April 20, 2017 â" A full month after dismissing 93 U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Jeff Sessions had not hired any to replace them. The vacancies in the federal prosecutorsâ(TM) office came as a surprise, given that Sessions has prioritized a crack-down on crime.

â" April 20, 2017 â" After his inauguration, Donald Trump announced that within 90 days of his election he would appoint a team to investigate election interference and protect against future hacking. At 90 days from his oath to take office, no such team existed, nor was a plan in place to build one.

â" April 20, 2017 â" Donald Trumpâ(TM)s lawyers claimed in a court filing that protesters at Trump rallies had âoeno rightsâ to âoeexpress dissenting viewsâ because doing so violated Trumpâ(TM)s First Amendment rights. Trumpâ(TM)s lawyers argued that the protestersâ(TM) right to free speech, which is protected by the First Amendment, actually did not apply âoeas part of the campaign rally of the political candidates they oppose.â

â" April 21, 2017 â" The Trump administration hired 25 people who were originally brought into the administration as temporary seat-fillers. By skirting formal announcement, these individuals entered the administration with little or no public notice. Five of the 25 people hired had direct ties to outside lobbying interests before joining the federal government.

â" April 23, 2017 â" Approaching the hundredth day of his presidency, Donald Trump took to Twitter to blame low approval ratings and the loss of the popular vote to Hillary Clinton on âoefake news.â The president tweeted, âoeNew polls out today are very good considering that much of the media is FAKE and almost always negative. Would still beat Hillary in popular vote.â Trump was referring to new polls from ABC News/Washington Post and NBC/Wall Street Journal that showed he had the lowest approval rating of any president since 1945.

â" April 23, 2017 â" Attorney General Jeff Sessions said DREAMers were subject to deportation, just like âoeeveryone that entered the country unlawfully.â

â" April 24, 2017 â" In a potential violation of federal law, Donald Trumpâ(TM)s former national security adviser Michael Flynn failed to disclose a $33,000 payment from Russia on his financial statement for his federal security clearance. [SS4] The payment, originally from 2015, came for consulting work Flynn had done for Russia Todayâ"a Russian television network with direct ties to the Kremlin.

â" April 24, 2017 â" In the six months since Donald Trumpâ(TM)s election, the Anti-Defamation League reported anti-Semitic attacks had risen 86 percent. These attacks included grave desecrations, bomb threats, and assaults.

â" April 24, 2017 â" Donald Trump ordered White House aides to draft a tax plan that slashed the corporate tax rate to 15 percent. Trump told his aides cutting taxes for businesses should take priority over decreasing the federal deficit.

â" April 25, 2017 â" Ekim Alpetkin, a Turkish businessman and Michael Flynnâ(TM)s former client, long carried ties with the Russian government and Vladimir Putin himself before working with General Flynn. Alpetkin paid Flynn $600,000 just before Donald Trump appointed Flynn to his post as national security adviser for the new administration.

â" April 26, 2017 â" Donald Trump publicly slammed the 9th circuit court after they blocked his administrationâ(TM)s attempt to deny federal funding for âoesanctuary cities.â In response to the ruling, Trump said he was considering proposals to break up the three-judge panel.

â" April 25, 2017 â" At an event in Berlin, Ivanka Trump defended her fatherâ(TM)s attitudes toward women. âoeIâ(TM)m very proud of my fatherâ(TM)s advocacy⦠Heâ(TM)s been a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive,â she said, to boos from the audience. She argued that the âoethousands of women who have worked with and for my father for decades when he was in the private sector are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women and their ability to do the job as well as any man.â

â" April 28, 2017 â" The Environmental Protection Agency removed or altered all information about climate change on its website. The EPA claimed that this update sought to âoereflect the approach of new leadership.â

â" April 28, 2017 â" Reflecting on his first 100 days in office, Donald Trump said, âoeI thought this would be easier.â

â" April 29, 2017 â" In a televised interview after North Korea launched a missile test, Donald Trump left the possibility of taking military action against the country open. When asked about possible military response to another nuclear test, Trump said, âoeI donâ(TM)t know, I mean, weâ(TM)ll see.â!

â" April 29, 2017 â" On Face the Nation, Donald Trump falsely suggested the new Republican healthcare bill, called the American Health Care Act, would protect health insurance for those with pre-existing conditions. The most recent draft of the legislation contained no such stipulation.

â" April 30, 2017 â" Donald Trump invited Rodrigo Duterte, the authoritarian leader of the Philippines, to visit the White House. Duterteâ(TM)s regime had carried out extrajudicial killings of drug users and drug dealers, garnering global condemnation. As of January 2018, Human Rights Watch had counted over 12,000 such murdersâ(TM). Two senior officials in the White House said they expected significant pushback internally, should Duterte accept Trumpâ(TM)s invitation. The two leaders met in November, during which time Trump reported the pair had a âoegreat relationship.â

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MARCH 2017

â" March 1, 2017 â" The Justice Department reported: Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump took office. Sessions did not mention the meetings during his confirmation hearings. Moreover, Sessions had claimed under oath that he was unaware of any contacts between Trump surrogates and Russia.

â" March 2, 2017 â" Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Justice Departmentâ(TM)s ongoing Russia investigation after reports surfaced that he had two undisclosed meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The New York Times reported Donald Trump tried to convince Sessions not to recuse himself, and that he expected Sessions to protect him in the investigation.

â" March 2, 2017 â" The Senate confirmed Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, as the new Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The department handles a budget of around $30 billion and supports public housing for about 2.1 million people. Carson had no prior experience overseeing an organization on the scale of HUD, nor had he ever worked, in any capacity, on urban development or housing policy.

â" March 3, 2017 â" In 2016, Jeff Sessions used Trump campaign funds for plane travel in order to meet Russian diplomats. During his confirmation hearing, the attorney general had sworn he did not meet with Russian representatives. When the meetings were uncovered, Sessions said he was traveling in his capacity as a senatorâ"despite having his travel booked and paid for by Donald Trumpâ(TM)s campaign.

â" March 3, 2017 â" The White House hired three former lobbyists to internal staff positions in agencies they had lobbied against, an act that violated ethical rules Donald Trump himself had but in place. Rather than banning recent lobbyists from official office entirely, as Obama had done, Trump issued an ethics pledge, which allowed lobbyists to join the federal government on the precondition that they promise not to influence any âoeparticular matterâ they had lobbied for in the past. Among the three lobbyists hired was George Burr, who Trump named to chief of staff for the Department of Labor. During his career, Burr had lobbied on behalf of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc., opposing wage standards set by the Department of Labor and fighting Labor protections that would limit worker exposure to potentially deadly Silica dust.

â" March 3, 2017 â" Trump eliminated an ethics course for incoming White House staff. The training would have instructed new staffers on ethical methods of interaction with Congress, private companies, and officials from the previous administration.

â" March 3, 2017 â" It was revealed that as governor of Indiana, Vice President Mike Pence used his personal email for state business. In March of 2017, Penceâ(TM)s office announced the personal AOL email had been hacked, including information the State of Indiana deemed âoeconfidential and too sensitive to release to the public.â Pence and the Trump campaign had previously attacked then-candidate Hillary Clinton for using a hacked private email address for confidential government work. In October of 2016, Pence tweeted, âoe@realDonaldTrump and I commend the FBI for reopening an investigation into Clintonâ(TM)s personal email server because no one is above the law.â

â" March 3, 2017 â" The Trump administration proposed significant budget cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Among the largest funding reductions were for the NOAAâ(TM)s programs monitoring climate changeâ(TM)s progression. The biggest single budget cut was made to NOAAâ(TM)s satellite division, which reports on the speed of climate changeâ(TM)s progression. The satellite program had drawn Republican criticism after publishing a study in Science magazine that contradicted a favorite argument of climate change deniers and concluded the pace of climate change was neither âoepausingâ nor slowing down. In Trumpâ(TM)s proposed budget, this satellite program would lose almost 40 percent of its funding.

â" March 4, 2017 â" In March of 2017, President Donald Trump engaged in a Twitter-based squabble with Arnold Schwarzenegger over ratings of âoeThe Apprentice,â the television showâ"on which Trump was still listed as a producer. Trump tweeted, âoeArnold Schwarzenegger isnâ(TM)t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show.â Schwarzenegger responded to Trumpâ(TM)s insult with a video on Twitter chiding Trump for defunding inner-city school programs. âoeWhen you take away after school programs for children and meals on wheels for the poor people,â said Schwarzenegger, âoethatâ(TM)s not what you call âmaking America great againâ(TM).â Schwarzenegger then invited Trump to tour a middle with him to see the benefits of the after-school programs the president planned to eliminate. Trump did not respond.

â" March 4, 2017 â" Without evidence, Donald Trump falsely accused Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower before the election. Trump levied the accusation in a Twitter storm that began at 6:30am. President Trumpâ(TM)s own Department of Justice released a statement in September in 2017 rebuking Trumpâ(TM)s claim and confirming the Obama administration had not wiretapped the Trump campaign.

â" March 3, 2017 â" The federal government spent $1,092 for an unnamed National Security Council official to stay at Donald Trumpâ(TM)s Mar-a-Lago resort for two nights.

â" March 6, 2017 â" Six weeks after issuing his first failed executive order blocking citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, Donald Trump issued a new travel ban. Trumpâ(TM)s first order met objections in several state courts, and was blocked on appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. To improve the second banâ(TM)s chances of passing, the Trump administration amended the executive order, excluding Iraq from the list of banned countries and altering the permanent ban on Syrian refugee admissions. About a week later, on March 15, a Hawaiian judge blocked this second draft of the ban.

â" March 7, 2017 â" In order to fund Donald Trumpâ(TM)s proposed border wall with Mexico, the Trump administration considered cutting budget from airport security and the Coast Guard.

â" March 7, 2017 â" Donald Trump supported the Houseâ(TM)s repeal-and-replace healthcare bill, in a potential violation of Trumpâ(TM)s campaign promise to provide âoeinsurance for everybodyâ without raising insurance premiums or cutting Medicaid. A review by the Congressional Budget Office found the new bill would slash Medicaid, increase insurance premiums, and leave 21 million Americans uninsured by 2021.

â" March 9, 2017 â" Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a primary contributor to global warming. Pruittâ(TM)s statement contradicted a library of scientific evidence, including a 2009 study by his own agency which concluded carbon emissions were a leading cause of global warming.

â" March 9, 2017 â" The Office of Government Ethics urged the White House to reprimand senior counselor Kellyanne Conway for publicly endorsing Ivanka Trumpâ(TM)s clothing line. The OGE called the White Houseâ(TM)s view of ethics âoeincorrect.â In response, White House deputy counsel Stefan Passantino said in a statement, âoeMany regulations promulgated by the Office of Government Ethics do not apply to employees of the Executive Office of the President.â Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings said Passantinoâ(TM)s argument was âoetroubling,â and wondered how it had been determined which ethical regulations were âoeinapplicable to employees of the Executive Office of the President.â

â" March 10, 2017 â" Donald Trump abruptly ordered 46 Obama-era prosecutors to tender their resignations. Among the dismissed prosecutors was Preet Bharara, an attorney renowned for his work uprooting government corruption. Bharara served as the U.S. attorney in New York City and, at the time of his removal, had jurisdiction over Trump Tower in New York. When he was fired, Bharara was reportedly building a case against Rupert Murdoch and Fox News executives for a variety of indiscretions related to violations of privacy.

â" Match 11, 2017 â" Before becoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn was paid close to a half a million dollars to lobby on behalf of the Turkish government. After stepping into his new role with the federal government, Flynn stopped formally accepting payments from Turkey but seemed to promote policy favored by the Turkish government. On the day of the U.S. presidential election, Flynn published an op-ed in The Hill supporting Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Not only was Flynnâ(TM)s critique in line with Erdoganâ(TM)s wishes, but it was also a major reversal for Flynn; in 2016, Michael Flynn gave a speech supporting the coup against Erdogan.

â" March 13, 2017 â" Donald Trump expanded the CIAâ(TM)s power to allow the agency to conduct drone strikes on suspected terrorists. Under Obama, the CIAâ(TM)s directive was to gather intelligence on locations of potential terrorists and then allow the military to call the drone strike. With the new powers endowed by Trump, the CIA has expanded military abilities, further opening the door to unreviewed military action abroad. According to figures released in December 2017 by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, drone strikes in numerous middle-eastern countries nearly doubled from 2016 to 2017.

â" March 14, 2017 â" Donald Trump wrote off $100 million dollars in losses on his leaked 2005 return. He paid $38 million in taxes on a reported $150 million income. This is an effective tax rate of around 25%. This is the same rate as, or even less than, that of individuals making between $30,000 and $100,000 per year. During the 2016 debates, Trump had bragged about not paying taxes, saying, âoeThat makes me smart.â

â" March 15, 2017 â" After a Hawaiian federal judge blocked Donald Trumpâ(TM)s second travel ban, Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. courts in a speech at a rally, calling the decision, âoeunprecedented judicial overreach.â U.S. District Judge Derek ruled that Trumpâ(TM)s Executive Order derived from âoereligious animus,â concluding, âoea reasonable, objective observerâ"enlightened to the specific historical context, contemporaneous public statements, and specific sequence of events leading to its issuanceâ"would conclude the Executive Order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion.â In the State of Hawaiiâ(TM)s argument against implementation of the ban, eleven instances wherein Trump publicly announced his intent to ban Muslims from entering America were cited as evidence supporting the ruling.

â" March 16, 2017 â" Donald Trumpâ(TM)s budget proposal presented a 20 percent budget cut to the National Institutes of Health, the agency responsible for funding around one quarter of medical research in the United States. The dean of Baylorâ(TM)s biomedical research school said the proposed budget, âoewould bring American biomedical science to a halt.â

â" March 17, 2017 â" Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had been investigating potentially illegal investments from Tom Price, Donald Trumpâ(TM)s head of the Department of Health and Human Services, when Trump abruptly fired Bharara on March 10, 2017. The investigation reviewed Priceâ(TM)s investments in the healthcare industry over the past four years, when Price had purchased more than $300,000 in healthcare stock while holding a governmental position which could influence their performance.

â" March 16, 2017 â" In southern Florida, 63 Russian investors have purchased about $100 million of Trump-branded real estate. According to a disclosure made in 2016, Trump reaped between $100,000 and $1 million during election year 2016 from property sales in southern Florida. Although the exact origin of the payments remains a mystery, the new ownersâ(TM) identities are a matter of public record. One such buyer was Alexander Yuzvik, who purchased Unit 3901 in Trumpâ(TM)s Sunny Isles development for $1.3 million. In the three years leading up to the transaction, Yuzvik served as a senior executive for Spetsroiâ"a state-owned Russian construction company which has built new structures for the FSB (the modern descendant of Russiaâ(TM)s KGB). Trump dealt with Russian purchasers as recently as 2016, and has offered no record of full divestiture after his inauguration. Contrary to calls from the American public and ethics experts, Trump has declined to release comprehensive financial records.

â" March 22, 2017 â" Rep. Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, publicly suggested Donald Trump and his associates were swept up in âoeincidental collectionâ of foreign surveillance" by American intelligence agencies. The night before his revelation on foreign surveillance, Nunes paid a visit to the White House. According to three committee officials, Nunes had been sharing a car with a senior committee staffer when he received a phone call and switched cars without explanation. Rep. Nunes was then seen entering the White House grounds (though the White House later claimed they were unaware of his presence). The next day Rep. Nunes held his press conference to announce the incidental surveillance on Trump. Another ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, said Nunes would need to âoedecide if heâ(TM)s the chairman of an independent investigation⦠or if he can act as a surrogate for the White House.â

â" March 22, 2017 â" Paul Manafort, Donald Trumpâ(TM)s former campaign manager, accepted $10 million per year for consulting Oleg Deripaskaâ"a Russian billionaire and one of Vladimir Putinâ(TM)s closest allies. Manafort worked for Deripaska in 2005, and continued to do so âoefor yearsâ after, before their relationship soured in 2014 when Deripaska alleged Manafort absconded with $18.9 million. At the time, Manafort was managing the presidential campaign in Ukraine for Putin associate Viktor Yanukovich, and Deripaska tried to invest in a television station owned by Yanukovichâ(TM)s cronies. The money disappeared, or so alleged a filing from the Russian oligarchâ(TM)s legal representation. Deripaska has since accused Manafort of fraud and pledged to recover the money. Manafort subsequently served as Trumpâ(TM)s campaign manager from May 19 through August 19, 2016.

â" March 22, 2017 â" The Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding to cover Donald Trumpâ(TM)s travel and the Trump familyâ(TM)s protection. Half of this budget would be allocated to protecting Trumpâ(TM)s private residence at Trump Tower. The reason the Tower required such stringent security, at a cost of $26.8 million per year, was Melania Trumpâ(TM)s preference to reside there rather than the White House.

â" March 23, 2017 â" When pressed on his fraught relationship with the intelligence community, Donald Trump ended a Time magazine interview by saying to the interviewer, âoeHey look, in the meantime, I guess, I canâ(TM)t be doing so badly, because Iâ(TM)m president, and youâ(TM)re not. You know. Say hello to everybody, OK?â

â" March 28, 2017 â" Donald Trump sought to slash $18 billion of federal funding from support for mental health, foreign aid, public housing, and other categories of discretionary funding. Among the many eliminated programs would be the McGovern-Dole International Food program, which provides meals to 40 million impoverished school children abroad. Trump planned to funnel the funding toward military spending and his proposed border wall.

â" March 28, 2017 â" In response to the defamation suit brought against Donald Trump by former âoeApprenticeâ contestant Summer Zervos, Trumpâ(TM)s lawyers invoked the U.S. Constitutionâ(TM)s Supremacy Clause. This clause, argued the Trumpâ(TM)s personal legal team, prevented civil lawsuits against the president while he held office. In another case reminiscent of the Zervos accusations, President Bill Clinton tried to use the Supremacy Clausein 1997 to evade allegations of sexual assault from Paula Jones. The Supreme Court rejected Clintonâ(TM)s claim, and the former president was forced to settle the lawsuit out of court.

â" March 28, 2017 â" Donald Trump signed a bill that killed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces regulation. Signed by Barack Obama, the legislation protected workers against serious safety hazards and labor law violations in any government contract above $500,000.

â" March 29, 2017 â" The Trump administration removed categories relating to sexual orientation and gender identity from the U.S. Census, preventing the government from collecting important data on LGBT populations. The Federal Policy Director at the William Institute said, âoeWithout federal data on LGBT populations, the ability of federal, state, and local governments to make evidence-based public policy that also reflects the experiences and needs of LGBT Americans is significantly undermined.â

â" March 29, 2017 â" Donald Trump tweeted, âoeRemember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!â Published the same month as the above tweet, the Timesâ(TM)s financial report announced the newspaper had just enjoyed its strongest quarter for subscriber growth in the publicationâ(TM)s 126-year history.

â" March 29, 2017 â" Politico reported a supervisor at the Energy Departmentâ(TM)s Climate Office banned the phrases âoeClimate Change,â âoeEmissions Reduction,â and âoeParis Agreementâ from all communications. Instead, workers were told to more frequently reference âoejobsâ and âoeinfrastructure.â

â" March 30, 2017 â" According to FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump called him to ask the director to âoelift the cloudâ of the Russia investigation. Trump said the investigation was impeding his ability to make deals for the country.

â" March 30, 2017 â" Vice President Mike Pence cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of a bill that allowed states to withhold federal funding from Planned Parenthood. The Obama administration implemented the rule in December 2016 as a means of protecting Title X family planning grants, which support contraception and STD screening (but not abortion procedures). The law is another from the Obama era, among 15, repealed by Trump and congressional Republicans using the Congressional Review Act.

â" March 31, 2017 â" One month before signing a bill that would allow drug companies to incentivize doctors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price purchased $90,000 of pharmaceutical stocks affected by the decision.