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“There were literally thousands of qualified Trump-supporters eager to join his administration, yet those responsible for personnel decisions decided to retain Obama employees or hire NeverTrumps, who, collectively, either resisted or actively undermined Trump and his America First agenda. The consequences of that neglect are now playing out in the Senate impeachment trial.”
[While true, that description does not include the many higher-up heads which have rolled out of the Oval Office.]
Aides Gently Inform Trump He Can’t Fire Portrait Of George Washington
http://babylonbee.com/news/aides-gently-inform-trump-he-cant-fire-portrait-of-george-washington/
[As we have stated on dozens of ASND pages, what makes good satire good is its ability to expose painful truths using humor.]
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Trump’s Rambling Impeachment Lawyer Gets Mocked From All Sides
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2021/02/09/donald-trump-impeachment-lawyer-bruce-castor-mocked-all-sides
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Kellyanne Conway secretly trashed Trump, his top advisers to mainstream reporters, ex-Trump aide recounts
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Trump White House Refuses to Apologize for Aide’s ‘He’s Dying Anyway‘ Joke About McCain
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Who’s In Charge? Obama Appointees Still Working For Trump:
Obama Political Appointees to Continue as Career Employees Under Trump
http://dailysignal.com//print?post_id=302835
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Trump’s govmt agencies continue to pursue policies created by Obama admin
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-agency-promoting-trade-iran-despite-trump-opposition/
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Trump’s Not Replacing Bureaucrats Enables the ‘Deep State’
http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/18/trump-not-replacing-bureaucrats-enables-deep-state/
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Two Obama-era holdovers are stupidly creating conditions for another housing market financial crisis
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Obama holdovers in D.C. scrubbing ISIS genocide against Christians
http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/obama-holdovers-in-d-c-scrubbing-isis-genocide-against-christians/print/
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“Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray’s… cover-up… illustrates precisely why Congress must eliminate the [CFPB], which wields unparalleled rule-making, supervisory, and enforcement powers, and operates without accountability to the legislative or executive branches.”
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/18/official-spine-stand-powerful-cfpb-congress-follow-lead/
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Top Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes Declined Interim Security Clearance by FBI in 2008
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Obama’s Iran deal ‘czar’ retains position at State Department
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Obama’s IRS Chief Who Dodged Impeachment Continues Under Trump
http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/31/obamas-irs-chief-who-dodged-impeachment-continues-under-trump/
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Trump’s IRS still paying bonuses to tax cheat employees
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/15/irs-pays-bonuses-tax-cheat-employees/
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These 3 “Political” Issues Directly Affect Churches, But O-Trump-bama’s IRS Demands They Remain Silent
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Why is O-Trump-bama’s IRS rehiring employees who falsified documents and had unauthorized access to information?
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Obama Appointees Still Running the Show at Trump’s VA
http://dailysignal.com/2017/04/27/obama-appointees-still-running-the-show-at-trumps-va/
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Obamacare Architect — Ezekiel Emanuel — Now Advising Trump On Replacing It
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/20/obamacare-architect-now-advising-trump-on-replacing-it/
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What Is an Architect of Obamacare Doing Advising Trump on Health Care?
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“Border Patrol Agents Feel Betrayed by the Trump Administration [for] picking an Obama holdover whom they despise to be their boss.”
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Obama Holdouts In Trump Administration Hiding Hillary Emails For YEARS
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Why is Hillary Clinton’s private server man running the US embassy in UK
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Obama’s bureaucrats are still running the Title IX show in Trump administration
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35674/
Encouraging Update: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36466/
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Does President Trump Know What a Radical Environmentalist He Picked in Peter Navarro?
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Trump Should Withdraw Radical EEOC Nominee Who Would Oppose Religious Liberty
http://dailysignal.com/2018/02/14/trump-should-withdraw-nominee-would-oppose-religious-liberty/amp/
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It’s Not Good To See So Many Generals In The Trump White House
http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/03/not-good-see-many-generals-white-house/
[See, also… https://anotherslownewsday.wordpress.com/liberal-republicans/donald-trump/trumppointees/dod-dhs-nsa/ & https://anotherslownewsday.wordpress.com/liberal-republicans/donald-trump/trumppointees/dod-dhs-nsa/ ]
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“Trump’s Chief of Staff General Kelly has instituted tight restrictions on information and contacts reaching the president. Additionally, Kelly has been said to be working closely with General McMaster on issues related to the flow of information within the administration.”
[A few months later, however…]
‘Tired of being told no,’ Trump freezes out chief of staff Kelly
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“Trump on occasion has called White House aides to the private residence in the evening, where he makes assignments and asks them not to tell Mr. Kelly about the plans.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-finds-loopholes-in-chief-of-staffs-new-regime-1512302400
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Kelly’s most vehement critics even suggest the bungled Porter episode could herald Kelly’s demise within the Trump administration.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/373050-the-memo-knives-come-out-for-kelly
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“Kelly and Mattis have been Tillerson’s strongest allies in [Trump’s] cabinet.”
[The assertions made in that article re: Tillerson’s conflicts w/ Trump have been denied by both Ts. Why, then, is that article relevant on this page — especially just prior to the next citation? See this page and this page .]
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“[Tillerson’s] refusal to deny that he had called the president a ‘moron’ in his opening statement and in his responses to questions from reporters stoked Trump’s anger…”
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An Ideological Coup against Trump
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/an_ideological_coup_against_trump.html
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“So we now have a strong repudiation of the narrative component of the purge which… successfully removed every Trump Administration official aligned with Trump’s campaign promises regarding national security.”
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Bannon’s exit ‘means Obama wins 3rd term’
‘Trump has reneged on the promises that got him elected’
http://mobile.wnd.com/2017/08/bannons-exit-means-obama-wins-3rd-term/
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Bannon: ‘The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over’
https://pjmedia.com/blog/bannon-trump-presidency-fought-won/
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Bannon One of Few in Trump WH that Wouldn’t Be ‘Comfortable’ Working for Hillary
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Sebastian Gorka and Another Broken Trump Promise
https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/08/29/sebastian-gorka-another-broken-trump-promise/
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The Top Jobs in Trump’s Administration Were Mostly Vacant For Months: Who’s to Blame? Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/17/us/politics/trump-appointments.html
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Trump slow in making political appointments compared to his predecessors
http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/12/333351/
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“Trump is well behind his most recent predecessors… in making nominations to build his administration.”
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/11/trump-well-behind-in-winning-senate-confirmation-of-appointees/
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200 days into his presidency, Trump still hasn’t nominated administrators
at the same pace as previous presidents
http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/04/at-200-day-mark-trump-still-trails-predecessors-in-filling-jobs/
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Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot
http://nypost.com/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-is-an-idiot/
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Trump Jr.’s ‘dodgy’ meeting
Why the emails about his meeting with a Russian lawyer during the campaign matter
https://world.wng.org/content/trump_jr_s_dodgy_meeting
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“This is a matter of a president being hopelessly compromised because of his own longstanding and weird advocacy of Russian interests, in combination with this attempt at campaign collusion with the Putin gang – and in combination with Trump firing an FBI director specifically (in Trump’s own words) because Trump was upset with the director’s conduct in the Russia probe.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/07/11/trump-should-fire-himself/
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A Major White House Shakeup Is The Best Thing Trump Can Do [May, 2017]
http://thefederalist.com/2017/05/15/major-white-house-shakeup-best-thing-trump-can-do/
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It’s Not Good To See So Many Generals In The White House
http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/03/not-good-see-many-generals-white-house/
[Written just prior to the revelations about H.R. McMaster, which will likely see him not just fired as NSA Director but also spend the rest of his life in jail for treason.]
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Trump’s Outdated WH Media Operation Has to Go
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/trumps_outdated_wh_media_operation_has_to_go.html
[Instead, Trump *promoted* Sean Spicer. Then, a few weeks later, Trump accepted Spicer’s resignation after Trump appointed A. Scaramucci to be Spicer’s new boss.]
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In 2015, Anthony Scaramucci — Trump’s [short-lived] communications director — called Trump a “big mouth,” a “class divider” and a “Democratic plant” to help Hillary Clinton win.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/scaramucci-reminded-he-ripped-big-mouth-trump-as-democrat-plant/print/
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Scaramucci acknowledged that he was deleting old tweets criticizing President Trump
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Will the shakedown phase of the Trump White House end with new chief of staff John Kelly? [July 2017]
Short answer: No.
Anthony Scaramucci Out as White House Communications Director
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/31/anthony-scaramucci-out-as-white-house-communications-director/
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McMaster ousts another National Security Council aide
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“Heather Wilson is a very bad choice for Secretary of the Air Force. She is straight out of the DC swamp.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/heather_wilson_swamp_creature.html
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“Marc Rosenblum is an Obama administration alum and amnesty advocate. He also happens to be the deputy assistant secretary at the Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) at the Department of Homeland Security… During the Obama years, Rosenblum was a strong advocate of [illegal alien] amnesty… Rosenblum has [also] argued that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, but a recent study shows that is not true… Rosenblum has [also] publicly criticized Trump’s immigration policies… Should an amnesty advocate be deputy assistant secretary at DHS Office of Immigration Statistics? Especially one with a history of using false or misleading data to justify unconstitutional executive amnesty? President Trump needs to purge Obama-era partisans out of positions of influence. If there’s any hope of fixing our immigration system and curbing illegal immigration, pro-amnesty radicals must be purged from the Department of Homeland Security.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/obama-kennedy-amnesty-zealot-handling-dhs-data-illegal-immigration/
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Trump’s pick as labor secretary: Legalizing immigrants is ‘the right thing to do’
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Trump’s ‘shifty and vague’ stance on 1 top immigration issue
President-elect’s Labor pick pegged as big fan of amnesty, hiring of foreign workers
http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/12/trumps-shifty-and-vague-stance-on-1-top-immigration-issue/
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Trump’s Labor Secretary Is About to Violate the President’s Agenda.
Why He Should Delay This Obama-Era Rule.
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“Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, former Miami U.S. attorney Alexander Acosta, cut a non-prosecution deal with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein a decade ago [later found guilty in a child sex abuse case] rather than pursuing a federal indictment that Acosta’s staff had advocated.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-nominee-acosta-cut-deal-with-billionaire-in-sex-abuse-case-involving-40-underage-girls/2017/03/21/d33271a8-0d85-11e7-ab07-07d9f521f6b5_story.html
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Alexander Acosta, President Donald Trump’s replacement choice to run the Department of Labor, advocated for easier immigration and amnesty for people who previously had come to the United States illegally.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/immigration-hawks-express-trepidation-trump-labor-pick/
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“… [Trump] has assembled the most antitrade team of presidential policy advisers since the 1920s.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-antitrade-warriors-1484609800
Though that team may not actually win the antitrade game:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-10/civil-war-breaks-out-white-house-over-trade
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5 Times Mike Pence Helped China Steal American Jobs
http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/19/5-times-mike-pence-helped-china-steal-american-jobs/
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Ivanka’s Government Maternity Leave Ideas Will Hurt American Women
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Jared Kushner:
[While the cited criticisms of Kushner below are all worthy of attention, so is the first article in this list.]
Three cheers for Jared Kushner and Michael Pompeo
President Trump’s successful Middle East peace initiatives succeeded because of these two men
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/three_cheers_for_jared_kushner_and_michael_pompeo.html
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Trump ‘blames Kushner for election loss‘
[Wait, until now, Trump said he didn’t lose the election (claiming it was stolen from him). What changed?]
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‘Dopey Advisors Like Jared Kushner’ Are Blocking Trump From Using Gab
https://nationalfile.com/torba-dopey-advisors-like-jared-kushner-are-blocking-trump-from-using-gab/
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“Trump isn’t stupid, but the people he surrounds himself with sure are. Most especially his son-in-law Jared.”
https://gab.com/a/posts/105786437037746681
[There is a difference between ignorance (which is often willful, including in Trump’s case — as this and other pages here on ASND make obvious) and stupidity. Donald Trump has always overflowed with the former but, yes, much less frequently displays the latter (though a good case could be made that Trump’s willful ignorance of Kushner’s “stupidity” — and so many of the others with whom he “surrounds himself” — is actually a clear manifestation of stupidity)].
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Housey [was] “one of Jared [Kushner]‘s disastrous hires for the Trump Admin.”
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Jared Kushner’s security clearance downgraded
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5741646904001/
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Kushner ‘Democrats’ rising, Bannon ‘nationalists’ falling in Trump White House
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Is Jared Kushner really the man for the job?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/is_jared_kushner_really_the_man_for_the_job.html
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Trump son-in-law Kushner reportedly met with executives from sanctioned Russian bank
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Russian lawyer who got inside Donald Trump’s inner circle had been denied US visa
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“Mr. Kushner’s mix of roles leads inevitably to ethical questions.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-business.html
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“If [Trump’s] NIH were serious about finding the truth, it would be funding a very different kind of study. As it is, the agency is demonstrating the tactics of the so-called ‘war on science’ that the Left continually decries.”
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/01/20844/
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Trump-Backed Nominee To Head EEOC Is Hostile to Religious Freedom
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Trump Reappoints Radical LGBT Activist Chai Feldblum to EEOC
https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/radical-lgbt-activist-chai-feldblum-renominated-eeoc/
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Michael Flynn resigns as National Security Advisor after it’s revealed the Justice Department warned Trump he was left vulnerable to blackmail over his ties with Russia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4221958/Michael-Flynn-compromised-DOJ-warns-White-House.html
[Not surprisingly, that “trumped” up story eventually proved to be just more leftist, mainstream media fake news.]
Mainstream Left Wing Media’s Flynn-Russia Narrative Quickly Collapsing as FBI Reportedly Clears Former National Security Adviser Flynn
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House Report on Obama’s DNS Clapper says O-Trump-bama’s FBI improperly charged Michael Flynn with lying
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/house-probe-accuses-clapper-misleading-congress/
[However, the fake Flynn/Russia story was just the beginning of Flynn’s problems.]
Flynn stopped U.S. military plan Turkey opposed – after being paid as its agent
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article151149702.html
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Unified Congressional Oversight Leaders Say ‘No Evidence’ Flynn Followed Law on Foreign Payments
[Flynn definitely made mistakes while serving his short stint as NSA, but those errors were nothing compared to the errors of the Left — including the judge overseeing his case — have been committing since Flynn resigned.]
Judge In Michael Flynn Case Decides To Ignore Mounting Evidence Of Prosecutorial Abuse
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Trump’s Interior Dept. pick — Ryan Zinke — supports big government control of lands
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“October 20, [2017] EPA officials announced that the renewable fuel [e.g. corn-sourced ethanol and other biodiesels] volumes for 2018 will be at or above what had been originally proposed, reversing the implication of statements made earlier in the year by [Trump-appointed] administrator Pruitt.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/reform_of_the_renewable_fuels_standard.html
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The Ethanol Mandate Promotes Swamp Dominance, Not Energy Dominance
http://dailysignal.com/2017/11/13/ethanol-mandate-promotes-swamp-dominance-not-energy-dominance/
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Anyone who claims to want to “drain the swamp” would be wise to start with repealing, or at least amending, the Renewable Fuel Standard. Why hasn’t Trump even begun?
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Rather Than Drain Swamp, Trump’s Energy Secretary Perry’s Proposal
Would Pick Energy Winners and Losers
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“A Goldman Sachs veteran serves as Trump’s current Treasury Secretary and as his chief White House strategist. The firm leans left and cozies up to Big Government…”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/foundation-watch-the-united-states-of-goldman-sachs/print/
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President Trump Reappoints NIH Director Francis Collins Who Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Research
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Why Won’t Trump Fire Obama-Holdover NIH Director Who Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Research
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s constitutional originalism contrasts with his Episopal church’s “evolving” view of the Bible
https://world.wng.org/2017/04/going_by_the_book
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The Supreme Court just handed the Trump administration a loss on immigration — and Gorsuch was the tiebreaking vote
http://www.businessinsider.com/gorsuch-supreme-court-votes-immigration-case-2018-4
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Conservative backlash grows against a leading Supreme Court candidate
“President-elect Donald Trump named Pryor… during a primary debate last February. Trump included him on a subsequent list…”
https://world.wng.org/2017/01/supreme_discontent
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“A [Trump] nominee for the federal bench, Matthew Spencer Petersen, made a fool of himself during his confirmation hearing when he proved himself unable to answer basic questions about the law and testified he had never tried any case in any court.”
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Why is Donald Trump’s Secret Service going so easy on agent who proclaimed she wouldn’t take a bullet for Donald Trump?
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Ben Carson Really Put His Foot in His Mouth Regarding Slavery
https://pjmedia.com/video/ben-carson-really-put-his-foot-in-his-mouth-regarding-slavery/
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Ben Carson praises Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore
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Another Slow News Day 