Support for Donald Trump’s Impeachment Is Higher than His Reelection Chances
   
Sam Schwarz,Newsweek•       December 20, 2017

Trending: Trump’s New York Golf Course Has Seen Massive Decline in Visitors Since He Became President

The number calling for impeachment proceedings to get underway closely parallels the 38 percent of Americans who believe Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 president election.

The White House has both publicly and privately suggested that Mueller's investigation will come to an end early in the new year, but that would appear to be wishful thinking. Recent reports have instead indicated that Mueller and his team could be working at least through the midterm elections in 2018 and possibly even beyond.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/support-dona … news_index

Trump's Deputy Drug Czar Is A 24-Year-Old With A Flimsy Work History
HuffPost   
Dominique Mosbergen,HuffPost•          January 22, 2018

A 24-year-old appointed to a top position in the White House drug policy office has come under scrutiny in recent days for his scanty résumé and lack of qualifications.

A new Washington Post report reveals that one of Taylor Weyeneth’s few previous jobs ended ignominiously. Weyeneth was “let go” from a New York law firm in 2015 because he didn’t show up to work, the paper reports.

Weyeneth was appointed last year as deputy chief of staff of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, or ONDCP, which coordinates federal drug-control efforts, and questions have recently been raised about his fitness for the role.

Prior to his work for the Trump administration, the only job he’d held since graduating from college in 2016 was working on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Post reported earlier this month. As a high schooler, Weyeneth worked for a family firm that processed health products; and as an undergraduate, he had a job as a legal assistant at the New York law firm O’Dwyer & Bernstien.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-apos-d … 16887.html

https://defence.pk/pdf/attachments/c6r2 … pg.448765/

Fat Trump very healthy?

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Tillerson

https://www.rt.com/usa/421279-trump-til … ‘Godmother of Torture’ Haspel should be in dock at The Hague, not head of CIA – John Kiriakou
Published time: 14 Mar, 2018

K: I think that he is going to have to take Trump’s lead on this. Trump made a decision that he is going to talk to the North Koreans and that is the end of the argument. At least on this, Pompeo is going to take a second seat. On Iran, however, they are in agreement. That is where we have to be worried. That is where I think we are going to see our next confrontation. 

… The president has said a number of times that he wants to just do away with the [Iran nuclear] agreement. And Pompeo supports that. The president also has very strong supporters among the Gulf monarchies against Iran, and certainly among the Israelis. I think that he thinks that this is the right thing to do.   

There have been disagreements between Trump and his Secretary of State Tillerson since he was appointed. Many people looked upon him… as a stabilizing voice within the Trump administration. He was in favor of maintaining the Joint Plan of Action with Iran. And he is being replaced by Pompeo, who is an opponent of this agreement with Iran… Does Trump just want a ‘yes man’ at this particular time? - Colin Cavell, associate professor of political science at Bluefield State College

Trump wants a war on Iran?

Trump Unpredictable

One of the challenges for U.S. companies and trade groups is that they’ve never experienced a president as unpredictable as Trump, who doesn’t always follow normal protocol, said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at New America, a Washington think tank, who has written about lobbying.

Trump "seems to change his mind all the time and only listen to a handful of people right around him,” Drutman said. “So it makes lobbying more difficult.”

It’s still early stages for the coalition, which is considering the next steps its members might take together and individually, Castaneda said. They’re reviewing the more than 1,300 products on the list for proposed tariffs and plan to argue for exclusions during a formal comment period that ends May 11.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rare-coa … 00268.html

Trump blasts some deported immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'
    David Knowles,Yahoo News

In Rebuke of Trump, Tillerson Says Lies Are a Threat to Democracy

By Gardiner Harris
May 16, 2018

WASHINGTON — In a veiled rebuke of President Trump, former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson warned on Wednesday that American democracy was threatened by a growing “crisis of ethics and integrity.”

“If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom,” he said in a commencement address at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va.

Even small falsehoods and exaggerations are problematic, Mr. Tillerson said. He did not mention Mr. Trump by name, although the president is prone to both.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/p … trump.html

Donald Trump's America: The rogue superpower
Robert Kagan, The Washington Post             June 14, 2018

the United States as rogue superpower, neither isolationist nor internationalist, neither withdrawing nor in decline, but active, powerful and entirely out for itself. In recent months, on trade, Iran, NATO defense spending and perhaps even North Korea, Trump has shown that a president willing to throw off the moral, ideological and strategic constraints that limited U.S. action in the past can bend this intractable world to his will, at least for a while.

Trump is not merely neglecting the liberal world order; he is milking it for narrow gain,rapidly destroying the trust and sense of common purpose that have held it together and prevented international chaos for seven decades. The successes he is scoring - if they are successes - derive from his willingness to do what past presidents have refused to do: exploit the great disparities of power built into the postwar order, at the expense of the United States' allies and partners.

https://www.newstimes.com/opinion/artic … 995132.php

From the NFL to LeBron James: How Trump 'crash-landed' into the world of sports

DEENA ZARU   Good Morning America      August 10, 2018


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/lebron-james- … ories.html

Bribe payment to keep quiet.

THE FACTS: False. The campaign finance violations are crimes. While it's not a crime to pay someone to keep quiet, the Justice Department says the hush money payments arranged by Cohen to conceal allegations of Trump's extramarital affairs were actually unreported campaign contributions meant to influence the outcome of the election.

That's a critical assertion because it makes the payments subject to campaign finance laws, which restrict how much people can donate to a campaign and bar corporations from making direct contributions.

Though some campaign finance experts suggested before the guilty plea that the payments to two women who say they had sex with Trump could have been arranged for other purposes, such as protecting Trump's personal reputation, Cohen himself acknowledged that the goal was to affect the election and protect Trump's candidacy.

The $150,000 payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal by National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. and the $130,000 payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels far exceeded permissible campaign contribution limits.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-fact-chec … 53420.html

Trump Says Maybe U.S. Will Have A President For Life Someday
NPR
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he thinks it's great that China's president now holds that office for life and muses that maybe the US will do the same someday.

http://www.alien-earth.com/articles.php … category=1

A laughing stock in U.N. Assembly meeting.

Trump touts his own achievements, and the U.N. laughs

Dylan Stableford      September 25, 2018


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-touts- … 55266.html

Trump Says He Won't Turn Over His Tax Returns. It's Not Up To Him Anymore.   
Arthur Delaney,HuffPost•                November 7, 2018

Trump was the first major-party presidential candidate in 40 years not to release his tax returns, which can reveal detailed information about a person’s sources of income, charitable giving and the amount of taxes paid.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-w … 35262.html

Trump Says He Is Thankful For HIMSELF This Holiday
DAILY MAIL                     NOVEMBER 22, 2018

President Donald Trump said he's thankful for himself and the difference he made in this country along with his family.

http://www.alien-earth.com/articles.php … category=1

Trump himself repeatedly stated since entering the presidential race in June 2015 that he had no business in Russia and no interactions with representatives of Russia.(quote from "Muller exposes Putin's hold over Trump")

It means Trump had contacted with Russians as early as  in June 2015 and negotiated a secret deal. Thus we saw:

On 30 September, Russia's parliament approved a request by President Vladimir Putin to

Russia joins war in Syria: Five key points
1 October 2015

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34416519

Russia won't join a war without interest. It must have been assured by a secret deal, that is: to help Trump to get President chair and the payment is Syria.

The CIA Had a Rule Against Meeting the KGB Alone. Trump Was Reckless to Ignore It With Putin.
James Risen                  July 16 2018

Some of the Gavrilov meetings took place in Helsinki, where Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin on Monday. But one of the key differences between the Gavrilov channel and the Trump-Putin meeting was that the CIA always insisted on having at least two American officers present – no one from the CIA could meet the KGB alone. That guaranteed that no American could hand over secrets to the KGB without at least one other American knowing about it; it also insured that no American would come under unfair suspicion of being a KGB spy simply by meeting with the Russians alone.

Trump, on the other hand, insisted on meeting Putin without any of his aides present. At a time when there is a federal investigation underway into whether his campaign colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election, Trump’s decision to meet Putin alone was at best reckless. His many critics will take it as further evidence that he really is a KGB agent.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/tru … -helsinki/