What happened when a renowned psychotherapist stated his professional view this week that Donald Trump is “dangerously mentally ill”? It set off a round of controversy, as the doctor in question has never treated Trump directly. But it also set off a round of confirmation, from other professionals and those who simply know him well….
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Insiders: Donald Trump’s crazy National Security Advisor Michael Flynn already self destructing
If you’ve lost track of just who Michael T. Flynn is in the midst of the other higher profile extremists dominating the Donald Trump administration, he’s the crazy former military guy who likes chanting “Lock Her Up” and was once disciplined because he leaked classified information — and he’s deeply tied to Russia. He’s since…
Donald Trump didn’t realize Steve Bannon needs Senate confirmation for National Security Council
When Donald Trump decided that fake-news publisher and alt-right nazi Steve Bannon would be his White House Chief Strategist, he presumably chose that role so that the overwhelmingly controversial Bannon wouldn’t have to go through Senate confirmation hearings, which would have been a firestorm for the ages. But now that Trump has subsequently also picked…
Richard Nixon counsel John Dean on Donald Trump’s presidency: “it will end in calamity”
White House Counsel John Dean was knee deep in Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, first helping to orchestrate it and then later blowing the whistle on it and helping force Nixon out of office. He had a front row seat to Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre” in which he fired everyone who refused to help cover up…
Donald Trump fires Immigration Director Daniel Ragsdale, as Monday Night Massacre continues
Donald Trump’s Monday Night Massacre continues, as he’s now fired the heads of two major federal agencies for refusing to enforce his unconstitutional executive order banning Muslims. First he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates at around 9pm eastern time on Monday. And now, sometime around 10pm eastern time, he’s fired Daniel Ragsdale, the acting…
Monday Night Massacre begins: Donald Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates
There was point late in Richard Nixon’s time in the White House in which the Watergate scandal was closing in on him so aggressively that he began issuing illegal orders aimed at suppressing it, and firing high ranking people in rapid succession who refused to carry out those orders — thus known as the Saturday…
Hundreds of State Department employees formally file dissent memo against Donald Trump
It turns out the Department of Justice isn’t the only federal agency defying Donald Trump and his unconstitutional Muslim ban today, as the State Department is also now formally getting in on the action. Hours ago Acting Attorney General Sally Yates announced that she was instructing DOJ employees to defy Trump’s order. And while the…
Prepare to fight: Donald Trump preparing sweeping anti-LGBT executive order
Just two days after Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed squarely at stripping the rights of Muslims, trapping them in airports and setting nationwide protests against him before a federal judge struck him down, he’s is now preparing to go after the rights of gays. Numerous sources have confirmed that Trump is prepping a…
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates instructs DOJ to defy Donald Trump’s Muslim ban
You can count the Department of Justice among the growing number of federal agencies who are openly defying Donald Trump’s unconstitutional orders – and in this instance it’s officially coming from the top. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who is in charge of the DOJ as long as the confirmation of Trump nominee Jeff Sessions…
After backlash, Donald Trump re-adds Judicial Branch to White House website
It turns out Donald Trump’s plans to do away with the branches of government he doesn’t like are going to have to wait a bit. The Trump administration raised eyebrows when it completely removed the Judicial Branch from the White House website last week, listing only two branches of government. And after Trump found himself…