Category Archives: Traitor

‘Children are being used as a tool’ in Trump’s effort to stop border crossings – The Boston Globe

US Border Patrol agents separated Wil from his father six months ago, after the pair made the long journey from violence-torn Honduras to the US border in Arizona, attempting to claim asylum there. Within days of arriving in the United States, Wil watched as his father was taken away in handcuffs, joining a long line of other chained men. That, according to his foster parents, was the last time he saw his dad. In the intentionally brutal logic of President Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the US border, Wil is actually among the lucky kids. At least his foster parents know where his father is being held, though not when father and son might be reunited. Three other young children in the care of Coryn and Silas don’t know the location of their parents and have had no contact with them for weeks.

Source: ‘Children are being used as a tool’ in Trump’s effort to stop border crossings – The Boston Globe

Chancellor Angela Merkel: Trump′s rejection of G7 communique ′sobering′ and ′depressing′ | News | DW | 10.06.2018

Germany’s Angela Merkel has sharply criticized Donald Trump’s decision to retract his endorsement of the G7 communique. Events in Canada had only strengthened her commitment to a stronger, more unified EU, she said.

Source: Chancellor Angela Merkel: Trump′s rejection of G7 communique ′sobering′ and ′depressing′ | News | DW | 10.06.2018

Two Pruitt Aides Resign as E.P.A. Ethics Questions Continue – The New York Times Should have been Sec. of Transportation – good at throwing aides under the bus!

Before joining the agency, both Ms. Hupp and Ms. Greenwalt worked for Mr. Pruitt in Oklahoma, where he served as attorney general. Both aides later received substantial raises at the E.P.A., bypassing the usual White House procedures. Mr. Pruitt told Congress he neither knew about nor approved of the raises, and he told lawmakers he reversed the raises when he learned about them.

Trump to Trudeau in testy tariff call: ‘Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?’ | US news | The Guardian “#TraitorTrump trying out for Dumb and Dumber 3.0?”

In reply, Trump asked, according to CNN: “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?” The White House did not respond to a request for comment and a Canadian official declined to comment on the record. The White House was burned by British troops in 1814 as part of a failed invasion of the mid-Atlantic, more than 50 years before the signing of Canada’s confederation paved the way for the country to become independent.

Source: Trump to Trudeau in testy tariff call: ‘Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?’ | US news | The Guardian

FBI has obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Donald Trump Jr at NRA Convention | 3CHICSPOLITICO “No one cares the the NRA is in bed with Russia?” 

Torshin — a close political ally of Vladimir Putin — had multiple contacts with conservative activists in the United States during the election, seeking to set up a summit between the Russian president and then candidate Trump. Although the summit never transpired, Torshin did meet briefly with the president’s son at a private dinner in Louisville during the May 2016 annual convention of the NRA. A member of the NRA since 2012, Torshin has been a regular attendee of the group’s conventions in recent years and hosted senior members of the group in Moscow.

Source: FBI has obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Donald Trump Jr at NRA Convention | 3CHICSPOLITICO

They Spoke Spanish in a Montana Store. Then a Border Agent Asked for Their IDs. – The New York Times – If they had Canadian accents and speaking English, what would he have done?

Shocked by the encounter, Ms. Suda retrieved her cellphone from her car, hit record and confronted the agent as he was relaying their information over a radio inside his sport utility vehicle. They had been racially profiled, Ms. Suda told the agent. “It had nothing to do with that,” the officer, who identified himself as Agent O’Neal, responded in the cellphone video. “It’s the fact that it has to do with you guys speaking Spanish in the store in a state where it’s predominantly English-speaking.”

F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims – The New York Times

In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an informant to talk to two campaign advisers only after they received evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to Russia during the campaign. The informant, an American academic who teaches in Britain, made contact late that summer with one campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, according to people familiar with the matter. He also met repeatedly in the ensuing months with the other aide, Carter Page, who was also under F.B.I. scrutiny for his ties to Russia. The role of the informant is at the heart of the newest battle between top law enforcement officials and Mr. Trump’s congressional allies over the F.B.I.’s most politically charged investigations in decades. The lawmakers, who say they are concerned that federal investigators are abusing their authority, have demanded documents from the Justice Department about the informant.