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March 18, 2020 – Trump announced that the U.S.-Mexico border would be sealed off to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But as NPR reported, there were roughly 100 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Mexico—far less than the 8,000 cases in the United States.
The measure, though, allowed the administration to deport migrants without due process. Deja vu!
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March 18, 2020 – Even though the World Health Organization advised him not to, as his words could give rise to racial profiling, Trump defended his use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to COVID-19.
Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers have passed a measure to protect conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youths as part of a bill that also would outlaw the use of Medicaid funds to pay for gender-affirming health care for transgender Kentucky residents. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #legal #Kentucky #RepublicansDidThis https://apnews.com/article/conversion-therapy-kentucky-cf61c100f6aad954a43e45f25dbd316c
LOL. Washed up Heritage Foundation "Christian" wants you to know that he's not responsible for the raping and killing...
Early Trump actions, Project 2025 'have a lot in common,' former chief says
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5198655-trump-white-house-project-2025/
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March 16, 2017 – Donald Trump’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 Baylor’s biomedical research school said the proposed budget, “would bring American biomedical science to a halt.”
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March 16, 2017 – 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.
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March 15, 2017 – After a Hawaiian federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s second travel ban, Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. courts in a speech at a rally, calling the decision, “unprecedented judicial overreach.”
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March 15, 2019 – Trump vetoed a joint congressional resolution that would have overturned the national emergency he declared at the southern border.
In a rare rebuke, Republicans in both the House and Senate voted in favor of ending the national emergency.
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March 15, 2020 – Officials from Germany’s Health Ministry said that Trump “offered large sums of money” to CureVac, a German company working on a coronavirus vaccine, in order to give the U.S. exclusive access to its information.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell claimed that the story was wrong, but CureVac’s CEO confirmed the meeting with the White House.
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups…
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant - #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Legal #RepublicansDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #FBI #AmericanCoup #coup
https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations
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March 14, 2017 – 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%.
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March 13, 2017 – Donald Trump expanded the CIA’s power to allow the agency to conduct drone strikes on suspected terrorists. Under Obama, the CIA’s directive was to gather intelligence on locations of potential terrorists and then allow the military to call the drone strike.
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March 13, 2020 – Trump said an Obama-era rule was to blame for the Trump administration not being able to provide coronavirus tests more expediently.
However, no such rule exists.
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March 12, 2018 – House Republicans declared the Mueller investigation had failed to find any collusion between Donald Trump and the Russian. The statement, released by the House Intelligence Committee, was not reviewed by any of the Democrats on the committee before its publication.
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LOL-- the good old days!
March 12, 2018 – Department of Education head Betsy DeVos was interviewed on 60 Minutes, and admitted she hadn’t visited any underperforming schools and did not know basic public school statistics in her home state of Michigan.
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March 10, 2017 – 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.
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March 10, 2018 – Donald Trump advocated for the execution of drug dealers as a means of addressing America’s drug problem.
The previous year, Trump was complimentary of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte—going so far as to invite him to the White House—after Duterte had been condemned by human rights groups for his extrajudicial killing of Filipino drug dealers.
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March 10, 2018 – Trump announced the US military would stage a military parade in Washington D.C. for veterans day in November 2018.
After a trip to Paris for Bastille Day, which included a French military parade, Trump returned to the U.S. inspired to hold one himself.
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March 10, 2020 – Trump repeated his claim that the U.S. was “doing a great job” with the coronavirus.
“Just stay calm,” he told reporters. “It will go away… And a lot of good things are going to happen.”
Crude oil prices plunged 25 percent, however, as thousands around the world died of the virus.
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