McCain SILENT When Obama Released Terrorists, But Lambastes President …
I find it exceedingly rich that John McCain has the utter gall to attack President Trump over pardoning Joe Arpaio. McCain was for closing Gitmo.
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Pardoning Sheriff Joe is the absolute epitome of Trumpism
President Donald Trump's decision - announced late Friday night - to pardon controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the Platonic ideal of Trumpism. "Throughout his time as sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," read a statement released by the White House.
Trump, Joe Arpaio have become poster children for the left
It's fitting that President Trump pardoned ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio , because they're two of a kind. They are arrogant fools who act as though they're on a mission to discredit conservative ideas - to make themselves poster children for the left.
Why Trump Should Start Paying for the Secret Service
The news that the Secret Service is way over budget because of President Donald Trump's frequent vacations is a rich source of material for political satirists. It's easy to zing Trump for being a hypocrite, as he previously complained about the cost and duration of President Barack Obama's vacations.
The Look of a Leader
In 2008, Swiss psychologist John Antonakis invited a group of school children into his lab and had them act out a scenario on which they were embarking on an adventurous sea voyage. He asked the children to choose a captain for their ship, and he showed them two pictures.
LGBT community outrage as Trump signs directs Pentagon to enact transgender ban
US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Friday that directs the US military not to accept transgender men and women as recruits and halts the use of government funds for sex reassignment surgeries for active personnel unless the process is already underway. The memo, released by the White House, laid out in more detail a ban on transgender individuals serving in the US armed forces that Trump announced via Twitter last month, reversing a policy shift started under his predecessor Barack Obama.
Trump announces a realistic plan
At various times during our history, American troops abroad have been targeted with special ferocity by enemies aware that the more U.S. troops they killed, the more likely our government would be to accelerate already declared timetables for withdrawal. For years while former President Barack Obama was in office, the Taliban and other terrorists in Afghanistan operated under an enormous advantage: They knew Obama planned to continue drawing down troop strength in that country for political, not military, reasons.
In Trump World, The Brand Is All, And His Brand Includes The Wall
President Trump gives a thumbs up to a crowd of supporters at the Phoenix Convention Center during a rally last week. If you picked up a print copy of The New York Times Friday you may have noticed something unusual about it - something missing.
Trump Likely to Rescind Obama ‘Dreamer’ Program, Media Reports Say
Community activists rally during an event on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parental Accountability in Los Angeles, Feb. 17, 2015. U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to rescind an Obama-era policy that protects nearly 600,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally as children and are known as "Dreamers," according to media reports Friday.
Donald Trump pardons Joe Arpaio, ex-Arizona sheriff who refused to stop patrols targeting immigrants
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned former sheriff Joe Arpaio, the retired Arizona lawman who was convicted for intentionally disobeying a judge's order in an immigration case. The White House said the 85-year-old ex-sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County was a "worthy candidate" for a presidential pardon.
South Carolina’s Republican governor ends all abortion funding
The US state of South Carolina said Friday it is eliminating all state or federal aid to any medical practice linked to clinics practicing abortions. President Donald Trump had cleared the way for such changes in April, when -- in a move applauded by many conservatives -- he signed a bill revoking a rule from his predecessor, Barack Obama, that aimed to protect public funding for family-planning clinics.
Trump pardons ex-sheriff convicted of defying judgea s order
President Donald Trump spared his ally former Sheriff Joe Arpaio a possible jail sentence on Friday by pardoning his conviction, reversing what critics saw as a long-awaited comeuppance for a lawman who escaped accountability for headline-grabbing tactics during most of his 24 years as metropolitan Phoenix's top law enforcer. "Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life's work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration," the White House statement said.
Changes coming to US protected lands, but details unknown
Tribes, ranchers and conservationists know that none of the national monuments ordered reviewed by President Donald Trump will be eliminated, but the changes in store for the sprawling land and sea areas remain a mystery after the administration kept a list of recommendations under wraps. That left people on all sides of the contentious debate clinging to only shreds of information and anxiously waiting for more details.
Trump’s Palmerstonian Policy
President Donald Trump's Afghanistan speech Monday night was disciplined, measured and sometimes verging on eloquence. It was presidential.
Editorial: GOP shares Obamacare blame
It was former president Barack Obama who is primarily responsible for this travesty, which was supposedly going to make health care affordable for all . Have your health care costs decreased in the past few years since Obamacare was unleashed? However, Republicans could do well with a brief history lesson - and how they are culpable in Obamacare's existence and its survival.
OnPolitics Today: How Russian Twitter accounts push pro-Trump propaganda
OnPolitics Today: How Russian Twitter accounts push pro-Trump propaganda Plus: Trump's total eclipse of Obama. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2wCS5S8 During President Donald Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, he said he's willing to close down the government to build his proposed border barrier.
US interior chief recommends changes on some protected lands
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Thursday he won't seek to rescind any national monuments carved from the wilderness and oceans by past presidents. But he said he will press for some boundary changes and left open the possibility of allowing drilling, mining or other industries on the sites.
Select AllTrump Retweets Meme of Him Eclipsing Obama, Clearly Not…
Just when you thought Eclipse Twitter - of which the only good part was that picture of Trump appearing to stare directly into the sun without protective glasses - was through, Donald Trump gave it a second life. Earlier on Thursday, the president retweeted an eclipse meme starring ... himself.
The Obama Era Deficit Scolds All Want Big Tax Cuts NowFix the Debt is now fixina to get paid.
One of the unnoticed ways in which American politics has changed under Donald Trump is the quiet disappearance of the budget deficit as a fixation of the news media and the business and political elite. During Barack Obama's two terms in office, terror about deficits positively consumed the discourse.
Trump rage-tweets at ‘lying’ ex-DNI Clapper for questioning his mental stability
President Donald Trump was very busy tweeting on Thursday, as he lashed out at former President Barack Obama, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and even the leaders of his own party . In Clapper's case, the president took issue with his recent decision to publicly question Trump's mental fitness to be in the Oval Office.