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Donald Trump will wield the biggest media operation in the history of the U.S. presidency

Donald Trump will wield the biggest media operation in the history of the U.S. presidency

“ The Ford situation provides the first look at what news about the Trump administration will be like once the president-elect is sworn in come January. On one side, there’s the traditional media, already plenty maligned after an exhausting election. On the other, there’s the collection of media entities that have formed around Trump. Let’s call it the Trump News Network (TNN for short).

TNN provides a way for Trump to leapfrog the traditional press entirely. Particularly for supporters of Trump, TNN will serve as their primary news source, unchecked by the much-loathed mainstream media. For the rest, it’ll be a well-oiled propaganda machine capable of muddying the waters of even straightforward news. ”

Guess which candidate’s foundation was caught in an illegal campaign funding scheme?

Guess which candidate’s foundation was caught in an illegal campaign funding scheme?

“recently he’s found out that Trump’s charitable foundation made an illegal campaign contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (this reporting is based, in turn, in part on work done by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington). Then when they found out they had broken the law, they kinda sorta corrected the error but didn’t actually follow their legal obligation to get the money back.

It’s all at least a little suspicious”

High crimes and misdemeanors as of day one.

‘I’m in a room full of liars’: Trump reams execs and anchors from ‘the dishonest media’ at ‘candid’ meeting at Trump Tower that turned into a ‘f****ng firing squad’ 

‘I’m in a room full of liars’: Trump reams execs and anchors from ‘the dishonest media’ at ‘candid’ meeting at Trump Tower that turned into a ‘f****ng firing squad’ 

Special snowflake in chief is demanding the press hold him to “participation trophy” standards so his feelings can be spared.

Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer says

Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer says

“the incoming president, in other words, is actively soliciting business from agents of foreign governments. Many of these agents, in turn, said that they will accept the president-elect’s offer to do business because they want to win favor with the new leader of the United States.

In an exclusive exchange with ThinkProgress, Richard Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who previously served as chief ethics counsel to President George W. Bush, says that Trump’s efforts to do business with these diplomats is at odds with a provision of the Constitution intended to prevent foreign states from effectively buying influence with federal officials.”

…so the tea party will now call on Trump to follow the Constitution, right?

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The Italian experience provides a blueprint for how to defeat Mr. Trump. Only two men in Italy have won an electoral competition against Mr. Berlusconi: Romano Prodi and the current prime minister, Matteo Renzi (albeit only in a 2014 European election). Both of them treated Mr. Berlusconi as an ordinary opponent. They focused on the… Continue reading Untitled

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Former managers of Trump University say it relied on high-pressure sales tactics, employed unqualified instructors and made deceptive claims. Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony – The New York Times