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  • Trump Continues to Steal Black Man’s Work; Takes Credit for Veterans' Healthcare Changes Started Under Obama

    When President Donald Trump isn’t busy trying to erase former President Barack Obama’s legacy, he’s taking credit for Obama’s work. According to a fact check by the Associated Press, President Trump and his Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie took credit for veterans healthcare program improvements made under President Obama because Trump is the guy…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 28, 2019
  • Trump Sends 1,500 Troops to Middle East Because We’re Not Going to War With Iran

    President Donald Trump proclaimed earlier this month that he wasn’t going to war with Iran. Then, in less than a fortnight, Trump is now sending some 1,500 troops to the Middle East after a series of barroom-style confrontations about who can end what and when. On Friday, it was announced that the deployment of troops…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 24, 2019
  • Trump Posts Fake News on Twitter, Shares Spliced Video of Nancy Pelosi Stumbling Over Her Words

    President Trump is so scared of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that he had to post a spliced video of her stumbling over her words because he doesn’t know how to deal with powerful women who think he’s a damn idiot. On Thursday evening, during what is also known as the “Hey big head, you…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 24, 2019
  • Handwritten Note Proves Trump Is a Dotard as He 'Intentially' Sought to Bash Democrats' 'Achomlishments'

    The president of the United States doesn’t just act like a third grader, he spells like one who has refused to go to school and instead sits in his room and makes deals with Russians while touting himself as the biggest billionaire the world has ever seen. After Trump’s planned walkout of a scheduled meeting…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 24, 2019
  • How Do You Know When the President Is Lying? Sarah ‘Suckabee’ Sanders’ Mouth Is Moving

    White House press secretary Sarah “Suckabee” Sanders, a.k.a. Satan’s favorite kitten heel, said Thursday that President Trump didn’t plan his abrupt departure from a meeting with congressional leaders and he just happened to have a cardboard cutout with figures pasted to a podium for his impromptu speech in the Rose Garden. Sanders claimed that Trump…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 23, 2019
  • Maze Will Stop Featuring Frankie Beverly Before Harriet Tubman Makes It Onto the $20 Bill

    Let’s be clear about this: President Donald Trump, the white nationalist president who appeals to racist Midwesterners and Southerners by leaning into his racist charm, never wanted a black woman on American currency. Hell, he said as much when he was just regular Russian-citizen Trump. As a candidate, Trump said that putting the former slave…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 23, 2019
  • Congress Has Trump’s Financial Records From Wells Fargo and TD Bank, and More Could be Coming

    President Donald Trump has been trying to keep America out of his financials. But like a good wife who knows that something isn’t right, America has not relented and now two major financial institutions have turned over subpoenaed bank documents to a congressional committee, and a court ruling Wednesday could have more banks doing the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 23, 2019
  • Steve Mnuchin Wants to Know Who Wrote IRS Memo Saying He Has to Release Trump’s Taxes Because He’s Still Not Going To

    Steve Mnuchin Wants to Know Who Wrote IRS Memo Saying He Has to Release Trump’s Taxes Because He’s Still Not Going To

    Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is willing to use his oversized chompers to bite Trump’s taxes down to manageable sizes because he’d rather eat them than hand them over to Congress. On Wednesday, “Mnuchin on Trump’s taxes” didn’t appear to be too concerned with ignoring a congressional subpoena to hand over the president’s tax returns but…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 22, 2019
  • Trump Spent More Than Three Times the Cost of Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation Playing Golf at His Own Resorts

    Ever since special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation began, Republicans and most importantly President Donald Trump have loved to tout how it was all a waste of money. Well, an exclusive report by HuffPost has found that President Trump has spent some $102 million of taxpayers’ money to play golf at his own resorts—some three times…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 22, 2019
  • Trump Walks Out of Meeting Claiming He Can’t Work With Democratic Leaders as Long as He’s Being Investigated

    President Trump continues to govern like a spoiled rich kid plays football. We all know this kid—the one who has the brand new K-2 football signed by Russell Wilson who wants to play with everyone but only if everyone follows his rules. The kid that doesn’t want to play tackle and will get mad if…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    May 22, 2019
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