Right As Hurricane Harvey Hits Texas, Trump Caught Red Handed Doing The INCREDIBLE
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Corporate Polluters, Scammers, and Criminals See Big Trump Benefits - Duration: 3:26.An environment watchdog group has released a startling statistic.
Since Donald Trump took office, fines for corporate polluters have fallen by more than
60%.
Instead of holding corporations accountable when they poison our air and our water and
even our people, they appear to be getting a free pass from the current administration.
Of course, this isn't much of a surprise considering how connected our government is to industry.
Joining me now to talk about this is Farron Cousins, he's the executive editor for the
Trial Lawyer magazine.
Farron, incredible.
What's happened in the last six months.
You talk about the corporate payoff.
Oh absolutely, and that's exactly what corporations wanted.
What's happened in the last six, seven months is that they're getting everything they've
ever wanted, which was a 60%, they'd prefer 100% reduction in these fines when they do
go out there and they dump things into our water or spew things into the atmosphere,
they are not being held accountable.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Enforcement was very lax under Obama and Bush and Clinton before him, but even with that
lax enforcement, things have essentially at this point just absolutely fallen off a cliff
and we're not getting those fines and punishments, essentially, that we need to have in this
country.
Isn't part of the problem ... I mean, corporate America is making so much money right now.
Making more than they've ever made in the history of this planet.
Literally.
That is not a statistic that's overstated.
So, with all that money, aren't they able to go to the agencies and they're able to
get the folks that are working for the agencies to come to work with them?
They say, "Joe, when you get done with what you're doing, come talk to us.
We have about a $400,000 paycheck for you."
That goes on every day.
It's like the American public actually believes that the EPA or FDA or the SEC is out protecting
them.
What is your take on that?
It's absolutely true.
We've seen this in full swing for the last 17 years, really, where either the people
running these regulatory agencies came from industry or once they leave there, they go
right into industry.
They're not there to hold people accountable.
They're not there to do their jobs.
They're making job connections.
They're trying to meet people that they know they can send a resume to once they leave
office instead of somebody that they can send a fine or a subpoena to while they're serving
this country.
They're not doing what they're supposed to be doing; they're worried about their own
career and longevity at that point.
Yeah, they actually call these positions "career-holding places."
Career holding places.
Really quickly, what are the important fines that we're seeing differences with?
Well, the big thing is that we need these fines.
This isn't just about we want to take your money.
We use those fines to clean up the water, to clean up the air, to clean up the environment,
to provide medical monitoring for people when they get poisoned.
That's what these fines are about and if we do not pull those in, we do not clean up the
mess that corporations have caused.
Taxpayers have to foot the bill.
What the corporation does is they put all their garbage in a river, for example, and
they say, "We made a big profit by not having to do this right.
Now let's let the taxpayers have to pay for this clean up and our stockholders are gonna
make a lot more money."
Yeah, that's exactly the process and that goes on every day in this country, and under
Trump, it's happening more and more.
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BREAKING:GARY COHN TAKES ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER CHARLOTTESVILLE | Trump News 8/25/2017 - Duration: 7:26.person Former National Spokesperson for the Trump campaign Katrina Pierson
Katrina I know that the president has spoken to Greg Abbott the governor of Texas also
John Bel Edwards the Governor of Louisiana yesterday in preparation for this hurricane
And this will be fema director brock long's first challenge in his new post as well as the president's first time facing
Such a serious natural disaster. Do you believe that the president and the administration are prepared for this hurricane I?
Do dagen and you know his fema director has received bipartisan praise for his experience. They are definitely
Preparing here in my state, and you know we're no strangers to hurricanes here, but and the president's always been concerned
With the people of this country and making sure that states have the resources that they need to take care of themselves
Do you expect the president will be it will?
You know quote how closely will he be monitoring the developments tonight and in the day in the days Following Katrina
Because that's really the concern is that
the that the storm will linger and the heavy rainfall in the area, oh
Absolutely, I think the president is going to be keeping a very close watch on
Texas and the coast for that matter there's a lot of oil rigs out there as well
So that's going to impact the economy
But you know I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here this we don't know exactly what's going to happen we've seen these things
Come barreling ahead and die down so my hopes and prayers are that that's exactly what happens for our friends down south
Yeah, and your Katrina. You're from Texas originally, right?
Clos absolutely, and I'm here the rest of this week housing some some friends of mine coming in from Houston
And you know like I said hopefully it won't be that bad
But if so the president and the administration are definitely going to be paying attention
Minute by minute through the next few days to see what's going to happen
Katrina One of Shift Gears
In the financial times just came out with an interview that they did with Gary Cohn the President's Chief economic adviser
Koan is making his first public comments following Charlottesville and just here's some of what he he said the this
administration can and must do better in
consistently and
unequivocally
Condemning these groups and do everything that we can to heal the deep divisions that exist in our communities
I have come under enormous pressure to both resign and to remain in my current position
He's talking about the events after
Charlottesville, he's talking about condemning nazis and white supremacists by name but Katrina wanted to get your
reaction to this
well, you know as the president has said he has done a number of times of condemning these types of hate groups even throughout the
campaign for that matter
But no one wants to talk about that
And the president was very candid he was very honest in
His statement in the second one when he said he didn't have all the details at first and in the end when he came out
With the press conference was very clear
has been talking about it ever since and you know this is a president who does not walk the
Racially political line because he doesn't pay attention to to the race issue
He sees everyone as individuals as people as potential and when these kinds of things happen the president is learning to
To be more quick about it
Because he does believe that this country is one country and the people here are also one and he's going to do more to
Show that
it
One of the a couple of quotes that stood out in the article where citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated
With white supremacist neo Nazis in the Kkk as a Jewish American
I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting jews will not replace us to cause this jew to leave his job
I feel deep empathy for all of those who have been targeted by these hate groups
But we must all unite together against them
are these statements part of that unity or part of that healing somehow and
To the point where gary cohn ever give this interview Katrina unless he had cleared it with the president
You know I'm not sure I have not spoken to Mr.
Comb but I will say that constantly condemning these types of group groups. I believe is very helpful
It is disgusting to see these types of groups that are still out there
Unfortunately the media does continue to give them a platform
Unfortunately, we're going to have to deal with that through this resistance movement, but I also think that this is also an opportunity to
Highlight that and to show where the media is constantly trying to drive
These false narratives against the president of course the president isn't racist of course he condemns hate groups
He loves all Americans. He loves people in general
I think you're going to see more of that moving forward in will shift to
The Agenda the administration is still pushing for both health care and tax reform despite opposition's
Frankly opposition on both sides of the aisle leading republican lawmakers admit that the process is a struggle watch this
I'm often asked what is being the majority leader the senate like?
The best answer I've been able to think of is it's a little bit like being a groundskeeper at a cemetery
Everybody's under you, but nobody's listening. It's a day-By-day deal
I'm told I'm kind of joking we're in constant contact to try and put together a shared agenda
Which we agree on and we're working together to move that shared agenda
Katrine the President is going to be heading to Missouri
To basically help push
the the tax overhaul it's expected to be the first of several presidential stops in the coming weeks as he
Really tries to make a push. This is something
He was not doing
When the health care the repeal and replace was moved moving through the house and the senate is this going to make a difference him?
Out there and sell in tax reform to the American people
Well, you know I keep hearing that argument Daga
And I got to say why does the president have to go out and push for Health Care obamacare repeal?
This is something that the party has been pushing for seven
years
So one would think that they would just do their jobs and represent their constituency
Particularly those who actually voted for the president on though on that basis, but I do think this is going to help
I think it's going to be a constant reminder of where the president is where the people of the party are?
versus where the republican establishment is because if we're here today after
making promises for years nearly a decade and
Suddenly the Republicans can't seem to push forward the policies that they themselves have been promoting then we have a problem
And I think this is the president's way of getting out to the people and showing them that if this does not get done
It's not on his hands because he's going to be in his office holding his pen waiting for that bill to come to his office
Katrina it looks good to see you this morning. I know we covered a lot of great
Thank you for that Katrina Pierson, please come back soon
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TRUMP'S TUSH - Closer to the END - a SCARAMUCCI SATIRE - Duration: 3:37.Hey Fam, it's me - Donna. There's always some kind of
REALITY TV Show at the White House, so let's check out what's happening today.
Good afternoon my name is Tony Scaratucci, but everybody they calls me The TUSH.
And I brought my violin, in case anybody causes any trouble. DON TRUMP-A-LONEY
has axed me here today to tell all yous reporters about loyalty.
I don't hear any objections do I?
Yes I have an objection
Ya FIRED! Anyways, where was I, Oh yeah. Loyalty. Never questione
anything the DON says. If he wants to take away your health care - -
Let him! If he wants to tax the middle class and give more money to the rich -
tell him it's a good idea the DON knows what he's doin'.
The Don is the most loyal person in the entire universe.
Not always, sometimes he just says -
You're FIRED!
The TUSH is in town, and there's gonna be trouble... Hey Nah... Hey Nah..
Anyways where was I?
Oh yeah, Loyalty.
Don't axe what the country can do for yous. Axe what yous can do for
the DON. For example, last night, after the DON took his dump - whoo I mean it
was stinky. Well, the Queen was next in line. I didn't let her sniff the foul odor that
came from his business, so what I do? I snucks in front of her Majesty and
pretends the stink bomb came from me.
That's what I'm talking about ,
when I'm talking about loyalty.
No! DON! I didn't mean - I didn't mean - the stuff
that comes from your butt stinks. I meant...
You're FIRED!
Sees what I'm talking about.
Loyalty, to the very END.
Come on, I mean,
how else did you think it was gonna end.
Unless it was a ploy and maybe
maybe the TUSH wasn't even fired and maybe the TUSH is gonna return to
Talk Shows and preach the words of the DON - over and over again
Nah...
That's not really gonna happen
(singing) The TUSH is in town and there's gonna be trouble...
Hey Nah... Hey Naaaah
Hey Nah... Hey Naaaah
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Trump Raping on China ( ROBLOX ) * DON'T TAKE IT AS REAL * - Duration: 1:40.*Intro*
Yo ! Yo ! China ...
You got nothing on me !
Come Dude ! Come and fight with me !
Oh Oh! Oh, you know! You don't even have means to fight me!
You know! I have a lot of haters, but ... I'm stronger than you!
Look at my country! It is so nice and clean but yours is just like a black piss of poop!
And my wall! My Wall is bigger than yours!
Look at your money! It's so less, I have more money than you! * Pointed at money*
Roast me back China!
*Outro*
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In Trump's Warped Mind, Everything Is Someone Else's Fault - Duration: 5:34.Donald Trump has been basically in a tirade on Twitter, pretty much since he became President
of the United States, but specifically in the last week or two, going after Republicans
in the House and the Senate and preemptively blaming them for things that have not yet
happened or things that actually didn't even happen.
For example, one of the tirades he went on and has been going on even this morning, was
about the need to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate, because it's allowing eight
Democrats, as the President says, to control everything that comes out of that Senate,
and it's because of the filibuster that the Senate was unable to pass their version of
Trumpcare.
As it turns out, that's not true.
The Senate tried to do it under reconciliation, which requires a simple majority vote, and
they still weren't able to get majority vote.
Trump doesn't understand parliamentary procedure, so he assumes it's the filibuster, or maybe
he just needed a reason to go out there and attack Democrats and Republicans.
The more interesting part of the story is the preemptive blame that Donald Trump is
trying to lay at the feet of Republicans in the House of Representatives because he doesn't
think they're going to be able to pass legislation to increase the debt ceiling, which would
then mean that the budget wouldn't pass, which would mean we were likely heading for a government
shutdown.
Trump himself has actually already threatened to shut down the federal government if we
do not give him the funding he wants for his border wall, so I don't know why he would
think that the public would believe him when he already says that a government shutdown
would be the fault of the Republicans, because he's the one who said he wants to do it.
Here's the thing about Donald Trump, and this is something I think everybody mostly understands
but, if you don't, pay attention now.
Donald Trump blames everyone else for anything bad that happens in his life, during his presidency
or whatever.
It is always the fault of someone else.
Conversely, Donald Trump always takes credit for the good things that other people do that
he wasn't even involved in.
Case in point, the economy.
We're still adding jobs each month.
Donald Trump, though he says he's doing that, clearly doesn't want the public to know that
up until about mid-September, we're still operating under the last budget put in place
by President Barack Obama.
This is still Obama's economy until September, and then Trump takes over.
That's how it works.
Furthermore, he won't take the blame when the stock market took a massive dive after
his response to Charlottesville, and he didn't take any blame whatsoever when the stock market
took a massive dive after his rally in Phoenix.
He did, however, take huge credit for the fact that the stock market reached an all-time
high two days in a row about a month ago.
See, the good things are always him.
The bad things are always someone else, and that is one of the hallmark traits of Donald
Trump's mental illness, which is known as narcissistic personality disorder.
Look in the DSM file, look at the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder, and
tell me that those couldn't be a biography of Donald Trump himself.
That's what we're dealing with.
It is a mental illness.
Does it make him unfit to lead?
A lot of people think so, but that would be up to a medical professional to fully give
that diagnosis.
I do not have a PhD, I will not issue my opinion on whether or not he should resign.
I do think, for the most part, that it is hindering him, obviously.
Donald Trump needs to understand that when you're in the highest office in the land,
everything is your fault.
That's how it was with Barack Obama.
Do you remember the Republicans?
Everything that happened in this country and, honestly, all over the world, was directly
the fault of President Obama.
The Black Lives Matter Movement, that was the fault of Barack Obama.
Cops shooting unarmed black people, that was also somehow Obama's fault.
When he first came to office, dealing with the recession that George W. Bush left him,
on day one, it was immediately Obama's fault, even though we were still operating under
that Bush budget.
Donald Trump won't accept any blame for anything.
Meanwhile, Obama got blamed for everything, including the things he had nothing to do
with, and he took it in stride.
He used it to make himself better and to try to make this country better.
He didn't sit there and whine on Twitter about people being unfair, the media being unfair,
even when they were calling him a Muslim Kenyan who lied about his birth certificate.
Both FOX News and Donald Trump himself made those claims, but he didn't piss and moan
and act like a child.
He got things done, and that's the difference between a real leader and what we have today.
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Trump's New Chief Of Staff Trying To Limit The President's Access To Fake News - Duration: 4:01.We're starting to get signs that the new White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, might actually
be trying to rein in Donald Trump at least a little bit.
Recently both Chief of Staff John Kelly and staff director Rob Porter both sent out memos
to members of the White House staff and everyone in the Cabinet, explaining how the new process
for giving information to Donald Trump is going to work.
Basically, John Kelly says that, "Anything you want to give to Donald Trump has to be
vetted by me first."
This includes information about executive orders Donald Trump wants to sign.
John Kelly wants to make sure that we get agency input on these, and yes, it's going
to slow the process down, but it's going to make sure that everybody has their input before
it's presented to Donald Trump.
Again, executive orders, any kind of military information, but most importantly, and the
part that seems to be overlooked in the reporting on this, is that John Kelly wants any news
articles that people want to give to the president, to go through him first.
What Kelly is trying to do here, is limit the president's access to real fake news.
Not CNN or Washington Post or New York Times, but news sources like Fox News or Breitbart
or Daily Caller.
He wants to make sure that the president isn't solely relying on those horrid news sources
that consistently report lies, likes that the president chooses to act on, he basis
policy around them.
Remember when he saw that documentary on Fox News about a military strike that happened
years ago?
He was ready to go start bombing people because he thought it was a current event.
John Kelly is trying to prevent the president from being so stupid, to put it in it's simplest
terms here.
Will that stop Donald Trump?
Absolutely not.
Donald Trump is still going to consume all of the Fox News and other fake news sources
that he wants to, but John Kelly just wants to make sure that staffers are not feeding
him this particular information.
We have seen in the past, that staffers are handing Donald Trump the so called fake news
stories, they're more positive and they tend to paint the president in a better light and
paint liberals in a very negative one, and that is what Donald Trump has based his entire
presidency on.
John Kelly, to his credit, is trying to tighten things up a little bit, maybe make Donald
Trump not so volatile and disliked among the American public.
The latest polls out this week show that his approval rating has dropped to 34%.
Again, the lowest that a president who is only seven months into their first term, has
ever received in this country.
At this point in his presidency he is the least popular president ever.
John Kelly hopes to change that, but unfortunately, stopping the flow of fake news or getting
more people to vet executive orders isn't going to do that, because 90% of what people
hate about Donald Trump is his brash, disgusting personality, and you can wall him off from
Breitbart and Fox News all you want, but it's not going to change the character of this
man, and that is the thing that most people in this country have such a problem with.
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Trump Officials Try To Rewrite Study To Make Renewable Energy Look Bad - Duration: 3:55.A few months ago, a draft version of the Department of Energy's energy grid study was released,
and it showed that everything that the Trump administration and Republicans had been saying
about renewable energy was completely false.
Renewable energy was not overloading our power grids.
It was not taking up space that could be better spent on nuclear energy or coal firepower
plants.
In fact, that report showed that our energy grid today, even with renewable energy growing
at an exponential rate, is stronger than ever.
Obviously, Rick Perry, the Secretary of Energy, along with Donald Trump and the other Republicans
in the administration ... They weren't happy that this report showed how well renewable
energy was doing, and how much market share was gaining, and how much stronger our electrical
grid in the United States was because of it.
So, before the final draft of this report came out, which was this past Wednesday evening,
Rick Perry and his Department of Energy took it upon themselves to rewrite those flattering
things about renewable energy and make the entire study about how horrible renewable
energy is, and how it is killing coal, killing nuclear, and killing our electrical grid in
the United States.
There's just one problem.
They didn't delete all of the information that they wanted to delete, so the statements
that they did take out, where they were saying that renewable energy was beneficial, that
it was good for the power grid, and that the power grid was strong ... They took those
out.
They took out the part that said that renewable energy is not killing coal or nuclear, and
that renewable energy subsidies are not hurting those industries.
But later on in the report, those points were echoed again, and I guess poor, little Rick
Perry didn't think to read through the whole thing.
And so those statements got left in, directly contradicting what they had already taken
out, and rewritten.
The bottom line is this: Rick Perry came from Texas.
He was an oil guy.
Oil put him in office.
Oil funded his campaigns, and he thinks that he can go to be the Secretary of Energy, and
just rewrite everything to make it look like renewable, solar, and wind are actually somehow
hurting the United States, when in reality it's the coal companies.
It's the oil companies.
It's the dirty energy polluters who are overloading our power grid, who are unable to keep up
with demand, and who do not understand that the rest of the world is evolving, and the
United States has to evolve with it.
Rick Perry is not evolving, and believe me, he needs to.
But this little snafu with their report, where they tried to be sneaky and show the public
that renewable energy is bad, just proves at how stupid they are because they are so
dumb that they can't even successfully sabotage their own paper, because they didn't bother
to continue reading the entire thing.
That's the level of stupid that we are dealing with with this Trump administration, and until
we get them removed from office, it's going to be more stories like this.
It's going to be more instances of pure, brain dead stupidity from people like Rick Perry
and Donald Trump, because going full stupid is the only thing they know how
to do.
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Staffer In Charge Of Finding Positive Trump News Stories Resigns From White House - Duration: 3:43.A few weeks ago, we did a story about a man named Andy Hemming, the 31 year old Donald
Trump staffer whose job it was to gather mainstream media articles about Donald Trump that were
positive and then present them to the President twice a day for Donald Trump to get his, I
guess, twice daily dose of feel-good-isms.
Well, on Wednesday of this week, Mr. Hemming decided that he couldn't do this anymore,
and he officially resigned from Donald Trump's staff.
His official title was Director of Rapid Response for the White House Communications Team, and
in addition to feeding the President positive news stories about himself, he was also supposed
to communicate with members of the mainstream media, CNN, Washington Post, credible news
sources like that, and tell them all the good things that the President had accomplished
so that maybe these news outlets that Donald Trump was attacking relentlessly every single
day would go out there and report a positive story about the man who claims that these
news outlets are just fake news.
Obviously it didn't go to well, so, though we don't have a huge, in depth reason that
Mr. Hemming decided to resign his position in the White House, that leaves it open for
speculation.
So if part of your job is gathering up positive news stories about Donald Trump and then you
suddenly resign, maybe it's because there are no positive news stories about Donald
Trump because he hasn't done anything positive.
If the other part of your job is telling the media the positive things he does and then
you resign, we can only assume it's because you have nothing positive left to say to these
people.
It must have been tiring going to these news outlets that Donald Trump demonizes on Twitter
and during rallies every single day and saying, "Hey, look, I know he just tweeted out a picture
of you getting hit by a train, but would you consider running this story about how great
he did at the golf course today?"
I can imagine that's going to get pretty frustrating pretty quick, and I can also imagine that
the, uh, media outlets probably had some not so friendly words for Mr. Hemming anytime
he pitched them a story about this man-baby of a President that we have, that only wants
to see positive stories about himself but doesn't understand that in order for people
to write positive stories, you have to actually do good things.
Mr. Hemming's job was solely to play to Donald Trump's narcissistic personality disorder.
That is what this is all about, that is what his position was all about, and hopefully
Mr. Hemming started to realize that, especially once the press started paying attention to
who he was, what he was doing, and the fact that he was making just shy of $90,000 a year
to hand Donald Trump a folder full of positive news stories.
Maybe that pressure got to him a bit.
Maybe the public scrutiny was a little too much.
But I'm going to go with he probably left his job because there was nothing positive
left to say or even lie about with regards to Donald Trump.
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