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  1. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    March 21, 2020 – Trump endorsed the combination of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, to treat coronavirus—despite a lack of testing or backing by the FDA.

    In fact, respected medical professionals warned that taking the drugs together could be dangerous.

    #Quacks #AgentKrasnov #ArrestTrump #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #USPol

  2. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    February 27, 2017 – In his first budget proposal, Donald Trump boosted defense and security spending by $54 billion.

    He proposed slashing the budget for non-defense spending in areas like education, science, poverty programs, and environmental protection by almost the same amount.

    #AgentKrasnov #ImpeachTrumpNow #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  3. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    The new Texas voter I.D. law has long garnered criticism for imposing hurdles which disproportionately affect minority voters.

    In August of 2017, a federal judge granted a permanent injunction against the I.D. law, ruling that lawmakers had created it with discriminatory intent.

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    #AgentKrasnov #ImpeachTrumpNow #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  4. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    Sessions has a history of favoring controversial views surrounding voter identity, once going so far as to say the Voting Rights Act—the landmark piece of federal legislation which protected equal voting rights for minority Americans—was “an intrusive act.”

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    #AgentKrasnov #ImpeachTrumpNow #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  5. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    February 27, 2017 – The Justice Department dropped its long-standing claim that a Texas voter I.D. law discriminated against black and Latino voters. The announcement ended a 6-year period of opposition against the I.D. law, indicating the DoJ’s new priorities under Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration.

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    #AgentKrasnov #ImpeachTrumpNow #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  6. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    February 27, 2018 – After special counsel Robert Mueller filed 24 charges of tax and bank fraud against him, Richard Gates, the former deputy chairman of Trump’s campaign, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of making a false statement to investigators.

    #AgentKrasnov #ImpeachTrumpNow #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  7. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 20, 2019 – Mark Galli, editor in chief of Christianity Today, called for Trump’s removal from office based on the president’s “moral deficiencies.” In a harshly worded tweet, Trump slammed the conservative publication as a “far left magazine.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentMusk #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  8. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 20, 2020 – Trump’s campaign filed a new petition with the Supreme Court, seeking to overturn Pennsylvania’s election results — despite the fact that the state had already certified Joe Biden as the winner of its Electoral College votes.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentMusk #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #RepublicansDidThis #WeirdGOP #USPol

  9. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 19, 2020 – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Russia was “pretty clearly” responsible for a massive cyber attack on the U.S. government, but Trump instead suggested that China was behind it. “Everything is well under control,” the president said, downplaying the cybersecurity breach. It was his latest refusal to find fault with anything that might lay blame at the feet of the Russian government.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #WeirdGOP #USPol

  10. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 18, 2019 – After weeks of hearings, Trump became only the third president to be impeached in U.S. history. He tweeted: “THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON AMERICA, AND AN ASSAULT ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!!”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  11. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 18, 2020 – Chris Miller, Trump’s acting Defense secretary, ordered the Pentagon to stop working with Joe Biden’s transition team. Miller later said that both sides would meet again after “the mutually agreed-upon holiday,” but Biden transition director Yohannes Abraham said, “Let me be clear: there was no mutually agreed-upon holiday break.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #WeirdGOP #USPol

  12. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 17, 2019 – Trump sent Nancy Pelosi a scathing six-page letter denouncing the impeachment effort as “an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power.” Those accused in the Salem witch trials, he said, were afforded more due process than he was.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  13. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 17, 2019 – Although Marie Yovanovitch’s colleagues praised her professionalism, Rudy Giuliani tweeted that the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine who testified against Trump was removed from her post because she “was OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE and that’s not the only thing she was doing. She at minimum enabled Ukranian collusion.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #WeirdGOP #USPol

  14. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 15, 2020 – As the Biden administration prepared to take office in five weeks, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told employees in her department to “be the resistance.” Following the lead of a president who has refused to concede the election, she said, “Let me leave you with this plea: Resist.”

    #BetsyDeVos #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #WeirdGOP #USPol

  15. December 15, 2020 – As the Biden administration prepared to take office in five weeks, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told employees in her department to “be the resistance.” Following the lead of a president who has refused to concede the election, she said, “Let me leave you with this plea: Resist.”

  16. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 15, 2020 – As the Biden administration prepared to take office in five weeks, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told employees in her department to “be the resistance.” Following the lead of a president who has refused to concede the election, she said, “Let me leave you with this plea: Resist.”

    #BetsyDeVos #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #WeirdGOP #USPol

  17. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 15, 2020 – As the Biden administration prepared to take office in five weeks, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told employees in her department to “be the resistance.” Following the lead of a president who has refused to concede the election, she said, “Let me leave you with this plea: Resist.”

    #BetsyDeVos #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #WeirdGOP #USPol

  18. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 15, 2020 – As the Biden administration prepared to take office in five weeks, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told employees in her department to “be the resistance.” Following the lead of a president who has refused to concede the election, she said, “Let me leave you with this plea: Resist.”

    #BetsyDeVos #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #WeirdGOP #USPol

  19. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 15, 2020 – Trump and the Republican National Committee asked people to donate to a “Georgia Election Fund” for Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler’s campaigns. But the fine print of their fundraising emails reveals that most of the money will go to Save America, Trump’s political action committee.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #WeirdGOP #USPol

  20. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 14, 2017 – For all official documents, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were instructed not to use the terms “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “fetus,” “evidence-based,” or “science-based.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  21. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 13, 2017 – White House adviser Omarosa Manigault-Newman left her position in Donald Trump’s administration, amid a swirl of speculation about the cause for her departure. She later said, “It has been very, very challenging being the only African American woman in the senior staff.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  22. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    Trump tweeted: “Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  23. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 13, 2020 – Trump said he would continue to challenge the result of the election, regardless of the Supreme Court’s rejection of a last-minute attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. “No, it’s not over,” he said on Fox & Friends Weekend. “We keep going.” On Twitter, he repeated his baseless claim that he won the election, writing, “MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY!”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #WeirdGOP #USPol

  24. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 13, 2020 – The Trump administration planned to distribute the coronavirus vaccine to its staff — at a time when front-line health care workers were given priority for early doses. Trump, though, reversed the policy hours after it was reported by the New York Times.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  25. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 11, 2018 – If Congress refused to provide funding for construction of his border wall, Trump told Democratic lawmakers that he would be “proud” to shut down the government. “I’ll be the one to shut it down,” he said. “I will take the mantle.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  26. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 11, 2020 – The Trump administration carried out its ninth of 13 planned federal executions — the first federal executions since 2003.

    Trump will have executed more inmates than any other president in more than 130 years. Grover Cleveland, in the 1890s, was the last president to carry out executions during a presidential transition.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #WeirdGOP #USPol

  27. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 11, 2020 – A lawsuit suit filed in the Supreme Court argued on behalf of Trump that the election was “riddled with an unprecedented number of serious allegations of fraud and irregularities.” The court, however, rejected the suit in a terse, unsigned order.

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    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #WeirdGOP #USPol

  28. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 10, 2020 – Rebuffed by courts and state lawmakers, Trump called Republican members of Congress in a last-ditch effort to reverse the election. Mike Pence also made calls to lawmakers on the president’s behalf, as did Rudy Giuliani, who was in the hospital with the coronavirus.

    washingtonpost.com/politics/tr

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #WeirdGOP #USPol

  29. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 8, 2020 – Another of Trump’s personal lawyers, Jenna Ellis, tested positive for the coronavirus — four days after attending a Christmas party where she mingled with other guests while not wearing a mask.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  30. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 8, 2020 – Trump twice called Bryan Cutler, the Pennsylvania Speaker of the House, in an effort to overturn the election result.

    Cutler, however, told Trump that he did not have that authority. The Supreme Court then denied a request by the president’s allies to overturn Pennsylvania’s election results.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #WeirdGOP #USPol

  31. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 7, 2018 – A seven-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.

    After the death of Jakelin Caal Maquin was made public, a White House spokesman said, “Does the administration take responsibility for a parent taking a child on a trek through Mexico to get to this country? No.”

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #PresidentChump #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #WeirdGOP #USPol

  32. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    December 7, 2020 – The Trump administration, led by a man who for decades has boasted of his skills as a dealmaker, turned down a chance to secure more doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.

    The failure to make a deal with the pharmaceutical giant gave other countries the chance to get in line ahead of the United States, acquiring doses from the American company before the United States could.

    #ChumpDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #WeirdGOP #USPol

  33. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    November 19, 2017 – Donald Trump publicly feuded with LaVar Ball, who is the father of a UCLA basketball player, after Ball’s son was arrested for shoplifting in China during a team trip. Trump reportedly called Chinese President Xi Jin Ping and requested LaVar Ball’s son’s release.

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    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #WeirdGOP #USPol

  34. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    November 19, 2018 – Ivanka Trump used a personal email account for hundreds of government-related emails — “many of them in violation of federal records rules,” the Washington Post reported. When running for president, her father infamously lashed out at Hillary Clinton for using a private server for government business, leading
    chants of “lock her up.”

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #NoRepublicansEverAgain #WeirdGOP #USPol

  35. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    November 19, 2020 – Trump officials refused to brief President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team about its plans to distribute a coronavirus vaccine — despite projections showing that the virus death toll could reach 400,000 by February.

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  36. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    Of that money, the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, was paid $747,622 in consulting fees in 2017 while she was actually an executive officer of Trump’s companies. The offices of the Manhattan district attorney and the New York state attorney general issued subpoenas to the Trump Organization in both investigations.

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    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain

  37. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    This indicated a conflict of interest that could have violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids government officials from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  38. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    One diplomat told the Washington Post, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’”

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    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  39. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    November 18, 2016 – Even though he said he would not settle the case, Donald Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle his Trump University fraud lawsuits. The real estate seminar program was not an accredited university and used misleading marketing tactics to recruit students.

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol