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  1. May 16, 2018 – The Senate judiciary committee released 2,500 pages of testimony with Donald Trump Jr. and top aides who met with Russian delegates at Trump Tower in 2016, providing evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

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  2. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2018 – The Senate judiciary committee released 2,500 pages of testimony with Donald Trump Jr. and top aides who met with Russian delegates at Trump Tower in 2016, providing evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  3. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2018 – The Senate judiciary committee released 2,500 pages of testimony with Donald Trump Jr. and top aides who met with Russian delegates at Trump Tower in 2016, providing evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  4. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2018 – The Senate judiciary committee released 2,500 pages of testimony with Donald Trump Jr. and top aides who met with Russian delegates at Trump Tower in 2016, providing evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  5. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2018 – The Senate judiciary committee released 2,500 pages of testimony with Donald Trump Jr. and top aides who met with Russian delegates at Trump Tower in 2016, providing evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  6. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2018 – Donald Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 agreement reached by seven countries after more than two years of negotiations.

    The deal granted billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement not to develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.

    The United States reimposed pre-deal sanctions on Iran.

    #TrumpMustGo #Iran #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  7. April 2, 2018 – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from a lobbying firm called William & Jensen, paying $50 per day for the space (well below market rate according to the New York Times).

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  8. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 2, 2018 – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from a lobbying firm called William & Jensen, paying $50 per day for the space (well below market rate according to the New York Times).

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    #ScottPruitt #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  9. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 2, 2018 – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from a lobbying firm called William & Jensen, paying $50 per day for the space (well below market rate according to the New York Times).

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    #ScottPruitt #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  10. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 2, 2018 – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from a lobbying firm called William & Jensen, paying $50 per day for the space (well below market rate according to the New York Times).

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    #ScottPruitt #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  11. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 2, 2018 – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rented a condo from a lobbying firm called William & Jensen, paying $50 per day for the space (well below market rate according to the New York Times).

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    #ScottPruitt #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  12. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    March 8, 2018 – The AP reported that one-third of the 59 people appointed to the EPA by President Trump have direct ties to fossil fuel companies, either as registered lobbyists or as lawyers for chemical manufacturers.

    #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  13. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    March 2, 2018 – William G. Otis, Donald Trump’s appointee for the Sentencing Commission, which sets policy for punishing federal prisoners, has favored abolishing the agency.

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    #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  14. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    February 18, 2018 – In a tweet after the massacre in Parkland, Florida, President Trump said the FBI couldn’t capture the school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on the Russia Investigation.

    The statement was widely criticized, by everyone from Republican senators to survivors of the massacre.

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    #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  15. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    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.”

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    #TrumpKillsAmerica #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  16. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    November 24, 2017 – Donald Trump tweeted, “Time magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo-shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!”

    Time magazine eventually awarded Person of the Year to the women of the #MeToo movement.

    #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoFascism #USPol

  17. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    November 9, 2017 – The US Foreign Service lost an unprecedented number of diplomats during Trump’s first year in office.

    Three of the Foreign Service’s five career diplomats—the highest rank for a diplomat in the U.S.—left their post during Donald Trump’s first year.

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    #TrumpKillsAmerica #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  18. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    November 9, 2017 – While in Asia, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly called Elaine Duke, the acting head of the Department Homeland Security, to pressure her into denying residency permits for tens of thousands of Hondurans living in the U.S.

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    #TrumpKillsAmerica #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  19. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    November 8, 2017 – Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of his election to the presidency by tweeting about his victory.

    Below a photo of himself giving a thumbs-up, Trump wrote, “Congratulations to all of the “DEPLORABLES” and the millions of people who gave us a MASSIVE (304-227) Electoral College landslide victory!”

    #TrumpKillsAmerica #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  20. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    November 7, 2017 – Syria signed the Paris Agreement, an international accord to globally address climate change.

    This left the United States as the only country in the world to not agree to the environmental pact, after Donald Trump had withdrawn earlier in the year.

    #TrumpKillsAmerica #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  21. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 29, 2017 – Donald Trump attacked TV news host Mika Brzezinski on Twitter, saying he had once seen her when she was “badly bleeding from a face-lift.”

    #TrumpHatesWomen #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  22. June 27, 2017 – The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts.

    The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines “Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!” and “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS…EVEN ON TV!” Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.

  23. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 27, 2017 – The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts.

    The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines “Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!” and “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS…EVEN ON TV!” Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.

    #FakeTrump #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  24. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 27, 2017 – The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts.

    The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines “Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!” and “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS…EVEN ON TV!” Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.

    #FakeTrump #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  25. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 27, 2017 – The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts.

    The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines “Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!” and “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS…EVEN ON TV!” Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.

    #FakeTrump #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  26. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 27, 2017 – The Trump Organization framed a March 1, 2009 cover of Time magazine and hung it on the walls of at least five Trump resorts.

    The cover features Trump with his arms crossed beside the headlines “Donald Trump: The Apprentice is a television smash!” and “TRUMP IS HITTING ON ALL FRONTS…EVEN ON TV!” Time magazine has confirmed the cover is fake.

    #FakeTrump #ImpeachTrumpNow #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  27. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 26, 2017 – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke flew on a charter plane from Las Vegas to his hometown in Montana, which cost taxpayers $12,375.

    Zinke and his staff used private and military aircraft multiple times.

    #ImpeachTrumpNow #RyanZinke #RepublicansOwnItAll #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #NoFascism #USPol

  28. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 14, 2017 – Officials announced that Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller would investigate Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.

    This was part of Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  29. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 23, 2017 – Approaching the hundredth day of his presidency, Donald Trump took to Twitter to blame low approval ratings and the loss of the popular vote to Hillary Clinton on “fake news.”

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    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  30. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 16, 2017 – In response to marches around the nation demanding Donald Trump release his tax returns, Trump tweeted, “Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!”

    No evidence exists to suggest that protesters were paid to march.

    #ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

  31. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 14, 2017 – Donald Trump’s administration announced the White House would no longer disclose visitor logs.

    Without the logs, Trump and White House officials could hold private meetings without oversight on visitor identity or affiliation.

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  32. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 14, 2017 – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he believes the United States should withdraw from the Paris Agreement!, a global initiative to address climate change. Nearly 200 countries have signed onto the Agreement.

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    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  33. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 14, 2017 – Candice Jackson, the person responsible for investigating civil rights complaints for the Department of Education, once criticized Stanford University for “discriminatory programs” after finding the school had a tutoring program that offered study help to minorities.

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    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  34. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 14, 2017 – In the wake of Donald Trump’s travel ban and “extreme vetting” of certain foreign arrivals, demand for international travel to the United States plummeted.

    Tourism Economics, a travel analytics firm in Philadelphia, estimated 2017 would see 4.3 million fewer international visitors than the year before—resulting in lost revenue of $7.4 billion.

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  35. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 13, 2017 – Donald Trump and congressional Republicans eliminated the rule that enrolled all newly hired federal employees in an Individual Retirement Account.

    The rule, implemented by Barack Obama, was rolled back using the Congressional Review Act.

    #ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

  36. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 12, 2017 – Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rolled back Obama-era protections put in place to help students with student loan payments.

    The Department of Education offered no immediate replacement of the protections against default. In the eight years before DeVos’s repeal, 8.7 million Americans had defaulted on their student loans.

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #USPol

  37. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 12, 2017 – Budget director Mick Mulvaney said “letting people keep more of their money” is the most efficient way of allocating resources.

    According to Mulvaney, “wealth-transfers”—programs that redistribute money from rich to poor, such as food stamps and Medicaid—constitute “bad spending” and “misallocation of resources.”

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  38. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 11, 2017 – While discussing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapon attack, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons” during World War II.

    When reporters reminded Spicer that Hitler used chemical weapons to gas millions of Jews, Spicer replied, “he brought them into the Holocaust centers, I understand that.”

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #USPol

  39. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 11, 2017 – Donald Trump allegedly asked that FBI Director James Comey “get out”—that is, release publicly—the idea that the FBI was not investigating Trump.

    Trump added, “Because I have been very loyal to you, very loyal; we had that thing you know.”

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  40. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 8, 2017 – A U.S. Navy strike group moved in range of the Korean Peninsula as a show of military force.

    The gesture further escalated tensions bordering on brinkmanship between Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un.

    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  41. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 7, 2017 – The United States Department of Homeland Security ordered Twitter to reveal the private information of a Twitter user, because the anonymous user had been critical of Donald Trump and may have worked for the U.S. government.

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    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  42. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 7, 2017 – Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received an unprecedented level of personal security, including supervision by federal marshals, which cost taxpayers about $1 million dollars per month.

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    #TrumpKillsEverything #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

  43. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    March 28, 2017 – Donald Trump sought to slash $18 billion of federal funding from support for mental health, foreign aid, public housing, and other categories of discretionary funding.

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    #AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #ResistFascism #USPol