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  1. May 17, 2017 – Speaking to graduating cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard, Donald Trump said about himself , “No politician—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

  2. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Speaking to graduating cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard, Donald Trump said about himself , “No politician—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  3. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Speaking to graduating cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard, Donald Trump said about himself , “No politician—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  4. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Speaking to graduating cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard, Donald Trump said about himself , “No politician—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  5. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Speaking to graduating cadets of the U.S. Coast Guard, Donald Trump said about himself , “No politician—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse or more unfairly.”

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  6. May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.

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  7. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  8. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.

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    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  9. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.

    1/2

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  10. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Shortly before Donald Trump took office, Michael Flynn discouraged White House officials from pursuing a U.S. military operation against the Islamic State which would have paired the United States with Kurdish forces.

    1/2

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  11. May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.

    Trump appointed him anyway.

  12. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.

    Trump appointed him anyway.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  13. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.

    Trump appointed him anyway.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  14. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.

    Trump appointed him anyway.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  15. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 17, 2017 – Before Donald Trump hired Michael Flynn as national security adviser, Flynn had told President Trump that he was under investigation for remunerated lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government.

    Trump appointed him anyway.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  16. May 16, 2017 – A company called Summerbreeze LLC took out a $3.5 million mortgage on Paul Manafort’s home in Bridgehampton, New York.

    The company never filed the paperwork with Suffolk County to indicate who was accountable for the multimillion-dollar mortgage, nor did the company pay the $36,000 in taxes incurred by the agreement.

  17. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2017 – A company called Summerbreeze LLC took out a $3.5 million mortgage on Paul Manafort’s home in Bridgehampton, New York.

    The company never filed the paperwork with Suffolk County to indicate who was accountable for the multimillion-dollar mortgage, nor did the company pay the $36,000 in taxes incurred by the agreement.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  18. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2017 – A company called Summerbreeze LLC took out a $3.5 million mortgage on Paul Manafort’s home in Bridgehampton, New York.

    The company never filed the paperwork with Suffolk County to indicate who was accountable for the multimillion-dollar mortgage, nor did the company pay the $36,000 in taxes incurred by the agreement.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  19. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2017 – A company called Summerbreeze LLC took out a $3.5 million mortgage on Paul Manafort’s home in Bridgehampton, New York.

    The company never filed the paperwork with Suffolk County to indicate who was accountable for the multimillion-dollar mortgage, nor did the company pay the $36,000 in taxes incurred by the agreement.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  20. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 16, 2017 – A company called Summerbreeze LLC took out a $3.5 million mortgage on Paul Manafort’s home in Bridgehampton, New York.

    The company never filed the paperwork with Suffolk County to indicate who was accountable for the multimillion-dollar mortgage, nor did the company pay the $36,000 in taxes incurred by the agreement.

    #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  21. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 12, 2017 – After Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sean Spicer, and President Trump each gave conflicting explanations for Trump’s decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump tweeted, “As a very active President with many things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy.”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  22. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 12, 2017 – Donald Trump tweeted, “James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

    After the tweet, Comey was quoted saying, “Lordy, I hope there are tapes.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  23. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 11, 2017 – In a televised interview, Donald Trump admitted that he had the Russia investigation in mind when he fired FBI Director Comey.

    He said, “And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, said to myself, I said: This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  24. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 11, 2017 – Donald Trump signed an executive order to form a task force that would review purported voter fraud.

    Despite not having evidence to prove his claim that millions of people voted illegally, he returned to the issues of voter registrations and “election integrity” repeatedly.

    Trump’s ongoing argument about illegal voting has been widely discredited.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  25. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 10, 2017 – In the Oval Office, Donald Trump told the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador to the United States, “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job… I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  26. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 9, 2017 – Dan Heyman, a West Virginian journalist, was arrested after questioning Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price about how the proposed health care bill would affect victims of domestic violence.

    In the aftermath of the healthcare bill’s introduction, Secretary Price had barred press access whenever questions about health care might be raised.

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    #TrumpMustGo #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  27. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – The EPA announced it would not renew terms of employment for half of the scientists on its advisory board.

    These academics consulted the federal government on the scientific foundations and implications of new legislation.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  28. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – White House advisers began drafting an executive order which would unilaterally withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

    In an attempt to rescue NAFTA, White House officials broke with custom and called the office of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau directly, requesting that he convince Donald Trump to reconsider.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  29. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – In a legal brief defending Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering “government purpose” when assessing a law’s constitutionality.

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    #TrumpMustGo #DejaVu #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  30. May 8, 2017 – In a legal brief defending Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering “government purpose” when assessing a law’s constitutionality.

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  31. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – In a legal brief defending Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering “government purpose” when assessing a law’s constitutionality.

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    #TrumpMustGo #DejaVu #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  32. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – In a legal brief defending Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering “government purpose” when assessing a law’s constitutionality.

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    #TrumpMustGo #DejaVu #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  33. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 8, 2017 – In a legal brief defending Donald Trump’s travel ban, the Justice Department cited Palmer v. Thompson, a segregation-era court case which restricted judges from considering “government purpose” when assessing a law’s constitutionality.

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    #TrumpMustGo #DejaVu #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  34. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 6, 2017 – Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, solicited investments from Chinese business owners by promising American visas in return.

    An ad for her event in China read, “Invest $500,000 and immigrate to the United States.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  35. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 4, 2017 – House Republicans narrowly passed a healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

    In response, Donald Trump held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to celebrate what had been his only major legislative victory to date.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  36. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 2, 2017 – Donald Trump referred to the system of checks and balances between the legislative and executive branches as an “archaic” system.

    He followed this statement by claiming, “Maybe at some point we’ll have to take those rules on, because, for the good of the nation, things are going to have to be different.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  37. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 2, 2017 – Donald Trump appointed Teresa Manning, a former anti-abortion activist, to lead Title X for the Department of Human and Health Services—a program that allocates funding for family planning to America’s low-income citizens.

    Teresa Manning was a lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee, the nation’s oldest and largest pro-life organization.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  38. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 2, 2017 – Donald Trump tweeted that the country “needs a good ‘shutdown’,” and argued that Senate rules should be change in order to lower the number of votes needed to break a filibuster.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  39. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 2, 2017 – During a CNN interview at a Women for Women International event in New York, Hillary Clinton blamed her election loss on a Russian meddling, a flawed candidacy, and FBI Director James Comey’s surprise announcement that the Bureau would investigate her emails just days before the election.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  40. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 1, 2017 – In an interview on Sirius Radio, Donald Trump praised Andrew Jackson as having “a big heart.”

    Andrew Jackson infamously enacted the Trail of Tears, which forced 17,000 Cherokees to walk across the country and resulted in thousands of deaths.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  41. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 1, 2017 – The Department of Agriculture terminated Obama-era standards supporting healthy school lunches.

    Among initiatives eliminated were rules to lower sodium content in lunches and limit consumption of high-calorie chocolate milk.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  42. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 1, 2017 – Donald Trump ended an interview when pressed for evidence to support his claim that Obama had illegally ordered surveillance of Trump Tower during the 2016 election.

    Responding to follow-ups from the reporter asking for proof, Trump said, “I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions. OK, it’s enough. Thank you.”

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  43. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 1, 2017 – The Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. received $30,000 from groups promoting Turkish-American relations as part of a convention at the Trump property.

    Among the attendees were the Turkish Ambassador and a high-level U.S. official.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  44. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 30, 2017 – Donald Trump invited Rodrigo Duterte, the authoritarian leader of the Philippines, to visit the White House.

    Duterte’s regime had carried out extrajudicial killings of drug users and drug dealers, garnering global condemnation. As of January 2018, Human Rights Watch had counted over 12,000 such murders’.

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    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  45. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 29, 2017 – In a televised interview after North Korea launched a missile test, Donald Trump left the possibility of taking military action against the country open.

    When asked about possible military response to another nuclear test, Trump said, “I don’t know, I mean, we’ll see.”!

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  46. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 29, 2017 – On Face the Nation, Donald Trump falsely suggested the new Republican healthcare bill, called the American Health Care Act, would protect health insurance for those with pre-existing conditions.

    The most recent draft of the legislation contained no such stipulation.

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  47. #NineYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 28, 2017 – The Environmental Protection Agency removed or altered all information about climate change on its website.

    The EPA claimed that this update sought to “reflect the approach of new leadership.”

    #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol