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  1. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 28, 2020 – Trump tweeted, then deleted, a video that showed a supporter of his shouting “white power” at anti-Trump protesters at The Villages, a Florida retirement community. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” he wrote in his tweet.

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

  2. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 23, 2020 – Trump’s family filed a petition to block the publication of a tell-all book by Mary L. Trump, the president’s niece. Trump said Mary Trump was “not allowed” to write the book because of a nondisclosure agreement she signed in 2001.

    The book’s subtitle calls her uncle “the world’s most dangerous man.”

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

  3. #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

  4. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    June 14, 2020 – Trump testily defended himself after videos shot at West Point showed him tentatively walking down a ramp and struggling to drink from a glass of water.

    Though the day was sunny and hot, Trump tweeted that the ramp was “very slippery.”

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

  5. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    May 3, 2020 – The coronavirus death toll could reach 100,000, Trump said during a Fox News town hall broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial. The figure was double the estimate he predicted only two weeks earlier. Nevertheless, he said the country should still reopen its economy.

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

  6. #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

  7. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 23, 2020 – Prompting widespread alarm, Trump speculated about ingesting or injecting disinfectants to fight the coronavirus. “Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that,” he said at his daily briefing.

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

  8. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 15, 2020 – As a result of waiting for months to obtain N95 respirator masks, the Trump administration paid companies $5 per mask — almost eight times what the price was earlier in the year.

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

  9. #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

  10. #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

  11. #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

  12. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 14, 2020 – Trump said that he would cut off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization, claiming that the WHO engaged in a coverup of the outbreak in its early days in China. “We have not been treated properly,” he said of the organization.

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

  13. #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

  14. #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

  15. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 12, 2018 – Former FBIDirector James Comey published a book on his time in the Trump administration, calling Trump “unethical” and “untethered to the truth and institutional values.” In response to Comey’s publication, Trump tweeted that Comey was “a proven LEAKER & LIAR,” in addition to “weak” and an “untruthful slime ball.”

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

  16. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 12, 2019 – Trump said he was considering placing undocumented immigrants in sanctuary cities to retaliate against the “Radical Left.” ICE’s legal department had rejected the proposal in February.

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

  17. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 12, 2020 – “Time to #FireFauci” read a message that Trump retweeted after the nation’s top infectious disease expert said fewer Americans would have died had the country gone under lockdown earlier. Trump didn’t only go after Fauci; in a series of tweets, he condemned, China, the World Health Organization, and President Obama.

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

  18. #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

  19. #FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 11, 2020 – Trump refused to help the U.S. Postal Service, arguing that it needed to raise its rates for Amazon and other private shippers. If the $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill contained any money to help the USPS, Trump said that he would veto the act, according to an administration official.

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

  20. #SevenYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 9, 2018 – The FBI raided Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s office in New York City. While the likely impetus for the raid was an ongoing legal battle with adult film star Stormy Daniels, the raid was likely approved by Rod Rosenstein—who was also overseeing the Robert Mueller investigation.

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

  21. #SixYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

    April 9, 2019 – Trump repeated a false claim he made in 2018 that the Obama administration was responsible for child-separating policies at the border. Trump said his own administration put an end to them.

    It was Trump, however, who created the zero-tolerance policy.

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

  22. #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

  23. #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

  24. #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