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Tag: Accountable Leaders

Caricature of Donald Trump

Our country is accepting the unacceptable

December 11th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

“Slowly, gradually, but inexorably, our country is accepting the unacceptable. We thought we had a consensus about basic norms that protect freedom and self-government. That consensus has been swept away by Republican partisans who value political power over the constitutional liberties they have always claimed to revere above everything else.”

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Rudy Guiliani & Associates

Rudy Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens

October 25th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

In the call, “Giuliani can be heard discussing overseas dealings and lamenting the need for cash, though it’s difficult to discern the full context of the conversation,” NBC’s Rich Schapiro reports.

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Nancy Pelosi confronts Donald Trump

This photo of Nancy Pelosi *literally* standing up to Donald Trump is everything

October 16th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

This is one of the most striking photos of the Trump error.

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Caricature of Donald Trump

Politico’s Jack Shafer: Trump won’t be able to tweet his way out of his deepening problems

October 7th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

“Trump’s old techniques are failing — and not just due to the volume of the bad news,” Shafer says.

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Donald Trump in Arizona

‘Total panic’ as ‘shell-shocked’ White House struggles to find impeachment footing

September 29th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

While many in the Trump White House are battle-tested from the Mueller investigation, this is starting to feel different, aides and advisers told NBC News.

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John Lewis speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Civil rights icon John Lewis: It’s time for impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump

September 24th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

WATCH: Georgia Democratic Representative John Lewis takes to the House floor to call for the beginning of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.

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Outspin. Outlast. Presenting.... Survivor: (Trump's) White House -- Updated with More Departures

John Bolton leaves the Trump regime

September 10th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Open Government

Another rat flees the sinking ship.

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WTF News: We Televise Fear

Trump had better be careful about hate-tweeting Fox

August 29th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Media & Culture, Open Government

Donald Trump may think he doesn’t need Fox Noise Channel. But he does. He needs Fox even more than they need him. After all, they’re a media outlet, and they can always turn on a dime and go back to having an adversarial relationship with the President.

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Matt Shea at a rally for guns

Revealed: Matt Shea aided group training young men for ‘biblical warfare’

August 14th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Civil Liberties, Core Topics, Open Government

Archconservative Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told The Guardian that “it almost sounds like going back to the Hitler Youth concept”.

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Caricature of Donald Trump

Baltimore Sun editorial board trashes Trump: “Better to have a few rats than to be one”

July 29th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

The Baltimore Sun isn’t having any of Trump’s despicable attacks on Representative Elijah Cummings or Maryland’s 7th District.

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Inside a party with Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

Birds of a feather flock together: Newly unearthed video shows Trump and Epstein partying together in ’92

July 18th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

Via NBC News, this is quite the find: “Newly found footage from NBC News’ archives shows Donald Trump apparently talking about women with Jeffrey Epstein, now a registered sex offender, at a party at Mar-a-Lago in November 1992.”

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Detainees mistreated by the Trump regime

Inspector General finds detainees ‘standing on toilets’ for room at packed border facility

May 31st, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

The Trump regime’s un-American conduct continues to reach disgusting, horrific depths.

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Robert Mueller speaks

Robert Mueller announces resignation from the Department of Justice, comments publicly on his investigation

May 29th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

Robert Mueller has announced his resignation from the Department of Justice and commented publicly on the investigation he led as Special Counsel. Mueller’s complete statement can be watched here.

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Left Coast United in Defense of our American Values

Timothy Egan: The Left Coast is effectively opposing the Trump regime

May 10th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

“The West Coast is crushing it against Trump. Using the law to fight a bully, the Constitution to challenge an authoritarian, and facts against Fox News-driven fantasy, California, Oregon and Washington have stalled some of the most despicable of Trump’s retrograde policies.”

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Doug Ericksen with Cambodia's dictator

Cambodians who fled to Seattle ‘shocked’ as details emerge of Republican Doug Ericksen’s $500K deal with regime

May 6th, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government, World Community

Donald Trump booster and Tim Eyman pal Doug Ericksen has teamed up with disgraced former State Representative Jay Rodne to promote the interests of Cambodia’s authoritarian Hun Sen regime in the United States. The pair have a deal with the regime worth half a million dollars.

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A Republican apology

Corrupt, through and through: North Carolina Republican Chair indicted in probe

April 2nd, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government, Party Politics

“A federal grand jury has indicted the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and a major Republican campaign donor on conspiracy and bribery charges,” The Charlotte Observer reports.

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Mike Simpson, Republican of Idaho

Idaho Republican: “If President Obama had done the national emergency, Republicans would have gone crazy”

March 3rd, 2019 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

Mike Simpson, a long-serving member of the United States House of Representative, has publicly acknowledged the party’s “IOKIYAR” double standard. 

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Caricature of Donald Trump

Trump blows off ceremonial presidential duties so he can sulk in the White House

November 14th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Elections, Open Government

Trump may project confidence through social media or when he appears in public, but it’s apparent that behind the scenes, he’s not feeling confident at all.

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Outspin. Outlast. Presenting.... Survivor: (Trump's) White House -- Updated with More Departures

Trial balloon or imminent news? Trump is preparing to remove Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security secretary, aides say

November 12th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

The Washington Post reports that Trump may want yet another member of his Cabinet to pack their bags and get lost.

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Paul Volcker

Paul Volcker, at ninety-one, sees ‘a hell of a mess in every direction’

October 23rd, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

“The central issue is we’re developing into a plutocracy… We’ve got an enormous number of enormously rich people that have convinced themselves that they’re rich because they’re smart and constructive. And they don’t like government, and they don’t like to pay taxes.”

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After publicly cursing out her son, Pam Roach blames Democratic activists for her behavior

October 11th, 2018 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Open Government

The Pam Roach Show is back, starring the incredibly obnoxious Pam Roach, who nicely epitomizes the Washington State Republican Party.

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