Monday, May 25, 2020

AMERICAN POLITICS - Trump's Actions on Government Watchdogs & Attacking Obama Again

"Trump’s ‘highly unusual’ politicization of government watchdogsPBS NewsHour 5/18/2020

OR 'No one has the right to challenge the Orange King.'

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SUMMARY:  President Trump has fired three Inspectors General recently [6 weeks], including State Department watchdog Steve Linick on Friday.  Two Democratic lawmakers say Linick was investigating a Saudi arms deal the White House fast-tracked.  Yamiche Alcindor talks to Joel Brenner, a former National Security Inspector General and Director of National Intelligence, about how politicizing the IG role is “all wrong.”




"Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump attacking Obama, and Obama speaking outPBS NewsHour 5/18/2020

The paranoid obsession by Trump and Republicans concerning Obama which I have come to believe is actually "A black man in the White House?!  It's the WHITE House, damn it!"

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SUMMARY:  NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including the escalating rhetorical war between President Trump and former President Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign strategy, and polarization and conspiracy theories related to the coronavirus pandemic.



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