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1. Comey Hearing Adds to Chaos of Trump Presidency: A Closer Look (2017-03-20) 1,268,749 views Late Night with Seth Meyers – “Seth takes a closer look at the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the presidential election, and President Trump’s wiretapping claims.” |
1. FBI Director Comey: No evidence to support Trump’s tweets on wiretapping (2017-03-20) 8,100 views Fox Business – “FBI Director James Comey says at a House Intelligence Committee hearing that he has no information that supports claims by President Donald Trump that he was wiretapped by former President Barack Obama.” |
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2. Trump Lies on Twitter During a Congressional Hearing on His Twitter Lies: The Daily Show (2017-03-20) 885,724 views The Daily Show with Trevor Noah – “While the FBI and NSA clear Barack Obama on Donald Trump’s baseless wiretapping charges, the president takes to Twitter to push more blatant falsehoods.” |
2. FBI confirms probe into possible collusion between Trump campaign and Russia (2017-03-20) 2,998 views Fox Business – “GOP strategist Ford O’Connell, The Daily Caller News Foundation editor-in-chief Christopher Bedford and Rasmussen Reports politics analyst Amy Holmes discuss FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on Capitol Hill regarding Russia’s possible involvement in the U.S. election.” |
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3. Watch Live: House hearing on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election (2017-03-20) 499,008 views PBS NewsHour – “The House intelligence committee is to begin hearings Monday into Russia’s role in cybersecurity breaches at the Democratic National Committee, as well as President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor had authorized a wiretap of Trump Tower. FBI Director James Comey and Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, are slated to testify.” |
3. FBI Russia investigation distracting Trump from agenda timeline? (2017-03-21) 2,802 views Fox Business – “The Sheridan Group’s Kevin Sheridan on President Trump’s agenda and the political fallout from the FBI’s probe into allegations of ties between Russia and the Trump administration.” |
* Erik’s Editorial: Donald Trump bans migrants from 6 countries (too Muslim), Erik Heels bans Fox News (too conservative) and The Young Turks (too liberal), Why Trump needs pets (2017-03-08)
Day 48 of Donald Trump, the 45th and worst President of the United States.
By Erik J. Heels
First published 3/8/2017; FailedPols.com; publisher: GiantPeople.
Muslim Ban 2.0
On 03/06/17, Donald Trump issued (minus the photo op and speech) his Muslim ban 2.0 as Executive Order 13780 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by_Donald_Trump). What puzzles me about most of Trump’s executive orders is that it is easy to figure out who is HARMED by the order (those from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen), but it is very difficult to figure out who BENEFITS from the order. Racists? White supremacists? The alt-right? All of the above? You tell me.
In any event, Hawaii has already sued, seeing a temporary restraining order (TRO) before the executive order goes into effect on 03/16/17 (http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/hawaii-travel-ban-lawsuit/).
Erik Heels seeks to moderate the Failed Pols project
It is extraordinarily difficult to get principled content on political issues. Since I started the Failed Pols project (https://www.failblog.com/), I have been consuming a lot of news from many sources in a multitude of formats.
But one day after Trump’s latest “travel ban,” I felt compelled to block (i.e. unsubscribe from) both Fox News (https://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel) and The Young Turks (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks) for being too far right and left, respectively. Fox News and The Young Turks are guilty of the same sin (albeit on different ends of the political spectrum), namely sensationalizing and trivializing the news for ratings.
It should come as no surprise that Fox News focuses on entertainment instead of substance, since it is part of the Fox Entertainment Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News). But the real problem with Fox is that is has no real competition on the right. So Fox News focuses on short pithy segments designed for the short-attention-span market. Notably, there are no hour-long news programs on Fox. (NB both the BBC Newshour and the PBS NewsHour on the left.)
And The Young Turks does the same thing from the left.
So in an attempt to keep the coverage – shall we say – fair and balanced, I’ll be cutting out two of the most extreme viewpoints.
Why Trump Needs Pets
Trump strikes me as a mean-spirited individual. One who appears to have lied, cheated, and stolen his way to the top (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump).
So when I was thinking about the caring people that I know, it occurred to me that most (if not all) of them have pets. And it turns out that the former Presidents of the United States in the top quartile had, on average, 10 pets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets). In fact, all but one former POTUS (Polk) have owned pets.
So maybe that’s why Trump lacks compassion for human beings.
