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More like they outspent the GOP in publicly disclosed donations and legal contributions.

Nearly every elected Republican, with a few exceptions such as Sens. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) and Ben Sasse (Neb.), has been complicit or silent in the face of President Trump’s crazed and cruel political rise. Which means that nearly every future recruit to Trump skepticism could be termed a hypocrite. And God bless them all. Any serious, successful political movement welcomes converts rather than identifying heretics.

The current elected voices of this movement — Flake and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) — are heroes of sanity and principle. It is the substance of their critique, not the status of their careers, that matters. And their composite criticism is utterly damning: Americans have elected a president who is dangerously unstable, divisive, childish, nasty, deceptive, self-deluded, morally unfit, deeply unconservative and thus badly wrong on some of the largest issues of our time. Trump responded to this critique by coining another infantile nickname, feuding with a Gold Star widow and boasting about how smart he really is. In pressing the anti-Trump case, Trump is always the best witness.

Trump responded to this critique by coining another infantile nickname, feuding with a Gold Star widow and boasting about how smart he really is. In pressing the anti-Trump case, Trump is always the best witness.

Fox News spent 12 hours over 3 weeks on Harvey Weinstein but just 20 minutes over 7 months on Bill O'Reilly

President Duterte said he has been “demonized” by “fake news” about the alleged extrajudicial killings linked to his war on illegal drugs.

The President accused his political opponents of spreading such false information about the suspected drug-related killings, insisting he has never ordered any policeman to kill people.

“I have been demonized. And well, of course, I will assure you upon my oath as a lawyer and before God that some are true, some are not. And the extrajudicial tag that has been placed on me is simply not true,” Duterte said during a gathering of ASEAN Law Association Governing Council in Malacañang.

“According to the bright guys of this country, the political opposition, the guys who cannot accept defeat, they invented the fake news and concocted figures,” he added.

Do you really think any president just picks up the phone and calls anyone hoping they are home?

WASHINGTON — For years, Betsy DeVos traveled the country — and opened her checkbook — as she worked as a conservative advocate to promote the expansion of voucher programs that allow parents to use taxpayer funds to send their children to private and religious schools.

A detailed look at the first six months of Ms. DeVos’s tenure as the secretary of education — based on a 326-page calendar tracking her daily meetings — demonstrates that she continues to focus on those programs as well as on charter schools.

Her calendar is sprinkled with meetings with religious leaders, leading national advocates of vouchers and charter schools, and players involved in challenging state laws that limit the distribution of government funds to support religious or alternative schools.

On June 13, for example, she started her day by speaking to about 4,000 people who had gathered in Washington for the National Charter Schools Conference, the records show.

Later that morning, she met with Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield, multimillionaires from Missouri and major donors to the Show Me Institute, a nonprofit group that promotes school vouchers. The meeting was to discuss litigation then pending before the Supreme Court that examined issues related to government grants to educational programs sponsored by religious entities.

No, they were. Do you really think any president just picks up the phone and calls anyone hoping they are home?

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Do you really think any president just picks up the phone and calls anyone hoping they are home?

Do you have any proof they were informed of the time the president would be calling?

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn wasn’t the only Trump associate pursuing a sketchy, lucrative deal to tarnish the reputation of a U.S.-based cleric loathed by Turkey’s government during the thick of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Former CIA director James Woolsey did so, too, asking Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin for $10 million to carry out a lobbying and public relations campaign targeting Fethullah Gulen, Reuters reported Thursday.

I love when people tell me I know something when I know nothing of the sort.

I didn't claim she set up a sting, I simply suggested that it was curious that she invited her anti-Trump, headline-grabbing, congresswoman to attend. Obviously, she could invite whomever she wanted. Was there an entire audience there? I don't know, but unless the congresswoman was the only friend she has in her life one would expect that she invited a number of other people to provide support: Mother, siblings, grandparents, pastor, BFF...

Common sense will tell you POTUS doesn't make blind calls