Anonymous ID: ca44a8 March 27, 2019, 7:45 a.m. No.5920994   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1216 >>1523 >>1536 >>1560

Southern Poverty declares war on Trump, with Michelle Obama aide’s help

 

The Southern Poverty Law Center is fundraising for a wide-ranging war on President Trump, and has enlisted a top aide to former first lady Michelle Obama who played a key role in the dropping of felony charges against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.

 

Trump’s name was used five times in a fundraising memo from Bryan Fair, chairman of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s board of directors. “Given the rising tide of hate and given the callousness of the Trump administration, our work is as critical as ever. I can assure you that we will continue to work as hard as we can to combat the forces of hate and bigotry and to seek justice for the most marginalized people in our country,” he wrote in the memo provided to Secrets and subsequently posted on the center’s webpage.

 

Fair also revealed that SPLC, which has been rocked by scandal recently, has brought on Obama’s chief of staff to help in its efforts. “We’ve just launched an initiative with Tina Tchen — a former chief of staff for Michelle Obama and one of the leading voices behind the Times UP Legal Defense Fund — to advise us on workplace culture issues. Everyone who works at the SPLC deserves a workplace that reflects our highest values, and we’re committed to making sure that it happens,” he wrote. Tchen’s involvement in the shocking move to drop the charges against Smollett of making a false hate crime claim to police has been a key focus in the Chicago media, which has reported she contacted the prosecutor’s office with concerns about the probe.

 

According to Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell, “The credibility of the Cook County state’s attorney’s office was already compromised after Kim Foxx had to recuse herself because she corresponded with Tina Tchen, the former chief of staff for Michelle Obama, after Smollett had reported that he was attacked on Jan. 29. Tchen had reached out on behalf of Smollett’s family with concerns about how the investigation was being handled.”

 

Fair made the war on Trump a key element of his fundraising appeal, noting SPLC’s efforts to block the administration on several issues, including on immigration. He wrote, “Our financial strength allows us to stand up to formidable adversaries and to take on complex, costly federal court litigation. It has allowed us to hire more than 200 people since the 2016 election to meet the critical human rights challenges the country is facing. It has allowed us to open four new offices at detention centers in remote locations in the Deep South, in less than two years, to represent people fleeing persecution and grinding poverty in their home countries and others already here who have been caught up in President Trump’s deportation machine. Without the free legal counsel we provide, they would have no lawyers and no chance of defending themselves in court against deportation. Our endowment ensures that we’ll be able to carry on our work far into the future.”

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/southern-poverty-declares-war-on-trump-with-michelle-obama-aides-help

 

See Full Fund Raising Letter above

Anonymous ID: ca44a8 March 27, 2019, 7:59 a.m. No.5921177   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1194 >>1216 >>1523 >>1536 >>1560

Rep. Maxine Waters Says ‘Only A Few Of Us’ Wanted To Impeach Trump

 

Since President Donald Trump assumed the presidency in 2017, Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters has advocated for his removal from office. Now, impeachment is reportedly not as big of a deal, or at least not as widely accepted. Waters told reporters Tuesday that the push to impeach the president was never taken seriously by the Democrats as a whole and that it was only “a few” of them who kept up the mantra of firing Trump, according to Politico. “I think we do nothing now but concentrate on getting the information, getting that [Mueller] report. [Impeachment has] never been discussed as a strategy for this caucus,” the congresswoman said, according to Politico. “It’s only been a few of us.”

 

Waters’s dramatic change in tone and comment is apparently due to last week’s release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia collusion conspiracy theory and Attorney General William Barr’s conclusions that Trump neither colluded nor should be charged with obstruction of justice. Others, like Democratic presidential candidate and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, are demanding “the whole damn report.”

 

Waters, who is the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, will continue looking into Trump’s personal finances, tax records and corporate activities. She reportedly aims to open a new probe into the Trump Foundation. Not all Democrats are showing such restraint.

 

Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who began her congressional career promising to “impeach the motherfu**er” Trump, told Politico that impeachment is still on her agenda. According to the media outlet, before Tlaib could elaborate, one of her staffers urged her to stop talking. Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green also remains focused on impeaching the president. He indicated on Sunday that his objectives remain the same regardless of the Mueller report and Barr’s summary of it. “As long as bigotry influences the President’s policies, I will continue to seek his impeachment,” Green tweeted Sunday

 

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/03/27/maxine-waters-only-few-impeach-trump-mueller-report/

Anonymous ID: ca44a8 March 27, 2019, 8:07 a.m. No.5921288   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1308 >>1377 >>1523 >>1536 >>1560 >>1594

Donald Trump’s New Nickname for Adam Schiff Is ‘Pencil Neck’

 

President Donald Trump is using a new nickname to describe House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff. Trump ridiculed Schiff on Wednesday during a meeting with House Republicans at the White House, repeatedly calling him “pencil neck” according to Politico.

The nickname was coined by Rush Limbaugh as far back as March 2017, who continues to refer to the Intelligence chairman as “pencil neck.”

 

The California Congressman became a staple on cable news shows during the two year Mueller investigation and was widely thought to have fed CNN with information about the case. Previously, Trump referred to Schiff as “little Adam Schitt” even as he took control of the House Oversight Committee with new investigative powers.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/27/donald-trumps-new-nickname-for-adam-schiff-is-pencil-neck/