Black People Politics : When Trump Becomes President - What Will it Look Like?

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Trump's $110 Billion Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia May Be Illegal

WASHINGTON ― The human rights arm of the American Bar Association has sent the Senate a legal analysis saying that President Donald Trump’s plan for an arms deal with Saudi Arabia worth more than $100 billion would be illegal because of the Saudis’ role in the ongoing conflict in Yemen ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-apos-110-billion-arms-193643118.html

WASHINGTON ― A $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia that President Donald Trump announced Saturday would be illegal because of the Saudis’ role in the ongoing conflict in Yemen, according to a legal analysis the Senate received Friday




Akbar Shahid Ahmed
HuffPost•May 19, 2017



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Roger Stone: Trump's Saudi award 'makes me want to puke'

(CNN)As President Donald Trump celebrated what he called a "tremendous" first day in Saudi Arabia, his onetime campaign adviser and longtime confidante Roger Stone expressed nothing but aversion for the Gulf nation and parts of the President's trip.

In a litany of tweets, Stone berated Saudi Arabia as "the enemy" and slammed Trump for accepting the Order of Abdulaziz from King Salman bin Abdulaziz ...

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http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/20/politics/roger-stone-saudi-arabia-tweets



By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
Updated 0127 GMT (0927 HKT) May 21, 2017



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Graduates walk out on Pence at Notre Dame commencement


... Earlier in the ceremony, valedictorian Caleb Joshua Pine urged a "stand against the scapegoating of Muslims" and criticized Trump's push to build a wall along the Mexican border.

Cassandra Dimaro and her parents were among those who walked out. Dimaro told the South Bend Tribune that it was a show of solidarity "for those of us impacted by the policies of the Trump administration" ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/graduates-walk-pence-notre-dame-commencement-173154033.html

Notre Dame students walk out of the commencement ceremony in opposition opposed to the Trump administration's policies as Vice President Mike Pence is introduced at Notre Dame Stadium on Sunday, May 21, 2017, in South Bend, Ind. (Santiago Flores/South Bend Tribune via AP)




Associated PressMay 21, 2017



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Russia probe reportedly reaches top White House official
The “senior White House adviser” is “close to Trump”


The Washington Post reports that the accelerating investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russian officials “has identified a current White House official as a significant person of interest" ...

https://thinkprogress.org/russia-probe-white-house-official-311b95e0cf84

From left, Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, policy adviser Stephen Miller, and chief strategist Steve Bannon watches as President Donald Trump signs an executive order to withdraw the U.S. from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact agreed to under the Obama administration, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

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Editor-In-Chief, ThinkProgress
May 19


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While You Weren't Looking, Trump Basically Killed Dodd-Frank


WASHINGTON ― As the nation’s capital has been consumed by the frothing chaos of President Donald Trump’s administration — botched Muslim bans, sudden personnel changes and the chief executive’s erratic behavior — a steady current of traditional right-wing orthodoxy is sweeping through the federal government. Whatever happens with Russia or the FBI, this tide is washing away former President Barack Obama’s second-greatest legislative achievement: Wall Street reform, and it’s all happening while you’re paying attention to something else ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/while-weren-apos-t-looking-111851443.html

former President Barack Obama’s second-greatest legislative achievement: Wall Street reform




Zach Carter
HuffPost•May 22, 2017



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