He landed a coveted job at Goldman Sachs. ibid.
Bannon produced a film about his hero Ronald Reagan. ibid.
A documentary Bannon had made about Palin … a film he called The Undefeated. ibid.
Bannon’s ideas would become the essence of the president’s inaugural address. ibid.
A White House at war with itself and the Justice Department … Tonight: Trump’s showdown … Frontline: Trump’s Showdown, PBS 2018
IC: They had come to tell Donald Trump his election may have been compromised by Russian interference. Behind closed doors the IC briefing began. ibid.
Trump was already distrustful of an FBI director who had served under President Obama. ibid.
It was also a declaration of war on the press. It would lead to a showdown with a special counsel that now threatens his presidency. ibid.
More than 4,000 lawsuits. ibid.
And there was a looming showdown with the FBI and James Comey. The two would face off again at a photo-op. ibid.
Donald Trump would make the most consequential decision of his first year in office: Trump decided he would get rid of Comey. ibid.
FBI Raids Trump’s Lawyer. ibid. NBC News
Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Military Officers For DNC Hacking. ibid. CNN News banner
It’s been a busy few months for president Donald J Trump trying to ban Muslim entrants to the United States, protests on the streets, Russian leaks of various kinds, Theresa May’s visit, a national security adviser who lasted weeks, a threat to take the courts to court, a billionaire education secretary accused of buying her seat, feuding with an department store for daring to drop his daughter’s fashion line, war on the media, hiring the people who’d forgot they’d met the Russians, a presidential address to congress followed by a Twitter meltdown … and an Easter-egg hunt. Trump’s First 100 Days, BBC 2017
He is now unignorable … a global media phenomenon. ibid.
Just looking presidential is half the job. ibid.
There were campaign pledges to deliver on: one of the most contentious was immigration and a certain beautiful wall. ibid.
America: the land of dreaming cities and unparalleled natural beauty. When people gaze across the magnificent vistas they experience wonder, beauty and awe. It’s priceless, right? Wrong. Because everything has a price. And I’m going to find out what it is. Trump: What’s America Worth? Trump, Discovery 2017
We have the highest number of millionaires in the world. ibid.
Let’s start with the big one – oil … total value of our oil reserves: $768 billion. ibid.
There’s trillions of dollars waiting to be exploited under your feet … Beside Nevada, there’s gold in Alaska and almost a dozen other states: total value $17 billion … Water: the biggest source of fresh water in the United States is the great lakes … all of our underground natural resources: $2.4 trillion. ibid.
Our homes and cars are stuffed with hidden millions … America owns more cars per capita than any nation on Earth: $1.3 trillion … ibid.
Homes: $16.4 trillion … Homes and Possessions: $21 trillion. ibid.
Food: $3 billion … Cattle $74 billion … Our rural assets $3.5 trillion. ibid.
Roads: $2.8 trillion: total value of what we in America build to just under $31 trillion. ibid.
The most profitable part of the country … human assets … £232 trillion … It’s about what you are … that makes bone marrow worth far more than its weight in gold … $46 million [each] = $14 quadrillion. ibid.
Our military: $1.2 trillion assets. ibid.
We’ve got to subtract our debt … close to $15 trillion. ibid.
If we had to sell America lock, stock and barrel: $280 trillion. ibid.
President Trump with his family on election night. But notice the woman on stage sometimes in blue, sometimes in white, always there. There is one women in the White House who’s not a member of the cabinet, who’s not even the First Lady, but who does hold enormous sway of Donald Trump - it is his daughter, Ivanka Trump. She was by her dad’s side throughout his campaign. Ivanka Trump: America’s Real First Lady? Channel 4 2017
Ivanka is now assistant to the president. ibid.
Mother and daughter remain close. ibid.
‘Much of his talent is a kind of performance art.’ ibid.
Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success. ibid. Ivanka’s book
What does she do with that brand now her dad’s installed in the White House? ibid.
The People vs Donald J Trump: Donald J Trump did not win this election; he didn’t win the popular vote and he didn’t win the votes in the states of Michigan, Wisconsin … Those states were stolen. Greg Palast, Home to the Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Youtube 2016
Vote thievery doesn’t come cheap … These are the creepiest billionaires on the planet. ibid.
Donald J Trump said this election’s rigged – and he’s right. ibid.
‘Over a million people voted twice in this election.’ ibid. Dick Morris
‘You have people in my opinion that are voting many many times.’ ibid. Trump
Koch – Heritage Foundation – Voter Crosscheck. ibid.
[Paul] Singer the Vulture is the No 1 donor to the Republican Party. ibid.
They [black voters] waited for hours. ibid.
Over 1,000,000 absentee ballots are rejected. ibid.
Over 3,000,000 of you will not have your votes counted. ibid.
Horror: The Koch Brothers Bring You the Ultimate in Fear! ibid.
It’s now lynching by laptop. ibid.
Ohio: 43,000 black voters have just vanished. ibid.
June 2013: The US Supreme Court ripped out a key section of the Voting Rights Act … It was Koch money behind the hit. ibid.
Is vote suppression just another profit centre? ibid.
Not President Clinton? OK. Forget the polls: Trump stole the election. Now my book is not a prediction, it’s a warning … The facts: They’ve already removed 17,000,000 people from the voter rolls, that’s federal government’ numbers for the past two years’ of record keeping. 17,000,000 voters. We’re going to be shocked that they don’t get their mailing ballot, and guess what, Max? … If you don’t get your ballot, you can’t mail it in. Greg Palast, interview The Keiser Report author How Trump Stole RT August 2020
2020: It has been stolen through the massive purge of the voter rolls and other trickery and through changes in the election law … But it can be stolen back. ibid.
Brand new tricks: see, in 2018 the Supreme Court handed a new weapon to the vote thieves … A new trick to remove voters … If you miss a couple of elections, that means you’re an inactive voter … and then you don’t answer [a] postcard. ibid.
They took it for a test drive in Georgia in 2018 and I was there … One third of a million voters in Georgia were wiped out illegally. In fact, three hundred thousand, one hundred and thirty-four. ibid.
‘Hundreds of thousands of voters from Brooklyn went missing from the voter rolls.’ ibid. Stacey Herbert
Democrats disenfranchise each other. ibid.
2016: You elected a kind of orange-stained porcine bloated bigot … We’ve had a coup d’etat: you’re slaves now. ibid.
Five million ballots disqualified … They can’t steal all of the votes all of the time … ibid.
People didn’t see Trump as a threat. When you have basically Gestapo-kind-of-proto-death-squads grabbing people on streets, I think it’s motivating young people. ibid.
You have to have a special ID to vote in Madison, to vote in Wisconsin, not just hand over a regular student ID. That’s over 100,000 … You have to prove you’re in good standing. ibid.
Trump’s budget calls for an unprecedented $54 billion increase in military spending while ending dozens of environmental, housing, diplomatic and educational programs. Democracy Now April 2017