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Inside the Right Wing Network Trying to Dismantle Higher Education. A new paper lays out the coalition of far right billionaires and think tanks behind the national assault on education.

truthout.org/articles/inside-t

truthout.orgInside the Right Wing Network Trying to Dismantle Higher Education – Truthout

“Donald Trump needs to be careful what he wished for — the Supreme Court’s decision now means Judge Chutkan will hold proceedings on whether Trump’s actions were ‘official acts’ of the presidency."

“This could be a trial before the trial, potentially RUINING Trump politically.”

-- Tristan Snell, former prosecutor who helped the State of New York win its $25 million judgment against Trump University.

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May 8, 2018 – Donald Trump announced the United States withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 agreement reached by seven countries after more than two years of negotiations. The deal granted billions of dollars in sanctions relief in exchange for Iran’s agreement not to develop or acquire any nuclear weapons. The United States reimposed pre-deal sanctions on Iran.

#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

May 7, 2019 – The White House blocked former White House Counsel Don McGahn from disclosing records to the House Judiciary Committee. The documents contain information about Trump urging McGahn to fire Mueller. They also reference subsequent conversations in which the president told his former counsel to deny the exchanges.

#FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

May 7, 2020 – The criminal case against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, was dropped by the Justice Department — though Flynn had pleaded guilty TWICE to lying to the FBI about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump called those who opposed him “dishonest, crooked people… They’re scum — and I say it a lot, they’re scum, they’re human scum.”

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May 6, 2020 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together a 17-page report advising Americans on when they could reopen the economy. According to a CDC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the Trump administration prevented the release of the report, telling the CDC that it “would never see the light of day.”

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May 5, 2020 – Rick Bright, the scientist who lost his job as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. In the complaint, Bright said his warnings about the coronavirus were dismissed by the Trump administration and that he was punished by being moved to another post.

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May 2, 2017 – Donald Trump took to Twitter to respond to a Hillary Clinton CNN interview, posting that FBI Director James Comey was, “The best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!” and the “phony Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election.”