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#BenedictDonald, #Trump,  If you've forgotten, Benedict Arnold was an officer during the Revolutionary War. George Washington gave him command of the fort at West Point. Arnold proceeded to collude with the British to surrender that fort. His plan was discovered and he fled in dishonor to England and became the first infamous American traitor. We may have another one on our hands. By dictionary definition, a traitor is one who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty. Refusing to preserve, protect and defend the U.S. Constitution is a betrayal of duty. President Donald Trump undermines the free press, the judiciary, the intelligence sector regularly and does not ever defend democratic norms. When he stood next to a Russian despot he could find no fault with h¡s many crimes of aggression into neighboring lands and meddling in the 2016 elections. It is becoming clear where our president's allegiance lies. It should have been obvious from his in...

A protest in Baghdad on Wednesday against the Iranian missile strikes.Credit...Khalid Mohammed/Associated Press #USA #Iran #Trump #Tehran #AmericanTroops U.S. and Iraqi officials said there were no deaths from the attacks on bases housing American troops. But Iranian news outlets claimed differently, with some reporting dozens killed. Right Now President Trump is set to deliver a speech from the White House. President Trump prepares to address the nation. President Trump  plans to speak at 11 a.m.  from the White House, where he is expected to discuss the confrontation with Iran, after Tehran launched airstrikes on two bases housing American troops in Iraq. Those attacks were a response to  an American drone strike on Friday in Baghdad that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani , commander of Iran’s elite security and intelligence forces. No American troops were reported killed in the attacks on Wednesday. Mr. Trump’s televised statement on We...

#Truth&lies #Ego #Polarization #StrategicDialogue #TalkingAcrosstheDivide #Trump  LGBTQ activist Justin Lee writes in his new book, Talking Across the Divide, that "strategic dialogue" will heal this country. Read an excerpt below. A few years ago, I organized a public dialogue event on a college campus in a deeply conservative, heavily evangelical part of the country. The topic of the event was homosexuality and Christianity, a pairing that had already proven controversial on that campus and many others like it. In a series of one-on-one conversations and surveys prior to the event, it had become clear that the students were very divided. A fair number of members of the LGBT student group had come from Christian homes, but many had since left their parents’ faith, and most were deeply distrustful of the Christian groups on campus. Meanwhile, many members of those Christian groups, particularly those who identified as conservative or evangelical, likewise expresse...

#Impeach #Trump #Impeachmenthearing A legal scholar  testifying at the first House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing  on Wednesday says that President Donald Trump's actions are "worse than the misconduct of any prior president." "The President's serious misconduct, including bribery, soliciting a personal favor from a foreign leader in exchange for his exercise of power, and obstructing justice and Congress are worse than the misconduct of any prior president, including what previous presidents who faced impeachment have done or been accused of doing," Michael Gerhardt, a North Carolina University law professor, said in  his written statement  to the committee. Gerhardt is one of four legal scholars testifying Wednesday at the public hearing that marks  an important shift  in the Democratic impeachment process following  the report issued by the House Intelligence Committee  on Tuesday detailing their allegations against Trump...

#Trump  #AllanLichtman #Impeach A historian who predicted every presidential election since 1984 has said impeachment by the full House is "inevitable" and warned Democrats against putting a "time limit" on their inquiry. American University history professor Allan Lichtman, who forecast Trump's election win two months before the fact, told MSNBC yesterday that Democrats would never have taken the impeachment process this far if they were not confident of passing articles of impeachment against the president. Speaking on the Weekends with Alex Witt show, the historian also said Democrats had "helped themselves" and "diminished" Trump's chances of being reelected in 2020 by launching an impeachment inquiry. "Impeachment is now inevitable," Lichtman told Alex Witt. "The Democrats would never have taken it this far—we know how cautious Nancy Pelosi is—without actually voting articles of impeachment in the full house...

#China #HongKong #Trump #US#XiJinping Chinese officials and state media have reacted with fury to the almost-unanimous passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act by the US House of Representatives on Wednesday. Though the bill has yet to go before US President Donald Trump for consideration, China wasted little time in condemning the vote, with the state-owned People's Daily describing it as "a piece of waste paper," and a "serious provocation against the entire Chinese people" in an editorial published Thursday. "If the US side goes its own way, China will take effective measures to resolutely counteract it, and all consequences must be fully borne by the US," the editorial said. The potential showdown risks undermining ongoing trade talks between Washington and Beijing during a critical juncture. Trump, who has yet to confirm whether he will sign the act, has so far appeared reticent to challenge China on the issue of Hong Kon...

#Trump #Impeach #House #Senate #ResignTrump A leading Democratic organizer has predicted that the impeachment investigation could spell the end for President Donald Trump, by prompting either internal betrayal or forcing the commander in chief to hand the reins over to the vice president. Jon Cooper, the chairman of the Democratic Coalition, suggested on Sunday that Trump is on very thin ice and—despite his stubborn promises to win re-election in 2020—may not even make it to the next presidential contest. The White House is currently struggling to fight off allegations that Trump effectively attempted to bribe the Ukrainian government into interfering in the 2020 election by opening an investigation into Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The accusations spawned a House Democrat-led impeachment investigation into the president, which has produced damaging testimony from a range of senior State Department and National Security Council officials. Public hearings began last week ...

#DreamHampton #KirstjenNielsen #Trump #SurvivingRKelly “Surviving R. Kelly” filmmaker Dream Hampton said Friday that she is dropping out of an upcoming women’s conference in D.C. because Kirstjen Nielsen, President Trump’s former homeland security secretary, is slated to speak. “Sharing a stage with Nielsen, who separated immigrant families and put babies in cages, would have put a stamp of approval on her immoral and reprehensible actions and help legitimize the terror that Trump is inflicting on immigrants and communities of color,” Ms. Hampton said in a statement to HuffPost. “So I’m cancelling my attendance and encourage other speakers to do the same.” Ms. Hampton, who was recently named one of Time magazine’s most influential people in the world, was scheduled to sit on a panel about “justice and power” at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington on Tuesday. In her statement explaining her decision to drop out, Ms. Hampton said the former Trump official’s prese...