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- On February 23rd, 2017, CNN reported on an underground network of interfaith leaders purchasing and fixing up property in order to hide undocumented immigrants from detainment and deportation.
- On February 25th, 2017, the Delaware state Senate special election ended with the legislative body firmly in control of the democrats. The reason for their victory? Anti-DT sentiment. Keep it going, guys, keep it going.
- On February 25th, 2017, DT once again parroted cable news by claiming that he was responsible for a $12B reduction in the national debt in his first month as opposed to $200B increase under President Barack Obama after he saw Herman Cain on Fox and Friends state the figures. As numerous economists have pointed out, it has absolutely nothing to do with DT's policies (he has enacted no financial policies thus far) and is normal fluctuation from revenues and spending. While it sounds like a lot, $12B is 0.06% of the national debt, and the fluctuation is basically insignificant.
- Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2017/02/25/trumps-right-the-debt-has-fallen-12-billion-its-nothing-to-do-with-trump-though/#36df24b1fe37
- Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-25/trump-seeks-credit-for-debt-reduction-driven-by-normal-cash-flow
- Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/25/trump-is-upset-the-media-is-not-reporting-a-meaningless-statistic-about-the-national-debt/?utm_term=.facd0b5d3219
- On February 25th, 2017, DT tweeted that he will not be attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner. No surprise there, since he is entirely incapable of having a sense of humor about himself, even among people he openly vilifies on a daily basis.
- On February 25th, 2017, the Kuwait ambassador held his annual dinner at the DC Trump Hotel instead of the usual Four Seasons Hotel venue, once again bringing up DT's violations of the emoluments clause, which apparently no one in congress gives a damn about. DT's lawyer, Sheri Dillon, has previously said that any money that goes to the Trump Organization from foreign governments will be donated to the US Treasury, though this does not alleviate the legal violation, nor is there any evidence to prove that this will or has happened, as the House Oversight Committee has refused to comment when asked directly.
- Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/25/517039323/kuwait-celebration-at-trump-hotel-raises-conflict-of-interest-questions
- Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-hotel-idUSKBN1640LE
- Source: https://thinkprogress.org/under-political-pressure-kuwait-cancels-major-event-at-four-seasons-switches-to-trumps-d-c-1f204315d513#.p3gu4xsuf
- On February 25th, 2017, in what I am sure is just a total coincidence and has nothing to do with the previous item about the Embassy of Kuwait's dinner at the DC Trump Hotel, DT decided to ditch the press pool and go out for dinner... at his hotel. Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Brexit-bigot Nigel Farage, as well as an unnamed man and woman attended the dinner, as well. (Note: source is a republican financed website, but there's pics.)
- On February 25th, 2017, Wendi Deng, on again off again girlfriend of Vladimir Putin, visited her bestie Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for dinner on Friday. It is not confirmed that she attended the dinner at the hotel, though a woman with black hair was photographed at the table from behind.
- On February 25th, 2017 and early on February 26th, 2017, DT tweeted congratulations at Tom Perez for becoming chairman of the DNC, saying he "could not be happier for him, or for the Republican Party!" and following it up this morning to say that it was "rigged" to keep "Bernie's guy" out because "Clinton demanded Perez!" Why he is so obsessed with who is the chairman of a party with which he is not affiliated is not clear.
- On February 26th, 2017, DT once again, in a SINGLE TWEET, said that Russia was fake news and that the leaks from his administration confirming it as real news are illegal, which cannot simultaneously be true.
- On February 26th, 2017, protesters in Boston demanded an investigation into DT's contact with and ties to Russian officials. "Organizers of the Boston protest are planning a week of events to show support for an investigation."
- On February 26th, 2017, republicans made the rounds on the various cable news shows to mostly downplay reports of DT's connections to Russia. Additionally, House Intelligence Committee Chair Representative Devin Nunes called it "almost like McCarthyism revisited" and added, "But at this point … we can’t go on a witch hunt against the American people." Apparently, Nunes knows more people involved than we do, as no one is trying to impeach the American people at the moment. Representative Darrell Issa, however, has broken with the party line and not only said that there should be an investigation, but that a special prosecutor should be appointed, since noted racist and Attorney General Jeff Sessions would not be an objective prosecutor. Of course, he did say that Sessions should choose the prosecutor, which sort of negates the whole thing while having the gilt of propriety.
- On February 26th, 2017, Senator Marco Rubio, nicknamed "Little Marco" by DT during the republican primary, said he won't hold a town hall because his voters will "heckle and scream at me in front of cameras," and because groups organized "three, four, five, six hundred liberal activists in the two counties or wherever I am in the state." Uh, honey, if you've got 600 liberal activists in every 2 counties, it's not that you've got outside agitators, it's that you're so callow and unliked that you've MADE 600 activists.
- On February 26th, 2017, DT's pick for Navy Secretary withdrew his name from consideration on Sunday. Philip Bilden, an international financier with no experience in the Navy other than his sons graduating from the Naval Academy and sitting on their board of trustees, claimed that his reason for withdrawing are that his extensive holdings in Hong Kong would not allow him to pass the ethics review.
- On February 26th, 2017, Sean Spicer had his own staff dump all of their phones when entering his office so that they could be checked for encrypted messaging apps like Confide and Signal in an attempt to find who is leaking information from the White House to the press, warning them "of more problems if news of the phone checks and the meeting about leaks was leaked to the media." This is not the first report that White House staffers are using Confide and Signal, in violation of federal law. Remember, guys, the leaks are real, and obviously very serious, but somehow the information is fake...? Uh...
- On February 26th, 2017, the Miami Herald published an interview with Bill Owens, the father of the Navy SEAL killed in DT's botched raid in Yemen while DT was tweeting instead of being in the situation room. Owens refused to meet with DT because "my conscience wouldn't let me talk to him." Owens thinks that the raid was irresponsible, and an example of DT grandstanding when he couldn't possibly understand the situation a mere week into the administration. He wants an investigation into the raid and his son's death. "I’d like some answers about all the things that happened in the timeline that led up to it. I know what the timeline is, and it bothers me a lot," he said. Owens did not vote for DT.
- Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article135064074.html
- Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/politics/father-of-commando-killed-in-yemen-refused-to-meet-trump.html
- Source: http://nypost.com/2017/02/26/dad-calls-for-investigation-into-navy-seal-sons-death-in-trump-mission/