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1. Trump's FBI (-- yes, it's under his (attorney general's) "watch" now --) reportedly failed to act on recent, legitimate tips/warnings about the Florida school shooting suspect -- TWICE (at least).
Pertinent news story links, No affiliation:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/fbi-nikolas-cruz-shooting.html?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-school-shooting-nikolas-cruz-fbi-received-tip-did-not-follow-up/
2. “Him coming here, to me, is absurd. Him coming here is absolutely absurd, and he’s a hypocrite."
“...How can you come here and talk about how horrible it is, when you support these laws?” ...This is a man who supports teenagers and other people [being able to] to purchase assault weapons … and then comes down here and wants to act as though this is horrible and shouldn’t happen, but goes back to Washington and supports it. It’s hypocrisy...”
--Broward County, Florida vice-mayor, about Trump's planned visit after the deadly school-shooting massacre there.
Sources:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/374220-broward-county-vice-mayor-trump-visit-is-absolutely-absurd
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/trump-broward-county-vice-mayor-florida-shooting-cnntv/index.html
3. Former Playboy model describes 2006-7 affair with (married) Donald Trump, how story was suppressed:
Sources (links):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trump-a-playboy-model-and-a-system-for-concealing-infidelity-national-enquirer-karen-mcdougal
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-mcdougal-affair-20180216-story.html
4. 13 Russians charged by Special Counsel for 2016 U.S. election meddling:
Sources (links):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/politics/russians-indicted-mueller-election-interference.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-indictment/russians-charged-with-2016-u-s-election-tampering-to-boost-trump-idUSKCN1G022U
(.....Blogger note: This, after Trump many times dismissed ongoing Russia investigations as a "hoax", "witch hunt", etc. One unaffiliated article link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/mueller-indictments-special-counsel/index.html)
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--> And let's not forget or overlook Trump (and his admin.'s) disastrous week:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/politics/trump-terrible-week-analysis/index.html
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Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2018
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