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White House Mistakenly Reveals They’re Owned By ExxonMobil – Redacted Tonight

White House Mistakenly Reveals They’re Owned By ExxonMobil – Redacted Tonight

Posted by | Mar 10, 2017 | , , |

Donald Trump was clearly not a master of subtlety when he selected ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. But his administration took that lack of subtlety to a whole new level when they, in a White House statement praising ExxonMobil, lifted a statement from ExxonMobil’s OWN press release. Lee Camp reveals how the White House is no better than high school kids lifting sentences from Wikipedia to flesh out a book report in the latest Redacted Tonight...

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Trump Boasts About Not Staffing His Administration

Trump Boasts About Not Staffing His Administration

Posted by | Feb 28, 2017 | , , |

On Saturday, CNN reported that President Donald Trump has yet to fill almost 2,000 appointed positions within his administration. While some of these positions, while important, are not crucial to the success of the administration, at least in the short term, other vacancies seem to be affecting the day-to-day operation of key government functions. However, Trump has addressed a plan to fill many of these positions: he simply won’t. In an interview that aired on Fox News Tuesday morning, the President said, “in many cases, we don’t want to fill those jobs.” Touting that he wants to trim the fat,...

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Lionel: US cities ‘thrive on the notion of the undocumented’ – News With Ed

Lionel: US cities ‘thrive on the notion of the undocumented’ – News With Ed

Posted by | Feb 27, 2017 | , , , , , |

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security John Kelly met with their Mexican counterparts on Thursday afternoon in Mexico City, where they addressed the evolving US-Mexico relationship. Legal and media analyst Lionel, of Lionel Media, joins “News with Ed” to discuss what’s at stake with President Donald Trump’s resolve to enforce immigration laws and how the fate of millions of illegal immigrants will affect the nation’s...

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Citing “Bad Dudes,” Trump Calls Immigration Enforcement a “Military Action”

Citing “Bad Dudes,” Trump Calls Immigration Enforcement a “Military Action”

Posted by | Feb 23, 2017 | , , , |

Meeting with key manufacturing CEOs at the White House today, Donald Trump couldn’t stick to the topic of job creation as he couldn’t resist bragging about the aggressive nature of his efforts to curb criminal activity by undocumented immigrants coming from Mexico, even as advisers tried to downplay such talk. Trump boasted, “You see what’s happening at the border. All of a sudden, for the first time, we’re getting gang members out, we’re getting drug lords out. We’re getting really bad dudes out of this country, and at a rate that nobody’s ever seen before, and they’re the bad...

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What Does “America First” Mean? – The Big Picture

What Does “America First” Mean? – The Big Picture

Posted by | Feb 16, 2017 | , , |

Big Picture Panel: Travis Korson, Madison Strategies & Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller. With the richest cabinet in United States history – Donald Trump is clearly not “draining the swamp” in Washington DC – but he is making it easier for US oil companies to buy favors in other countries around the world. Using the Congressional Review Act Trump repealed a set of rules that forced oil companies to disclose any payments that the companies made to foreign governments in exchange for valuable mining and drilling rights. The rules had been staunchly opposed by energy industry executives – including...

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