Trump Owes Half a Million Dollars to El Paso, a City He Scorned
Joyce Boghosian/Zuma President Donald Trump is sending “thoughts and prayers” to El Paso, Texas, following the shooting that killed 22 people there. What he’s not sending is the money he owes the city. Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign owes El Paso more than half a million dollars in police bills and late fees for a campaign…
President Obama Calls for Action After El Paso and Dayton
Shutterstock Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend, former President Barack Obama called for action to stop gun violence Monday and urged law enforcement and Silicon Valley to act to combat the “dangerous trend” of white nationalism. “No other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency…
Trump Blames Shootings on Mental Illness. But He’s Spent the Past 2 Years Trying to Cut Access to Health Coverage.
Chris Kleponis/Zuma During an address to the nation on the Monday morning following a weekend in which two mass shootings in the United States left 31 people dead, President Donald Trump deflected the blame for the massacres away from firearm access, saying, “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.” But despite voicing concerns…
The El Paso Manifesto: Where Racism and Eco-Facism Meet
Just look, as Dissent magazine did in May, at this spring’s European elections. Following the European Green Party’s historic gains, the far-right Alternative for Germany’s youth wing in Berlin urged party leaders to abandon the “difficult to understand statement that mankind does not influence the climate,” an issue that moves “more people than we thought.” In…
Beto O’Rourke Tears Into Trump for Inciting Anti-Immigrant Violence
Josh Bachman/Zuma When a reporter asked Beto O’Rourke on Sunday if Donald Trump could do anything “to make this any better” following a mass shooting in El Paso that killed 20 and injured 26 others, the Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman lashed out against the president for inciting violence—and against the press for glossing over…
The Middle Kingdom Strikes Back
Check this out: China dropped the price of their currency to an almost a historic low. It’s called “currency manipulation.” Are you listening Federal Reserve? This is a major violation which will greatly weaken China over time! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2019 How about that? China has trade weapons other than tariffs…