We are suppose to be cleaning but we aren't today....
- Today in world affairs.
- Feb 4, 2017
- 3 min read
A petition calling for the release of President Trump’s tax returns posted to the White House’s “We the People” petition website is still garnering interest. The petition, which was created on January 20, asks the White House to “[i]immediately release Donald Trump’s full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance.” The petition goes on to say that “[t]he unprecedented economic conflicts of this administration need to be visible to the American people, including any pertinent documentation which can reveal the foreign influences and financial interests which may put Donald Trump in conflict with the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Within 24 hours of posting, the petition had been signed by 131,000 people. One week later, the petition had been signed more than 300,000 times. As of this writing, the petition had been signed 462,412 times. That makes it one of the most popular petitions in the platform’s history.
www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/01/31/white-house-petition-to-release-trumps-tax-returns-closes-in-on-a-half-million-signatures/#598bdc415934
Trump University (also known as the Trump Wealth Institute and Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC ) was an American for-profit education company that ran a real estate training program from 2005 until 2010. It was owned and operated by The Trump Organization. (A separate organization, Trump Institute, was licensed by Trump University but not owned by the Trump Organization.) After multiple lawsuits, it is now defunct. It was founded by Donald Trump and his associates, Michael Sexton and Jonathan Spitalny, in 2004. The company offered courses in real estate, asset management, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation.[2]
The organization was not an accredited university or college. It did not confer college credit, grant degrees, or grade its students.[3]In 2011, the company became the subject of an inquiry by the New York Attorney General's office for illegal business practices that resulted in a lawsuit filed in 2013.
Trump University was also the subject of two class action lawsuits in federal court. The lawsuits centered around allegations that Trump University defrauded its students by using misleading marketing practices and engaging in aggressive sales tactics. The company and the lawsuits against it received renewed interest due to Trump's candidacy in the 2016 presidential election. Trump settled all three lawsuits in November 2016, after being elected to the presidency, for a total of $25 million.[4]
Is Trump University a fraud?, 5:28, CNN, September 29, 2015
Trump faces lawsuits from former Trump University students, 5:47, CBS This Morning, September 24, 2015
Prosecutor: Trump lawsuit no stunt, 3:55, CNN, August 26, 2013
Trump, Rubio spar over lawsuit against Trump University, 4:53, Fox News Channel, March 3, 2016
"Alternative facts" is a phrase coined by Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway as a euphemism for falsehood, during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017,[1][2][3][4] in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance at Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States. When pressed during the interview with Chuck Todd to explain why Spicer "utter[ed] a provable falsehood", Conway said "Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. You're saying it's a falsehood, and ... our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that."[5][6] Todd responded by saying "Look, alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods."
Conway's use of the phrase "alternative facts" to describe what are demonstrably falsehoods was widely mocked on social media and sharply criticized by journalists and media organizations, such as Dan Rather, Jill Abramson, and the Public Relations Society of America. The phrase was extensively described as Orwellian; by Thursday, January 26, 2017, sales of the book Nineteen Eighty-Four had increased by 9,500 percent, becoming the number one best seller on Amazon.com.[7][8]
This man and his issues and the things he do just doesn't make me feel like he is doing it for us. I feel like he is doing it for him self and approval.He has to been seen. I just don't understand it. we all are watching you but not for what you think we are watching you for. He starting wars with people with whom we have had peace with because of he temper and that is not way to make AMERICA GREAT AGAIN as he puts it. We always have God who will protect us. hopefully its before he does more damage to us as country. Why did people vote fora scam artist and such a blantant liar to put into office.
