Liz Oyer, former Pardon Attorney, describes how Todd Blanche fired her when she refused to do a dangerous official favor for Trump friend Mel Gibson. The actor lost his federal firearm rights after committing domestic violence. Gibson assaulted his girlfriend while she was holding their baby daughter, smashing her in the mouth, breaking her teeth, threatening her with his gun. Gibson asked Trump’s DOJ to reinstate his federal firearm rights despite his criminal conviction. Although Blanche had the power to do it on his own, he tried to force Oyer to give her stamp of approval. Not convinced of Gibson’s rehabilitation or his lack of dangerousness, and knowing that over half of women murdered in the United States are killed by a current or past intimate partner, and the presence of firearms in an abusive household increases the risk of murder by 500%, Oyer refused to have anything to do with Blanche’s dangerous and unethical suggestion. Blanche sacked her.
I will never forget or forgive the Republicans in Congress who sided with Donald Trump’s demands to pass the One Big Ugly Bill. Today marks one years since they decided loyalty to Trump was worth sacrificing their own constituents.
"The 'Who Pays?' Families Over Billionaires Bus Tour stopped in Scranton at the Black Scranton Project Center for Arts & Culture. The tour is trying to raise awareness about the impacts of recent federal tax cuts and budget reductions — such as cuts to Medicaid and SNAP — on working families in Pennsylvania, with advocate groups pushing for policies that tax extreme wealth rather than reducing public services."
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I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No President in History has ended the same war so many times.
Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.
No President has ever done this before.
And he is nowhere near finished ending it.
It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Billions of dollars are in his pocket, robbed from our communities, from the taxes that we pay into the system, for the programs, the services, and the safety net that we all deserve.
Civil rights and economic justice go hand in hand. We discussed this today with @PennPolicy and @PennsylTogether on the 62nd anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, at our bus stop in Scranton.
We have to keep fighting Trump's SAVE Act - it's voter suppression on steroids and the GOP knows it.
They see the blue wave coming and they know the SAVE Act is just another way they can rig the midterms in their favor.
#ResistTrump
Nearly half a million New Yorkers are losing their health care today. Assembly Member Dana Levenberg is right, we need to fight for the people, not tax breaks.