Trump Lifts Sanctions for Putin and Manafort Pals: Treasonous or Good Business

Criminal Spider Web: Dastardly, Deceitful, Deceptive, 

Disgraceful, and Dreadful

Major Update on the story that follows with this headline from here:

Trump administration lifts Russian sanctions despite unpopular rebukeTrump administration lifts Russian sanctions despite unpopular rebuke

The Trump administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on three Russian firms controlled by Oleg Deripaska (*Dee-ri-paska), an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The sanctions on the aluminum company Rusal, its parent company EN+, and power firm JSC (Euro Sib Energowere) were announced in April 2018.

They were brought against the three companies in response to Russia’s “malign activity around the globe.”

Deripaska was targeted as an individual because the U.S. claims he has threatened the lives of business rivals, bribed government officials, and has links to organized crime. Deripaska denies the allegations.

Senate DEM Efforts to Keep Russian Sanctions in Place: They have raised serious questions about the appropriateness of lifting these sanctions in light of S/C Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into the Trump campaign’s links to Russia and 2016 election interference.

Deripaska is client of Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and Christopher Bancroft Burnham (who served on Trump’s State Department transition team) and who as part of this deal to lift the sanctions, has now been appointed to the board of Deripaska’s EN+ Corporation. (Quid pro quo,um?)

When the sanctions went into effect (April 2018), Deripaska’s businesses plummeted on stock markets around the globe and cost Deripaska him $3.8 billion in three weeks. But the sanctions were challenged by a campaign financed by the three firms, which argued that the sanctions would have negative knock-on effects on the global aluminum market and on companies in the U.S. and allied countries.

The deal to lift the sanctions on the three companies entailed a restructuring at each to reduce Deripaska’s control, but he and his allies will reportedly maintain a controlling share of EN+.

Oddly related: The ambassadors for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Sweden sent a letter to Schumer urging him not to challenge the Treasury Department’s decision.

They wrote in part: “…by preventing serious damage to the European aluminum industry, the delisting will help to preserve existing supply chains which would otherwise likely be rerouted to China, further strengthening its global market position in the industry.”

A majority of House Republicans voted with Democrats to keep sanctions on the three companies, however, the vote was mainly symbolic, as the measure had already failed in the Senate, to wit:  

Eleven Republican senators voted with all the Democrats to advance the measure, and it cleared the required 51-vote threshold thus setting up the final vote to keep the sanctions in place. That required 60 votes but fell three votes short.

NOTE: The same 11 Republicans supported the measure again to keep the sanctions in place.

Those wise and loyal and courageous 11 Republican senators who voted with all the Senate Democrats were: John Boozman and Tom Cotton (both from AR); Susan Collins (ME); Steve Daines (MT); Cory Gardner (CO); Josh Hawley (MO); John Kennedy (LA); Martha McSally (AZ); Jerry Moran (KS); Marco Rubio (FL); and Ben Sasse (NE).

History of Russian hacking in the 2016 election and their direct interference to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald J. Trump win as it relates to this story – proving how everything is tied in neat package with ribbon for Putin thanks to Trump in the above story update:

The key Russian billionaire tied to Paul Manafort and thus to Trump before, during, and now after the 2016 cycle is Oleg Deripaska aluminum and other giant industrial connections.

Deripaska controls “Basic Element (EN+)” which in turn owns more than 100 Russian and international companies. He laid the foundation of his empire in the “aluminum wars” of the 1990s, a vicious struggle for control of natural resources in which he emerged triumphant, becoming the undisputed king of aluminum production in Russia.

Deripaska employed Paul Manafort, the political consultant who later became Trump’s 2016 campaign manager. Manafort has since offered to testify in an investigation into Russia’s role in the election. Deripaska and Manafort have since feuded, tangling over money that each accuses the other of owing money.

Deripaska was at the center of a recent video investigation, put together by Aleksei Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner and a vociferous opponent of Putin. The investigation found that Deripaska organized an outing on his luxury yacht, attended by Sergei Prikhodko, deputy prime minister of Russia and a Kremlin foreign policy adviser, and female escorts.

(Noteworthy story also connected to Deripaska and a Belarusian escort named Anastasia Vashukevich. Her story is here from the NY Times).

More information sources on this highly-complex and deeply intertwined legal abyss under Mueller scrutiny:

Seven Russian Oligarchs Hit by the New U.S. Sanctions

Introduction: The Trump administration announced new sanctions against a list of seven Russian business tycoons, government officials,   and corporations as part of the continuing political and economic fallout from the nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England last month.

The Russian billionaire’s roster includes some of the most powerful people and entities in Russia, with ties to Putin and his government, and many of them are suspected of corruption sanctioned by the Kremlin.

Britain says Moscow was likely behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia and they have persuaded allies on both sides of the Atlantic. Russia denies any connection to the attack.

Some of the biggest names on the new sanctions list, and where their money came from is in the story.

Also this is related to this spider web crime story: The quiet Americans behind the US-Russia imbroglio.

My 2 cents: How and when will this greatest crime story of the century and our national nightmare end? Or, even perhaps it’s the most-intertwined crime story ever. Who really knows at this point?

Based all we have seen, heard, read, believe, and trust it is truly a genius election scheme based on one thing. That is the famous line in the movie “All the President’s Men” (Watergate and downfall of Richard Nixon) – that is: “Follow the Money.” 

That really is the bottom line – and what else would we expect from our self-labeled genius businessman President, right?

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Trump Gains New Honor: He is the Biggest Most-Untruthful Con Artist in World History

Always Center of Attention, Brightest of All, Main Focus

(With Some New Temp Visa Staff at Mar-a-Lago) 

Update on the following story — astonishing but also typical Trump when caught red-handed from here, in part:  

This update here from TPM: While Trump was keeping the government shut down for weeks over the need for a border wall to bar potential immigrants, his golf club in Westchester County was quietly firing a dozen undocumented employees, some of whom had been there for years. 

According to a Saturday Washington Post report, the firings at the Trump National Golf Club in New York happened one after another starting January 18. Managers told the employees that the company had audited their papers — some which had been submitted years before—and found them to be fake.

Per the Post, accountants at the golf club had looked the other way for years over the phony papers, one former manager describing the policy as “don’t ask, don’t tell” to keep labor costs cheap.

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I guess loyal Trumpettes support this, too, um detailed story from TPM here.

President Trump may have ratcheted up his anti-immigration efforts in recent months, but his family companies appear to be using foreign workers at a higher rate than ever before.

The Trump Organization requested and received at least 192 visas for foreign workers in 2018, according to Department of Labor data. 

That number appears to be the highest for the company going back to at least 2008 and likely much earlier, based on public records.

Those visas were almost entirely for the type of low-skilled foreign workers that Trump has claimed drive down American wages: Cooks, servers, housekeepers, and farm workers with most of them making between $10 and $15 an hour.

In 2018, the various Trump properties received 163 H2B visas for non-agricultural temporary workers and 29 H2A visas for agricultural temporary workers.

The largest number of the Trump Organization’s foreign worker visas in 2018, like in most years, went to his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, FL that Trump calls: “The Winter White House.” ]

Also, where he spends much of his time – it received 78 temporary foreign worker visas last year for waiters, cooks, and maids.

1.    International Management Resorts LLC, which runs the Trump International Beach Resort in Miami received 59 worker visas for waiters, maids, and dining room attendants last year.

2.    The Trump National Golf Club in NY got 14 visas for cooks and waiters.

3.    The Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, FL, received 12 visas for waiters and cooks

4.    The Trump Vineyard Estates got 29 visas for agricultural workers.

The 2018 total approved visas (192) is the highest number obtained through various visa programs going back at least a decade. That number is dramatically higher than many other years in the Trump Organization’s history. 

Prior to 2018, the Trump Organization received an average of 116 visas per year in the decade prior. Their previous high number of visas appears to be 178 in 2016. 

The organization’s properties don’t appear to have received more than 143 visas in any other year going back at least to 2009.

The Trump Organization has applied for at least 1,692 foreign worker visas and received at least 1,650 between 2001 and 2018, according to the data. More than half of those were for Mar-a-Lago.

Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-based immigration attorney who teaches at Emory University, said that the Trump Organization’s heavy reliance on the visa programs flies in the face of the president’s political rhetoric and actions, adding: “If in fact he wanted to ‘buy American, hire American,’ he’d say ‘we’re not going to use the immigration system, we’re going to go out and bring our workers down from West Virginia or from Kentucky or Maine and set them up and give them jobs. Why aren’t they recruiting in West Virginia? It’s hypocrisy.”

This related from then-candidate Trump from the NY Times  
from August 16, 2016. 

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump has excoriated the nation’s visa program for high-skilled workers as a job killer, pledging to end it with “no exceptions.” But his own companies have used it to bring in hundreds of foreign workers, including fashion models for his modeling agency who need exhibit no special skills.

The little-known corner of the H-1B visa program for models has been controversial for years, questioned not only by Americans facing competition from foreign models but by technology companies whose engineering and scientific visas may instead go to men or women with no more specialized skills than their cheekbones.

Trump, as Republican nominee for president, said the H-1B program allows companies to import foreign workers to replace American workers at lower pay said in March 2016 Trump-Pence press release: “I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.” 

My 2 cents: So, what crazy silly-ass game is Trump playing, um Mr. and Mrs. Braindead Loyalists?

As noted above: “President Trump may have ratcheted up his anti-immigration efforts in recent months, but his family companies appear to be using foreign workers at a higher rate than ever before.”

Thus, it is he who is taking jobs from Americans he rails about. What a callous, mean-spirited ugly, nasty, two-faced hypocritical disgusting man.

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Señor Trump Par Excellence

Story here – the lies continue seen here (via MSN news).

Donald J. Trump ✔@real Donald Trump

Without a Wall our Country can never have Border or National Security. With a powerful Wall or Steel Barrier, Crime Rates (and Drugs) will go substantially down all over the U.S. The Dems know this but want to play political games. Must finally be done correctly. No Cave!

7:48 AM - Jan 22, 2019

Now the truth: Statistical data does not seem to back the president’s assertions, notwithstanding a handful of notorious crimes by immigrants that he mentions repeatedly in his speeches.

A 2018 study by the Cato Institute, for example, found that native-born U.S. residents are much more likely to be convicted of a crime than immigrants in the country illegally.

A separate study published last March in the journal Criminology found that states with more undocumented immigrants have lower crime rates than those with fewer.

And crime has been falling steadily even without a wall. While the share of the foreign-born U.S. population rose from 7.9 percent to 13.1 percent between 1990 and 2013, FBI figures show the violent crime rate declined by 48 percent and property crime fell by 41 percent.

My 2 cents: The Trump lies keep piling up. The latest example is above.  I’ve lost count… unheard of in modern American political history from anyone, let alone any president.

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The Liar-in-Chief Strikes Again: Trump Lies Keep Piling Up Like a NY Snowbank

Señor Trump Par Excellence

Story here – the lies continue seen here (via MSN news).

Donald J. Trump ✔@real Donald Trump

Without a Wall our Country can never have Border or National Security. With a powerful Wall or Steel Barrier, Crime Rates (and Drugs) will go substantially down all over the U.S. The Dems know this but want to play political games. Must finally be done correctly. No Cave!

7:48 AM - Jan 22, 2019

Now the truth: Statistical data does not seem to back the president’s assertions, notwithstanding a handful of notorious crimes by immigrants that he mentions repeatedly in his speeches.

A 2018 study by the Cato Institute, for example, found that native-born U.S. residents are much more likely to be convicted of a crime than immigrants in the country illegally.

A separate study published last March in the journal Criminology found that states with more undocumented immigrants have lower crime rates than those with fewer.

And crime has been falling steadily even without a wall. While the share of the foreign-born U.S. population rose from 7.9 percent to 13.1 percent between 1990 and 2013, FBI figures show the violent crime rate declined by 48 percent and property crime fell by 41 percent.

My 2 cents: The Trump lies keep piling up. The latest example is above.  I’ve lost count… unheard of in modern American political history from anyone, let alone any president.

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Ivanka Trump-Kushner ™: Get High Profile Cozy W/H Job with Daddy Get Rich Quick

Ivanka Trump Gets More Chinese Trademarks™ Approved

SHANGHAI (AP) — The Chinese government has granted Ivanka Trump's company preliminary approval for another five trademarks™ this month, as her father's administration pushes ahead on trade negotiations with China.

Four trademarks, including child care centers, sunglasses and wedding dresses, were approved, and a fifth, covering brokerage, charitable fundraising, and art valuation services, was approved on January 6.

That according to online trademark office records. The applications were filed in 2016 and 2017. If no one objects, they will be finalized after 90 days. Ivanka Trump's expanding intellectual property holdings have long raised ethical concerns, particularly in China, where the courts and bureaucracy tend to reflect the will of the ruling Communist Party.

Critics argue that by asking a foreign government for valuable intellectual property rights, White House officials could open themselves to pressure in government negotiations. 

There is also concern that the family's global trademark portfolio would open the way for lucrative business opportunities once Donald Trump leaves office.

Jordan Libowitz, a spokesman for watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said in an email: “The sheer number of foreign trademarks Ivanka Trump has gotten while working in the White House would be troubling enough, but the fact that she just got one for charitable fundraising ™ when her father's namesake foundation — which she served as a board member for and is closing in scandal following a New York Attorney General investigation outlining numerous legal violations — is especially troubling.”

Ivanka Trump closed her fashion brand in July. Her representatives assert that trademark filings are a normal business practice and are needed to protect her name from copycats seeking to capitalize on her fame. Ivanka Trump's lawyers in China did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

(I note: No response? Um, I wonder why not? No oops allowed).

My 2 cents: Trump family in power – get in, make millions, or as much as possible, then get out before getting caught or people wake up. Painfully obvious.

“This is a crappy deal, but they don’t care.” ™

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Michael “The Fixer” Cohen: The Gift That Keeps on Giving & Trump on Razor's Edge

Face-Off Staring Contest: Cohen Up by Ten Plus Points

Original story here from the WSJ with this headline:

Cohen Hired IT Firm to Rig Early CNBC, Drudge Polls to Favor Trump: Behind the scenes, Michael Cohen hired Red Finch Solutions, then allegedly stiffed it — and his boss

More from Reuters news, in part: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, said he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data “at the direction of and for the sole benefit of Donald Trump.”

Cohen tweeted: “As for the WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of Donald Trump. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.”

The attempts to influence the polls ultimately proved largely unsuccessful but does shed a new light on the tactics of the Trump campaign and Cohen’s role. While campaigning, Trump frequently referred to his polling numbers to help fuel his candidacy.

Recall that Cohen has been was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to two women to help Trump’s campaign and then lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia in mid-late 2016. Cohen went on to say that Trump directed him to commit the campaign-finance violations, which Trump has denied.

More on this same story from USA Today: John Gauger, the owner of Red Finch Solutions and chief information officer at Liberty University, said Cohen offered him $50,000 to manipulate two news sites' polls, the WSJ reported, citing a government document and a person familiar with the matter. 

Gauger said Cohen handed him a Walmart bag loaded with about $12,000 in cash during a 2015 meeting at Cohen's Trump Organization office. Cohen also threw in a boxing glove he said was once worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter. But Cohen never paid Gauger the remainder of the promised $50,000, the WSJ also said. 

Related from one year ago (December 7, 2018): Here from TPM a very timely and good reminder of how critically important the Mueller investigation is and must continue, and at the end of day – the public has a right to see and read it – no ifs, ands, or buts.

Story extract from TPM: “Michael Cohen is emerging as a pivotal figure with knowledge of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia, a new court filing from special counsel Robert Mueller suggests.”

Boy, is that all now proving true.

My 2 cents: Cohen truly deserves jail time, but if he helps bring down Trump and that crooked family, then a shorter sentence I think is warranted, say 1-year in jail with a 4-year probation period. That seems fair and just to me.

This Trump-Cohen connection is revealing now that Cohen admits how he was duped and fooled and conned by Trump – that underscores how Trump worked with and fooled those who voted for him with their blind loyalty that to a large extent still continues today.

Now the damage of all that conniving is right in our national face.

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Trump Strikes Again: More Threats to Allies, Friends, Neighbors, and Partners Why

US-ROK Forces in Annual Military Training Exercise

Trump again threatens a close ally, this time South Korea, our best and closest Asian military ally.

Trump warns them: “To pay 50% more (they now pay $830 annually) or we leave.”

Why does Trump threaten our friends and allies and break or threaten to break or cancel treaties, partnerships, or agreements?

The LA TIMES story [click here].

What is it with Trump and his demand as a one-man show: “It’s me only and the U.S. will always be #1 and alone if necessary unless you abide by my rules.”

Trump's hate everything list: The UN, NATO, the TPP, the Paris Climate Accord, the Iran Nuclear Deal, the G-7, and now *his threats to Turkey (our NATO ally) over Syria/and the Kurds who have helped in Syria against ISIS, and now (again) South Korea (LA Times story).

(* Threatens Turkey with “economic devastation” if they attack the Kurds – that’s not the way to solve a problem. Note: Trump backed off one day later – ref: this CNN report).

My 2 cents: Donald J. Trump is a direct threat to common sense, decency, and history relative global stability since WWII. 

One simple question: How much more can we tolerate from this man in office?

Proving my point is his so-called dealing with North Korea while threatening our ally, South Korea. What a joke.

Plus, we can see again what an awful ineffective negotiator he is, and all the while he brags about being the greatest. He’s a joke.

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Trump & W/H Russian Meeting Post Comey: The Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

No American Media — Russian State Media only

(Trump: “I fired Comey” / Lavrov: “Wow, no kidding”)

The NY Times reported that in the immediate aftermath of James Comey’s firing the FBI launched a probe into “… whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.”

It’s worth reviewing the precise chain of events here from TPM written by Josh Marshall – worth reading.

Also, this piggybacks on my post, same subject, seen here – FYI.

1. Trump fired Comey May 9, 2017.

2. The following day, Trump received Russia FM Sergei Lavrov and Russian Amb. Sergei Kislyak in the Oval Office at Vladimir Putin’s request.

3. The W/H indeed confirmed that Trump had held the meeting because Putin had personally asked him to from a phone call a few days earlier, in a W/H statement reported on here from Politico and from The New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser in part saying: “President Trump chose to receive them because President Putin asked him to. Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked.”

4. American media was barred from the event, but the Russian state-run news agency, TASS (Russian: TACC) was invited to cover the meeting, and the photos that were later released all came out of Russia.

Significant:

At the meeting, Trump told Lavrov and Kislyak that he had just fired Comey and that it had removed the “pressure” he was under because of the FBI investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia. 

Trump told them: “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

(Note: That is according to an internal government summary document based on notes taken during the meeting).

5. At the same meeting, Trump also shared highly classified intelligence about the ISIS with Lavrov, intelligence that apparently came from Israel and some say it jeopardized field sources and operations in Syria.

The NY Times article says that FBI agents felt ‘validated” in their decision to act so quickly and decisively when these quotes from the President to Lavrov surfaced. This makes it seem like this wasn’t itself part of the decision but vindicated the decision after the fact. But that may be a bit misleading.

The summary of the discussions was first revealed to The New York Times nine days later on May 19th, presumably after the FBI had already kicked off its investigation. It seems plausible that the FBI would have had access to this information before the Times. But if we take the Times’ reporting from last night on its face, they only learned what the President said after they started the probe.

Even if that’s the case, the fact of the meeting itself, held at President Putin’s request and with no American press allowed would have raised alarm bells throughout the intelligence and counter-intelligence worlds and almost certainly figured into the decision to launch the investigation.

My 2 cents: All this reporting ties in the gaffe by Paul Manafort’s lawyers who did a poor job of redacting information that I posted about here.

The walls are closing in on Trump and that’s why White House Counsel Pat Cipollone just hired 17 new lawyers to help defend Trump (apparently at all costs) against Mueller and his expected more pressure on Trump.

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Collusion Closer Than Ever: Since Manafort's Lawyers More or Less Spilled the Beans

Manafort Could Rat on Trump & Cohen to Testify Publicly

(Trump Must be a Nervous Wreck)

Manafort Lawyers Effort to Help Him

(Re: Collusion with Russians in 2016)

Collusion - just around the corner – FYI – as some on Fox fold on Trump – three cites plus Manafort’s lawyers “spilled the beans more or less accidentally with their lack of redacting skills reported on here (The Atlantic).”

FYI: The redaction errors show that which prosecutors apparently believe that Manafort shared internal Trump polling data with the suspected Russian spy Konstantin Kilimnik during the 2016 campaign (Washington Post).

FOX News Shepard Smith and Judge Andrew Napolitano now see proof of collusion

FOX News Analyst Says Trump Campaign Appears to Have Colluded

Judge Napolitano Settles the “Collusion Question” - Manafort Colluded he says

Note: Many disagree with those views saying there still is “no solid proof of collusion by Trump or his campaign.” Some say it could just be that Manafort acted on his own, trying to rake in more money for himself.

I agree in part with that view but with this in mind from the famous Watergate famous Senate committee hearing when this question was asked then by Senator Howard Baker (R-TN): “What did the President know and when did he know it?”

Manafort lawyer’s faux pas also posted here – FYI.

My 2 cents: There is no doubt in my mind that Manafort discussed all that with Trump, just as Trump Jr. did vis-à-vis the Russian offer about getting dirt on Hillary at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting from the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Also, most-likely Jr. also called Daddy on his cell to Trump’s personal cell with a “blocked number” which I suspect that Mueller may be close to getting or may already have.

Why? Simple: President Trump has to be on top of everything all the time – make no mistake about that, he knows everything.

We shall see (hopefully soon). 

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Trump's Wall Model #1 Concrete to Steel to Next: How Can He Be Trusted or Believed

His obvious preferred first choice

His second offer to DEMS 

(Spikes not optional — a must)

Probably ending up with this

(And, non-effective)

Trump recently said to the public: “I may declare a national emergency to build the wall.” I ask: What national emergency? 

Related articles also here and forthcoming update here.

This Trump reminder in his own words:

I may declare a national emergency

Let me also be clear on this highly-potential legal crisis: This is America – not another property annex of Trump Empire, Inc., and such a move as he says he might do would almost certainly meet with a legal challenge and end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.

That route would not be unprecedented, however. The high court has stopped presidents from using “National Emergency” as a valid reason for some presidential action – and in this case with Trump and his wall fixation certainly qualifies for the absurd.

For example, President Harry Truman tried to nationalize the country's steel industry citing a state of emergency during the Korean War, but the Supreme Court ruled Truman didn't have the authority. The high court surprised Truman with its 6-3 ruling in Youngstown Sheet & Tool Company v. Sawyer (1952), when it concluded that the President could not seize the steel mill.

Background: In 1952, the U.S. was still engaged in the Korean War when federal labor mediation broke down between the unions and the steel industry, and the unions called a nationwide steel strike.

Truman ordered his Secretary of Commerce to seize and operate the nation’s steel mills. No law existed that authorized the President to take such an action, but President Truman asserted that responding to a wartime emergency was an “inherent power of the Presidency necessary to promote the general welfare, as well as his responsibility as commander in chief of the armed forces.”

The steel companies sued the government on the ground that the President lacked the authority to take over their industry. By acting without congressional authority, Truman had violated the separation of powers, regardless of the emergency. 

The Court ruled that a President’s war powers could not be applied to domestic policies confirmed that judicial power extended even to war powers, and even during a war.

Plus, Trump would run afoul of the courts because Congress legally still needs to earmark any federal funds for a border wall. It is widely known that such a national emergency declaration confers a set of special executive authorities that are designed to give the president the power to effectively handle emergencies, such as an outbreak of war.

So, do we now have a president out of control, or a historically boastful man in office playing the part who wants the country added to his real estate acquisition?  For me, it’s a simple answer.

My 2 cents: It is painfully obvious almost daily that Trump has a complex about establishing his version of a “one-man ruled America.”

That must never be allowed for any president … Trump is stretching bounds of common sense, established constitutional law, and over 242 years of American history.

How anyone stay with Trump with his record of lies, fraud, potential documented crimes along with numerous others including with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen is well known and currently being documented by S/C Robert Mueller – and as we all anxiously await his final report later this year which will be historic and very damaging and hopefully mark the end of this Trump madness.

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