Generally speaking, it’s not great to take money meant for soldiers and use it for your political campaign instead.
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Mark ElliottTrump got tremendous media attention for pardoning three soldiers, against the Pentagon's wishes. But here's how much he actually cares about soldiers -- he steals from them when it suits his own interests.
This time he got caught.
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Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma reported safety lapses to supervisors before the Hard Rock hotel disaster that killed three
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Mark ElliottMr. Ramirez Palma reported safety lapses BEFORE the Hard Rock hotel collapse.
ICE arrested him after a TV interview.
He had lived in the U.S. for 18 years with his wife and children.
Despite his importance to the investigation, ICE just deported him.
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Especially if you’re African-American, according to a new study.
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Mark ElliottResearchers: Harvard is intentionally recruiting African American students who have no chance of getting in. Why? Well, it makes it look like they're trying.
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James Barnes, who left Facebook this spring, said he is now dedicated to using the digital-ad strategies he employed on behalf of the Trump campaign to get the president out of office in 2020.
A construction worker from Honduras injured during a Hard Rock Hotel collapse in New Orleans last month is now facing deportation according to his immigration lawyer, NOLA.com reported. Delmer Joel…
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Mark ElliottHonduran construction worker injured in Hard Rock Hotel collapse is being held by ICE and could be deported Monday. He tried to warn supervisors about unsafe conditions before the collapse.
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The company, like much of corporate America, has not made good on its promised investment surge from President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
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Mark ElliottIn 2017, @FedEx owed more than $1.5 billion in taxes. The next year, it owed nothing.
It's one of nearly three dozen in the S&P 500 who pay no taxes or say the government owes them a refund.
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The Navy investigation of a highly decorated platoon leader who now faces court-martial found a subculture that prized aggression and protected wrongdoers.
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Mark ElliottYesterday, Trump pardoned Edward Gallagher over Pentagon objections:
- He shot a girl in a flower-print hijab who was walking with other girls.
- Stabbed a wounded teen to death as he was being treated by medics.
- Shot an unarmed man in a white robe.
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Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on a secret project to collect and crunch detailed health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.
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Mark ElliottWTAF? Google is collecting personal data, including lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, and amounts to a complete health history, with patient names and dates of birth. Neither doctors nor patients have been informed.
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October was the first month in decades that the U.S. failed to resettle a single refugee, a stunning reversal of the nation’s longstanding role as the leading destination for people who, in effect, have no home to return to.
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Mark ElliottFor the first time in at least 30 years, the U.S. admitted 0 refugees in October. As in zero.
There are at least 70 million displaced people around the world.
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The founder of Students for Trump pleaded guilty Tuesday to scamming consumers out of $46,000 by posing as a lawyer online and giving legal advice, federal prosecutors said.
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Mark ElliottAmazing how many of Trump's clan are criminal. @TrumpStudents co-founder pleads guilty to a fraud scheme where he claimed to be a lawyer with 15 years of experience. He's 23. And faces up to 20 years in prison.
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The top Ukraine expert at the White House will tell impeachment investigators he twice reported concerns about President Trump’s pressure tactics on Ukraine, acting out of a “sense of duty.”
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Mark ElliottBreaking: The top Ukraine expert at the White House will tell impeachment investigators he twice reported concerns about President Trump’s pressure tactics on Ukraine, acting out of a “sense of duty.”
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Virtually every assertion he made has been corroborated on the record by the administration or other officials and witnesses.
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Mark ElliottTrump keeps calling the whistleblower's complaint "fictitious" and "inaccurate". The truth is virtually every claim has been corroborated. | NYT Editorial Board
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It wasn’t the first time he had killed someone in the line of duty.
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Mark ElliottJohn Collado tried to stop a fight between a friend and a stranger.
The stranger was an undercover NYPD cop.
Who, without a word, pulled out his gun and killed Collado.
A jury just awarded his widow $5.5m.
NYPD promoted the officer
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Critics say Florida effectively approved a poll tax on voters.
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Mark ElliottGreat news! A federal judge ruled in favor of nearly 20 plaintiffs who challenged a Florida law saying they needed to repay financial obligations before voting again. huffpost.com/entry/florida-… # via @HuffPostPol
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When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn’t have been on it. The state only found out because of volunteer sleuthing.
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Mark ElliottOhio's purge of over 200,000 voters? It included the executive director of the League of Women Voters and 40,000 other active voters. She voted three times last year.
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Paul D. Petersen, Maricopa County’s assessor, arranged for women from the Marshall Islands to fly to the United States to give birth at taxpayers’ expense, prosecutors said.
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Mark ElliottThis story is wild. Elected official in Arizona paid pregnant women to fly to Arizona where they gave birth (at taxpayer expense). He then charged families $35,000 to adopt them.
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The president removed Dan Coats days after his conversation with Zelenskiy and insisted that Coats’s deputy not get the job
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Mark ElliottDNI Dan Coats was abruptly fired three days after the Zelensky call.
Why? The WH knew the Zelensky call immediately raised red flags among intelligence professionals.
This is just going to keep getting worse for Trump folks.
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