Trump was elected with Putin's help to do Putin's bidding. He is doing this in ways we can't even imagine.
Russia routinely exploited a US policy of increased information sharing to target Chechen dissidents, according to three law-enforcement and intelligence officials in Europe.
The practice emerged after the Trump administration backed a policy of sharing more secret information with Russia, in hope of strengthening relations.
BE SMART ABOUT is an ongoing series at Smart Dissent but truthfully we haven't added to it in likely more than a year. We continue to report on the horrific people populating the Trump Swamp but without doing an official entry to the series. We've got one to add today and Trump's only got a few months months to add swamp creatures for us to research fortunately.
The arrival of a new political appointee is spawning confusion and concern at the U.S. Agency for International Development....
The Trump administration is turning legal immigrants into undocumented ones.... by literally turning off the printers that print the documents.
There are more than 100,000 immigrants here legally, whom USCIS approved for new green cards or work authorizations and they can't get their "papers" because USCIS literally turned off the printers without telling anyone
The story of Trump appointing a Steve Bannon associate, Michael Pack, to the parent agency of Voice of America is a big one that will only get bigger and more dangerous.
This is the Breitbartization of U.S. government media. That’s what dictators do. Read on....
The acting USAID administrator John Barsa is a disgrace to the agency. Two recent appointees by Barsa are hateful people who have no place in a government agency.
A new Trump appointee to the United States’ foreign aid agency - Merritt Corrigan, who recently took up a position as deputy White House liaison at the U.S. Agency for International Development - has a history of online posts denouncing liberal democracy and has said that the country is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.”
Trump is using a global pandemic to attack immigrants, especially children.
Since the coronavirus broke out, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrant children alone — in some cases, without notifying their families.
An update to our October 18, 2019 post linked here when it was heavily rumored that Trump would withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty.
Trump is using a global pandemic to attack immigrants and reinstate family separation.
Federal immigration officials are trying to separate families in the midst of a pandemic, saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have told parents detained with their children at migrant family jails that they can either agree to have their children as young as one released without them—or remain jailed together indefinitely.
This is stunning to watch. 60 Minutes details a "political disinformation campaign" that went from Matt Gaetz to Tucker Carlson to OAN to Trump and killed one of the most important virology programs in the world. Please watch the 60 minutes video and/or read the transcript at the link below:
Republicans are consistent on following the orders of the gun and ammunition lobby. In early March 2020, the Trump administration loosened rules around small arms exports.
The Trump administration has implemented new export rules for American small arms, ammunition, and gun parts — a major victory for the American gun industry, which has lobbied for the change for more than a decade.