No Memo in the World Could "Vindicate" Donald Trump | Your Week In Review

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis [Click here](1f9d0/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) to view this message in a browser window.  [Common Dreams](1f9d0/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) [] [] Your Week in Review [] [Trump Claims GOP Memo "Totally Vindicates" Him. Um No, It Does Not](1f9d0/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Jon Queally, staff writer Appearing to exploit a highly controversial and misleading memo written by Congressional Republicans in the exact way many critics warned he might, President Donald Trump on Saturday morning claimed in a tweet that the contents of the document "totally vindicated" him in terms of the ongoing probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. "Um, no. It does nothing of the kind." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Crisis No One Is Talking About': GOP Threatens Healthcare of 26 Million People](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) [patients receives vaccine](1f9d0/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer While the Republican-controlled Congress finally approved funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program in late January after it lapsed in September, lawmakers have failed to renew funding for thousands of community health centers, which also expired in the fall—a move that "has quietly created a new healthcare crisis for 26 million Americans." --------------------------------------------------------------- [ICE Director Brags About How Much He's 'Enjoying' Tearing Immigrant Families Apart](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Jake Johnson, staff writer Riding high off two recent widely denounced deportations that ripped apart immigrant families who have called the U.S. home for decades, acting ICE director Thomas Homan boasted at a conference on Wednesday that he has really begun "enjoying" his role in carrying out President Donald Trump's racist mass deportation agenda. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Disaster Capitalism Disguised as Progress': Critics Rip Trump Infrastructure Plan](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct5_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Jake Johnson, staff writer President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that "Americans deserve the best infrastructure in the world," but judging by the policy blueprints that have emerged from the White House in recent days, critics argue that Trump is actually planning to deliver a heavy dose of "disaster capitalism" that will hand construction projects over to corporate America while running roughshod over the environment. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Outrageous' Gold Rush-Style Grab of Public Lands To Begin in Less Than 48 Hours](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) [Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument ](1f9d0/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Despite protests from conservationists, local tribe leaders, Democratic lawmakers, and even the United Nations' expert on indigenous rights, at 6am on Friday the Trump administration will allow citizens and companies to start staking claims on sections of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah so the new stakeholders can conduct hard rock mining on the formerly protected lands. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Watch: Bernie Sanders' Response to Trump State of the Union](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct7_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Common Dreams staff Following President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) offered a response. "I want to take a few minutes of your time to respond to Trump’s State of the Union speech," Sanders announced. "But I also want to talk to you about the major crises facing our country that, regrettably, Trump chose not to discuss." --------------------------------------------------------------- [After GOP Votes to #ReleaseTheMemo, ACLU Says Dems Have 'Duty' to Make FISA Intel Public](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct8_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Jake Johnson, staff writer For what critics are denouncing as blatantly partisan reasons that have nothing to do with concerns about mass surveillance and everything to do with protecting President Donald Trump from an active investigation, House Republicans voted on Monday to release a secret memo that purports to show the FBI abused its power in spying on a Trump campaign adviser while blocking a Democratic report which explains how the GOP memo was "cherry-picked" from underlying intelligence material. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Massacre in Slow Motion': Concerns Grow That Trump Executing Nixonian Purge](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct9_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Jake Johnson, staff writer On October 20, 1973, former President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, sparking a series of high-profile resignations that came to be known as Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre." Following the early departure of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on Monday, critics charged that President Donald Trump is carrying out a similar "slow motion" massacre of his own. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Only 9 Percent of Fortune 500 Companies Have Shared GOP Tax Cut Windfall With Workers: Analysis](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct10_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Jon Queally, staff writer Less than ten percent of the nation's wealthiest and most-profitable companies have shared any of the financial benefits they received from a massive corporate tax cut provided by President Donald Trump and Republicans, a new analysis released Tuesday shows. "Corporations should be honest with the public about where their fat tax cuts are going instead of doing Donald Trump's dirty work with marketing spin." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Medicare-for-All Proponents Warn Against Billionaires' Plan to "Disrupt" Healthcare Industry](1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) 1f9d0/ct11_1/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9 by Julia Conley, staff writer A newly-announced plan by three of the wealthiest corporations in the U.S. to "disrupt" the American health insurance industry was met with extreme skepticism from advocates of a government-run healthcare system on Tuesday. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Facebook](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) [Twitter](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3AisEYY1lp9) [] Share this newsletter... 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