Biden Says Trump Is an "Aberration" From the GOP. He's Wrong.

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 Join Truthout as we expose inequality and fight injustice -- support our journalism with a tax-deductible donation! [Donate Now →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden Says Trump Is an "Aberration" From the GOP. He's Wrong.]( William Rivers Pitt, Truthout Policies like caging migrant children, streamlining the pipeline/pollution process and thwarting the voting rights of people of color were cooked up in the GOP's lab long before Donald Trump came to Washington. He simply stamped his name on it all for a fee, just as he has done his whole life with bad steaks and shabby vodka. Joe Biden wants you to think otherwise. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Admits to Dodging Taxes for "Sport"]( Jon Queally, Common Dreams A bombshell New York Times report this morning showed that President Donald Trump posted higher losses on his tax filings during certain years than perhaps "any other individual" in the country. Trump offered no evidence to refute the story, but said that what he was really up to at the time was creating a massive "tax shelter" for "sport." [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Interning for a Centrist Democrat Pushed Me to Democratic Socialism]( Jack Delaney, Truthout During an unpaid internship with Rep. Don Beyer, I witnessed firsthand the hopelessness of reconciling the health policy aspirations of Democratic voters with a party leadership beholden to its health industry donors. Then I watched members of the Democratic Socialists of America confront Beyer at a town hall, and began to recognize the power of collective action. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Georgia's New "Fetal Heartbeat" Bill Criminalizes Women Who Seek Abortions]( Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Tuesday a six-week abortion ban. The legislation outlaws abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected -- something that typically happens before many women realize they're pregnant. Under the new law, those who have an abortion after six weeks could be sentenced to death or to life imprisonment in Georgia. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bail Reform Should Include Efforts to End Pretrial Incarceration]( Blake Meredith, Truthout There are currently nearly half a million people -- not yet convicted of any crime -- languishing in jails across the U.S. These people are still legally innocent, yet they are being punished. The millions spent on their incarceration, which can last months and years, would be better spent on community reinvestment. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why Does Trump Like Communist Vietnam? Because It's Capitalist.]( Mark Karlin, Truthout Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo say that North Korea should follow Vietnam's path to "prosperity" and a partnership with the U.S. That's because Vietnam has become a one-party capitalist autocracy with skyrocketing inequality that is so eager to seek U.S. capital investment, it has gone to some lengths to downplay the catastrophic war that cost Vietnam close to 4 million lives. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mitch McConnell's Plot to Seize Full Power for the GOP Is Working]( Heather Digby Parton, Salon Modern Republicans are loyal to their party above all else. No one personifies that dedication more than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. When the history of this bizarre era is written, it may very well be said that McConnell was the man behind the curtain who made it all happen. That "it" may include digging the grave of democracy. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nurses Tell Big Pharma, "Put Patients Over Profits"]( Staff, Inequality.org Nurses have long been at the forefront of the fight for health care justice. Last week, that fight took them to the headquarters of PhRMA, the trade group that represents pharmaceutical industry companies, where they plastered the walls with the GoFundMe pages of patients who've turned to crowdfunding to cover their health care expenses. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Biden Spends $1.4 Million on Digital Ads in Less Than Two Weeks]( Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics Although Joe Biden declared his presidential candidacy just two weeks ago, he has already surpassed most 2020 Democrats in online ad spending, shelling out more than $1.4 million between Facebook, Google and Twitter. Biden's online political advertising spending already accounts for more than one in every $10 spent on digital ads by all major Democratic contenders combined. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- In Case You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump's Fee for Asylum Seekers Could Send Many Back to Their Deaths]( Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Following family separation and child imprisonment, the Trump administration's latest cruelty toward asylum seekers is to impose a fee on the asylum application process. For people who have fled for their lives with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, this can be an insurmountable burden that forces them to return to the dangers they were fleeing and is tantamount to a death sentence. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.N. Report Says Indigenous Sovereignty Could Save the Planet]( Mike Ludwig, Truthout A new U.N. report finds up to 1 million species are at risk of extinction and ecosystems are declining at a faster rate than at any time in human history but notes that these trends have been less severe or avoided altogether in areas held by Indigenous peoples. Now, these traditional lands also face deforestation, mining and development that threatens ecosystems, the people who depend on them and their knowledge of the Earth. [Read the Article →]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Like what you're reading? Support Truthout's independent news and analysis by making an automatic monthly donation. [Donate Now →]( Connect With Us [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Donate]( Truthout is a reader-supported, nonprofit organization; donations are tax-deductible. Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047. 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