Tracee Ellis Ross Responds to JD Vance's 'Childless' Women Remark

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4e9jfEDurm4

Trump SCREWS HIMSELF with NEW Friend from HELL

In a desperate and pathetic attempt to stay relevant and gain new voters, Donald Trump sat down for a weird interview with the racist and misogynistic far-right streamer Adin Ross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffsw5Yl8Oc

Newly Released Documents Show Just How Much Trump Officials Meddled With the Census – Mother Jones

… administration officials were meddling in the most fundamental inner workings of a complex and finely tuned process in ways that had never been seen before. Political appointees tried to influence the way the Census Bureau counted people, processed the data, avoided disclosing private information, counted citizens, and calculated undocumented populations. Basically everything the Census Bureau undertakes…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/trump-white-house-census-meddling-wilbur-ross/

Homewreckers: How Wall Street, Banks & Trump’s Inner Circle Used the 2008 Housing Crash to Get Rich

We speak with investigative reporter Aaron Glantz about his new book “Homewreckers,” which looks at the devastating legacy of the foreclosure crisis and how much of the so-called recovery is a result of large private equity firms buying up hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes. “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream” reveals how the 2008 housing crash decimated millions of Americans’ family wealth but enriched President Donald Trump’s inner circle, including Trump Cabinet members Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump’s longtime friend and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican donor Stephen Schwarzman. Glantz writes, “Now, ensconced in power following Trump’s election, these capitalists are creating new financial products that threaten to make the wealth transfers of the [housing] bust permanent.” Aaron Glantzis a senior reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize this year for his reporting on modern-day redlining.
https://youtu.be/OckBIl9N3TQ

Billionaire Trump donor explains he’s in it for the tax cuts, not the racism - Vox

The fundamental truth about what keeps Trump in power....
https://www.vox.com/2019/8/8/20782269/stephen-ross-soulcycle-equinox-trump-donor

‘It’s a disaster over there’: Commerce reaches new heights of dysfunction - POLITICO

Under Secretary Wilbur Ross, the department is chaotic and adrift.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/22/wilbur-ross-commerce-department-dysfunction-1424427

Hope Hicks & Weaponized Ticks (Opening Arguments podcast OA298)

Today’s episode tackles the recently-released trove of unredacted documents in the Southern District of New York in Michael Cohen’s case and explains why Hope Hicks might have been ensnared by America’s greatest legal mind, Stormy Daniels. Oh, and have you heard that the Congress ordered the DOJ to investigate… whether the military weaponized ticks and if so, whether those ticks were released against Americans? It’s a weird story that can’t possibly be true… can it?

We begin, however, with the resolution to last episode’s #T3BE (formerly #TTTBE) controversy regarding the definition and conditions required for assault. Learn the results of whether “hissing” constitutes a physical threat… and whether that even matters!

Then, it’s time for long trip up Yodel Mountain. We begin by discussing the… conclusion? of the citizenship question and Andrew lets you know what’s still to come in those cases. After that, it’s time to discuss the House’s resolution of criminal contempt against Bill Barr and Wilbur Ross, and what that likely means going forward. And while we’re still on Yodel Mountain… hey, how about those Michael Cohen docs? Now that the other cases have been concluded, the judge ordered the Cohen search warrants to be released in (mostly) unredacted form, and you won’t believe what they show.

After all that, it’s time for the segment you’ve all been waiting for: WEAPONIZED TICKS. This is a segment so powerful, you won’t believe it (and we won’t spoil it here in the show notes)!

And then it’s time for a new #T3BE involving the rules of evidence and an oral contract. Think you have what it takes to hang with Thomas? Play along online by sharing out this episode, using our new hashtag, #T3BE, and we will reward one winner with Never Ending Fame & Fortune (TM).
Interview:
https://openargs.com/oa298-hope-hicks-weaponized-ticks/

Trump asserts executive privilege to block access to census documents - POLITICO

The president took the aggressive step as the House Oversight panel began proceedings to hold William Barr and Wilbur Ross in contempt.....
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/12/trump-asserts-executive-privilege-to-block-access-to-census-documents-1361784

Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 3, 2019

https://youtu.be/eQlc8Pado5c

Wilbur Ross' financial disclosure rejected by federal ethics agency - CNN Politics

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated his ethics agreement and submitted a financial disclosure form that "was not accurate," according to the Office of Government Ethics. ....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/19/politics/wilbur-ross-financial-disclosure/index.html

The Trump administration seems to be doing everything it can to bias the 2020 Census - The Washington Post: Opinion

After the GOP's campaign to discourage voting among poor and minority citizens, it seems perfectly in character. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administration-seems-to-be-doing-everything-it-can-to-bias-the-2020-census/2018/11/23/d888d0c6-ecfd-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html

New emails reveal a central political motivation for changing the census - The Washington Post: Analysis

Secretary Wilbur Ross may have misled Congress in service of bolstering Republican power. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/12/new-emails-reveal-central-political-motivation-changing-census/

President Trump’s effort to rig the census is a deepening scandal - The Washington Post: Opinion

An attempt to rig the census, a campaign of deception, and lies under oath. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/12/trumps-effort-to-rig-the-census-is-a-deepening-scandal/

Wilbur Ross allegedly swindled $120 million from associates and 'could rank among the biggest grifters in American history,' according to a bombshell Forbes report - Business Insider

US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has allegedly swindled associates out of more than $120 million, according to a new bombshell report from Forbes. The magazine interviewed 21 former colleagues, many of whom say he has a propensity to filch money for himself. ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/wilbur-ross-120-million-grift-allegations-in-bombshell-forbes-report-2018-8

Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross rich-splains Trump's tariffs as a 'diet' for the masses - Daily Kos

When it comes to Donald Trump's entourage of administration millionaires, no one routinely betrays themselves as more inconceivably out of touch with the pedestrian masses than Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. Ross' skills have been especially magnificent when it comes to channeling the pain of Americans struggling to put food on the table under the weight of Trump's tariff regime. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1784900

Trump says trade wars are ‘easy.’ Here come the first American casualties - The Washington Post: Opinion |

Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee grill Wilbur Ross about the president's policies. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-says-trade-wars-are-easy-here-come-the-first-american-casualties/2018/06/20/659c49e2-74cd-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html

The worst Cabinet ever gets worse - The Washington Post

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R), who has mostly acted as a sycophantic spinner on President Trump’s behalf in his stint as an ABC contributor, was more blunt Sunday on “This Week”: “He was ill-served right from the beginning by a group of people who threw all the transition work out, 35, 8-inch binders of vetting of over 350 people, that were consistent with his views, that they got rid of, literally threw in the garbage two or three days after the election, started over,” Christie said.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/04/02/the-worst-cabinet-ever-gets-worse/

Wilbur Ross snuck industry execs into White House to manipulate ‘unglued’ Trump into tariff decision: report - Raw Story

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross steered an angry President Donald Trump into backing an aluminum and steel tariff over the objections of other senior White House officials. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/wilbur-ross-snuck-industry-execs-white-house-manipulate-unglued-trump-tariff-decision-report/

U.S. Commerce Official Still Holds Stake in Company Linked to Putin Associates — ProPublica

The chief of staff for Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Wendy Teramoto, still owns a stake in a shipping company tied to associates of Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that her former role as a board member for the same company prompted six Senate Democrats to request an investigation into her apparent conflicts of interest last month. ....
https://www.propublica.org/article/u-s-commerce-official-still-holds-stake-in-company-linked-to-putin-associates#138521

Trump’s Commerce Secretary Owns Stake in Russian Companies While He Oversees Potential Sanctions | Alternet

Another day, another conflict of interest.....
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wilbur-ross-russia-scandal