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In recent days, former White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Trump's claim that President Obama wiretapped phones at Trump Tower is an attempt to divert attention from questions over contacts between Trump associates and Russia. "President Trump is working very hard to try to distract the American public and the news media from the growing scandal about why his administration and why he himself has, at best, not been forthcoming about their talks and their ties with Russia," Earnest, who was Obama's press secretary, told ABC News chief global affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz. "There is one page in the Trump White House crisis-management playbook, and that is simply to tweet or say something outrageous to distract from a scandal, and the bigger the scandal, the more outrageous the tweet," Earnest said on "This Week" on Sunday. Lying Trump made the claim about a wiretap in a series of tweets Saturday morning. Earnest said, "This may come as a surprise to the current occupant of the Oval Office, but the president of the United States does not have the authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of an American citizen." Continue reading at: http://www.sunshineandprogress.com/sunshine-progress. 

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The Republicans have been trying to repeal Obamacare for years, since President Obama signed it into law. They have told numerous lies about it and today on March 6, 2017, they released a plan to reshape the Affordable Care Act. Unfortunately, it looks exactly how Liberals and Progressives thought it would look (and it has not numbers about how much it will cost, of course). Their "repeal and replace"plan kills the requirement for everyone to buy health insurance by eliminating the tax penalty for those who don't have coverage; which means not mandate. This begs the question: Do you expect for insurance companies to give 20 million for free with no mandate incentive? And: If there is no penalty for not having coverage, doesn't that make premiums higher, since less people are covered?  Their plan of idiocy also makes significant changes in the financial assistance people can receive to buy a health plan; meaning poor people won't be able to afford it, accept with a non-existent voucher. "Our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the states," said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, in a statement. "We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so states can deliver quality affordable options." The bill would offer tax credits to people with incomes below 75 grand year, but those credits will be lower in many cases than the subsidies now offered in the ACA, and there is no guarantee that they won't decrease over time... Continue reading on our website.

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The Trump White House shows danger for the US. Their connections to Russia is unnerving and new layers of information on how close his and the Russian government, controlled by Vladimir Putin is released everyday. Alexei Navalny and Boris Nemtsov ran a political organization and held rallies in an opposition movement against Vladimir Putin. Boris was shot in the back, just outside of the Kremlin on February 27, 2015. “There will be no let-up in our efforts, we will give up nothing. This act of terror has not achieved its goal in this sense,” said Navalny, after being jailed for 15 days, that March. He was arrested for handing out leaflets in the metro for at the protest rally/ funeral march. Nemtsov was one of the most prominent politician to be killed during Putin’s 15-year rule over Russia, and no arrests have been made over the murder. Putin’s Russian court so after leaving a Moscow detention center in Moscow Navalny said he would “go home to shower and change and then planned to visit Nemtsov’s grave.” I am not frightened and I am sure my associates are not frightened either,” said Navalny. He has decided to run for president against Putin, and since then, he has been attacked by Putin controlled entities... http://sunshineandprogress.com/sunshine-progress/vladimir-putin-s-russian-political-nemesis-reaching-out-to-the-public-exposing-his-corruption.