Look at Obama’s Plan to Stop Donald Trump

Independent Sentinel    "Barack Obama left the White House with his appointments embedded in key positions and among the most crucial is the judiciary. His plan was to leave judicial activists in place to fight and overrule Trump’s every agenda item.

"In order for leftists to take power, they have to use force and deceit because they can’t win on policy. One of the avenues of power Obama concentrated on in his eight years in office was the judiciary. While Republicans began to slow-walk some of the judicial appointments, Obama was still remarkably successful in putting activist judges on the court.

"Obama left office having appointed 329 judges to lifetime posts on federal courts, more than one-third of the judiciary. As Politico said, they are “moving American jurisprudence in Obama’s direction”. Judges aren’t supposed to write law, they are supposed to interpret law but that isn’t what is happening.

"Included in the numbers are two leftist Supreme Court justices and four judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the two most powerful courts in the nation.

"Democratic appointees now have a 7-4 advantage on the D.C. panel, and those activist judges will play a major role in deciding cases during the Trump administration related to environmental regulations, health care, national security, consumer protections and challenges to executive orders." . . .

Obamacare in the commentaries

Americans are Suffering Under Obamacare, Hear Their Stories

Galen Institute: ASSESSING THE COVERAGE EFFECTS OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: A COMPARISON OF ESTIMATES FROM RECENT STUDIES

"The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has taken center stage as the Trump administration promises to repeal it. In response, proponents of the ACA argue that it extended health insurance coverage to as many as 20 million people, many of whom could lose coverage if the ACA were repealed.

"In “Assessing the Coverage Effects of the Affordable Care Act: A Comparison of Estimates from Recent Studies,” Galen Institute Senior Fellow Doug Badger analyzes the effects of the ACA on health insurance coverage in America. Badger reviews recent data and concludes that the popular estimate of 20 million adults gaining coverage from the ACA is likely overstated." . . .

Millions to Forgo Insurance Once the Government Stops Penalizing Them for It, Report Says

It's Not 'Losing' Coverage if You Choose Not to Have It  "The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with deputy online editor Chris Deaton on why "losing coverage" is a mistaken focus in evaluating the CBO's estimates of the GOP health bill." . . .

President Trump dropping in the polls since unveiling of GOP health insurance plan

"In the Rasmussen surveys, President Trump has dropped almost 1 point per day – from 53% support to 47% support in one week.  Senator Tom Cotton is correct: the GOP House majority is at grave risk in 2018 if this Ryan plan is a lousy replacement for a lousy plan.  Some of the early statistical analysis suggests that older, poorer, rural people are most damaged, with far lower tax credits than the prior subsidies.  Whom do you think most of these people voted for?" . . .

Rachel Maddow Turned a Scoop on Donald Trump’s Taxes Into a Cynical, Self-Defeating Spectacle

"By playing into the network’s loyal liberal audience’s fantasy that there exists a Trump silver bullet, it instead delivered Trump a positive news cycle—the guy pays taxes! Who knew!—amidst the debacle of the AHCA, along with more evidence that the media is aligned against him."

Slate

. . . "The longer Maddow went on, ever deeper into a conspiratorial thicket, the clearer it became that whatever tax returns Maddow had, they weren’t as juicy as the ones she was talking about. If she had anything that damning, she would have shared them from the start. TV is a ratings game, but an entire episode about highly damaging tax returns is just as likely to get you great ratings as milking the possibility that you have highly damaging tax returns, and less likely to get you compared to Geraldo. Maddow even went so far as to hold the tax returns back until after the first commercial break, as if we were watching an episode of The Bachelor and not a matter of national importance—because we weren’t, in fact, watching a matter of national importance, just a cable news show trying to set a ratings record." . . .  Naturally President Trump had a reaction

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Trump's Taxes: Another Exploding Cigar for the Left

Fact is, Trump pays his taxes like the rest of us. He gets no special breaks, he gets no special treatment. He shelled out for taxes at a 25% rate of income, quite comparable to what the average taxpayer pays. No wonder the average taxpayer thinks that Trump sees things the same way they do - he does, because he lives in the same world and by the same laws.

MSN Analysis | This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger

. . . "For all the hoopla surrounding the unearthing of these documents, there simply was no smoking gun -- or anything close to it -- here. A brief scan of Trump's financial status a decade ago shows, roughly, what you would expect it to show. Nothing nefarious, nothing untoward." . . .

Clinton ally David Brock offers $5M for Trump's tax returns
The left never sleeps.

RedState: Donald Trump’s Tax Returns Helps The New York Times Understand How Income Tax Works

. . . "Wait. Look at that closer. What does it say on the second page there?

“Client copy”?" . . .