Florida Authorities Are Investigating Chief White House Strategist Stephen K. Bannon For Voter Registration Fraud

What does this investigation tell us about the man behind the Trump phenomenon? Only that Steve Bannon was a man without a permanent residence during his rise to political fame.

Steve Bannon, chief strategist for President Donald Trump, is reportedly under criminal investigation for voter registration fraud in the state of Florida. Mr. Bannon registered to vote in the state despite being registered elsewhere, and despite rarely so much as visiting his Coconut Grove rental property.

His registration address is a now-vacant house he says he rented for his ex-wife, Diane Clohes. Bannon reportedly lied to the landlord of the property, telling him that he was living there but traveling. According to the Washington Post, Bannon never obtained a Florida driver’s license or registered a car in the state. In fact, Bannon’s neighbors say, they rarely saw him.

Related: 13 Of The Craziest Headlines From Trump’s New Chief Strategist And White Nationalist Steve Bannon

During his political rise, Bannon split his time between California, New York, and Washington D.C. The Post also uncovered some bizarre details about Bannon’s rental property in Coconut Grove. Among them, strange visitors in the middle of the night, padlocked interior doors, and a hot-tub seemingly destroyed by acid.

Since Bannon never voted in Florida, it’s unlikely the investigation will result in charges, despite his apparently deliberate decision to register in two states at once.

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One Michigan voter initially supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), then switched to Donald Trump after listening to his “progressive-ish rhetoric.”

Trump has let many people down

Now Jason DeFrain, a resident of Bay County, Michigan says he feels cheated. 

“I kinda feel dumb, honestly,” he told MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace.

In a story about how Michigan voters feel about Trump’s first 100 days as president, DeFrain said Trump’s rhetoric drew him in after first supporting Sanders. Here’s what DeFrain had to say in a February interview with MSNBC:

“He has answers, sometime we don’t like them, sometime he offends the crap out of people. But he has answers,” said DeFrain, who’s a first time voter in a presidential election, Raw Story notes. 

Now DeFrain is sorry he voted for Trump.

“I feel like I was bamboozled, I really do,” he said. “Jeez, he fooled me, and I kinda feel dumb. I feel mad and I feel kinda dumb, honestly.”

DeFrain thought that Trump’s rhetoric made it sound like he was willing to work with Democrats and Republicans, and he thought this was good news. He soon found out he was wrong.

“He was really open, willing to work with both sides of the fence,” DeFrain said. “Then more Russian stuff started piling up, he’s saying he’s being wire-tapped, he’s on Twitter, says this about this person…”

But what bothered him the most was Trump’s bombing of Syria, his aggressive talk about North Korea and the dropping of the “mother of all bombs” in Afghanistan, mLive reports. 

“I don’t want to see the news special of another local Saginaw teenager brought home in a casket with a flag over it,” DeFrain said. “We’re gonna invade another country. There’s no way around it. The way he’s acting now, it’s gonna happen. There are gonna be boots on ground. That’s what he said wasn’t going to happen. It’s one of the reasons I voted for him.”

DeFrain said he’s worried about his own family because of Trump’s aggressive behavior.

Related: White Nationalist GOP’er Sorry He Voted for ‘Son of a B*tch’ Trump – For a Shocking Reason (VIDEO)

Near the end of the interview, Wallace asked him what he’d like to tell Trump, if he had the chance.

“Delete your Twitter account until you can act like a grownup and stop trying to kill people in other countries,” DeFrain said. “Fix America. America first, Donald.”

Trump’s approval ratings during his first 100 days have been in the dumpster, according to recent polls conducted by NBC/WSJ and ABC/Washington Post. These polls show that Trump is the least popular president in modern history, so DeFrain and others who feel disappointed are in good company.

Find out more about what he and several other Michigan residents have to say in the video below.

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In the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, a wave of anti-semitism has swept the U.S. But at least one hater doesn’t think Trump is anti-Semitic enough.

Angry because Trump doesn’t hate Jews

And he’s mad.

Holocaust-denier Art Jones, who often dresses in Nazi clothing and has been celebrating Hitler since the 1970s is in a snit.

“I’m sorry I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am,” he said. “I’m embarrassed that I voted for him.”

Jones spoke with The Guardian’s  Lois Beckett, telling her he abandoned Trump due to the “Jewish lobby” and because Trump relies on his Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner for advice.

Jones was part of a gathering of armed neo-Nazis at a Walmart in Pikeville, Kentucky on Friday, Raw Story reports. They were preparing for a Saturday rally.

And Jones is a scary dude, having run in Illinois as a Republican for election in 2012 and 2016 to the United States Congress. Once a member of the Nationalist Socialist Party, while he was running the first time around, he said he voted Republican 90 percent of the time. 

In the same interview, he denied the Holocaust ever happened.

“As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” he said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.”

At least five dozen members of the Indiana III percenters militia organization, wearing full-body armor and brandishing AR-15s plan to attend Saturday’s neo-Nazi march.

They plan to gather in front of the courthouse.

Related: ‘Bamboozled’ by Trump, This Voter Regrets Voting for Him: ‘I Feel Dumb’ (Video)

So many Trump supporters have been disappointed in his performance, but people like Jones illustrate how scary some of his supporters, former or current can be.

You can watch Jones in action in the video below, but be forewarned that it contains offensive language.

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In the twilight zone known as the Trump presidency, two of his now-former supporters are upset that they voted for him. One former supporter is disillusioned for good reasons, and the other…well, I did mention twilight zone, now didn’t I?

Two Trump supporters in a nutshell

In one instance, Michigander Jason DeFrain is disheartened because Trump is backpedaling on so many of his promises. And in his own words, he says he feels cheated. 

“I kinda feel dumb, honestly,” he told one MSNBC host.

But he didn’t feel that way when MSNBC interviewed him in February, when he was optimistic.

“He has answers, sometimes we don’t like them, sometimes he offends the crap out of people. But he has answers,” said DeFrain, who’s voting in a presidential election for the first time.

Trump’s behavior during his first 100 days has definitely changed his mind, however.

“I feel like I was bamboozled, I really do,” DeFrain said. “Jeez, he fooled me and I feel kinda dumb. I feel mad and I feel kinda dumb, honestly.”

Related: Cowardly Trump Disses White House Correspondents’ Dinner…From 100 Miles Away (VIDEO)

The other unhappy camper is irked because Trump doesn’t hate Jews. Now, remember, I did say there was an element of the twilight zone in here, and this guy is it.

Art Jones, an avid Holocaust denier who likes to play dress-up in Nazi clothing, and who has been celebrating Hitler since the 1970s is really, really angry.

“I’m sorry that I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am,” he said. “I’m embarrassed that I voted for him.”

Jones was talking to The Guardian’s Lois Beckett, telling her that he dropped Trump because  the billionaire real estate mogul relies  on the Jewish lobby and because his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is also Jewish.

It seems that he and several other of his neo-Nazi chums were having a little heavily-armed get-together at a local Walmart in Pikeville, Kentucky in preparation for a rally being held on Saturday.

What makes this guy frightening is the fact that ran on the GOP ticket in Illinois in 2012 and 2016, taking a shot at the U.S. Congress. Fortunately he lost, but when he was running the first time around, he said he voted Republican 90 percent of the time. 

And this former member of the Nationalist Socialist Party is a major holocaust denier.

“As far as I’m concerned, the holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe in books, movies, plays and TV.”

By comparison, DeFrain was considerably less delusional, and for a while, entertained the idea that Trump was trying to appeal to Democrats as well as Republicans. But he soon found out he was wrong.

“He was really open, willing to work with both sides of the fence,” DeFrain noted. “Then more Russian stuff started piling up, he’s saying he’s being wire-tapped, he’s on Twitter, says this about this person…”

Then Trump was becoming very aggressive and that was what really bothered him. Bombing Syria, talking aggressively about North Korea and dropping the “Mother of all bombs” on Afghanistan.

That was enough for DeFrain, who threw in the towel on Trump. But it wasn’t enough for Jones. While many former Trump supporters are on the fringes of society, there are also many out there on the extreme edges and it’s very worrisome that Trump isn’t racist enough, isn’t anti-Semitic enough for them.

And sadly, that may be the only good thing about him.

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Why do we need campaign finance reform? Well, we’ve tried everything: voting, signing petitions, contacting our lawmakers and even protesting. But nothing ever seems to work. Maybe you’ve even thought about slipping a little bribe to your congresscritter, but you don’t want to get thrown in jail, plus there’s always more month than paycheck.

“I’ll bet you ask yourself, ‘why am I such a stupid piece of crap?'”  “Vince” from Funny or Die! declares.

In a hilarious infomercial for a fake product called LobbyWOW! Funny or Die! makes a strong case for campaign finance reform while demonstrating how our politicians take huge bribes that (Vince assures us) are “100 percent legal.”

“Hi, Vince here with LobbyWow! I’m going to tell you how you can turn your tens of millions of dollars into literally billions. Here’s how. […] LobbyWow! takes this useless bribe and turns it into a campaign contribution.”

Taking his cue from that old adage about how we really don’t want to see how legislation or sausages are made, Vince shows us how our political system works as he stands before a bowl full of hamburger. Since real meat’s expensive, he’d like to mix in some pink slime, sawdust and other vile substances to stretch it out. But oh, dang, those pesky government regulations. Luckily for him, all he has to do is use LobbyWow! to launder his cash by magically handing his bribe over to a lobbyist who transforms it into a campaign contribution.

And voila! A loophole gets passed and those annoying regulations magically disappear.

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Watch: Insanely funny “LobbyWow!” infomercial makes the case for campaign finance reform.

The video even directs you to a website address, www.GetLobbyWow.Com, which takes you to a satirical product page run by the campaign finance reform activist group, Represent.Us. Here you can sign a petition and get more information about the American Anti-Corruption Act. This proposed legislation seeks to:

1. Stop politicians from taking legal bribes from the special interests they’re supposed to regulate;
2. Require SuperPACs to play by the rules; bar politicians from working for lobbyists for a set number of years;
3. Clearly identify people who lobby as “lobbyists”;
4. Limit donations from lobbyists;
5. Mandate full transparency of all political contributions;
6. Change how elections are funded;
7. Disclose “bundling” of contributions, and;
8. Step up enforcement.

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“If you care about capitalism and the future of this country,” you’ll pick Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

As the GOP struggles with the rise of Donald Trump, one staunch conservative says he’ll vote for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton if Trump wins the nomination. Why? Because he believes that even the man who calls himself a Democratic Socialist would be better for capitalism and the economy than MeinTrumpf.

NewsHounds (they watch Fox “News” so you don’t have to) found some interesting video footage from Cashin’ In on Saturday, where Fox host Eric Bolling brings Jonathan Hoenig, Rebecca Williams, Gina Loudon and Juan Williams to discuss the scary traction Donald Trump’s gaining in the primaries and what it means for the Republican Party.

Cue footage from the Donald bragging about his high poll numbers and the massive amount of money the GOP’s spending on negative ads against him:

“I’ve never seen anything like it. I think they’ve spent $38 million on negative ads. How am I getting these poll numbers? The people of this country are smart. They get it.”

Eric Bolling says some are saying the GOP should save that money for the general election, but Rebecca Berg argues that the Republican party has enough deep-pocketed donors to fund the primaries and the general election. She’s more concerned about the fact that all the spending and all those SuperPACs “have not made an impact.” Gina Loudon snarkily adds that the money would be better spent “if they built the GOP a retirement home with some golf privileges,” because spending all that money against their own candidate says a lot about “their commitment to winning this election.”

Then Jonathan Hoenig, whom Brian from NewsHounds describes as “about as conservative as they come,” jumps in and insists that the GOP leadership is right to push back against Donald Trump. He explains that in opposing the frontrunner, they’re not putting themselves ahead of the party, they’re standing up for the vile principles and dubious ideas they hold “sacrosanct.”

And then Jonathan Hoenig drops a bombshell and declares that if you care about capitalism and the economy, you’ll vote for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump.

“In my opinion, I think Trump would be inexorably worse than Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the presidency, if you care about capitalism and the future of this country. […] Donald Trump — I know he’s supposed to be representing capitalism, free markets — [but] a lot of people cannot get behind someone who advocates for tariffs or banning journalists from their events.”

Aghast, Eric Bolling interrupts because he can’t believe Hoenig thinks the GOP should stage a contested convention even if that means Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton would wind up in the White House:

“Wait, wait, wait but answer the – the question was, if [Trump] doesn’t get quite to 1237 [delegates], and here it is, 1236, you’re OK to contest that convention?”

But instead, Hoenig doubles down:

“Eric, I’ll be voting for Bernie or Hillary if Trump’s the nominee, so absolutely.”

Wow. Eric Bolling then turns to Juan Williams who says the GOP has much bigger problems than how much money they’ve spent on not taking down Donald Trump. For starters, he flatly states that 25 percent of Republicans say they won’t vote for Das Trumpenführer and 40 percent say they’d consider voting for a third party candidate.

“They’re worried about maintaining control of the Senate, about their majority in the House, they’re worried about the damage to the GOP brand being done with the gender gap putting women way out of reach for the Republicans going forward.”

In any case, Jonathan Hoenig isn’t the first to admit that liberal — maybe even socialist! — policies can be good for capitalism and the economy. A top economist recently announced that our economy would soar under a Bernie Sanders presidency. Even Asher Edelman, the real-life inspiration for Gordon Gekko’s “greed is good” character from Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, supports Bernie Sanders because his economic policies would grow the economy.

Watch: Jonathan Hoenig tells Eric Bolling he’d vote for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump.

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The Donald Trump campaign claims they had nothing to do with having police remove a group of around 30 mostly black students from a rally on their own campus in Valdosta, GA. But, as it turns out, the cops have an entirely different story to tell.

On Feb. 29th, the Valdosta State University students got escorted out of a Donald Trump rally on held their own campus even though they weren’t protesting or causing any disruption whatsoever. At an event in Iowa, Trump doubled down by vehemently denying a report in the Iowa Register that his campaign had ordered the students out

“I had nothing anything to do with it. I show up. I didn’t even know anything had happened. And they wrote this vicious story and it gets picked up by everybody. And this is a paper that’s an enemy of ours with a writer that was horrible. And they pick it up all over the place. And they said Donald Trump ordered them out.”

But MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes calls BS. He talked to some of the students and police officers involved and found that — big surprise! — Donald Trump and his campaign were once again lying through their shiny, white teeth. Two of the students from Valdosta State University insisted they had done nothing to disrupt the protest. One student even showed Hayes a copy of the email circulated:

THIS IS NOT A CALL TO PROTEST. We honor Trump’s First Amendment right and do not wish to disrupt the rally.

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In addition, a Snapchat reminder clearly indicates that the students’ presence was meant to serve as a silent and symbolic gesture only.

If you’re going to the plex today please wear all black, business casual if you can. 4:30 on the tennis courts and sit together for the duration of the rally. Bring a book, some headphones, or just come vibe with everybody that’s for the cause. 

And then — BOOM! — Capt. Stryde Jones from the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Dept. told MSNBC:

“A member of the [Trump] event staff approached a member of our agency and requested that they broup be asked to leave.”

Furthermore, the Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress’ statement echoes Jones’ account:

“I spoke to a Trump staffer, whose name I do not have, she told us that they needed to leave. Not only did I talk to a Trump staffer, so did the University police, and we were told over the radio by the Sheriff’s office that Trump staff wanted them out.”

This follows a clear pattern of Donald Trump and his campaign harassing journalists and inciting violence against protesters. But the fact that these Valdosta State University students brought no signs and caused no disruptions — which would have been within their rights — and still got 86ed from the event marks a new low in an already dirty, lowdown campaign.

Watch: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes exposes Donald Trump’s lies about Valdosta State University students being removed from a rally at their own damned school.

H/T: Countercurrents. Featured image: Video screen grab/MSNBC.

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As April 15th looms closer, those tax cuts the Republicans keep pushing sure look tempting. Alas, as top economist Robert Reich reminds us, if something looks too good to be true then it probably is.

As the UC Berkeley professor and former labor secretary to Bill Clinton explained in his blog post on Monday, Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s proposed tax plans make President Ronald Reagan’s tinkle-down “voodoo economics” look like the height of common sense.

The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – are larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever before proposed in history.

Robert Reich then reminds us not to get taken in by Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s outsider schtick:

Trump and Cruz pretend to be opposed to the Republican establishment, but when it comes to taxes they’re seeking exactly what that Republican establishment wants.

Donald Trump may sound like he wants to soak the rich, but his proposed tax plan would result in a YOOOGE average tax cut of over $1.3 million per year for “really rich” folks like Donald Trump. Robert Reich takes care to add that — under these tax cuts — we middle-class peons would only average $2,700 in tax savings per year for our households. Is that worth destroying our roads and schools for?

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Meanwhile, Ted Cruz wants to replace our progressive income tax with a 10 percent flat tax for all income brackets and sources — including investment returns and other passive income. This would punish people who actually work for their living. These Republican tax plans would also cancel all estate and gift taxes so our nation’s one percent can pass more wealth down to their heirs.

This sort of system would burden lower-income workers who spend almost everything they earn and have few if any investments.

Republicans love bragging about being more fiscally responsible than the Democrats, but their tax plans would cripple our federal government by cutting revenues by up to $12 trillion over the next 10 years. And guess what? Ted Cruz and Donald Trump still want to beef up our military. As Robert Reich explains, both GOP presidential candidates’ tax plans would prove disastrous.

Bottom line: If either of these men is elected president, we could see the largest redistribution in American history from the poor and middle-class of America to the rich. This is class warfare with a vengeance.

Even those doughty old toffs across the pond at The Economist calls the GOP’s tax proposals “exorbitant” and “jaw-droppingly expensive.”

While Republicans often claim that — at 39 percent — US businesses pay one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, it never actually works out that way. Thanks to our crazy quilt of exemptions and loopholes, many of our most profitable companies (and the CEOs who run them) barely pay any taxes at all.

Be afraid, very afraid.

Watch: Robert Reich explains Ted Cruz’s and Donald Trump’s dubious tax cuts.

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One day after admitting to telling “white lies” on behalf of the President, 29 year old former model and long-time Trump loyalist Hope Hicks is resigning from her powerful position to ‘pursue other opportunities’.

Hicks had no political experience prior to the 2016 campaign, and was tied romantically to former White House advisor Rob Porter, who left amid a spousal abuse and security clearance scandal. But she built a reputation as one of the few Presidential Aides who could communicate effectively with the President, and even change his mind.

The resignation follows hot on the heels of an 8 hour marathon grilling by the House Intelligence Committee which initially raised the ire of Democrats who felt “bannon’ed” by Hick’s initial failure to answer questions. However later Hicks admitted to having lied for Trump, and claiming never to have lied about the Trump-Russia matter.

“Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years. She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person,” the President said in a statement on the departure. “I will miss having her by my side but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future.”

Related: Dems Furious as Top Trump Official Stonewalls Congress on Russia Probe

It is not clear what other opportunities Hicks is pursuing, or what it is she lied about. But it is clear that Hicks is the latest in a wave of resignations that has plagued the Trump Administration from the beginning in the communications sphere. Preceding her in leaving the White House communications arena were Sean Spicer, and Anthony Scaramucci. In just over one year.

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Just how far has America slid into tinpot dictatorship, into becoming a fascist banana republic with a puppet President, with Putin pulling the strings? This illustrates it pretty powerfully…

Tuesday morning the Attorney General of the United States, the top law enforcement official of our country, laughingly joined a group of conservative teens in chanting “lock her up”, in reference to President Trump’s political rival in the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton. This is the same man who lied to Congress ‘forgot to tell’ Congress about his contacts with former Russian ambassador and spy-master Sergey Kislyak during the 2016 election as the Russians meddled to elect his boss (the blatantly, obviously treasonous Donald Trump).

The disgraceful moment took place at the Turning Point USA High School Leadership Summit, held at George Washington University, and The Resistance was quick to make sure it backfired.

Trump’s AG Destroyed for Joining Kids in ‘Lock Her Up’ Chant

Featured image via Twitter.

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