| Week #6: December 24, 2016 |
| 1. |
Trump will keep his private security force while in office. This is unprecedented, and potentially dangerous. Read More About This |
| 2. |
Upon winning the Electoral College, Trump's first official statement was a lie (electoral landslide). Read More About This |
| 3. |
The FBI search warrant used to gain access to Huma's computer was made public. Most legal experts agreed, no probable cause. Nate Silver released additional data showing major moves in final days in swing states to Trump, around the time of the Comey letter. Almost no media follow up on this story. No politicians either. Read More About This |
| 4. |
A Politico article claims Trump was browbeating fellow Republicans into silence, by targeting those who speak out via Breidbart and his tweets. Read More About This |
| 5. |
On air, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly said, "The left wants power taken away from white establishment…." Read More About This |
| 6. |
A Jewish family in Lancaster, PA was targeted by Breidbart and Fox with a false claim that they were behind the cancellation of an elementary school Christmas play. Read More About This |
| 7. |
Teen Vogue reported Michael Flynn, Trump's National Security Advisor, met with the head of Austria's neo-Nazi party. Read More About This |
| 8. |
Not a single A list celebrity is willing to perform at Trump's inauguration (at which he tweeted his anger). Several Rockettes, being made to perform, spoke out in protest. Read More About This |
| 9. |
Gingrich suggested Trump should pardon his advisors who break the law. Read More About This |
| 10. |
Gingrich, after saying Trump wouldn't actually drain the swamp, was forced by Trump to publicly apologize, and say Trump would. Read More About This; Click here, also |
| 11. |
The Embassy of Kuwait cancelled their longstanding reservation to host their National Day celebration at Four Seasons, citing political pressure, and changed it to Trump's Hotel in DC. Read More About This |
| 12. |
Trump met the CEO's of Lockheed and Boeing, after tweeting false/negative information that caused their stocks to crater. Read More About This |
| 13. |
A senior executive at Oracle resigned over that company's CEO participation on Trump's transition team. Read More About This |
| 14. |
Eric and Donald Jr. offered a $1 million hunting trip, which included access to their dad, via a Foundation. Upon calls of conflict of interest, and investigation into the Foundation, the offer was cancelled. Read More About This |
| 15. |
Trump's team instructed the State Department to turn over a list of "gender-related staffing, programming, and funding." Read More About This |
| 16. |
Trump tweeted a planned build up of our nuclear arms, reversing three decades of disarmament. Read More About This |
| 17. |
Days later, he and Putin shared admiring letters exchanges. Putin publicly castigated Hillary as a "sore loser," and Trump agreed via a tweet. No US elected officials responded to either. Read More About This; Click here, also |
Replicated from: https://medium.com/@Amy_Siskind/week-6-experts-in-authoritarianism-advise-to-keep-a-list-of-things-subtly-changing-around-you-so-a1d5ceb7187a
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