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To all the Trump enthusiasts: he lies. The Washington Post has fact checked his lies during his first 100 days in office. Trump has made 492 false or misleading claims. Trumps says "he plays to people's fantasies." Actually, he is playing to their fears, ignorance and prejudices.

He calls the national press the enemy of the people" and "fake news" and recommends possibly arresting or suing journalists. At the same time, he gets his misinformation from Infowars.com, Alex Jones (of insulting Chobani fame), Breitbartnews.com (of white nationalist and anti-Semitic fame), Fox News (Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly fame) and the National Enquirer (supermarket tabloid).

Trumpcare will not lower cost of or give people better healthcare. It will do just the opposite give tax cuts to some of the wealthiest and make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans while weakening Medicare and Medicaid.

Trump's tax plan may give small tax cuts to lower income workers but huge tax cuts to himself, ending the alternative minimum tax, reducing his pass-through income to a 15 percent rate and ending the Estate Tax, which already has a tax exemption of $10 million for couples.

Trump hasn't drained the swamp his staff appointments and department heads that paid large amounts to his campaign and the Republican Party make his administration look more like a cesspool. Consider the appointment of Steven Bannon of Breitbart (funded by Robert Mercer) as chief strategist who wants to "deconstruct our government" and Kellyanne Conway, "alternative facts" friend of Mercers daughter who lead the family super PAC that backed the Trump's campaign.

Now for a few of Trump's politicians: Scott Pruitt (Oklahoma, State Attorney General), head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is rolling back regulations for air, water and pesticides these are industry demands without regard for public health or environmental protections. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Session III (U.S. Senator) not only has a racist background but lied at his Senate confirmation hearing. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price (Representative, Georgia) traded in stocks companies, his committee regulated. Conflict of interest?

Now for Trump's million dollar donors who are holding positions in Trump's administration: Linda McMahon confirmed as head of Small Business Administration contributed $7.5 million. Betsy DeVos confirmed as Education secretary contributed $1.8 million, is hostile to public schools and favors charter schools, vouchers and cuts to low income student loans.

Steven Mnuchin (Goldman Sachs), confirmed as Treasury Secretary, contributed $425,000. Mnuchin presented the president's proposed tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Trump wants to do away with much of the Dodd-Frank bill, which was enacted after the 2008 financial meltdown to stop future bank fraud. Trump's reason is banks aren't loaning because of this bill. But the truth is "recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis showed U.S. commercial-bank lending at a 70-year high, climbing steadily since late-2010."

Mnuchin is just one of the Goldman alums that Trump has named to his administration, along with James Donavan, Deputy Treasury Secretary, Gary Cohn, Director of White House National Economic Council, Dina Powell, White House senior counselor for economic initiatives and Steven Bannon, chief strategist. Does this look like "pay for play" and Wall Street bankers running his administration?

President Trump has begrudgingly acknowledged the Russians did hack the DNC emails there is no debate within the U.S. intelligence community. As we have seen with his firing of FBI Director James Comey, Trump tried to stop the investigation. With so many of Trump's campaign in contact with Russians, the investigation by Robert Mueller as Special Counsel is an important step towards learning the truth.

We have the courts, our First Amendment rights of free speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble and to petition our government for redress of grievances, but this could change. Our greatest fear shouldn't be "fear itself" at this time in our history it should be the damage Donald Trump is doing to our democracy.

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