Fred’s Weekly Note Archive
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | APRIL 26, 2018 “With his remarks, Mulvaney arrogantly demonstrated the seedy underbelly of the corrupt campaign finance system that pervades Washington today.” Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget and a former South Carolina Representative, revealed this week that he had been a classic pay-to-play Congressman. […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | APRIL 19, 2018 “Like President Trump, Meadows, Jordan, and Nunes have shown disdain for the rule of law, disdain for our law enforcement system, and disdain for our constitutional system of government.” Key House Republicans are out to sabotage Mueller’s Russia investigation at any cost. Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | APRIL 12, 2018 “For all practical purposes, the firing of Rosenstein would have the same result as firing Mueller, and constitutes the crossing of a red line.” President Trump is off on another Twitter tear this week attacking Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, with a […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | APRIL 5, 2018 “Mueller is going to make whatever case may exist against Trump for obstruction of justice, and for any other wrongful conduct by Trump, in his Special Counsel reports.” A Washington Post article this week broke the news that President Trump’s attorneys were told last month that Trump […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 30, 2018 “Very serious questions must be investigated about whether the John Bolton Super PAC and the Trump presidential campaign committee violated criminal law.” Democracy 21 and CREW sent a complaint yesterday to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section requesting an investigation of whether Cambridge Analytica, its CEO, Alexander […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 22, 2018 “We were successful in keeping out any new campaign finance riders from the final bill.” One of the many fights that took place in reaching a final $1.3 trillion Omnibus Appropriations bill this week was a concerted effort by the reform community to keep damaging campaign finance […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 15, 2018 “Why in the world would any world leader trust Trump or treat anything Trump says as credible?” President Trump had made 2,436 false or misleading claims in office as of March 2, according to The Fact Checker at The Washington Post. Last night, however, Trump did something […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 8, 2018 “If Members who supported the tax bill were really interested in balancing the budget, they never would have voted to unbalance the budget by $1.5 trillion.” The national news these days is dominated by Trump stories – the Russia Probe, Trump and his Administration’s ethics abuses, stories […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 1, 2018 “With extensive business holdings that he refused to divest, and with his obvious nepotism problems, Jared Kushner never should have been given a senior White House position in the first place.” It is time for White House advisor Jared Kushner to go. On April 26, 2017, Democracy […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | FEBRUARY 22, 2018 “By spelling out in stunning detail how the Russians carried out their attacks on our elections, the Mueller indictment has opened the door to our government responding.” The indictment brought last week by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Russian individuals and entities for intervening in the 2016 […]
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