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This week, two more members of President Donald Trump’s team resigned. The most prominent was National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who will be replaced by former UN Ambassador John Bolton. The second was Trump’s lead attorney John Dowd, who since last summer had been the president’s chief lawyer on the Russia investigation. Trump hired Joseph diGenova to
March
For Our Lives, a demonstration involving survivors of the Parkland
school shooting that will take place Saturday in Washington, D.C., and
across the country, registered a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy
organization that is not required to disclose its donors.
The March for Our Lives Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) "social welfare"
nonprofit organization, was registered on March 8 with the D.C.
Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, records
show. The action fund lists its business address in Encino, Calif., and
its agent as CT Corporation System, a D.C.-based firm that offers
agent, incorporation, and corporate business compliance services. Jeri Rhodes, an associate executive secretary for finance and administration at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a group that
"lobbies Congress and the administration to advance peace, justice,
opportunity, and environmental stewardship," is also listed as the
action fund's executing officer and governor on its registration. Rhodes
previously served as chief financial officer for Greenpeace.
While the organization said on its website
it is "for kids and by kids" and the "March For Our Lives organizers
are the kids themselves," it also said the kids "have brought in support
to help ensure it is a success." A coalition of liberal advocacy groups
are currently involved in organizing and planning the march. In
addition to support from leading gun-control groups like Everytown for
Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and Giffords, organizers from the
Women's March, Planned Parenthood, and Move On are involved with the
permitting for the event as well as promoting it.
Betsy and Thomas respond to other alternative media channels who are defending Senior Executive Services. It’s not pretty so don’t go here unless you have had your morning coffee.
NEWS HAS BEEN BREAKING OF RUSSIA-CONNECTED CORRUPTION WITHIN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.BUT—SURPRISE, SURPRISE—IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DONALD TRUMP AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH BARACK OBAMA.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to CNNMoney’s Laurie Segall after the news broke this weekend that Cambridge Analytica accessed information from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge.