Stupid Trump tricks

Independent, UK - The Trump administration quietly changed the definition of both domestic violence and sexual assault back in April but the move has only just surfaced.  The change could have significant repercussions for millions of victims of gender-based violence.The Trump Justice Department’s definition only considers physical harm that constitutes a felony or misdemeanour to be domestic violence – meaning other forms of domestic violence such as psychological abuse, coercive control and manipulation no longer fall under the department’s definition.

The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of lawsuits involving Cuba, which no U.S. president has ever done. It has set a deadline of March 2 to announce whether it will create, in the words of the National Lawyers Guild, “a second embargo” of Cuba — “one that would be very difficult to dismantle in the future.”

President Trump on Sunday night said that he and Kim Jong Un "see eye-to-eye,"

Independent, UK -The Trump administration is reportedly ready to set up a panel to reconsider and possibly change the US government’s position on climate change. A committee working under the National Security Council would include sceptics who have questioned the scientific consensus on manmade global warming, administration officials have revealed.

The White House plan has been championed by William Happer, one of the NSC’s senior directors and a physicist who has disputed the damaging impact CO2 emissions are having on the earth’s atmosphere. Having the panel operate under the NSC would avoid the public scrutiny usually required of government advisory committees, senior officials told The Washington Post.