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Fast Forward LGBTQ Jews Condemn Trump’s ‘Despicable’ Transgender Ban
Leaders of Jewish LGBTQ organizations slammed President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military as a “despicable” step back for equal rights. Trump shocked the nation by unexpectedly revealing the new policy, which will affect the estimated 6,000 transgender individuals now employed by the armed forces. After consultation with my Generals…
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Fast Forward Trump’s Lawyer Blames Secret Service For Allowing Trump Jr. Meeting With Russians
Jay Sekulow, a Messianic Jewish lawyer with a history of promoting Christian right causes in the U.S. and around the world, blamed the Secret Service for allowing the meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., and a Russian lawyer to take place on news programs on Sunday. Sekulow is working on Donald Trump’s private legal team, and…
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Fast Forward WaPo Investigation Finds Worker Protections Wanting In Ivanka’s Factories
“The time to change the narrative around women and work once and for all is long overdue; in fact, it’s become my life’s mission,” Ivanka Trump wrote in her book “Women Who Work.” While Trump works on the “narrative,” the thousands of women in Bangladesh, Indonesia and China who make garments for her eponymous clothing…
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Fast Forward Alt-Right Trolls Lash Out At Laura Loomer After Profile
Far right media activist Laura Loomer this morning, she has been the target of vicious anti-Semitic posts on social media since Forward published a profile of her Friday morning. “Synagogue of Satan. You are fake Jews,” wrote @BrydensFunny. “Go back to Israel you filthy kike,” wrote “Leah Goldstein.” (Twitter handle: @JewessGoyim.) “Goldstein? You sound like…
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Opinion George W. Bush Speechwriter Slams ‘Toxic’ Trump In Washington Post Op-Ed
Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Michael Gerson slammed President Donald Trump for his moral ambiguity as this latest scandal involving his son’s contact with a Russian lawyer unfolds. The op-ed “An administration without a conscience,” published Thursday in the Washington Post, made no reservations in labeling the contact between…
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Fast Forward Ivanka and Jared Try To Keep Low Profile In Sun Valley
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have made a daring escape. While the first family rides out the media storm following revelations that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian state prosecutor and a former Soviet counterintelligence officer in Trump Tower last summer, Kushner and Trump are attending a lux conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. The…
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Fast Forward Russian ‘Gun-For-Hire’ At Trump Jr. Meeting Once Ran Smear Campaign Alleging Anti-Semitism
The former Soviet intelligence officer who was at the bombshell meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower last June allegedly helped organized a campaign against a fellow Russian seeking political asylum in the United States — by calling him anti-Semitic. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-born political lobbyist now living in Washington D.C., was accused of…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump, Jr., Upset Over Coverage of Deadly Jerusalem Shooting
Donald Trump, Jr., took to Twitter Friday morning to criticize the BBC for its coverage of the shooting in Jerusalem that left two policemen dead. In the attack, which came early Friday morning near the Temple Mount, three Arab-Israelis opened fire on police officers, killing two and wounding one. Trump criticized the BBC’s headline in…
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