Anti-Trump White House Protests Near Two-Week Mark As Organizers Raise More Than $100K

Newsweek ^ | July 27, 2018 | Chantal Da Silva

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Anti-Trump protests outside the White House are set to continue through the weekend as they near the two-week mark since they began last Monday.

Protesters with the "Occupy Lafayette Park" movement have been rallying outside the White House, which they have dubbed the "Kremlin Annex," since July 16, the day President Donald Trump returned from his Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser, Adam Parkhomenko, who has helped organize the protests, has said he plans to keep them going for as long as possible—a goal helped along by the fact that the movement has so far raised more than $100,000....

[Zeneta]

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Obama and Clinton absolutely loved all things Russia during the Kenyan Administration.

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Are such gatherings allowed without permits?

Isn’t there something that can be done to disperse these idiots?

It cannot be helping the tourist economy of DC.

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Are such gatherings allowed without permits?

Isn’t there something that can be done to disperse these idiots?

It cannot be helping the tourist economy of DC.

[elcid1970]

And yet, something, SOMETHING made LBJ drop out of the running in 1968. An incumbent President eligible for a second term does not normally do that. Again, somebody with LBJ’s monstrous ego does not do that. My Dad was assigned to the Pentagon that year, despised LBJ, and even he was surprised when the news came. FWIW we both later got sent to Vietnam; we were relieved that Richard Nixon became POTUS.

Anyway, I don’t think that LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, nor both Bushes were subjected to the kind of hatred & vitriol being flung at Donald Trump this very second. Saw all of the former and cannot comprehend the current intensity.