What's Trump Done Now?

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She wouldn't have pushed him to take up a new career.
I guess we can put a checkmark beside 'gets hot looking women for reasons other than physical attraction' box
 
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Melania certainly does NOT need the money.She is yet to define what her role is as "first lady" She seems a lot more private than previous ladies in that role
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Many of them probably don't - They can probably bill Uncle Sam for most of their entertaining expenses. (Whether that would cover Bingo or not I'm not sure)
 
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Trump Kills CFPB Arbitration Rule: The Little Guy Loses Again

Trump just threw future victims of financial crimes and predatory practices to the wolves of Wall Street.

President Trump signed a congressional resolution Wednesday that allows financial institutions to block customers (that’s us) from filing class-action lawsuits. In doing so, he grabbed back a tool we were given in July by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would have helped us fight banks or credit card companies or mortgage lenders and others if they rip us off.

The rule, which was supposed to go into effect this spring, would have banned something called a “mandatory arbitration clause” that prevents people from joining together in a class-action lawsuit. Last week the Senate was divided on whether to overturn the rule. Vice President Pence broke the tie 51-50.

When you sign up for a credit card, a checking account, a loan or other financial services from a bank, buried deep in the fine print of nearly every contract is language that requires customers to use arbitration if you have a beef. That puts you up against a team of corporate lawyers, alone. It doesn’t matter if you learn that there is a pattern of shady practices hurting millions of other customers, you cannot band together to have your day in court. And however you settle your case, the results of arbitration cases are usually sealed. So the rest of us will not be warned to steer clear.

The Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) was launched in 2010, as part of the Dodd-Frank financial law, to find ways to better protect consumers from dishonest and fraudulent bankers, traders and executives like the ones that misled consumers about the toxic mortgage products they peddled as they paved the way to the global banking crisis. Or like the Wells Fargo employees who opened millions of deposit and credit-card accounts without customers’ permission.

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Trump Kills CFPB Arbitration Rule: The Little Guy Loses Again
 
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tay said:
Trump Kills CFPB Arbitration Rule: The Little Guy Loses Again

Trump just threw future victims of financial crimes and predatory practices to the wolves of Wall Street.

President Trump signed a congressional resolution Wednesday that allows financial institutions to block customers (that’s us) from filing class-action lawsuits. In doing so, he grabbed back a tool we were given in July by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would have helped us fight banks or credit card companies or mortgage lenders and others if they rip us off.

The rule, which was supposed to go into effect this spring, would have banned something called a “mandatory arbitration clause” that prevents people from joining together in a class-action lawsuit. Last week the Senate was divided on whether to overturn the rule. Vice President Pence broke the tie 51-50.

When you sign up for a credit card, a checking account, a loan or other financial services from a bank, buried deep in the fine print of nearly every contract is language that requires customers to use arbitration if you have a beef. That puts you up against a team of corporate lawyers, alone. It doesn’t matter if you learn that there is a pattern of shady practices hurting millions of other customers, you cannot band together to have your day in court. And however you settle your case, the results of arbitration cases are usually sealed. So the rest of us will not be warned to steer clear.

The Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB) was launched in 2010, as part of the Dodd-Frank financial law, to find ways to better protect consumers from dishonest and fraudulent bankers, traders and executives like the ones that misled consumers about the toxic mortgage products they peddled as they paved the way to the global banking crisis. Or like the Wells Fargo employees who opened millions of deposit and credit-card accounts without customers’ permission.

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Trump Kills CFPB Arbitration Rule: The Little Guy Loses Again
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Dodd-Frank is all about benefitting big banks and hurting the individual. Getting rid of it piecemeal is the next best thing to getting rid of it wholesale.
 
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Don't kid yourself. Trump's beside himself because of his unpopularity....as are you.
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Newt Gingrich calls uranium one - committed by YOUR asshats- is the biggest scandal in US history.
The only popularity there is because the field of traitorous crooks licking hillie's nilly is so large
 
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Newt Gingrich calls uranium one - committed by YOUR asshats- is the biggest scandal in US history.

Newt Gingrich called Benghazi the biggest scandal in US history until last week and the Monica Lewinsky affair the biggest one before that.

Let's see. What would qualify as the biggest scandal during Newt's watch? Say, the illegal and arbitrary invasion of Iraq, conducted to satisfy an American public need for immediate vengeance of some sort against Arabs?
 
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