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GOP’s President-Elect Skipped All Veteran’s Day Events

November 12, 2016 Jon Ponder

Busy day planned in New York. Will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016

Here’s how the Republican Party’s newly elected president described his plans for Veteran’s Day.

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Salutes Gay Vets on Veterans Day

November 11, 2010November 11, 2010 Jon Ponder

Inscription on tombstone reads: “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” Video from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network via Towleroad.

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GOP’s President-Elect Skipped All Veteran’s Day Events

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Salutes Gay Vets on Veterans Day

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53%

A new Morning Consult poll finds 53% of Americans don’t know why the American colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence to separate from Britain on July 4, 1776.

$1.6 billion

President Trump’s pardons and commutations have cost more than $100 million in fines owed to the federal government and another $1.5 billion in restitution to victims, Forbes reports.

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$3.3 trillion

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