James Risen | Is Donald Trump a Traitor?

17 February 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News RSN V. WALL STREET - STABILITY V. GROWTH - We raise money, companies listed on Wall Street "make" money. The difference is profits, specifically profits defined by Wall Street investors. We raise money to achieve financial stability for our organization that provides services directly to the community we serve. Wall Street companies make money to distribute as "profits" to investors. The investors serve themselves. And they run the game. Simple enough? / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! James Risen | Is Donald Trump a Traitor?  James Risen, The Intercept  Risen writes: "I find it hard to write about Donald Trump. It is not that he is a complicated subject. Quite the opposite. It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious. He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist."  READ MORE Trump's Russia 'Hoax' Turns Out to Be Real  Philip Rucker, The Washington Post  Rucker writes: "The hackers, he suggested, may have been Chinese. Or some 400-pound guy sitting on his bed. Again and again, he insisted, Russian interference was a hoax - a fiction created by Democrats as an excuse for losing an election they should have won."  READ MORE The NRA Donated $10,000 to Help Train the Parkland Shooting Suspect to Use a Rifle  Judd Legum, ThinkProgress  Legum writes: "Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who charged with murdering 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, honed his marksmanship skills in a school program supported by the NRA. Cruz was, according to the Associated Press, a member of the school's four-person varsity marksmanship team, which received a $10,000 grant from the NRA in 2016."  READ MORE Mueller Levels New Claim of Bank Fraud Against Paul Manafort  Josh Gerstein, Politico  Gerstein writes: "Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed by the indictment last October in which he was charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent."  READ MORE What the Senate's Failure on Immigration Means for the Future of DACA  Dara Lind, Vox  Lind writes: "That's the deadline that President Trump set last September when he announced that his administration was winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protected young unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally in the United States."  READ MORE El Salvador Frees Woman Imprisoned Over 'Stillbirth'  Al Jazeera  Excerpt: "A woman in El Salvador serving a 30-year prison term for allegedly aborting her child has been released after the country's Supreme Court reduced her sentence."  READ MORE Single-use plastic containers are 'the biggest source of trash' found near waterways and beaches. (photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty Images) Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans  Prachi Patel, Scientific American  Patel writes: "Our seas are choking on plastic. A staggering eight million metric tons wind up in oceans every year, and unraveling exactly how it gets there is critical. A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation