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YEAR 2017: The Trump Effect
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by Big Island Video News
on Jan 1, 2018 at 1:53 am

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STORY SUMMARY

HAWAII ISLAND - This is an installment in a year-ending series looking back on the Big Island's top news stories of the year.

(BIVN) – All the biggest stories in 2017 seemed to involve one man – the President of the United States, Donald Trump – who took office in January. The heavily Democratic state of Hawaii was not happy about it, and in Hilo and Kona, they took to the streets in large numbers.

Trump went to work right away, signing executive orders, rolling back many of the achievements of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin found a new sort of celebrity, as he led the challenge to Trump’s travel ban.

The Hawaii vs. Trump case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, it was Hawaii’s Congressional delegation – all Democrats – who found themselves on the front line of a new political resistance to the sweeping ideological changes in Washington.


Filed Under: Hawaii Tagged With: Donald Trump

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