Day: July 16, 2017
Outlaws and In-Laws
It must be a cross to bear for Donald Senior,
To have a son as dumb as Donald Junior.
But that chip off the block
Might end up chipping up rocks,
Doing hard time with co-colluder Jared Kushner.
Even Fox Anchor Wonders at the White House Deception
“Why is it lie after lie after lie? The deception is mind-boggling. And there are still people who are out there who believe we’re making it up. And one day they’re gonna realize we’re not and look around and go: Where are we, and why are we getting told all these lies?”
— Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, quoted by the Washington Post, saying the White House is lying about its ties to Russia.
Flores: Get the Trump Kids Out of the White House
“I wish that he would get them out of the way so that we could have a professional staff at the White House on policy issues.”
— Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX), in an interview with KBTX, saying that it would be in President Trump’s “best interest” if he “removed all of his children from the White House.”
Colorado Voters Canceling Voter Registration to Protect Privacy
3,400
“Nearly 3,400 Coloradans canceled their voter registrations in the wake of the Trump administration’s request for voter info, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Thursday, providing the first statewide glimpse at the extent of the withdrawals,” the Denver Post reports.“The 3,394 cancellations represent a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate — 0.09 percent of the state’s 3.7 million registered voters. But the figure is striking nonetheless, with some county election officials reporting that they’ve never seen anything quite like it in their careers.”
Trump Voters Worried About Healthcare, Economy, Russia
14%
A new Vox/Survey Monkey poll finds 14% of Trump supporters now fear that the Senate health care bill will make them worse off. “Those supporters are the most vulnerable part of Trump’s coalition. They have lost faith in Trump’s promise that he would replace Obamacare with something ‘much better,’ and they have less faith in the rest of his presidency too. Compared with their fellow Trump backers, they are more economically anxious, less confident in Trump’s economic policies, and more concerned about the Russia scandal and the administration’s possible ethical violations.”
Don Trump Jr. Didn’t Have Secret Service Protection at Time of the Meeting
The latest attempt to blame Obama for Trump’s Russia problem is for Team Trump to claim the Secret Service approved the June 9, 2016 meeting with Don Trump, Jr. Present at that event were Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and representatives of the Russian government who offered incriminating information about Hillary Clinton to help Trump win the election.
Aside from the very valid observation that it’s not the job of the Secret Service to green-light who the campaign can meet with, is this pesky detail:
The Secret Secret wasn’t guarding Don Trump, Jr. at the time of the meeting.
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