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New York Times: “Employers added 263,000 jobs last month, underscoring the economy’s resilience after some analysts had feared earlier in the year that a slowdown was coming. … The unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, the lowest level of the 10-year recovery, down from 3.8 percent in March.”
“I’m living rent-free inside of Donald Trump’s brain, and it’s not a very nice place to be, I can tell you that.”
— Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Rachel Maddow, on President Trump’s fixation with her.
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“The U.S. State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York’s Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause,” Reuters reports.
“I don’t care how experienced you are. I don’t care how many good people you have around you. That is not a job for 80-year-olds.”
— James Carville, in a podcast interview with David Axelrod, on Joe Biden’s candidacy for president.
“China, if you’re listening, why don’t you get Trump’s tax returns?”
— Hillary Clinton, quoted by the Washington Post, offering a hypothetical as part of her argument that Republicans are letting Russia get away with having aided Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
56%
A new CNN poll finds 56% of Americans say President Trump is doing a good job on the economy, a new high for his economic approval ratings.
57%
A new Quinnipiac poll funds 57% of American voters say President Trump committed crimes before he became president. In addition, 46% say Trump committed crimes since he became president.
54%
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 54% of all Democrats said they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate over 70 years old while more than a third said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate younger than 40. About a quarter of all Democrats said a White House candidate’s age did not matter.
“Three times a week the Senate Republicans meet for lunch… And occasionally they walk into that chamber and take a vote or two or three on judges. That is the sum total of the Senate’s work today. Mitch McConnell has effectively turned the United States Senate into a very expensive lunch club.”
— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), quoted by The Hill.
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“A British court sentenced Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, to 50 weeks in jail on Wednesday for jumping bail when he took refuge in Ecuador’s Embassy in London seven years ago,” the New York Times reports. “His complex legal travails are far from over: The United States is seeking Mr. Assange’s extradition for prosecution there, and officials in Sweden have left open the possibility that he could face criminal charges in that country, as well.”
