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Trump can’t help acting like a sap
And creating a witness-tampering flap.
But now he’s left us mystified
By saying he’s willing to testify.
Hey, whatever happened to fear of a perjury trap?

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Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“He’s very well spoken; he’s got some very good ideas.”

— Michael Bloomberg, in a CBS News interview, on Sen. Cory Booker.

“What was it really about? It was about the fact that President Trump commands a room, and he does. And maybe that makes a couple of people jealous.”

— Kellyanne Conway told Fox & Friends that the world leaders caught on video laughing about President Trump are just jealous. CNN reports Trump was “fuming” over the video.

“The information did not meet our expectations, so we made it up, preying on the vulnerable and feeding the prejudices and fears of Jones’s audience. We ignored certain facts, fabricated others and took situations out of context to fit our narrative.”

— Josh Owens, a former staff member at Alex Jones’s far-right conspiracy site Infowars, admits in the New York Times to making up stories for the site about the threat of Shariah law within the United States.

“I don’t hate anybody. I was raised in a Catholic house, we don’t hate anybody — not anybody in the world. So don’t you accuse me of any hate. … As a Catholic I resent you using the word ‘hate.’ Don’t mess with me when it comes to words like that.”

— Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at a Capitol Hill reporter who had questioned whether she “hated” President Trump following her decision to advance the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, The Hill reports.

— Joe Biden told CNN he would consider Sen. Kamala Harris as a potential running mate, a day after she dropped out of the presidential race.

Numerati

266,000

Employers added 266,000 jobs in November and unemployment matched a 50-year low of 3.5%, signs the U.S. economy is withstanding a global slowdown, the Wall Street Journal reports. CNBC notes the numbers easily beat the Wall Street consensus.

19%

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Joe Biden leading the Democratic presidential field with 19%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 14%, Elizabeth Warren at 9%, Pete Buttigieg at 6% and Michael Bloomberg at 4%.

8

“The Senate confirmed eight of President Trump’s court picks this week, underscoring the rapid pace the GOP-controlled chamber has set on judicial nominations,” The Hill reports.

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