April 23, 2018 - Pensito

Mike Cohen’s Motivation

April 23, 2018 Buck Banks

That Michael Cohen will flip is foregone and a given,
Because he keeps having a recurring, horrifying vision:
What Mike Cohen doesn’t want to be
Is the “Sweetheart of Cellblock C,”
And he’ll say and do anything to stay out of prison.

First DACA-Protected Dreamer Deported

April 23, 2018 Buck Banks

1st

“Federal agents ignored President Trump’s pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case,” USA Today reports.

Hannity Linked to Real Estate Shell Companies

April 23, 2018 Buck Banks

$90 million

Fox News host Sean Hannity “is linked to a group of shell companies that have spent $90 million buying hundreds of homes across the U.S through the help of foreclosures and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development,” the Guardian reports.

NYT Editors Go It So Wrong

April 23, 2018 Buck Banks

“The day Trump announced he was running, I admitted to a couple of Times editors that I’d watched eight seasons of ‘The Apprentice’ and that we should do a story about it. They told me political reporters wouldn’t be writing about Trump. ‘We have enough candidates to cover,’ one editor said. ‘Let the TV writers do it.’”

— Amy Chozick, in her new book “Chasing Hillary.”

More Voters See Trump as Representing the GOP

April 23, 2018 Buck Banks

43%

A Politico/Morning Consult poll finds that 43% of voters believe President Trump represents the majority viewpoint of Republicans in Washington, compared with 37% who said he does not. … That’s a net swing of 20 points from a August poll when 47% said Trump did not represent the viewpoint of most Republicans, and 33% said he did. This is important: Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” but now voters see him as part of the swamp.

Christie to Commission $85,000 Official Governor Portrait

April 23, 2018 Buck Banks

$85,000

Bergen County Record: “To most people, the image that sums up Chris Christie’s time as governor is the picture of him on that beach closed to everyone else, in that chair with his family and friends while the public was shut out of state parks on a holiday weekend during a government shutdown. … The image that Christie wants to officially mark his time as governor and the one that the public is paying for will be painted by an Australian artist whose portrait portfolio includes royalty and an international pop star — and whose fee comes with the highest price tag yet for New Jersey taxpayers. At a total of $85,000, Christie’s portrait will cost more than what his three predecessors combined paid to have their images hang in commemoration of their political service.”

Day: April 23, 2018

Mike Cohen’s Motivation

First DACA-Protected Dreamer Deported

1st

“Federal agents ignored President Trump’s pledge to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children by sending a young man back to his native Mexico, the first such documented case,” USA Today reports.

Hannity Linked to Real Estate Shell Companies

$90 million

Fox News host Sean Hannity “is linked to a group of shell companies that have spent $90 million buying hundreds of homes across the U.S through the help of foreclosures and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development,” the Guardian reports.

NYT Editors Go It So Wrong

— Amy Chozick, in her new book “Chasing Hillary.”

More Voters See Trump as Representing the GOP

43%

Christie to Commission $85,000 Official Governor Portrait

$85,000

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”