Month: October 2018

Stephen Miller Was Already a Freak in Third Grade

Buck Banks

“He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn’t have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it… he had such strange personal habits. He was a loner and isolated and off by himself all the time.”

— Teacher Nikki Fiske, quoted by the Hollywood Reporter, recounting having White House adviser Stephen Miller in her third grade class.

UPDATE: Fiske has been suspended by the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District for the “public release of student information,” NBC reports.

Trump Just Misses His Record for Lying in One Week

Buck Banks

129

“Donald Trump had his second-most-dishonest week as president last week, capping an extended run of egregious lying,” the Toronto Star reports. “Trump had four campaign rallies and a press conference, giving himself ample time to say inaccurate things. He made 129 false claims in all, just shy of his one-week record of 133, which he set in August.”

Georgia Governor Candidate Keeping 53,000 from Voting

Buck Banks

53,000

“The Georgia NAACP is preparing to sue Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican nominee for governor, in response to a report that Kemp’s office has put on hold tens of thousands of voter registration applications, most of them from African-Americans, ahead of the election,” Politico reports. “The injunction would seek to reopen voter registration in Georgia to ensure that 53,000 registrants on hold in Kemp’s office… would be allowed to register for the upcoming election.”

Trump Says He’s Lost Billions Since Becoming President

Buck Banks

“I said to one of my friends, a very wealthy friend, I said, ‘You know, I’ll bet you it cost me $2 or 3 billion and it’s worth every penny of it. I don’t need the money and it’s worth every penny because I’m doing so much for the country.”

— President Trump, quoted by USA Today, saying he’s lost “billions” since becoming president.