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1,700
Vice News: “A study released Sunday by The Global Disinformation Index, a UK nonprofit that rates sites’ trustworthiness, found that 70% of roughly 1,700 disinformation sites it analyzed were getting so-called ‘programmatic ads’ — ads placed automatically — from Google, putting brand names such as Audi and Sprint next to junk content.”
“There was no pressure put on them whatsoever. I put no pressure on them whatsoever. I could have. I think it might probably, possibly have been okay if I did, but I didn’t.”
— President Trump, quoted by ABC News, on his phone call with Ukraine’s president about investigating Joe Biden and his son.
$160,000
The RNC paid over $160,000 to a law firm that is defending former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, CNBC reports. The payment was made a month before his testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”
— Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly.
40
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt lays out the case of Donald Trump versus the United States of America in 40 sentences.
“Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election. It couldn’t be clearer, and that’s not just undermining democratic institutions. That is treason. It’s treason, pure and simple, and the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death. That’s the only penalty.”
— Former Gov. William Weld (R), quoted by the Washington Post.
50%
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds President Trump “is more personally disliked than any of his recent predecessors, and half of voters say they’re very uncomfortable with the idea of his re-election.” A full 50% don’t like Trump personally and disapprove of most of his policies; only 25% both like him personally and approve of his policies.
“So many people seem to think that judges are just like politicians with robes. Rubbish.”
— Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, quoted by the Salt Lake Tribune.
“A president is sitting in the Oval Office, right now, who continues to commit crimes. He continues because he knows his Justice Department won’t act and believes Congress won’t either. Today’s news confirmed he thinks he’s above the law. If we do nothing, he’ll be right.”
— Sen. Elizabeth Warren, on Twitter.
“The president asked a foreign power to help him win an election. Again.”
— Hillary Clinton, on Twitter.
