No politician in history—and I say this with great surety—has been treated worse, or more unfairly, than President @realDonaldTrump—with (more than a) few exceptions.
It's almost if there's some sort of double standard at play.
Had any other president fired the FBI director who was investigating them for possible collusion with Russia, no doubt, they would have been greeted as a liberator.
But, in Trump's case, this was seen as evidence of obstruction of justice, and resulted in the appointment of a special prosecutor.
On a similar note, had any other president divulged highly classified (Israeli) intel to Russian operatives (inside the Oval Office), they certainly would have been viewed as a great friend of Israel.
And yet, once again, when Trump does it, it's called a major security breach, and he's practically accused of treason.
It's all so terribly unfair!
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Pre-empted by English Premier League soccer coverage.
Face The Nation: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); ; Roundtable: Ed O'Keefe (Washington Post), Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review), David Ignatius (Washington Post) & Molly Ball (The Atlantic).
This Week: National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster; Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT); Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD); Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE); Roundtable: "Independent" Strategist Matthew Dowd, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) & Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy.
Fox News Sunday: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), Kimberley Strassel (Wall Street Journal) & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL; Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); Roundtable: TBD.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with Rev. Robin Hynicka, a Philadelphia minister offering sanctuary to immigrants targeted by the Trump administration (preview); an interview with Cook County, IL Sheriff Tom Dart, who runs one of the largest jails in the country (preview); and, an interview with controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Rachel Maddow (MSNBC); Actor Ben Platt.
Tuesday: Actor Kevin Spacey; Actor Terry Crews; Actor Rob Huebel.
Wednesday: Actress Robin Wright; Comedian Hannibal Buress; Musician Paul Simon; Guitarist Bill Frisell.
Thursday: TBA.
Friday:TBA.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday-Thursday: Reruns.
Elsewhere...
Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer had his gym membership revoked after being confronted by one of his critics.
C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, wrote a Tumblr post describing her confrontation with Spencer at the Old Town Sport & Health gym in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday.
Spencer said he was at the gym "peacefully working out" when Fair came up to him and asked him if he was Richard Spencer. "I said no, because I wanted her to go away," he said. "I didn't want to get into a confrontation."
"I don't know [why they revoked it]," Spencer said. "I was a well-behaved member of this gym, I did not cause any controversy."
He said that the gym may have feared "negative publicity" after Fair "made it into a cause of some sort."
"I don't know what [the gym's] motives are," Spencer said.
Meanwhile...
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was forced to issue an on-air retraction and apology to Chobani yogurt.
Last month, InfoWars host Alex Jones vowed he would not back down from the latest lawsuit brought against him by the yogurt company Chobani.
"I'm choosing this as a battle. On this I will stand. I will win, or I will die," Jones said. "I'm not backing down. I'm never giving up. I love this."
But on Wednesday, he relented and read a statement on his show acknowledging the inaccuracies of the previous stories.
"During the week of April 10, 2017, certain statements were made on the InfoWars Twitter feed and YouTube channel regarding Chobani, LLC that I now understand to be wrong," Jones said. "The tweets and video have now been retracted and will not be reposted. On behalf of InfoWars, I regret that we mischaracterized Chobani, its employees, and the people of Twin Falls, Idaho, the way we did."
This is the second time in the past two months that Jones has had to apologize for promoting falsehoods on his show. In March, he gave a personal apology to James Alefantis, the owner of Comet Ping Pong, a Washington, D.C., restaurant that, according to the Pizzagate conspiracy, was the location of a child-sex ring with which Hillary Clinton and John Podesta were involved.
And, in other news...
Trump's skeevy personal attorney shared some "spank bank material" of his daughter.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, drew swift reactions from Twitter users after he posted a black-and-white photo of his daughter wearing a bra and stockings on Sunday night.
"So proud of my Ivy League daughter…brains and beauty channeling her Edie Sedgwick," Cohen said, adding a link to his daughter's Instagram account.
After Cohen tweeted the photo, things got weird quickly—with one Twitter user calling Cohen "Mr. Creepypants."
Another Twitter user replied to Cohen's picture by saying, "POTUS wants to date his daughter, the VP calls his wife 'mother,' and DJT's attorney posts spank-bank material of his daughter."
Cohen simply replied: "Jealous?"
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
– Trix