Lots of good news, but I wanted to start with a story.
When I was in my early 20s, I worked at a store in the mall for a while. I didn’t get along very well with the manager of the store. I honestly can’t remember why. Anyway, one night there were just three of us on the floor and $350 went missing from the cash register.
This was a really big deal and very stressful for those of us working. That week, the manager let me know that she *knew* it was me who stole the money and they were going to prove it.
It was awful. I didn’t steal the money. I knew I didn’t steal the money. But I had no way to prove it. I know some other people believed me and everyone else continued to be nice to me, but it was super stressful. Every time I talked to someone, I wondered if they thought I was a thief.
My manager told me that someone was coming from home office to interview everyone in the store about the crime and, she was confident, that this woman would be able to prove that I did it.
I was terrified, but I was also glad that I would be able to talk to someone who was not my manager about this. I really hoped that the woman would see that I was innocent. In the meantime, I went on with my job, kept my head down, and didn’t talk about the issue to anyone but my close friends and family.
I was thinking about that experience this week watching DT’s complete unraveling. I noticed how even when he tweets about something else, like the unemployment rate, he still has to add WITCH HUNT or NO COLLUSION to everything he says. Every conversation now it about this. And his story keeps changing. And he refuses to talk to Mueller.
Having been an innocent person accused of a crime, I can tell you that how he is acting is the polar opposite of how I was driven to act. Now this doesn’t mean he did anything wrong (although, frankly, it is hard to believe that he didn’t) but he sure isn’t acting like someone accused of a crime he didn’t commit. He is acting like a person who feels the walls closing in and is beyond panicked.
The Walls are Closing in on Trump
Lots of court cases are closing in on DT. Stormy is doing a great job putting the pressure on (with Rudy’s help):
Stormy Daniels already had a defamation claim against Trump. Now she has a splendid case.
You’re not alone if you have a creeping sense of deja vu. A president under investigation by a special prosecutor gets caught up in litigation filed by a previous fling. The president lies publicly and then under oath in the course of a civil suit. The perjury is easily proved, and the House impeaches. That was the Paula Jones case, but it could well be the scenario that is about to play out today.
Stormy Daniels already has a defamation claim against President Trump based in part on his accusation that her story that she was threatened in a parking lot was false. (Trump says the claim of an affair was “false and extortionist.”) Now she has a splendid case.
Her lawyer also claims they have evidence that the payment WAS related to the election which would be HUGE if true
Michael Avenatti reveals on MSNBC that communication between Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen during the period of the $130,000 hush money payoff was clearly about coordination with the 2016 election.
He’s cooperating with the SDNY, and claims that the Daniels payments, as even Giuliani’s own hypothetical floated today implied, were clearly related to the urgency of settlement related to the 2016 campaign.
"I have the documents. I have the evidence in my possession on the communication with Michael Cohen and her previous attorney that the case had to be resolved fast so that it didn't hurt Trump's chances on Election Day."
to be clear: if this was done for the election, then major laws were broken. For sure by Cohen, but also likely by Trump himself.
And now the NYT is reporting that Trump knew about Michael Cohen's payment to Stormy Daniels "several months before he denied any knowledge of it”
Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force One in April, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.
How much Mr. Trump knew about the payment to Stephanie Clifford, the actress, and who else was aware of it have been at the center of a swirling controversy for the past 48 hours touched off by a television interview with Rudolph W. Giuliani, a new addition to the president’s legal team. The interview was the first time a lawyer for the president had acknowledged that Mr. Trump had reimbursed Mr. Cohen for the payments to Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels.
again IF this was related to the campaign (and it seems pretty clear that it was) and if Trump knew about it (again, seems like he did) he broke laws and may be in major trouble here! This is BIG!!!
And it might just be the tip of the campaign violations/bribing people mountain because
Trump’s lawyer took out lines of credit to secure access to as much as $774,000 as race heated up
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, gained access to as much as $774,000 through two financial transactions during the 2016 presidential campaign as he sought to fix problems for his boss, public records show
Where did the rest of that money go? Was it all reported? Did Trump know about it all? You know the Fed know EVERYTHING since they took all his records and phones. And Trump and Cohen are so freaked out, neither will even tell his lawyer what the Feds might know! Sounds like BIG stuff coming for them.
And Mueller keeps working on the Russia stuff:
Special counsel Robert Mueller focusing sharply on links between Trump confidant Roger Stone and former campaign official Rick Gates, sources say
- Special counsel Robert Mueller is focusing intensely on alleged interactions between former top Trump campaign official Rick Gates and political operative Roger Stone.
- Stone, a longtime advisor to Trump, is one of the top subjects of the investigation into potential collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign, sources told CNBC.
- Stone's attorney did not deny the relationship between his client and Gates, but sought to downplay its importance.
remember: Stone totally knew what was coming with the emails and was in contact with wikileaks & Gates was deep within the Trump campaign & Mueller knows all Gates knows because he has flipped. I don’t know what he knows, but this SOUNDS like a pretty strong link between the campaign and the russians. Tick tock!
He is losing ANOTHER lawyer: White House counsel expected to exit: report
White House counsel Don McGahn is expected to exit the Trump administration in the upcoming months and could be replaced by Emmet Flood, the president's newest addition to his legal team, The Associated Press reported.
A sour smell of panic in the White House as the law closes in
That unpleasant odor wafting from the direction of the White House is the sour smell of panic, as the president’s lies threaten to unravel — and the law closes in.
One thing, and only one thing, is clear from this orchestrated attempt to change the narrative about Daniels. Trump is worried that the payment — which prevented a potential scandal just days before the 2016 election — might constitute an illegal campaign donation if Cohen used his own funds, as he has claimed, and was not reimbursed.
Some experts say there may have been a violation even if Trump’s carefully worded (for him) tweetstorm is true. But if Cohen’s “retainer” was really an attempt to hide the payment and structure the reimbursement so as not to rouse suspicion among banking regulators, Trump and Cohen may be in more legal jeopardy from the new story than from the old.
Nice work, Rudy.
And right on schedule our heros Norm Eisen and Noah Bookbinder piped up: We filed a complaint about Trump’s ethics. Giuliani made it possible.
Like doctors, lawyers operate with a principle in mind: First, do no harm.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s newly hired attorney, violated that rule repeatedly in Wednesday night’s interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity and in subsequent statements. Giuliani’s performance left the president exposed to possible liability for campaign finance, ethics and false statements violations — and, for good measure, deepened Trump’s obstruction of justice peril.
Our watchdog group filed a complaint with the Department of Justice and the Office of Government Ethics on Thursday, asking officials to investigate whether Giuliani’s disclosures show that Trump violated federal ethics laws or laws against making false statements. The Ethics in Government Act requires filers of public financial disclosure forms, including the president, to disclose any liabilities worth more than $10,000. Giuliani repeatedly acknowledged on Wednesday and Thursday that Trump owed Cohen $250,000, accounting for the $130,000 payment to Daniels and associated taxes and fees. But Trump’s public financial disclosure report last summer didn’t list any debts to Cohen. A knowing failure to report such a debt constitutes a federal crime, and failure to properly report that liability can result in penalties up to $50,000, as well as imprisonment. Moreover, lying on a financial disclosure report can be the basis for federal false statements charges under 18 USC 1001.
Of course, they are already throwing Rudy under the bus because loyalty means nothing to these people (and, frankly, he kind of deserves it 😄 ).
Friend: Michael Cohen Says Rudy Giuliani ‘Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About’
MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch said he has spoken with Michael Cohen, and says the personal lawyer to President Donald Trump told him that newly hired Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” regarding Stormy Daniels. “I spoke with Michael Cohen yesterday, and his remark about Giuliani is that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Deutsch said on Morning JoeFriday morning. “He also said that ‘Look, there are two people that know exactly what happened, myself and the president and you’ll be hearing my side of the story,’ and he was obviously very frustrated at what had come out yesterday.” He also added that Giuliani was “unhinged” during the 2016 campaign, and “there was a reason he did not get hired for all the jobs that he wanted to.”
and of course Trump pushed him even further under the bus, even though reports are it was his dumbass idea to begin with: Trump walks back Giuliani: 'He'll get his facts straight'
"He's learning the subject matter. He's going to be issuing a statement, too," Trump said of the former New York City mayor, on the White House South Lawn. "He started yesterday. He'll get his facts straight."
Sure, because attorney to a POTUS who is under multiple major investigations is DEFINITELY the kind of job where you would want to “learn as you go.” 😉 Nice work fellas!
I can see why they are panicking about what Rudy said because here it is in a nutshell:
Here is what Trump World is now asking us to believe: President Trump, a man who has left a trail of scammed customers, stiffed contractors and settled lawsuits that stretches back decades, agreed to pay his lawyer $35,000 per month without having any clear idea of what that money was going for.
And this scenario is the best possible construction of events that Trump and his allies have been able to put forth. The alternative is both substantially more damning and far more credible.
It has now come to light, thanks to Trump lawyer (sic) Rudy Giuliani’s interview on Fox News, that Trump reimbursed his other lawyer Michael Cohen for $130,000 in hush money that Cohen paid to Stormy Daniels before the election to keep her alleged affair with Trump quiet. To spin this in the least negative way, Giuliani is pushing the idea that Trump agreed to fork over that payment — in monthly installments — with only a faint and general sense that this money might have gone to keeping a cast of unknown accusers quiet, without wanting to know the details.
Because if there is one thing Trump is known for, it is paying people for their work! /s
and this is important not just because of this one lie but because:
What this really illustrates is how hard it has gotten for Trump to find a non-incriminating pathway through the minefield of basic realities that are now catching up with him.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lies are eroding beneath his feet on multiple other fronts. Giuliani has also admitted that Trump fired his FBI director because he wouldn’t publicly clear him, blowing up Trump’s fake pretextfor the firing. Trump continues to assert that there was “no collusion” with Russia. But we know that there absolutely was collusion in the sense that his son and top campaign officials eagerly sought to obtain dirt on his opponent from a foreign adversary and that Trump played an active role in trying to falsify that to the nation. House Intelligence Committee Republicans tried to obscure all this, and did all they could to preventthe congressional oversight process from ferreting out the full story, in some cases with active assistance from Trump.
But special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s leaked questions show that the inquiry into those matters remains very much alive. At a minimum, even if no criminality is discovered, there will soon be an official accounting of both the collusion and Trump’s efforts to conceal it. Trump’s tower of lies is crumbling.
It is hard for me to imagine that all these cases coming for Trump are all going to fall short of their mark. However, there is no way to know for sure and the judicial branch and the Justice department will be the ones to make the ultimate recommendations on this. In the meantime, I think Adam Schiff has great advice for our party → Don’t Take the Bait on Impeachment
During the course of our investigation in the House Intelligence Committee, we have found troubling evidence of both collusion and obstruction of justice. The special counsel, Robert Mueller, has no doubt seen even more than we have, but his investigation is not complete, and our efforts continue as well. There is much more work to do before any of us can say whether the evidence rises to the level that we should consider a remedy beyond the one that voters will render at the ballot box.
Given the evidence that is already public, I can well understand why the president fears impeachment and seeks to use the false claim that Democrats are more interested in impeachment than governing to rally his base. Democrats should not take the bait. Let President Trump arouse his voters as he will, while Democrats continue to focus on the economy, family and a return to basic decency. And in the meantime, all Americans should reserve judgment until the investigations have run their course.
Luckily we have a lot of reasons to be optimistic about November and a lot of issues on our side:
Good Election News
Frustration mounts as Republicans blow up tax message
Republicans face brutal electoral conditions in 2018 and a new foe: Themselves.
Over the past week, key figures in the party have uttered head-scratching statements about the tax-cuts bill that will be millstones for those Republicans fighting for their political lives in the midterm elections.
President Trump’s former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, forced to resign last year after racking up $400,000 in travel bills, said that repealing ObamaCare’s individual mandate — an act the GOP achieved in its December tax bill — “drives up the cost for others in the market.”
“We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.” - Matt House, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
“Price just exposed every single GOP Senate candidate.” - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Communications Director Lauren Passalacqua.
A day earlier, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said there’s “no evidence whatsoever” that the GOP’s corporate tax cuts are helping workers, undermining the cornerstone of the party’s electoral strategy this cycle.
You know what poll after poll finds we can win on? Healthcare. And Dems are on it → On Anniversary of House Obamacare Repeal, Democrats Look to Extract a Price
A year ago Friday, Representative Claudia Tenney of New York stood among dozens of enthusiastic colleagues in the Rose Garden to celebrate passage of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. When President Trump made his way onstage, Ms. Tenney clapped and smiled.
On this not-so-happy anniversary, a Democratic “super PAC” is on the air with a television commercial reminding her constituents of a repeal vote that Republicans were once convinced would be a political winner. Ms. Tenney’s Democratic challenger, Anthony Brindisi, a state assemblyman, said health care is consistently one of the top issues in a vast district that runs from Lake Ontario through Utica and Rome to the Pennsylvania border.
“I think her vote is wildly unpopular among constituents in the district,” Mr. Brindisi said. “And what adds insult to injury is that she celebrated her vote by snapping selfies of herself at the White House, gleefully cheering a vote that would take health insurance away from thousands of her constituents.”
House passage of the Obamacare repeal bill left that chamber’s Republicans in a no-win situation. They took the hard vote, but because the Senate failed to follow suit, no one can claim a victory. Now Democrats hope to extract a price. Far from the liability that the Affordable Care Act has been in past elections, Democrats believe health care will be a key advantage heading into this fall’s midterm elections.
And they have reason to fear because their voters are losing in this healthcare fight due to their actions → The uninsured rate is rising — but only for Republicans
After years of decline, new data suggests that America’s uninsured rate is back on the rise.
The nonprofit Commonwealth Fund released new data Monday showing that the uninsured rate rose in the first few months of this year, rising from 12.7 percent at the end of 2016 to 15.5 percent in the first three months of 2018
bamacare had affordability problems before Trump took office — but actions taken by the Trump administration near certainly made those problems worse. That helps explain why we saw a plateauing of coverage rates under Obama, and now a slight rise under Trump.
Or, as Collins puts it, “actions by the Trump administration exacerbated pre-existing weaknesses in the law.”
But these Trump administration actions seem to be hurting the exact same people who put the president in office. One of the findings that surprised Collins was that the uninsured rate rose only for Republicans, not Democrats.
Nunes opponent raises $1 million in first quarter
A Democratic candidate challenging House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes took in more than $1 million in the first quarter of 2018, a sign of Democrats' enthusiasm to oust the California congressman who has allied himself closely with President Donald Trump.
Andrew Janz, the Deputy District Attorney in Fresno County, is still considered a long shot in his bid to unseat Nunes. CNN currently rates the 22nd District as a "safe Republican" seat. But Nunes' role in running interference for Trump on the investigations into Russia's role in the 2016 election has made him a target for Democrats nationwide.
According to fundraising figures provided to CNN by the campaign, Janz has raised more than $1 million so far in 2018 with just three days left in the first quarter. The campaign received a huge influx in fundraising cash from donors across the country in the wake of Nunes role in releasing a controversial memo detailing concerns Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee had with the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Janz campaign officials touted the fact that his average donation is $42.55 and the median donation is $20.18. Janz has promised to not take a penny in corporate PAC donations.
We’ll Take all the Allies We Can Get
From Foxnews! Judge Nap: Giuliani's Claim That Trump Didn't Know About Stormy Daniels Payment Is 'Unworthy of Belief'
On "Fox & Friends," Napolitano said that Giuliani's claim that Trump gave Cohen $130,000 and didn't know where it was going is "unworthy of belief."
He said it's up to the American public to decide if they believe Trump is the kind of person who would "pour money down a hole" without asking to whom the money was going and for what purpose.
Also from FOX! Fox’s Cavuto to Trump: ‘That’s your stink. Mr. President, that’s your swamp.’
Fox News host Neil Cavuto ripped into President Trump’s trail of conflicting and false statements in a monologue on Thursday, targeting Trump for issues such as the Stormy Daniels payment and his exaggerations about illegal voting during the 2016 election.
Speaking directly to the president on his show, “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” he questioned why Trump lambastes the news media for “fake news” when his own statements are often contradictory.
“Let me be clear, Mr. President,” Cavuto said. “How can you drain the swamp if you’re the one who keeps muddying the waters?
“You didn’t know about the $130,000 payment to a porn star, until you did,” he continued. “Said you knew nothing about how your former lawyer handled this, until you acknowledged today that you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this. You insist that money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no role in this transaction. Of that you’re sure. The thing is, not even 24 hours ago, sir, you couldn’t recall any of this.”
Cavuto went on to tick off a list of examples of statements Trump has made that were incorrect or appeared to conflict with earlier statements. There was “the time you said the Russians didn’t interfere in the 2016 election, until a lot of Republicans had to remind you they did,” Cavuto said. “Came back months later, and you said, ‘Well, I never said that Russia didn’t meddle in the election,’ when in fact you had — a lot.”
Even his buddies at the WSJ are all of a sudden noticing that he is a liar.
The Stormy Daniels Damage
Does Trump want Americans to believe him in a genuine crisis?
Most storms pass eventually. This week Donald Trump tried to ensure that Stormy Daniels doesn’t rain down permanent distraction on his Presidency, though at the cost of further damage to his credibility
GOP Rep. Dent calls for oversight hearings on Stormy Daniels payment
In the wake of Rudy Giuliani's statements about the hush payment made to Stormy Daniels, outgoing Republican Rep. Charlie Dent called for congressional oversight hearings into the matter, suggesting that it would be hypocritical not to hold them.
"I think there is certainly a role for Congress," the Pennsylvania Republican said on CNN's "Newsroom" on Thursday.
"Let's put the shoe on the other foot," Dent said. "If a Democratic president had paid off a porn star to keep quiet while he was president, I suspect we'd have oversight hearings, and I suspect there should be some oversight hearings to get to the bottom of this."
Democrats are Getting the Teeth They Need
After Garland Defeat, New Group Hopes to Draw Democrats to Judicial Battlefield
Democrats learned the hard way in 2016 that the right is much more animated by judicial fights after Republicans’ refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick B. Garland helped rally conservative voters behind Donald J. Trump so he could fill a vacancy held open for nearly a year.
Now a new group is emerging on the left in an aggressive effort to counter that imbalance. Demand Justice, a nonprofit being formed by veterans of Capitol Hill, the White House and the Clinton and Obama campaigns, hopes to become a permanent fixture motivating progressive voters on issues related to the federal judiciary while influencing the Senate on judicial nominees.
The organization, which expects to raise $10 million in its first year, is not planning to devote its energy to changing the views of Republicans. It instead wants to instill the same kind of zeal in progressives when it comes to the courts, to make the argument that in the current political environment, it is the federal courts that are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.
Democrats are finally doing politics the way Republicans do
For many years, Democrats have been convinced that the American people, and even their Republican opponents, are open to persuasion. If they could just have the opportunity to explain why their policies are morally right and practically effective, they could win almost anyone over.
Republicans, on the other hand, harbored no illusions about persuading Democrats of anything. Instead, they had a much more hard-headed view of how politics works.
And now it seems that Democrats are finally coming around to the GOP’s way of thinking.
the way you get what you want is to follow this formula:
- Take maximal positions that excite your base
- Win elections
- Pass bills you like and kill bills you don’t like
There’s a strong case to be made that this polarization-driven politics in which neither side even tries to persuade the other is bad for all of us. But it’s our reality. And it’s no longer the case that only one side understands it.
I don’t think this means that we need to stop trying to explain to people why what we are doing is right for America, but I do think that the mushy middle strategy is not a winning one. If the Democrats want to win, they need us excited and if they want us excited, they need national candidates who speak to what we want. It is the way to win and I am excited that we are starting to work that way!
The Alt-Right is Alt-Losing
RICHARD SPENCER’S ‘WHITE SUPREMACIST’ WEBSITE ALTRIGHT.COM TAKEN OFFLINE
U.S. domain registrar GoDaddy has shut down AltRight.com, the website co-edited by white nationalist posterboy Richard Spencer, following a legal complaint accusing the site of “actively inciting violence” against racial and ethnic minorities.
The decision was made following a letter sent by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on April 20, appealing for GoDaddy’s chief executive Scott Wagner to help purge the website over its policy-breaking content. The registrar’s rules say a website using its services cannot promote illegal activity or violence.
“By promoting illegal and violent acts in its articles, AltRight.com’s content has an impact beyond its published articles and encourages a downward spiral of violent and threatening posts in its comments section,” the lawyers’ letter read. In some cases, the filing said, it advocated for woman-beating and sexual assault.
Richard Spencer Was Supposed to Lead the Alt-Right to Victory. Now He’s Begging for Money.
Richard Spencer was supposed to lead the alt-right to legal victory over the nation’s liberal universities. Now he’s giving up on his war on colleges, and begging for help in a serious lawsuit against him.
Spencer, a white nationalist, became a figurehead of the alt-right during the movement’s rise to prominence in the 2016 election, after which Spencer reworked a Nazi chant to praise Donald Trump during a speech condemning Jews. A series of media profiles described Spencer as a well-dressed leader who could legitimize the alt-right.
That was then.
In March, his longtime lawyer publicly quit the alt-right. Last week, one of Spencer’s assistants quietly filed an order dismissing Spencer’s last lawsuit against a college. Days later, Spencer was on YouTube asking supporters for $25,000 to support him through a lawsuit against him and other actors in the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last August.
Spencer announced the cancellation of his college speaking tour, blaming anti-fascist demonstrators who opposed him at every tour stop.
In his Friday video, Spencer begged supporters for $25,000 for his legal defense fund. He issued a similar plea on Twitter, asking his backers to please send him Bitcoin. The Bitcoin wallet he linked to has received just over 0.3 Bitcoin (currently worth about $2,763) since November 2017.
Last I checked Stormy Daniel’s defense fund has close to 400,000 in donations. Just sayin’
Other Great News
The Triumph of Transgender Rights in New Hampshire Is a GOP Rebuke to Mike Pence and Jeff Sessions
On Wednesday, the New Hampshire Senate passed a landmark bill outlawing discrimination against transgender people in housing, employment, and public accommodations. The state House of Representatives has already passed the measure, and Gov. Chris Sununu has confirmed his intent to sign it. What’s remarkable about this victory is that Sununu is a Republican, and both houses of the state legislature are controlled by the GOP. Democrats pushed hard for the bill and supported with near-unanimity. But it was Republican legislators who carried it over the finish line.
This bipartisan triumph for transgender equality contrasts sharply with Donald Trump’s unrelenting assault on transgender rights. Indeed, it should be been seen as a rebuke to his persistent attacks on LGBTQ Americans.
America’s incarceration rate is at a two-decade low
America’s incarceration rate fell to a two-decade low in 2016, according to a recent reportby the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
In 2008, the incarceration rate hovered at an all-time high — with a rate of 1,000 per 100,000 people. Since then, the incarceration rate has fallen to 860 per 100,000. That still means that 2.2 million people were incarcerated at any given period in 2016, but that’s a big drop from the 2.3 million just a few years before.
Things You Should Not Lose Sleep Over
1. The judge yelling at Mueller’s people over the Manafort case. What if the charges get thrown out! Relax. First, If he dismissed the indictment, he could do so without prejudice, which would give another entity of the Justice Department (like the local U.S. Attorney’s Office) the ability to file a new indictment with the same charges. Second, this judge is often hardest in court on the side he rules in favor of (meaning he may very well not drop the charges). Norm Eisen says that “he’s famous among us DC area defense lawyers for raising our hopes up only to dash them when he rules” Third, people who cover the court seem to think it is very unlikely that he will dismiss the incitement. Finally, there are charges in another state too and that judge seemed much more favorable to Mueller.
2. Everyone loving Trump because he fixes North Korea. First, I really, really, really hope Trump does fix this because nuclear war is... bad. Second, I will remain skeptical (although optimistic) until this is done. Third, if it is the election you are worrying about, midterms are not won or lost on foreign policy. It would be great if this somehow works out. Nixon had China after all. Trump is nuts, but if his crazy is enough to worry N. Korea into being less crazy then I will call that a silver lining and enjoy the heck out of it.
3. The new economic news → the unemployment numbers are good news for the country. They are stressing you out because you think that they may help Trump get re-elected? Child, 2020 is a LONG ways away economically. This means NOTHING for 2020. But what about November!?! I get the worry, but first, in all honesty, it sounds like the dip in unemployment had more to do with people leaving the job market then more jobs. Second, the economy has been strong this whole time and we have been winning special elections.
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Finally, just for fun:
So proud and lucky to be in this with all of you! ❤️ ✊ ❤️