Trump comments on immigrants using the diversity lottery system today: "They give us their worst people, put them in a bin, but in his hand as they're picking them is the worst of the worst, congratulations you're going to the United States."
CNBC obtained more than 50 documents and reports produced by the dark money group America First Policies, which is running a large pro-Trump polling operation. Here's a look at what they found, and how they hid it in plain sight. https://t.co/G96tTdFyQx
I don't think this storyline is getting enough attn: in the chaos and deluge of news, Trump is essentially seizing power by unilateral taking steps like enacting tariffs, against the wishes of his party and regime, while NOT enacting Russian sanctions.
From the @wsj "Mr. Trump seems not to understand that steel-using industries in the U.S. employ some 6.5 million Americans, while steel makers employ about 140,000." https://t.co/GHzNTRtoOt
Call this what it is: corruption.
Jared Kushner’s continued employment at the White House is a monument to Donald Trump’s contempt for even basic ethical standards.
At this point, the President’s inability to fire his own son-in-law after so many scandals is just embarrassing. https://t.co/2LXat749cr
If a woman is being abused by her husband, we don't tell her that "Love" would have her accept the abuse. And if a democracy is being abused by its leaders, its citizens shouldn't think that "Love" would have them accept the abuse either. Sometimes Love sets boundaries & says NO.
Why would video game industry executives agree to this meeting? By meeting with @POTUS, they accept the false framing at work here: that video games, despite being available worldwide, trigger something unique in Americans that results in mass shootings. It's the guns, people. https://t.co/nsa9Rwxc7H
A GOP lobbyist told me this morning Trump’s only publicly acting like he’s taking on the NRA. Privately, he’s reassuring them he’s on their side. No one-including Ivanka-has any clue what he’s going to do or say next. He’s “completely lost his mind” & we should “expect anything.”
Kushner's conflicts of interests -- and appearances of such conflicts -- are enriching him and harming America. He must no longer represent the United States. He should lose his job. Now.
I am losing track of just the financial corruption scandals: Carson furniture; Pruitt, Zinke and Mnuchin airlines; Shalukin vacation/falsification, Jared (an entire universe until itself), Trump emoluments and conflicts. Any others?
Rubio made a promise to a father who lost his daughter in the Parkland massacre.
He made the promise on national TV.
He got a round of applause.
As soon as he returned to DC, he backtracked.
Watch: https://t.co/9rUF10sJJb
The statistics are absolutely shocking & the evidence is clear. The gun lobby can’t keep pretending we don’t know why we’re the only industrialized nation plagued by mass shootings. Republicans need to back commonsense gun laws to protect our communities!
@Amy_Siskind No one who’s ever worked for Trump and stayed this long should ever work in politics again. Or with children. Or with animals. Or with elderly. Or, really any living thing. Put them in the coal mines they loves so much.
I had to google metonymy but I agree with this. It also forces those of us who cover them to stop trying to evaluate anything in the context of norms- they don’t even know what the norms are, but the tragedy isn’t their ignorance- it’s their indifference. https://t.co/O6MabDZ3Jc