Joe Biden says President Trump's July 4th event is designed 'to stroke his ego' https://t.co/WeWsegKJPZ pic.twitter.com/DMO300TLza — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 4, 2019
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President Trump reacts to Rep. Justin Amash's announcement that he is quitting the GOP, slamming Amash as a party defector who would not have been re-elected https://t.co/0ZS4eiJq4h pic.twitter.com/r3AGH1JZDF — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 4, 2019
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The Justice Department says the administration still seeks to ask about citizenship on the census, a major reversal following a tweet from President Trump https://t.co/j2f0jsz0Vb pic.twitter.com/n7LkwWxvH7 — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 3, 2019
Document Dump: The OIG Report On Border Detainees Is Disturbing
The Atlantic: The report echoed the accounts of lawyers who visited a border facility in Clint, southwest of El Paso, last month. Department of Homeland security officials had sought to rebut those claims. During a meeting with reporters last Friday to discuss border arrests, Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of DHS, called the lawyers’ descriptions “unsubstantiated allegations.” The Trump administration has repeatedly … Read More
Trump Turns 4th Of July Celebration Into 2020 Election Rally, With Tanks As Props
It looks like President Trump’s dreamed-about military parade will be happening on Independence Day: President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation’s capital into a salute to the country’s military prowess. The tanks will join an airborne … Read More
Trump Administration Caves On Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
And like that, they lose: There will not be a question asking about citizenship on the 2020 census, the Trump administration said Tuesday. The decision comes less than a week after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the administration from adding the question, saying it did not provide an adequate explanation for the addition. “We can confirm that the decision has … Read More
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A federal judge in Seattle has blocked the Trump administration policy denying bond hearings to asylum seekers https://t.co/5OqnHZ5Ho7 pic.twitter.com/7GJhMs1fJ3 — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 3, 2019
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The Trump administration is printing the 2020 census without a citizenship question, the Justice Department says https://t.co/Gw7QdmO6pJ pic.twitter.com/HCRjiKCC4z — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 2, 2019
News Bits
(1) ABOUT TIME From the Washington Post: House Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration seeking access to President Trump’s tax returns. Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, filed the lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department after months of feuding with the Trump administration over the returns. … Read More
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Government attorneys ask a federal court for another day to figure out their next steps on the census after the Supreme Court last week blocked the Trump administration from adding a question about citizenship https://t.co/DNlJk9VDx8 pic.twitter.com/HMFeGAimtN — CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 1, 2019
Dem Debate Fallout
We are several days (including a weekend) following the Democratic debates, and the field is taking shape as expected. Warren and Harris are up; Bide is down. Here are some graphs: Post-debate CNN poll: 2020 Democrats 6/28-30 (change from 5/28-31) Biden 22% (-10)Harris 17% (+9)Warren 15% (+8)Sanders 14% (-4)Buttigieg 4% (-1)Booker 3% (-)O’Rourke 3% (-2)Klobuchar 2% (-)Castro 1% (-1)de Blasio … Read More
Trump Puts Focus On His Shady Businesses
He’s changing the conversation to something that hurts him. Um okay. It is hard to know why Trump is focusing on this today — there is nothing in the news which suggests any movement in the efforts of the NY Attorney General to get the tax returns of Trump businesses (although they succeeded in getting the Trump Foundation shut down … Read More
Trump Embarrasses The U.S. On The World Stage
Asked at a news conference in Japan on Saturday whether he agrees with Vladimir Putin’s claim that “Western-style liberalism” is in decline, President Trump responded by criticizing the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, which he said are “sad to look at” because they are “run by liberal people.” Obviously, this was not what the Russian strongman was talking about during his interview with the Financial … Read More