Black People Politics : When Trump Becomes President - What Will it Look Like?

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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White House Tries To Distance Itself From Trump Campaign Ad Calling Democrats 'Complicit' In Murder


Sam Levine
HuffPost

... Marc Short, the White House’s legislative affairs director, tried to distance the White House from the ad, telling Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that it was produced by an “outside group” and not anyone in the White House ― even though that group is the president’s own campaign.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-aide-defends-trump-171949258.html

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Don't let "frog man" (Mitch McConnell) make a fool of ya, Chuck


Schumer's 'cave'? Shutdown deal puts spotlight on Dem leader

JULIE PACE and STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press

... For two days, Schumer, perhaps the most powerful Democrat in Washington, succeeded in keeping his party unified in a bid to use the government funding fight to push for protections for some 700,000 young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. But as the shutdown moved into its third day, the New York Democrat and his party buckled as several Democrats backed a deal to end the shutdown in exchange for a Republican pledge to address the immigration debate in the near future ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/schumers-moment-shutdown-puts-spotlight-dem-leader-071540434.html

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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House votes to end government shutdown, sending legislation to Trump
By Robert Costa, Erica Werner, Ed O'Keefe and Elise Viebeck

... McConnell had said Sunday night and Monday morning that it was his “intention” to take up legislation addressing DACA, border security and other issues if Democrats agreed to fund the government until Feb. 8.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...m_term=.ab44a171251f&wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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So true

Trump is being used, and he doesn’t even know it


By Eugene Robinson

Everybody seems to know what President Trump wants except President Trump. An arrogant 32-year-old White House aide, Stephen Miller , had to set the president straight: No, Trump learned, apparently he does not seek a fair and compassionate agreement on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program after all ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...term=.87a274f76b3f&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to President Trump. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters)

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Stay the course Wray stay the course.

National Security
Tensions swell between Sessions and FBI over senior personnel from Comey era

By Devlin Barrett and Philip Rucker

... As Sessions tried to push Wray to make personnel changes, Wray conveyed his frustration to the attorney general, these people said. Sessions then discussed the matter with McGahn, who advised him to ease off, which he did, these people said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...term=.322c9c9aae9c&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1