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Mueller Wants to Interview Trump on Four Areas

March 21, 2018 at 7:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has so far discussed with President Trump’s lawyers four main topics they want to talk about with the President, CNN reports.

“According to two sources, the areas that the special counsel investigators have indicated they want to pursue with Trump are the President’s role in crafting a statement abroad Air Force One that miscast Donald Trump Jr.’s campaign June 2016 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower, the circumstances surrounding that Trump Tower meeting as well as the firings of FBI Director James Comey and national security adviser Michael Flynn.”

Gohmert Says Mueller Should Be Fired

March 21, 2018 at 7:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller should be fired from his position investigating Russia’s election meddling and the Trump campaign, The Hill reports

Said Gohmert: “I think Mueller should be fired. He should never have been appointed and he should never have accepted. He should be fired.”

However, Gohmert “clarified that he thinks the president should not actually fire Mueller, because Republicans in Congress might impeach him if he did so.”

GOP Lawmaker Blames ‘Deep State’ for Carson’s Spending

March 21, 2018 at 6:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) appeared to blame the nefarious “Deep State” for ordering a costly dining set for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Tenney: “Somebody in the Deep State, it was not one of his people apparently, ordered a table, like a conference room table or whatever it was for a room. And that’s what the cost was. Ben Carson tried to—he said ‘you know how hard it is to turn it back because of the way that the procurement happens?'”


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Bonus Quote of the Day

March 21, 2018 at 6:27 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’m sick of politics.”

— Gov. John Kasich (R), quoted by the Associated Press.

Conway May Accept Communications Job

March 21, 2018 at 6:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Kellyanne Conway is moving closer to accepting President Trump’s offer for her to succeed Hope Hicks as White House communications director, if only on an interim basis,” The Atlantic reports.

Said one official: “It’s becoming increasingly difficult for her to say no.”

“The official said that First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff have both encouraged her over the last few days to reconsider Trump’s offer.”

McCabe Authorized Criminal Probe of Sessions

March 21, 2018 at 4:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, ABC News reports.

“Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe’s previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.”

Peru’s President Resigns Before Impeachment Vote

March 21, 2018 at 4:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski “presented his resignation to Congress after vote-buying allegations ensnared his center-right government in a fresh scandal on the eve of an impeachment vote,” Reuters reports.

Cambridge Analytica Was Offered Hacked Emails

March 21, 2018 at 3:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The data analytics firm that worked on the Donald Trump election campaign was offered material from Israeli hackers who had accessed the private emails of two politicians who are now heads of state,” the Guardian reports.

“Multiple sources have described how senior directors of Cambridge Analytica – including its chief executive, Alexander Nix – gave staff instructions to handle material provided by computer hackers in election campaigns in Nigeria and St Kitts and Nevis.”

Huge Majority Say Trump Is Not a Good Role Model

March 21, 2018 at 2:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Quinnipiac poll finds American voters disapprove of President Trump’s job performance by 53% to 40%.

By a 55% to 42% margin they say Trump “does not have a sense of decency,” and by a 67% to 29% margin they say “he is not a good role model for children.”

Said pollster Tim Malloy: “Americans say President Trump is damaging the country’s image globally; flunking the decency test and setting a bad example for kids. There’s no way to spin or sugarcoat it. The optics are ugly.”

Trump Having Second Thoughts About Spending Bill

March 21, 2018 at 1:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump “is having second thoughts about supporting the omnibus spending deal that was reached Wednesday morning,” the HuffPost reports.

“The source also said House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will be heading over to the White House on Wednesday afternoon to try and sell the president on the GOP wins in the $1.3 trillion government funding bill and assure him that it’s a good deal for Republicans.”

“Trump is apparently most upset about the spending deal’s lack of funding for a border wall.”

White House Opposes Pick to Replace Cochran

March 21, 2018 at 12:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“White House officials this week told Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) that President Trump did not plan to campaign for or endorse Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) if she was appointed to the state’s open Senate seat, saying they were worried that the former Democrat would lose,” Politico reports.

“Bryant responded that he intended to go ahead and pick Hyde-Smith for the post, anyway. He’s expected to formally announce the selection Wednesday.”

“Republicans are deeply concerned that Chris McDaniel, an anti-establishment conservative state senator who is running for the seat, will use Hyde-Smith’s past party affiliation against her in the race.”

Karen McDougal Is a Bigger Problem for Trump

March 21, 2018 at 12:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Peter Stris, attorney for former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal, told NBC News that his client “had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump for 10 months. It was a romantic relationship. They were together very often.”

He explained why she’s suing for the right to speak freely about her affair: “This is not someone who signed a hush agreement and regrets it. This is someone who was taken advantage of by a consortium of interests, including a massive company that happens to be run by someone who is personal friends with the President of the United States.”

ThinkProgress: Stormy Daniels is in the headlines, but Karen McDougal is a bigger problem for Trump.

Will We Ever Learn What Robert Mueller Knows?

March 21, 2018 at 12:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Lawfare: “To put the matter bluntly, it all boils down to how Mueller sees himself and his role. How does he? We have no idea. His history as a cautious and conservative actor—not to mention the outrage sparked by Starr and Comey’s more aggressive interpretations—would suggest a certain degree of orthodoxy. What’s more, his and his team’s utter silence outside the courtroom suggests a vision of the special counsel role narrowly focused on the work of investigation and prosecution to the exclusion of almost any public statements whatsoever.”

“Yet if any situation has ever begged for a truth-commission understanding of the role, L’Affaire Russe cries out for a capacious public reporting function. The questions it raises are sweeping and implicate not just presidential conduct but the integrity of an American presidential election.  The question may boil down to how urgent Mueller feels the need is for Congress, or the public, to understand what happened—and also the extent to which he can play the needed public education role simply using the tools of the conventional prosecutor.”

Quote of the Day

March 21, 2018 at 11:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The president is, as you know — you’ve seen his numbers among the Republican base — it’s very strong. It’s more than strong, it’s tribal in nature. People who tell me, who are out on trail, say, look, people don’t ask about issues anymore. They don’t care about issues. They want to know if you’re with Trump or not.”

— Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), in an interview with the Washington Examiner.

Biden Would Have ‘Beat the Hell Out’ of Trump In School

March 21, 2018 at 10:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Vice President Joe Biden took fresh jabs at President Trump while speaking at an anti-sexual assault rally, telling students at the University of Miami that he probably would have “beat the hell out” of Trump if they’d attended school together ABC News reports.

Said Biden: “A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, ‘I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it. They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'”

He added: “I’ve been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life. I’m a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room.”

Cambridge Analytica Looked to Pounce on Russian Hacks

March 21, 2018 at 9:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Cambridge Analytica hoped to capitalize on Russian hacking of Hillary Clinton and her ally, an email written by one of its employees indicates,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Emily Cornell, the employee, sent the email on July 29, 2016. It went out to people working with Make America Number One, the pro-Trump super PAC funded by Republican super-donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer.”

“On July 22, seven days before Cornell’s email, Wikileaks had published almost 20,000 emails it had stolen from the Democratic National Committee.”

Democrats Contesting More State Legislative Seats

March 21, 2018 at 9:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “In November, 6,066 state legislative seats are up for grabs, and more candidates — particularly on the Democratic side — are running for state legislative seats than have in decades… In fact, more Democrats are running than in any election since 1982.”

How Cambridge Analytica Stole Obama’s Best Idea

March 21, 2018 at 8:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

This piece is only available to Political Wire members.

While the news that Cambridge Analytica got detailed information from Facebook on 50 million Americans is striking, what’s generally left out of these stories is that it’s exactly what the Obama campaign did in 2012.

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