White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told CBS News “um, yeah!” that President Trump might shut down the government again in three weeks if he doesn’t get funding for his border wall.
Follow the Lies
“They lied to the public for months before Donald Trump was elected — and then repeatedly after he took office. They lied to Congress as lawmakers sought to investigate Russia’s attack on American democracy in 2016. And they lied to the FBI, even when they knew lying was a crime,” the Washington Post reports.
“In indictments and plea agreements unveiled over the last 20 months, special counsel Robert Mueller has shown over and over again that some of President Trump’s closest friends and advisers have lied about Russia and related issues.”
“The remaining question — for both Mueller’s team, as it works on a final investigative report, and for the American people — is why.”
D’Amato Tells Trump to Sideline the ‘Whack-a-Doodles’
Former Sen. Alfonse D’Amato (R-NY) pleaded with President Trump to push back on the far-right flank of his base that urged him to recently shut down the government to fund a border wall, The Hill reports.
Said D’Amato: “Don’t let right-wing whack-a-doodles run the place. They’re out of their mind.”
Clear Majorities Want Trump Investigated
“The American people have mixed feelings about investigating President Trump, with clear majorities wanting newly empowered Democrats to dig into his personal finances and foreign ties but most believing that Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
However: “Half of Americans report they have ‘just some’ confidence or none at all that the Mueller report will be fair and evenhanded, and 43% say they have at least a good amount of confidence in its fairness.”
Trump Aides Despondent Over Wasted Month
CNN: “Friday’s announcement was an extraordinary comedown that left many in the White House and those who support Trump marveling at the futility of the preceding four weeks of brinkmanship. In the eyes of some aides and outside advisers, an entire fruitless month has passed that cannot be recouped, a waste of the most valuable asset a White House has: the President’s attention and time.”
Trump Met Far-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas
“President Trump met last week with a delegation of hard-right activists led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, listening quietly as members of the group denounced transgender people and women serving in the military before accusing White House aides of blocking Trump supporters from getting jobs in the administration,” the New York Times reports.
“For 60 minutes, Mr. Trump sat, saying little but appearing taken aback.”
“It is unusual for the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice to have such a meeting with the president, and some close to Mr. Trump said it was inappropriate for Ms. Thomas to have asked for a meeting with the head of a different branch of government.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“The presidency is not an entry-level job… And the longer we have a pretend CEO who is recklessly running this country, the worse it’s going to be for our economy and for our security. This is really dangerous.”
— Michael Bloomberg, quoted by the HuffPost.
The White House Is a Mess
Playbook: “Everyone we speak to in the administration and on Capitol Hill says that since Mick Mulvaney took over as chief of staff, the process in the White House has gone to hell. The shutdown became a Jared Kushner show, and the people whose job it is to deal with policy and politics were sidelined. Of course, Kushner is the president’s son in law, and his camp believes he was empowered to do this by the president.”
Donald Trump and Roger Stone Run Into a Wall
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Quote of the Day
“He was playing double-A ball against major leaguers.”
— Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), quoted by the AP, on how President Trump backed himself into a government shutdown with no way out.
Trump’s Retreat Bewilders Allies
A former White House official tells Politico that President Trump’s core supporters and former aides are “furious” and “melting down.”
“Bewildered by his decision to accept a deal without funding for a wall on the southern border — not even the ‘down payment’ the White House had requested a day earlier — some of his most loyal supporters fretted that Trump was in danger of losing his fervent base that has fueled his presidency.”
Said another former White House aide: “He allowed 35 days of chaos and hurt all for nothing.”
Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, who described himself as an “an animated, energetic supporter of this president,” conceded that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “has just whipped the president of the United States.”
Trump Inner Circle Follows a ‘Godfather’ Script
Todd Purdum looks at the history of Corleone-family language in the administration in light of Robert Mueller’s indictment of Roger Stone, charging that Stone allegedly urged an associate to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli.'”
“It is perhaps remarkable, and pitiable, enough that the president of the United States for years employed Cohen, a lawyer who is unself-consciously also described as a ‘fixer,’ as his own personal Michael Clayton (to cite another movie), the in-house ‘janitor’ on call to clean up his every mess. It is yet another thing to learn that Stone…is on the record as threatening canine kidnapping and even death to a colleague whose mere telling of the truth could subject him to perjury charges. If a horse’s head turns up in somebody’s satin sheets, should anybody still be surprised?”
Pelosi Says State of the Union ‘Not Planned’
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that just because the federal government is expected to fully reopen soon does not necessarily mean the State of the Union address will take place next week, CNN reports.
Said Pelosi: “The State of the Union is not planned now. What I said to the President is when the government is open we will discuss a mutually agreeable date, and I’ll look forward to doing that and welcoming the President to the House of Representatives for the State of the Union when we agree on that.”
Pelosi Won, Trump Lost
Alex Wagner: “Trump has intersected with powerful women before—Hillary Clinton, most notably—and showed little hesitation to diminish and demean. But Pelosi, who once joked to me she eats nails for breakfast, is a ready warrior. She is happy to meet the demands of war, whereas Clinton was reluctant, semi-disgusted, and annoyed to be dragged to the depths that running against Trump demanded.”
“The speaker of the House is, technically, a coastal elite from San Francisco, but she was trained in the hurly burly of machine politics of Baltimore by her father, Mayor Thomas D’Alessandro. It is not a coincidence that Pelosi has managed, over and over, to vanquish her rivals in the challenges for Democratic leadership: she flocks to the fight, not just because she usually wins, but apparently, because she likes it.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States.”
— Ann Coulter, on Twitter.
Disapproval with Trump Soars
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds public disapproval of President Trump has swelled five points to 58% over three months as a majority of Americans continue to hold him and congressional Republicans most responsible for the partial federal government shutdown.
Trump disapproval among independents is up 10 points in the last month to 63%.
Just 37% of the public currently approves of his job performance.
Stone Says He Won’t Testify Against Trump
Roger Stone says he’s not guilty of the charges made against him and pledged not to testify against President Trump, the Washington Post reports.
Said Stone: “There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the president nor will I make up lies to ease the pressure on myself. I look forward to being fully and completely vindicated. I will not testify against the president because I would have to bear false witness.”
Trump’s First Reaction to Roger Stone Indictment
President Trump tweets:
“Greatest Witch Hunt in the History of our Country! NO COLLUSION! Border Coyotes, Drug Dealers and Human Traffickers are treated better. Who alerted CNN to be there?”
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