“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ― Garry Kasparov
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| PREVARICATOR TRUMP |
Trump tries to flip
election tampering accusations
President
Trump’s charge that the Mueller investigation is going to tamper with this
year’s American elections coopts language from the 2016 election hacking
scandal to discredit the probe that scandal inspired.
What he’s tweeting: "The 13 Angry Democrats (plus people who
worked 8 years for Obama) working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be
MEDDLING with the mid-term elections…”
Why it’s an awful analogy: Russia
is a foreign country that Democrats, Republicans and the international
community agree broke U.S. law to try and sway the American election. The
Mueller probe is home-grown and thus far well within the boundaries of the law.
This
isn’t the first time that Trump has borrowed and redefined language from the
saga of Russian interference with the 2016 election. Previously, he
successfully transformed the meaning of “fake news” — from “clickbait articles
on websites that make up news stories” to “any news stories I don’t like.”
Why it matters: If Trump
succeeds in taking a legal investigation into foreign interference in one
election and rebrand it as “meddling” in another election, he will muddy our
necessary bipartisan national conversation about what happened in 2016 — and
how to protect future U.S. elections from real foreign "meddling." [Axios Codebook, May 29, 2018]
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| HIDDEN IN THE ATTIC |
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WILBUR ROSS
Secretary of Commerce |
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| REPUBLICAN PARTY |
AT 4:46 P.M. yesterday
afternoon, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP delivered REP. DAN DONOVAN (R-N.Y.) an
endorsement the lawmaker had long been waiting for. Donovan is running
against MICHAEL GRIMM, a former House Republican
who was recently in prison. The district they're running in is Staten Island
and Brooklyn, a narrowly Republican swath of New York City that voted for Trump
overwhelmingly. Grimm has positioned Donovan as insufficiently supportive of
Trump's legislative agenda. Needless to say, this is one of the districts in
America where Trump could be helpful.
-- TRUMP, on
Twitter: "There is no one better to represent the people of N.Y. and
Staten Island (a place I know very well) than @RepDanDonovan, who is strong on
Borders & Crime, loves our Military & our Vets, voted for Tax Cuts and
is helping me to Make America Great Again. Dan has my full endorsement! ...
Very importantly, @RepDanDonovan will win for the Republicans in November...and
his opponent will not. Remember Alabama. We can't take any chances on losing to
a Nancy Pelosi controlled Democrat!"
THERE'S ONLY ONE PROBLEM. Donovan
voted against the tax-cut bill. He voted against it three times. He voted
against it in every incarnation. The only material reason Trump gave to support
Donovan was incorrect. Not only did Donovan vote against it, he was vocally
opposed to it. He called it a "tax hike on the people I represent."
AN UNFORCED ERROR -- and an
embarrassing one at that for the leader of the Republican Party. YA GOTTA
WONDER: What is going on in the White House? It's tough to think of a
mistake easier to avoid than whether a lawmaker voted for the largest
legislative achievement of the past two years.
[POLITICO Playbook,, May 31. 2018]
TOO GOOD TO IGNORE ...
JOHN BOEHNER, at the Mackinac Policy Conference in
Michigan: "There is no Republican Party. There's a Trump party. Republican
Party is kinda taking a nap somewhere." [Playbook
Power Briefing, May 31, 2018]
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| FROM THE PORCH |
WHAT'S THE HOLD UP? The Commerce Department still hasn't decided whether to
begin an investigation into uranium imports from Russia and other suppliers
requested four months ago by two Denver-based uranium companies, Pro's Doug
Palmer reports. "We have no updates," James Rockas, a Commerce
Department spokesman said in an email Friday. "The petition is still under
consideration." Back in January, Ur-Energy Inc. and Energy Fuels
Inc. filed their
petition asking for a Section 232 investigation — around the same time that
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross released his recommendations from two earlier
Section 232 investigations involving steel and aluminum. The companies renewed
their request in a joint statement earlier
in May, stressing the "geopolitical" risk of depending on Russia for
a large share of imports. They are seeking import restrictions that would
reserve 25 percent of the U.S. market for domestic uranium, Doug reports.
[POLITICO's Morning Energy, May 29, 2018]
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