WTF Just Happened Today

Thursday, March 1, 2018

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1/ Putin warned that Russia has developed nuclear weapons that can't be intercepted by missile-defense systems and that they're planning to add nuclear-powered cruise missiles to their arsenal.

2/ Jared Kushner's family real estate business received a total of $509 million in loans from two lenders shortly after White House meetings.

3/ Robert Mueller's team is looking into Trump's attempts to fire Jeff Sessions last July.

4/ The White House is reportedly "furious" over the stories about excessive spending at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

5/ Trump is in favor of forgoing due process in order to confiscate guns from people who are deemed to be dangerous.

poll/ 58% of Americans say they want to elect a Congress that stands up to Trump – not one that cooperates with him.

poll/ 57% of Americans think Trump is racist.

poll/ 74% of Americans said they had a favorable view of Medicaid and 52% said it was working well.

NOTABLES.

• The three top ranking officials in the Justice Department met for dinner on the same day Trump called one of them, attorney general Jeff Sessions, "disgraceful."

• More than 30 Trump aides have been downgraded to lower-level "secret" interim security clearances.

• The U.S. will impose 25% tariffs on steel imports and 10% on aluminum.

• Melania Trump was granted a green card in 2001 under a program reserved for those with "extraordinary ability" and "sustained national and international acclaim."

• Somebody forged a nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize – twice.

• John Kelly joked (?) that his job at the White House is a punishment from God.

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