WTF Just Happened Today

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

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1/ Jared Kushner's security clearance was downgraded from "Interim Top Secret" to "Interim Secret."

2/ Robert Mueller moved to dismiss 22 tax and bank fraud charges against Rick Gates.

3/ Trump tapped Brad Parscale to manage his 2020 presidential re-election campaign.

4/ Hope Hicks refused to answer questions under instructions from the White House during a closed-door House Intelligence Committee session today on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

5/ A Department of Housing and Urban Development offer was demoted and replaced after she refused to illegally fund a redecoration of Ben Carson's office.

6/ The Supreme Court ruled that immigrants facing deportation are not entitled to periodic bond hearings.

7/ Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation in both chambers of Congress to reverse the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules.

8/ The NSA director told lawmakers that he has not received orders from Trump to stop Russian hacking operations targeting U.S. elections.

poll/ 58% of Americans don't think Trump is taking the Russia investigation seriously enough.

poll/ 48% of Americans believe it is likely or very likely that Russia will meddle in the upcoming midterm elections.

NOTABLES.

• The EPA is dissolving a program that funds studies on the effects of pollution and chemical exposure on adults and children.

• Bob Corker will not run for reelection after all.

• Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called for John Kelly to resign, citing low White House morale.

• Melania Trump parted ways with her senior adviser and friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, after news surfaced that Wolkoff's firm had received $26 million to plan Trump's inauguration and surrounding events in January 2017.

• The lieutenant governor in Georgia threatened to kill a tax cut for Delta after the airline eliminated its discount for NRA members.

• Obama: "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us. I know that seems like a low bar."

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