WTF Just Happened Today

Thursday, April 12, 2018

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1/ Steve Bannon is working with White House aides and Congressional allies on a plan to cripple Robert Mueller's probe.

2/ A Trump interview with Robert Mueller is now unlikely to take place.

3/ Trump's allies plan to discredit James Comey with digital advertising branding him "Lyin' Comey."

4/ Trump tweeted that an attack on Syria "could be very soon or not soon at all!"

5/ During his Secretary of State confirmation hearing, CIA Director Pompeo told senators that he has been interviewed by Robert Mueller.

6/ A former doorman was paid $30,000 in late 2015 to sign over the rights to a story about a rumor that Trump fathered a child with an employee.

6/ The company that owns the National Enquirer also paid Karen McDougal $150,000 for a story it never published.

poll/ 56% of Americans believe that the National Enquirer paid for the exclusive rights to stories that may be damaging to Trump in order to keep them from being published.

poll/ 51% of Americans support a national health care plan.

poll/ Obama is more admired than Trump in every country except one: Russia.

NOTABLES.

• A Pennsylvania school district armed teachers with wooden, 16-inch baseball bats in the event of an active shooter situation.

• Jared and Ivanka are heading to Lima, Peru with Pence for the Summit of the Americas.

• Federal judges indicated they have a problem with Mick Mulvaney's dual role.

• Trump's federal judicial nominee refused to say whether she agreed with Brown v. Board of Education.

• Trump wants to roll back billions in spending from the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill he signed into law last month..

• Trump asked officials to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

• A fired EPA staffer gave congressional investigators a detailed list of what he describes as Scott Pruitt's wasteful spending and unethical behavior.

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