WTF Just Happened Today

Friday, April 13, 2018

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1/ Rod Rosenstein is prepared to be fired by Trump.

2/ James Comey called Trump an "unethical" man "untethered to truth and institutional values."

3/ Trump tweets that Comey is a "weak and untruthful slime ball" who deserved to be fired "for the terrible job he did."

4/ The Republican National Committee launched a "Lyin' Comey" website aimed at discrediting the former FBI chief.

5/ Trump's allies are worried that the FBI may have seized recordings of conversations between Michael Cohen and his associates.

6/ Trump's advisers believe the investigation into Michael Cohen poses a greater and more imminent threat to his presidency than Robert Mueller's investigation.

7/ Cohen and a lawyer for Trump requested an emergency temporary restraining order to prevent prosecutors from looking at the materials seized in the FBI raids.

8/ Cohen has been "under criminal investigation" for months.

9/ Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by a top Republican fundraiser.

10/ Elliott Broidy resigned as Republican National Committee deputy finance chair.

1/ The Justice Department inspector general found that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe "lacked candor."

poll/ 69% of Americans support Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

poll/ 48% to 32% see Comey as more believable than Trump.

NOTABLES.

• Trump pardoned Scooter Libby for lying to investigators.

• A Health and Human Services appointee shared an image in 2017 that said "our forefathers would have hung" Barack Obama.

• FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected a request from a dozen senators to investigate Sinclair Broadcast Group for "distorting news" coverage,.

• The U.S. accused Syrian of using banned chemical arms at least 50 times.

• Trump has been pushing for an attack on Syria that would punish the Syrian regime, Russia, and Iran.

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