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Day 526: Totally screwed.


Friday, June 29, 2018

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1/ Trump has been privately telling top White House officials that he wants the US to withdraw from the World Trade Organization.

2/ The Trump administration ran a family separation "pilot program" months before the announcement of the "zero tolerance" policy.

3/ The Department of Justice is drafting a plan to overhaul the U.S. asylum policy, which would prevent people from getting asylum if they entered the country illegally.

4/ Justice Anthony Kennedy's son, Justin, worked at Deutsche Bank for more than a decade, helping loan Trump more than $1 billion at a time when other banks wouldn't.

poll/ 67% of Americans do not want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

✏️ NOTABLES.

  • Rep. Maxine Waters cancelled multiple events after receive what she described as a "very serious death threat" against her.

  • George Papadopoulos will be sentenced by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 7.

  • Trump wants to make a deal with Putin on Syria that would allow the US to "get out ASAP."

  • Trump's chief economic adviser lied on Fox Business that the federal budget deficit was "coming down rapidly."

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