WTF Just Happened Today

Monday, July 9, 2018

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1/ Trump says he is "very close to making a decision" on his Supreme Court nominee.

2/ The Trump administration will miss a court-ordered deadline to reunite immigrant children under age 5 who were separated from their parents at the U.S. border.

3/ Trump lashed out at NATO on Twitter two days before the alliance's summit.

4/ The U.S. opposed a United Nations resolution encouraging breast-feeding, siding with manufacturers of infant formula and stunning public health officials and foreign diplomats in the process this past spring.

5/ Rudy Giuliani appeared to confirm that Trump asked then-FBI director James Comey to drop the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

6/ Giuliani: Michael Cohen "should cooperate" with prosecutors as long as he tells the truth.

7/ Giuliani: Trump is close to refusing to sit down for an interview with Robert Mueller.

poll/ 65% of women said they disapproved of Trump's job as president, while 32% said they approved.

✏️ NOTABLES.

• Protesters chased Mitch McConnell through a restaurant parking lot, calling him "turtle head," and asking "Where are the babies, Mitch?"

• Steve Bannon was called a "piece of trash" by a woman at a bookstore in Richmond, Virginia.

• Stephen Miller threw away $80 of takeout sushi after a bartender raised both middle fingers and cursed at him while he was picking up takeout in his DC neighborhood.

• The Trump administration is freezing billions of dollars in payments to Affordable Care Act insurers.

• White House communications director Bill Shine will attend Trump's meeting with Putin in Helsinki on July 16.

• Trump: "I have confidence" that Kim Jong Un will honor our "contract" and handshake agreement to denuclearize, but China may be working against it.

• Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods don't apply to Ivanka Trump's foreign-made products for her fashion line.

• Members of Trump's Florida clubs appear to have been invited to tour Air Force One.

• Trump's personal driver for more than 25 years sued the Trump Organization for more than $200,000 in unpaid overtime wages over the past six years.

• The EPA granted "super polluting freight trucks" a loophole in the final hours of Scott Pruitt's tenure as administrator.

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