WTF Just Happened Today

Thursday, July 12, 2018

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1/ FBI agent Peter Strzok rejected accusations that he let his personal political views bias his actions in the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations during a joint House Judiciary and Oversight committee hearing.

2/ Trump threatened NATO allies with "grave consequences," warning alliance members that the U.S. could "go our own way" if they don't boost their military spending by January.

3/ Trump reaffirmed his support for NATO, calling his threat to withdraw from the alliance "unnecessary" after pressuring members to increase their defense budgets "like they never have before."

4/ NATO allies dispute Trump's claim that they pledged to "substantially" raise their defense budgets, saying they simply reaffirmed their commitment to a 2014 deal to reach the 2% of GDP target by 2024.

5/ The Trump administration reunited 57 of the 103 children under age 5 who were "eligible" to be reunited with their families.

6/ Thousands of asylum seekers will be turned away before they have an opportunity to plead their case in court under a new Trump administration policy.

7/ Brett Kavanaugh racked up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card debt from buying baseball tickets over the last decade.

✏️ NOTABLES.

• Bill Shine's wife mocked victims of sexual harassment in the military and pushed conspiracy theories about vaccines on her radio show between 2008 and 2009.

• Trump's top economic adviser will be named the White House's legislative affairs director.

• Stormy Daniels was arrested during a performance at an Ohio strip club and charged with three misdemeanor sex offenses for touching three undercover police officers.

• Robert Mueller asked a federal court in Virginia for 100 blank subpoenas in the case against Paul Manafort.

• Trump called recognizing Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea "an interesting question."

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