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Thousands Protest Across The Country To Keep Trump From Terminating Mueller Investigation

MoveOn.org organized protests all over the country tonight warning Donald Trump of the political dangers that await him if he were to order the termination of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the wake of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ ouster.

Check out photos from tonight in Times Square, courtesy of my buddy Larry from TheOUTfront, where prominent activists, politicians, and celebrities gathered before marching down to Union Square for speeches.

According to Larry, there was a very dense crowd of over 10K packed for blocks and blocks around Times Square.

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Fireworks At Trump Press Conference – “You Are A Rude, Terrible Person”

Whoa!

There were serious fireworks today at the White House as Donald Trump lit into CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta who attempted to ask the Trumpster about his characterization of the migrants making their way from Central America to the U.S. border.

“That’s enough. That’s enough. Put down the mic.

“I’ll tell you what. CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN. You’re a very rude person.

“The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible. And the way you treat other people are horrible. You shouldn’t treat people that way.”

Gee, do you think Trump is a little edgy after the takeover of the House by the Democrats?

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Trump Warns Soon-To-Be Democratic Controlled House On Possible Investigations

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Donald Trump, after seeming a bit more open to ‘playing nice’ in an interview with right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group yesterday, was back to the same old Grump Trump this morning.

On Twitter, Trump sent a warning shot to Democrats about possible White House investigations by the soon-to-be Democratic-controlled House as well as renewed his attacks on the Mueller investigation.

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Trump Says He Regrets His “Tone” Of First Two Years In Office

Facing a strong possibility of a Democratic takeover of the House, Donald Trump has suddenly had a change of heart regarding the “tone” of his first two years in office.

Speaking to a reporter for right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, Trump was asked if he had any regrets from his first two years.

His answer:

“I would like to have a much softer tone. I feel to a certain extent I have no choice, but maybe I do. Maybe I could have been softer from that standpoint, but I want to get things done.”

“I’m not sure that if I did that maybe I’d be swamped, meaning swamped by the other side because their tone hasn’t been so nice either,” he added.

“But that will be something that I’ll say I’ll be working on.”

“I would love to get along, and I think after the election a lot of things can happen. But right now they are in their mode, and we are in our mode. And you know if you’re criticized you have to hit back, or you should,” Trump said.

This mea culpa comes as White House staffers prepare for what could possibly be an onslaught of investigations launched by a Dem-controlled House.

Watch below.

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“Failing” CNN Projected To Turn $1.2 Billion Profit In 2018

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To hear Donald Trump tell it,  the “failing” CNN is on its last legs.

And then, there are the facts.

Via Vanity Fair:

The average number of people watching on a given day has been above 700,000 each year since 2016, compared to around 400,000 in the pre-Trump news cycle. That’s also considerably larger than any other time over the past 25 years, an astonishing feat given the ubiquity of news and the decline of cable.

The ratings, of course, skew higher in the evening hours, when the most people are watching all at once.

The average prime-time audience is around a million, compared to fewer than 600,000 when Zucker arrived, in 2013.

According to someone with direct knowledge of the numbers, CNN is projected to turn a $1.2 billion profit on $2.5 billion in revenue this year, making 2018 its most profitable year ever.

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Anti-Ted Cruz Ad Uses Donald Trump Sound Bites

We all knew this was coming. I’m just surprised it took this long.

A new anti-Ted Cruz ad from Progressive Change Committee (not affiliated with Beto O’Rourke campaign) uses images of Sen. Ted Cruz and sound bites from Donald Trump to describe the Texas Republican:

“I must tell you something about Ted Cruz. I have never, never met someone who lies more than Ted Cruz.

One of the great liars of all time. That’s why we call him ‘Lyin’ Ted.’

Lyin’ Ted! He holds the Bible high, and then he lies.

Ted Cruz, he’s taken so much money from so many different people, and he’s totally controlled.

He’s a nasty guy, nobody likes him, nobody in Congress likes him.

Cruz is not a truthful person.

Cruz is the most dishonest guy I think I’ve ever met in politics.”

(h/t JoeMyGod)

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Donald Trump Blames Media For Creating Violence By Asking Questions

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Donald Trump walked back his controversial remarks from yesterday when he told warned the refugee caravan that if they throw rocks at American soldiers, he would want them to shoot them with rifles.

“Anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm,” Trump said. “Because there’s not much difference — when you get hit in the face with a rock, which as you know, that was very violent a few days ago. Very, very violent.”

Today, he reversed course on that plan saying he never said for soldiers to shoot.

The Trumpster also placed blame on the media when asked if his heated rhetoric might be responsible for increasing politically-related violence.

Pointing to Karen Travers of ABC News, he said, “You’re creating violence by your question…A lot of the reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth.”

As Travers points out, earlier this week White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Trump isn’t placing blame on others.

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Trump Lament’s Loss Of Midterm ‘Momentum’ After Pipe Bombs & Synagogue Shooting

Campaign trail last night, Donald Trump complained that the recent pipe bomb scare and the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue slowed momentum for the Republicans which he described as "incredible."
Donald Trump laments loss of midterm momentum after 11 people were killed

On the campaign trail last night, Donald Trump complained that the recent pipe bomb scare and the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue slowed momentum for the Republicans which he described as “incredible.”

From The Washington Post:

President Trump complained, once again, on Thursday that the recent mail bomb scare and Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting had “stopped a tremendous momentum” for Republicans ahead of next week’s midterms.

Speaking to an energized crowd in an airplane hangar decorated with American flags in Columbia, Mo., the president took time at the end of his speech to brag about the “tremendous numbers” of Republicans going to vote. Yet, he said that the weeks leading up to the “very important election” haven’t exactly gone smoothly.

“Now, we did have two maniacs stop a momentum that was incredible, because for seven days nobody talked about the elections,” Trump said. “It stopped a tremendous momentum.”

After two former presidents were threatened with bombs and 11 people lost their lives, the Trumpster’s concern is Republican momentum?

It really says it all, doesn’t it?

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Trump Doubles Down On Ending Birthright Citizenship

Donald Trump went on a Twitter rant today defending his plan to repeal birthright citizenship saying it "costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens."
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Donald Trump went on a Twitter rant today defending his plan to repeal birthright citizenship saying it “costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens.”

He added that the practice “will be ended one way or the other.”

The Trumpster concluded the screed with a statement I might just agree with in part:

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Trump Reverses Regulation Regarding Mentally Disabled Folks Having Access To Guns

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Now, seriously, this makes NO kind of sense.

From USA Today:

President Trump killed a regulation that would have tightened gun background checks Tuesday, signing a bill to undo one of his predecessor’s executive actions following the San Bernardino shootings in 2015.

The Obama administration rule required the Social Security Administration to submit records of mentally disabled people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI database used to determine whether someone can buy a firearm under the 1993 Brady Bill.

The rule would have applied to about 75,000 people who were “adjudicated as a mental defective” and who had applied for Social Security benefits, and had a mechanism to notify those affected so they could appeal. But congressional Republicans said the rule could ensnare people who had mental health issues but otherwise were competent to own a gun.

The Social Security Administration finalized the rule last Dec. 19. But under the Congressional Review Act, Congress has 60 legislative days to disapprove of any new regulation on straight majority votes. The vote was 57-43 in the Senate and 235-180 in the House.

It won’t surprise you to learn that Trump did NOT sign the bill in a public setting, but did so privately, away from cameras.