With Trump No Middle Ground

[…] Mulvaney inserted himself into the conversation and tried to negotiate a compromise sum of money, according to the sources in the room. Mulvaney said “that if Dems weren’t OK with $5.7 [billion] and the president wasn’t OK with $1.3 [the Democratic offer] … he was trying to say we should find a middle ground,” one of the sources said, paraphrasing Mulvaney’s remarks. []

Trumps >5 billion $$ wall project is designed to be rejected by the Democrats. Trump and the GOP obviously don’t want a wall. Otherwise they would have built it before the midterms. Instead, they need an agenda to keep their supporters angry at the Democrats until 2020. I assume that therefore Trump didn’t like that Mulvaney (WH Chief of Staff) interfered with Trumps tactics. Trump does not really want the middle ground. Trump might want to use the shutdown to damage the Democrates. Trump still seems not to have recognized that in the public the majority holds Trump responsible for the shutdown.

"Trump cut him off … 'You just fucked it all up, Mick,'" the source recalled Trump saying. "It was kind of weird." https://t.co/IMwNfW8kED

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) January 13, 2019

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Trump’s Memes

https://t.co/5S7iDRSq6Chttps://t.co/qhsmJdFHDD

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 23, 2019

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Trump using the Game of Thrones font for all his memes is truly fitting.

It's the story of a wall that doesn't work, and the only group that's lost more characters than Game of Thrones is the Trump Administration.

— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 6, 2019

Trump posted a Game of Thrones meme 'The Wall is Coming'…. last season ended this way: pic.twitter.com/5a3aaWXhVN

— Miles (@m3hnash) January 3, 2019

Is Trump an Russian Intelligence Asset?

The headline is stunning, and does not at all overstate the story https://t.co/Tl24jU94gw

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 12, 2019

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And Republicans in Congress know all this — but they're covering for him anyway. Remember this whenever they claim to be more patriotic than liberals — or patriots at all https://t.co/jMWrW3Tps7

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 13, 2019

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“FBI can’t neutralize a security threat if the president is the threat”

So many important and interesting pieces out there this morning. This one by ⁦@AshaRangappa_⁩ is indispensable. https://t.co/fn7j89lpY8

— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) January 13, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/13/fbi-cant-neutralize-security-threat-if-president-is-threat/

But Mueller — and Congress — could pick up where counterintelligence hits its limits.

By Asha Rangappa [2019-01-13]

The FBI, according to the New York Times, opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether President Trump was secretly working on behalf of Russia after he fired former FBI director James B. Comey in 2017. As a former FBI agent who conducted investigations against foreign intelligence services, I know that the bureau would have had to possess strong evidence that Trump posed a national security threat to meet the threshold for opening such an investigation. But the more important question now is not how or why the case was opened, but whether it was ever closed. []

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