- Comey was slated to present to the Senate Intelligence Committee today. The acting head of the FBI presented instead, and basically contradicted everything the White house said.
- With his story coming apart, Trump just came right out and said that everything was a lie, and he "was going to fire Comey". Worse, he said he wanted to do it to wrap up this Russia investigation. I believe that is called an obstruction of justice.
- Apparently disgruntled by his treatment by Trump over the issue, Deputy Attorney General has sought a meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In other news:
- Russian photographers, by standard protocol, should not have been in the Oval Office yesterday. The White house explained the breach in security by saying "They tricked us!" Oh my. Poor Trump, tricked by the Russians.
- Trump has started on his (nonexistent) election fraud panel, by picking a voter ID advocate to lead it. Kobach is strongly into voter suppression, and is all around bad news.
- If you wanted to know how the administration is treating disaster relief, look at North Carolina, who have received less than 1% of their request to the federal government after Hurricane Matthew. This article is really quite terrifying. I'm not sure why it hasn't received more attention.
- Trump talked economics with the Economist. As expected, he made a fool out of himself.
- Trump signed a new executive order today, this time on cybersecurity. I honestly don't know enough to comment on this order, and direct you to the article. (Full text)
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