Our bigly armada is...somewhere! Watch out, gentleman! Trump cont..

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As the armada appears in waters nowhere near where it was said to be, Trump blusters on in his usual dignified, courtly manner. Easter weekend had us worried about nuclear strikes; DT put a fair bit of work into his golf swing. Business as usual! Carry on, everyone!

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Sen. Marco Rubio denies involvement with Mar-a-Lago meeting between Trump and two former presidents of Colombia on.msnbc.com/2oBINNH

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.@RepSanfordSC tells @DanaBashCNN Trump threatened to primary him -- but Sanford says: "I don't work for [@POTUS]." cnn.it/2oBqGYh

Could someone remind me? What happened to 'deficit reduction'?

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[Trump rally]
Trump: WHO'S GONNA BUILD THE WALL?
Crowd: MEXICO EVENTUALLY IN SOME FORM BUT AT A LATER DATE SO WE CAN GET STARTED EARLY!

AltYellowstoneNatPar‏ @AltYelloNatPark 6h6 hours ago
To pass, 45s budget will need 60 votes. 8 from democrats. He's not going to get them. pic.twitter.com/MCPgDJjAw8

Love the pic. Take off of the old Smokey the Bear stuff.

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Trump on Syria: "I'm saying to myself, 'You know, this is more than just....missiles. This is death that's involved" apnews.com/233830d8094c4dfa8a74c2d0537f2e30 …

Mulvaney admitted weeks ago that it wouldn't be possible...but naturally they just won't mention it again

I've somehow missed this business of a Chaffetz/Cumming demand letter.

Could some kind person link or explain again, please?

Trump and his pushing of Le Pen.

www.nationalmemo.com/french-election-trump-putin-nationalism/

perking www.politico.com/story/2017/04/21/jason-chaffetz-trump-organization-donate-profits-237465

Another bizarre article from the Sunday Times about plans for the state visit.

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/plans-to-keep-trump-from-stairs-7z76dj0gn?CMP=Sprkr--Editorial--TheTimesandTheSundayTimes--Politics--Unspecified--Unspecified--Unspecified-_-ACCOUNT_TYPE&linkId=36796082

Officials planning Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain have discussed ways of keeping the US president away from stairs after reading reports that he has a phobia of steps and slopes.
Planners want to stage events on the ground floor of buildings, and design routes for Trump that minimise his use of staircases. The president is due to visit Britain in October, where he will be honoured with a state dinner at Buckingham Palace and a trip to the Queen’s Scottish retreat Balmoral.
But a senior figure in Whitehall revealed he had attended meetings where Trump’s dislike of stairs was raised after the president grasped Theresa May’s hand on a ramp during her visit to the White House in January.

Trump is a self-confessed “germaphobe” who, aides say, does not like using handrails or shaking hands. The Washington Post also reported he avoids stairs. Fear of stairs is a condition called “bathophobia”.

The official said: “I’ve heard this discussed in meetings about the state visit. People want everything to go smoothly. Trump won’t be able to avoid the stairs at the palace but they can plan things to minimise it.”
In 2014 Trump tweeted criticism of Barack Obama for running down Air Force One’s stairs. “Do not fall,” he wrote.

Ta, Pain.

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Five things to know about Trump's steel order hill.cm/ZUih87r pic.twitter.com/bcQBadExjg

Has macron beat le penn (both through to run off)? Twitter seems to suggest so but I can't find a primary source

OK I lo

Ok I looked harder:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39686993

France elections: Macron-Le Pen through to run-off, projections say

It's based on projections so not sure why everyone is so relieved - surely polls have been notoriously wrong in the last few years?

Predictions are that in a run off, it will be Macron at about 60-odd percent and Le Pen with 30-odd percent. Here's hoping.

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BREAKING: For the first time in modern French history, no major-party candidate will advance to presidential runoff.

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Are you of the opinion that Snowden was actually working for Russia?

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🔥Wow!!Did Pence bribe a judge to keep his emails quiet? Rumored that FBI has seen the emails showing his ties to 🇷🇺and Manafort
#Trumprussia

Pence is very complicit in #Trumprussia There is a reason Putin made sure Manafort chose him as VP. The VP selection was a huge distraction

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fwiw I have a source (not Olga's) in LE who told me "Pence came to the Russia party late but quickly got into the spirit of the thing".

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<a class="break-all" href="http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=fr&sp=nmt4&u=www.francesoir.fr/&usg=ALkJrhhcX8lNPBqZ53idIeDQqIJ1P9uhBg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=fr&sp=nmt4&u=www.francesoir.fr/&usg=ALkJrhhcX8lNPBqZ53idIeDQqIJ1P9uhBg
Slightly ashamed I needed the translation.

OK, so that's Chaffetz joining forces with a Democrat (Cumming) and niggling 45 for details of his accounting wrt payments from foreign govts to Trump organisations. Right down to whether 45 will claim tax relief.

That's a shrewd move, as obviously any genuine payments of profits to the Treasury will generate those details. If 45 can't produce them... then he hasn't genuinely paid profits to the Treasury.

Interesting that it's Chaffetz picking this fight, after his previous apparent lack of interest in 45's financial ethics.

Was this before or after he resigned?

I can only imagine that Le Pen winning in France in the run off would have even more impact than Trump, as it would directly effect the EU.