On Sunday Trump’s new lawyer Mr. diGenova resigned from the job after only a week, reportedly due to conflict of interest issues. Here is a good refresher on the history Trump’s lawyers while in the White House.
There were more reports of lawyers who had been contacted but declined to work for Trump.
The 60-Minutes Stephanie Clifford interview aired Sunday night. Trump has so far been restrained from attacking her publicly.
Jonah Goldberg explains why: Trump’s superpower is shamelessness and it has met his match with an opponent is a porn star. There is nothing he can say that would succeed as a “sick burn” or a “counter punch”.
The Trump Administration announced they are adding a citizenship question to the census, which experts worry will result in an undercounting of US residents in 2020.
In Russia News:
The Trump Administration expelled 60 Russians from the US in a move that was joined by many EU countries as a response the the attack in Britain.
Several stories came out this week about the schism between the administration’s increasingly strong retaliation against Russia and Trump’s refusal to publicly go after Putin.
NBC News even reported that while green-lighting some anti-Russia policies, he instructed aids not to talk about them publicly.
The New York Times, with the Washington Post confirming, reported that Trump had discussions with his lawyers last year about pardoning Flynn. The implication is that this would protect the White House from whatever Flynn might reveal during the course of the investigation. Trump’s lawyers deny this.
A court document in the Mueller investigation revealed this week that Rick Gates was in repeated contact with a former Russian intelligence officer in the final weeks of the campaign. This is what he lied about to the FBI that got him charged with a crime. This is coming out now because of the document but it was known at the time.
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Trump’s Job Approval: 40.5%