This is going to be much lower effort than I'd planned. It's virtually impossible to take in every bit of chaos this asshole has created since Inauguration Day.
Last week Stormy Daniels was arrested in a sting operation in Ohio and the charges were dismissed in short order. And I got to hear two NPR anchors say motorboating on the radio
http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/07/12/stormy-daniels-arrest-ohio
Trump went to Europe. Pissed off many locals, pissed off world leader, particularly Theresa May, by being exactly the kind of ass we knew he'd be in 2016. At least we got this:
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/628546644/how-london-is-reacting-to-president-trumps-visit
Also these which are less funny:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/world/europe/trump-nato-russia.html
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/07/trumps-false-claims-at-nato/
I guess Boris Johnson resigning was a positive. And the one lie in there is laughably stupid on a level.
Today he's met with Putin. Which probably deserves its own post which we'll surely get when some distance from the event gives more perspective.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-bromance/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/world/europe/trump-putin-summit-helsinki.html
All that and now previous scandals are having coverage diverted. No one knows how to efficiently fix the immigration disaster with anything less than a time machine that can send disappointed Trump voters back to 2016 and have them relive their lives in the new reality created with a competent stateswoman.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/family-reunifications-letter/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/10/627821359/government-misses-migrant-family-reunification-deadline
Editing in my original intent as explained in a pubski:
This is a good one from today: Maria Butina, Russian gun rights advocate, charged in U.S. with acting as Russian Federation agent. The autoplay video is pretty good, actually. Previously: And: Maybe Torshin is next, but it seems like this could be the FBI taking a shot across the bow of the NRA and seeing what moves.
See? I saw that story earlier and it got pushed out of my brain. The story about the Russian grad student. Probably pushed out by my own weird thought patterns but under a normal administration that'd be the day's top story. I'm interested and concerned about the news that will affect the future but sometimes I gotta step back and realize that my interest and curiosity is affecting my stress level and I need a break from political news