Trump could still survive impeachment and still win in 2020, but his margin for error is getting slimmer and slimmer. People will eventually get over the Ukraine scandal, but like the Mueller trial, it will nibble away at the edges of support that he received from the independent voters
This just in. . .
President Trump drops plan to host G-7 at Doral
Or, as Mr. Trump puts it
On behalf of Crazed and Irrational Hostility everywhere, you’re quite welcome.
There are only seven members of Congress from California.
Seven Republicans, that is. And kenobi is correct, there are a number of GOP house members. Seven is a number.
Do you think a bunch of Republican senators got together and told him that THIS was just a step too far… Can’t think of many other reasons he would give in so quickly
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We’d appreciate it if you’d leave office as well, if that particular message has been lost…
Let’s see…
[ul]
[li]Would have omplicated emoluments lawsuits, check[/li][li]Backed by Republicans who went out on a limb supporting Doral decision before cutting it off, check[/li][li]Makes Mulvaney’s press appearance even more useless and demeaning, check[/li][li]Possible article of impeachment, check[/li][/ul]So much winning…
Missed one
[ul]
[li]Possible boycott by G7 attendees, check[/li][/ul]
I know we now sneer at the idea that Trump may be playing multi-dimensional chess when it seems like he’s done something stupid that looks like a loss he didn’t really get anything out of, but I have to ask: what actually happened, here?
Well, there was lots of talk about a resort that could, of course, host world leaders; but it shouldn’t, because having VIPs marvel at marble floors under fancy chandeliers would involve some kind of emoluments violation, dontchaknow.
And if it never actually hosts the event, it never falls short of expectations; just a starting point — discuss the venue; grant, for the sake of argument, that folks would usually pay even more; ask whether operating it ‘at cost’ just this once would be appropriate — and then just, y’know, stop, after days of free publicity.
Was there anything else?
Kyle Griffin, MSNBC:
“Care for a game of chess, Mr President?”
“I’ll be the shoe.”
“Ummm, that’s Monopoly, Mr President.”
“Wheeeeeeeeeeee!”
“Ummm, Chutes and Ladders, sir.”
Shoe? No way. He always gets to be the top hat, or he refuses to play and stomps off to his room.
Good, because I pout if I can’t have either the dog or the race car. 
You can date yourself as an old fart if you remember the wooden Monopoly tokens My sister always had to have the tall white one. I preferred the red one.
I guess Trump was right about one thing. Personally, I am tired of winning.
Chris Wallace on Fox News grilled Mulvaney and didn’t let him up.
Man, Mulvaney’s scooting around like an itchy dog on a carpet trying to avoid answering Wallace’s questions…
Ohhhh, darnit, Lev Parnas had a private Insta account which was snooped out by the WSJ.
And what did they find?
All sorts of pictures with Trump and his kids from the past 5 years, including an August, 2018 message from the White House to Parnas, signed by Trump and Melania.
Link to video for those not paywalled: Private Photos of Indicted Donor Depict Ties to Trump, Giuliani
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I do not understand in the least how Trump can go on TV and say with a straight face that the whistleblower has been discredited, proved wrong, and was a liar. There’s spin, and then there’s lies. It’s baffling.
I don’t see why he thinks he needs to. His followers are already brainwashed and he’s not convincing anyone else.