The Official President Trump Thread: All other threads have #FakeTakes
Daily Digest, Day 36 (A LOT)
1. FBI refused White House request to publicly refute media reports about links between Trump associates and Russia.
2. White House also tried to get intelligence officials and key members of Congress to refute stories, including Sen Burr and Rep Nunes who respectively chair the Intelligence Committees that would be investigating Russia-Trump orbit ties.
3. Homeland Security Dept intelligence analysts found insufficient evidence that citizens of 7 countries in travel ban posed terror threat to US.
4. Trump attacks FBI in tweets regarding leaks.
5. Trump speaks at CPAC; in prank, some attendees given Russian flags to wave during speeches.
6. White House blocks certain media outlets (NYTimes, CNN, others) from press briefing with Spicer. In December, Spicer said should not ban specific outlets or reporters, "that's what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship."
7. On Wednesday night, white man in Kansas shot two men of Indian descent while shouting "get out of my country" and wounded another bystander in apparent hate crime/terrorist attack.
8. The Mercers, a Trump mega donor family, revealed to have ownership stake in Breitbart.
9. Republicans have introduced legislation in at least 17 states to criminalize protesting in certain circumstances.
10. Travelers with Muslim names or Arabic appearance scrutinized more closely upon entry to US regardless of citizenship status, including Muhammad Ali, Jr.
11. McMaster calls phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" unhelpful in terror fight.
12. The Republic still stands.
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Addition:
13. The House GOP Obamacare replacement proposal was leaked. Subsidies and Medicaid expansion rolled back and people with pre-existing conditions to be put into astronomically unaffordable "high-risk pools" that the average person couldn't dream of affording.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-republicans-obamacare-repeal-package-235343
