Winning - April 2018

• Donny doesn't realize The White House is named The White House, or whatever they call it. Tippy top.
• The Administration imposes case quotas on immigration judges. Quantity, not quality. 
• Markets decline in the first quarter. Stocks are negative for the year. The first negative quarter since 2015.
• Trump reaches 100 visits to his golf properties in 62 weeks. This from the guy who would be too busy being president to play golf.  
• China imposes 15% to 25% tariffs on 128 US products, mostly agriculture. 
• 04/09 - The FBI raid Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen's office, home, safe deposit box, and hotel room and seize documents including those related to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
• Trump calls the FBI raid on Cohen, a legally served search warrant, "an attack on our country". Yet, he has never used those word to describe Russia's cyber attack on our country. 
• White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert is leaving the Trump administration. A victim of the Bolton appointment.
• 4/11 - Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan (R-Wisc), will not run for reelection in November. There will be a new Speaker in 2019 regardless of which party gains the majority.
• 4/13 - Elliott Broidy, deputy chairman of the RNC finance committee, resigns after $1.6 million payoff to former Playboy model who he got pregnant comes to light. The payoff was arranged by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.
• 4/16 - A federal judge rejects Trump's request to review files seized by FBI raid of Michael Cohen and block prosecutors from reading the documents.
• Scott Pruitt's $43K secure phone booth violated spending laws. The EPA failed to notify and get Congressional approval. More swampy behavior by Trump's cabinet.
• Karen McDougal reaches an agreement with the National Enquirer. She is now free to tell her story about her affair with Trump. Expect interviews and probably a book.
• China places a 179% tariff on sorghum in retaliation for sanctions on Chinese tech companies.
• Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State and leader of Trump's defunct Commission on Election Integrity, was found in contempt of court in a voter ID case. Karma.
• Mick Mulvaney, Trump's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, admits to only meeting with lobbyists who gave him money when in Congress. Very swampy and corrupt.
• A third federal judge again rules that Trump cannot stop DACA. Orders the administration to reopen the program to new applicants. 
• Adm. Ronny Jackson, MD withdraws as nominee for head of the VA. Another example of the excellent extreme vetting by the Trump administration.
• 4/27 - Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) resigns amid ethics probe. More harassment payoffs with public money, $39K.
• 4/30 - Thomas Homan, acting director of ICE and Trump's nominee for the directorship, steps down. Has conflicts with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Another failed nomination by the administration.

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