Weekday Trumpdate gives you the latest on the ongoing catastrophe in the White House.
CNN:
A top figure in President Donald Trump’s orbit was granted immunity in the investigation into hush money payments made to two women who alleged they had affairs with Trump, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Friday.
Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, whose entanglements with Trump’s finances are extensive, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
NBC:
NBC News can confirm that the Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg, has been given immunity in the Michael Cohen investigation. Previously, David Pecker, CEO of American Media was also granted immunity.
NPR:
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will no longer receive medical treatment, his family announced Friday. The 81-year-old senator has been battling brain cancer for more than a year, since announcing last July that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive tumor called a glioblastoma.
“In the year since, John has surpassed expectations for his survival,” his family said in a statement. “But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict. With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment.”
American political leaders of both parties are paying tribute and offering prayers for ailing Arizona Sen. John McCain, but President Donald Trump has so far been silent.
CNN:
President Donald Trump on Friday responded to Jeff Sessions’ defiance over the handling of the Justice Department by resuming his remarkable public hammering of the attorney general and suggesting Sessions pursue the White House’s political opponents.
“Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the “other side” including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr…FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal surveillance of Trump Campaign, Russian collusion by Dems – and so much more. Open up the papers & documents without redaction? Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!” Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning.
Jeff Sessions def didn’t sign up for any of this bullshit. all he ever wanted to do was deny black people the right to vote and throw immigrant babies in cages and maybe wear his Klan robes late at night when no one else was around…
Giuliani warns of “people’s revolt” if Trump is held accountable for criminal behavior. He was speaking from a golf cart at a Trump-owned course in Scotland
Can we stop for a second to acknowledge that the lawyer for the President of the United States is warning of civil unrest. Trump and his enablers are escalating their rhetoric to frighten the nation into submission.
CNN:
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, criticized President Donald Trump for failing to understand his job enforcing the law in the wake of Trump’s attacks against his attorney general.
On Twitter Friday, Trump resumed his remarkable public hammering of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and suggested Sessions pursue the White House’s political opponents.
Nelson Mandela’s grandson slammed President Trump on Thursday for “arrogant” tweets about South Africa’s land reform program, saying it show’s Trump’s “total ignorance of reality.”
Trump said early Thursday that he’s asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to look into “land farm seizures” and the “large scale killing of farmers” in South Africa after Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired a segment on the topic.
In a surprise announcement on Twitter, President Trump called off a planned trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday just days before the top diplomat planned to arrive in the country for the next round of high-stakes nuclear talks.
Citing a lack of “progress” on denuclearization, Trump tweeted that “I have asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo not to go to North Korea, at this time.”
It’s the 582nd day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump killed Obama’s Iranian deal and lost billions in business contracts, including a $20 billion order for Boeing planes. What has the average American got out of the bogus deal with North Korea? Totally nothing. Seriously, this is your fucking president, Trump voter and the GOP. South Carolina? Really? North Korea for Iran? You make air planes, remember.
