A Hard Sell

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Early today, US District Judge Timothy Kelly granted the request
of media outlets to stop Trump’s order banning members of their
organizations from the White House, Kelly ordered the credentials
of 78 journalists restored immediately but the White House
continued to deny White House access to reporters from CNN, MS
NOW, and Politico, While they were allowed in after the judge
ordered the administration to respond, CNN and MS NOW were then
blocked from access to the White House state dinner with Chinese
leader Xi Jinping, Trump’s response was to issue claims to try to
convince voters he is winning but that is a hard sell, The Trump
administration’s crackdown on immigrants was stopped by a federal
appeals court, whereupon Solicitor General Sauer asked the
Supreme Court to step in to permit renditions to third countries,
A GAO report found that ICE had not figured out how to spend the
$45 billion that Congress gave it last year and it has wasted
tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, In California, 650,000
ballots were confiscated by Republican sheriff Chad Bianco, The
California Supreme Court ordered him to return the ballots,
Trump’s claims of voter fraud took a hit as the claim that almost
16,000 noncitizens were on the voter roles in Nevada proved to be
completely false, Trump’s approval rating continues to drop,
Trump is running an ad, which was paid for by the US government,
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that it be taken down, and
that it is government propaganda more fitting for North Korea
than the US.

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