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Images.</div></figcaption></figure><div class="mobile-siderail" data-reactid="225"></div><div class="content drop-cap" data-reactid="226"><p data-reactid="227">Apparently frustrated with the looming standoff over the debt ceiling, <strong><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/people/donald-trump#intcid=dt-hot-link">Donald Trump</a></strong> on Wednesday unexpectedly brokered an agreement with Democratic leaders <strong>Chuck Schumer</strong> and <strong>Nancy Pelosi</strong> to fund hurricane disaster relief, boost spending, and keep the government running through December, shocking and infuriating Republicans who had urged the president to hold out for a different deal. &#x201C;The nation can breathe a sigh of relief. We&#x2019;ve agreed to help those recovering from Hurricane Harvey, avoid default, &amp; avoid a shutdown,&#x201D; Schumer <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/905519603094302721">announced</a> in a tweet. Shellshocked Republicans are reportedly fuming that Democrats will now get all the leverage they need to control the debate over taxes, spending, and immigration when the debt ceiling must be raised again at the end of the year. &#x201C;Dems bluffed their way into total victory. They win the politics of DACA and leverage on debt in the winter. The fate is sealed&#x2014;DACA will be reauthorized without strings,&#x201D; one Republican close to leadership <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-breaks-with-republicans-on-debt-ceiling-deal-2482227911.html">told</a> Axios&#x2019;s <strong>Jonathan Swan.</strong> Nebraska Senator <strong>Ben Sasse</strong> was more succinct: &#x201C;The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump deal is bad,&#x201D; he <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSasse/status/905500235148996608">tweeted</a>.</p><p data-reactid="228">Congressional Republicans <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/politics/trump-deal-democrats-republicans/index.html">reportedly pushed</a> for an 18-month debt-ceiling hike, then a six-month extension; the Democratic delegation called for three months&#x2014;a proposal that House Speaker <strong>Paul Ryan</strong> called &#x201C;ridiculous&#x201D; earlier in the day. But Trump quickly took the three-month deal, a source familiar with the meeting <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/6/donald-trump-agrees-debt-limit-deal/">told</a> <em>The Washington Times.</em> Treasury Secretary <strong>Steve Mnuchin</strong> had been in the middle of explaining why he should hold out for a longer window when the president suddenly cut him off, the source said, declaring that he was in agreement. Pelosi and Schumer announced the deal in a joint statement, which Trump confirmed shortly thereafter.</p><p data-reactid="229">&#x201C;We essentially came to a deal and I think the deal will be very good,&#x201D; Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One, Politico <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/schumer-and-pelosi-offer-support-for-harvey-aid-and-debt-limit-boost-242376">reports</a>. But Republicans, &#x201C;loath to vote twice to raise the debt ceiling, were less than pleased&#x201D;:</p><div data-reactid="230"><blockquote>
<p>They said privately that Trump caved too quickly, relinquishing the G.O.P.&#x2019;s leverage. And they worried that Trump would do the same in future deals.</p>
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<p>&#x201C;I think our members would probably want to see something that goes significantly longer than that,&#x201D; said Sen. <strong>John Thune</strong> of South Dakota, the No. 3 G.O.P. leader, when asked about the short-term debt limit proposal.</p>
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<p>One senior Republican aide spoke more bluntly on background: &#x201C;The president of the United States just handed a loaded gun to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.&#x201D;</p>
</blockquote></div><p data-reactid="233">Another G.O.P. source told Politico the experience was &#x201C;mystifying.&#x201D; &#x201C;Maybe it&#x2019;s about the wall, I don&#x2019;t know,&#x201D; the senior G.O.P. aide said. &#x201C;None of it makes any sense.&#x201D; Others said Trump had set a precedent of immediately caving to Democrats&#x2019; demands.</p><p data-reactid="234">That Pelosi and Schumer were gunning for a three-month debt-ceiling hike was not a secret: they <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/schumer-and-pelosi-offer-support-for-harvey-aid-and-debt-limit-boost-242376">announced</a> the plan in a statement before the meeting. &#x201C;Given Republican difficulty in finding the votes for their plan, we believe this proposal offers a bipartisan path forward to ensure prompt delivery of Harvey aid as well as avoiding a default, while both sides work together to address government funding, DREAMers, and health care,&#x201D; the two said, hinting that they knew their colleagues were in ideological disarray&#x2014;and that three months was hardly enough time for the Republicans to figure out how to coordinate and prioritize their agenda in response.</p><div data-reactid="235"><div class="embed block row social-twitter"><blockquote class="embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet" lang="en" data-type="twitter" data-url="https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/905482729898344453"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/905482729898344453">https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/905482729898344453</a></p></blockquote></div></div><p data-reactid="236">Why Trump decided to side with the Democrats at the expense of his allies is somewhat unclear. Perhaps, as Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/905529281496875013">hinted to reporters</a>, he wants to give more leverage to &#x201C;Chuck and Nancy&#x201D; to pass a bill codifying protections for DACA recipients&#x2014;which he has said he will rescind in six months&#x2014;an issue he is reportedly torn over. Senate Majority Leader <strong>Mitch McConnell</strong> <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/09/06/548935056/trump-sides-with-democrats-in-deal-on-storm-relief-and-fiscal-deadlines">suggested</a> that the deal came about because &#x201C;his feeling was that we needed to come together, to not create a picture of divisiveness at a time of genuine national crisis&#x201D; in the midst of hurricane relief efforts.</p><p data-reactid="237">It&#x2019;s possible that Trump&#x2019;s soured relationship with Republican leadership, and his lack of long-standing ties to the party, played into his decision, too. &#x201C;Imagine how much POTUS must distrust his own party to side with Schumer and Pelosi over them on a matter like this. 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Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a &#x201C;con man,&#x201D; when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="slick-slide slick-cloned" data-index="1" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;" tabindex="-1" title="Chris Christie"><div class="slideshow-slide"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo-image"><div class="component-photo"><div class="component-rendition" data-aspect-ratio="master" data-component="Rendition"><div class="component-image pending" style="height:590px;" data-component="Image"><img alt="Chris Christie" src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430901/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-chris-christie.jpg"></div></div></div></div><div class="embed-info-text"><h2 class="title">Chris Christie</h2><div class="caption">During his presidential campaign, the New Jersey governor <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/christie-past-comments-trump">called Trump</a> a &#x201C;thin-skinned,&#x201D; &#x201C;13-year-old,&#x201D; whose ideas &#x201C;made no sense,&#x201D; so it was quite the surprise to see Christie standing shell-shocked at Trump&#x2019;s side, weeks after he dropped out, upon giving him his hearty endorsement.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="slick-slide slick-cloned" data-index="2" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;" tabindex="-1" title="Ted Cruz"><div class="slideshow-slide"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo-image"><div class="component-photo"><div class="component-rendition" data-aspect-ratio="master" data-component="Rendition"><div class="component-image pending" style="height:590px;" data-component="Image"><img alt="Ted Cruz" src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430900/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ted-cruz.jpg"></div></div></div></div><div class="embed-info-text"><h2 class="title">Ted Cruz</h2><div class="caption">After Trump insulted his wife&#x2019;s looks, the Texas senator responded by all-but <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-donald-trump-may-be-a-rat-but-i-have-no-desire-to-copulate-with-him/">calling his primary opponent a ratf***er</a>  and refused to endorse him during a speech at the Republican National Convention. But months later, not only did he urge his voters to pull the lever for Trump, he was spotted <a href="https://twitter.com/gjmccarthy/status/784147520108625920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">morosely phone-banking</a> in front of his former enemy&#x2019;s campaign signage.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="slick-slide slick-cloned" data-index="3" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;" tabindex="-1" title="Reince Priebus"><div class="slideshow-slide"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo-image"><div class="component-photo"><div class="component-rendition" data-aspect-ratio="master" data-component="Rendition"><div class="component-image pending" style="height:590px;" data-component="Image"><img alt="Reince Priebus" src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeca92fcfde736cf4623b/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-reince-priebus.jpg"></div></div></div></div><div class="embed-info-text"><h2 class="title">Reince Priebus</h2><div class="caption">A long time ago, in the year 2016, the R.N.C. chairman threw everything he could to prevent Trump from becoming the party&#x2019;s nominee. Days after Trump won, Reince stood by his side as his chief of staff, possibly getting the least humiliating outcome for an erstwhile Trump foe.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div data-index="4" class="slick-slide slick-cloned" tabindex="-1" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;"></div><div class="slick-slide slick-cloned" data-index="5" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;" tabindex="-1" title="Paul Ryan"><div class="slideshow-slide"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo-image"><div class="component-photo"><div class="component-rendition" data-aspect-ratio="master" data-component="Rendition"><div class="component-image pending" style="height:590px;" data-component="Image"><img alt="Paul Ryan" src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aed812fcfde736cf4623d/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-paul-ryan.jpg"></div></div></div></div><div class="embed-info-text"><h2 class="title">Paul Ryan</h2><div class="caption">The House Speaker spent months trying to maintain a safe distance from Trump, condemning his statements (even as he declined to renounce him) and at one point canceling a rally appearance with Trump after his past p****-grabbing comments came to light. Flash-forward two months, and Ryan was praising Trump in front of a cheering crowd in Wisconsin, thanking him for clinching the first Republican presidential win in the state in decades.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="slick-slide slick-cloned" data-index="6" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;" tabindex="-1" title="Jason Chaffetz"><div class="slideshow-slide"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo-image"><div class="component-photo"><div class="component-rendition" data-aspect-ratio="master" data-component="Rendition"><div class="component-image pending" style="height:590px;" data-component="Image"><img alt="Jason Chaffetz" src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aee18a6b0a7ec2adf09ff/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-jason-chaffetz.jpg"></div></div></div></div><div class="embed-info-text"><h2 class="title">Jason Chaffetz</h2><div class="caption">&#x201C;I&#x2019;m out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president,&#x201D; the Utah congressman <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/26/gop-rep-jason-chaffetz-says-his-conscience-wont-let-him-support-donald-trump-just-vote-for-him/?utm_term=.72c4c17f6a65">declared</a> days after the <em>Access Hollywood</em> tapes leaked, calling Trump&#x2019;s comments &#x201C;some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine.&#x201D; It took Chaffetz only 19 days to flip back to Trump.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class="slick-slide slick-cloned" data-index="7" style="outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;" tabindex="-1" title="Ben Carson"><div class="slideshow-slide"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo"><div class="slideshow-slide-photo-image"><div class="component-photo"><div class="component-rendition" data-aspect-ratio="master" data-component="Rendition"><div class="component-image pending" style="height:590px;" data-component="Image"><img alt="Ben Carson" src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeea9a6b0a7ec2adf0a01/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ben-carson.jpg"></div></div></div></div><div class="embed-info-text"><h2 class="title">Ben Carson</h2><div class="caption">When Trump compared him to a child molester, the soft-spoken neurosurgeon <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-carson-donald-trump-iowa-speech-2015-11">responded</a> that he would &#x201C;pray for him,&#x201D; the Carson equivalent of a sick burn. But after Carson wandered onstage at Mar-a-Lago to give his <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/ben-carson-donald-trump">endorsement</a>, he immediately transformed into one of Trump&#x2019;s most consistently confusing surrogates.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="buttons" style="text-align:center;"><button class="button prev" style="margin-top:NaN;">Previous</button><button class="button next" style="margin-top:NaN;">Next</button></div><noscript><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0682589080283962ee/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-mitt-romney.jpg" alt="Mitt Romney"><figcaption><h2>Mitt Romney</h2><div>The O.G. Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a &#x201C;con man,&#x201D; when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430901/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-chris-christie.jpg" alt="Chris Christie"><figcaption><h2>Chris Christie</h2><div>During his presidential campaign, the New Jersey governor <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/christie-past-comments-trump">called Trump</a> a &#x201C;thin-skinned,&#x201D; &#x201C;13-year-old,&#x201D; whose ideas &#x201C;made no sense,&#x201D; so it was quite the surprise to see Christie standing shell-shocked at Trump&#x2019;s side, weeks after he dropped out, upon giving him his hearty endorsement.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430900/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ted-cruz.jpg" alt="Ted Cruz"><figcaption><h2>Ted Cruz</h2><div>After Trump insulted his wife&#x2019;s looks, the Texas senator responded by all-but <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-donald-trump-may-be-a-rat-but-i-have-no-desire-to-copulate-with-him/">calling his primary opponent a ratf***er</a>  and refused to endorse him during a speech at the Republican National Convention. But months later, not only did he urge his voters to pull the lever for Trump, he was spotted <a href="https://twitter.com/gjmccarthy/status/784147520108625920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">morosely phone-banking</a> in front of his former enemy&#x2019;s campaign signage.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeca92fcfde736cf4623b/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-reince-priebus.jpg" alt="Reince Priebus"><figcaption><h2>Reince Priebus</h2><div>A long time ago, in the year 2016, the R.N.C. chairman threw everything he could to prevent Trump from becoming the party&#x2019;s nominee. Days after Trump won, Reince stood by his side as his chief of staff, possibly getting the least humiliating outcome for an erstwhile Trump foe.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0682589080283962f0/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-marco-rubio.jpg" alt="Marco Rubio"><figcaption><h2>Marco Rubio</h2><div>The Florida senator, who Trump ruthlessly mocked as &#x201C;little&#x201D; and &#x201C;sweaty&#x201D; throughout the primary race, so despised his antagonist that he made the ill-fated decision to hit back in kind, mocking Trump&#x2019;s makeup and hand size. After he dropped out, it took several months for him to <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2016/07/22/watch-marco-rubio-endorses-a-vulgar-con">embrace Trump</a>, though he could not bring himself to appear at the R.N.C. in person to make the endorsement, sending in a video instead.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From PBS.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aed812fcfde736cf4623d/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-paul-ryan.jpg" alt="Paul Ryan"><figcaption><h2>Paul Ryan</h2><div>The House Speaker spent months trying to maintain a safe distance from Trump, condemning his statements (even as he declined to renounce him) and at one point canceling a rally appearance with Trump after his past p****-grabbing comments came to light. Flash-forward two months, and Ryan was praising Trump in front of a cheering crowd in Wisconsin, thanking him for clinching the first Republican presidential win in the state in decades.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aee18a6b0a7ec2adf09ff/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-jason-chaffetz.jpg" alt="Jason Chaffetz"><figcaption><h2>Jason Chaffetz</h2><div>&#x201C;I&#x2019;m out. 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We&#x2019;ve agreed to help those recovering from Hurricane Harvey, avoid default, &amp; avoid a shutdown,&#x201D; Schumer <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/905519603094302721\">announced</a> in a tweet. Shellshocked Republicans are reportedly fuming that Democrats will now get all the leverage they need to control the debate over taxes, spending, and immigration when the debt ceiling must be raised again at the end of the year. &#x201C;Dems bluffed their way into total victory. They win the politics of DACA and leverage on debt in the winter. The fate is sealed&#x2014;DACA will be reauthorized without strings,&#x201D; one Republican close to leadership <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/trump-breaks-with-republicans-on-debt-ceiling-deal-2482227911.html\">told</a> Axios&#x2019;s <strong>Jonathan Swan.</strong> Nebraska Senator <strong>Ben Sasse</strong> was more succinct: &#x201C;The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump deal is bad,&#x201D; he <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SenSasse/status/905500235148996608\">tweeted</a>.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<p>Congressional Republicans <a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/06/politics/trump-deal-democrats-republicans/index.html\">reportedly pushed</a> for an 18-month debt-ceiling hike, then a six-month extension; the Democratic delegation called for three months&#x2014;a proposal that House Speaker <strong>Paul Ryan</strong> called &#x201C;ridiculous&#x201D; earlier in the day. But Trump quickly took the three-month deal, a source familiar with the meeting <a href=\"http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/6/donald-trump-agrees-debt-limit-deal/\">told</a> <em>The Washington Times.</em> Treasury Secretary <strong>Steve Mnuchin</strong> had been in the middle of explaining why he should hold out for a longer window when the president suddenly cut him off, the source said, declaring that he was in agreement. Pelosi and Schumer announced the deal in a joint statement, which Trump confirmed shortly thereafter.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<p>&#x201C;We essentially came to a deal and I think the deal will be very good,&#x201D; Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One, Politico <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/schumer-and-pelosi-offer-support-for-harvey-aid-and-debt-limit-boost-242376\">reports</a>. But Republicans, &#x201C;loath to vote twice to raise the debt ceiling, were less than pleased&#x201D;:</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<blockquote>\n<p>They said privately that Trump caved too quickly, relinquishing the G.O.P.&#x2019;s leverage. And they worried that Trump would do the same in future deals.</p>\n</blockquote>","isEmbed":false,"type":"blockquote"},{"content":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#x201C;I think our members would probably want to see something that goes significantly longer than that,&#x201D; said Sen. <strong>John Thune</strong> of South Dakota, the No. 3 G.O.P. leader, when asked about the short-term debt limit proposal.</p>\n</blockquote>","isEmbed":false,"type":"blockquote"},{"content":"<blockquote>\n<p>One senior Republican aide spoke more bluntly on background: &#x201C;The president of the United States just handed a loaded gun to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.&#x201D;</p>\n</blockquote>","isEmbed":false,"type":"blockquote"},{"content":"<p>Another G.O.P. source told Politico the experience was &#x201C;mystifying.&#x201D; &#x201C;Maybe it&#x2019;s about the wall, I don&#x2019;t know,&#x201D; the senior G.O.P. aide said. &#x201C;None of it makes any sense.&#x201D; Others said Trump had set a precedent of immediately caving to Democrats&#x2019; demands.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<p>That Pelosi and Schumer were gunning for a three-month debt-ceiling hike was not a secret: they <a href=\"http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/schumer-and-pelosi-offer-support-for-harvey-aid-and-debt-limit-boost-242376\">announced</a> the plan in a statement before the meeting. &#x201C;Given Republican difficulty in finding the votes for their plan, we believe this proposal offers a bipartisan path forward to ensure prompt delivery of Harvey aid as well as avoiding a default, while both sides work together to address government funding, DREAMers, and health care,&#x201D; the two said, hinting that they knew their colleagues were in ideological disarray&#x2014;and that three months was hardly enough time for the Republicans to figure out how to coordinate and prioritize their agenda in response.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/905482729898344453\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/905482729898344453\">https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/905482729898344453</a></p></blockquote></div>","isEmbed":false,"type":"div"},{"content":"<p>Why Trump decided to side with the Democrats at the expense of his allies is somewhat unclear. Perhaps, as Trump <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/905529281496875013\">hinted to reporters</a>, he wants to give more leverage to &#x201C;Chuck and Nancy&#x201D; to pass a bill codifying protections for DACA recipients&#x2014;which he has said he will rescind in six months&#x2014;an issue he is reportedly torn over. Senate Majority Leader <strong>Mitch McConnell</strong> <a href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/09/06/548935056/trump-sides-with-democrats-in-deal-on-storm-relief-and-fiscal-deadlines\">suggested</a> that the deal came about because &#x201C;his feeling was that we needed to come together, to not create a picture of divisiveness at a time of genuine national crisis&#x201D; in the midst of hurricane relief efforts.</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<p>It&#x2019;s possible that Trump&#x2019;s soured relationship with Republican leadership, and his lack of long-standing ties to the party, played into his decision, too. &#x201C;Imagine how much POTUS must distrust his own party to side with Schumer and Pelosi over them on a matter like this. And imagine how oblivious he must be not to see that they&#x2019;re laying a trap for him,&#x201D; <a href=\"https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/06/trump-sides-pelosi-schumer-gop-backing-short-term-debt-ceiling-hike/\">marveled</a> Hot Air&#x2019;s pseudonymous Allahpundit. &#x201C;I don&#x2019;t know why he&#x2019;d agree to this, unless he&#x2019;s so desperate to show that he can make &#x2018;deals&#x2019; that he&#x2019;s now willing to make bad ones purely for the sake of getting something done.&#x201D;</p>","isEmbed":false,"type":"p"},{"content":"<div class=\"embed slideshow article-slideshow-embed row\" id=\"embed-gallery-585aebfc82589080283962ec\" data-type=\"slideshow\"><div class=\"slideshow-container embed\"><div><div class=\"embed-title\"><a href=\"/news/photos/2016/12/donald-trump-critics-cave\" class=\"embed-enlarge\">Full Screen</a><strong class=\"label\">Photos:</strong><div class=\"component-counter\" data-component=\"Counter\"><div class=\"counter\"><span class=\"current\">1</span><span class=\"divider\">/</span><span class=\"total\">8</span></div></div><span class=\"embed-dek\">The Exact Moment Each of Trump&#x2019;s Enemies Sold Their Souls</span></div><div class=\"embed-slideshow-container first-slide\"><div class=\"slick-initialized slick-slider\"><div class=\"slick-list\"><div class=\"slick-track\"><div class=\"slick-slide slick-active slick-cloned\" data-index=\"0\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:1;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Mitt Romney\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Mitt Romney\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0682589080283962ee/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-mitt-romney.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Mitt Romney</h2><div class=\"caption\">The O.G. Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a &#x201C;con man,&#x201D; when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Chris Christie\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Chris Christie\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430901/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-chris-christie.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Chris Christie</h2><div class=\"caption\">During his presidential campaign, the New Jersey governor <a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/christie-past-comments-trump\">called Trump</a> a &#x201C;thin-skinned,&#x201D; &#x201C;13-year-old,&#x201D; whose ideas &#x201C;made no sense,&#x201D; so it was quite the surprise to see Christie standing shell-shocked at Trump&#x2019;s side, weeks after he dropped out, upon giving him his hearty endorsement.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Ted Cruz\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Ted Cruz\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430900/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ted-cruz.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Ted Cruz</h2><div class=\"caption\">After Trump insulted his wife&#x2019;s looks, the Texas senator responded by all-but <a href=\"http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-donald-trump-may-be-a-rat-but-i-have-no-desire-to-copulate-with-him/\">calling his primary opponent a ratf***er</a>  and refused to endorse him during a speech at the Republican National Convention. But months later, not only did he urge his voters to pull the lever for Trump, he was spotted <a href=\"https://twitter.com/gjmccarthy/status/784147520108625920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">morosely phone-banking</a> in front of his former enemy&#x2019;s campaign signage.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Reince Priebus\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Reince Priebus\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeca92fcfde736cf4623b/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-reince-priebus.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Reince Priebus</h2><div class=\"caption\">A long time ago, in the year 2016, the R.N.C. chairman threw everything he could to prevent Trump from becoming the party&#x2019;s nominee. Days after Trump won, Reince stood by his side as his chief of staff, possibly getting the least humiliating outcome for an erstwhile Trump foe.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div data-index=\"4\" class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" tabindex=\"-1\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\"></div><div class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" data-index=\"5\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Paul Ryan\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Paul Ryan\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aed812fcfde736cf4623d/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-paul-ryan.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Paul Ryan</h2><div class=\"caption\">The House Speaker spent months trying to maintain a safe distance from Trump, condemning his statements (even as he declined to renounce him) and at one point canceling a rally appearance with Trump after his past p****-grabbing comments came to light. Flash-forward two months, and Ryan was praising Trump in front of a cheering crowd in Wisconsin, thanking him for clinching the first Republican presidential win in the state in decades.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Jason Chaffetz\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Jason Chaffetz\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aee18a6b0a7ec2adf09ff/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-jason-chaffetz.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Jason Chaffetz</h2><div class=\"caption\">&#x201C;I&#x2019;m out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president,&#x201D; the Utah congressman <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/26/gop-rep-jason-chaffetz-says-his-conscience-wont-let-him-support-donald-trump-just-vote-for-him/?utm_term=.72c4c17f6a65\">declared</a> days after the <em>Access Hollywood</em> tapes leaked, calling Trump&#x2019;s comments &#x201C;some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine.&#x201D; It took Chaffetz only 19 days to flip back to Trump.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div><div class=\"slick-slide slick-cloned\" data-index=\"7\" style=\"outline:none;position:relative;left:0;opacity:0;transition:opacity 0ms ease;-webkit-transition:opacity 0ms ease;\" tabindex=\"-1\" title=\"Ben Carson\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo\"><div class=\"slideshow-slide-photo-image\"><div class=\"component-photo\"><div class=\"component-rendition\" data-aspect-ratio=\"master\" data-component=\"Rendition\"><div class=\"component-image pending\" style=\"height:590px;\" data-component=\"Image\"><img alt=\"Ben Carson\" src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeea9a6b0a7ec2adf0a01/master/h_590,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ben-carson.jpg\"></div></div></div></div><div class=\"embed-info-text\"><h2 class=\"title\">Ben Carson</h2><div class=\"caption\">When Trump compared him to a child molester, the soft-spoken neurosurgeon <a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-carson-donald-trump-iowa-speech-2015-11\">responded</a> that he would &#x201C;pray for him,&#x201D; the Carson equivalent of a sick burn. But after Carson wandered onstage at Mar-a-Lago to give his <a href=\"http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/ben-carson-donald-trump\">endorsement</a>, he immediately transformed into one of Trump&#x2019;s most consistently confusing surrogates.</div><cite>Photo: Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</cite></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=\"buttons\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><button class=\"button prev\" style=\"margin-top:NaN;\">Previous</button><button class=\"button next\" style=\"margin-top:NaN;\">Next</button></div><noscript><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0682589080283962ee/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-mitt-romney.jpg\" alt=\"Mitt Romney\"><figcaption><h2>Mitt Romney</h2><div>The O.G. Never Trumper, Romney effectively renounced his past denunciations of the president-elect, whom he had previously called a &#x201C;con man,&#x201D; when Trump began publicly courting him for secretary of state. (He did not get the job.)</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430901/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-chris-christie.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Christie\"><figcaption><h2>Chris Christie</h2><div>During his presidential campaign, the New Jersey governor <a href=\"http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/christie-past-comments-trump\">called Trump</a> a &#x201C;thin-skinned,&#x201D; &#x201C;13-year-old,&#x201D; whose ideas &#x201C;made no sense,&#x201D; so it was quite the surprise to see Christie standing shell-shocked at Trump&#x2019;s side, weeks after he dropped out, upon giving him his hearty endorsement.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0632afd6313e430900/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ted-cruz.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Cruz\"><figcaption><h2>Ted Cruz</h2><div>After Trump insulted his wife&#x2019;s looks, the Texas senator responded by all-but <a href=\"http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cruz-donald-trump-may-be-a-rat-but-i-have-no-desire-to-copulate-with-him/\">calling his primary opponent a ratf***er</a>  and refused to endorse him during a speech at the Republican National Convention. But months later, not only did he urge his voters to pull the lever for Trump, he was spotted <a href=\"https://twitter.com/gjmccarthy/status/784147520108625920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">morosely phone-banking</a> in front of his former enemy&#x2019;s campaign signage.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeca92fcfde736cf4623b/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-reince-priebus.jpg\" alt=\"Reince Priebus\"><figcaption><h2>Reince Priebus</h2><div>A long time ago, in the year 2016, the R.N.C. chairman threw everything he could to prevent Trump from becoming the party&#x2019;s nominee. Days after Trump won, Reince stood by his side as his chief of staff, possibly getting the least humiliating outcome for an erstwhile Trump foe.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aec0682589080283962f0/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-marco-rubio.jpg\" alt=\"Marco Rubio\"><figcaption><h2>Marco Rubio</h2><div>The Florida senator, who Trump ruthlessly mocked as &#x201C;little&#x201D; and &#x201C;sweaty&#x201D; throughout the primary race, so despised his antagonist that he made the ill-fated decision to hit back in kind, mocking Trump&#x2019;s makeup and hand size. After he dropped out, it took several months for him to <a href=\"https://reason.com/blog/2016/07/22/watch-marco-rubio-endorses-a-vulgar-con\">embrace Trump</a>, though he could not bring himself to appear at the R.N.C. in person to make the endorsement, sending in a video instead.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From PBS.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aed812fcfde736cf4623d/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-paul-ryan.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Ryan\"><figcaption><h2>Paul Ryan</h2><div>The House Speaker spent months trying to maintain a safe distance from Trump, condemning his statements (even as he declined to renounce him) and at one point canceling a rally appearance with Trump after his past p****-grabbing comments came to light. Flash-forward two months, and Ryan was praising Trump in front of a cheering crowd in Wisconsin, thanking him for clinching the first Republican presidential win in the state in decades.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aee18a6b0a7ec2adf09ff/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-jason-chaffetz.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Chaffetz\"><figcaption><h2>Jason Chaffetz</h2><div>&#x201C;I&#x2019;m out. I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president,&#x201D; the Utah congressman <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/26/gop-rep-jason-chaffetz-says-his-conscience-wont-let-him-support-donald-trump-just-vote-for-him/?utm_term=.72c4c17f6a65\">declared</a> days after the <em>Access Hollywood</em> tapes leaked, calling Trump&#x2019;s comments &#x201C;some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine.&#x201D; It took Chaffetz only 19 days to flip back to Trump.</div><div>Digital Colorization by Ben Park; From Getty Images.</div></figcaption></figure><figure><img src=\"https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/585aeea9a6b0a7ec2adf0a01/master/w_768,c_limit/donald-trump-sold-souls-ben-carson.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Carson\"><figcaption><h2>Ben Carson</h2><div>When Trump compared him to a child molester, the soft-spoken neurosurgeon <a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/ben-carson-donald-trump-iowa-speech-2015-11\">responded</a> that he would &#x201C;pray for him,&#x201D; the Carson equivalent of a sick burn. 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On February 4, the Environmental Protection Agency head <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/01/30/scott-pruitt-once-said-trump-would-be-more-abusive-to-the-constitution-than-barack-obama-and-thats-saying-a-lot/?utm_term=.7c5cb8c9215f\">reportedly</a> told a local Oklahoma radio station that Trump “would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama&#8212;and that’s saying a lot.” In a subsequent interview on February 11, Pruitt <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/kfile-scott-pruitt-trump-rule-of-law/index.html\">added</a> that Trump would be “an empty vessel when it comes to things like the Constitution and rule of law,” and that he was “very concerned that perhaps if [Trump is] in the White House, that there may be a very blunt instrument as the voice of the Constitution.” (In a statement rebutting the claims, Pruitt, like Shah, said his opinions had changed after meeting Trump, whom he now called “the most consequential leader of our time.”)</p>\n<p><strong>Rex Tillerson</strong></p>\n<p>The secretary of State allegedly called Trump a “<a href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/rex-tillerson-still-wont-deny-he-called-trump-moron-685477\">moron</a>,” and spent months thereafter dismissing <a href=\"https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/19/tillerson-abruptly-leaves-podium-after-dismissing-resignation-rumors-as-ridiculous-in-awkward-exchange-with-reporter/23311653/\">rumors</a> that he was stepping down, but neither confirmed nor denied the rumor. “I’m not going to deal with petty stuff like that,” he <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/tillerson-s-fury-trump-required-intervention-pence-n806451\">told reporters</a> at the time.</p>\n<p><strong>H.R. 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Per Wolff, an e-mail “purporting to represent the views of Gary Cohn” circulated the White House in April and <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/juiciest-lines-michael-wolff-trump-book-article-1.3735541\">read</a>, in part:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything&#8212;not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant p---k who thinks he’s smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits . . . I am in a constant state of terror and shock.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Cohn <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/01/05/white-house-gary-cohn-denies-ridiculous-quote-on-trump-in-wolff-book.html\">denied the comments</a>. Meanwhile, Republicans outside the White House have shown even less restraint, particularly if they are no longer seeking office.</p>\n<p><strong>Bob Corker</strong></p>\n<p>The Tennessee Senator, who announced last year that he would not run for re-election, called the White House an <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SenBobCorker/status/917045348820049920\">“adult day care”</a> after a <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/politics/bob-corker-donald-trump-timeline-relationship/index.html\">long series of skirmishes</a> over whether Corker had asked Trump for his endorsement or not. 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Though he hasn’t gone as far as calling Trump an idiot or thereabouts, he has dinged Trump’s human-rights rhetoric as <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-duterte-mccain-sad-human-rights-talk-apec-meeting-latest-a8052876.html\">“sad”</a>, acalled “America First” mentality <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/john-mccain-trump-spurious-nationalism/index.html\">“half-baked, spurious nationalism”</a>, so perhaps it’s only a matter of time.</p>\n<p><strong>Steve Bannon</strong></p>\n<p>Bannon, who spent his brief employ in the White House mixing effusive praise for the president with occasional backbiting to the press, was just as candid about Trump’s limitations before he joined the campaign. Trump is a “blunt instrument for us,” he told <strong>Ken Stern</strong> for <em>Vanity Fair</em> in mid-summer 2016, mere weeks before he became Trump’s campaign C.E.O. “I don’t know whether he really gets it or not.” Bannon’s running commentary on Trump’s mental capacity hasn’t stopped since he was exiled from the White House, either. “He’s like an 11-year-old child,” Bannon joked to a friend in November, my colleague <strong>Gabriel Sherman</strong> <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/bannon-for-president-trump-kushner-ivanka\">reported</a> in December. 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But, as <em>The Washington Post</em> <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/01/30/trump-is-going-to-propose-an-infrastructure-plan-tonight-its-a-scam/?utm_term=.811842cf3016\">points out</a>, unlike typical public-private partnerships wherein the government is the ultimate owner of the road or bridge constructed by a private company, it’ll all be under private ownership.</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>“PriveCo Equity Partners [get] a gigantic tax incentive to build the bridge, which the company now owns&#8212;and which will charge tolls on [it] in perpetuity. Taxpayers could shell out nearly as much in tax incentives to the private company as we would have spent to just build the bridge, and then on top of that you’ll have to pay tolls to cross it&#8212;<em>forever.</em> As long as the bridge stands, people are paying extra so PriveCo Equity Partners can make a profit.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And because Trump &amp; Co. will pay for no more than 20 percent of any given project, states and localities that don’t have the extra funds will most likely be shit out of luck. As the <em>Post</em>’s <strong>Paul Waldman</strong> notes, “the focus on private investment . . . will naturally privilege projects that can generate a profit for private companies, which probably won’t be the most sorely needed upgrades.” According to a <a href=\"https://democracyforward.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Infrastructure-Report.pdf\">new report</a> released this week by the left-leaning Democracy Forward, under the rubric for judging grant applicants, a whopping 70 percent of a project’s score “would be based on the availability of non-federal revenue,” whereas the “economic and social returns” it could generate make up 5 percent. Sorry, Flint, Michigan! You don’t really need new pipes, right?</p>\n<p>Of course, this was all by design. Less scary than the fact that Trump’s friends might <a href=\"https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/who-benefits-from-trumps-infrastructure-plan\">financially benefit from the plan</a> is the promise (threat?) he made last night that “any bill must . . . streamline the permitting and approval process,” by which he means <a href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2018/01/28/445496/trumps-infrastructure-scam-will-gut-environmental-protections-benefit-corporate-polluters/\">gut environmental protections and put public health</a> at risk. On the bright side, no one actually believes that President Hard Hat’s plan will come to fruition, at least not in its current form. “Not to be morbid, but an infrastructure catastrophe could move the needle . . . and spur congressional action,” political strategist <strong>Chris Krueger</strong> <a href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-infrastructure-plan-dead-on-arrival-2018-1\">told</a> Business Insider. “Barring some kind of morbid catalyst, [the plan’s passage] seems extremely unlikely.”</p>\n<p><em><strong>If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, <a href=\"http://tinyletter.com/besslevin\">click here</a> to subscribe.</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong>Judge rules Mick Mulvaney will have to work hard to destroy the C.F.P.B.</strong></p>\n<p>Since the day the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was formed, Republicans have been raving about how it’s an unconstitutional menace that must be stopped. 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And <em>you</em> get a Twinkie!</strong></p>\n<p>Hostess Brands is using its tax bill savings to reward employees with <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/twinkie-maker-s-response-to-the-trump-tax-overhaul-free-snacks\">snacks</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The company, which makes Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos, is providing its employees one-time payments of $1,250&#8212;with $750 in cash and $500 in the form of a 401(k) contribution. In taking the step, Hostess cited last month’s tax legislation, which slashed the rate for U.S. corporations.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It’s also offering a year’s worth of free food to workers&#8212;though they won’t be able to eat all the Ding Dongs they like. A representative from each of Hostess’s bakeries will choose a product each week, and the employees will be able to take home a multipack of that item. 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They’re gonna reprint the tickets, and they’re gonna recall the old ones&#8212;which could be tough, because I’ve seen members of the Trump administration testify, and they can’t recall <em>anything.</em>”</p>\n<p>Perhaps, Colbert suggested, the misspelling was intentional. “Donald Trump said he would shake things up; he would change things,” the comedian noted. “Maybe tomorrow will be the first State of the Uniom. ‘My fellob Anerimicans: with Dolin Trunk as your predisent, every mang, woban, and chilm will know the state of our uniom is strog. So strog.’”</p>\n<div class=\"embed block video row\"><div class=\"wrapper\"><iframe height=\"360\" width=\"640\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dqh4xQMbcvg\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allowtransparency=\"true\"> </iframe></div></div><p>Meanwhile, <strong>Seth Meyers</strong> joked, “President Trump will deliver his first State of the Union address tomorrow. 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Graff said the company did Trump “no [favors],” though the current president was “a pleasure to do business with.” Company’s C.F.O. <strong>Nicholas Paine</strong> reiterated, “We don’t sell items for publicity value.” A third source with knowledge of the transaction told <em>Forbes,</em> “He paid for [the ring] in full, and he paid immediately.” The great dealmaker has struck again.</p>\n<p>Graff did place its product on <em>The Apprentice</em> in November 2004. A winning team of second season contestants <a href=\"http://ew.com/article/2004/11/12/apprentice-most-unfair-episode-ever/\">received $50,000</a> to spend at the New York location as a reward at the end of an episode (the top end of sponsorship for the show could cost <a href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=HZgUCgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA71&amp;lpg=PA71&amp;dq=graff%20jewelry%20second%20season%20apprentice&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=8sk979kK04&amp;sig=ha0_qmo0DQHJCndWAycHEtNV6sQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiguNPg75bZAhUNON8KHeyFCY0Q6AEITTAK#v=onepage&amp;q=product%20placement%20and%20the%20apprentice&amp;f=false\">up to $25 million</a> so knocking a bit off the retail price of a diamond actually sounds like a steal).</p>\n<p>Neither Graff nor <em>Forbes</em> specifies why the jeweler is commenting on the purchase 15 years later. In 2004, when the news of the exchange originally grabbed headlines, Graff <a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3613530/The-Donald-the-mystery.html\">declined</a> to comment, and as recently as a month ago, a company rep told <em><a href=\"http://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/jewelry-and-watches/a14783066/celebrity-free-jewelry/\">Town &amp; Country</a></em> that “it is not our practice to comment on client relationships.” (After the <em>Forbes</em> report, <em>Town &amp; Country</em> repackaged the story around the new information, and removed the “no comment” from Graff. The quote still appears in a cached version of the article.) Though the company now denies a special deal, they still won’t specify how much Trump paid for the diamond in the end.</p>\n<p>The story did change a couple times over the years. In 2004, while Trump was chastising his son <strong>Don Jr.,</strong> who had accepted an offer for a free diamond ring in exchange for a public proposal at a mall in New Jersey, on <em><a href=\"http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/24/lkl.01.html\">Larry King</a>,</em> Trump admitted he “negotiated” a “great price” for Melania’s ring. “Hey, I bought a ring,” he said. “I got it from Graff. You negotiated hard. I said you’re going to get a lot of publicity and I want a great price blah, blah, blah. But I don’t do a big stunt over it.” (Why he decided to knock his kid on national television for largely doing what he did on a daily basis is another Trumpian mystery, but the Juniors got theirs later. 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This year’s theme, “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World,” drew lofty speeches from various leaders who made the case for a “renewed commitment to international collaboration as a way of solving critical global challenges.” German Chancellor <strong>Angela Merkel</strong> <a href=\"https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/angela-merkel-at-davos-we-need-global-cooperation-not-walls/\">cautioned</a> against unilateralism: “Ever since the Roman Empire, ever since the Chinese Wall, we know that shutting ourselves off doesn&#39;t help to protect your borders,” she said. “You also need good cooperation with your neighbors, you need good agreements, valid agreements that are respected.” Indian Prime Minister <strong>Narendra Modi</strong> <a href=\"https://qz.com/1186666/davos-2018-indias-modi-says-climate-change-protectionism-and-terrorism-are-the-worlds-greatest-threats/\">warned</a> that protectionism, terrorism, and climate change are the biggest threats facing the globe, and urged leaders to “back their words with their resources to help developing countries to adopt appropriate technology.” French President <strong>Emmanuel Macron</strong> <a href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-emmanuel-macron-davos-speeches/\">called on</a> fellow heads of state to agree to concrete actions on climate change, and Canadian Prime Minister <strong>Justin Trudeau</strong> <a href=\"https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/pm-keynote-remarks-for-world-economic-forum-2018/\">blasted</a> gender inequality, saying that companies must not only pay women as much as men, but must address the “whole host of barriers facing women in the workplace.”</p>\n<p>Then, it was the president of the United States’ turn. But rather than take inspiration from the sweeping proclamations of his fellow world leaders, <strong>Donald Trump</strong> did his best impression of a middle manager pitching regional investors on a fast-food franchise. Declaring that there has “never been a better time” to invest in America, Trump, as expected, touted his yuge corporate tax cut, gains in the stock market, and a surge in economic growth&#8212;a phenomenon that is, in fact, being felt <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/4b9e6190-f55e-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00\">worldwide</a>. He emphasized his administration’s focus on gutting regulations, referencing his two-for-one deal wherein for every new regulation proposed two must be scrapped. One of his lines, verbatim, was, “We have tremendous amounts of money.”</p>\n<p>Somewhat counterintuitively, he was forced to frame the U.S. prior to January 20, 2017, as some kind of backwater economic basket case, if only to serve the narrative that he, Trump, had swooped to its rescue: “The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America,” he reassured the crowd. He also claimed that “America First” policies deliver a net positive, explaining that when he, for instance, pulls out of trade agreements and slaps tariffs on imports, it’s because he’s rooting out “unfair economic practices” that “undermines us all.”</p>\n<p>Because the bar had been set so low and Trump didn’t, like drop trou or threaten nuclear war, reviews have been largely positive. “I was glad to hear him say it is ‘America First’ but not America alone,” Cardinal <strong>Peter Turkson,</strong> who heads up the pope’s initiatives on migration and the environment, <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-promote-u-s-as-open-for-business-in-davos-speech-1516962420\">told</a> <em>The Wall Street Journal.</em> “Certainly he was very successful in presenting his successes,” <strong>Stephan Gemkow,</strong> chairman of investment firm Haniel, <a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/26/news/trump-davos-reaction-wef/index.html\">acknowledged</a>. Others were less enthused at his “America First” report card. “It was a speech about what he has done,” said Danish finance minister <strong>Kristian Jensen.</strong> “I would have liked to hear more about how he will renew international cooperation. I miss America on the international scene.” U.K. designer <strong>Pippa Small</strong> took issue with the fact that “there were so many issues omitted, climate change obviously being a huge one. . . . It was just all about money,” adding, “it’s almost making me cry.” <strong>Renat Heuberger,</strong> chief executive of Swiss environmental group South Pole, was blunter, telling the <em>Journal,</em> “It’s a disaster. What he’s calling for is global egoism. It’s the survival of the fittest . . . He believes that by destroying the environment, business will thrive. That will create jobs in the short term, but in the long term it will crash.”</p>\n<p>But hey, if we’re grading on the world’s steepest curve, let’s give some credit where credit is due: Trump didn’t rage about the “global power structure” that he <a href=\"https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-rolls-out-anti-semitic-cosing-ad\">claimed</a> on the campaign trail had “robbed” the working class. He didn’t shove any world leaders into a snowbank <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/867758571882258432\">so he could be front and center for a photo-op</a>. He didn’t <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/donald-trump-germany-evil\">lecture allies about shirking their bills</a>, and he didn’t describe even <em>one</em> country as a “shithole.” Of course, whatever “best behavior“ serum aides had injected him with couldn’t have been expected to last the whole time, or overcome <a href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/01/26/trumps-slap-fake-media-draws-boos-hisses-davos-crowd/1068671001/\">the strongest of urges</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During a question-and-answer session with the forum’s founder after his main speech to the group, Trump said it wasn’t until he became a politician that he realized “how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be.”</p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The comment prompted some scorn from the room.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, <a href=\"http://tinyletter.com/besslevin\">click here</a> to subscribe.</strong></em></p>\n<p><strong>Shares of Wynn Resorts slide on report founder is an alleged serial sexual abuser who taught his dogs German</strong></p>\n<p>There are many horrifying aspects to <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>’s <a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/dozens-of-people-recount-pattern-of-sexual-misconduct-by-las-vegas-mogul-steve-wynn-1516985953\">article</a> about casino tycoon <strong>Steve Wynn</strong>&#8212;that he allegedly forced a manicurist at the Wynn’s on-site spa to have sex with him; that a former massage therapist claims “masturbating him became a frequent part of the massage sessions for several months”; that female employees allegedly took to hiding in the bathroom or backrooms when they heard he was headed to the salon&#8212;but one stands out as uniquely creepy:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some said that feeling was heightened at times by the presence in a confined office space of one or more of his German shepherds, trained to respond to commands in German.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>In a statement to the <em>Journal,</em> Wynn said, “the idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous” and that “we find ourselves in a world where people can make allegations, regardless of the truth.” But investors have not taken kindly to the allegations:</p>\n<div class=\"embed block row social-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"embed twitter-embed-component twitter-tweet twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-type=\"twitter\" data-url=\"https://twitter.com/akaneotani/status/956938516285575168\"><p><a href=\"https://twitter.com/akaneotani/status/956938516285575168\">https://twitter.com/akaneotani/status/956938516285575168</a></p></blockquote></div><p>Separately, Wynn <a href=\"https://twitter.com/edatpost/status/956979600290131968\">reportedly</a> has no plans to step down from his position as finance chair of the Republican National Committee.</p>\n<p><strong>The tax bill is encouraging companies to replace humans with robots</strong></p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-incentive-puts-more-robots-on-factory-floors-1516962600\">Oops</a>!</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New tax rules are hastening automation and modernizing in U.S. factories, giving manufacturers an incentive to buy machinery and boost productivity in a tight labor market. For the next five years, the revised tax code allows companies to immediately deduct the entire cost of equipment purchases from their taxable income. Previously, companies generally were allowed to write off only a portion of the cost in a single year. The change is encouraging manufacturers to install robots and replace aging machines sooner than planned.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Without the incentives provided by the bill formerly known as the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” <strong>Ken Mathas,</strong> Cornell Forge Co. president, says his company “probably would have put it off another year.” Now, he plans to spend a minimum of $1.5 million to add at least three robots to a production line, in place of human workers. 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A certain degree of paranoia is, of course, nothing new for an administration under siege from all quarters. Whether the memo will actually vindicate the president is another matter. In recent weeks, conspiratorial thinking has overtaken parts of the G.O.P., which has whipped itself into a frenzy over unreleased allegations by Rep. <strong>Devin Nunes</strong> of a plot against the president. 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We’re talking about people being charged, going to jail,” he added. “It’s a scary night.” Hannity’s fellow pundits piled on, with <strong>Tucker Carlson</strong> declaring that the allegations in the memo&#8212;which he has not seen&#8212;are “more troubling than the underlying crime in Watergate” and <strong>Sebastian Gorka</strong> calling it “100 times bigger” than the abuses of power that led to the Revolutionary War. “This is our government spying on political adversaries,” he <a href=\"https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-jan-29-2018?e=0795cd3100\">said</a>. “This is federal law-enforcement officials obstructing justice.”</p>\n<p>Monday’s vote triggered a five-day window during which Trump will either reject the memo’s release or approve it, but signs point to the latter. Last Wednesday, Chief of Staff <strong>John Kelly</strong> <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-classified-four-page-russia-memo-triggered-a-political-firestorm/2018/01/29/42f94628-0516-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html\">reportedly</a> informed Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions</strong> that the White House supports the memo’s release, and Trump has <a href=\"https://www.axios.com/release-the-memo-mueller-russia-effects-552b2b97-93ca-4036-8b36-29aa54cc9b3e.html\">reportedly</a> already made up his mind to publish. As sources told Axios, Trump “believes [the memo’s contents] will solidify in the public’s mind that there’s a Deep State out to get him,” and sees its release as “vindication, despite Justice Department resistance.”</p>\n<p>In addition to approving the memo’s publication, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted late Monday to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/958299400886996992\">forgo</a> a briefing from F.B.I. Director <strong>Christopher Wray</strong> on the memo’s underlying sourcing, and blocked the public release of a competing report compiled by the Democrats, which has been described as a point-by-point rebuttal of the Nunes document. The panel did, however, vote to allow other House lawmakers to view the Democratic report. 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We&#39;ll now see if they&#39;ll slowed the perilous advance of his exaggerations and outright falsehoods.</p>\n<p>As Trump spoke for nearly 90 minutes, with Vice President <strong>Mike Pence</strong> and House Speaker <strong>Paul Ryan</strong> sitting behind him and serving as the traditional nodding bobbleheads, a notable partnership of <em>The Washington Post</em>, PolitiFact and FaceCheck.org combined for a running dissection of Trump statements.</p>\n<p>What&#39;s called FactStream was under the aegis of the Duke University Reporters&#39; Lab. As if one needed to underscore the challenge it and other fact-checkers face, one right-leaning site had already preemptively inveighed against &quot;<a href=\"https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/aly-nielsen/2018/01/29/liberal-foundations-behind-state-union-fact-checking\">Liberal Foundations Behind State of the Union Fact-Checking</a>.&quot;</p>\n<p>At 8:18 p.m. came this from the truth-seekers: &quot;Donald Trump: &quot;Since the election, we have created 2.4 million new jobs.&quot; Then, &quot;Our Quick Take: In Trump&#39;s first 11 months, employment increased by 1.84 million---12% lower than the 2 million jobs that were created the previous 11 months.&quot;</p>\n<p>At 8:22: &quot;Donald Trump: We enacted the biggest tax cuts and reform in American history.&quot; Then, &quot;Our Quick Take: It is not the biggest tax cut. It is the 8th largest cut since 1918 as a percentage of gross domestic product, and the 4th largest in inflation-adjusted dollars.&quot;</p>\n<p>In obvious ways, the hour-long instant analysis was remarkable in its speed and sophisticated concision. I thought back to sitting in the House of Representatives for many State of the Unions, in the balcony above the rostrum, a paper copy of speech in hand, jotting notes in margins, underlining phrases, sticking question marks here and there. And waiting to make calls later at the office, perhaps assisted by an Associated Press analysis of certain claims.</p>\n<p>Now a confluence of forces&#8212;most accelerated by Trump&#39;s pugilistic battle with veracity&#8212;prompts new systems melding journalists and technology. There&#39;s no need to wait hours until morning newspaper editions, or initial wire service stories. Cadres of single-minded analysts are in place, unleashed on every presidential declaration.</p>\n<p>For sure, this was never likely to be a Trumpian atrocity, and it was not. Dozens in the White House and across multiple cabinet departments typically vet the State of the Union Address. The new armies will be better off dissecting spontaneous Trump tweets and interviews in coming days, as underscored in the eviscerations by <strong>Stephen Colbert</strong> and others of his most recent unbridled interview, in Davos, Switzerland, with bombastic British talk host <strong>Piers Morgan</strong>.</p>\n<p>“This speech was way too pre-filtered for fact-checking to play an important early role in its analysis. MSNBC did a fact check segment at 8:50 pm. They make a few good points, but they’re not really helpful in assessing the speech,” said <strong>Bruno Cohen</strong>, a retired broadcast network executive who ran major network stations.</p>\n<p>“Trump’s writers managed to keep him on task&#8212;i.e. reach for some form of  unity.  The truly divisive stuff was minimized.  Only a short mention of the wall.  No attacks on the press. But, of course, he couldn’t help himself&#8212;and so we get the lines like standing for the National Anthem.”</p>\n<p>But there remained grist for the new candor-driven mills now personified by the rollout of FactStream. Had Trump eliminated, as he claimed, more regulations in just a year than any administration in history? Well, not necessarily.</p>\n<p>Have three million workers received tax cut bonuses? Yes, “with most getting $1,000 or less,” said the Duke trio. That construction (as opposed to perhaps saying “nearly $1,000”) might prompt an inference that it constitutes small potatoes. Many Americans, if not the same elite journalists who by and large missed the partly economics-driven unrest propelling Trump&#39;s stunning election victory, would surely dispute that.</p>\n<p>Had the Empire State Building been constructed in one year? Well, no, it was actually 13 months, but that check seemed a difference without a real distinction. Is Diversity Visa a program that randomly distributes green cards without regard for skill? Not quite since, among green cardholders, a high percentage holds professional jobs and has a low unemployment rate.</p>\n<p>Had Trump quickly responded when street protests broke out in Iran against the government? True, said the trio, the administration quickly and strongly condemned the arrests of protesters.</p>\n<p>The impact? It might be negligible, given these ideologically charged times and the paucity of the beyond-the-pale sentiments that can be uttered by Trump. One was reminded early of those as Trump entered the chamber and shook hands, with at least superficially mutual conviviality, with Illinois Sen. <strong>Dick Durbin</strong>, who was at the famous “shithole countries” meeting and was unrelenting in his subsequent derision of Trump.</p>\n<p>It is thus also worthy of note that, as FactStream did its thing, the White House press office was cranking out its own stream of press releases on multiple Trump statements with divergent, supporting arguments.</p>\n<p>It does, one is reminded, still have a pretty big megaphone as it seeks to drown out the dissonant refrains of the fact checkers in a time of unsettlingly low approval ratings for the press. And, of course, one watched the speech and inspected the fact-checks while confronting the likelihood, <a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/why-trump-state-of-the-union-will-be-utterly-meaningless\">nicely distilled</a> by <strong>Peter Hamby</strong> in <em>Vanity Fair</em>, that the whole affair was somewhat meaningless.</p>\n<p>Nothing that Trump would say, Hamby notes, would be as memorable as one of many Trump tweets. He&#39;s probably right: Even more in the Age of Trump, an increasingly inconsequential ritual is even more hollow. Dissections, no matter how well-intentioned and accurate, may go for naught.</p>\n<p><strong>Bipartisan, unifying?</strong></p>\n<p>No sooner had President Trump concluded than the cascade of State of the Union analysis began. Dozens and dozens of voices, many so predictable and akin to some rapid-fire mix tape of political jabber, and unavoidably raising a question broached at a recent Chicago event by MSNBC&#39;s <strong>Lawrence O&#39;Donnell</strong>: are we better served by political coverage today compared to 1968 (the subject of a new book of his) when there were no cable news channels, internet, laptops and cell phones? He says no.</p>\n<p><strong>Chris Wallace</strong> of Fox News didn&#39;t buy the pre-speech spin&#8212;and there is <em>always</em> White House pre-speech spin that proves to be largely baloney, especially about eschewing a &quot;laundry list&quot; of proposals and alleged achievements&#8212;about a bipartisan speech and found Trump offering Democrats various deals &quot;he knew they couldn&#39;t accept.&quot;</p>\n<p>And Fox&#39;s <strong>Megyn Kelly</strong>&#8212;wait, she&#39;s on NBC now and was a member of a secondary MSNBC panel that included NBC <em>eminence grise</em> <strong>Tom Brokaw</strong>&#8212;opined that if Trump gets billions for his wall, that will inevitably help him politically. The substance of the claim seemed less telling than the ancillary role she played compared to days of big event stardom at the House that Ailes Built.</p>\n<p>If only NBC had inserted <strong>Jane Fonda</strong> next to her for Round 2 (or is it Round 3) of their duel, so far most vividly marked by Kelly&#39;s gratuitous shots at a figure whose cultural impact she can only dream of replicating. On this night, Kelly was a bit player lost amid the strong first-team and bench of new colleagues.</p>\n<p><strong>The new post-speech analyses</strong></p>\n<p>The old way of doing business was personified by CNN, whose production structure can make it difficult to watch, with too many people talking, too many panels, no one person seemingly in charge (though <strong>Anderson Cooper</strong> does try), no cohesive approach. Once again, there were far too many people on the set competing for time, as if this were a UN General Assembly meeting. Why not just take a few people&#8212;including <strong>Jake Tapper</strong>, <strong>John King</strong> and <strong>David Axelrod</strong>, among others&#8212;and focus on their takes? The few really informative moments included Tapper&#39;s interview of California Sen. <strong>Kamala Harris</strong>, touching on Black Caucus reaction and what&#39;s up in the Senate Intelligence Committee</p>\n<p>If you had doubts about the new media competition, you just had to turn to <strong>Stephen Colbert&#39;s</strong> show, which is usually taped in late afternoon-early evening, and Comedy Central, which both had live shows. Colbert&#39;s effort was especially impressive in quickly and satirically editing speech video to mock Trump, then his mocking it all in a seamless monologue that came off as if meticulously rehearsed multiple times. Even for a professional stand-up comic, this error-free performance was rapier-sharp and impressive.</p>\n<p>One of many examples came as he showed Trump noting some of the natural disasters experienced in the past year, notably &quot;floods, fires and storms.&quot; Colbert then declared, &quot;And Stormys. Don&#39;t forget her. She was one of the most expensive disasters for you, personally.&quot;</p>\n<p>When a former Obama speechwriter-guest later noted the plodding delivery of the 5,000-plus words, Colbert noted Trump seemingly slowing down near the end. &quot;It seemed like somebody should pull the string in his back one more time.&quot;</p>\n<p><strong>Richard Engel&#39;s toughest story</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Richard Engel</strong>, a terrific and nervy NBC reporter, was covering the North Korea missiles mess last fall, embedded with South Korean troops, when he was contacted by his two-year-old son Henry&#39;s doctor and informed of the explanation for some seeming developmental challenges. Genetic testing showed Rett Syndrome, a rare and pretty awful disorder that guarantees significant physical and cognitive impairments. Angel, 44, and his wife, Mary, realized, “My son is probably not going to walk, probably not going to speak, probably not going to have any mental capacity beyond the level of a 2-year-old,” as he tells People magazine in an upcoming story. Imagine to returning to your seat in a convoy after that news even if the saga involves a dictator with dangerous weapons dueling with a mercurial U.S. president.</p>\n<p>“It was the middle of the night, and the public affairs officer was talking to keep us awake, telling us about her son joining the football team, and taking the SATs. I was thinking, ‘There’s going to be no football team. There’s going to be no SATs.’ I started to really mourn the future I thought we were going to have with Henry.”</p>\n<p>A genetic draw has dealt them an awful card. You may know people in a similar situation. We should mull those cases more often. I was pissed at a bunch of ultimately insignificant matters yesterday when an NBC publicist brought this tale to my attention. I realized how damn lucky I am.</p>\n<p>If you do want to reach out to Engel, or just learn more about the topic, <a href=\"https://www.duncannri.org\">go here</a>. And next time you see one of his inevitably solid reports, you might just mull his incredible challenge in compartmentalizing so much personal pain.</p>\n<p><strong>Now there&#39;s counter-programming!</strong></p>\n<p>Oh, click the clicker during the State of the Union and, la voila!, one found <em>King Kong</em> (1933) on TCM. You could now watch it knowing the Empire State Building that Kong scaled was built in 12 months. Oops, thirteen.</p>\n<p><strong>Bankrupt in Charlston</strong></p>\n<p>It&#39;s <a href=\"https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/gazette-mail-declaring-bankruptcy-wheeling-newspapers-is-planned-buyer/article_5a0e1ede-29aa-5866-ab47-7b9655a0d3bb.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=user-share\">a painful West Virginia</a> story to report about yourself: &quot;The owners of the <em>Charleston Gazette-Mail</em> agreed Monday to take the company into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Wheeling Newspapers is currently the high bidder to assume ownership of the company....In April, the Gazette-Mail and reporter Eric Eyre received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for coverage of the state’s opioid crisis.&quot;</p>\n<p>It&#39;s a good paper, with a good editor and hard-working staff---none of which guarantees success amid the industry implosion. One can only cross your fingers on their behalf.</p>\n<p><strong>Trafficking in children</strong></p>\n<p>On the heels of national attention for the paper&#39;s work on sexual assault in gymnastics, <em>Indianapolis Star</em> columnist <strong>Tim Swarens</strong> has started <a href=\"https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/tim-swarens/2018/01/30/exploited-human-trafficking-project-who-buys-child-sex-otherwise-ordinary-men/949512001/\">a 10-part series</a> on the lucrative enterprise of abusing and buying and trafficking in children. It&#39;s not a brand-new topic and there have been new laws put in place, but there are horrendous shortcomings, as he details. This was supported by a $75,000 fellowship from the Society of Professional Journalists, and added help from Google, Indianapolis powerhouse Eli Lilly and Co., and Indiana Wesleyan University.</p>\n<p>&quot;About 10,000 children a year suffer the horrors of commercial sexual exploitation in the United States. Globally, according to the International Labour Organization, buyers pay to abuse more than 1 million children a year. Yet the buyers are seldom held accountable. Most leave behind their victims to blend back into their families, jobs and neighborhoods. Until the next time.&quot;</p>\n<p><strong>The Post (non-Hollywood version)</strong></p>\n<p>Negotiations are underway on a new union contract at <em>The Washington Post</em>, with newsroom employees changing their avatars (to &quot;WAPO UNION&quot;) Tuesday in support of the union and specific items that, in their minds, have not improved during the paper&#39;s editorial renaissance under <strong>Jeff Bezos</strong> ownership.</p>\n<p>A lot of folks are tweeting their feelings, which clearly mix with pride in that editorial turnaround.</p>\n<p>Tweeted reporter <strong>Ashley Parker</strong>: &quot;I started at the Post last Jan. and I cannot overstate how much I love working here. However, during orientation when I learned about the 1% 401K match, I was convinced I&#39;d misheard &#8212; and emailed HR to double check. @PostGuild is fighting for that and more this week. #WaPoStrong.&quot;</p>\n<p>Reporter <strong>David Nakamura</strong> wrote: &quot;I grew up reading the Post, worked here in college and have been here ever since. It’s part of me and vice versa. I’m also old enough to remember when we had a 4% match and a generous pension I spent more than 20 years accruing before it ended.&quot;</p>\n<p>Post reporter <strong>Monica Hesse</strong> wrote: &quot;I love working for the @washingtonpost, and I&#39;ve been extremely proud of our journalism. However, there&#39;s no pension for new hires and we only have a 1% 401K match. The @PostGuild is bargaining for all of us this week. 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PBS, our 350 member stations and our legions of local supporters will continue to remind leaders in Washington of the significant benefits the public receives in return for federal funding, a modest investment of about $1.35 per citizen per year, which include school readiness for kids 2-8, support for teachers and homeschoolers, public safety communications and lifelong learning. PBS is focused on providing high-quality content and universal public service to the American people, which is why we enjoy strong support in every region of the country, in both rural and urban areas, and across the political spectrum.”</p>\n<p><strong>Patricia Harrison,</strong> president and C.E.O. for Corporation for Public Broadcasting, echoed Kerger’s sentiments in <a href=\"https://www.cpb.org/pressroom/statement-cpb-president%E2%80%99s-fy-2019-budget-proposal-eliminating-funding-public-media\">her own statement</a>, writing, “Americans place great value on having universal access to public media’s educational and informational programming and services, provided commercial free and free of charge. Since there is no viable substitute for federal funding that would ensure this valued service continues, the elimination of federal funding to C.P.B. would at first devastate, and then ultimately destroy public media’s ability to provide early childhood content, life-saving emergency alerts, and public affairs programs.”</p>\n<p>The G.O.P.’s battle against Big Bird dates back decades; Republicans have been trying, unsuccessfully, to fully defund public-media funding since the <a href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/16/media/public-media-pbs-npr-budget-cuts/index.html\">1970s</a>. 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This week alone, the two Trump princelings became embroiled in scandal after an invitation to a post-inauguration party leaked, which offered the uber-wealthy the chance to hunt with them for a mere <a href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2016/12/16/donald-trump-inauguration-party/\">$1 million donation</a>.\n<p>As attention zeroes in on Don and Eric&#8212;and 10-year-old <strong>Barron Trump</strong>, who may one day be as controversial as his brothers&#8212;<strong>Bill Cohan</strong>  paints a portrait of two young men, raised by their mother, who only began to know their father when they joined the family business.  That growth can also be tracked in the several photographs herein, where they went from children on the periphery of Trump’s tabloid life, to becoming the spitting image of their father: baggy suits, supermodel girlfriends, and for some reason, weird, slicked-back hair that the Clinton campaign dubbed “Storm Trooper”-esque.</p>","hed":"Daddy’s Boys: Eric and Donald Trump Jr.","inlineEmbeds":[],"items":[{"caption":"Is this an endearing moment of Donald squeezing Eric’s cheeks, or Donald checking to see if his thoroughbred son’s teeth are healthy?","isActive":true,"relId":"585afbefeb22b16e2e5736e0","tags":[],"slideCaption":"Is this an endearing moment of Donald squeezing Eric’s cheeks, or Donald checking to see if his thoroughbred son’s teeth are healthy?"},{"caption":"Tiffany, Donald, and Donald junior at Donald’s 50th birthday party.","isActive":true,"relId":"585afbef2fcfde736cf46251","tags":[],"slideCaption":"Tiffany, Donald, and Donald junior at Donald’s 50th birthday party. 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