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Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.

Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.

...The decision to set up new, private accounts as Kushner was preparing to enter the White House came in the wake of a bitter election campaign in which Trump routinely excoriated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account to handle government business when she was secretary of state.

...Kushner's representatives declined to detail the server or security measures on it.

Trump routinely excoriated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for using a personal email account to handle government business when she was secretary of state.

Trump said he wants "a see-through wall" at the border, so citizens on the US side can avoid falling sacks of drugs lobbed over by dealers' catapults.
Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 17h17 hours ago
Think for a moment what kind of bullshit nonsense universe you have to live on for this not to be completely ******* ridiculous.

You know what they call “White-on-White crime?”

Crime.

What if, after every tragedy, someone said the same thing to you? What if Omar Mateen’s family, after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, responded “well don’t ask me about my son until you address White on White Crime like Sandy Hook killings. Or the Aurora Colorado shooting. Or the Gabby Giffords shooting. Or the Columbine killings. Or… ”

Now that I think about it, maybe y’all should do something about White-on-White crime.

Because you are my friend, I want to tell you why this argument makes me so mad:

WHAT THE **** DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?!?!

Black Lives Matter began as a movement to address the mistreatment of Black bodies by the State. When you try to insert an entirely different argument into the discussion, it means you’re either:

a. Admitting that you’re too stupid to know what we’re talking about so you want to change subjects
b. Intentionally trying to deflect the conversation because you know you don’t have a point
c. Trying to pull a sleight of hand and conflate two different subjects, because you’re evil

Would you bust (yes, I said “bust.” Black people don’t say “burst.”) into an American Cancer Society fundraiser and start screaming about AIDS? Why not? You know why, and so do I:

Because it wasn’t relevant to the conversation. Because it is a distraction. Because it would sound stupid.

No, man, I don’t think you’re stupid. I wanted to have this conversation because I respect you and I want you to get a full perspective of how infuriating that question is. It’s as if you went to the funeral of someone who died in a car crash to remind every member of the family that Cousin Jamie smoked Newports and drank Pepsi all day, so they shouldn’t be upset. She probably would’ve died anyway.

If I thought you were stupid I wouldn’t argue with you about police lynchings because I know what it means when people crowbar the Black on Black crime argument into the discussion of police brutality.

It means “You niggers are animals, anyway. So quit complaining!”

It means that after a generations of segregation, Jim Crow, redlining and the kind of corporate cuckolding that lock poor people in a zoo inside neighborhoods that you can call “urban” and “underprivileged” so you can control with an iron fist…

It means “stay in your place, Niggers

…and die.”

They always make sure we die.

Always.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago
Please to inform that the Champion Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL will be joining me at the White House for Ceremony. Great team!

The poll broke down President Trump's approval by sport fans as follows:

NASCAR: 38 percent unfavorable, 50 percent favorable.
Hockey: 50-42.
Baseball: 51-39.
Football: 53-37.
Tennis: 61-32.
Basketball: 62-28.

Joe Walsh‏Verified account
@WalshFreedom
Stevie Wonder takes a knee for the Anthem during a concert.

Another ungrateful black multi millionaire.

Hillary Clinton‏Verified account @HillaryClinton 5h5 hours ago
Hillary Clinton Retweeted Samy Nemir Olivares
President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens.

Tomi Lahren‏Verified account
@TomiLahren
Congrats to Colin Kaepernick for popularizing the hatred of America. Good work, bro. Your buddy George Soros is so proud. #istand

Charles P. Pierce‏Verified account @CharlesPPierce 1h1 hour ago
Charles P. Pierce Retweeted Tomi Lahren
Its wingnut bingo!

Shall we note that Fox and Trump have both been far, far more outraged by professional sports figures (mainly blacks) kneeling during the anthem (as a silent protest against continuing racism in the US)

then they were as regards neo-nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites marching with weapons and torches and their nazi or supremacist flags.

if only they could vote federally