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I don't necessarily believe any of it. But I noticed that your story is datelined Wednesday. This one's from Friday:

This is what's known as a developing story.

They also said Mr Trump had assured Turkey that the US would cease supplying the Syrian Kurdish militia with weapons.

Hillary Clinton praises 'activist bitches supporting bitches' in online video

The video, shared by HuffPo commentator Alex Mohajer, showed Clinton thanking “everyone” for their feminism, activism, and encouraging supporters to keep up their “really important, good work.”

Someone in the background then makes a reference to “activist bitches supporting bitches,” to which she repeats that it is indeed directed to such people.

In the text accompanying his disclosure Mohajer said: "A message "to all the activist bitches supporting bitches" by the inimitable @HillaryClinton."

Let’s hope to Hell she’s inimitable.

After spending $20 million to push the tax-code overhaul through Congress, the influential Koch network plans to spend up to another $20 million to educate the public about the benefits of the new law, network officials announced Saturday.

The network views the education campaign, which will launch in February, as key to holding the Republican congressional majorities in the 2018 midterm elections.

“We’re all in,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, the main political arm of the network led by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch. “We know the challenges out there, at the state and federal level. … We’re all in to try to protect those in what we know is going to be a challenging year.”

The GOP finally released a statement on Steve Wynn — and it’s pathetic

On Saturday afternoon, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released a statement. Here it is, in its entirety:

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Today I accepted Steve Wynn’s resignation as Republican National Committee finance chair.

The statement was released to press but does not appear on the GOP website or Twitter account. It was also not posted to Twitter by McDaniel.

It is notable, mostly, for what it does not include.

The GOP’s statement on Wynn does not mention women
The GOP’s statement about Wynn makes no mention about the extremely serious allegations of sexual abuse contained in the Wall Street Journal article. It doesn’t even make an oblique mention to the importance of women to the Republican Party.

Compare that to the statement by McDaniel, posted on the GOP website and distributed through all its social media channels, on Weinstein:

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During three-decades worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars. If Democrats and the DNC truly stand up for women like they say they do, then returning this dirty money should be a no brainer.

The allegations against Wynn also stretch decades and his donations to Republicans dwarf Weinstein’s donations to Democrats.

The GOP’s statement does not mention anything about Wynn’s money

These are simply very, very wealthy extremist ideologues and corporate entities who wish to control government for their own purposes.

This is the most fundamental threat to American democracy.

@Lash,
So what are your thoughts regarding Wyn? I haven't seen any post of your denouncing the RNC and Trump like you did Weinstein and the DNC and Hillary.

In theory, evangelical Christians should find allegations such as these scandalous, evidence of widespread cultural decay, and the kind of failure of moral standards that fuels the religious right movement itself. And yet, consider what happened when Family Research Council President Tony Perkins sat down with Politico this week.

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He knows about the cursing, the lewdness and the litany of questionable behavior over the past year of Trump's life or the 70 that came before it.

"We kind of gave him -- 'All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here,'" Perkins told me in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO's Off Message podcast.

Weigh a paid-off porn star against being the first president to address the March for Life live via video feed, and a lot of evangelical leaders insist they can still walk away happy.

Perkins added that evangelicals "were tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists. And I think they are finally glad that there's somebody on the playground that is willing to punch the bully."

Let's put aside for now the oddity of this up-is-down worldview. While we're at it, let's also look past the fact that Trump is an admitted adulterer and Daniels was not his first alleged mistress (how many "mulligans" Christian conservatives are prepared to extend to Republican politicians is unclear).

Let's instead pause to appreciate the gravity of the religious right movement embracing that which its leaders once ferociously condemned: moral relativism.

Paul Waldman
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Just wondering: Has anyone blamed Melania for Donald's philandering the way they blamed Hillary for Bill's, or attacked Melania for staying with Donald the way they did Hillary?

Conservative Koch brothers' network to spend up to $400 million for the midterm election cycle – including $20 million to sell the GOP tax law
...That's an increase of 60 percent from the network's spending during the 2016 election cycle.