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Rev. Robert Jeffress Defends Trump Amid Tape Chaos: We Also Supported ‘Known Womanizer’ Ronald Reagan

On Friday night, pro-Trump Rev. Robert Jeffress defended the president amid controversy of a tape that documented a conversation between Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen regarding a payoff to a former Playboymodel during the election.

In the report from The New York Times, Rudy Giuliani confirmed the existence of a tape that that has Trump and Cohen discussing the form of payment that was to be made to Karen McDougal, who alleges she had an affair with the president back in 2006.

The Fox News contributor began by dismissing remarks made by an anti-Trump reverend who insisted that congressional leaders have “sold their souls” in order to make deals with this president.

“This is not an unusual thing. We’ve been here before,” Jeffress told Fox News’ Ed Henry. “Back in 1980, evangelicals chose to support a twice-married Hollywood actor who was a known womanizer in Hollywood. His name was Ronald Reagan. They chose to support him over Jimmy Carter, with a born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher who had been faithfully married to one woman. The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we supporting womanizing or divorce. We supported his policies. And that’s true here, Ed. We are choosing to support his policies. We’re not under any illusion that we were voting for an altar boy when we voted for President Trump. We knew about his past. And by the way, none of us has a perfect past. We voted for him because of his policies.”
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Trump Reportedly Complained to Staff About Getting Tough Question from AP Reporter at Putin Presser


The Washington Post has a big new tick-tock on this week in Russia fallout from inside the White House, particularly on how President Donald Trump stewed a lot over the media.

A lot of the details in the WaPo report ring familiar: Trump initially thought he did the right thing and was proud of his performance, but then he found out he was getting an avalanche of media coverage and his mood soured.

We’ve seen this week that Trump has, multiple times, trashed the “fake news” for negative coverage of his presser with Putin (overlooking how he received negative coverage on Fox News as well), even using the “enemy of the people” phrase again.

But Trump was particularly incensed by the question that set off all the outrage:

Trump further grumbled about the tough question he was asked by Jonathan Lemire, an Associated Press correspondent, wondering why that reporter had been called on rather than someone who might have asked an easier question.

Lemire asked whether Trump would denounce Russia’s election interference to Putin’s face, “with the whole world watching,” and the president demurred. Aides tried to explain to Trump that nearly any journalist would have asked a similarly pointed question in that moment.

But, as one White House official said, “If you don’t like the answer, you don’t like the question.”

Jonathan Lemire‘s question to Trump, in case you need a reminder, was, “Just now, President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that Russia did… Who do you believe? My second question is: would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin––would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?”

And, of course, we all saw what happened next.

Trump also apparently came up with that ridiculous “would”-“wouldn’t” excuse himself, though advisers had to reassure him this wasn’t a concession to the negative coverage, just a clarification.

And on top of everything else, even though the White House has already batted down the idea, people in the White House were freaking out that the President “did not recognize the massive diplomatic and security implications of turning Americans over to an autocratic regime that jails and kills dissidents.”
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/20/trump-coats-putin-summit-fallout-russia-735089

Trump Directs His Ire At Coats, But Knows Consequences Of Ousting DNI

President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with his director of national intelligence, who has gone mildly rogue in recent days following Trump’s performance at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Politicoreported.

According to two outside Trump allies who spoke to Politico, the President is getting irritated with Dan Coats, who responded sarcastically after being blindsided during a live interview on Thursday in Aspen, Colorado. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted during his interview with NBC that Trump was working to bring Putin to Washington, D.C. for a visit in the fall.

“That’s going to be special,” Coats said when asked about the news.

After Trump appeared to publicly support Putin’s denial of election meddling during a press conference on Monday, Coats put out a telling statement, openly disapproving of Trump’s comments during the presser.

Despite the rising tension, Trump allies told Politico that they’re aware that firing Coats would “create an uncontainable firestorm on Capitol Hill,” in Politico’s words.
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Debate Audience Erupts in Laughter After GOP Senate Hopeful Says Trump is ‘Standing up to the Russians’

Virginia Senate hopeful Corey Stewart tried to claim President Donald Trumpwas “standing up to the Russians.” It did not go over well.

It all happened during a debate on Saturday with incumbent US Senator and former Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine.

The contentious debate was full of barbs including one where Stewart said this about Kaine: “He was noticeably silent when the Russians shot down a Malaysian airliner when President [Barack] Obama was in office. He was noticeably silent when the Russians invaded the Crimea when President Obama was in office.”

Stewart then added, “We have a president who is standing up to the Russians…”

PBS News Hour also noted it was not the only raucous moment of the debate.

“The first debate for the Virginia Senate race was held before a rowdy audience who laughed when Stewart said, ‘We have a president who is standing up to the Russians,’ booed when Kaine called Stewart a liar and broke out in applause when Kaine praised his father-in-law as a model Virginian for supporting a ‘nation and Commonwealth for all,'” PBS News Hour reported on the debate, which was moderated by PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff.
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