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| Top Republican urged foreign governments to help discredit Mueller findings – live | Top Republican urged foreign governments to help discredit Mueller findings – live |
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| On Tuesday we learned about Donald Trump’s plans to construct a | |
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| moat along the US-Mexico border and fill it with snakes and alligators. | |
| That was according to a report from the New York Times, which has now been confirmed by the Washington Post. | |
| According to the Post, Trump also suggested arming US forces “with bayonets to block people from crossing into the United States across the Mexico border”. | |
| The Times had reported that Trump additionally proposed shooting would-be migrants in the legs, so as to prevent them crossing into the US, and wanted his as-yet unbuilt border wall to be electrified, with spikes on top. | |
| Trump has denied the reporting. | |
| Some bad news for Kamala Harris this morning: the California senator is drooping in the polls in her home state. | Some bad news for Kamala Harris this morning: the California senator is drooping in the polls in her home state. |
| Harris is the choice of just 8% of Californians, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. That puts her in fourth place, way behind Elizabeth Warren (23%), Joe Biden (22%) and Bernie Sanders (21%). | Harris is the choice of just 8% of Californians, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. That puts her in fourth place, way behind Elizabeth Warren (23%), Joe Biden (22%) and Bernie Sanders (21%). |
| It’s not looking good for Harris nationally, either. Real Clear Politics’ polling average shows her on just 4.8%. | It’s not looking good for Harris nationally, either. Real Clear Politics’ polling average shows her on just 4.8%. |
| So what’s Donald Trump up to this morning? | So what’s Donald Trump up to this morning? |
| WELL, he’s been attacking Adam Schiff – a “lowlife” and a “lying disaster – and also having a go at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. Lovely. | WELL, he’s been attacking Adam Schiff – a “lowlife” and a “lying disaster – and also having a go at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. Lovely. |
| Schiff is a lowlife who should resign (at least!). https://t.co/nGp9aFP3rX | Schiff is a lowlife who should resign (at least!). https://t.co/nGp9aFP3rX |
| Schiff is a lying disaster for our Country. He should resign! https://t.co/ytwEy5NasJ | Schiff is a lying disaster for our Country. He should resign! https://t.co/ytwEy5NasJ |
| Keep up the great work Kellie! https://t.co/PcAnK009EW | Keep up the great work Kellie! https://t.co/PcAnK009EW |
| Trump is heading to Florida at 10am. He is expected to speak about his health-care agenda, such as it is, and could address the Ukraine scandal on his way to the airport. | |
| Storm clouds are continuing to gather around Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal, but that hasn’t stopped his faithful confidante, Lindsay Graham, from reportedly urging foreign governments to work with William Barr in investigating the origins of the Mueller inquiry. | Storm clouds are continuing to gather around Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal, but that hasn’t stopped his faithful confidante, Lindsay Graham, from reportedly urging foreign governments to work with William Barr in investigating the origins of the Mueller inquiry. |
| Graham is said to have written to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their “continued cooperation with attorney general Barr as the Department of Justice continues to investigate the origins and extent of foreign influence in the 2016 election”. | Graham is said to have written to the prime ministers of Australia, Italy and the UK to request their “continued cooperation with attorney general Barr as the Department of Justice continues to investigate the origins and extent of foreign influence in the 2016 election”. |
| The investigation is an attempt to discredit Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. | The investigation is an attempt to discredit Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. |
| A GOP tactic as 2020 looms is to claim the entire investigation was flawed. | A GOP tactic as 2020 looms is to claim the entire investigation was flawed. |
| According to numerous reports, in the letter Graham wrote that US intelligence agencies used a “deeply flawed dossier filled with hearsay and written by a biased, former United Kingdom intelligence officer” as part of the Mueller inquiry. | According to numerous reports, in the letter Graham wrote that US intelligence agencies used a “deeply flawed dossier filled with hearsay and written by a biased, former United Kingdom intelligence officer” as part of the Mueller inquiry. |
| Elsewhere this morning: | Elsewhere this morning: |
| •Donald Trump has been tweeting since 6am. It’s the usual stuff: the US is being ripped off, Adam Schiff=bad, the Bidens are corrupt, etc etc. | •Donald Trump has been tweeting since 6am. It’s the usual stuff: the US is being ripped off, Adam Schiff=bad, the Bidens are corrupt, etc etc. |
| •Joe Biden is ramping up his investment in key Super Tuesday states, Politico reports – trying to develop a firewall if the former-vice president doesn’t do so well in Iowa and New Hampshire. | •Joe Biden is ramping up his investment in key Super Tuesday states, Politico reports – trying to develop a firewall if the former-vice president doesn’t do so well in Iowa and New Hampshire. |
| •A number of foreign companies are reconsidering plans to invest in the US because of Trump’s trade war with China, according to Axios. | •A number of foreign companies are reconsidering plans to invest in the US because of Trump’s trade war with China, according to Axios. |