Kellyanne Conway Racism Is a Small Price to Pay for Making America Great Again

POLITICO Playbook: Trump reignites battle with The Squad

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is doubling downward in his fight with the "The Squad" this morning time on Twitter, writing that he doesn't believe the four House Autonomous lawmakers are "capable of loving our State." Trump'southward decision to reignite his verbal assault confronting Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Due north.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) comes a week afterwards he tweeted the 4 should "go back and set the countries they came from" and but days afterward he disavowed the "send her back" chants at his North Carolina rally last week that rattled GOP lawmakers. On Friday, Trump reversed himself once again -- calling his supporters "incredible patriots."

HAVING A HARD Time KEEPING UP? … Hither'S WHAT TRUMP IS SAYING THIS A.M. -- @realDonaldTrump at vii:58 a.m.: "The Washington Post Story, near my speech in Due north Carolina and tweet, with its phony sources who do not exist, is Fake News. The but thing people were talking about is the record setting crowd and the tremendous enthusiasm, far greater than the Democrats. Y'all'll see in 2020!"

… at 7:59 a.m.: "Presidential Harassment!" … at 8 a.thousand.: "MAKE AMERICA Dandy Once again!"

… at 8:07 a.m.: "I don't believe the 4 Congresswomen are capable of loving our Land. They should apologize to America (and Israel) for the horrible (hateful) things they have said. They are destroying the Democrat Party, just are weak & insecure people who can never destroy our dandy Nation!"

-- IT'Due south Difficult TO BELIEVE this is what Republican lawmakers who have urged Trump to tone downwards his rhetoric desire.

SUNDAY BEST … GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS spoke with House Oversight Chairman ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D-Thousand.D.) on ABC'S "THIS WEEK": CUMMINGS: "These are folks and women who dearest their country and they work very hard and they want to move us towards that more than perfect marriage that our founding fathers talked about. And -- and so when you disagree with the president, all of a sudden you're -- y'all're a bad person. Our allegiance is not to the president. Our allegiance is to the Constitution of the United states and to the American people and I -- I'1000 going to tell you, these are some of the most brilliant young people that I have met and I am honored to -- to -- to serve with them."

STEPHANOPOULOS: "Practise yous believe President Trump is a racist?" CUMMINGS: "I believe he is -- yes, no doubt about it. And -- and I tried to give him the benefit of the incertitude, only I got to tell you … When I think nearly what he said to these immature ladies who are but trying to bring excellence to authorities and trying to make sure that generations all the same unborn take an opportunity to experience a true democracy, when I hear those things it takes me back, like I said. And -- and -- and I can still recollect haemorrhage from my forehead when people were throwing bottles -- and these were adults, throwing bottles and saying go abode nigger. ...

"The president has to set the tone. He needs to be a role model. I would say to the president right now -- right now, Mr. President, we want you to be a role model, we desire somebody in that White House who our children tin be proud of, who are children tin emulate, who our children will look up to, and that is not the kind of example that yous're setting, and I'1000 telling y'all, Mr. President, you lot and we, our nation is better than that."

-- SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-N.J.) spoke with DANA Bash on CNN'S "STATE OF THE Union" most Trump'southward tweets: "This is a guy who is worse than a racist. He is actually using racist tropes and racial language for political gains, trying to use this as a weapon to separate our nation confronting itself. And this is somebody who is very like to George Wallace, to racists who use -- he'due south using the exact same language. … We have a demagogue, fear-mongering person who's using race to carve up. And this is a plebiscite, not on him. Information technology's actually a referendum on the heart and soul of our country."

THE WHITE HOUSE REBUTTAL … MAJOR GARRETT spoke with VP MIKE PENCE on CBS' "Face up THE NATION" about the chants at the N Carolina rally: GARRETT: "[The president] will brand an try to speak out near it?" PENCE: "That's what he's already said. ... I call up that millions of Americans share a -- share the president'due south frustration about sitting members of Congress engaging in that kind of reckless rhetoric, whether information technology exist anti-Semitic rhetoric, whether it be referring to Edge Patrol agents as running concentration camps, and the president thought information technology was important to stand to them. And -- and I'm glad he did it."

GARRETT: "Tin can you be patriotic and oppose the president'due south reelection?" PENCE: "Of form."

-- CHRIS WALLACE spoke with White House senior adviser STEPHEN MILLER on "Fob NEWS Lord's day": "Why shouldn't someone meet all of that equally racist?" MILLER: "I think the term 'racist,' Chris, has get a label that is too often deployed by the left, Democrats in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech communication that they don't want to hear. The reality is this president has been the president for all Americans. … I fundamentally disagree with the view that if yous criticize somebody and they happen to be a dissimilar color peel that that makes information technology a racial criticism." More from Eleanor Mueller on Miller'due south appearance

BEHIND THE SCENES -- "'He always doubles down': Inside the political crisis acquired by Trump's racist tweets," by WaPo'south Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Seung Min Kim: "President Trump's own top aides didn't retrieve he fully understood what he had done final Sunday, when he fired off a trio of racist tweets earlier a trip to his golf grade.

"After he returned to the White Business firm, senior adviser Kellyanne Conway felt compelled to tell him why the missives were leading newscasts around the country, upsetting allies and enraging opponents. … Trump defended himself. He had been watching 'Fox & Friends' later on waking upward.

"He wanted to drag the congresswomen, as he had previously discussed with aides. ... The president said he idea he was interjecting himself into Autonomous Party politics in a good mode. …

"As is oft the case, Trump acted alone — impulsively following his gut to the night side of American politics, and now the country would take to option up the pieces. The day before, on the golf grade, he hadn't brought it upwardly. Over the coming days, dozens of friends, advisers and political allies would work behind the scenes to endeavor to ready the mess without whatever public admission of error because that was not the Trump way."

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NEW … THE PRESIDENT'Southward WEEK AHEAD: MONDAY: Trump will meet with Pakistani PM Imran Khan. TUESDAY: The president volition deliver remarks at Turning Point USA'due south "Teen Student Action Summit 2019." He volition have lunch with Secretarial assistant of State Mike Pence. The president will as well encounter with Senate Republicans. Wed: Trump will have lunch with VP Mike Pence. He will travel to West Virginia for a fundraising committee reception. THURSDAY: Trump will participate in a celebration for his "Pledge to America'south Workers."

A HEADLINE TRUMP IS GOING TO Like -- MAGGIE SEVERNS: "RNC more than doubles DNC'south fundraising booty in June": "The Democratic National Committee raised $8.five million in June, the calendar month of the political party's presidential debates in Miami — less than half of the $twenty.vii 1000000 the Republican National Committee pulled in during that time period, new disclosures show.

"The DNC also spent almost as much money as it raised — $7.5 1000000 — during that fourth dimension and finished the month with $nine.3 meg cash on mitt. The RNC is meanwhile building a larger war chest during the pb-up to 2022 and had $43.five million cash on paw at the end of the calendar month." POLITICO

More than SUNDAY BEST -- CHRIS WALLACE besides spoke with House Judiciary Committee JERRY NADLER (D-N.Y.) on "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" virtually Democrats' strategy for the Robert Muller hearing Wednesday. NADLER: "Nosotros want the American people to hear directly from Special Counsel Mueller what his investigation found. The president and the attorney full general and others take spent the final few months systematically lying to the American people almost what the investigation institute.

"They said that information technology found no bunco, that it found no, uh, obstacle, that it exonerated the president. All three of those statements are absolute lies. It establish a great deal of collusion, it institute a great deal of, uh, obstruction of justice by the president and it found, uh, and it pointed, refused to exonerate."

-- ON WHAT'Southward NEXT: NADLER: "The report presents very substantial show that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and we have to present -- or let Mueller nowadays these facts to the American people and run into where nosotros go from there. Because the assistants must be held accountable. And no president can be, can be above the police force."

KNOWING MUELLER -- "In 88 Trips to Capitol Hill, Mueller Grew Weary of Partisanship," by NYT's Noah Weiland: "Over decades of appearances before Congress, Mr. Mueller showed little patience for politics, and he grew weary of the partisanship that came with legislative oversight, according to interviews with former colleagues, law enforcement officials and lawmakers.

"A review of dozens of hours of his hearings — Mr. Mueller has appeared earlier Congress 88 times dating dorsum to 1990, according to the Senate Historical Office, among the nearly of whatever official ever — offers insight into what kind of witness he will be this week. He was past turns forbidding and protective of the F.B.I.'due south mission, notwithstanding sympathetic to Congress'south obligation to monitor the bureau'south transformation from a crime-fighting agency into a centerpiece of the government'due south mail-Sept. 11 counterterrorism appliance." NYT

-- "Democrats hope Mueller gives credence to their merits of an unlawful Trump," past WaPo's Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian

SCHUMER'S TRIP TO THE Border … Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER led a delegation of Democrats to the U.S.-United mexican states border Friday where they were told that the assistants had moved roughly 400 migrants out of the facility the day before, co-ordinate to a Democratic aide on the trip. The conditions at the government-run facilities were "mostly atrocious" and the senators were "very disturbed."

USING TRANSLATORS, the senators talked with several of those held at the facility and were told many of them had not been allowed to shower or brush their teeth since being taken into custody. At the Ursula heart they constitute a pretty gruesome scene: "The cages were so full that the children could barely walk around. The women and children were most all wrapped in Mylar blankets."

BEN SCHRECKINGER and DANIEL LIPPMAN: "Meet the woman who ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons": "How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump? People who know those involved say Epstein's connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell. …

"Her family knew Trump before Epstein arrived on the scene, and she continued to socialize with Chelsea Clinton subsequently Epstein was jailed on sex offenses. Maxwell commencement grew shut with the Clintons after Bill Clinton left office, vacationing on a yacht with Chelsea Clinton in 2009, attending her wedding in 2010, and participating in the Clinton Global Initiative as recently equally 2013, years subsequently her name first emerged in accounts of Epstein's alleged sexual abuse.

"'Ghislaine was the contact between Epstein and Clinton,' said a person familiar with the relationship. 'She ended upward being close to the family because she and Chelsea ended up becoming close.' (Lawyers for Maxwell did not respond to requests for annotate, and a spokesperson for Clinton disputed the thought that the 2 women were ever close.) Trump's ties to Maxwell and her late father, the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, meanwhile, get back even further, to at least the tardily 1980s." POLITICO

TRADE WARS -- "Chinese Coin in the U.S. Dries Up every bit Trade State of war Drags On," by NYT's Alan Rappeport: "Growing distrust betwixt the U.s. and China has slowed the once steady flow of Chinese cash into America, with Chinese investment plummeting by virtually ninety per centum since President Trump took office.

"The falloff, which is existence felt broadly across the economy, stems from tougher regulatory scrutiny in the United States and a less hospitable climate toward Chinese investment, also Beijing's tightened limits on strange spending. Information technology is affecting a range of industries including Silicon Valley start-ups, the Manhattan real estate marketplace and country governments that spent years wooing Chinese investment, underscoring how the world's two largest economies are offset to decouple after years of increasing integration." NYT

THE LATEST IN IRAN -- "UK navy heard in audio trying to thwart Iran send seizure," by AP'southward Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates: "In an audio recording released Sunday, a British naval officer tin can be heard saying the transit of a British-flagged vessel through the Strait of Hormuz must not exist dumb nether international law equally Iranian naval forces warn the vessel to change course." AP

VALLEY TALK -- "Does Silicon Valley demand a new regulator?" by Nancy Scola and Margaret Harding McGill: "The federal government'due south struggles to rein in Facebook are driving some Democrats and consumer advocates to a stark conclusion: The agency charged with regulating Silicon Valley is non up to the chore. ...

"Those calls take only grown during a week of bipartisan derision for the FTC's proposed $5 billion privacy fine for Facebook — a historically large penalty by U.Due south. standards, simply one that many lawmakers accept called laughably pocket-sized given the social networking giant'south resource. The markets also shrugged at the proposed penalization, which comes after months of settlement talks with the company: Facebook'south stock price striking its highest betoken in nearly a year after news of the fine broke." Politician

WHAT KEVIN MCCARTHY IS READING -- "Bakersfield, once the barrel of jokes, is booming. So are many other inland California cities," by WaPo's Scott Wilson in Bakersfield, Calif.

MEDIAWATCH -- "ESPN reasserts political talk policy after set on on Trump," by AP'south David Bauder

-- Andrew Restuccia will exist a White House reporter at the WSJ. He most recently was a White House reporter at POLITICO.

BONUS Bang-up WEEKEND READS, curated past Daniel Lippman (@dlippman):

-- "The Con Human Who Became a Truthful-Crime Writer," by Rachel Monroe in The Atlantic: "In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he'due south trying to make it by selling tales that are true." The Atlantic

-- "I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought Nigh Their Privilege. So I Asked," past Claudia Rankine in the NYT Mag: "The running comment in our current political climate is that we all need to converse with people we don't ordinarily speak to, and though my hubby is white, I found myself falling into easy banter with all kinds of strangers except white men. They rarely sought me out to shoot the cakewalk, and I did not seek them out. Maybe it was time to engage, even if my fantasies of these encounters seemed outlandish. I wanted to attempt." NYT Magazine

-- "How Matt Gaetz Used Daddy's Money to Become Trump'south Favorite Congressman," past Stephanie Mencimer in Mother Jones' September/October issue: "Like the president, the Florida Republican rode family connections, unorthodox real manor deals, and trolling to political fame." Mother Jones

-- "'The Girls Were Merely So Immature': The Horrors of Jeffrey Epstein's Individual Island," by Holly Aguirre in Vanity Fair: "Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long subsequently his confidence for sex crimes—and authorities did goose egg to terminate him. 'It was like he was flaunting it,' says an employee at the airstrip on St. Thomas. 'But information technology was said that he always tipped actually well, so everyone overlooked it.'" VF

-- "The Hard Piece of work of the 2022 Instagram Spouse," by Joanna Weiss in POLITICO Mag: "No selfies, no narpiness and bring on the bragging: The old rules for the political spouse are colliding with the new rules of social media." Pol Mag

-- "Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Human being?" by Logan Hill in WaPo Magazine: "What it's like to go viral equally ane of the Internet'southward biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along." WaPo (h/t Longreads.com)

-- "DC Types Take Been Flocking to Shrinks Always Since Trump Won. And a Lot of the Therapists Are Miserable," past Britt Peterson in Washingtonian: "What happens when the people who are supposed to help you cope are struggling themselves?" Washingtonian

-- "What I Like About U.(Due south.A.): Even #Resistance feels patriotic sometimes, doesn't it?" by Alice Lloyd in American Consequences: "Maybe misunderstanding the assignment, [Nib] Ayers sent me an exuberant 4,558-word e-mail – an explosion of patriotic sentiment, you might say. And which, according to an online plagiarism-detection service, was partly an affiliation of his Facebook posts from over the years." American Consequences

-- "The Future of the Urban center Is Childless," by The Atlantic's Derek Thompson: "America's urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births." The Atlantic

-- "The Unbearable Smugness of Walking," by Michael LaPointe in The Atlantic'due south August effect: "Glorified for its creative benefits, the pastime has become all the same another goal-driven pursuit." The Atlantic

-- "Private Surveillance Is a Lethal Weapon Anybody Can Buy," by Sharon Weinberger on the cover of NYT'south Sunday Review: "Intelligence-gathering systems should be treated by the American government like what they are: weapons. And weapons require export licenses from the State Department. ... This may not guarantee that exports won't ever go to countries with spotty records, like Saudi Arabia, merely it provides a stronger basis for Congress or the Land Department to cake them. It would too crave pressuring allies — including Germany, Italy and Israel — to follow accommodate on assuasive sales simply to countries that respect human rights." NYT

-- "A storyteller chronicles the mass migrations that ascertain our age" -- cover of National Geographic's August issue: "Paul Salopek is tracing humankind's footsteps out of Africa, giving voice on the manner to migrants who are part of history'southward largest diaspora." NatGeo

-- "The Ashkenazi Quarrel," by Arthur Fish in Tablet Mag: "Modernistic Ashkenazi Jews accept developed a peculiar style of expressing anger at one another that makes our family quarrels unusually prolonged and bitter. In most cultures an angry person longs to unload their rage on the wrongdoer. A Jewish quarreller prides himself on not talking to the offender. The quarreller volition elaborate incessantly to anyone on the injustice he's suffered — with the crucial exception of the putative wrongdoer. A fully established quarrel is a life project." Tablet (h/t TheBrowser.com)

-- "Going Downwards the Pipes," by Darcy Frey in the NYT Magazine in March 1996, reprinted in Topic: "'You got to have ii mentalities,' [air traffic controller Jughead] explains confidently. 'One, these aren't lives hither; these are dots. And, 2, even as bad as you lot tin mess up, it'south a big sky; the planes won't hitting. Otherwise, the stress is too much, y'all'd have a centre set on, you'd be done.'" Topic (h/t Longform.org)

Transport tips to Eli Okun and Garrett Ross at [electronic mail protected].

SPOTTED: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and husband John Bessler watching "The Farewell" on Sabbatum night at E Street Cinema.

TRANSITION -- Drew Maloney will be appointed vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution. He is president and CEO of the American Investment Council.

WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- "Sarah Reingold, George Roberts" -- NYT: "Mrs. Roberts, 29, is the legislative director in the Washington function of Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat. She graduated from Trinity Higher in Hartford. ... Mr. Roberts, 30, is a founder and the managing primary of Borough Companies, a real estate development business firm in Detroit. He graduated and besides received a graduate certificate in existent estate development from the University of Michigan." With a pic: NYT

-- "Samantha Wechsler, Evan Cantor" -- NYT: "Samantha Kate Wechsler and Evan Ronald Cantor were married July 20 at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Manufactory, N.Y. Rabbi Eric Polokoff officiated. In August, Mrs. Cantor, 29, is to begin working every bit a vice president in the investment management division at Goldman Sachs in New York. … Mr. Cantor, 28, is an investment analyst at Junto Capital, a hedge fund in New York. He graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia, and received an M.B.A. from Stanford. He is a son of Diana Cantor and Eric Cantor of Richmond, Va." With a picture: NYT

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Peter Doocy, Fob News correspondent. What he's been reading lately: "I was lucky enough to meet and briefly chat with the late Neil Armstrong while I was living in Chicago and working out of the Fox bureau in that location. Ever since and so, and particularly in the run-upwardly to the 50th ceremony of the moon landing, I've been reading everything I can about his amazing trips." Playbook Plus Q&A

BIRTHDAYS: Mick Mulvaney, acting White Firm COS and OMB director, is 52 … Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is 67 … Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is 79 … Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) is 74 … CNN'south Mark Preston (h/t Kevin Bohn) … Bob Shrum is 76 (h/ts Max Schwartz, Teresa Vilmain, Jon Haber and Tammy Haddad) … David Stacy … Lisa Neubauer (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Google's Ali-Jae Henke ... former Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy is 64 ... Michelle Young ... Brian Parnitzke, RNC managing director of turnout and targeting ... SoftBank'due south Christin Tinsworth Baker ... Billy Schuette ... Steve Lerch ... Nancy LeaMond of AARP (h/t son Colin Finan) ... Blaire Luciano Constable ... Dale Schuurman ... Gary Crider … former Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn.) is 72 ... former Rep. Ed Towns (D-Northward.Y.) is 85 … John Negroponte is viii-0 ... Rachel Davis ... Jessica Menter ... Politico's Trudy Bedword … Stacey Moreau Tank …

… Trita Parsi, founder of NIAC and EVP of the new Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft … Amazon'due south Amber Talley, a Jason Chaffetz alum (married man tip: Kip) … Molly Oczkowski (h/t Blake Waggoner) … Dave Noble ... Pip Deely ... Edelman's Athena Johnson … Amanda K. Ruisi … Katie Gillen … Martin Bandier is 77 … Benjamin Brafman is 71 … Robbie Diamond … Nia Prater … Laurie Cipriano … Julie Wadler … Katherine Trevas Schneider of Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas)'s office ... Ron Smith ... Michael Sessums, founding partner of Ibex Partners (h/t Ben Chang) … Jahan Wilcox (h/t the Grappones) … Jen Corey Baca ... Ron Colburn ... Otto Heck ... Adam Kroczaleski ... Amanda Carey Elliott … Jen Bluestein … Shavon Arline-Bradley ... Doug Mellgren ... Greg Richardson ... Theresa Vawter ... Retired Gen. Dick Tubb is half-dozen-0 ... Travis Thomas ... Wendy Wilkinson ... Meaghan Wolff

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