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From The Reporter’s Notebook
TPM’s Tierney Sneed reported last week on the push by conservative hardliners to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Despite the firestorm, Koskinen has maintained a positive outlook on having the position. “If it’s a job where the first thing people say is, ‘Why would you do that?’ then it’s got to be a good job,” he told the New York Times in an interview last June.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “[Trump’s] teeth gritted admission that Obama was born in the United States had to be matched by a new lie about Hillary Clinton. He actually managed two. Trump packaged a narrow factual concession into two new lies. What might have been an admission or even an apology was presented as a personal victory for which the country and even President Obama should thank him. Trump is injured by attacks and slights as we all are. But for Trump they create an inner turbulence which forces an almost peristaltic response. The inner equilibrium must be reestablished. The salient fact about Trump isn’t his cruelty or penchant for aggression and violence. It’s his inability to control urges and drives most people gain control over very early in life.”
Say What?!
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy.”
– Donald Trump abandoned one conspiracy theory while pushing another; the idea that the Clinton campaign started the so-called birther movement has been thoroughly debunked.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “It would be helpful if Bernie and Hillary appeared together in some forum to present, in more detail, their plan for college affordability. That would cement the image of the two of them on the same side, working for something millenials want. Maybe Hillary can even say that Bernie will be the point man in the Senate for the legislation that she will sign. Same with Elizabeth Warren on Wall Street reform or Al Gore on climate change.”
Related: Bernie Sanders urged Americans considering voting for third-party candidates to vote for Clinton, warning that “protest” votes could contribute to a Trump victory.
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