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  50%

  According to the Betfair prediction market, there’s a roughly 50 percent chance that President Trump will not serve out his four-year term. There an approximately 20 to 25 percent chance that Trump doesn’t make it through 2017 without leaving office.

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  39.7%

  The RealClearPolitics polling average shows President Trump’s approval rate at 39.7%.

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  56%

  A new SurveyUSA poll finds that 56% of Americans (including 1 in 4 Republicans) say President Trump “sometimes loses touch with reality.” Also interesting: 37% say Trump “is unable to distinguish between what is true and what is made up.”

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  18

  “Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race,” current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters.

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  10%

  Pew Research: “Those who study politics have long known that a person’s party affiliation is a strong predictor of how they will vote and what their opinions will be on most political issues. Some of the power of partisanship comes from its relative immutability: Most people remain loyal to a political party. … But over a 15-month period encompassing the 2016 presidential campaign, about 10% of Republicans and Democrats ‘defected’ from their parties to the opposing party.”

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Poetic Justice

It’s Going Around

Buck Banks | May. 19, 2017

As I read the daily Twitter aggression,
Or witness the endless pundit progression.
The more I watch the news,
The more I get the blues.
I got a bad case of that mean old Trumpression.

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• Verbatim

  “It’s a very bad thing, Twitter’s role in that. If it’s true that he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter, then yeah, I’m sorry.”

  — Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, quoted by the New York Times, on Donald Trump’s claim he wouldn’t be president if it weren’t for Twitter.

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• Verbatim

  “When I ran for office, I said he is a chaos candidate and would be a chaos president. Unfortunately, so far chaos organizes the presidency right now.”

  — Jeb Bush, in an interview with CNN.

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• Verbatim

  “Every single one of the president’s wounds is self-inflicted. Every single one. I don’t really understand the propensity for self-pity at a time like this.” … “My second reaction is, four U.S. presidents have been actually literally assassinated and killed. But more broadly speaking, when it comes to a president that has been treated unfairly, I mean that president led the charge claiming that the first African-American president was born in Africa. Which is not only a charge that is false, but is not a little bit racist.”

  — Jake Tapper, taking exception on CNN at President Trump’s claim that he’s been treated more unfairly than any other president in history.

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• Verbatim

  “You can use that on the press, sir.”

  — Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, after President Trump was presented with a ceremonial saber at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement, according to ABC News.

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• Verbatim

  “Can we have a crisis-free day? That’s all I’m asking.”

  — Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), quoted by CNN.

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