Trump lied that he attempted to stop the chant Wednesday night by resuming his speech “very quickly” after it started. When he makes up these lies, he must think there is no visual record of his standing there, nodding and listening to the crowd for 12 seconds. All that was missing was holding his hands to his ears, ala Hulk Hogan.

Donald Trump and his press secretary were directly involved in discussions that led to an illegal hush-money payment to Stormy DanielsĀ during the 2016 election campaign, according to the FBI. The new disclosures raise the possibility that Hicks lied to the FBI. Hicks told an agent in an interview that ‘she did not learn about the allegations made by Clifford until early November 2016′”

(In April 2018, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about the hush money payment to Daniels.)

By about a 2-1 margin!

Interestingly, only 30% of Americans feel the comments were not racist, but Trump’s approval rating is about 45%.

In other words, about a third of Trump’s supporters acknowledge that he is racist, and support him. (Perhaps that is WHY they support him, although that is just speculation. There is no evidence to support the position that all of those people approve of him because he is racist. Many or all may feel that they approve him for other reasons, in spite of his racism. Neither case gives me much peace of mind.)

His strong core of racist supporters, or supporters overlooking his racism, doesn’t surprise me. At one point Trump’s only issue was Obama’s Kenyan birth, and that issue was pure racism in that there was never any evidence of any kind to support it or any legitimate reason to believe it. So back then, 100% of his supporters were in his corner because he was racist. That number must be below 100% now, so I guess you could view that as progress in some twisted way.