BTRTN October 2017 Month in Review: The Beginning of the End?
The BTRTN monthly update, covering another dismal month in the Trump presidency.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2017/11/btrtn-october-2017-month-in-review.html
"But another bombshell was dropped at the end of October, and this one will not vanish so easily. This, of course, was the announcement of the first charges from the Mueller investigation. The Mueller news featured the indictments of Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and protégé Rick Gates, and the even more stunning guilty plea by Trump campaign foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos that revealed something that looked mighty close to, well, collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Far from “wrapping up soon,” as the White House continues to insist, Mueller’s probe is clearly shifting into high gear. We’ll come back to that.
In between all those seismic events, with their wildly varying aftershocks, the month was characterized by the usual hallmarks of Trumpworld: the fitful path of lurching legislation (tax reform), the court bans of executive actions (travel and transgender bans), the meaningless pronouncements (opioids), continued outright failure (Puerto Rico) and distracting, unwinnable and callous fights with victims (Puerto Ricans, Niger attack widow). What was new this month was, finally, a chorus of noted Republicans giving voice to the failings of this Administration, specifically the embarrassment of President Donald Trump..."
