Today’s edition of quick hits.<\/b>
\nToday\u2019s edition of quick hits:
* Trump\u2019s former campaign foreign-policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, is going to jail: \u201cThe man whose boozy conversation with a diplomat may have launched the federal government\u2019s investigation into Russian election interference was sentenced Friday to 14 days in jail and one year of supervised release for lying to the FBI.\u201d
* More trade threats: \u201cPresident Trump said Friday that he is ready to impose tariffs on $267 billion in Chinese goods, on top of the additional $200 billion that he said will likely be hit with import taxes in a matter of days. If eventually carried out, Trump\u2019s latest threat could result in tariffs on all Chinese goods entering the United States, an unprecedented escalation of his trade war with China.\u201d
* Rudy Giuliani is bad at his job: \u201cPresident Donald Trump\u2019s attorney Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that the president would not answer questions about obstruction of justice from the special counsel\u2019s team, but in a subsequent interview was less definitive.\u201d
* This was probably inevitable: \u201cTwitter announced Thursday that it had banned the accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his far-right media company Infowars because of \u2018abusive behavior\u2019 on the platform.\u201d
* This was apparently supposed to be funny because the congressman physically attacked a journalist and lied about it: \u201cLast night, at his rally in Billings, Montana, President Trump singled out the state\u2019s Republican member of Congress for praise. \u2018I\u2019ll tell you what,\u2019 said Trump, \u2018This man has fought\u2019 \u2013 at this point, he lowered his voice into the slightly comic tone one uses to deliver an elbow\u2013to-the-ribs punch line \u2013 \u2018in more ways than one, for your state. He has fought for your state. Greg Gianforte. He is a fighter and a winner.\u2019\u201d
* On a related note, it was kind of odd to see the president struggle quite a bit to pronounce the word \u201canonymous\u201d while reading from his teleprompter.
* I haven\u2019t seen this confirmed anywhere, but I\u2019m curious to know if it\u2019s true: \u201cA government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents.\u201d
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