DAY 223: Trump backpedals on shutting down government for border wall

Two days after a rally in Arizona in which he threatened to shut down the government if Congress did not pay for his border wall, Donald Trump back off from his threat.

According to The Washington Post, the White House told Congress two days after the rally that money for the wall did not need to be included in the budget to be approved this month.

Trump waffled on cybersecurity with Russia after Trump Jr.'s scandal broke

So this very morning Donald Trump tweeted this:

Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2017

Then, a few hours later, the news of Donald Trump Jr. meeting with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin to get dirt on Hillary Clinton broke.

THEN, Trump twitted this:

Trump changes course on Israel settlements and Russia; To soften Congress?

This is certainly strange. The Trump administration is changing positions on Israeli settlements and Russia's Ukraine intervention.

First, according to The New York Times, the Trump administration said the following in a statement about expanding Israeli settlements into Palestinian territories:

“While we don’t believe the existence of settlements is an impediment to peace, the construction of new settlements or the expansion of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving that goal.”

Which is strange since Trump supported the expansion of settlements throughout his campaign.