DAY 229: Trump Jr. seemingly admits he knew his meeting with Russians was potentially illegal

Donald Trump Jr. apparently admitted in a statement to the Senate that he knew his meeting with Russians to dig dirt on Hillary Clinton was potentially illegal.

According to The New York Times, Trump Jr. said about the meeting:

“To the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, I believed that I should at least hear them out. Depending on what, if any, information they had, I could then consult with counsel to make an informed decision as to whether to give it further consideration.”

DAY 228: Russia bought ads on Facebook to influence the US election

The Washington Post reports that hundreds of Facebook accounts based in Russia purchased political ads to try to influence the 2016 US election.

From the WP article:

Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.

Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.

DAY 227: Trump ends DACA and uses Dreamers as hostages for his racist immigration plan

Donald Trump announced officially the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which Barack Obama established through executive order to protect the children of undocumented immigrants, also known as "Dreamers," when Republicans in Congress blocked immigration reform.

Not only that, but Trump also is using the Dreamers as hostages to force Congress to pass his racist immigrantion plan that cuts legal immigrant admisions by half and only admits people who already speak English and make enough money not to need to live in the United States.

DAY 226: Trump wants your pension plan to pay for a tax cut for the rich

According to Politico, Donald Trump's finance team, which is basically people from Goldman Sachs, came up with the idea of taxing the middle class's 401(k) pension plans in order to pay for a tax cut for the rich. From the Politico article:

One idea quietly being discussed would be taxing the money that workers place into their 401(k) savings plans up front: an idea that would raise billions of dollars in the short-term and is pulled from the Camp plan. This policy idea is widely disliked by budget hawks, who consider it a gimmick; the financial services industry that handles retirement savings; and nonprofits that try to encourage Americans to save.

DAY 225: Trump now blames South Korea for North Korea, but it's HIS fault

After North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb, Donald Trump tried to blame others instead of blaming himseld for doing nothing about it. Twice. He blamed China and South Korea:

..North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

DAY 224: Trump's DOJ admits Trump's wiretapping claim was bullshit

The Trump administration, via the Department of Justice, virtually admitted Donald Trump's claim that Barack Obama had Trump Tower in New York wiretapped was bullshit.

According to Bloomberg a Freedom of Information Act request forced the DOJ to admit there is no evidence of wiretapping at Trump Tower at the order of Barack Obama.

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.