22 states refuse to comply with Trump's voter suppression scheme

According to The New York Times, 22 states with governments from both parties refused to comply with his administration's request for voter roll data, pointing out it is overreach by the federal government.

From The New York Times's article:

The vice chairman and day-to-day leader of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity, Kris Kobach, had asked election officials in a letter to turn over the data “if publicly available,” apparently to aid a nationwide search for evidence of election irregularities. Besides election information like voters’ names and party affiliations, the commission sought personal information including birth dates, felony conviction records, voting histories for the past decade and the last four digits of all voters’ Social Security numbers.

But guess what? Kobach's claims are bullshit. He has claimed there was widespread voter fraud in Kansas, but "he has found scant evidence of it so far."

Donald Trump and the Republicans start campaign of voter suppression nationwide: The Nation

According to The Nation, Donald Trump and the Republicans started a campaign of voter suppression nationwide with four specific actions. The actions include:

1. The House of Representatives' appropriations committee voted to defund the Election Assistance Comission, which is the only federal agency that helps states make sure their voting machines aren't hacked. The Nation points out that "the $4 million funding request for the EAC is less than the cost of two trips by Donald Trump to Mar-a-Lago."

States accuse Trump of trying to suppress voting after he asked for private voter data over insecure email

According to Gizmodo, the Trump administration asked the states to send personal information regarding all registered voters over an insecure email, placing the information of millions of American voters at risk. The information Trump requested includes partial social security numbers. At least two states refused and accused Trump os trying to suppress voting. From the Gizmodo article:

The White House on Wednesday requested that every state surrender a laundry list of voter data, including partial social security numbers, using an insecure email address unprotected by even basic encryption technology.

Encouraging state election officials to transmit voter data insecurely belies the White House’s stated goal of improving the security and integrity of federal election systems.

Wired answers all of Donald Trump's recent dumb questions

Because of the fact that Trump is profoundly ignorant, and he knows he can be sued for diffamation of he outright makes a false accusation, he has this tendency to make dumb questions in his tweets to suggest he's affirming a lie. That way he can get awaay with it and say he was just asking a question.

Well, Wired decided to answer Trump's dumb questions in an article published today. Here's an example on his tweet asking if James Comey's memos were illegal:

Trump wants to sue CNN, but doesn't have a case

The Interecept published today the audio of a private fundraiser Donald Trump held at one of his own hotels for his 2020 reelection bid. The audio reveals Trump wants to sue CNN, but he still doesn't have a case to do it.

From the article by The Intercept:

“It’s a shame what they’ve done to the name CNN, that I can tell you,” Trump went on, riffing on taking the network to court. “But as far as I’m concerned, I love it. If anybody’s a lawyer in the house and thinks I have a good lawsuit — I feel like we do. Wouldn’t that be fun?”

DAY 162: Trump insists on attacking Morning Joe, and gets debunked right away

After the show Morning Joe responded to Donald Trump's attacks on Twitter, pointing out Trump has a "fragile, childlike ego", Trump lost his temper again and Tweeted this:

Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017

Joe Scarborough, co-host of the show, responded right away debunking Trump:

Russian hackers sought to collude with Michael Flynn according to intelligence sources

The Wall Street Journal published today an article about a Republican operative called Peter Smith who tried to get supposedly stolen emails from Hillary Clinton's server by asking hackers if they had them.

But the part of the article that really catches the eye, halfway through the text, is this: