Trumplandia Today, Wednesday February 8

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Trump gets one right! Trump correctly cites rising crime rates in cities

Sessions confirmation

• Tonight, in an absurd use of Senate Rule XIX -- which prohibits senators from ascribing “to another senator or to other senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator” – Mitch McConnell formally silenced Elizabeth Warren, who was merely reading a letter from Coretta Scott King that criticized Jeff Sessions’s record on civil rights.
• McConnell Mansplained Why He Silenced Warren. Women On Twitter Responded PERFECTLY

The immigration order

• A fabricated news story claiming Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration led to the arrest of a suspected terrorist doesn’t pass inspection. "Executive order leads to capture of ISIS leader, Rasheed Muhammad," reads the headline on a Jan. 31, 2017, story at USAPoliticsZone.com. The post was flagged by Facebook as part of the website’s efforts to identify potentially contrived news stories.
• Starbucks offers employees free legal advice on Trump's travel ban
• Even a "bad high school student" would rule in my favor about travel ban, President Donald J. Trump tells a group of judges

New Arkansas law lets husbands sue to stop wives having abortion

Fake news

• Jake Tapper Grills Kellyanne Conway on Trump Lies, ‘Fake News,’ and ‘Ignoring Terrorism’ The beginning of the end of tolerance for outright lies by Conway.
• In Meeting With Sheriffs, Trump Repeats False Murder Rate Statistic
• President Donald Trump keeps saying that murder is on the rise in America — but law enforcement statistics collected by the government say otherwise.
• Sean Spicer Just Invented Another Fake Terrorist Attack To Justify Trump’s Muslim Ban
• Sean Spicer: ‘If Coretta Scott King was still with us’, she’d support Jeff Sessions

Grab Your Wallet

• The #GrabYourWallet boycott movement of Trump products is gaining steam.
• With One Tweet, Trump Just Used His Office To Help Ivanka’s Business
• Trump Attacked Nordstrom For Cutting Ivanka’s Line, So Nordstrom Just Shut Him Up

Trump’s own Supreme Court pick just publicly admonished him

A panel of judges just stopped North Carolina Republicans’ power grab in its tracks

Spicer today

• Spicer: Nordstrom Dropping Ivanka Trump's Line Is 'Direct Attack' On Prez
• Spicer Blasted McCain For Criticizing Trump’s SEAL Raid. McCain’s Response Is Perfect

Our president at work

• Journalists on Twitter have obtained copies of Trump’s daily schedule, and found that Trump was tweeting about Nordstrom while he was supposed to be paying attention to his daily intelligence briefing, as noted by the fact-checker at the Washington Post:

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