Nothing but zest this week. Trump's all peel, no orange, and Kellyanne jumps ship

Even the pandemic and Kushner’s role in the connections to Russia demonstrate how much the Kremlin remains operative in WH decision-making. If nothing else, the GOP platform is attracted to one strong-man, one-party rule.

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😳 The GOP just announced that there is no 2020 platform this year other than to reassert “the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.” pic.twitter.com/0wEF2Dnco3— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) August 24, 2020

Kevin Hassett thought the US economy was an exploding Ford Pinto, and produced an econometric model early in 2020 that the effect of the pandemic would go to zero deaths. The GOP believes that you can bet on being a free-rider on all those mask-wearers, 57% of Republicans think 176,000+ deaths is acceptable.

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.@wolfblitzer Why don't you ask Kevin Hassett why he always smiles & laughs his way thru stories of Americans losing jobs & homes? When he blames scientists for shutting economy, why don't you say it's because his guy ignored virus? Do your job or don't have shills on @cnn

— Mike Scully (@scullymike) August 23, 2020

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A top FDA official who'll help decide the fate of a coronavirus vaccine has vowed to resign if the Trump administration approves a vaccine before it's shown to be safe and effective, Reuters has learned.https://t.co/yRJIFc11fx

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 24, 2020

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Outside Louis DeJoy’s house in DC right now!! https://t.co/1RBJp8yENo

— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) August 24, 2020

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— The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) August 24, 2020

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EXCLUSIVE: Jared Kushner’s private channel with Putin’s money man revealed
https://t.co/gXscOO9ldj

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) August 24, 2020

Despite a department press release announcing the delivery, several senior officials working on the Russia portfolio in the department and elsewhere in the national security apparatus were unaware exactly how the 45 ventilators had ended up on American soil. Half of the shipment was paid for by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), one of the country’s sovereign wealth funds, which is under U.S. sanctions. (The sanctions do not prohibit all transactions between U.S. entities and the firm, but they have limited the fund’s interactions with American businesses.) And the fund’s CEO, Kirill Dmitriev, had been scrutinized by Congress and former special counsel Robert Mueller for his communications with Trump transition officials shortly after Moscow had meddled in the 2016 election.

For years, the Trump administration had attempted to find ways to cooperate with Russia on the world stage but largely failed in those efforts because Moscow has continued to engage in activity that threatens U.S. national security, from hacking operations to reportedly offering bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. A public display of Russian supplies being offloaded caught some officials in the Trump administration off guard.

Dmitriev was one of the main participants in the infamous January 2017 Seychelles meeting with former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, in which the two discussed a roadmap for U.S.-Russia cooperation in the new administration. In the years since, Kushner and Dmitriev have communicated—often at a distance, and at times through intermediaries—about ways the U.S. and Russia could work together. The conversations have touched on everything from creating a joint business council to increase investment, to working on a Middle East peace deal, to helping lead negotiations on a recent OPEC deal, to delivering those medical supplies, according to multiple senior officials.

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