The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Dear Jim
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly examining a draft letter written by President Trump enumerating his reasons for firing former FBI Director James Comey. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump will make an announcement on DACA, the Obama-era program offering protections for young undocumented immigrants, on Tuesday. Meteorologists are tracking Hurricane Irma, a storm brewing in the eastern Atlantic ocean that became a Category 3 hurricane on Thursday. Trump is expected to visit Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, his second visit to the flood-ravaged region this week. The U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate increased slightly to 4.4 percent.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly examining a draft letter written by President Trump enumerating his reasons for firing former FBI Director James Comey. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump will make an announcement on DACA, the Obama-era program offering protections for young undocumented immigrants, on Tuesday. Meteorologists are tracking Hurricane Irma, a storm brewing in the eastern Atlantic ocean that became a Category 3 hurricane on Thursday. Trump is expected to visit Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, his second visit to the flood-ravaged region this week. The U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate increased slightly to 4.4 percent.
I wonder how Herr Mueller got his hands on a DRAFT of a letter. Also, a draft letter has little or no relevance. I also wonder how it got reported that Mueller got his hands on a DRAFT of a letter.
That's a good wrap up of the current events in the USA. Irma is unusual in that it has developed into a very powerful hurricane prematurely. Nobody has any idea what it's ultimate path will be yet.Something else occurs to me.. presidents rarely write their own letters or speeches. They have someone else write them, and they are told what to include in them. The president then edits it and it goes back and forth.
What bothers me is that someone at the justice department.. probably Rosenstien.. gave Mueller that irrelevant draft letter.
