WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday added to a chorus of presidential officials downplaying concerns over a looming recession after the U.S. Treasury yield curve temporarily inverted last week for the first time in 12 years.

“Eventually there’ll be a recession but this inversion is not as reliable, in my view, as people think,” Ross said in an interview with Fox Business Network.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-ross-idUSKCN1V912O

Daniel Dale
@ddale8

Asked today about banning high-capacity magazines, Trump ended up talking about “the concept of mental institution” and “the concept also of voter identification”:





https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1163259264972050432

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

House Democrats want to take action against Israel because it is fighting back against two (maybe four) people that have said unthinkably bad things about it & the Israeli people. Dems have such disdain for Israel! What happened? AOC Plus 4 is the new face of the Democrat Party!

6:03 PM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163209779533287424

Newt Gingrich
@newtgingrich

The NY Times 1619 Project should make its slogan “All the Propaganda we want to brainwash you with”.it is a repudiation of the original NY Times motto.

2:54 AM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter for iPad

https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1162981114383949826

Dave Zirin
@EdgeofSports

Replying to @newtgingrich

It's history, not a wife in a hospital bed. You can't just walk away.

9:45 AM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports/status/1163084418984087553

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Juan Williams at @FoxNews is so pathetic, and yet when he met me in the Fox Building lobby, he couldn’t have been nicer as he asked me to take a picture of him and me for his family. Yet he is always nasty and wrong!
3:15 PM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163167660764532736

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1

NBC News poll: 40% of voters say they'll "definitely" or "probably" vote for Trump.

52% say they will "definitely" or "probably" vote for the Democratic candidate.

Of note: Trump's approval in this poll is 43% so even some who approve of him ostensibly won't vote for him.

3:10 PM · Aug 18, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1163166341806874625

Sitting in with CNN’s Victor Blackwell on Sunday morning, contributor April Ryan relayed that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is in big trouble not only with his party over his latest comments about rape and incest, but that Donald Trump is aggravated with him too because he may impact the president’s chances in Iowa in the 2020 election.

With King reeling from the fallout from his own comments made during an appearance earlier in the week, Ryan said that his days may be numbered because senior Republicans want him gone too.

“He was already stripped of his committee assignments earlier for his comments about white supremacy, being offensive now,” Blackwell began. “Is there any indication that anyone, any Republican in Washington is going to take some action against Steve King, not just suggest that he resign?”

“You also have a president that feels he’s a distraction no matter what he says,” Ryan then added. “This president is having a problem in Iowa, another state he is having a problem in, and Steve King is not helping. Republicans are doing a lot of things, talking behind closed doors and Steve King is in trouble. All of this stuff is coming up, it’s catching up with him.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-furious-with-steve-king-for-crippling-his-re-election-chances-in-iowa-cnns-april-ryan/

Ellen L Weintraub
@EllenLWeintraub
· Aug 16

BREAKING: @FEC's Republicans block all investigation of & enforcement against Russians Torshin & Butina re the NRA & the 2016 presidential election.

Result: FEC does nothing to find out the truth behind one of the most blockbuster campaign finance allegations in recent memory.







https://twitter.com/EllenLWeintraub/status/1162429772590387203

Ellen L Weintraub
@EllenLWeintraub
Replying to
@EllenLWeintraub
and
@FEC
The Commission’s full enforcement file in the #NRA #Russia matter (MUR 7314) is here:

https://fec.gov/data/legal/matter-under-review/7314/

My statement is available on the FEC’s website in PDF form here:

https://fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7314/7314_1.pdf

https://twitter.com/EllenLWeintraub/status/1162447870987030528