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Matthew Gertz
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I am struck by the lack of a Plan B for congressional Republicans if SCOTUS justices nominated by a GOP president and confirmed by GOP senators actually achieve the GOP goal of eliminating Obamacare.
Trump has absolutely no idea what a good health care proposal looks like, but somehow he's actually behaving much more responsibly than congressional Republicans, who I guess are hoping to lose at SCOTUS?
Trump is not wrong that millions of people will be affected if SCOTUS kills Obamacare, and he will definitely be blamed (because it is his fault). Is McConnell just hoping that if that happens no one notices?
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Matthew Gertz
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On the Fox News-Trump merger: By my count, 10 former Fox employees now work in the Trump administration. Six more spent time in the administration but have since left. A few more are on tap to join: mediamatters.org/blog/2019/04/1…
Trump has picked people he's watched on TV to fill key roles in his Cabinet, White House posts, and ambassadorships, among others. And he wants two people who spent time at the network to fill Federal Reserve seats. mediamatters.org/blog/2019/04/1…
My current list, let me know if I missed anyone.

CURRENT TRUMP, FORMER FOX
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Schlapp
Brown
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Grenell
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Ortagus
Gabrielle

FORMER TRUMP, PREVIOUSLY FOX
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Scaramucci
McFarland
Gorka
McEntee

PENDING TRUMP, FORMER FOX
Cain
Moore
Crowley
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Matthew Gertz
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Trump is melding together several quotes from different Fox hosts, and the statistic given was the lowest average *unemployment* for any president since *1953*.

Left, Fox & Friends Saturday, 9:16 am
Right, Trump, 9:24 am
Fox's way to look at this is that Republican presidents are better for jobs than Democratic ones, but the reality is that Obama and Clinton inherited shitty economies from their GOP predecessors.
Trump is basically responding to Fox live right now, here to Dan Bongino's bullshit.

Left, Fox & Friends Saturday, 9:37 am
Right, Trump, 9:41 am
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Matthew Gertz
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The president of the United States begins his day by live-tweeting last night's edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight. (Dobbs hosted Freeman to discuss the editorial.)

Left, Fox Business, 7:49 pm
Right, Trump, 7:58 am
Here's Lou Dobbs sneering at the notion that the Federal Reserve should be independent of the president, and WSJ's James Freeman basically playing along.
Freeman also says that the NY Times should return the Pulitzer it won for Trump-Russia reporters.
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