| Racist and Xenophobic President Donald Trump sees his rhetoric as a political advantage with no downsides, but a new Washington Post report indicates a terrible and poisonous side-effect of the public displays of animus and insult.
The paper’s analysis of 28,000 news stories found that Trump’s insults and attacks have been used by students and school staff to harass and intimidate children and young teens more than 300 times since the beginning of 2016.
"Since Trump’s rise to the nation’s highest office, his inflammatory language — often condemned as racist and xenophobic — has seeped into schools across America," the Post reports. Bullying, particularly against minority students, that specifically borrows from the Trump playbook, in other words. It's an alarming analysis. Sexist and Hateful EXCLUSIVE: A Washington Examiner editor, British journalist Toby Harnden, was the second person to be let go by the publication in some high-level bloodletting stemming from allegedly inappropriate behavior.
That ouster followed the firing of Jon Nicosia, the Examiner’s breaking news editor. Nicosia sent an email to the outlet’s editor in chief after his firing accusing Harnden of mistreating staffers and making sexist and homophobic comments about employees. With that, he included screenshots of what he described as “sexist and hateful texts”, alleged recordings of conversations, which Mediaite reviewed.
Read our full report here.
Mitch is all for it Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Attorney General William Barr — on the issue of Trump tweets when speaking with Fox News late this afternoon.
“The president made a great choice when he picked Bill Barr to be Attorney general,” McConnell told Fox’s Bret Baier. “I think the president should listen to his advice.”
Even more Iowa
The Democratic National Committee had a much greater role than previously known in the botched rollout of the Shadow app that doomed the Iowa caucus results reporting.
Go figure.
Meme ranking You may have noticed that seemingly every meme page you follow on Instagram posted a variation of a message exchange with a certain former New York mayor on Wednesday night. That’s because Mike Bloomberg isn’t only paying influencers to push his campaign for the White House, his campaign is also seeking to harness the power of memes to reach youths online. We rank the WORST of these memes, here.
Anybody but THAT dude Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders got brutally slammed in the Las Vegas Sun‘s joint endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, as the paper declared that a Sanders nomination “guarantees a Trump second term.”
Oh they went into detail. I am (NOT) Spartacus Senator Bernie Sanders blasted Democratic strategist and pundit James Carville as a "hack" this week, after Carville unloaded on Sanders for being too far left and turning the party into a "cult."
So Carville fired another round on Thursday, saying "That’s exactly who the f**k I am! I am a political hack! I am not an ideologue." Plus several other things. Oops Dogg Rapper Snoop Dogg was inspired after a chat with his mother to publicly declare peace with CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, posting a video apology on his Instagram account for his remarks condemning her over Kobe Bryant.
“I was raised better than that,” he said. That's a pretty good apology. 6.5.0 | 
