This week, President @realDonaldTrump's legal troubles continued to mount with alarming speed, as he was directly implicated in multiple felonies by his longtime attorney/fixer.
Meanwhile, the number of state and federal investigations into all things Trump continued to grow, with his businesses, "charitable" foundation, campaign, transition, inauguration, and presidency now under the microscope.
For the most part, these latest developments were greeted with a collective shrug by Trump's defenders in Congress and on Fox News.
After all, as his current attorney notes, Trump hasn't killed or robbed anyone (as far as we know).
But, given the way things are going, it's probably only a matter of time.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO); Roundtable: TBA.
Face The Nation: Nazi Stephen Miller; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY); Adviser to Michael Cohen Lanny Davis; Former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter; Roundtable: Ben Domenech (The Federalist), Kelsey Nell (NPR), Margaret Talev (Bloomberg News) & Edward Wong (New York Times).
This Week: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME); Trump "Lawyer" Rudy Giuliani; Roundtable: Peter Baker (New York Times), Molly Ball (TIME); Journalist Roland Martin &Matt Schlapp (American Conservative Union).
Fox News Sunday: Trump "Lawyer" Rudy Giuliani; Philanthropist Bill Gates; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Julie Pace (Associated Press), Former White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD); Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Amanda Carpenter, Democratic Strategist Symone Sanders (D), Republican Operative David Urban & Democratic Strategist Jen Psaki.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on drug manufacturer/distributor liability for the opioid crisis (preview); and, a report on the tons of plastic accumulating in the Pacific Ocean (preview).
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday: Actress Sandra Bullock,; Director Barry Jenkins.
Tuesday: Actress Emily Blunt; Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ); Band St. Paul & the Broken Bones.
Wednesday: Actor Steve Carell; Actress KiKi Layne.
Thursday: Actor John C. Reilly; Political Commentator Ana Navarro; Singer-Songwriter Jessie J.
Friday: TBA.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday: Writer Eve Ewing; Tuesday: Rapper Pusha T; Wednesday: Radio Personality Charlamagne Tha God; Thursday: Comedian Mo Amer.
Elsewhere...
In a shocking development, Jerome Corsi apparently promoted a scam fundraiser.
Jerome Corsi, the right-wing author ensnared in the special counsel's probe, raised tens of thousands of dollars on his website and web show over the summer for an Alaskan man who claimed he needed experimental cancer surgery from an Israeli physician.
To help raise the funds, Corsi touted Dr. Eliat Mendelsohn, claiming the oncologist miraculously cured his relative’s stage-4 liver cancer. Corsi claimed on his website Mendelsohn would use similar techniques to try to cure Thomas Sickler, 33, of bladder cancer.
But there are two main problems with the fundraiser. TheDCNF [Daily Caller News Foundation] couldn't find any records proving Dr. Eliad Mendelsohn exists. And Sickler, the purported patient, is the registered owner of Mendelsohn Consulting Group, the same clinic Corsi links to on his website boosting Dr. Mendelsohn.
When told Mendelsohn appears not to exist, Corsi replied: "[Sickler] was healed. At least that’s what I certainly was led to believe, and I think it's true. I think he was a cancer survivor."
"If I was misled, or I was bamboozled on that, I honestly think Tommy Sickler was a cancer survivor," he continued.
When reminded of his claim that his family member was successfully treated by Mendelsohn, Corsi said: "That's all I'm going to say. It's a personal matter."
Meanwhile...
Sarah Huckabee Sanders pondered her legacy.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has grand ideas about her legacy.
Speaking at Politico's "Women Rule" event Tuesday, Sanders said she hopes she's remembered as "transparent and honest" when her tenure in the Trump administration is over.
"I hope that it will be that I showed up every day and I did the very best job that I could to put forward the president's message, to do the best job that I could to answer questions, to be transparent and honest throughout that process and do everything I could to make America a little better that day than it was the day before," she said during an on-stage interview with Eliana Johnson.
Sanders, who rarely holds press briefings anymore, has frequently been accused of lying to or misleading the press corps; of six rulings on Politifact, Sanders has earned five "false" readings and one "pants on fire."
Good luck with that.
– Trix