A Week in Trumpworld

Wow, in Trumpworld political news comes so thick and fast that it’s hard to keep up. But this past week or so has been even crazier.

• Hope Hicks admits to telling “white lies” for Trump.
  

• Hope Hicks resigns as Trump’s Communications Director, the fifth person to hold or be named to that post in the past 13 months.

• Jared Kushner -- in charge of negotiating Middle East peace, improving relations with Mexico and China, reforming the criminal justice system, and streamlining the entire federal government -- has had his security clearance downgraded. 

• Intelligence intercepts show that at least four foreign governments have discussed ways that Jared Kushner could be manipulated. 

• Rick Gates pleads guilty to, among other things, lying to the FBI about a meeting with Paul Manafort and pro-Russian GOP congressman Dana Rohrabacher. 

• Evidence has emerged that Roger Stone, a big Trump adviser and self-professed “ratfucker” back in his Nixon days, had direct contact with Wikileaks during the election campaign. 

• Joseph Mifsud, the shady Maltese professor who promised the Trump campaign “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, has been missing since last October. 

• Corporate American has started turning against the NRA. 

• The state of Georgia threatens Delta Airlines for distancing itself from the NRA.

• Trump tells lawmakers that it’s okay to sometimes go up against the NRA. 

• Trump claims he would have happily faced certain death by intervening in a school shooting unarmed. 

• Trump causally, and unexpectedly, announces tariffs on steel and aluminum, causes the Dow Jones to dive 500 points.   

Let's see what happens next week.