Trump Believes Terrorist Attack Could Save GOP in 2018

18 January 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:  Reader Supported News NOTICE ON FUNDING - The start to the January funding drive is well below what would be needed to complete the process in a reasonable time frame. We sincerely wish we could provide this service without some donations, we can't. Now would be a good time to make a contribution. Thank you. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Trump Believes Terrorist Attack Could Save GOP in 2018  Matthew Yglesias, Vox  Yglesias writes: "Is Donald Trump hoping foreign terrorists attack the United States? That terrifying question is subtly embedded in a story this weekend reported by Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, and Sean Sullivan of the Washington Post on the Republican Party's growing alarm about the upcoming 2018 midterms."  READ MORE FBI Investigating Whether Russian Money Went to NRA to Help Trump  Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, McClatchy DC  Excerpt: "The FBI is investigating whether a top Russian banker with ties to the Kremlin illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to help Donald Trump win the presidency, two sources familiar with the matter have told McClatchy."  READ MORE Mulvaney Requests No Funding for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau  Michael Grunwald, Politico  Grunwald writes: "The Trump administration has not shown much interest lately in deficit reduction, but it has shown avid interest in reining in the independent CFPB."  READ MORE Josh Keefe and David Sirota | Trump and Lawmakers Got Cash From Payday Lenders, Then Weakened Lending Rules  Josh Keefe and David Sirota, International Business Times Excerpt: "Less than two months after President Donald Trump tapped his budget director to run the independent federal agency tasked with protecting U.S. consumers from harmful and predatory financial practices, the agency has moved to undo a rule intended to prevent payday lenders from preying on low-income Americans."  READ MORE US Government to Shield Health Workers Under 'Religious Freedom'  Toni Clarke, Reuters  Clarke writes: "The U.S. government is seeking to further protect the 'conscience and religious freedom' of health workers whose beliefs prevent them from carrying out abortions and other procedures, in an effort likely to please conservative Christian activists and other supporters of President Donald Trump."  READ MORE Lindy West | Aziz, We Tried to Warn You  Lindy West, The New York Times  West writes: "There is a reflexive tendency, when grappling with stories of sexual misconduct like the accusations leveled at Ansari this past weekend - incidents that seem to exist in that vast gray area between assault and a skewed power dynamic - to point out that sexual norms have changed."  READ MORE One Year In, Trump's Environmental Agenda Is Already Taking a Measurable Toll  Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times  Halper writes: "A massive coal ash spill near Knoxville, Tenn., in 2008 forever changed life for Janie Clark's family and left her husband with crippling health problems. So Clark was astounded late last year when she heard what the Environmental Protection Agency had done."  READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation