1. Trump calls Le Pen 'strongest'
Trump offered tacit support of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the first round vote for France’s election on Sunday. The president said he although he was not “explicitly endorsing” the leader of the Front National, she was the “strongest on borders, and she’s the strongest on what’s been going on in France”.
2. How's this for a deal?
Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, is trying to fund Trump’s border wall and he’s offering Democrats a deal: for each dollar in wall payments, they’ll get an extra dollar in Affordable Care Act help.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called the offer a “nonstarter”.
Summary
Clearly, we’re not going to build a wall in an afternoon.
- Homeland Security secretary John Kelly says he hopes construction of Trump’s famed border wall between Mexico and the US will begin by the end of the summer.
3. Plenty of time for golf
Emerging from Treasury to walk back to WH, Pres Trump said there's "no particular rush" to do both health care and tax reform next week. pic.twitter.com/gAnD6Eu2Mk
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 21, 2017
4. Not just the 'bad hombres'
In communities from Maryland to California and Oregon, immigration lawyers report that undocumented individuals with minimal or no criminal records who pose no risk at all to anyone are being picked up and deported.
Torn apart: the American families hit by Trump’s immigration crackdown
5. Trump hosts Hijazi
Aya Hijazi, the American Egyptian aid worker freed last week after 1,079 days imprisonment in Cairo after charges of child sex trafficking because of her charity work, visited the White House today.
“We are very happy to have Aya back home,” said Trump, who’d pushed for her freedom.
Ivanka photo op
Summary
I think the equation is simple. It’s the American equation. Dumb down the population and make them ignorant and stupid. Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate. Trump knew that part of the equation really well. And hate leads to violence.
— film-maker Michael Moore speaks at the Tribeca Film Festival on the rise of Donald Trump.
...and another thing
On the one-year anniversary of his passing, we remember music legend and Minnesota native son, #Prince: https://t.co/FDQEFm2GeK #FBF
— Rep. Erik Paulsen (@RepErikPaulsen) April 21, 2017
