Trump Watch 20180728

Today's Episode:  The Court ordered it, now what?

So, the deadline for immigrant child/parent reunification has come and gone, and the report is that over Seven Hundred children are still in government custody, and separated from their parents.  That number represents about a third of the total number of children that were covered by the court order.  In some of those cases, the government contends that the children should not have been reunified because of criminal histories of the parents, in other cases the government says that the parents declined reunification, and in many more it turns out that the parents had been deported, and the government was unable to locate said parents.

The judge in the case, Dana Sabraw, seems to be reasonably satisfied though, saying that:

"For class members who are eligible, it appears that when we meet on this issue again on Friday that reunification will have been completed on time, which has to be highlighted and the government has to be commended for its efforts in that regard."

Sabraw did add that "Some of this information is unpleasant.  It's the reality of the case, it's the reality of a policy that was in place that resulted in large numbers of families being separated without forethought as to reunification and keeping track of people.  And that the fallout we're seeing.  There may be 463, there may be more, it's not certain, but it appears there's a large number of parents who are unaccounted for or who may have been removed without their child."

And so it seems that the judge is saying that bad things happened, things that should have been avoided.  Further efforts will be made to try to address the situation that still exists, but as far as I can tell, no one is talking about any sort of accountability or punishment for anyone who has responsibility for those bad and avoidable consequences.  After all, the people that did those things work for the government.

• Trump Charity lawsuit by New York Attorney General
• FBI investigation (it keeps being called a Russian Collusion investigation, but I'm pretty sure more to it than that at this point)
• North Korea
• The Space Force
• The Border Wall
• Alien Children Detention/family separation
• Presidential Pardons
• Civil War Monuments
• Muslim Travel Ban
• China Tariffs/Trade
• Canada-G7 Tariffs/Trade
• NAFTA
• Puerto Rico response
• Military Parade in Washington
• World Trade Organization
• Covfefe Syndrome
• NATO
• Russia/Putin relationship

Giuliani still there as Lawyer
John F. Kelly still there as Chief of Staff - 6-29-2018  Trump says "Things Happen."
Jeff Sessions still there as Attorney General
Sarah Huckabee Sanders still there as Press Secretary, rumors continue to be denied.
Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State

John Bolton - National Security Advisor

Marc Short - White House Legislative Affairs Director - no denial of plans regarding his departure prior to the 2018 midterms.

Kirstjen Nielsen - Homeland Security Secretary

Joe Hagin - White House deputy Chief of Staff is resigning.- reported June 19th

Scott Pruitt - EPA Director - Resigned 7-5-2018