The Events: June 2018

 If you're like me, an aberration has disturbed your state of mind for some time. The perpetual agony of ceaseless scandal and outrageous action has led to both a constant state of attention, but also the necessity of draining one's mind of past improprieties, to make room for new transgressions. Yet one must never relinquish the past for they might forget that he said about the Charlottesville rally, “and you had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides,” about these people.
Maybe you're like Marc Thiessen and comments like this are easily dismissed, they are after all, mere words. Or maybe you're concerned like this citizen's rebuttal.

If you count yourself as a member of the second category, then perhaps one can understand the desire to hold the past and the President to account, like the New York Time's list of insults, or the Washington Post's list of lies. So I made a collection.

The rules, the definition of the collection, are not as easily quantifiable as the NYT or WaPo lists, but here's my methodology.

The following collection of news articles were collected from a daily reading of Vox, Politico, and Axios, with occasional support from The Guardian, The Intercept, Slate, and The Atlantic. If anyone would like to recommend another source, I'd be glad to look at it.

The articles chosen can be lumped into a few categories. They include (but are not necessarily limited to) corruption, insults, ineptitude, the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and certain astonishing actions and/or policy decisions enacted (this last category is certainly subjective).

The prior categories are only of relevance if the people doing them include; the President, his family, his Cabinet, his spokespeople, his lawyers, and all other people he has chosen to work with both past and present (again this is not entirely comprehensive).

The following link will take you to a Google Docs page in which I have cataloged the events. It is view-able but not editable.

I current plan to produce one for the end of each month, and if anyone has a recommendation on the format to make it more readable I would be glad to hear it.

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