A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Sunday put President Trump's six-month approval rating at a historic 70-year low amid controversy over connections between the White House and Russia. Interestingly, as Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, most of Trump's detractors actually dislike him due to his personality and character, rather than specific issues and policy, according to a Gallup poll published late last week.
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On Monday morning, we excerpted from the latest report by BofA's David Woo, who echoed a familiar lament when looking at the divergence between global political risk and the collapse in cross-asset volatility, concluding that he finds it "difficult to reconcile the record low volatility in financial markets at the moment with growing political risk in Washington and geopolitical risk in Asia.
Following a lawsuit by government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Obama administration released their visitor logs (dating back to 2009), but the Trump White House announced in April that they would break with the practice.
However, as The Hill reports, CREW on Monday announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will turn over visitor logs to Trump’s property by Sept. 8 as part of ongoing litigation to the group, who in turn will make them public.
Donald Trump denied that he was unaware of his son's meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at the heart of the latest White House controversy, telling Reuters he only learned of it a couple of days ago. “No, that I didn’t know until a couple of days ago when I heard about this" Trump said in a Reuters White House interview when asked if he knew that his son was meeting with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June last year.
Authored by Joshua Yaffa via The New Yorker,