Every Wednesday, we bring you the most important and amusing news stories of the past week. This week: Pepsi fucks up.
- Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn offered his testimony to the house intelligence committee in exchange for immunity.
- The committee eventually turned Flynn down. Right now, though, the committee isn’t doing much.
- Flynn was also busted this week for failing to report speaking fees earned from Russia-related entities in 2015 in his White House paperwork. He disclosed them elsewhere, however.
- John McCain called Kim Jong-Un “that crazy fat kid,” and then did it again in as many words, and it was great both times.
- Donald Trump had an executive order signing ceremony and forgot to actually sign the orders.
- Trump welcomed Egypt’s president to the White House, a reversal of U.S. policy.
- Trump made the repeal of Obama-era internet privacy rules official.
- Conservative FOX News host Bill O’Reilly is losing advertisers thanks to a history of sexual assault allegations.
- In what Twitter considers the most important political news of the week, Pepsi made a condescending and tone-deaf ad and people got so fired up about it that Pepsi pulled the whole dang thing and apologized.
- Remember when Trump, without evidence, accused Barack Obama’s administration of spying on him? Now, without evidence, he says former acting attorney general Susan Rice committed a serious crime in connection with the alleged wiretapping.
- Steve Bannon has been booted from the National Security Council, and were are all a little more likely to survive the year.
- Senators are still in talks trying to avoid the so-called “nuclear option,” which would change the filibuster rules to push through Neil Gorsuch’s SCOTUS confirmation.
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