"I think this party has been very clear, we are the party of Lincoln," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. And in another surreal twist to the situation, Conway's husband George earlier penned his latest devastating op-ed blasting his wife's boss as a "racist President" beyond the bounds of human decency. Some of it was on display in the rising tensions and distemper in Washington on Tuesday. Even Anthony Scaramucci, the short-lived former White House communications director and longtime Trump friend, rebuked the President's "bully-ish, Neanderthal-ish" racist comments. Normally, at moments of Trump-induced dysfunction, commentators note that the President engineers chaos as a master stroke to keep his political foes off balance.

Source: CNN July 17, 2019 03:56 UTC