Last week in one sentence: The day after the midterm elections, Trump forced Jeff Sessions to resign, installing Sessions' former chief of staff Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general; two more people connected to Roger Stone have testified before Mueller's grand jury; Mueller obtained communication records between Russian diplomats and the British financier behind the Leave EU campaign; Trump Jr. has reportedly been telling friends in recent week that he expects to be indicted by Mueller; Trump and Putin held a working lunch in Paris; Trump's administration missed a deadline for a second round of sanctions against Russia for poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Britain; Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who represented Orange County, California for 15 terms, lost his re-election to Democrat Harley Rouda; and the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has gathered evidence that Trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements to pay off Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal for their silence.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/what-we-learned/2018/11/week-of-nov-4-10/