Weekly Trump Report Card: Promises kept on Jerusalem, abortion

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This week’s White House Report Card finds that President Trump had another eventful week with several victories and, of course, more controversy over the Russia probe. He fulfilled two major campaign promises, shifting the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and he went even further than former President Reagan’s pledge to conservatives in curbing taxpayer funding of clinics that provide abortion.

Donald Trump, Alex Acosta, Van Jones, Ryan Zinke, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump
In a display of bipartisanship, this time over prison reform, liberal CNN political commentator Van Jones, far left, is shown with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Attorney Genneral Jeff Sessions, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, and Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta.


Along the way his team won Senate support for Gina Haspel, the first woman approved to run the CIA, used his new legal team headed by Rudy Giuliani to muck up the Russia probe, broke bread with Democrats on prison reform, and gave space to his wife, Melania, who is recovering from a liver operation.

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