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Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. These days are dizzying so you'd be forgiven for not being able to keep track of all the developments in our body politic.

Yes, there are some good things going on. Jared Kushner, who we've ribbed here for some time, has won over Tom Friedman in his Middle East dealmaking, but there's also some sordid and oh-so-Washington developments worth reviewing. In a bygone era, any one of these developments would spark dates of coverage. Now it's but a blip. With a pandemic coursing through America, Congress is home for the month and won't return until mid-September. With an election 81 days away, congressional leaders left town without coming to a deal with

the White House on stimulus relief that could help ease the pain of struggling Americans.

It seems exceedingly unlikely a deal will come together before September 30th, if at all.

The president suggested that he thought Kamala Harris was ineligible to be vice president,

a racist conspiracy he used on Barack Obama.

Harris was born in Oakland, California.

Some of his advisors cringed.

It seemed desperate.

The president used these terms to describe women just on Thursday.

She yaps when talking about representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, calling Harris a madwoman, an MSNBC host, Mika

Brzeinsky, as a ditsy airhead wife of Joe Scarborough. The president will break with all

norms and accept the Republican Party's nomination on the

White House lawn, he told the New York Post.

Oh, and he also said he'll try to win New York, which he lost by 22 points in 2016.

Marjorie Taylor Green, a QAnon supporter who's likely to come to Congress in November,

suggested in a recently found

video that MS-13 were hit men for Obama and killed Seth Rich, a DNC employee who was murdered

in 2016 in what police said was a robbery. Michael Cohen, the president's former attorney who

was recently in prison, published excerpts from his book Disloyal, where he describes Trump as

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