Mimicing the infamous “Is God Dead?” cover from 1966, TIME Magazine takes aim at President Trump’s truthiness by asking “Is Truth Dead?”

President Trump spoke with TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer on March 22 for a cover story about the way he has handled truth and falsehood in his career.

As Politico reports, President Trump defended his prior controversial statements on wiretapping, voter fraud and an array of other issues, claiming that he has ultimately been proven right time and time again. Some fun excerpts include:

• “I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right,” Trump told Time’s Washington bureau chief Michael Scherer in an interview conducted Wednesday and published Thursday morning. “I tend to be right. I’m an instinctual person, I happen to be a person that knows how life works.”
• “When I said ‘wire tapping,’ it was in quotes.”
• On his unsubstantiated claim that 3 million undocumented immigrants voted illegally, Trump said he would be proved right eventually, though he hinted that he no longer stood by all parts of that claim: “When I say that, mostly they register wrong. In other words, for the votes, they register incorrectly, and/ or illegally. I’m forming a committee on it.”
• On Sweden: “I was right about that.”

Finally Trump concluded that he had only been “quoting highly respected people from highly respected television networks.”

Then, added as the interview ended..

“Hey look, in the meantime, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know.”

While not directly addressing monetary policy, this morning Janet Yellen delivers a speech titled “Strong Foundations: The Economic Futures of Kids and Communities” at the 10th Biennial Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference in Washington, D.C. And while she won’t talk about the pace of future rate hikes, or the future of the balance sheet, Yellen has decided to continue her trolling of the US population and following up on her September 2014 speech in which she explained to the poor, that it is
“important to get rich”,  in today’s speech Yellen tells her audience that “considerable evidence shows that growing up poor makes it harder to succeed as an adult.”

So maybe to assure an equal start, it’s time to give every baby a million dollars then, just to put them on the right course? Also, think of the hyperinflationary fringe benefits.

Yellen also said “research presented over the next two days makes a compelling case that there is a need to also think longer term about how to prepare people for success in the labor market” which probably boils down to two word: “hard work.”

Yellen also notes that “as a central banker, I recognize the benefits to the broader economy when more people are better prepared for work and for managing their finances.” Perhaps because if one isn’t a central banker, the benefits to one’s finances and the broader economy from labor are not obvious?

Full speech here, and the live webcast is below.

Moments ago, Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer said he would oppose the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and urge fellow Democrats to do the same. Schumer’s opposition comes minutes after Sen. Bob Casey said he would also oppose Gorsuch.

“After careful deliberation, I have concluded that I cannot support Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court” Schumer said, adding the Supreme Court nominee “was unable to sufficiently convince me that he’d be an independent check” on Trump.

Schumer also said that Gorsuch is “someone who almost instinctively supports the powerful over the weak.”

The Senate Democrat leader also announced that Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch and force Republicans to muster 60 votes to advance him to a final up-or-down vote. “He will have to earn 60 votes for confirmation. My vote will be ‘no’ and I urge my colleagues to do the same,” he said on the Senate floor.

It was unclear as of now if Republicans would use the “nuclear option” as some have suggested in retaliation.

A new WikiLeaks Vault 7 leak titled “Dark Matter” claims that the Central Intelligence Agency has been bugging “factory fresh” iPhones since at least 2008 through suppliers.  The documents are expected to be released after a 10 a.m. EDT “press briefing” that WikiLeaks promoted on its Twitter.

And here is the full press release from WikiLeaks:

Today, March 23rd 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 “Dark Matter”, which contains documentation for several CIA projects that infect Apple Mac Computer firmware (meaning the infection persists even if the operating system is re-installed) developed by the CIA’s Embedded Development Branch (EDB). These documents explain the techniques used by CIA to gain ‘persistence’ on Apple Mac devices, including Macs and iPhones and demonstrate their use of EFI/UEFI and firmware malware.

Among others, these documents reveal the “Sonic Screwdriver” project which, as explained by the CIA, is a “mechanism for executing code on peripheral devices while a Mac laptop or desktop is booting” allowing an attacker to boot its attack software for example from a USB stick “even when a firmware password is enabled”. The CIA’s “Sonic Screwdriver” infector is stored on the modified firmware of an Apple Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter.

“DarkSeaSkies” is “an implant that persists in the EFI firmware of an Apple MacBook Air computer” and consists of “DarkMatter”, “SeaPea” and “NightSkies”, respectively EFI, kernel-space and user-space implants.

Documents on the “Triton” MacOSX malware, its infector “Dark Mallet” and its EFI-persistent version “DerStake” are also included in this release. While the DerStake1.4 manual released today dates to 2013, other Vault 7 documents show that as of 2016 the CIA continues to rely on and update these systems and is working on the production of DerStarke2.0.

Also included in this release is the manual for the CIA’s “NightSkies 1.2” a “beacon/loader/implant tool” for the Apple iPhone. Noteworthy is that NightSkies had reached 1.2 by 2008, and is expressly designed to be physically installed onto factory fresh iPhones. i.e the CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain of its targets since at least 2008.

While CIA assets are sometimes used to physically infect systems in the custody of a target it is likely that many CIA physical access attacks have infected the targeted organization’s supply chain including by interdicting mail orders and other shipments (opening, infecting, and re-sending) leaving the United States or otherwise