Trump just opened his new $200 million White House heliport in a moment he'd been waiting months for — and his mic cut out completely mid-speech, leaving him inaudible in front of the cameras right before Xi Jinping's state visit. Meanwhile, one of Congress's loudest anti-LGBTQ voices, Lauren Boebert, is facing a House Ethics report alleging a four-year affair with a female staffer. The universe, quite literally, has a sense of humor.

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