Early Addition: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Sorry She's Not A 'Robot' Who Tells The Truth

April 19, 2019, 12:15 p.m.

Because Sarah Huckabee Sanders is sorry she's not a robot, check out today's midday links: MoviePass craters, Bauhaus retrospective, the joy of doing the same thing twice, Mexican restaurant immigration activism, and cat warns human.

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  • Trump called the Mueller Report—or at least the parts of it that were not favorable to him, which was most of it—"fabricated" and "total bullshit."
  • But if you actually read the Mueller Report or talked to legal scholars, then you'd know that Mueller wrote in detail how he had everything he needed—including evidence and legal reasoning—to charge Trump with obstruction. The only reason he didn't, as he explained, was because Justice Department policy forbids the “indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president."
  • As the Times put it: "The White House that emerges from more than 400 pages of Mr. Mueller’s report is a hotbed of conflict infused by a culture of dishonesty — defined by a president who lies to the public and his own staff, then tries to get his aides to lie for him. Mr. Trump repeatedly threatened to fire lieutenants who did not carry out his wishes while they repeatedly threatened to resign rather than cross lines of propriety or law." Oh well, whaddaya gonna do?
  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders disingenuously tried to smooth over the fact she was caught lying in the Mueller Report by saying it was "the heat of the moment" and isn't a "robot" who tells the truth all the time.
  • MoviePass isn't bleeding customers at an insane rate, it's just pivoting to oblivion.
  • Eater has a great piece on how Mexican restaurants are helping out with immigration activists via pro-immigration goods, employee assistance, and community outreach.
  • Joe Biden is reportedly officially launching his presidential campaign next week.
  • Are you baby? Or do you just talk like a three-year-old?
  • Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear will host a 90-minute star-studded tribute to classic sitcoms All in the Family and its spinoff, The Jeffersons. Woody Harrelson will play Archie Bunker, Jamie Foxx will play George Jefferson, and the rest of the cast includes Marisa Tomei, Wanda Sykes, Ellie Kemper, Will Ferrell and Justina Machado.
  • The Times has a great retrospective look at the Bauhaus school's legacy around the world in the hundred years since its founding.
  • It’s common to prize novelty in leisure activities, but research suggests that revisiting the familiar can offer unexpected pleasures.
  • And finally, tread carefully human: