Article snippet: The president seemed to frame the downfall of a pivotal aide accused of abusing his wives as a character assassination. An ex-wife of Rob Porter posted an account of her time with him. “My experience made me stronger and able to love more deeply,” she wrote. David Sorensen resigned his job as a White House speech writer Friday after his former wife accused him of abuse. A shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen NSA cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump. The White House said that President Trump is “unable” to declassify the Democratic memo on the FBI’s Russia probe. Vice President Mike Pence’s efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics proved short-lived. In his bid for reelection, Bruce Poliquin is attempting to maintain a low profile and avoid the inevitable questions about President Trump. The US senator is not impressed by Trump’s plan to “start investing in OUR Country.” The portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama will hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The comments are the third scolding dished out to the cannabis commission by Governor Charlie Baker’s administration in the past week. E-mails obtained by the Globe show the party’s grass-roots arm, MassVictory, has been gathering signatures for Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. <?EM-dummyText [Th... Link to the full article to read more