| No Images? Click here   Editor's note: We're currently updating our email newsletter system. Over the next few weeks you might run into some problems receiving our newsletters. Check your spam or junk mail folders, or email us at dailybrief@huffpost.com if your newsletters are missing. Thanks, and we apologize for any inconvenience.How Trump And Facebook Are Cashing In On The Impeachment News“LEARN THE TRUTH,” President Donald Trump’s campaign declared in a Facebook ad that launched last week. “Joe Biden PROMISED Ukraine $1 BILLION DOLLARS if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company.” Facebook users were outraged: “What Biden did is what Congress should be investigating,” one wrote. “Killary/Biden/Obama and their dealings for self enrichment needs to be thoroughly investigated,” added another. “Truth/facts are all that matter.”The premise of the still-active ad is false: There’s no evidence that Trump’s potential 2020 presidential rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor general for reasons relating to his son Hunter Biden.But facts like that aren’t important — at least not to Facebook.Late last month, as Democrats announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump over his own dealings with Ukraine, Facebook quietly tweaked the language of its misinformation policy, effectively giving political advertisers a public green light to spread blatant lies. Trump’s team, which has since been pumping big money into a barrage of Facebook ads urging people to donate to his “Official Impeachment Defense Task Force,” is doing just that: A number of its latest ads have featured calculated falsehoods — the kind that are designed to provoke people to click “Share” and pull out their wallets.The strategy seems to be working. Over the past couple of weeks, the Trump campaign has welcomed a flood of new donors helping to bring in millions of dollars, and Trump’s approval rating recently reached its highest level this year.  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday echoed the calls of rivals in the Democratic presidential primary and called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Biden had previously supported a congressional impeachment inquiry but not full impeachment.Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, one of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said in an interview posted Tuesday she will not hold big-money fundraisers at any point during her presidential run.A woman has accused President Donald Trump of grabbing her vagina without her consent and forcibly kissing her at his Mar-a-Lago resort in the early 2000s, according to a book excerpt published Wednesday.
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