Category: A- Trump As President

4/23/2019

BREXIT/BRITAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Britain plans to welcome President Trump with the formality of a state visit in June, Buckingham Palace announced on Tuesday [4-23-19], two and a half years after first extending the invitation. Prime Minister Theresa May first conveyed the invitation for a state visit to Mr. Trump when he took office in 2017. […]

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4/23/2019

ISRAEL/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Tuesday [4-23-19] that he would ask his government to approve naming a new Jewish settlement in the Golan Heights for President Trump, in appreciation of the American leader’s proclamation recognizing Israel’s authority over the long-disputed territory. Mr. Netanyahu’s announcement, made during a Passover tour […]

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4/23/2019

DEMS/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin again delayed a decision on whether to turn over President Trump’s tax returns to Congress, telling House lawmakers late Tuesday [4-23-19] that the Treasury and Justice Departments needed until May 6 to assess the legality of the ‘unprecedented’ request. In a letter to Representative Richard E. […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday [4-22-19] rejected calls to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump despite new voices in her caucus calling for the House to take that step in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. The speaker vowed to wield the full power of her House majority to […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Impeachment talk is racing around Washington. Democrats pressed the issue on a caucus conference call Monday[4-22-19]. Some White House hopefuls are urging Congress to take action. Even President Donald Trump himself weighed in Monday morning. But in the White House, aides aren’t thinking much about impeachment. They’re not convinced Democrats would […]

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4/22/2019

TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @MarshaBlackburn: Here’s what #TaxReform has brought to our country: ✅3.2 million new jobs ✅A bigger paycheck for ~90% of taxpayers ✅Lo…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2019 6:59 pm […]

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4/22/2019

GOP/LIBYA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump’s voluble Capitol Hill defender, is worried that the president’s chatter is undermining efforts to stop Libya from falling into an all-out civil war. Trump recently held a call with Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar that blindsided U.S. diplomats and confused Arab and North African countries about […]

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4/22/2019

IRAN/OIL/OPEC/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Taking a cue from President Donald Trump, U.S. lawmakers could soon have a new message to foreign oil producers: NO COLLUSION! Trump regularly deploys his Twitter account to fight oil-price upticks, trying to browbeat the world’s oil-producing bloc — the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries — into boosting production so prices […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Isn’t it amazing that the people who were closest to me, by far, and knew the Campaign better than anyone, were never even called to testify before Mueller. The reason is that the 18 Angry Democrats knew they would all say ‘NO COLLUSION’ and only very good things!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/22/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘A very exculpatory section of the Mueller Report: NO CONSPIRACY, COORDINATION or COLLUSION with the Trump Campaign and the Russians. You can’t be more clear than that!’ @GreggJarrett https://t.co/bcFCtD0DRP” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2019 2:04 pm […]

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4/22/2019

ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Spoke to the Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, mostly concerning Immigration, Taxes, Trade, and the Economy of both of our countries. Very good call!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2019 1:06 pm […]

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4/22/2019

SRI LANKA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Spoke to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka this morning to inform him that the United States stands by him and his country in the fight against terrorism. Also expressed condolences on behalf of myself and the People of the United States!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2019 1:05 pm […]

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4/22/2019

SRI LANKA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Spoke to President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka yesterday to inform him that the United States stands by him and his country in the fight against terrorism. Also expressed condolences on behalf of myself and the People of the United States.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2019 12:47 pm […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment. There were no crimes by me (No Collusion, No Obstruction), so you can’t impeach. It was the Democrats that committed the crimes, not your Republican President! Tables are finally turning on the Witch Hunt!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 22, 2019 8:47 am […]

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4/22/2019

OIL/SANCTIONS/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Saudi Arabia and others in OPEC will more than make up the Oil Flow difference in our now Full Sanctions on Iranian Oil. Iran is being given VERY BAD advice by @JohnKerry and people who helped him lead the U.S. into the very bad Iran Nuclear Deal. Big violation of Logan […]

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4/22/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump on Monday [4-22-19] filed suit to keep U.S. lawmakers from obtaining his financial records, the first salvo in what promises to be an escalating legal battle with Democrats in Congress. The suit seeks to block a subpoena issued by the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee […]

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4/22/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald F. McGahn II arrived in a windowless conference room in southwest Washington in November 2017 to meet for the first time with the special counsel’s investigators. He was the White House counsel at the time, and he was reluctant to answer their questions for fear that President Trump […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi, confronting a Democratic divide over the findings of the special counsel, urged her caucus on Monday [4-22-19] to hold off impeaching President Trump for now, even as she denounced the ‘highly unethical and unscrupulous behavior’ that she said had dishonored his office. Her comments, outlined in a letter […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump and his businesses, seeking to brush back congressional investigators, sued the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday [4-22-19] to try to quash a congressional subpoena for their financial records. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court here, argued that the committee’s chairman, Representative […]

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4/21/2019

CENSUS/FLORIDA/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the heart of this South Florida city, you can choose between a Cuban restaurant, a Mexican coffee shop and a Peruvian gastrobar. But the driving force behind this ever-expanding suburb crammed between Miami International Airport and the Everglades is the flood of Venezuelans who are buying and building up seemingly every square inch […]

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4/21/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can you believe that I had to go through the worst and most corrupt political Witch Hunt in the history of the United States (No Collusion) when it was the ‘other side’ that illegally created the diversionary & criminal event and even spied on my campaign? Disgraceful!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]

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4/21/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite No Collusion, No Obstruction, The Radical Left Democrats do not want to go on to Legislate for the good of the people, but only to Investigate and waste time. This is costing our Country greatly, and will cost the Dems big time in 2020!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2019 […]

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4/21/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump Haters and Angry Democrats who wrote the Mueller Report were devastated by the No Collusion finding! Nothing but a total ‘hit job’ which should never have been allowed to start in the first place!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2019 7:37 am […]

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4/21/2019

SRI LANKA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “138 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, with more that 600 badly injured, in a terrorist attack on churches and hotels. The United States offers heartfelt condolences to the great people of Sri Lanka. We stand ready to help!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2019 6:20 am […]

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4/21/2019

ECONOMY/HOLIDAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Happy Easter! I have never been happier or more content because your Country is doing so well, with an Economy that is the talk of the World and may be stronger than it has ever been before. Have a great day!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2019 6:04 am […]

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4/21/2019

SRI LANKA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Heartfelt condolences from the people of the United States to the people of Sri Lanka on the horrible terrorist attacks on churches and hotels that have killed at least 138 million people and badly injured 600 more. We stand ready to help!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 21, 2019 5:48 am […]

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4/20/2019

GOP/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If @MittRomney spent the same energy fighting Barack Obama as he does fighting Donald Trump, he could have won the race (maybe)! https://t.co/p5imhMJqS1” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 20, 2019 5:09 pm […]

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4/20/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How did WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group used as a conduit by Russian intelligence to distribute hacked emails, come to release a trove of documents just when Donald Trump’s candidacy seemed to need it most? Why did Trump’s campaign chief share internal polling data with a man tied to Russian intelligence? […]

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4/20/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to stir up and anger the pols and as many people as possible seldom mentioning the fact that the Mueller Report had as its principle conclusion the fact that there was NO COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA. The Russia Hoax is dead!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/20/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite the fact that the Mueller Report should not have been authorized in the first place & was written as nastily as possible by 13 (18) Angry Democrats who were true Trump Haters, including highly conflicted Bob Mueller himself, the end result is No Collusion, No Obstruction!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]

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4/19/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For nearly a month, the American public has been under the impression, thanks to a four-page ‘summary’ by Attorney General William Barr, that Robert Mueller could not decide whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice because of ‘difficult questions of law and fact.’ Barr suggested that the special counsel, […]

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4/19/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the mid-1990s, Representative Jerry Nadler, who represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, once said, ‘Anyone who would loan Donald Trump money is taking a risk.’ In 2017, Mr. Nadler said President Trump was ‘legally elected but is not legitimate.’ And this month, The Washington Post reported that in […]

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4/19/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “The first years of President Donald Trump’s tenure were marked by chaotic attempts among aides to thwart his efforts to curtail the special counsel’s investigation, according to Robert Mueller’s redacted report, an exercise that relied on subterfuge and deceit that does little to dispel the sense of disarray […]

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4/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday [4-19-19] he was ‘sickened’ by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump […]

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4/19/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/ELIZABETH WARREN/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Friday [4-19-19] said Congress should begin the process of removing President Donald Trump from office over findings in U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. ‘The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside […]

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4/19/2019

LEGAL/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Friday [4-19-19] to five years of probation after admitting he mailed threatening letters filled with a suspicious white powder to several prominent people, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought three years in prison for Daniel Frisiello, 25, of Beverly, […]

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4/19/2019

FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/JAPAN/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Without close friends in Asia, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to be using every opportunity, even the emperor’s accession, to court President Donald Trump. Abe is scheduling a rushed visit to Washington to meet with Trump and celebrate first lady’s birthday, and then is inviting him to be first foreign […]

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4/19/2019

GOLF/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Latest on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and President Donald Trump (all times local): 3 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump played golf Friday [4-19-19] with conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh and a couple of unidentified friends. Trump is spending the Easter weekend at his private Mar-a-Lago club […]

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4/19/2019

FOREIGN POLICY/LIBYA/MIKE POMPEO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [4-19-19] abruptly reversed American policy toward Libya, issuing a statement publicly endorsing an aspiring strongman in his battle to depose the United Nations-backed government. The would-be strongman, Khalifa Hifter, launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, more than two weeks ago. Relief agencies said […]

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4/19/2019

COURTS/ENVIRONMENT/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court on Friday has given the EPA 90 days to take action on demands by environmental groups to ban a widely used pesticide. Groups are hoping that the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco will mean that the government will soon […]

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4/19/2019

CONGRESS/ELIZABETH WARREN/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday [4-19-19] called on Congress to impeach President Donald Trump in the wake of the publication of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, breaking with Democratic leaders deferring the politically risky move despite new evidence that Trump attempted to derail the Russia probe…Mueller’s 448-page report described at […]

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