4/19/2019

ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump campaign has hired its own in-house attorney for its 2020 reelection bid — shifting future business away from Jones Day, the law firm, that has represented Trump since his first run for president. Campaign officials and advisers cast the decision to hire Nathan Groth — a former lawyer for the […]

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4/19/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Washington Post and New York Times are, in my opinion, two of the most dishonest media outlets around. Truly, the Enemy of the People! https://t.co/AG3vccsJvg” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, 2019 4:23 pm […]

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4/19/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….big, fat, waste of time, energy and money – $30,000,000 to be exact. It is now finally time to turn the tables and bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people who have committed very serious crimes, perhaps even Spying or Treason. This should never happen again!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/19/2019

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 critic, […]

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4/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Mueller report — the result of a 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — didn’t end the debate over whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice or acted inappropriately while in office. But there’s one thing it proved beyond any debate: The President lies with remarkable ease […]

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4/19/2019

DONALD JR/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “She built a national reputation as the elusive public relations force behind President Donald Trump’s campaign and administration, but Hope Hicks couldn’t save the President from himself on Air Force One in July of 2017. Though she rarely spoke on the record and almost never appeared before cameras, her […]

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4/19/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “For two years, President Donald Trump and his close associates contradicted, denied and dodged reports and questions of Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign. Now that the Mueller report is out, redacted as it may be, we have the chance to fact-check those public denials against what many people […]

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4/19/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “A day after claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report had vindicated him, President Donald Trump was in a foul mood about Mueller’s detailed findings, lashing out at the Russia investigator and fuming about aides who cooperated with him. Close White House advisers said they expect Trump’s hottest […]

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4/19/2019

IMPEACHMENT/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Conservative lawyer George Conway on Thursday [4-18-19] called for President Donald Trump to be impeached, entrenching himself even deeper in opposition to his wife, senior counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, George Conway, who […]

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4/19/2019

NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “South Korean President Moon Jae-in has a message from President Donald Trump to relay to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean diplomatic sources told CNN Friday…Trump and Moon met at the White House a week ago to discuss plans for reviving the diplomatic process between the US and […]

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4/19/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the ‘Report’ about me, some of which are total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened, […]

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4/19/2019

DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, […]

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4/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday [4-19-19] declined to comment on whether Congress might launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, saying it was not appropriate to criticize him while abroad. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his inquiry into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election […]

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4/19/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the summer of 2016, not long after WikiLeaks began releasing damaging material hacked by the Russian government from the servers of the Democratic National Committee, candidate Donald Trump was traveling to an airport with campaign aide Rick Gates. Trump got off a phone call and told Gates more material […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kimberley Strassel should get the Pulitzer. She is a treasure (and I don’t know her) who correctly called the Russia Hoax right from the start! Others who were soooo wrong will get the Prize. Fake News! https://t.co/TJJPY5MM6X”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 9:34 pm   […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller was able to complete his investigation because President Donald Trump let him, the president asserted Thursday [4-18-19] afternoon, in his first public reaction since Mueller’s report was released hours earlier…Trump was initially mum after Mueller’s report into Russian interference during the 2016 election went public […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In December 2016, a few weeks after Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, Russian president Vladimir Putin convened what a Russian oligarch described as an ‘all-hands’ meeting with some of his country’s top businessmen. A main topic of discussion: U.S. sanctions against Russia. One of the oligarchs present was Petr Aven, co-founder […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The Mueller Report is perhaps the single most humiliating thing that has ever happened to the White House Press in the history of this Country. They know they lied…Many reporters lied about Russia Collusion and so much more. Clapper & Brennan, all lies’ @TuckerCarlson” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 7:38 […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘If dozens of Federal prosecutors spent two years trying to charge you with a crime, and found they couldn’t, it would mean there wasn’t any evidence you did it – and that’s what happened here – that’s what we just learned from the Mueller Report.’ @TuckerCarlson” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Mueller examined about 10 actions by President Trump to determine whether he sought to obstruct justice but could not reach a conclusion. He found a concerted effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, but established no criminal conspiracy between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia.The report detailed […]

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4/18/2019

ECONOMY/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A government report has concluded that the Trump administration’s revised North American trade agreement would offer modest benefits to the economy, challenging the president’s claims that the accord would make far-reaching changes. Mr. Trump has reviled the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement as the worst trade pact in existence and blamed […]

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4/18/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For 21 minutes on Thursday [4-18-19] morning, with the nation watching, President Trump had the loyal attorney general he had always longed for. Reading a prepared statement and then answering questions from reporters, Attorney General William P. Barr presented the special counsel’s report, 90 minutes before its public release, in […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III laid out roughly a dozen episodes that revealed that President Trump was intent on using his position to protect himself and his associates from the investigation into links between his campaign and the Russian government’s covert operation to manipulate the 2016 election. Mr. Mueller, the […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the time President Trump woke up on Thursday [4-18-19] morning, he was ready for the Mueller report. The day before, his lawyers had given him a matter-of-fact recounting of the special counsel’s sprawling, 448-page document during a briefing in the White House residence. It left Mr. Trump concerned about its […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III revealed the scope of a historic Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential election in a much-anticipated report made public on Thursday [4-18-19], and he detailed a frantic monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart a federal investigation that imperiled his presidency from the start. […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, examined an array of actions President Trump took in office that could have constituted obstruction of justice. Ultimately, Mr. Mueller declined to make a decision about whether Mr. Trump broke the law and Attorney General William P. Barr stepped in to cleared the […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: It was a really great day for America! A special evening tonight on @TuckerCarlson, @seanhannity & @IngrahamAngle Wil…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 6:47 pm […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When there is not an underlying crime with regard to Collusion (in fact, the whole thing was a made up fraud), it is difficult to say that someone is obstructing something. There was no underlying crime.’ @marthamaccallum @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 6:46 pm […]

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4/18/2019

FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOSUE STAFF: “When ousted FBI Director James Comey delivered damaging testimony to Congress in 2017, attracting nationwide attention, White House aides insisted that President Donald Trump’s mood was ‘light.’ Shortly after news broke that Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with Russian nationals promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, Trump reported […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House and its allies went into overdrive on Thursday [4-18-19] to spin the Mueller report as a vindication, even as it became clear that the 448-page document was filled with unflattering details about the president and even suggested that he might still be hiding unknown criminal activity. […]

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4/18/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Attorney General decided that President Donald Trump did not obstruct a probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia, but some legal experts said prosecutors laid out a wealth of evidence to the contrary and that they intended to leave that determination to Congress. Special Counsel Robert […]

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4/18/2019

JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump responded to news of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2017 appointment by telling then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he was ‘fucked,’ according to a redacted version of Mueller’s report released Thursday [4—18-19]. ‘Oh my God,’ the president told Sessions, according to the report. ‘This is terrible. This […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller may not have found evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, but his report details extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives who sought to influence the election. Mueller said in his report released on Thursday [4-18-19] that he found ‘numerous […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘Donald Trump was being framed, he fought back. That is not Obstruction.’ @JesseBWatters I had the right to end the whole Witch Hunt if I wanted. I could have fired everyone, including Mueller, if I wanted. I chose not to. I had the RIGHT to use Executive Privilege. I didn’t!”  […]

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4/18/2019

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I was thrilled to host the @WWP Soldier Ride once again at the @WhiteHouse. We were all deeply honored to be in the presence of TRUE AMERICAN HEROES….https://t.co/q6D5875xCw“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 3:37 pm […]

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4/18/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report is more damning than President Donald Trump has publicly claimed, detailing Trump’s aggressive efforts to interfere in the Justice Department’s Russia probe and declining to rule out that Trump obstructed justice. Far from the ‘complete and total exoneration’’ the president has declared in […]

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4/18/2019

CHRIS CHRISTIE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump asked former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about the prospect of firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller and also asked him to be an intermediary to FBI Director James Comey, according to the Mueller report released Thursday [4-18-19]. The redacted report reveals for the first time that […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s calculated move to pre-emptively declare ‘complete exoneration’ in the Russia probe will be put to the test in a matter of hours. After nearly two years of waiting, the public on Thursday will finally see the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether the Trump […]

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4/18/2019

LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team said on Thursday [4-18-19] the results of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller vindicate Trump and show Trump acted properly when he fired James Comey, the former director of the FBI. ‘The results of the investigation are a total victory for the President […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/E-MAILS/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald J. Trump ordered the man who would later serve briefly as his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, to find thousands of missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s computer server at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, the special counsel’s report revealed on Thursday [4-18-19]. The episode […]

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4/17/2019

DHS/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is in the midst of a purge at the Department of Homeland Security, evidently aimed at implementing more severe immigration and border security policies. Last week he ousted Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and followed by firing or threatening to fire other top figures in the department, even forcing out […]

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4/17/2019

JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on April 26 to discuss trade and efforts to contain North Korea’s nuclear program, a U.S. official said on Wednesday [4-27-19]. Abe is one of Trump’s closest allies on the world stage and the […]

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4/17/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election has ensnared dozens of people, including several advisers to President Donald Trump and a series of Russian nationals and companies. Rod Rosenstein, the No. 2 U.S. Justice Department official, in May 2017 appointed Mueller to look […]

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4/17/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William Barr is due on Thursday [4-18-19] to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the 22-month investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election and contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow. The special counsel and U.S. intelligence agencies […]

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4/17/2019

REGULATIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [4-15-19] proposed new regulations aimed at making it easier for investors to take advantage of tax breaks for investing in ‘Opportunity Zones’ in low-income areas. The proposed regulations issued by the Treasury Department seek to clear up questions that were keeping some investors from using the tax […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Not all of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings will be news to President Trump when they are released Thursday [4-18-29]. Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the conclusions made by Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, in recent days, according to people with knowledge […]

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4/17/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the last couple of weeks, President Trump repeatedly called his enemies ‘treasonous.’ He threatened to punish Democrats by dumping migrants in their districts. He promoted a video tying a Muslim congresswoman to images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The message seems clear and so does […]

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4/17/2019

CHINA/DEMS/FTC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A strange dynamic has gripped the Federal Trade Commission: President Trump’s biggest allies are the Democrats. In a vote made public Wednesday [4-17-19], the commission’s two Democratic appointees voted to impose financial penalties on companies the agency found violated federal law by falsely marketing their products as ‘Made in America’ when, in […]

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4/17/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many viewers of Monday [4-15-19] night’s Fox News town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders saw a left-wing candidate in the hot seat on a network known for its tight relationship with President Donald Trump. But Trump himself saw something else: sinister forces at his favorite news network aligning against him. […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A former Trump administration official who cooperated with Robert Mueller’s probe is having serious second thoughts about talking to the special counsel’s office, citing concerns about being named in the Justice Department’s redacted version of the report. This aide noted the White House requested that former senior officials cooperate […]

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4/17/2019

DEFENSE/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected and directed a ‘new tactical guided weapons firing test’ Wednesday [4-17-19], according to a report from the country’s state media. The report, published Thursday [4-18-19] morning local time (Wednesday evening ET) by news agency KCNA, did not state exactly what kind of weapon was […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the Mueller report crashes into a Washington feverish with anticipation on Thursday [4-18-19], the White House hopes to show President Donald Trump busy doing his job — and far away from a phone-sized keyboard. Trump typically spends the first half of his workday in the White House residence in […]

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4/17/2019

IVANKA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ivanka Trump is the eldest daughter of Donald Trump. And a senior adviser in his White House. And, according to her, she could have been the head of the World Bank, too. In an interview with the Associated Press in the Ivory Coast (she’s in Africa along with the head of USAID) Ivanka […]

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4/17/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than two dozen current and former Trump administration officials gave interviews to special counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation, according to a CNN analysis of past reporting, court filings and public statements from some of the witnesses. Several of these witnesses are still working in senior positions at the […]

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4/17/2019

CELEBS/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump loves a winner. And Tiger Woods is a winner. The Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation’s highest civilian honor, has traditionally been bestowed on public servants, pioneering astronauts, visionary world leaders, poets and artists.  Monday, President Trump said he would award the medal to Woods following his inspiring comeback […]

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4/17/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The investigations surrounding President Donald Trump’s campaign and his presidency have not ended even though Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller has wrapped up his probe. Prosecutors in a half-dozen federal, state and city jurisdictions are pursuing overlapping inquiries focused on how Trump operated his namesake business empire, how a porn star […]

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4/17/2019

BORDER/COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Migrants who say they face persecution or torture if they return to their countries could be jailed indefinitely in the USA under the Trump administration’s latest effort to stem the surge of asylum seekers arriving at the border.  Attorney General William Barr, who oversees immigration courts, directed judges Tuesday [4-16-19] to deny bond hearings for […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thursday [4-18-19], at least a dozen attorneys and staff members for President Donald Trump will plunge into special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Their mission? Distill the document into a quick response for the waiting political world. The president and his advisers are getting […]

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4/17/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took a second whack at Fox News on Tuesday [4-16-19], again expressing frustration that his favored network offered a platform for Sen. Bernie Sanders to connect with 2020 voters. Without offering evidence, Trump on Tuesday night accused Fox News of blocking his supporters from attending the previous night’s town […]

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4/17/2019

ELECTION/FLORIDA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the 58th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton addressed a group of Cuban American veterans of the failed effort to topple Fidel Castro and announced a series of crackdowns on Cuba and its allies. It was part of a call to arms to […]

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4/17/2019

FRANCE/POPE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump called Pope Francis to offer his condolences Wednesday [4-17-19] for the Notre Dame fire and said the U.S. would offer ‘our great experts on renovation and construction”’ to help France rebuild the iconic cathedral…Trump spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron a day earlier to discuss the blaze that roared […]

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4/17/2019

FRANCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just had a wonderful conversation with @Pontifex Francis offering condolences from the People of the United States for the horrible and destructive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral. I offered the help of our great experts on renovation and construction as I did….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2019 11:14 am […]

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4/17/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats in Congress must return from their Vacations and change the Immigration Laws, or the Border, despite the great job being done by Border Patrol, will only get worse. Big sections of Wall now being built!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2019 6:45 am […]

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4/17/2019

DEMS/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow! FBI made 11 payments to Fake Dossier’s discredited author, Trump hater Christopher Steele. @OANN @JudicialWatch The Witch Hunt has been a total fraud on your President and the American people! It was brought to you by Dirty Cops, Crooked Hillary and the DNC.”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 17, 2019 6:34 […]

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4/17/2019

CAMPAIGN/POLLS/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly 4 in 10 voters believe Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was spied on during the 2016 election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said they believe the Trump campaign was spied on, compared with 28 percent who said they don’t believe the president’s campaign was spied on. […]

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4/17/2019

AUTO INDUSTRY/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “If President Donald Trump decides to slap tariffs on the global car industry, suppliers like Jack Sun, who runs a 30-person operation in northeast China, would be the first to feel the financial pain. Qingdao Ray Machinery and Technology doesn’t sell directly to the U.S. Rather, it exports molds and […]

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4/17/2019

JAPAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Japan enthrones a new emperor on May 1, the country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, might be feeling a little jet lagged. Just four days before one of his nation’s most important ceremonial events in a generation, akin to the election of a new pope in Rome, Abe plans to jet around […]

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4/16/2019

ENVIRONMENT/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed a bill Tuesday [4-16-19] authorizing a plan for Western states to take less water from the overburdened Colorado River. The president’s signing capped a years-long process of sometimes difficult negotiations among the seven states that rely on the river. Trump announced his approval of the bill in a tweet, calling […]

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4/16/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-16-19] took jabs at Fox News one day after Sen. Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly successful town hall appearance on the president’s favorite network. Trump said on Twitter that it was ‘weird’ to watch the Democratic presidential candidate on the channel and characterized the town hall as the second […]

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4/16/2019

ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Several Senate Republicans, who have been at odds with President Donald Trump, won’t say if they’d consider backing his new primary opponent, Bill Weld. Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, like Weld, was once governor of Massachusetts and has been openly critical of Trump at times during his presidency. But a Romney spokeswoman declined […]

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4/16/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETO/WAR/YEMEN: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [4-16-19] vetoed a bipartisan measure to cut off U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s civil war, calling it ‘an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities.’ Tuesday’s veto was the second of Trump’s presidency, coming a month after he vetoed a resolution to reverse […]

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4/16/2019

CUBA/FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is expected to announce its plan to enforce a controversial provision of the decades-old trade embargo on Cuba Wednesday [4-17-19], a senior administration official tells CNN — a decision that will break with the precedent set by every President since Bill Clinton. US National Security Adviser John […]

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4/16/2019

DEMS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I believe it will be Crazy Bernie Sanders vs. Sleepy Joe Biden as the two finalists to run against maybe the best Economy in the history of our Country (and MANY other great things)! I look forward to facing whoever it may be. May God Rest Their Soul!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]

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4/16/2019

COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal District Judge Reggie Walton expressed uncertainty about the redactions Attorney General William Barr is making to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and suggested he may want to review the Justice Department’s redactions for himself once versions of it are made public. ‘Obviously there is a real concern as […]

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