3/13/2019

BORDER/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “A last-ditch gambit to spare Senate Republicans a hostile showdown with President Trump over the Constitution’s separation of powers was torpedoed on Wednesday [3-13-19] by the president himself, increasing the likelihood that the Senate will vote on Thursday [3-14-19] to overturn the president’s emergency declaration and force the first veto of his […]

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3/13/2019

IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I greatly appreciate Nancy Pelosi’s statement against impeachment, but everyone must remember the minor fact that I never did anything wrong, the Economy and Unemployment are the best ever, Military and Vets are great – and many other successes! How do you impeach….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 13, 2019 5:50 am […]

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3/13/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….a man who is considered by many to be the President with the most successful first two years in history, especially when he has done nothing wrong and impeachment is for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’?”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 13, 2019 5:50 am […]

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3/13/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the eve of Congress’ unprecedented rebuke of President Donald Trump, a majority of voters continue to oppose his declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The poll shows that Trump has failed to build support for his declaration in the face of congressional […]

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3/13/2019

GOP/MEDICAID/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump last year shut down a push by several Republican governors and administration officials to allow states to offer a partial expansion of Medicaid, a change that would cover fewer Americans than required under the Affordable Care Act. Eight months later, the policy is now ‘under review,’ said Seema […]

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3/13/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats can’t escape Trumpmania. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues are living under a harsh new reality fueled by the rise of Donald Trump — a scandal-driven climate with a five-minute news cycle that has proved impossible to control…Since the start of their majority, House Democrats have largely struggled […]

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3/12/2019

JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouseCEA: Real average hourly earnings rose 1.9% during the past 12 months, well exceeding the 0.4% pace during the year-earlier p…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 12, 2019 10:34 pm […]

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3/12/2019

SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @VP: Thank you @CUNA for hosting me today! As I told their members: we’re asking every member of the US Senate: A vote against the Presi…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 12, 2019 10:34 pm […]

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3/12/2019

FOREIGN POLICY/GOP/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When former Vice President Dick Cheney charged this weekend that Donald Trump treats American foreign policy like a ‘New York real estate deal,’ he demanded an answer not from the president but from Trump’s mild-mannered vice president, Mike Pence. To the audience of Republican insiders gathered in Sea Island, Ga., […]

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3/12/2019

BUDGET/CALIFORNIA/EDUCATION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’s ‘mad as hell’ and will push back hard against a proposal in Trump’s fiscal 2020 budget to cut nearly $1.3 billion in funding for after-school programs critical to millions of kids and their working parents — including 150,000 kids in California alone. After-school programs ‘save […]

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3/12/2019

AIRLINE INDUSTRY/CONGRESS/FAA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Boeing’s beleaguered 737 MAX 8 jetliner, despite pleas from lawmakers of both parties who said the U.S. should join a growing list of governments that have barred the plane amid questions about two deadly air crashes. The FAA’s action avoided the major disruptions that could occur if regulators were to sideline […]

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3/12/2019

MILITARY/NUCLEAR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon is taking steps to develop new missiles, following the Trump administration’s decision to suspend the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a 1987 arms-control agreement that the Trump administration has said it plans to exit due to Russian violations…She added that these activities ‘would have been inconsistent with our obligations under the […]

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3/12/2019

AIRLINE INDUSTRY/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg spoke by telephone Tuesday [3-12-19], following Trump’s tweet about how flying has become too complicated, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. Muilenburg has talked to Trump frequently and appeared alongside him several times during the first two years of his presidency…Trump’s […]

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3/12/2019

BUDGET/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/MEDICARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats on Tuesday [3-12-19] zeroed in on ‘malicious’ proposed cuts to health care and other social programs, reviving their winning midterm message in a first attack on President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.7 trillion fiscal 2020 budget proposal. Cuts by the Trump administration to programs like Medicare and Social Security, […]

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3/12/2019

BORDER/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are unlikely to be permitted to dramatically amend the House-passed resolution that would overturn the president’s national emergency, suggesting they will be confronted with a simple referendum on the president’s controversial declaration later this week. The Senate parliamentarian is expected to allow few if any significant amendments at a majority […]

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3/12/2019

AIRLINE INDUSTRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….needed, and the complexity creates danger. All of this for great cost yet very little gain. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/12/2019

AIRLINE INDUSTRIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better. Split second decisions are….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/12/2019

CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: ‘The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.’ @foxandfriends Wow!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 12, 2019 […]

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3/12/2019

ELECTION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday [3-11-19] warned that President Donald Trump’s reelection prospects could be in danger next year if he relies on his personality, rather than focus on policy to win another four years in the White House. Speaking at a lecture in Vero Beach, Fla., in some […]

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3/12/2019

ANTI-SEMITISM/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama Administration, and it got worsts & worse. There is anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party. They don’t care about Israel or the Jewish people.’ Elizabeth Pipko, Jexodus.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 12, 2019 7:12 am […]

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3/12/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The public overwhelmingly supports the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s forthcoming report. But the Trump administration could still opt to release barebones findings while concealing critical aspects of Mueller’s investigation in a simple way: by hiding behind a cloak of classification. Over the course of the investigation, we have […]

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3/12/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House and Republican senators sought compromise Tuesday [3-12-19] on limiting presidents’ powers to unilaterally declare national emergencies, as chances improved that President Donald Trump might avoid a long-expected rejection by Congress of his effort to divert billions more for building barriers along the Mexican border. As a Thursday [3-14-19] showdown […]

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3/12/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/INTERIOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As Democrats in Congress prepare to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s review of 27 national monuments, most of the recommendations made by ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke remain unfinished as other matters consume the White House. Trump acted quickly in December 2017 on Zinke’s recommendations to shrink two sprawling Utah monuments that had been […]

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3/12/2019

AIRLINE INDUSTRY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump spoke with Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg on Tuesday [3-12-19] to get assurances about the safety of the 737 MAX plane that crashed in Ethiopia, he wasn’t talking to a stranger. The U.S. president, who owned his own airline, Trump Shuttle, from 1989 to 1992, is an aviation enthusiast. […]

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3/12/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Television crews have been positioned outside the offices of the special counsel, the federal courthouse and, at least before they were asked to leave, the McLean, Va., home of the new attorney general, William P. Barr. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are so desperate for hints that they are asking […]

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3/12/2019

BUDGET/HIV-AIDS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s 2020 budget request of an extra $291 million to fight the spread of H.I.V., experts said on Tuesday [3-12-19], will not be remotely sufficient to meet the goal he announced in his State of the Union address: to nearly eliminate the AIDS epidemic in the United States within 10 years. […]

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3/12/2019

BUDGET/ENTITLEMENTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Friday [3-8-19], the White House announced that Karen Pence, the second lady, would lead a delegation to the United Arab Emirates in support of disabled American athletes at the Special Olympics. On Monday [3-11-19], the White House’s budget proposed striking $17.6 million in grants to expand the event. What a difference […]

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3/11/2019

FOREIGN POLICY/GOP/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Dick Cheney lit into Vice President Mike Pence behind closed doors over the direction of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, flouting a set of agreed-upon subjects and forcing Pence on the defensive over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The former vice president interviewed Pence at the American Enterprise Institute’s annual […]

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3/11/2019

BORDER/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are trying to head off a collision with President Donald Trump over the border wall this week, even as his new budget demands ensure the painful political battle will extend into the fall. Some GOP senators are discussing a potential compromise with the White House in order to limit Republican […]

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3/11/2019

BUDGET/CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump sent his annual budget vision to Congress on Monday [3-11-19], starting a new battle over how to fund the government that sets up the nation for an even more destructive shutdown when money runs out later this year. The president’s plan seeks deep cuts from agencies like the Department […]

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3/11/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after most of the country turned their clocks forward, President Donald Trump on Monday [3-11-19] morning threw his support behind the push to permanently change to daylight saving time…State legislatures across the nation are considering eliminating the practice of changing the clocks twice a year, calling it confusing and ineffective. […]

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3/11/2019

BORDER/CRIME/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican Senators have a very easy vote this week. It is about Border Security and the Wall (stopping Crime, Drugs etc.), not Constitutionality and Precedent. It is an 80% positive issue. The Dems are 100% United, as usual, on a 20% issue, Open Borders and Crime. Get tough R’s!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/11/2019

BUDGET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @GOPChairwoman: .@realDonaldTrump made history by including a national paid family leave proposal in a presidential budget. This invest…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 11, 2019 9:18 am […]

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3/11/2019

MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a recent round table meeting of business executives, & long after formally introducing Tim Cook of Apple, I quickly referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words. The Fake News was disparagingly all over this, & it became yet another bad Trump story!”  […]

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3/11/2019

BUDGET/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Presidential budgets are by tradition declared dead on arrival even before the details reach Capitol Hill, and President Trump’s $4.75 trillion budget for the 2020 fiscal year received that greeting in spades on Monday [3-11-19]. But with a new Democratic majority in the House, the release of Mr. Trump’s budget […]

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3/11/2019

BUDGET/ECONOMY/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s $4.75 trillion budget proposal unveiled on Monday [3-11-19] brims with confidence that the United States economy will continue to expand rapidly, despite recent data suggesting growth is slowing. Mr. Trump told reporters last week that the economy is ‘very, very strong.’ His budget proposal forecasts 3.2 percent growth in […]

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3/11/2019

BUDGET/CONGRESS/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump sent Congress on Monday [3-11-19] a record $4.75 trillion budget plan that calls for increased military spending and sharp cuts to domestic programs like education and environmental protection for the 2020 fiscal year. Mr. Trump’s budget, the largest in federal history, includes a nearly 5 percent increase in military spending […]

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3/11/2019

IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Gary D. Cohn was considering resigning as the top White House economic adviser after President Trump blamed ‘both sides’ in a deadly white nationalist protest in Charlottesville, Va., his first stop was a meeting with Mr. Trump’s children. In a conversation in August 2017 with Ivanka Trump, the president’s eldest […]

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3/11/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who has played down talk of impeachment for months, ratcheted up her objections to trying to remove President Trump from office in an interview published on Monday…Ms. Pelosi has repeatedly made her aversion to impeachment clear in the past. But her remarks to The Post were […]

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3/10/2019

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: ‘Public optimism in their personal economy has hit a 16-year high under President Trump.’ ‘The job market doesn’t get much…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2019 12:00 am […]

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3/10/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite the most hostile and corrupt media in the history of American politics, the Trump Administration has accomplished more in its first two years than any other Administration. Judges, biggest Tax & Regulation Cuts, V.A. Choice, Best Economy, Lowest Unemployment & much more!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 10, 2019 7:02 am […]

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3/9/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Donald Trump’s Approval Rating is at or near his highest level ever. The media is not being honest about what is happening in this Country.’ Jesse Watters” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2019 11:32 pm […]

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3/9/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….and renovated, with MUCH MORE to follow shortly. Tens of thousands of illegals are being apprehended (captured) at the Border and NOT allowed into our Country. With another President, millions would be pouring in. I am stopping an invasion as the Wall gets built. #MAGA” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2019 5:13 […]

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3/9/2019

BORDER/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Wacky Nut Job @AnnCoulter, who still hasn’t figured out that, despite all odds and an entire Democrat Party of Far Left Radicals against me (not to mention certain Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight), I am winning on the Border. Major sections of Wall are being built…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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3/9/2019

CALIFORNIA/TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I hope the grandstanding Governor of California is able to spend his very highly taxed citizens money on asylum holds more efficiently than money has been spent on the so-called Fast Train, which is $Billions over budget & in total disarray. Time to reduce taxes in California!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, […]

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3/9/2019

DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @dbongino: Is there anything that the Democrats stand for that aligns with American values anymore? Now that they’ve gone all-in on anti…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 9, 2019 3:37 pm […]

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3/8/2019

JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @cvpayne: Jobs Report: Most Important Highlight Non-Supervisory Wages continue to surge and outpace overall wage increases This is amaz…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 8, 2019 4:26 pm […]

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3/8/2019

MELANIA/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-8-19] extended an unusual gesture as he sought to comfort Alabama residents devastated by a tornado outbreak last weekend — he signed Bibles. Trump offered up his autograph to first responders and survivors at a Baptist church in the eastern part of the state, after tornadoes […]

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3/8/2019

DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @paulsperry_: BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Jerry ‘Joe McCarthy’ Nadler, who just yesterday declared that Trump obstructed justice, just now…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 8, 2019 3:36 pm […]

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3/8/2019

NSA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @paulsperry_: Despite running informants/stings on Trump camp, electronically spying for yr,unmasking NSA intercepts, rummaging thru Tru…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, March 8, 2019 3:36 pm […]

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3/8/2019

FEMA/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hours after a deadly tornado ripped through Alabama over the weekend, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to promise the state would receive ‘A Plus treatment’ from the federal government as local officials began their recovery. But the president’s strongly worded commitment – and his decision to visit the state on Friday, just days […]

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3/8/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/LEGISLATION/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump today said he plans to send the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to Congress very soon, which would start a 90-day clock for lawmakers to approve or reject the plan without any changes…The comment came as many Democrats are demanding the Trump administration reopen the agreement to strengthen labor and environmental […]

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3/8/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amid reports that a North Korean rocket launch facility is once again operational, President Donald Trump said Friday [3-8-19] that he would ‘very disappointed’ if he saw signs of any renewed testing at nuclear or missile sites. He told reporters that he has had a ‘good relationship’ with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un ‘and it […]

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3/8/2019

CHINA/ECONOMY/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [3-8-19] called the economy ‘very, very strong’ and touted rising U.S. wages just hours after the Labor Department’s monthly report for February showed an unexpected and dramatic slowdown in hiring. U.S. employers added 20,000 jobs in February, the smallest monthly gain in nearly a year and a […]

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3/8/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bad lawyer and fraudster Michael Cohen said under sworn testimony that he never asked for a Pardon. His lawyers totally contradicted him. He lied! Additionally, he directly asked me for a pardon. I said NO. He lied again! He also badly wanted to work at the White House. He lied!” –Donald […]

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