1/8/2019

SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/TURKEY: “National security adviser John Bolton left here in frustration Tuesday [1-8-19], with the U.S. and Turkey locked in a political standoff that threatens President Donald Trump’s plans for a troop withdrawal from Syria. Bolton left Turkey without seeing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who then publicly called earlier comments the top […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump and his allies have launched a full-court press to convince Americans, and skeptical lawmakers, that there is a crisis on the Southern border, and the only way to fix it is to approve billions of dollars for Trump’s signature border wall. But senior Trump administration officials, including Vice […]

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1/8/2019

AGRICULTURE/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/USDA: “Thanks to the government shutdown, the Department of Agriculture will extend the deadline for farmers to apply for assistance to offset losses they were experiencing as a result of trade tensions between the US and other countries. Applications were due January 15, but the department’s Farm Service Agency, which operates the […]

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1/8/2019

2016 ELECTION/HILLARY CLINTON/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign was charged with obstruction in an unrelated money laundering investigation, federal prosecutors said Tuesday [1-8-19]. The criminal case against Natalya Veselnitskaya, who met at Trump Tower in 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., Trump presidential campaign […]

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1/8/2019

CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On a sunny summer’s day at historic Christopher Columbus Park on Boston’s waterfront, it’s hard to picture the dormant fury of the Atlantic Ocean as it laps softly at the creaking docks. But one day, according to the city’s climate projections,a massive storm driven by unusually high winds and high tides […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump faces a tall task in his Oval Office address on Tuesday [1-8-19] night: convincing voters outside of his political base that there is an urgent crisis at the nation’s southern border, that a wall along the border is necessary to solve it, and it’s worth a government shutdown that […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump will lay out his case for the border wall in a prime time address Tuesday [1-8-19] from the Oval Office, but he has been making similar arguments in less high-profile settings for weeks amid the partial government shutdown. Recurring themes have emerged that are certain to come up again […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump wants to address the nation from the Oval Office on Tuesday [1-8-19] night to talk about immigration — specifically his desire to build a wall — and, presumably, the shutdown of the federal government. Broadcast networks are giving the president a slot in prime time to make his case. […]

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1/8/2019

HHS/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has summoned top officials for a White House meeting on drug prices, frustrated over a new round of price hikes after Trump promised to lower pharmaceutical costs, two individuals with knowledge told POLITICO. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett and acting […]

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1/8/2019

SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to a truly great football team, the Clemson Tigers, on an incredible win last night against a powerful Alabama team. A big win also for the Great State of South Carolina. Look forward to seeing the team, and their brilliant coach, for the second time at the W.H. “ –Donald Trump, […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “With the bullhorn of a nationally televised address and the prestige of the White House around him, President Trump delivered a dark, if familiar, message to the American people on Tuesday [1-8-19] night: The United States needs a border wall to stanch the flow of drugs and criminals, and it has no […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/CLINTONS/JIMMY CARTER/MEXICO/MIKE PENCE/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The Latest on President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local): 9:05 a.m. Vice President Mike Pence says President Donald Trump’s recent claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a U.S.-Mexico border wall was an ‘impression.’ Trump […]

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1/8/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump has invited representatives from cable and broadcast news channels to an off-the-record lunch at the White House ahead of his prime time speech Tuesday [1-8-19] night, an address in which he is expected to frame his demand for border wall funding as a response to a national security and humanitarian […]

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1/8/2019

CRIME/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A look at where the investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him: WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT? Trump is facing criminal investigations in Washington and New York. Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia and whether the president […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democratic congressional leaders called on President Trump on Tuesday [1-8-19] to reopen the federal government while they resolve differences with him over securing the southern border, in a formal response to his prime-time address from the Oval Office that they dismissed as riddled with misinformation and fear-mongering. ‘The president has chosen fear; […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Moments after President Trump concluded his Oval Office remarks on border security on Tuesday [1-8-19], the NBC anchor Chuck Todd came on air with a blunt assessment. ‘He made a lot of dubious claims,’ Mr. Todd informed millions of viewers after the network’s scheduled program — a new episode of an Ellen […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/CONGRESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump doubled down on one of the biggest gambles of his presidency on Tuesday [1-8-19] night with a televised appeal to pressure Congress into paying for his long-promised border wall, even at the cost of leaving the government partly closed until lawmakers give in. Embarking on a strategy that he himself […]

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1/8/2019

BORDER/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump’s greatest hurdle in persuading Americans that there is a national security crisis on the southwest border may well be his own credibility. Mr. Trump is using a rare currency — a prime-time address to the nation — to make the case for a border wall with Mexico, an issue […]

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1/8/2019

TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The President is the biggest and best supporter of the Steel Industry in many years. We are now doing really well. The Tariffs let us compete. Was unfair that the Steel Industry lost its jobs to unfair trade laws. Very positive outcome.’ Mark Glyptis, United Steelworkers” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 8, […]

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1/8/2019

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Economic numbers looking REALLY good. Can you imagine if I had long term ZERO interest rates to play with like the past administration, rather than the rapidly raised normalized rates we have today. That would have been SO EASY! Still, markets up BIG since 2016 Election!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 8, 2019 […]

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1/8/2019

CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The government shutdown is threatening important pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda, escalating the political stakes as he and Congress vie to see who blinks first. At EPA and the Interior Department, furloughs have frozen efforts to roll back Obama-era regulations and open new water to oil and gas drilling. The White […]

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1/7/2019

GOVERNMENT/MEDIA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump doesn’t care how the shutdown is playing in the polls. He routinely dismisses unfavorable poll numbers as ‘fake news.’ Likewise, he is unlikely to be convinced he’s in political danger because of negative news coverage of the shutdown’s consequences. On Sunday [1-6-19], he blithely asserted that ‘many of those […]

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1/7/2019

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/LEGISLATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Democrats will try to block action on a Syria sanctions bill when it comes up for a vote Tuesday [1-8-19], an effort to keep the focus on the government shutdown. Democrats also will discuss at their weekly policy lunch Wednesday [1-9-18] whether to broaden that blocking tactic to all legislation, according […]

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1/7/2019

BORDER/DEMS/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump is taking over the nation’s airwaves Tuesday [1-8-19] night to argue his case for a U.S.-Mexico border wall — and Democrats are not happy about it. Representatives for ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox Broadcasting, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC and NBC confirmed plans to air Trump’s address live […]

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1/7/2019

COURTS/DRUGS/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal court has rejected President Trump’s first major effort to cut payments for prescription drugs, saying the administration went far beyond its legal authority. The Trump administration made a ‘drastic departure from the statutorily mandated rates’ when it reduced payments to hospitals for drugs given to Medicare beneficiaries in outpatient clinics, […]

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1/7/2019

BORDER/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Trump unleashed an offensive on Monday [1-7-19] to persuade Americans that a ‘humanitarian and security crisis’ on the southern border must be addressed before a government shutdown can end, announcing a prime-time address for Tuesday and a trip to the border later in the week. Vice President Mike Pence briefed reporters […]

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1/7/2019

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “Endless Wars, especially those which are fought out of judgement mistakes that were made many years ago, & those where we are getting little financial or military help from the rich countries that so greatly benefit from what we are doing, will eventually come to a glorious end!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]

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1/7/2019

BORDER/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Several dozen House Republicans might cross the aisle this week to vote for Democratic bills to reopen shuttered parts of the federal government, spurring the White House into a dramatic effort to stem potential GOP defections. White House officials and Republican congressional leaders worry that GOP support for the shutdown is eroding, […]

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1/7/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD BANK: “World Bank President Jim Yong Kim abruptly resigned nearly three years ahead of schedule on Monday [1-7-19], setting up an opening for President Donald Trump to fill — and a potential clash with other countries over the long-standing practice of the US making the appointment. Trump has repeatedly voiced disdain for […]

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1/7/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Major broadcast and cable news networks have agreed to air President Donald Trump’s Tuesday [1-8-19] night Oval Office address on what he has dubbed a ‘crisis’ on the southern border. Trump’s announcement Monday [1-7-19] that he will deliver remarks in prime time prompted debate over whether the networks should provide the president […]

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1/7/2019

GOVERNMENT/IRS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Americans can still expect to get their tax refunds even though the Internal Revenue Service has been swept up in the federal government shutdown. ‘Tax refunds will go out,’ acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought told reporters on Monday. He added that the Trump administration is working […]

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1/7/2019

FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s a document that became so famous — or infamous — in the two years since its existence was reported that it’s now known by a simple two-word phrase: the dossier. The controversial 35 pages of intelligence memos compiled by retired British spy Christopher Steele paint a picture of widespread conspiracy […]

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1/7/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “If President Donald Trump invokes a ‘national emergency’ at the US border and uses emergency powers to bypass Congress and obtain funding to build his long-promised border wall, a battle in the courts over the questionable legality of spending those dollars would be virtually guaranteed. But the United States is no stranger […]

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1/7/2019

JIMMY CARTER/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Former President Jimmy Carter denied ever supporting President Donald Trump’s border wall, contradicting the current commander in chief’s claim that previous presidents confided they regret not building a physical barrier on the southern border…Carter’s statement joins other denials from all other living presidents, with the exception of Barack Obama, whose spokesperson […]

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1/7/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday [1-8-19] night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2019 1:44 pm […]

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1/7/2019

ISIS/MEDIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Failing New York Times has knowingly written a very inaccurate story on my intentions on Syria. No different from my original statements, we will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and doing all else that is prudent and necessary!…..” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/7/2019

CONGRESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congressman Adam Smith, the new Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, just stated, ‘Yes, there is a provision in law that says a president can declare an emergency. It’s been done a number of times.’ No doubt, but let’s get our deal done in Congress!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2019 […]

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1/7/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The Fake News Media in our Country is the real Opposition Party. It is truly the Enemy of the People! We must bring honesty back to journalism and reporting!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2019 8:31 am […]

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1/7/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…The Fake News will knowingly lie and demean in order make the tremendous success of the Trump Administration, and me, look as bad as possible. They use non-existent sources & write stories that are total fiction. Our Country is doing so well, yet this is a sad day in America!”  -Donald Trump, […]

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1/7/2019

JOBS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With all of the success that our Country is having, including the just released jobs numbers which are off the charts, the Fake News & totally dishonest Media concerning me and my presidency has never been worse. Many have become crazed lunatics who have given up on the TRUTH!…” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/7/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats want to investigate the Trump Hotel deal and President Donald Trump’s taxes. They want to haul up conflicted Cabinet officials and dig into controversial changes to the census and food stamps. They want to put Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under oath and investigate child detentions at the border. The […]

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1/7/2019

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “As the budget standoff between President Trump and congressional Democrats grinds into the third week of a partial government shutdown, the White House has floated the idea that Mr. Trump might invoke emergency powers to build his proposed wall on the Mexican border without lawmakers’ approval. That route could resolve the immediate […]

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1/6/2019

NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea, we’re doing very well. And again, no rockets. There’s no rockets. There’s no anything. We’re doing very well. I’ve indirectly spoken to Chairman Kim. And when I came here, this country was headed to war with North Korea. And now we have a very good dialogue going. Very good. […]

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1/6/2019

DEMS/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “V.P. Mike Pence and group had a productive meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives today. Many details of Border Security were discussed. We are now planning a Steel Barrier rather than concrete. It is both stronger & less obtrusive. Good solution, and made in the U.S.A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2019 […]

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1/6/2019

MILITARY/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our GREAT MILITARY has delivered justice for the heroes lost and wounded in the cowardly attack on the USS Cole. We have just killed the leader of that attack, Jamal al-Badawi. Our work against al Qaeda continues. We will never stop in our fight against Radical Islamic Terrorism!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]

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1/6/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….The only reason they do not want to build a Wall is that Walls Work! 99% of our illegal Border crossings will end, crime in our Country will go way down and we will save billions of dollars a year! A properly planned and constructed Wall will pay for itself many times […]

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1/6/2019

BORDER/HILLARY CLINTON/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “’We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked…’ Barrack Obama, 2005. I voted, when I was a Senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in…” Hillary Clinton, 2015.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2019 7:01 am […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “AP-NORC POLL: ‘Immigration among the top concerns in 2019.’ People want to stop drugs and criminals at the Border. Want Border Security! Tell the Dems to do the inevitable now, rather than later. The wait is costly and dangerous!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 8:47 pm […]

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1/5/2019

JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The number of employed Americans has now set a 14th record under President Trump. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 84 cents, or 3.2%. Participation Rate hits Trump-Era High.” CNS NEWS. And we will do even better with new trade deals and all else!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, […]

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1/5/2019

HISPANICS/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Jobs up big, plus 312,000. Record number working. Manufacturing best in 20 years (Previous administration said this could not happen). Hispanic unemployment lowest ever. Dow plus 747 (for day).’ @DRUDGE_REPORT” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 8:00 pm […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “V.P. Mike Pence and team just left the White House. Briefed me on their meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives. Not much headway made today. Second meeting set for tomorrow. After so many decades, must finally and permanently fix the problems on the Southern Border!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 4:05 […]

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1/5/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT : “’Former @NYTimes editor Jill Abramson rips paper’s ‘unmistakably anti-Trump’ bias.’ Ms. Abramson is 100% correct. Horrible and totally dishonest reporting on almost everything they write. Hence the term Fake News, Enemy of the People, and Opposition Party!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 12:27 pm […]

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1/5/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great Tweet today by Tyler Q. Houlton @SpoxDHS on the #FakeNews being put out by @CNN, a proud member of the Opposition Party. @TSA is doing a great job!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 11:13 am […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats want Billions of Dollars for Foreign Aid, but they don’t want to spend a small fraction of that number on properly securing our Border. Figure that one out!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 10:54 am […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We are working hard at the Border, but we need a WALL! In 2018, 1.7 million pounds of narcotics seized, 17,000 adults arrested with criminal records, and 6000 gang members, including MS-13, apprehended. A big Human Trafficking problem.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 10:16 am […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t care that most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats, I want to stop the Shutdown as soon as we are in agreement on Strong Border Security! I am in the White House ready to go, where are the Dems?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 9:48 am […]

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1/5/2019

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/DEMS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many people currently a part of my opposition, including President Obama & the Dems, have had campaign violations, in some cases for very large sums of money. These are civil cases. They paid a fine & settled. While no big deal, I did not commit a campaign violation!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time. All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]

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1/5/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Great support coming from all sides for Border Security (including Wall) on our very dangerous Southern Border. Teams negotiating this weekend! Washington Post and NBC reporting of events, including Fake sources, has been very inaccurate (to put it mildly)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 5, 2019 7:31 am […]

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1/4/2019

DEFENSE/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The story in the New York Times regarding Jim Webb being considered as the next Secretary of Defense is FAKE NEWS. I’m sure he is a fine man, but I don’t know Jim, and never met him. Patrick Shanahan, who is Acting Secretary of Defense, is doing a great job!” -Donald Trump, […]

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1/4/2018

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/4/2019

DEMS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As I have stated many times, if the Democrats take over the House or Senate, there will be disruption to the Financial Markets. We won the Senate, they won the House. Things will settle down. They only want to impeach me because they know they can’t win in 2020, too much success!” […]

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1/3/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Pillsbury interviewed by @cvpayne: ‘They have the motive of making the President look bad – instead of President Trump being portrayed as a HERO. The first President to take China on, it’s 20 years overdue….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2019 8:19 pm […]

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1/3/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…President Trump deserves a lot of credit, but again, you have the anti-Trump people who are not going to give him a lot of credit.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2019 8:19 pm […]

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1/3/2019

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The RNC has a great Chairwoman in Ronna McDaniel and the @GOP has never been stronger. We achieved historic wins with her help last year! #MAGA??” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2019 12:40 pm […]

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1/3/2019

CHINA/TARIFFS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States Treasury has taken in MANY billions of dollars from the Tariffs we are charging China and other countries that have not treated us fairly. In the meantime we are doing well in various Trade Negotiations currently going on. At some point this had to be done!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/3/2018

BORDER/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Shutdown is only because of the 2020 Presidential Election. The Democrats know they can’t win based on all of the achievements of ‘Trump,’ so they are going all out on the desperately needed Wall and Border Security – and Presidential Harassment. For them, strictly politics!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2019 […]

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1/2/2019

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After more than six years of less-than-heartfelt endorsements, a bitter parting of ways and a momentary rapprochement, the relationship between Mitt Romney and President Trump returned Wednesday [1-2-19] to where it began: awkward, transactional and lingering uneasily between friend and foe. One day after publishing a biting critique in The Washington […]

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1/2/2018

BORDER/DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Important meeting today on Border Security with Republican and Democrat Leaders in Congress. Both parties must work together to pass a Funding Bill that protects this Nation and its people – this is the first and most important duty of government…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 2, 2019 7:07 pm […]

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1/2/2019

MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal. Much of the Wall has already been fully renovated or built. We have done a lot of work. $5.6 Billion Dollars that House has approved is very little in comparison to the benefits of National Security. Quick payback!” –Donald […]

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1/2/2019

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Here we go with Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a Flake? I hope not. Would much prefer that Mitt focus on Border Security and so many other things where he can be helpful. I won big, and he didn’t. He should be happy for all Republicans. Be […]

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1/2/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democratic energy in the perennial battleground state of Pennsylvania is raising questions about President Donald Trump’s ability to replicate his stunning 2016 win in a state Republicans hadn’t carried for nearly two decades. Now, Republicans are picking up the pieces and, in some quarters, calculating that those performances mean nothing good for […]

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1/2/2019

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump declared himself ‘the most popular president in the history of the Republican Party’ on Wednesday [1-2-19]. Yet his allies fear a primary challenge from a high-profile Republican could doom his re-election. The concern was outlined in a private email shared among Republican National Committee members hours after the GOP’s […]

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1/2/2019

ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday [1-2-19] played down the stock market’s drop at the end of 2018, calling it a ‘glitch’ and saying the market will again go up once various trade deals are settled. Trump, who has repeatedly posted messages on Twitter extolling stock market gains, said the Federal […]

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1/2/2019

AFGHANISTAN/CABINET/DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Patrick Shanahan was thrust into the spotlight during his debut as acting U.S. defense secretary on Wednesday [1-2-19], sitting next to President Donald Trump as he publicly disparaged Shanahan’s predecessor, lampooned the war in Afghanistan and called Syria a land of ‘sand’ and ‘death.’ The former deputy defense secretary officially took […]

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1/31/2019

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s campaign went on a massive spending blitz at the end of 2018 — a sharp increase in outlays, driven by midterm election rallies and digital advertising, that marks an unofficial kickoff to his 2020 reelection effort. Trump’s campaign spent $23 million in the last three months of the year, […]

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1/1/2019

DEMS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For FAR TOO LONG Senate Democrats have been Obstructing more than 350 Nominations. These great Americans left their jobs to serve our Country, but can’t because Dems are blocking them, some for two years-historic record. Passed committees, but Schumer putting them on hold. Bad!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 1, 2019 7:43 pm […]

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1/1/2019

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Kim Jong Un says North Korea will not make or test nuclear weapons, or give them to others – & he is ready to meet President Trump anytime.’ PBS News Hour. I also look forward to meeting with Chairman Kim who realizes so well that North Korea possesses great economic potential!” […]

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