6/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/BUSINESS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor asked a federal judge on Monday [6-25-18] to dismiss charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying Mueller was unlawfully appointed and lacks prosecutorial authority. Concord Management and Consulting LLC, […]

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6/25/2018

ELECTION/GOP/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING: “The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Republicans in Texas and North Carolina on Monday [6-25-18] in two more cases on the contentious issue of politicians manipulating electoral district boundaries for political gain, known as gerrymandering. The justices upheld a batch of Republican-drawn legislative districts in Texas, including two in the U.S. […]

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6/25/2018

DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party. She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement. Be careful what you wish for Max!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, […]

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6/25/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday [6-25-18] they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington later this fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia […]

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6/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @marcorubio: Trump haters still haven’t realized how much they help him with their condescension of those who either voted for him or do…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 9:39 am […]

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6/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Will be heading to one of my favorite places, South Carolina, to fight for one of my original ‘fighters,’ Governor Henry McMaster. Speaking at 7:00 P.M.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 9:36 am […]

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6/25/2018

IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “….If this is done, illegal immigration will be stopped in it’s tracks – and at very little, by comparison, cost. This is the only real answer – and we must continue to BUILD THE WALL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 7:54 am […]

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6/25/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, […]

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6/25/2018

IMMIGRATION/MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Such a difference in the media coverage of the same immigration policies between the Obama Administration and ours. Actually, we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under Obama. Fake News is working overtime!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 […]

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6/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!” […]

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6/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that President Trump is probably correct that there was surveillance on Trump Tower. Actually, far greater than would ever have been believed!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 25, 2018 06:28 am […]

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6/25/2018

HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republicans will push ahead this week with a vote on their own compromise immigration bill that still faces long odds in the chamber despite last-minute delays and a rush to make changes. Over the weekend, aides and members worked to see if they might be able to include a […]

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6/24/2018

IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump unleashed an aggressive attack Sunday [6-24-18] on unauthorized immigrants and the judicial system that handles them, saying that those who cross into the United States illegally should be sent back immediately without due process or an appearance before a judge…It was another twist in a head-spinning series of developments on […]

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6/24/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Gov. Henry McMaster’s bid to hold on to his office depends on whether his alliance with President Donald Trump endears him to voters who would otherwise be disdainful of a career politician. The 71-year-old is telling voters ahead of Tuesday’s [6-26-18] gubernatorial primary runoff that he and the president aren’t just […]

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6/22/2018

POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GUILIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Most Americans continue to believe that the Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential election is a serious matter that should be investigated, but the constant criticism by President Donald Trump of special counsel Robert Mueller is taking its toll, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS released […]

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6/22/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “President Trump moved on Friday [6-22-18] to leave an even deeper mark on Republican primary season, boosting a personal ally who is running for governor of Florida and extending political clemency to a former critic, Representative Martha Roby of Alabama, who is in a difficult race for re-election. Ms. Roby has […]

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6/22/2018

CHILDREN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In May, when the outrage over the separation of migrant children from their parents was beginning to boil, President Trump’s secretary for Homeland Security shrugged off accusations that it was a ‘form of state terror.’ After all, she said, ‘We do it every day in every part of the country.’ On this […]

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6/22/2018

CONGRESS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump appeared to give up hope on Friday [6-22-18] that the Republican-controlled Congress could succeed in passing an immigration bill this year, urging lawmakers in a Twitter post to stop ‘wasting their time.’ His advice is likely to kill current efforts to pass a measure that had little chance of succeeding. […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/IMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What happens next on the U.S. border? Though Donald Trump’s executive order on Wednesday [6-20-18] released some political pressure by keeping immigrant families together in detention, rather than separating children from their parents, it’s not likely to be the end of the story. U.S. law prohibits detaining children for longer than 20 […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/DHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump may not admit it, but practically speaking, his administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ border strategy is dead. Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that reality at a meeting Thursday [6-21-18] afternoon, according to a former department official with knowledge of the meeting…That same message was delivered by Brandon […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has taken almost every possible Republican position on immigration in the span of a week as he’s tried to deal with the crisis he created of separating thousands of children from their parents at the border. He’s changed policies, made declarations, said his hands were tied, untied them to […]

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6/22/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate map for Democrats this fall is daunting. Republicans are only defending nine Senate seats up for reelection, while Democrats are defending 26 seats. Moreover, 10 of the Democratic-held seats are in states Donald Trump won in 2016 and five are in states he won by about 20 points or more. […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our first duty, and our highest loyalty, is to the citizens of the United States. We will not rest until our border is secure, our citizens are safe, and we finally end the immigration crisis once and for all. https://t.co/7YfZ9kjB23“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 3:23 pm […]

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6/22/2018

IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are gathered today to hear directly from the AMERICAN VICTIMS of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. These are the American Citizens permanently separated from their loved ones b/c they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. These are the families the media ignores…https://t.co/ZjXESYAcjY“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 2:40 pm […]

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6/22/2018

CHINA/EU/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump repeated Friday [6-22-18] his threat to slap stiff tariffs on European cars, hours after the European Union started imposing duties on a range of American products worth $3 billion in retaliation for separate Trump curbs imposed on steel and aluminum. Mr. Trump’s latest rhetorical broadside over trade indicates his […]

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6/22/2018

CONGRESS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Friday [6-22-18] that Republicans should wait until they have more solid majorities in Congress to pursue an immigration overhaul, throwing cold water on a House bill that has been delayed until next week…Republicans currently have a narrow 51-49 majority in the Senate and a 235-193 margin in the […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/ETHICS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You care, but does the President? Anytime a commander in chief faces that question, it’s a sure sign that something is wrong. But Donald Trump and his administration are finding their humanity under scrutiny in the harrowing saga of kids separated from their parents after illegally crossing the southern border. The administration’s […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s border policy backtrack this week left his fellow Republicans with a choice: flip their own positions or stand firm. It was an easy decision. They changed to be consistent with the president. Still, the move carries risks. While Mr. Trump has long been forgiven by the GOP base for […]

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6/22/2018

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s call this week for a separate U.S. ‘space force’ was the culmination of months of frustration over what he felt was a lack of Pentagon action on his initial suggestions about the topic, according to people familiar with the decision. The announcement on Monday [6-18-18]—which surprised many military officials, […]

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6/22/2018

ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representative still plan to bring an immigration bill up for a vote next week, despite President Donald Trump’s urgings on Friday [6-22-18] to drop the effort until after November’s elections…Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their […]

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6/22/2018

EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We must maintain a Strong Southern Border. We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections. Obama and others had the same pictures, and did nothing about it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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6/22/2018

DEMS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “80% of Mexico’s Exports come to the United States. They totally rely on us, which is fine with me. They do have, though, very strong Immigration Laws. The U.S. has pathetically weak and ineffective Immigration Laws that the Democrats refuse to help us fix. Will speak to Mexico!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]

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6/22/2018

GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two days ago, President Donald Trump promised House Republicans he’d have their backs ‘1,000 percent’ on immigration. On Friday [6-22-18], he told them to ‘stop wasting their time’ — putting GOP leaders in an impossible position and throwing the conference into chaos. But House Republican leaders say they plan […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The mother rushed toward her son the second he stepped off the jetway. Then she teared up. In the waiting area of Gate C14 at Baltimore Washington International Airport, she wrapped a blanket around him, cradled his head in her arms and wept. ‘I love you,’ she said in Spanish, between sobs. […]

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6/22/2018

POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a truly remarkable number in the most recent CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and out this morning. In it, 42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. What makes it remarkable is that he’s on par with President Richard Nixon, who 43% of Americans […]

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6/22/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congressman Ron DeSantis, a top student at Yale and Harvard Law School, is running for Governor of the Great State of Florida. Ron is strong on Borders, tough on Crime & big on Cutting Taxes – Loves our Military & our Vets. He will be a Great Governor & has my […]

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6/22/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congresswoman Martha Roby of Alabama has been a consistent and reliable vote for our Make America Great Again Agenda. She is in a Republican Primary run-off against a recent Nancy Pelosi voting Democrat. I fully endorse Martha for Alabama 2nd Congressional District!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 6:46 am […]

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6/22/2018

DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 6:06 am […]

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6/22/2018

DEMS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Elect more Republicans in November and we will pass the finest, fairest and most comprehensive Immigration Bills anywhere in the world. Right now we have the dumbest and the worst. Dems are doing nothing but Obstructing. Remember their motto, RESIST! Ours is PRODUCE!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 6:00 am […]

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6/22/2018

DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even if we get 100% Republican votes in the Senate, we need 10 Democrat votes to get a much needed Immigration Bill – & the Dems are Obstructionists who won’t give votes for political reasons & because they don’t care about Crime coming from Border! So we need to elect more R’s!” […]

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6/22/2018

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our great Judge Jeanine Pirro is out with a new book, ‘Liars, Leakers and Liberals, the Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy,’ which is fantastic. Go get it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2018 5:41 am […]

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6/22/2018

USPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is proposing to restructure the U.S. Postal Service with an eye to taking it private, a step it said would cut costs and give the financially burdened agency greater flexibility in adjusting to the digital age. The recommendation is part of a sweeping plan to reorganize and trim the […]

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6/22/2018

BORDER/ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday [6-22-18] to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over his border policies. Trump, faced with a public outcry over his policy that separated children from their […]

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6/21/2018

AGRICULTURE/ENTITLEMENTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday [6-21-18] a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans. Produced over the last year by Mr. Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, it would […]

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6/21/2018

CHILDREN/DEFENSE/HHS/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border. The 20,000 beds at bases in […]

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6/21/2018

DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You cannot pass legislation on immigration whether it be for safety and security or any other reason including ‘heart,’ without getting Dem votes. Problem is, they don’t care about security and R’s do. Zero Dems voted to support the Goodlatte Bill. They won’t vote for anything!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 […]

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6/21/2018

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Days after President Donald Trump called Rep. Mark Sanford a ‘nasty guy’ behind closed doors at a GOP conference meeting in front of his colleagues, the South Carolina Republican says he fears Trump has fundamentally reshaped his party and that his fellow Republicans have let Trump get away with it…Sanford lost […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have to maintain strong borders or we will no longer have a country that we can be proud of – and if we show any weakness, millions of people will journey into our country.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 5:40 pm […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MELANIA/TEXAS: “Melania Trump visited immigrant children in a Texas border town on Thursday [6-21-18], and by the time the first lady left, she had made headlines for another reason. As the temperature climbed to 80 degrees at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, Mrs. Trump boarded her plane wearing an olive green coat that read, in […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Pentagon is assessing how — and where — to house as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on American military bases, a spokesman said on Thursday [6-21-18]. In a Pentagon statement, Lt. Col. Michael Andrews said officials from the Department of Health and Human Services have so far visited three military […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As reports came in of hundreds of children sent quietly to New York after being separated from their families at the southern border, consular officials from Central American countries scrambled to help. Overnight, their jobs had changed from processing passports and visas from their offices in Midtown Manhattan and on Park Avenue […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump continued to mislead about the origin of the humanitarian crisis on the US border on Thursday [6-21-18], a day after caving to political pressure on the issue. Loath to appear weak on immigration and borders, Trump continued alleging Democrats were to blame for the catastrophe, which he had sought […]

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6/21/2018

EDUCATION/LABOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House proposed a sweeping government reorganization Thursday [6-21-18] that would sharpen the focus on workforce training, consolidate government-assistance programs and shrink federal agencies. The plan, which would require approval from Congress, prompted immediate rebukes from Democrats and tentative responses from Republicans. It is unlikely Congress would move to enact far-reaching […]

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6/21/2018

GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican leaders delayed until Friday [6-22-18] a vote on an immigration bill designed to be a compromise between the party’s moderates and conservatives, amid concerns over whether the legislation had enough support to pass. The bill had been scheduled to be the second of two contentious votes Thursday [6-21-18] afternoon […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Changes to the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy of detaining all adults illegally crossing the southern border were creating confusion throughout the immigration bureaucracy, from front-line law enforcement to social-service agencies supporting thousands of children. Officials had been told earlier Thursday [6-21-18] to prosecute only one adult traveling with children if two […]

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6/21/2018

ECONOMY/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The real big story that affects everybody in America is the success of @POTUS’s TAX CUT package and what it’s done for our economy…’ @Varneyco https://t.co/2bUbA7zSFM“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 3:25 pm […]

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6/21/2018

GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House will vote on two broad immigration proposals Thursday [6-21-18], but barring some major shift in momentum, both of those proposals are headed toward failure. Despite an all-out blitz from the Trump administration — including face-to-face entreaties from the President to skeptical House Republicans — to lock in the […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is scrambling to fix the confusion and humanitarian concerns unleashed by President Donald Trump’s reversal on the separation of parents and children who come across the southern border as undocumented migrants. Trump’s hurried executive order designed to defuse a ballooning political crisis caused its own set of problems, […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My Administration is acting swiftly to address the illegal immigration crisis on the Southern Border. Loopholes in our immigration laws all supported by extremist open border Democrats…and that’s what they are – they’re extremist open border Democrats…. https://t.co/F73I5gu0Q5“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 21, 2018 12:02 pm […]

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6/21/2018

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday [6-21-18] North Korea was blowing up four of its big test sites and that a process of ‘total denuclearization … has already started,’ but officials said there was no such evidence since a landmark summit last week. Trump said at a Cabinet meeting in […]

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6/21/2018

TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Henry McMaster has done a great job as Governor of South Carolina. The state is BOOMING, with jobs and new industry setting records. He is tough on Crime and Strong on Borders, Healthcare, the Military and our great Vets. Henry has my full and complete Endrosement! #MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June […]

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6/21/2018

DEMS/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What is the purpose of the House doing good immigration bills when you need 9 votes by Democrats in the Senate, and the Dems are only looking to Obstruct (which they feel is good for them in the Mid-Terms). Republicans must get rid of the stupid Filibuster Rule-it is killing you!” -Donald […]

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6/21/2018

TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Henry McMaster has done a great job as Governor of South Carolina. The State is BOOMING, with jobs and new industry setting records. He is tough on Crime and strong on Borders, Health Care, the Mititary and our great Vets. Henry has my full and complete Endorsement! #MAGA” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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6/21/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be going the Columbia, South Carolina, on Monday night to do a campaign speech for one of my very early supporters, a man who truly loves the people of South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster. Henry worked so hard & was so loyal to me that I look forward to reciprocating!” […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CRIME/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Border has been a big mess and problem for many years. At some point Schumer and Pelosi, who are weak on Crime and Border security, will be forced to do a real deal, so easy, that solves this long time problem. Schumer used to want Border security – now he’ll take […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/WALL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We shouldn’t be hiring judges by the thousands, as our ridiculous immigration laws demand, we should be changing our laws, building the Wall, hire Border Agents and Ice and not let people come into our country based on the legal phrase they are told to say as their password.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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6/21/2018

GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House is expected to vote Thursday [6-21-18] on the most robust piece of immigration legislation to come to the House floor in more than a decade, a dramatic showdown that will test some conservatives’ loyalty to President Donald Trump. After years of almost-votes, countless working groups and false alarms, […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday [6-21-18] to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation were beset by confusion. Despite Trump’s order, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300 children who have been […]

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6/21/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump’s order meant to end the practice, legal experts said…The order signed by Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] calls for those families to be detained together […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/POPE FRANCIS/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before President Trump’s about-face on Wednesday [6-20-18], Pope Francis criticized the administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents, saying in an interview earlier this week that ‘populism is not the solution’ to a migration crisis that is transforming global politics. In a rare sit-down interview, Francis told Reuters that ‘I […]

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6/20/2018

DHS/ENTITLEMENTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump plans to propose a reorganization of the federal government on Thursday [6-21-18] that would shuffle key development, housing and food programs to new departments, where they could be easier to cut or contain, according to administration officials briefed on the proposal. The plan, which will most likely face significant opposition […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Long one of President Trump’s most ardent defenders, the evangelist Franklin Graham voiced strenuous dissent this week about the practice of separating families at the border, even calling it ‘disgraceful.’ His comments, along with other criticism from the evangelical community, raised the possibility that the president’s support from conservative Christians might […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/PAUL RYAN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday [6-20-18] that the House would press ahead with a vote on a broad immigration bill that includes language to curb the Trump administration’s practice of separating families on the border…But doubts persisted about the bill’s chances of passage when it comes up for […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday [6-20-18] that ends the administration’s policy of separating migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, abandoning the president’s previous stance that only Congress can fix the problem…And the president continued to say that the underlying issue remains one for Congress to fix, titling the document […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] directed his administration to try to detain migrant families together amid a growing political firestorm over a new policy that had separated adults arriving at the southern border from thousands of children traveling with them. In an executive order, Mr. Trump said families seeking asylum should […]

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6/20/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the three years since Donald J. Trump began his presidential bid by maligning Mexican immigrants, Representative Will Hurd, a Texas Republican in a Democratic-leaning district, has faced voters of all stripes who were angry about Mr. Trump’s divisive style. But Mr. Hurd, who represents a heavily Hispanic region that stretches […]

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TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just landed in Duluth, Minnesota. Two events planned – looking forward to them and being with @PeteStauber and his wonderful family!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 20, 2018 4:54 pm […]

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BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [6-20-18] reversed his debunked argument that he had no authority to stop separations of undocumented immigrant families at the border, signing an executive order to keep parents and kids together…Trump’s climbdown came after he faced intense pressure from across the political spectrum and from religious, political and […]

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BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday [6-20-18] and signed an executive order that ends the separation of families by indefinitely detaining parents and children together at the border. ‘We’re going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going to keep the families together,’ Mr. Trump said as […]

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NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s top nuclear expert involved in talks on ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs is leaving the White House as part of a regular rotation, three senior administration officials said on Wednesday [6-20-18]. The expert, Andrea Hall, has already been replaced by Julie Bentz as acting senior director of […]

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BORDER/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former longtime lawyer, resigned from his post as national deputy finance chairman at the Republican National Committee Wednesday [6-20-18], according to an RNC official, saying the investigations into his contacts with Russia and his business dealings were proving too great a distraction. In a letter […]

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GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House mobilized an all-out Capitol Hill lobbying blitz Wednesday [6-20-18] afternoon in the hope of salvaging an immigration bill in the House that would give Trump his long-awaited border wall as well as a solution for family separations at the border. After a week of back and forth, […]

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BUSINESS/CHINA/COMMERCE/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [6-20-18] that he and lawmakers are working on addressing concerns over a deal between Washington and Beijing to save Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp. , which had been accused of repeated sanctions violations. Mr. Trump met with nearly two dozen lawmakers at the White House—many of […]

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