5/30/2018

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Failing and Corrupt @nytimes estimated the crowd last night at ‘1000 people,’ when in fact it was many times that number – and the arena was rockin’. This is the way they demean and disparage. They are very dishonest people who don’t ‘get’ me, and never did!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]

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5/30/2018

GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too…and that’s how I read that – Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you…..” […]

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5/30/2018

GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep.Trey Gowdy, ‘I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]

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5/30/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, on Wednesday [5-30-18] accused adult film actress Stormy Daniels’ lawyer of leaking Cohen’s bank records to the press, calling it a ‘drive-by shooting of my client’s rights.’ The comments by Cohen lawyer Stephen Ryan regarding Daniels’ lawyer, […]

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5/30/2018

ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One is the most cacophonous man in America, the other is the most silent. And as they head for a seemingly inevitable clash, both are living out the creeds that made them who they are. President Donald Trump and Robert Mueller may be contemporaries but are temperamental opposites, divided most deeply […]

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5/29/2018

COMMERCE/GOP/NATIONAL SECURITY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Less than a week after the Trump administration threatened to impose tariffs of up to 25 percent on foreign-built automobiles, the U.S. government on Tuesday [5-29-18] said it would hold public hearings on whether the import of vehicles and auto parts represents national security risks. The Commerce Department announced in the […]

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5/29/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s campaign increased its spending after President Donald Trump vowed in April to make the Montana Democrat pay politically for sinking his nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. Tester’s campaign spent about $790,000 on television and internet advertising in the two weeks following Trump’s comments, according to […]

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5/29/2018

ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Walt Disney Co’s ABC network canceled the popular U.S. television comedy ‘Roseanne’ on Tuesday [5-29-18] after star Roseanne Barr compared a former Obama administration official to an ape in remarks on Twitter…In a since-deleted comment on Twitter, Barr wrote that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was equivalent to the Islamist political movement […]

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5/29/2018

ASIA/FOREIGN POLICY/MINORITIES/RELIGION/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Myanmar’s military campaign to kill or drive away its ethnic minorities is worsening despite a growing international outcry, according to a State Department religious freedom report that was released on Tuesday [5-29-18]. Violence against the Rohingya, nearly all of whom are Muslim, in the country’s Rakhine state has been likened to […]

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5/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “hen it comes to President Trump’s legal health and welfare, few recent events have borne as much potential risk as the extraordinary raids that federal agents conducted last month on Michael D. Cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer. Seizing boxes of documents and about a dozen cellphones, iPads and computers, […]

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5/29/2018

CRIME/DEMS/ELECTION/GANGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump accused Democrats on Tuesday [5-19-18] of siding with brutal immigrant gang members over American citizens and implored Republican voters to turn out in November’s midterm elections or risk the safety of their country. During a raucous rally in Nashville, Mr. Trump invoked fears of crimes committed by illegal immigrants, particularly […]

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5/29/2018

MILITARY/RUSSIA/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House has tried to avoid discussing a February skirmish between U.S. troops and Russian mercenaries in Syria, but that didn’t stop President Donald Trump from bragging about the Pentagon’s performance at a recent closed-door fundraiser. The details of the battle remain classified, but speaking to donors in midtown Manhattan last […]

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5/29/2018

ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump is planning to focus his midterm campaigning this summer on red states with competitive Senate races where he has a deep reservoir of support and can bring a message devised to stoke partisan outrage. The strategy is intended to take advantage of his star power among core Republican supporters while […]

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5/29/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrived at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two days. Mr. Sessions had flown to Florida because Mr. Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing […]

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5/29/2018

CHINA/STEVE MNUCHIN/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration sent a sudden, harsh message to its Chinese counterparts, saying the U.S. was moving forward with its threat to apply tariffs on Chinese imports and other actions to restrict Beijing from accessing sensitive U.S. technology. Tuesday’s [5-29-18] move surprised many observers after the White House had for days […]

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5/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican President Donald Trump broadened his condemnation of the Russia probe with a tweet Tuesday [5-29-18] accusing it of being a partisan exercise that could unfairly tip the midterm elections in favor of Democratic congressional candidates. The ‘angry Democrats’ who are ‘working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be […]

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5/29/2018

BORDER/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House on Tuesday [5-29-18] cited a combination of court rulings and laws as the underpinning for its policy to separate immigrant children from their parents, and looked to shift the responsibility to Democrats in Congress. The Trump administration has come under criticism for its policy of separating migrant children from […]

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5/29/2018

GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Utah US Senate candidate Mitt Romney said he would not point to his party’s leader, President Donald Trump, as a role model for his grandchildren, citing his “personal style…’ Walking a political tightrope with his answer, Romney went to say, ‘I believe his policies have been by and large a good deal […]

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5/29/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with a top North Korea official this week in the U.S., the White House said Tuesday [5-29-18], as Washington and Pyongyang pressed ahead on denuclearization talks ahead of a potential summit between the leaders of the two nations. The planned meeting between Mr. […]

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5/29/2018

ETHICS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Twenty-two percent of Republicans think Donald Trump provides somewhat or very weak moral leadership as President, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday [5-29-19]. Fifty-nine percent of Americans say the same, with 60% of independents and 91% of Democrats agreeing. When asked if they think it is important for the President to […]

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5/29/2018

HUMAN RIGHTS/NORTH KOREA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. State Department spokeswoman declined to say whether human rights abuses were on the agenda of meetings with North Korea, despite criticism by successive administrations and a U.S. government report on Tuesday that described Pyongyang as running a system of prison labor camps…Any summit between U.S. President Donald Trump […]

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5/29/2018

PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hurricane Maria claimed the lives of 4,645 people in Puerto Rico last year and not the 64 long pegged by the island’s government as the official death toll, according to a survey of thousands of residents by a research team led by Harvard University. The researchers estimated that most victims of […]

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5/29/2018

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump alleged Tuesday [5-29-18]— without providing any evidence — that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation will meddle in the midterm elections to benefit Democrats. Trump’s claim is his latest attack on the credibility of the Russia investigation as being politically motivated, though it’s a significant new step in […]

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5/29/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For President Donald Trump, every crisis in America’s immigration system is an opportunity. As controversy grows over his administration’s treatment of children separated from undocumented immigrant parents, Trump is seeking a political opening to damage his opponents and solidify his own support. It’s a classic strategy that he has deployed in toxic […]

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5/29/2018

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake Mainstream Media has, from the time I announced I was running for President, run the most highly sophisticated & dishonest Disinformation Campaign in the history of politics. No matter how well WE do, they find fault. But the forgotten men & women WON, I’m President!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, […]

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5/29/2018

DEMS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s first battle with Donald Trump came in the 1990s, when the future president sought federal money for a project that would have benefited one of his developments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Mr. Nadler, a New York Democrat, opposed the subsidies and had them stripped from […]

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5/29/2018

DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-29-18] taunted online activists who shared photos of children at immigration detention facilities as a means of criticizing his administration, noting that the photos had been taken during the tenure of his predecessor, Barack Obama…The photograph in question began to circulate online over the weekend, shared by […]

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5/29/2018

ECONOMY/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing my energy on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals, VA Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the Military, and so much more, and not on the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be investigating Clinton/Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/Lynch etc.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 6:27 am […]

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5/29/2018

DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Why aren’t the 13 Angry and heavily conflicted Democrats investigating the totally Crooked Campaign of totally Crooked Hillary Clinton. It’s a Rigged Witch Hunt, that’s why! Ask them if they enjoyed her after election celebration!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 6:09 am […]

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5/29/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/POLLS/RUSSIA/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 13 Angry Democrats (plus people who worked 8 years for Obama) working on the rigged Russia Witch Hunt, will be MEDDLING with the mid-term elections, especially now that Republicans (stay tough!) are taking the lead in Polls. There was no Collusion, except by the Democrats!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 […]

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5/29/2018

SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘This investigation involved far more surveillance than we ever had any idea about. It wasn’t just a wiretap against a campaign aide…it was secretly gathering information on the Trump Campaign…people call that Spying…this is unprecedented and scandalous.’ Mollie Hemingway” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 5:49 am […]

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5/29/2018

NEW YORK/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have put a great team together for our talks with North Korea. Meetings are currently taking place concerning Summit, and more. Kim Young Chol, the Vice Chairman of North Korea, heading now to New York. Solid response to my letter, thank you!”   – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, […]

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5/29/2018

BORDER/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages. They thought it was recent pictures in order to make us look bad, but backfires. Dems must agree to Wall and new Border Protection for good of country…Bipartisan Bill!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 29, 2018 5:07 […]

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5/29/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NEW YORK/NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A senior North Korean official is headed to New York for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader may go ahead next month…Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party’s […]

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5/29/2018

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Any diplomatic agreement in which North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear weapons could take as long as 10 years to implement, according to a new analysis from former US officials. The assessment, released Monday [5-28-18] by experts at Stanford University, comes as the White House is trying to verify […]

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5/28/2018

NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver a revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) he promised for this year and people involved in the talks say the crunch is largely of his administration’s own making. Negotiators, industry lobbyists, trade experts and lawmakers briefed on the […]

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5/28/2018

CANADA/CHINA/MEXICO/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump considers new tariffs on imported vehicles and pursues a deal with China to avoid a trade war, economists and business leaders see a pattern emerging in the White House’s efforts to renegotiate many trade relationships: Open aggressively, then settle for incremental concessions. The Trump administration has accused […]

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5/28/2018

SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a candidate, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks. He hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice who died in his sleep two years ago, had been murdered. And for years, Mr. Trump pushed the notion that President Barack […]

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5/28/2018

CHINA/EU/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The European Union’s top trade official will meet U.S. counterparts in Paris on Wednesday [5-30-18], according to EU officials, in a last-ditch effort to secure waivers from steel and aluminum tariffs and to engage Washington on efforts to tackle China’s market-distorting policies. European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom will press U.S. Commerce […]

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5/28/2018

DEMS/GOP/HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE/POLLS: “In recent elections, Democrats have faced attacks related to health-care costs, with the party being blamed for premium increases on Affordable Care Act exchanges during the Obama years. Now, as many health insurers are seeking to impose double-digit rate increases on those marketplaces, a number of recent surveys suggest Republicans may take the lion’s […]

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5/25/2018

FOREIGN POLICY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump declared on Friday [5-25-18] that America is ‘respected again’ because of a military that is ‘a lot stronger,’ as he welcomed the 2018 graduates of the Naval Academy into what he called ‘the most powerful and rightful force on the planet.’ Presidents often use the annual commencement addresses at […]

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5/25/2018

BUSINESS/CHINA/COMMERCE/CONGRESS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has told lawmakers it has reached a deal that would keep the Chinese telecom firm ZTE alive, a person familiar with the matter said. The move could allow trade negotiations with China to move forward, but would probably provoke an intense backlash in Congress. Under the agreement brokered […]

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5/25/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Eleven days before the presidential inauguration last year, a billionaire Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin visited Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, according to video footage and another person who attended the meeting. In Mr. Cohen’s office on […]

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5/25/2018

BUSINESS/CHINA/CHUCK SCHUMER/OBAMA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Schumer and Obama Administration let phone company ZTE flourish with no security checks. I closed it down then let it reopen with high level security guarantees, change of management and board, must purchase U.S. parts and pay a $1.3 Billion fine. Dems do nothing….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, […]

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5/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/FBI/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the last 72 hours, the President of the United States has leaned into a conspiracy theory that goes like this: During the 2016 presidential race, President Barack Obama — via the FBI — placed a ‘spy’ within Trump’s campaign for purely political reasons…There’s a tendency to write this latest Trump […]

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5/25/2018

DEMS/OBAMA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Funny to watch the Democrats criticize Trade Deals being negotiated by me when they don’t even know what the deals are and when for 8 years the Obama Administration did NOTHING on trade except let other countries rip off the United States. Lost almost $800 Billion/year under ‘O’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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5/25/2018

CONGRESS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Homeland Security said Friday [5-25-18] it would provide businesses another 15,000 H-2B visas to bring low-skilled foreign workers to the U.S. this summer, offering a modest infusion to the popular program. The number of visas available each year for seasonal work is capped by statute at 66,000, evenly divided […]

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5/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “To the @NavalAcademy Class of 2018, I say: We know you are up to the task. We know you will make us proud. We know that glory will be yours. Because you are WINNERS, you are WARRIORS, you are FIGHTERS, you are CHAMPIONS, and YOU will lead us to VICTORY! God Bless […]

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5/25/2018

NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Twenty-four hours after President Donald Trump dictated a dejected letter to Kim Jong Un canceling their June 12 meeting, he appeared to reverse course, telling reporters Friday [5-25-18] the diplomatic encounter could still occur on the same date if conditions keep improving. Trump suggested the two sides were again speaking after […]

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5/25/2018

NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump struck a more optimistic note Friday [5-25-18] on North Korea, while the White House said a June 12 summit still could take place, even though Mr. Trump called it off just the day before. The head-snapping turn of events came after North Korea said early Friday that it […]

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5/25/2018

BUSINESS/CHINA/COMMERCE/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration puts together another trade mission to China next week, it is scrambling on Capitol Hill to keep lawmakers from undermining trade talks by blocking a deal to roll back penalties on Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. President Trump has been moving closer to a deal to help […]

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5/25/2018

TRANSPORTATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Department of Transportation told Congress it opposes a Senate bill that would require new rules prohibiting airline fees that are not ‘reasonable and proportional,’ along with many other new consumer protections that the administration deems ‘unnecessary and wasteful,’ according to a letter seen on Friday [5-25-18] by Reuters. The U.S. […]

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5/25/2018

DHS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration moved on Friday [5-25-18] to end a program that aimed to attract foreign entrepreneurs to the United States, saying the Obama-era effort did not adequately protect American workers and was an inappropriate use of government authority. The Department of Homeland Security’s formal proposal to rescind the international entrepreneur rule, […]

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5/25/2018

ENTERTAINMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said he is ‘not familiar’ with the Harvey Weinstein case when asked for his reaction to the former Hollywood producer being charged with rape and sex abuse Friday [5-25-18]. Trump told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House that he didn’t ‘know anything about it,’ but added, […]

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5/25/2018

FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SALLY YATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is alarmed by President Donald Trump’s call for the Department of Justice to investigate whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…Trump issued his demand for the inquiry by Twitter on Sunday 5-20-18] following reports that the FBI dispatched […]

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5/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump suggested Friday [5-25-18] that an FBI informant who made contact with his campaign during the 2016 election was ‘paid a fortune,’ boosting the unsubstantiated allegation a ‘spy’ was implanted in his campaign for political purposes…Trump over the past week has hammered officials in the Department of Justice […]

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5/25/2018

NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Very good news to receive the warm and productive statement from North Korea. We will soon see where it will lead, hopefully to long and enduring prosperity and peace. Only time (and talent) will tell!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 7:14 am […]

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5/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Everyone knows there was a Spy, and in fact the people who were involved in the Spying are admitting that there was a Spy…Widespread Spying involving multiple people.’ Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist Senior Editor But the corrupt Mainstream Media hates this monster story!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 7:04 am […]

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5/25/2018

DEMS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrats are so obviously rooting against us in our negotiations with North Korea. Just like they are coming to the defense of MS 13 thugs, saying that they are individuals & must be nurtured, or asking to end your big Tax Cuts & raise your taxes instead. Dems have lost touch!” […]

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5/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are now alluding to the the concept that having an Informant placed in an opposing party’s campaign is different than having a Spy, as illegal as that may be. But what about an ‘Informant’ who is paid a fortune and who ‘sets up’ way earlier than the Russian Hoax?” […]

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5/25/2018

2016 ELECTION/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Can anyone even imagine having Spies placed in a competing campaign, by the people and party in absolute power, for the sole purpose of political advantage and gain? And to think that the party in question, even with the expenditure of far more money, LOST!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 […]

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5/25/2018

BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy members of the National Guard to the southern U.S. border with Mexico is ‘a colossal waste of resources,’ according to the leader of a union representing members of the U.S. Border Patrol. National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, who represents roughly 15,000 agents, panned the […]

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5/25/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be making the Commencment Address today at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Look forward to being with some of the greatest people on earth!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2018 6:50 am […]

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5/25/2018

POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Chicago Police have every right to legally protest against the mayor and an administration that just won’t let them do their job. The killings are at a record pace and tough police work, which Chicago will not allow, would bring things back to order fast…the killings must stop!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]

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5/25/2018

ECONOMY/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is hoping a wave of tax-cut-fueled economic euphoria will boost his approval ratings and his party’s political fortunes this fall. A sharp spike in gas prices could slam the brakes on all of that. As Americans head out for traditional Memorial Day weekend road trips, they’ll confront gas prices […]

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5/25/2018

GOP/NATIONAL SECURITY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Americans could see a 25 percent spike in the price tag on their family cars if President Donald Trump goes through with a threat to slap tariffs on imported automobiles, trucks and parts, sparking a wave of outrage from Trump’s own political allies. Acting on instructions from Trump, Commerce Secretary Wilbur […]

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5/24/2018

DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Since Donald J. Trump began dominating American politics more than two years ago, Democrats concerned about his policies and behavior have taken solace in a group of influential Republicans who have consistently assailed the president as anathema to the values of their party, and the country more broadly. In the past year, […]

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5/24/2018

CONGRESS/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s chief of staff and a White House lawyer representing the president in the Russia investigation were present on Thursday [-5-24-18] at the start of two classified meetings requested by members of Congress to review sensitive material about the F.B.I.’s use of an informant in the inquiry. The two men left […]

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5/24/2018

MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea’s senior envoy for U.S. affairs renewed a threat to call off a planned summit with President Donald Trump and warned that Pyongyang could ‘make the U.S. taste an appalling tragedy it has neither experienced nor even imagined.’ In its most direct language aimed at Washington following a recent […]

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5/24/2018

CANADA/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A move by the United States to explore tariffs on auto imports is based on flimsy logic and is clearly linked to talks to modernize the NAFTA trade pact, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday [5-24-18]. Trudeau told Reuters in an interview that although the administration of U.S. President […]

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5/24/2018

RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-24-18] granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction. ‘It’s my honor to do it. It’s about time,’ Trump said during an Oval Office ceremony, where he was […]

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5/24/2018

CHINA/CONGRESS/GOP/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday [5-24-18] that his administration’s national security investigation of car and truck imports amid a trade spat with China is being pursued under false pretenses and could hurt U.S. consumers. Trump said on Wednesday [5-23-18] that ongoing […]

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5/24/2018

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korea said on Thursday [5-24-18] that it had destroyed its only known nuclear test site, three weeks before its leader, Kim Jong-un, had been planning to meet with President Trump. But only hours after the North Korean news, Mr. Trump announced he had decided to cancel the meeting ‘based on […]

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5/24/2018

LIBYA/MIKE PENCE/NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has notified Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, that he has canceled their much-anticipated meeting to discuss steps toward denuclearization and peace because of recent ‘tremendous anger and open hostility’ by Pyongyang toward members of his administration. In a letter dated Thursday [5-24-18] to Mr. Kim, the American […]

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5/24/2018

DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Senate and House party leaders and Intelligence Committee leaders from both parties will be briefed Thursday [5-24-18] on whether an informant was embedded in President Donald Trump’s campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. The briefing comes after complaints from Senate Democrats and some Republicans about the adminstration’s […]

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5/24/2018

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my great honor to present the #MedalOfHonor to @USNavy (SEAL) Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt Slabinski in the East Room of the @WhiteHouse. Full ceremony: https://t.co/2UldFozRh1 https://t.co/R3ACmkWsqJ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 4:18 pm […]

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5/24/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested on Thursday [5-24-18] new sanctions could be in the works for North Korea, even as he expressed hope the country would return to the negotiating table for direct talks following President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel the summit with Kim Jong Un that had […]

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5/24/2018

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on President Donald Trump canceling his planned summit with North Korea (all times local): 5 p.m. South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he’s ‘very perplexed’ that the U.S.-North Korea summit won’t go ahead as planned. Yonhap news agency cited Moon as urging direct talks between President Donald Trump […]

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5/24/2018

NORTH KOREA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has pulled out of a summit with North Korea next month, and Americans are likely not going to be pleased. Unlike a lot that has happened during the Trump administration, Americans were actually happy with the direction Trump was taking on North Korea. Earlier this month, a CNN […]

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5/24/2018

2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer has renewed efforts to depose President Donald Trump in the porn actress’ legal fight to invalidate a confidentiality agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, according to court documents filed Thursday [5-24-18]. Attorney Michael Avenatti argues that U.S. District Judge S. James Otero should reconsider […]

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5/24/2018

LAWSUIT/MEDIA/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A fundraiser for U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-24-18] added several defendants to a lawsuit claiming the Persian Gulf state of Qatar hacked his email accounts and shared the contents with news organizations. Elliott Broidy, whose access to Trump has been the subject of press coverage in the United States […]

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5/24/2018

BANKING/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, it was my honor to sign #S2155, the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act.” Read more: https://t.co/sYZ4PzzxxW https://t.co/gi0qGe6ukX“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 12:54 pm […]

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5/24/2018

RACISM/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised NFL team owners for doing the ‘right thing’ in requiring NFL players to stand during the National Anthem this season, and suggested those who don’t stand maybe ‘shouldn’t be in the country…’ NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the new policy Wednesday [5-23-18], requiring players and personnel to stand […]

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5/24/2018

COMMERCE/NAFTA/NATIONAL SECURITY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is casting the widest possible net in considering whether imported autos should be subject to tariffs based on national security grounds, worrying auto exporters from Mexico to Germany and generating complaints from Republican lawmakers. The Commerce Department, which is directing the probe into whether a national security trade […]

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5/24/2018

LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Michael Avenatti, the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels, filed new paperwork in federal court on Thursday [5-24-18] asking a judge to allow Daniels’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump to move forward — the latest move in Avenatti’s legal campaign to depose the President. Avenatti’s request comes several weeks after a California judge […]

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5/24/2018

NORTH KOREA/SINGAPORE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have decided to terminate the planned Summit in Singapore on June 12th. While many things can happen and a great opportunity lies ahead potentially, I believe that this is a tremendous setback for North Korea and indeed a setback for the world… https://t.co/jT0GfxT0Lc“ – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 […]

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5/24/2018

BORDER/DEMS/GANGS/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was my great honor to host a roundtable re: MS-13 yesterday in Bethpage, New York. Democrats must abandon their resistance to border security so that we can SUPPORT law enforcement and SAVE innocent lives! https://t.co/pxe9Z4efyZ“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2018 11:24 am […]

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5/24/2018

CHINA/CONGRESS/GOP/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Some of President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday [5-24-18] that his administration’s national security investigation of car and truck imports amid a trade spat with China is being pursued under false pretenses and could hurt U.S. consumers. Trump said on Wednesday that ongoing U.S.-China […]

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5/24/2018

BANKING/DODD-FRANK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Thursday [5-24-18] a bill that would ease rules on most banks for the first time since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The legislation eases regulations on all but a handful of the nation’s largest banks, and marks a significant victory in Trump’s efforts to cut […]

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