7/10/2019

COURTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a legal victory for President Trump, a federal appeals court panel on Wednesday [7-10-19] ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming that he had violated the Constitution by collecting profits from government guests at his hotel in the nation’s capital. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals […]

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7/10/2019

AMBASSADOR/BRITAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ask members of the Washington diplomatic corps about the cables that Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador who resigned Wednesday [7-10-19], wrote to London describing the dysfunction and chaos of the Trump administration, and their response is uniform: We wrote the same stuff…So did Mr. Darroch, who, alone and with Mr. Araud, […]

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7/10/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s latest pair of hopefuls for the Federal Reserve board don’t have the same baggage as Stephen Moore and Herman Cain. And that might be just enough to get them confirmed. After Cain and Moore’s Fed prospects both ended in spectacular failure, Trump’s choices of Christopher Waller and […]

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7/10/2019

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Army Gen. Mark Milley headed to the White House in November to be interviewed for the top military job in Europe. He emerged from the meeting with an even loftier prize: President Donald Trump asked Milley whether he wanted to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Milley’s […]

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7/9/2019

BUSINESS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [7-9-19] blasted ‘the radical left’ for using economic boycotts as a political tactic despite his own long history of supporting such strategies. The president was responding to recent calls for a boycott of Home Depot because of the financial support that retired co-founder Bernie Marcus has […]

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7/9/2019

FBI/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘FBI’s Christopher Steele (FAKE) Story Falls Apart: False Intel & Media Contacts Were Flagged Before FISA.’ John Solomon, The Hill. @seanhannity” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 10:30 pm […]

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7/9/2019

COMMERCE/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More and more the Radical Left is using Commerce to hurt their ‘Enemy.’ They put out the name of a store, brand or company, and ask their so-called followers not to do business there. They don’t care who gets hurt, but also don’t understand that two can play that game!”  –Donald Trump, […]

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7/9/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “….to your favorite President, me! These people are vicious and totally crazed, but remember, there are far more great people (“Deplorables”) in this country, than bad. Do to them what they do to you. Fight for Bernie Marcus and Home Depot!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 8:30pm […]

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7/9/2019

CONGRESS/MITCH MCCONNELL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Why would Kentucky ever think of giving up the most powerful position in Congress, the Senate Majority Leader, for a freshman Senator with little power in what will hopefully be the minority party. We need Mitch in the Senate to Keep America Great!!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 7:13 pm […]

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7/9/2019

GOP/LABOR/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are moving quickly to back up beleaguered Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. But pressure is rising from other corners of the White House, with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney privately urging the president to dismiss him. Mulvaney told Trump on Monday [7-8-19] that […]

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7/9/2019

TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “After a wonderful dinner at the @USTreasury last night with the Amir of Qatar, @TamimBinHamad, it was my great honor to welcome him to the @WhiteHouse this afternoon! https://t.co/SB9DGA7dgo” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 2:44 pm […]

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7/9/2019

CABINET/LABOR/LEGAL/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump said Tuesday [7-9-19] that he feels ‘very badly’ for Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, as the embattled Cabinet official faces an onslaught of calls by Democratic lawmakers to resign for his role in brokering financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on sex abuse charges…Last year, former press secretary […]

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7/9/2019

COURTS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday [7-9-19] upheld a lower court ruling that President Donald Trump’s habit of blocking Twitter users he disagrees with violates the First Amendment. A unanimous panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Tuesday upheld the district court ruling finding the […]

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7/9/2019

BRITAIN/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Christopher Steele, the former British spy behind the infamous ‘dossier’ on President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, was interviewed for 16 hours in June by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, according to two people familiar with the matter. The interview is part of an ongoing investigation that the Justice Department’s inspector […]

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7/9/2019

JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @RepMarkMeadows: This was amazing news from over the weekend — 224,000 jobs created in June, blowing away expectations of 160,000 jobs!…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 9:38 am […]

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7/9/2019

CENSUS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Recent ‘strained’ decisions by the United States Supreme Court, some so simple as allowing the question, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States’ on our very expensive Census Report, or the even more strained decisions (2) allowing the world’s most expensive & pathetic……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 9:31 […]

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7/9/2019

ELECTION/OBAMACARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….healthcare (Obamacare) to stay in place, when it would have been replaced by something far better, shows how incredibly important our upcoming 2020 Election is. I have long heard that the appointment of Supreme Court Justices is a President’s most important decision. SO TRUE!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 9:31 am […]

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7/9/2019

BUSINESS/CHINA/TECHNOLOGY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is following through with plans to allow American companies to continue doing business with Huawei, the Chinese telecom equipment giant, just weeks after placing the company on a Commerce Department blacklist. On Tuesday [7-9-19], Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the administration will issue licenses for American companies that […]

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7/9/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Judiciary Committee will vote this week to authorize a bevy of new subpoenas on the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from their families at the border and on President Trump’s possible obstruction of justice, summoning some of the biggest names to surface in Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation. […]

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7/9/2019

COURTS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump has been violating the Constitution by blocking people from following his Twitter account because they criticized or mocked him, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday [7-9-19]. The ruling could have broader implications for how the First Amendment applies to the social-media era. Because Mr. Trump uses Twitter to […]

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7/9/2019

SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The year was 1992 and the event […]

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7/9/2019

ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘With President Trump at the helm, not only is America getting great again, but he’s going to make our estuaries, our rivers, our water – everything better – the things he is doing, and done, are just helping America tremendously.’ Thank you to Bruce Hrobak @foxandfriends”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 […]

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7/9/2019

CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘I agree with the President, the Supreme Court got it wrong. There should be a question about Citizenship on the Census. A.G. Barr sees a pathway to add the Citizenship Question.’ Steve Doocy @foxandfriends Working hard on something that should be so easy. People are fed up!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]

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7/9/2019

AMBASSADOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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7/9/2019

AMBASSADOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “…handled. I told @theresa_may how to do that deal, but she went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster! I don’t know the Ambassador but have been told he is a pompous fool. Tell him the USA now has the best Economy & Military anywhere in the World, […]

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7/9/2019

ECONOMY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Very good numbers on the economy. Much potential for growth. Trade deals being negotiated or being set up for negotiation. We have been treated very unfairly (to put it mildly) by other countries for many years, but that is changing!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 9, 2019 6:05 am […]

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7/8/2019

CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census is one he seems likely to lose. Eleven days after an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling, a new team of Justice Department attorneys must persuade three district court judges that a June 30 printing deadline a previous DOJ […]

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7/8/2019

DEMS/ENVIRONMENT/EPA/OBAMA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump praised his own environmental record on Monday [7-8-19] and attacked the Obama administration’s ‘relentless war’ on U.S. energy. But a close look at his rhetoric reveals he is taking credit for pollution reductions that have taken place under previous presidents — and undertaking an aggressive agenda of weakening air […]

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7/8/2019

AMBASSADOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “….thought of within the U.S. We will no longer deal with him. The good news for the wonderful United Kingdom is that they will soon have a new Prime Minister. While I thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent State Visit last month, it was the Queen who I was most impressed with!”  –Donald Trump, […]

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7/8/2019

AMBASSADOR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UK: “I have been very critical about the way the U.K. and Prime Minister Theresa May handled Brexit. What a mess she and her representatives have created. I told her how it should be done, but she decided to go another way. I do not know the Ambassador, but he is not liked […]

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7/8/2019

HEALTHCARE/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-10-19] will order a series of initiatives to encourage more kidney transplants and treatment at home, the start of a process intended to overhaul a market in which the federal government spends more than $100 billion per year. Trump’s executive order — slated to be timed to […]

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7/8/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Brilliant Constitutional Lawyer, Dr. John Eastman, said the Special Prosecutor (Mueller) should have NEVER been appointed in the first place. The entire exercise was fundamentally illegal. The Witch Hunt should never happen to another President of the U.S. again. A TOTAL SCAM! https://t.co/5sRAMhHAR8” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 8, 2019 11:40 am […]

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7/8/2019

CAMPAIGN/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reviewing new polling data, consultants working for President Trump’s 2020 campaign discovered an unsurprising obstacle to winning support from two key demographic groups, millennials and suburban women. And that was his record on the environment. But they also saw an opportunity. While the numbers showed that Mr. Trump was ‘never going to […]

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7/8/2019

AMBASSADOR/BRITAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump celebrates his bond with Queen Elizabeth II. He is less charitable about those who serve her. On Monday [7-8-19], Mr. Trump said the White House would no longer deal with the British ambassador to the United States after the envoy described the Trump administration as “clumsy and inept” in confidential […]

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7/8/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr began working to find a way to place a citizenship question on the 2020 census just after the Supreme Court blocked its inclusion last month, Mr. Barr said on Monday, adding that he believes that the administration can find a legal path […]

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7/8/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General William P. Barr accused House Democrats on Monday [7-8-19] of subpoenaing testimony from Robert S. Mueller III to ‘create some kind of public spectacle,’ rather than elicit facts, pointing to Mr. Mueller’s declaration that he would discuss only the facts laid out in the Russia investigation […]

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7/7/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Impossible to believe that @FoxNews has hired @donnabrazile, the person fired by @CNN (after they tried to hide the bad facts, & failed) for giving Crooked Hillary Clinton the questions to a debate, something unimaginable. Now she is all over Fox, including Shep Smith, by far….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2019 […]

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7/7/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….their lowest rated show. Watch the @FoxNews weekend daytime anchors, who are terrible, go after her big time. That’s what they want – but it sure is not what the audience wants!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2019 10:17 pm […]

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7/7/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Watching @FoxNews weekend anchors is worse than watching low ratings Fake News @CNN, or Lyin’ Brian Williams (remember when he totally fabricated a War Story trying to make himself into a hero, & got fired. A very dishonest journalist!) and the crew of degenerate……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2019 6:50 pm […]

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7/7/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..Comcast (NBC/MSNBC) Trump haters, who do whatever Brian & Steve tell them to do. Like CNN, NBC is also way down in the ratings. But @FoxNews, who failed in getting the very BORING Dem debates, is now loading up with Democrats & even using Fake unsourced @nytimes as….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]

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7/7/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…a ‘source’ of information (ask the Times what they paid for the Boston Globe, & what they sold it for (lost 1.5 Billion Dollars), or their old headquarters building disaster, or their unfunded liability? @FoxNews is changing fast, but they forgot the people who got them there!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, […]

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7/7/2019

BORDER/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “We are building the Wall now, but the reason the badly needed Wall wasn’t approved in the Republican controlled House and Senate was that we had a very slim majority in the Senate, & needed 9 Democrat votes. They were totally unwilling to give Wall votes to us, want Open Borders!” –Donald […]

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7/7/2019

BORDER/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media, in particular the Failing @nytimes, is writing phony and exaggerated accounts of the Border Detention Centers. First of all, people should not be entering our Country illegally, only for us to then have to care for them. We should be allowed to focus on …..” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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7/7/2019

BORDER/DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….United States Citizens first. Border Patrol, and others in Law Enforcement, have been doing a great job. We said there was a Crisis – the Fake News & the Dems said it was ‘manufactured.’ Now all agree we were right, but they always knew that. They are crowded (which we…..”  –Donald Trump, […]

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7/7/2019

DEMS/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last year was the first in 51 years where prescription drug prices actually went down, but things have been, and are being, put in place that will drive them down substantially. If Dems would work with us in a bipartisan fashion, we would get big results very fast!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]

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7/7/2019

ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sleepy Joe Biden just admitted he worked with segregationists and separately, has already been very plain about the fact that he will be substantially raising everyone’s taxes if he becomes president. Ridiculously, all Democrats want to substantially raise taxes!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 7, 2019 8:03 am […]

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7/6/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @SteveScalise: .@realDonaldTrump continues to defy expectations & deliver results for American workers! Democrats need to explain to eve…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2019 6:00 pm […]

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7/6/2019

CHINA/JOE BIDEN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Joe Biden is a reclamation project. Some things are just not salvageable. China and other countries that ripped us off for years are begging for him. He deserted our military, our law enforcement and our healthcare. Added more debt than all other Presidents combined. Won’t win!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, […]

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7/5/2019

ECONOMY/ELECTION/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….As well as we are doing from the day after the great Election, when the Market shot right up, it could have been even better – massive additional wealth would have been created, & used very well. Our most difficult problem is not our competitors, it is the Federal Reserve!” –Donald […]

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7/5/2019

ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Strong jobs report, low inflation, and other countries around the world doing anything possible to take advantage of the United States, knowing that our Federal Reserve doesn’t have a clue! They raised rates too soon, too often, & tightened, while others did just the opposite….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 5, 2019 […]

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7/5/2019

DEMS/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It took all of one minute and nine seconds for President Trump to go after his predecessor on Friday [7-5-19]— just one minute and nine seconds to re-engage in a debate that has consumed much of his own time in office over who was the better president. It was former President Barack […]

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7/5/2019

CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration confirmed Friday [7-5-19] that it will press forward with efforts to add a citizenship question to next year’s census, with President Donald Trump saying he’s exploring the possibility of reviving the question via executive order and government lawyers telling a federal judge that they’ve “been asked to […]

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7/5/2019

COURTS/GOP/JOE BIDEN/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would be open to renominating to the Supreme Court federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland, whose Senate confirmation in 2016 was thwarted by the Republican Senate . In an interview with Iowa Starting Line on Friday [7-5-19], the Democratic presidential hopeful called Garland a […]

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7/5/2019

HOLIDAY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump predicted Friday [7-5-19] that his July Fourth salute to the military, complete with tanks and a slew of flyovers, will be a boon to recruitment for the armed services…The president said military recruitment has been sluggish recently, a dip he blamed on the strength of the overall economy, but said […]

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7/5/2019

ELECTION/FOREIGN POLICY/JOE BIDEN/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden savaged Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda in an interview that aired Friday [7-5-19] morning, warning that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be completely disbanded if the president captures another White House term in 2020…Biden also accused Trump of ‘stiff-arming our friends’ on the world […]

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7/5/2019

ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. employers sharply stepped up their hiring in June, adding a robust 224,000 jobs, an indication of the economy’s durability after more than a decade of expansion. The strength of the jobs report the government issued Friday [7-5-19] could complicate a decision for the Federal Reserve late this month on whether to […]

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7/5/2019

CHINA/FEDERAL RESERVE/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal Reserve officials worry that the uncertainty caused by the trade war between the United States and China could be constraining business spending and may be contributing to a manufacturing slowdown that is dragging on growth. The concerns were outlined in the Fed’s semiannual Monetary Policy Report, released on Friday […]

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7/5/2019

ECONOMY/JOBS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A decade after the Great Recession released its grip on the American economy, the job market shows no sign of falling into another slump. Weak hiring in May had given rise to fears that the long-running expansion was foundering in the face of trade tensions and cooling growth overseas. But job […]

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7/5/2019

CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge on Friday [7-5-19] that they would press ahead in their efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but indicated they did not know yet what kind of rationale they would put forward. Just hours before, President Trump told reporters on […]

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7/5/2019

DRUGS/HHS/MEDICARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said Friday [7-5-19] that the White House was writing an executive order to require pharmaceutical companies to offer the United States government among the lowest prices in the world, in comments that were not immediately clear to many experts on the country’s health care system…The White House has made the […]

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