Category: A- Trump People

5/1/2019

DEMS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @CwElliott2: @dbongino You are correct, 100%, Dan. A bunch of us have been talking, and this is just the DNC buying and paying for the…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 1, 2019 5:00 am […]

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4/30/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/CONGRESS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On the eve of Attorney General William Barr’s testimony on a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, only two lawmakers have set eyes on secret information that Barr withheld from public view. Barr offered access to a less-redacted version of the report to just 12 members of Congress — […]

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4/30/2019

RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “For his closest advisers, President Donald Trump is a godsend — literally. Trump’s campaign manager says the president was sent by God to save the country. The White House press secretary thinks God wanted Trump to be president. And the secretary of State believes it’s possible that Trump is on a […]

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4/29/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submitted his resignation Monday [4-30-19] after a two-year run defined by his appointment of a special counsel to investigate connections between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. His last day will be May 11, ending a tumultuous relationship with Trump and a tenure that […]

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4/29/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The tide in the Senate is showing signs of turning against Stephen Moore, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Federal Reserve, with one member of Republican leadership voicing strong concern over his disparaging comments about women…Pressed for her specific objections, Ernst added: ‘Look at his writings … […]

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4/27/2019

SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “….Ever since Andrew came to my office to ask that I appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I said NO, he has been very hostile! Also asked for pardon for his friend. A good ‘pal’ of low ratings Shepard Smith.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 27, 2019 9:57 pm […]

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4/26/2019

GOP/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, is seeking to resolve a tense dispute between Democrats and the White House as part of the panel’s review of the Trump administration’s security clearance process. In a letter obtained by CNN and dated Friday [4-26-19], Jordan is asking […]

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4/26/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “Stephen Moore, President Trump’s preferred choice for the Federal Reserve, has written that women should not serve in the military or serve beer at men’s basketball games — unless they look like his favorite female ESPN commentator and dress in halter tops. He has scraped through a messy divorce, failing […]

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4/26/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “On Thursday [4-26-19] night, Donald Trump did a 45-minute phone interview with Fox News’ flagship face: Sean Hannity. That, on its own, is, well, odd. The President of the United States spending 45 minutes on the phone with a conservative talk show host isn’t something that happened ever before. And may not […]

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4/25/2019

DONALD JR/E-MAILS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT//TRUMP PEOPLE: “The president’s communications director didn’t sugarcoat it: The emails, Hope Hicks told Donald Trump, were ‘really bad.’ They concerned an as-yet unpublicized meeting in Trump Tower a year earlier involving Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The emails showed how the […]

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4/25/2019

DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A quarter of the Pentagon’s most senior civilian posts remain filled by temporary personnel who are unconfirmed by the Senate – a high number that has slowed decisions, handicapped the department in policy disputes and shifted more power to the White House, according to recently departed Pentagon officials. Including acting Defense […]

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4/25/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Ken Starr released his famous report on Bill Clinton in 1998, the embattled president couldn’t move on fast enough. An estimated 20 million Americans tore through the independent counsel’s findings, laid out in a 445-page document that contained sordid, voyeuristic details about Clinton’s affair with White House intern […]

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4/24/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It had been more than two years since Michael Caputo, the onetime campaign communications adviser to Donald Trump, had spoken to the man he helped elect president. It was a span that encompassed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, a probe with which Caputo had cooperated. On Wednesday [4-24-19], after the […]

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4/24/2019

DEMS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The longest-serving Republican in the Iowa legislature announced that he would become a Democrat, warning that his party of many decades would soon pay ‘a heavy price’ for its support of President Trump. The lawmaker, Representative Andy McKean, served a combined 24 years in the Iowa House and Senate between 1979 […]

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4/24/2019

DHS/ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attempted Russian interference in US public affairs has continued as Department of Homeland Security officials and senior leaders have alerted the White House about the risks ahead of the 2020 presidential election — but it was ‘like pulling teeth’ to get the White House to pay attention, a US government official […]

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4/24/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser reaffirmed the administration’s support for Stephen Moore as his vetting for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors continues. Larry Kudlow, speaking to reporters on Wednesday, said, ‘We continue to back Stephen Moore, continue to back him.’ Earlier this week, CNN’s KFile […]

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ELECTION/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A top White House official said Wednesday [4-24-19] he doesn’t recall keeping discussions of election security from President Donald Trump and defended the administration’s effort to confront election meddling by Russia and others. The response, from acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, followed a report this week that former […]

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4/22/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Impeachment talk is racing around Washington. Democrats pressed the issue on a caucus conference call Monday[4-22-19]. Some White House hopefuls are urging Congress to take action. Even President Donald Trump himself weighed in Monday morning. But in the White House, aides aren’t thinking much about impeachment. They’re not convinced Democrats would […]

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4/22/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald F. McGahn II arrived in a windowless conference room in southwest Washington in November 2017 to meet for the first time with the special counsel’s investigators. He was the White House counsel at the time, and he was reluctant to answer their questions for fear that President Trump […]

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4/19/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “The first years of President Donald Trump’s tenure were marked by chaotic attempts among aides to thwart his efforts to curtail the special counsel’s investigation, according to Robert Mueller’s redacted report, an exercise that relied on subterfuge and deceit that does little to dispel the sense of disarray […]

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4/19/2019

GOLF/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Latest on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and President Donald Trump (all times local): 3 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump played golf Friday [4-19-19] with conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh and a couple of unidentified friends. Trump is spending the Easter weekend at his private Mar-a-Lago club […]

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4/19/2019

DONALD JR/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “She built a national reputation as the elusive public relations force behind President Donald Trump’s campaign and administration, but Hope Hicks couldn’t save the President from himself on Air Force One in July of 2017. Though she rarely spoke on the record and almost never appeared before cameras, her […]

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4/19/2019

IMPEACHMENT/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Conservative lawyer George Conway on Thursday [4-18-19] called for President Donald Trump to be impeached, entrenching himself even deeper in opposition to his wife, senior counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, George Conway, who […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘If dozens of Federal prosecutors spent two years trying to charge you with a crime, and found they couldn’t, it would mean there wasn’t any evidence you did it – and that’s what happened here – that’s what we just learned from the Mueller Report.’ @TuckerCarlson” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Fiona Hill, an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, visited Moscow this week and discussed bilateral relations with Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday [4-18-19]. Ties between Washington and Moscow are at post-Cold War lows and later on Thursday a long-awaited report on Russia’s role in the […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘Donald Trump was being framed, he fought back. That is not Obstruction.’ @JesseBWatters I had the right to end the whole Witch Hunt if I wanted. I could have fired everyone, including Mueller, if I wanted. I chose not to. I had the RIGHT to use Executive Privilege. I didn’t!”  […]

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4/18/2019

LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s legal team said on Thursday [4-18-19] the results of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller vindicate Trump and show Trump acted properly when he fired James Comey, the former director of the FBI. ‘The results of the investigation are a total victory for the President […]

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4/17/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESETIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William Barr is due on Thursday [4-18-19] to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the 22-month investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election and contacts between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow. The special counsel and U.S. intelligence agencies […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Not all of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings will be news to President Trump when they are released Thursday [4-18-29]. Justice Department officials have had numerous conversations with White House lawyers about the conclusions made by Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, in recent days, according to people with knowledge […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thursday [4-18-19], at least a dozen attorneys and staff members for President Donald Trump will plunge into special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Their mission? Distill the document into a quick response for the waiting political world. The president and his advisers are getting […]

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4/17/2019

ENERGY/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Greg Walden is trying to find his own way in Donald Trump’s party. Walden, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and former chief of the House GOP campaign arm, has broken ranks with Trump on a number of high-profile votes this year — rebuking the president on his signature […]

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4/16/2019

CIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Gina Haspel was trying to brief President Trump early in her tenure as the C.I.A. director, but he appeared distracted. Houseflies buzzing around the Oval Office were drawing his attention, and ire. On returning to her office, Ms. Haspel found a solution, according to two officials familiar with the episode, and […]

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4/16/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/DHS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday [4-16-19] that some asylum seekers who have established credible fear and are subject to deportation cannot be released on bond by immigration judges — a major reversal from a prior ruling that could lead to immigrants being held indefinitely. The decision means the Department of Homeland […]

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4/14/2019

TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @WSJ: Opinion: Trump’s adversaries have spent more than two years trying to dodge accountability, writes @kimstrassel https://t.co/NXW4k…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 14, 2019 8:49 pm […]

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4/14/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@SteveHiltonx ‘This is President Trump trying to deliver on his promises while the bureaucratic machine fights his agenda. He needs populist allies. These changes are not chaos, but rather progress. All this is President Trump at his absolute best.’ Thank you Steve!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 14, 2019 8:31 pm […]

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4/12/2019

MELANIA/MILITARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Melania Trump and Karen Pence will get an up-close look at the military’s special operations capabilities when they visit Fort Bragg next week. The White House says the wives of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence plan a Monday stop at the Fayetteville, North Carolina, installation, home of the Airborne and […]

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4/12/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘I don’t need to know any more. We’re done, absolutely done, he (Mueller) tried the case. There’s NO COLLUSION.’ @LindseyGrahamSC @foxandfriends No matter what we do or give to the Radical Left, it will never be enough!”  -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 12, 2019 8:06 am […]

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4/11/2019

NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As President Donald Trump looks to reshape the executive branch, he’s avoiding the words ‘you’re hired.’ Trump’s choice of Kevin McAleenan as acting replacement for Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spotlights the president’s increasing reliance on a once-obscure federal statute that governs how to fill vacant federal posts. It also raises […]

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4/11/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/NANCY PELOSI/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday [4-11-19] sharply criticized President Donald Trump’s planned picks for the Federal Reserve, Herman Cain and Stephen Moore, warning that the hyperpartisan duo would be ‘dangerous’ for the economy…Democrats and Republicans alike have skewered Cain, a former pizza magnate, and Moore, a former member of […]

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4/11/2019

ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “With the president by his side, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice made a dramatic announcement before a raucous crowd of ‘MAGA’-hat wearing supporters: He was bolting a Democratic Party that had ‘walked away’ from him to join Donald Trump’s GOP. Two years later, Trump is now repaying the favor. A pair of […]

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4/10/2019

MEDIA/MIKE POMPEO/SAUDI ARABIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senators rapped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Wednesday for being less than forthcoming on a series of issues, as the top US diplomat sidestepped questions on Washington’s support for a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians, the Saudi killing of Jamal Khashoggi and why Washington is treating Mexico like […]

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4/10/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General William P. Barr, appearing before Congress for a second straight day on Wednesday [4-10-19], said the government spied on the Trump campaign and said he would look into whether any rules were violated. • Mr. Barr signaled he was open to sharing more information with lawmakers about the […]

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4/9/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Kirstjen Nielsen’s image makeover has already begun — but it may be a hard sell. Just days after she announced plans to resign as Homeland Security secretary, Nielsen and her allies are working to rehabilitate her reputation, arguing that she’s not the heartless villain depicted by liberal critics already pressuring big […]

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4/9/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Herman Cain is in deep trouble. And he hasn’t yet even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve. Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult confirmation fights of Donald Trump’s presidency and are making a behind-the-scenes play to […]

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4/9/2019

COURTS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s purge of top Homeland Security officials ignores the larger obstacle to his aggressive immigration agenda — the courts. With DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of the way, and other officials in the department expected to be pushed out, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller hopes to accelerate or […]

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4/9/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One evening in 1996, as the Yankees clinched their first World Series in 18 years, Donald J. Trump was presiding over a masquerade ball at his sprawling Westchester County estate. Mr. Trump intended to convert the home, a limestone mansion called Seven Springs, into a golf club, and he had recruited […]

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4/9/2019

ELECTION/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The music was brooding. The imagery triumphal. The villains all the same. A video shared on Tuesday [4-9-19] by President Trump — until it was taken down, apparently over a copyright infringement complaint — left no doubt that his re-election would rest on a remobilization of the voters who put him […]

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4/9/2019

DHS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and several legal experts are questioning President Donald Trump’s authority to bypass a senior Homeland Security official in order to install a hand-picked acting head of the Cabinet agency that oversees immigration enforcement. After Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Sunday that she was […]

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4/8/2019

DHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In recent months, Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security, had become a regular presence eating dinner at the Trump International Hotel. She had been heckled and booed when dining out after becoming the face of some of President Trump’s most hard-line immigration policies, like family separations, and her affinity for […]

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4/8/2019

ISRAEL/PALESTINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow for Israel to annex parts of the West Bank would flout four decades of American policy, under both Republican and Democratic presidents. But nothing emboldened Mr. Netanyahu to take such a risk more than the support of his ally President Trump. From recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over […]

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