1/17/2020

IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is a moral failing when children are ripped from their parents’ arms, locked away in overcrowded detention centers, and denied toothbrushes and soap. We have to end Donald Trump’s cruel policies and build a fair and humane immigration system.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Jan. 17, 2020 1:56 pm […]

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1/14/2020

ENVIRONMENT/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “There will be no trade agreements signed in my administration without environmentalists and labor at the table. And there will be no trade agreement until we invest more in American workers. We should be putting our money and our effort and our time in preparing American workers to compete in the 21st Century […]

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1/14/2020

IRAN/JOE BIDEN/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was part of that deal to get the nuclear agreement with Iran, bringing together the rest of the world, including some of the folks who aren’t friendly to us. And it was working. It was working. It was being held tightly. There was no movement on the part of the […]

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1/14/2020

HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/RALLY: “They want to take away your private health insurance. We will protect patients with preexisting conditions like nobody else, and we will protect your preexisting physicians, which you’ve had to get rid of. Which you will have to get rid of when this new plan never happens. Don’t worry about it. It’s not […]

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1/13/2020

HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I stand stronger than anyone in protecting your Healthcare with Pre-Existing Conditions. I am honored to have terminated the very unfair, costly and unpopular individual mandate for you!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 13, 2020 6:58 pm […]

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1/10/2020

IRAN/SANCTIONS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that Iran continues to be the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and that Iran has threatened United States military assets and civilians through the use of military force and support to Iranian-backed militia groups. It remains the policy of the […]

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1/9/2020

GOP/OHIO/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/RALLY: “Republicans will defend middle class taxpayers and the right to keep the doctor of your choice. We will protect patients with pre-existing conditions. And we will protect your pre-existing physician. You’ll have your physician.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Ohio Campaign Rally Transcript: Transcript of Toledo, Ohio Rally,” rev.com, January […]

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1/7/2020

IRAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All is well! Missiles launched from Iran at two military bases located in Iraq. Assessment of casualties & damages taking place now. So far, so good! We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/7/2020

DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: @tedcruz @realDonaldTrump I’ll be interested to see if the hatred of President Trump prevents Democrats from recognizi…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2020 7:00 am […]

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1/7/2020

IRAN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: I very much support Senator @tedcruz’s resolution in support of President @realDonaldTrump’s decision to take out Iran…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2020 7:00 am […]

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1/7/2020

SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/YEMEN: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: ▶️ Dismembering Syria and Yemen. ▶️ Killing their own citizens who are demanding freedom President Trump is right to…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2020 6:59 am […]

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1/7/2020

DEMS/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: To my Democratic colleagues: 40 years of Iranian aggression needs to be dealt with forcefully. Iran is: ▶️ The lar…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 7, 2020 6:59 am […]

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1/6/2020

LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @ByronYork: The White House can assert executive privilege. It’s not Bolton’s privilege; it’s the president’s. If executive privilege co…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 9:54 pm […]

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1/6/2020

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @hughhewitt: This is attempted deterrence. It doesn’t always work, but Iran —against the backdrop of prior restraint followed by decisiv…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 9:51 am […]

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1/6/2020

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @Jim_Jordan: .@KellyannePolls said it best: ‘I’m not going to be lectured by people who voted… to fork over $130 billion in cash to Ir…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 7:39 pm […]

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1/6/2020

DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….If however, the city or state in question is willing to acknowledge responsibility, and politely asks for help from the Federal Government, we will very seriously consider getting involved in order to make those poorly run Democrat Cities Great Again!’ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 6:50 pm […]

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1/6/2020

IMPEACHMENT/JOHN BOLTON/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor… Accordingly, since my testimony is once again at issue, I have had to resolve the serious competing issues as best I could, based on careful consideration and study. I […]

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1/6/2020

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @marcthiessen: Besides Soleimani already carried out an attack that killed an American citizen. Trump needed no other justification.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 9:50 am […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How Iran will respond to the American assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani remains a matter of speculation, but one outcome seems almost certain: the end of Europe’s long effort to keep the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal alive. In interviews on Friday [1-3-20], European analysts envisioned a number of baleful results from […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/DEMS/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American strike in Baghdad that killed the Iranian general Qassim Suleimani thrust foreign policy to the center of the Democratic presidential race, drawing expressions of grave concern from the leading candidates and stoking a new debate in the party about the American military presence in the Middle East. The […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “In the hours after an American drone strike in Iraq killed Iran’s most important military leader, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a question has dominated discussion in the Middle East, in Congress and on social media. Could this lead to war between the United States and Iran? In a sense, it already has. […]

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1/3/2020

BUSINESS/CHINA/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “American manufacturing activity contracted last month more than it had in a decade, data released Friday [1-3-20] showed, a sign that economic damage from President Trump’s trade war could linger even after the United States and China sign an initial trade deal. An index published by the Institute for Supply Management […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump was deep in discussion with political advisers going over campaign plans at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida just before 5 p.m. Thursday when he was abruptly summoned to another meeting. A while later, he returned just as mysteriously, jumping back into the conversation without offering a clue to what was […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s decision to strike and kill the second most powerful official in Iran turns a slow-simmering conflict with Tehran into a boiling one, and is the riskiest move made by the United States in the Middle East since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The calculus was straightforward: Washington had […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/IRAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States and Iran exchanged escalating military threats on Friday [1-3-20] as President Trump warned that he was ‘prepared to take whatever action is necessary’ if Iran threatened Americans and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed to exact vengeance for the killing on Mr. Trump’s order of Iran’s most valued […]

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1/3/2020

IMPEACHMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate leaders wrangled on Friday [1-3-20] over the terms of President Trump’s impeachment trial, deepening their impasse and throwing the start date further into doubt amid disputes over whether to call witnesses or introduce documentary evidence. In a pair of barbed back-to-back speeches on the Senate floor, the top Republican and the […]

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1/3/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/INFRASTRUCTURE/LEGISLATION/REGULATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal agencies would no longer have to take climate change into account when they assess the environmental impacts of highways, pipelines and other major infrastructure projects, according to a Trump administration plan that would weaken the nation’s benchmark environmental law. The proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act could […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Friday [1-3-20] he ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani to stop a war, not start one, saying the Iranian military commander was planning imminent attacks on Americans. ‘Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel but we caught him in the act […]

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1/3/2020

GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….different places that he thought were wasteful, and the career staff, as they always do, pushed back, and made a million excuses as to why they could not possibly stop spending U.S. taxpayer money. There was a back & forth over the legal arguments, & the W.H. decision was…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/3/2020

MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Christopher Bedford, The Federalist Senior Editor. ‘There is NOTHING NEW in these Emails at all that’s been discovered. It’s exactly what we knew before, which is that the White House & political figures wanted to cut off aid, Trump wanted to question aid to a number of…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 […]

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1/3/2020

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….followed, and then it was withdrawn. The Democrats argument for impeachment has not gotten stronger over the last few weeks. As Senator Josh Hawley just said, he’s going to enter a Motion to Dismiss the Impeachment Trial because it’s never actually been brought to trial.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 12:27 […]

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1/3/2020

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….followed, and then it was withdrawn. The Democrats argument for impeachment has not gotten stronger over the last few weeks. As Senator Josh Hawley just said, he’s going to enter a Motion to Dismiss the Impeachment Trial because it’s never actually been brought to trial.’” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 12:09 […]

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1/3/2020

MEDIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Christopher Bedford, The Federalist Senior Editor. ‘There is NOTHING NEW in these Emails at all that’s been discovered. It’s exactly what we knew before, which is that the White House & political figures wanted to cut off aid, Trump wanted to question aid to a number of….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 12:09 […]

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1/3/2020

GOVERNMENT/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….different places that he thought were wasteful, and the career staff, as they always do, pushed back, and nade s million excuses as to why they could not possibly stop spending U.S.taxpayer money. There was a back & forth over the legal arguments, & the W.H. decision was….q” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January […]

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1/3/2020

IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VA: “RT @JesseKellyDC: If you’ve been to a VA hospital in recent years and seen a young man missing limbs, there’s a reasonable chance Qasem Sol…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 11:03 am […]

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1/3/2019

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad b…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 10:40 am […]

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1/3/2020

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @KimStrassel: Forget Person of the Year. Washington needs an Adult of the Year. My pick for 2019, below. https://t.co/OJVB6945kU via @W…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 10:36 am […]

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1/3/2020

GOP/IMPEACHMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Senate remained at a stalemate on Friday [1-3-20] over how to proceed with the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, as the chamber’s leaders wrangled over whether White House aides will be called as witnesses and the top Democrat appealed to a handful of Republicans who could help break the […]

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1/3/2020

IRAN/IRAQ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The United States has paid Iraq Billions of Dollars a year, for many years. That is on top of all else we have done for them. The people of Iraq don’t want to be dominated & controlled by Iran, but ultimately, that is their choice. Over the last 15 years, Iran has […]

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1/3/2019

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself. While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country. They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more…but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 8:54 am […]

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1/3/2020

IRAQ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @TravelGov: #Iraq: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, we urge U.S. citizens to depart Iraq immediately. Due to Iranian-b…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 7:02 am […]

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1/3/2020

IRAQ/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @USEmbBaghdad: تنبيه أمني – سفارة الولايات المتحدة في بغداد، العراق، 3 كانون الثاني 2020 Security Alert – U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, J…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, January 3, 2020 7:01 am […]

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1/3/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [1-3-20] said that the top Iranian commander killed in a U.S. air strike, Qassem Soleimani, was planning to kill Americans. ‘General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more,’ Trump wrote […]

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1/3/2020

RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a campaign event in a Miami megachurch on Friday [1-3-20] to shore up support from Christian conservatives, after a prominent evangelical publication questioned whether the faithful should support the Republican. The event by Trump at the 7,000-capacity King Jesus International Ministry church has drawn fresh attention […]

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1/2/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “Trump says airstrike was ordered ‘to stop a war.’ President Trump said Friday afternoon that the airstrike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the powerful Iranian commander, was ordered ‘to stop a war’ and prevented attacks on Americans…Mr. Trump said the United States is not seeking regime change in Iran, but called […]

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1/2/2020

ASSASSINATION/IRAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s killing of one of Iran’s top military commanders means the elimination of a dangerous U.S. foe – but it also represents a risky escalation in a volatile feud that could backfire on U.S. personnel and allies in the Middle East and beyond. The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that Qassem Soleimani, […]

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1/2/2020

IMPEACHMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The standoff that’s placed President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in limbo is entering a new critical juncture as both sides angle to wring political benefit from the proceedings. Greater clarity of the future of Trump’s impeachment could be derived Friday when the US Senate reconvenes and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

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