12/2/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump set off to London on Monday [12-2-19], admonishing ‘radical’ Democrats for continuing their impeachment inquiry while he attends a NATO summit — ‘one of the most important journeys that we make as president’…The White House has said it would not participate on Wednesday when the House Judiciary Committee questions legal […]

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12/2/2019

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The United States has outperformed the rest of the world in an eye popping fashion. I don’t think we’ve seen numbers like that.’ Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz Chief Economic Adviser. But despite this there is tremendous potential for growth, far greater than most have understood!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, 2019 7:35 am […]

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12/2/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The American people are going to see this for what it is. It is a political effort by the Democrats, and the President certainly doesn’t have to aid in the Impeachment effort.’ Robert Ray @MariaBartiromo Democrats are getting ‘killed’ in their home districts. 2020!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, 2019 7:20 am […]

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12/2/2019

GOP/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’The process has been unfair. Republicans can’t even get their own witnesses. It gets me that Adam Schiff is not punishable for lying, in any way.’ @MariaBartiromo” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, 2019 7:07 am […]

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12/2/2019

CHINA/ECONOMY/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Markets are up as much as 21% since the announcement of Tariffs on 3/1/2018 – and the U.S. is taking in massive amounts of money (and giving some to our farmers, who have been targeted by China)!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, 2019 6:11 am […]

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12/2/2019

AGRICULTURE/SOUTH AMERICA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Brazil and Argentina have been presiding over a massive devaluation of their currencies. which is not good for our farmers. Therefore, effective immediately, I will restore the Tariffs on all Steel & Aluminum that is shipped into the U.S. from those countries. The Federal….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, 2019 5:59 […]

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12/2/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..Reserve should likewise act so that countries, of which there are many, no longer take advantage of our strong dollar by further devaluing their currencies. This makes it very hard for our manufactures & farmers to fairly export their goods. Lower Rates & Loosen – Fed!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, […]

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12/2/2019

HIV-AIDS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @PARISDENNARD: ‘I’m so proud that President @realDonaldTrump has committed to ending the HIV epidemic in the next 10 years…the fact is…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 2, 2019 5:52  am […]

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12/2/2019

ELECTION/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Donald Trump’s reelection team shamelessly acknowledged during a World Series campaign commercial that America’s 45th president is ‘no Mr. Nice Guy,’ it was doing more than shock-and-awe advertising. Noticeably absent from the 30-second spot was the president’s genteel sidekick: Mike Pence. Save for a Situation Room photo used to show […]

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12/1/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Donald Trump was framed back in 2016.’ @MariaBartiromo 100% correct, Maria, and we can never let this happen to another president again!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 1, 2019 11:24 pm […]

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12/1/2019

HIV-AIDS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….in America, community by community where we will eradicate AIDS in 10 years, program already started. American leadership has proven that together we can save lives.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 1, 2019 1:31 pm […]

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12/1/2019

HIV-AIDS/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On World AIDS Day, The First Lady and I express our support for those living with HIV/AIDS and mourn the lives lost. We reaffirm our commitment to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, December 1, 2019 1:31 pm […]

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11/30/2019

DEMS/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be representing our Country in London at NATO, while the Democrats are holding the most ridiculous Impeachment hearings in history. Read the Transcripts, NOTHING was done or said wrong! The Radical Left is undercutting our Country. Hearings scheduled on same dates as NATO!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 30, 2019 6:38 […]

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11/30/2019

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thank you to @BuckMcNeely1 and Oliver North for the nice words and thoughts in an excellent interview. Best wishes!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 30, 2019 6:11 pm […]

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11/29/2019

IMPEACHMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has already seen it all: contentious public hearings, unexpected bombshells, testimony implicating the President and a fair share of conspiracy theories. The drama could escalate even more in the coming weeks as Congress moves to the next phase and preps for Trump’s potential trial in […]

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11/29/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, sent President Donald Trump a letter Friday [11-29-19] asking if the President’s counsel plans to request witnesses or make a presentation as part of the committee’s impeachment inquiry proceedings. Read Nadler’s letter to Trump below: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/29/politics/judiciary-letter-trump-representative/index.html” –CNN Staff, “Read: House Judiciary letter requesting representative […]

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11/29/2019

AFGHANISTAN/HOLIDAY/MILTIARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Notorious for leaks and chastened by previous security lapses, the White House went to unusual lengths to keep President Donald Trump’s Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan under wraps, devising a cover story for his movements that included posting scripted tweets while he was in the air, administration officials said. On Thursday [11-28-19], Trump […]

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11/29/2019

IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A U.S. congressional panel on Friday [11-29-19] gave President Donald Trump one week to say whether his legal counsel intends to introduce evidence and call witnesses in upcoming impeachment proceedings that could lead to formal charges of misconduct within a few weeks. The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, which is due to begin […]

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11/29/2019

AFGHANISTAN/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After abruptly axing nearly a year of delicate peace talks with the Taliban in September, President Trump put the negotiations back on the front-burner this week in a similarly jolting fashion by seeming to demand a cease-fire that his negotiators had long concluded was overly ambitious. Despite a sense of relief at […]

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11/29/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats insist they are leading an impeachment inquiry into President Trump for one simple reason: His actions have left them no other choice. The president and his Republican allies argue that the inquiry is just an attempt to tear him down — ‘an illegitimate sham partisan process,’ as the White House […]

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11/29/2019

GOP/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Late last month, as damaging revelations about President Trump began piling up in the impeachment inquiry, conservative commentators and activists, including one of the president’s sons, trained their anger on an unlikely target: Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. Mr. Graham, normally one of the president’s most ardent defenders in […]

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11/29/2019

BRITAIN/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/NATO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump barreled into London like a bowling ball on his first trip to Britain as president last year, testing the special relationship by criticizing then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s approach to Brexit in the pages of The Sun ahead of his visit while praising her political rival at the time, Boris […]

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11/29/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked President Trump on Friday [11-29-19] whether he intends to mount a defense during the committee’s consideration of impeachment articles, setting a deadline of next Friday [12-6-19] for Mr. Trump and his lawyers to decide if they will present evidence or call witnesses. […]

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11/29/2019

CHINA/ELECTION/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump needs two big achievements to keep markets and the economy as glittering assets in his challenging 2020 reelection bid: passage of a new NAFTA and a trade deal with China. But Democrats are stringing him along on the first — the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — and he’s engaged in […]

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11/28/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @WhiteHouse: “THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the C…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 28, 2019 7:04 am […]

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11/27/2019

MILTIARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Navy announced on Wednesday [11-27-19] it would scrap plans to carry out reviews of three Navy SEALs that could have led to their ouster from the elite force, after President Donald Trump’s extraordinary intervention in a related case…The decision follows Trump’s order on Sunday that Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher […]

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11/27/2019

CHINA/HONG KONG/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law here congressional bills that back protesters in Hong Kong and threaten China with possible sanctions on human rights, prompting China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday [11-28-19] to warn of ‘firm counter measures’. Mass protests for more democracy and autonomy have rocked the former British colony […]

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11/27/2019

CHINA/HONG KONG/LEGISLATION/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Wednesday [11-27-19] signed tough legislation that authorizes sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for human rights abuses in Hong Kong, signaling support for pro-democracy activists and escalating tensions with Beijing as Mr. Trump tries to negotiate a trade deal with Chinese leaders. China’s Foreign Ministry was […]

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11/27/2019

DRUGS/FOREIGN POLICY/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A border wall. Mass deportations. Punishing tariffs. A halt to foreign aid. An end to a decades-old trade deal. For years, President Trump has pressured or wielded threats against Mexico, hoping to force a policy change, excite his political base, or both. This week, he did it again, announcing that he […]

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11/27/2019

2016 ELECTION/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence that the F.B.I. attempted to place undercover agents or informants inside Donald J. Trump’s campaign in 2016 as agents investigated whether his associates conspired with Russia’s election interference operation, people familiar with a draft of the inspector general’s report said. The determination […]

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11/27/2019

COURTS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Critics of President Trump cheered on Monday [12-25-19] when a federal judge ruled that the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II must testify to Congress — and scathingly labeled ‘fiction’ the administration’s arguments that top White House aides are immune from congressional subpoenas. Indeed, the outcome was the latest […]

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11/27/2019

IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House is reviewing an invitation from House Democrats for President Trump’s legal team to participate in the first Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing next week, even as his lawyers privately question whether to engage with a proceeding his administration branded ‘an illegitimate sham partisan process’ to drive Mr. Trump from […]

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11/26/2019

CONGRESS/COURTS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The D.C. Wolves and Fake News Media are reading far too much into people being forced by Courts to testify before Congress. I am fighting for future Presidents and the Office of the President. Other than that, I would actually like people to testify. Don McGahn’s respected….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 26, […]

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11/26/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “…lawyer has already stated that I did nothing wrong. John Bolton is a patriot and may know that I held back the money from Ukraine because it is considered a corrupt country, & I wanted to know why nearby European countries weren’t putting up money also. Likewise, I would….” –Donald Trump, […]

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11/26/2019

BUDGET/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “Two officials at the White House budget office resigned this year partly because of their concerns about President Trump’s decision to hold up congressionally approved security assistance to Ukraine, a third aide at the office told impeachment investigators, revealing dissent within a key agency about Mr. Trump’s refusal to release […]

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11/26/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Tom Barrack, the C.E.O. of Colony Capital and the chairman of President Trump’s inaugural committee, is being pressed by an activist investor to resign, DealBook has exclusively learned. The activist investor, Blackwells Capital, sent a letter to Colony saying: • ‘With Mr. Barrack’s track record and personal issues, no reasonable, […]

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11/26/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the chairman of President Trump’s inaugural committee, is under pressure from an activist investor to resign as chief executive of Colony Capital, a real estate investment firm he founded. Blackwells Capital sent a searing letter to Colony on Tuesday [11-26-19], demanding that Mr. Barrack be replaced after Colony’s stock […]

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11/26/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Midterm victories in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin gave Democrats hope of retaking the Rust Belt battleground states that handed the presidency to Donald J. Trump in 2016. Yet success in the midterms might not mean as much for Democratic presidential candidates as the party might think. Nearly two-thirds of voters in […]

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11/26/2019

CHINA/HUMAN RIGHTS/MIKE POMPEO/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday [11-26-19] stopped just short of endorsing legislation that would punish violent crackdowns against pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, a plan that could imperil trade with both the Hong Kong government and China. In wide-ranging remarks at the State Department, Mr. Pompeo took care […]

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11/26/2019

BUSINESS/FRANCE/TARIFFS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A brief truce in what had been an escalating battle between the United States and France over taxing digital services has expired, but President Trump gave no indication this week whether he planned to return to his threats to impose new tariffs on imported wine and other French products as a result. […]

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11/26/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE/WHISTLEBLOWER: “President Trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower’s complaint about his dealings with Ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in September, according to two people familiar with the matter. Lawyers from the White House counsel’s office told Mr. Trump in late August about the complaint, explaining that they […]

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11/26/2019

ELECTION/LATINOS/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s like chickens for Colonel Sanders. Why would any self-respecting Latino vote to re-elect President Donald Trump, arguably the most anti-Latino chief executive in U.S. history? That’s what my non-Latino friends want to know. I get that question all the time, often accompanied by a tilted head and a confused look. In the 2020 […]

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11/26/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Poll shows Dems losing interest in Impeachment inquiry all across the board. These Polls are actually devastating to the Democrats. But the writing was on the wall. He’s done so many great things. He’s devastated ISIS & killed AlBaghdadi, building Wall.’ Jason Meister @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 26, 2019 6:14 am […]

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11/26/2019

NATIVE AMERICANS/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS/WOMEN: “My Administration has heard the ongoing and serious concerns of tribal governments regarding missing and murdered members of American Indian and Alaska Native communities, particularly women and girls.  To address the severity of those concerns, top officials within the Federal Government will coordinate and engage with the tribal governments… There is […]

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