5/24/2019

DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t know why the Radical Left Democrats want Bob Mueller to testify when he just issued a 40 Million Dollar Report that states, loud & clear & for all to hear, No Collusion and No Obstruction (how do you Obstruct a NO crime?) Dems are just looking for trouble and […]

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5/24/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘If they try to Impeach President Trump, who has done nothing wrong (No Collusion), they will end up getting him re-elected’ @LindseyGrahamSC Impeachment is for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. There were no High Crimes and Misdemeanors, except for those committed by the other side!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 24, 2019 7:19 am […]

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5/23/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued Thursday [5-23-19] the ‘White House is just crying out for impeachment’ but that Democrats will continue to hold back on opening an impeachment inquiry until it’s ‘unavoidable’…Pelosi has previously argued that President Donald Trump is goading Democrats into impeaching him because he thinks it will fire […]

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5/23/2019

CHUCK SCHUMER/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How real are Donald Trump’s temper tantrums? Not very, says professional Trump observer Nancy Pelosi. On Thursday [5-23-19], the House speaker called Trump’s latest tantrum—staged during a Wednesday [5-22-19] White House session on infrastructure spending with the president and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—a ‘stunt’ and one of his ‘bag […]

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5/23/2019

CAMPAIGN/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump dropped the pretense of working with congressional Democrats on Wednesday [5-22-19] and sent a clear message that his re-election campaign will be centered on condemning overzealous investigations rather than advancing a robust domestic policy agenda. Both sides may have feigned surprise at Trump’s angry outburst, in which he said […]

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5/23/2019

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Chicago bank chairman has been indicted in Manhattan on a charge that he issued millions of dollars in high-risk loans to President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in an effort to obtain a senior position in the administration, federal authorities said on Thursday [5-23-19]. Prosecutors said the chairman, Stephen M. […]

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5/23/2019

MIDDLE EAST/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Thursday [5-23-19] that he had not yet decided whether to deploy additional troops to the Middle East to provide protection for American military personnel already there, but would consider options presented by the Pentagon. The president’s comments, during a farm aid event at the White House, came […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/NEW YORK/TRUMP TAXES: “The New York Legislature passed a bill yesterday that could let members of Congress do something few have: look at President Trump’s tax returns, legally. The bill may lead to further insight into the vast and complex network of Mr. Trump’s business activities, which he has vigorously tried to conceal for decades. […]

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5/23/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The war of words between President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi escalated in dramatic fashion on Thursday [5-23-19], with each leader questioning the other’s temperament and mental fitness in an extraordinary exchange of personal insults. The president, who has largely avoided direct personal attacks on the speaker, finally gave […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump’s White House staff is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena in the coming weeks. The aide, the former communications director Hope Hicks, who left the White House with an enduring mystique that inspired countless news […]

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5/23/2019

AGRICULTURE/CHINA/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Thursday [5-23-19] unveiled a $16 billion bailout for farmers hurt by his trade war with Beijing, signaling a protracted fight ahead that is already prompting some American companies to shift business away from China. Mr. Trump, flanked by farmers and ranchers in cowboy hats during remarks at the […]

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5/23/2019

AGRICULTURE/FEDERAL FUNDING/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump ratcheted up his feud with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday [5-23-19], turning an event organized to announce a multibillion-dollar aid package to farmers into a nearly half-hour-long diatribe against his Democratic rivals. Rejecting Pelosi’s characterization of his decision to scrap a meeting Wednesday [5-22-19] […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/GUNS/MIDDLE EAST/MIKE POMPEO/SAUDI ARABIA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is preparing to circumvent Congress to allow the export to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of billions of dollars of munitions that are now on hold, according to current and former American officials and legislators familiar with the plan. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo […]

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5/23/2019

BORDER/DHS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE/WALL: “President Donald Trump has ‘aggressively’ pushed for the Army Corps of Engineers to award a contract to a North Dakota-based construction company to build sections of his proposed wall along the southern US border, The Washington Post reported Thursday [5-23-19]. Citing conversations with multiple unnamed administration officials, the paper said the President has […]

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5/23/2019

BORDER/FEDERAL FUNDING/GOP/NATURAL DISASTERS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans senators say President Donald Trump has agreed to a $19.1 billion disaster aid bill, providing relief to a country beset by devastating floods, wildfires and hurricanes without funding for the border that the President had sought. Late Thursday [5-23-19], the President tweeted his approval of the measure: ‘The U.S. […]

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5/23/2019

2016 ELECTION/ATTORNEY GENERAL/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [5-23-19] directed the intelligence community to cooperate with a Justice Department probe into ‘surveillance activities’ during the 2016 presidential election, also granting Attorney General William Barr authority to declassify information related to the investigation into Russian meddling. Trump ‘directed the intelligence community to quickly […]

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5/23/2019

NANCY PELOSI/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The country’s social media giants are taking heat for videos circulating on their platforms that have been altered to show Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words — the latest incident in a roiling debate over what content companies like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should allow on their platforms. The Washington […]

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5/23/2019

ENTITLEMENTS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took another step Thursday [5-23-19] to crack down on legal immigration, instructing agencies to enforce a 23-year-old law that requires sponsors of green card holders to reimburse the government for welfare benefits. Trump approved a memorandum Thursday to enforce a pair of provisions signed into law by President Bill Clinton […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGISLATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One day after President Donald Trump indicated he would not cut deals with Congress while he’s being investigated, he cut a deal with Congress. With Trump’s support, the Senate passed a long-stalled disaster aid bill, in the perfect encapsulation of a whiplash-inducing week. On Tuesday [5-22-19], hopes of a two-year budget deal […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump won’t release White House visitor logs, he refuses to hand over his tax returns, he made staffers sign non-disclosure agreements and he’s balking at congressional investigators. Yet during a Rose Garden speech on Wednesday [5-22-19], he again proclaimed himself ‘the most transparent president’ in U.S. history, adding to the reporters […]

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5/23/2019

DEMS/HOLIDAY/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi just bought a little more time. The California Democrat sent lawmakers out the door Thursday for a 10-day Memorial Day break after tamping down swelling demands from House Democrats to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. But with Trump intent on defying Democrats on every investigative front, […]

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5/23/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Massachusetts Gov. BIll Weld said he‘ll be directing his campaign toward open primary states where he expects to win crossover votes from Democrats intent on casting a vote against President Donald Trump before the general election in November…The former two-term GOP governor, who’s waging a longshot primary campaign against Trump, laid […]

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5/23/2019

2016 ELECTION/E-MAILS/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump offered some advice on Thursday [5-23-19] to former Trump-Russia FBI investigators Peter Strzok and Lisa Page: You should have used a private server…Strzok was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team after it became clear he’d been romantically involved with Page and anti-Trump texts between the couple […]

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5/23/2019

DEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump attacked House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday [5-23-19], after infrastructure talks with Democratic lawmakers collapsed the day before amid sprawling congressional probes into Trump’s business and administration. ‘I tell you what, I’ve been watching her and I have been watching her for a long period […]

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5/23/2019

ELECTION/INDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations to Prime Minister @NarendraModi and his BJP party on their BIG election victory! Great things are in store for the US-India partnership with the return of PM Modi at the helm. I look forward to continuing our important work together!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2019 12:13 pm […]

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5/23/2019

ELECTION/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/INDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a big election victory that put his Hindu nationalist party on course to increase its parliamentary majority. ‘Congratulations to Prime Minister @narendramodi and his BJP party on their BIG election victory,’ Trump said on Twitter. ‘Great things are in store […]

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5/23/2019

CHUCK SCHUMER/MEDIA/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was extremely calm yesterday with my meeting with Pelosi and Schumer, knowing that they would say I was raging, which they always do, along with their partner, the Fake News Media. Well, so many stories about the meeting use the Rage narrative anyway – Fake & Corrupt Press!” -Donald […]

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5/23/2019

REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rex Tillerson, a man who is ‘dumb as a rock’ and totally ill prepared and ill equipped to be Secretary of State, made up a story (he got fired) that I was out-prepared by Vladimir Putin at a meeting in Hamburg, Germany. I don’t think Putin would agree. Look how the […]

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5/23/2019

INVESTIGATIONS/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are getting nothing done in Congress. All of their effort is about a Re-Do of the Mueller Report, which didn’t turn out the way they wanted. It is not possible for them to investigate and legislate at the same time. Their heart is not into Infrastructure, lower….. ….drug prices, […]

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5/23/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are getting nothing done in Congress. All of their effort is about a Re-Do of the Mueller Report, which didn’t turn out the way they wanted. It is not possible for them to investigate and legislate at the same time. Their heart is not into Infrastructure, lower…..” -Donald Trump, […]

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5/23/2019

ELECTION/HEALTHCARE/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign believes he can turn Republicans’ biggest liability from last year’s congressional elections – the debate about the future of healthcare in America – into a winning issue for his reelection. That would have appeared highly unlikely just months ago, when Democrats seized upon the issue […]

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5/22/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a letter to her House colleagues, Nancy Pelosi said: ‘President Trump had a temper tantrum for us all to see.’ This is not true. I was purposely very polite and calm, much as I was minutes later with the press in the Rose Garden. Can be easily proven. […]

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5/22/2019

FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, was in constant contact with — and received thousands of dollars from — a Russia-linked firm starting on Election Day in 2016, newly unsealed court documents show. The transactions soon caught the attention of investigators, as the FBI zeroed in on what […]

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5/22/2019

FIRST RESPONDERS/POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I want to welcome you all to the @WhiteHouse as we award our very bravest law enforcement officers and firefighters our nation’s highest public safety award – The Medal of Valor…https://t.co/68EeQk8ZHr“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 3:46 pm […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi engaged in a public and bitter feud on Wednesday [5-22-19], with the president detonating bipartisan negotiations over the speaker’s accusations of a ‘cover-up’ and Pelosi bluntly responding: ‘I pray for the president of the United States.’ The breakdown resulted in Trump declaring that he […]

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5/22/2019

ABORTION/GOP/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Supreme Court may well be headed for an election-year fight over abortion rights, but it’s not likely to be a blockbuster showdown over Roe v. Wade. Courtwatchers anticipate that the justices will agree to take one or more cases related to abortion restrictions in the coming term, drawing attention […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….Democrat leadership is tearing the United States apart, but I will continue to set records for the American People – and Nancy, thank you so much for your prayers, I know you truly mean it!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 12:02 pm […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….But they really want a do-over! You can’t investigate and legislate simultaneously – it just doesn’t work that way. You can’t go down two tracks at the same time. Let Chuck, Nancy, Jerry, Adam and all of the rest finish playing their games….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 12:01 pm […]

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5/22/2019

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….In the meantime, my Administration is achieving things that have never been done before, including unleashing perhaps the Greatest Economy in our Country’s history….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 12:01 pm […]

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5/22/2019

BORDER/CHILDREN/DEMS/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Homeland Security Committee broke out in a skirmish today after Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) accused the Trump administration of intentionally killing immigrant children at the border. Underwood’s comments — in which she said a recent string of child deaths were ‘intentional’ and a ‘policy change’ — came during the testimony […]

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5/22/2019

GOP/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As I have long been saying, and has now been proven out, this is a Witch Hunt against the Republican Party and myself, and it was the other side that caused the problem, not us!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 10:15 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “..BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN. Mr. McGahn can be forgiven for declining the honor of appearing in Mr. Nadler’s pseudo-impeachment drama.’ Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Today – May 21, 2019”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 10:11 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘He (Jerry Nadler) wants a show. He wants to use Mr. McGahn as a prop to spend three hours claiming that Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the Mueller investigation. YET MR. MUELLER WASN’T OBSTRUCTED IN ANY WAY, HIS COPIOUS REPORT WAS RELEASED FOR ALL TO SEE, & THERE WAS NO COLLUSION..”  […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The Democrats are in danger of becoming irrelevant because of their decision to keep taking the country on wild goose chases. They ought to start governing. You know, for a change.’ Michael Goodwin @newyorkpost” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 8:54 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everybody, including me, thought that when the 40 Million Dollar Mueller Report was released with No Collusion and No Obstruction (of a crime caused by others), that was the end. But no, the Democrats want to keep it going in an effort to help them in 2020. Bad for the Country!” […]

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5/22/2019

BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Much of the Wall being built at the Southern Border is a complete demolition and rebuilding of old and worthless barriers with a brand new Wall and footings. Problem is, the Haters say that is not a new Wall, but rather a renovation. Wrong, and we must build where most needed….”  –Donald […]

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5/22/2019

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Also, tremendous work is being done on pure renovation – fixing existing Walls that are in bad condition and ineffective, and bringing them to a very high standard!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 6:22 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEVIN NUNES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @DevinNunes: ‘Warrior for the western alliance’ ? – Why does he wait 2 months to bring USA this important information? https://t.co/tY0…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 5:48 am […]

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5/22/2019

COURTS/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: Very pleased to have confirmed another conservative judge to the Ninth Circuit. Daniel Collins will be an outstanding…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 5:44 am […]

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5/22/2019

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @LindseyGrahamSC: The only way to protect Americans serving overseas is to have their back. I am proud President Trump is standing up…”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 5:44 am […]

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5/22/2019

GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @GOPoversight: #ICYMI: Watch @RepMarkMeadows’s opening statement from today’s Government Operations Subcommittee hearing. Mr. Meadows i…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 5:43 am […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Everything the Democrats are asking me for is based on an illegally started investigation that failed for them, especially when the Mueller Report came back with a NO COLLUSION finding. Now they say Impeach President Trump, even though he did nothin wrong, while they ‘fish!’”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 22, 2019 […]

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5/22/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/CONGRESS/DEMS/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Bill Barr should resign over his conduct before Congress, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Wednesday [5-22-19], calling the attorney general a ‘personal attorney’ for President Donald Trump. The California Democrat said he hesitates to ‘call Bill Barr the Attorney General.’ ‘I think Bill Barr has all […]

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5/22/2019

COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “For three years, Donald J. Trump has treated the details of his personal and business finances as a closely guarded secret. On Wednesday [5-22-19], those secrets moved two steps closer to becoming public. A federal judge in Manhattan ruled against a request from President Trump to block his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank, from […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Late Wednesday [5-22-19] morning, President Trump headed into what was supposed to be a meeting with congressional Democrats on how to fund a $2 trillion infrastructure package he and they had agreed on last month. Instead, he spent three minutes berating Democratic leaders for saying unpleasant things about him, before proclaiming […]

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5/22/2019

CONGRESS/ELIZABETH WARREN/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts called for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump after the release of the redacted Mueller report last month, arguing that Robert S. Mueller, the special counsel, ‘put the next step in the hands of Congress.’ But many of her competitors stayed quiet on […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/NANCY PELOSI/STEVE MNUCHIN/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES: “It was another wild day in Washington as President Trump stormed out of a three-minute Oval Office meeting with Democratic congressional leaders, Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the president of a ‘cover-up’ and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held firm on his refusal to release Mr. Trump’s tax returns to Congress. But Democrats […]

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5/22/2019

DEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi hopped into her SUV on Wednesday [5-22-19] for the short drive to the White House knowing full well that a presidential ambush awaited. President Trump was not ‘serious,’ and needed a way out of negotiations over a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that he could not pay for, she […]

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5/21/2019

FEDERAL RESERVE/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration is vetting Judy Shelton, a conservative economist and former Trump campaign adviser, for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, according to people familiar with the matter, putting the longtime Fed critic one step closer to a leadership role at an institution she would like to drastically […]

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5/21/2019

CAMPAIGN FINANCE/CANADA/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A campaign finance watchdog group filed a complaint on Tuesday [5-21-19] against a Canadian billionaire alleging that he violated a federal ban on contributions by foreigners when his United States-based company donated $1.75 million last year to a political committee supporting President Trump’s agenda. The complaint was filed by the […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A bloc of liberal Democrats began pressing on Tuesday [5-21-19] for an impeachment inquiry of President Trump, underscoring party divisions and the growing difficulties that Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces as she tries to chart a more methodical course. Mr. Trump’s latest defiance of congressional oversight demands precipitated the break among Democrats. […]

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5/21/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/IRAN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top American national security officials sought to convince a divided Congress on Tuesday [5-21-19] about the seriousness of new threats from Iran as they defended intelligence that has prompted military deployments aimed at deterring attacks by Tehran. Democrats emerged from the classified briefings on Capitol Hill with sharp questions about whose […]

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5/21/2019

ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Great news for Republicans: Fred Keller has just won the hard fought for Pennsylvania Congressional contest in a LANDSLIDE, over 70% of the vote. Thanks to the thousands who showed up for the Rally last night. Congratulations to Fred and his wonderful family!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2019 9:20 pm […]

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5/21/2019

FOREIGN POLICY/HOUSE OF REPS/REX TILLERSON/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with a handful of House members and staffers for seven hours Tuesday [5-21-19] to discuss President Donald Trump’s foreign policy decision-making, including on issues related to Russia. Tillerson served roughly a year as America’s chief diplomat before the president fired him […]

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5/21/2019

ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday [5-21-19] responded to President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine his ties to Pennsylvania by playing up his connection to another key voting bloc: the working class…Trump’s campaign is ratcheting up its efforts to win over voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — states that […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/INFRASTRUCTURE/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On the eve of a highly anticipated meeting with Democrats at which President Donald Trump was expected to unveil a way to fund a $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, Trump instead put Congress on notice that it will have to take a backseat to a trade deal…The White House has been working […]

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20/16/2019

IMMIGRATION/NOMINATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It was a defining image of the 2016 Republican National Convention: Ken Cuccinelli throwing down his credentials in disgust after failing to secure a rules vote that could have complicated Donald Trump’s nomination. Cucinelli had led the delegate operation for Trump’s chief GOP rival, Sen. Ted Cruz. Three months earlier, Trump’s convention manager, […]

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5/21/2019

CONGRESS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John Brennan on the Mueller probe, ‘I don’t know if I received bad information, but I THINK I SUSPECTED THAT THERE WAS MORE THAN THERE ACTUALLY WAS.’ Wow, he admits he was wrong! Congress should go back to work on drug prices etc.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2019 8:02 pm […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/OBAMA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democrats are on a fishing expedition, wanting to interview the same people, and see the same things, as we just went through for two years with Robert Mueller and the 18 Angry Dems. Never happened to a president before. Never even happened to President Obama!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Freshman Democrats who delivered the House majority are starting to split under impeachment pressure as a number of those in competitive districts are now warming to the idea of launching proceedings against President Donald Trump. As the administration continues to stonewall requests for documents — not just surrounding special counsel Robert Mueller’s […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After spending 40 Million Dollars, reviewing 1.4 million pages of documents, & interviewing 500 people with the total support of the White House, the Mueller Report was a BIG DISAPPOINTMENT to the Democrats, so they want a DO OVER. It doesn’t work that way-so bad for our Country!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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5/21/2019

GOP/NANCY PELOSI/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s trade chief on Tuesday [5-21-19] praised an unlikely figure on the other side of the Capitol: Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In a closed-door lunch with GOP senators on Tuesday, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that he was optimistic about the prospects of getting the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement passed […]

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5/21/2019

ELECTION/GOP/POLLS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A top strategist on President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has withdrawn from an effort to unseat North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis in 2020 — an arrangement that sparked tensions at the highest levels of the Republican Party. Pollster John McLaughlin’s work for a Tillis primary challenger had angered leading Senate […]

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5/21/2019

TRUMP PEOPLE: “Shahira Knight has done a wonderful job as my Legislative Affairs Director at the White House. She was outstanding for us and for our Country – will be a tremendous success in the private sector!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2019 5:48 pm […]

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5/21/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “So even though I didn’t have to do it with Presidential Privilege, I allowed everyone to testify, including White House Counsel Don McGahn (for over 30 hours), to Robert Mueller and the 18 Angry Trump-Hating Democrats, and they arrived….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, 2019 4:22 pm […]

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