4/20/2019

AFRICA/IVANKA: “RT @IvankaTrump: Wonderful and productive visit to Côte d’Ivoire! #WGDP! ?: https://t.co/zzEsYYOyUp” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 20, 2019 12:52 pm […]

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4/20/2019

MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How did WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group used as a conduit by Russian intelligence to distribute hacked emails, come to release a trove of documents just when Donald Trump’s candidacy seemed to need it most? Why did Trump’s campaign chief share internal polling data with a man tied to Russian intelligence? […]

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4/20/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Fake News Media is doing everything possible to stir up and anger the pols and as many people as possible seldom mentioning the fact that the Mueller Report had as its principle conclusion the fact that there was NO COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA. The Russia Hoax is dead!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/20/2019

DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Despite the fact that the Mueller Report should not have been authorized in the first place & was written as nastily as possible by 13 (18) Angry Democrats who were true Trump Haters, including highly conflicted Bob Mueller himself, the end result is No Collusion, No Obstruction!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April […]

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4/19/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For nearly a month, the American public has been under the impression, thanks to a four-page ‘summary’ by Attorney General William Barr, that Robert Mueller could not decide whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice because of ‘difficult questions of law and fact.’ Barr suggested that the special counsel, […]

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4/19/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/NEW YORK/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the mid-1990s, Representative Jerry Nadler, who represents parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, once said, ‘Anyone who would loan Donald Trump money is taking a risk.’ In 2017, Mr. Nadler said President Trump was ‘legally elected but is not legitimate.’ And this month, The Washington Post reported that in […]

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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

2016 ELECTION/GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday [4-19-19] he was ‘sickened’ by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump […]

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4/19/2019

CONGRESS/DEMS/ELIZABETH WARREN/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, on Friday [4-19-19] said Congress should begin the process of removing President Donald Trump from office over findings in U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. ‘The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside […]

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4/19/2019

LEGAL/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Friday [4-19-19] to five years of probation after admitting he mailed threatening letters filled with a suspicious white powder to several prominent people, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought three years in prison for Daniel Frisiello, 25, of Beverly, […]

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4/19/2019

FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/JAPAN/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Without close friends in Asia, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears to be using every opportunity, even the emperor’s accession, to court President Donald Trump. Abe is scheduling a rushed visit to Washington to meet with Trump and celebrate first lady’s birthday, and then is inviting him to be first foreign […]

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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

FOREIGN POLICY/LIBYA/MIKE POMPEO/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [4-19-19] abruptly reversed American policy toward Libya, issuing a statement publicly endorsing an aspiring strongman in his battle to depose the United Nations-backed government. The would-be strongman, Khalifa Hifter, launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, more than two weeks ago. Relief agencies said […]

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4/19/2019

COURTS/ENVIRONMENT/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal appeals court on Friday has given the EPA 90 days to take action on demands by environmental groups to ban a widely used pesticide. Groups are hoping that the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco will mean that the government will soon […]

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4/19/2019

CONGRESS/ELIZABETH WARREN/IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday [4-19-19] called on Congress to impeach President Donald Trump in the wake of the publication of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, breaking with Democratic leaders deferring the politically risky move despite new evidence that Trump attempted to derail the Russia probe…Mueller’s 448-page report described at […]

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4/19/2019

ELECTION/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump campaign has hired its own in-house attorney for its 2020 reelection bid — shifting future business away from Jones Day, the law firm, that has represented Trump since his first run for president. Campaign officials and advisers cast the decision to hire Nathan Groth — a former lawyer for the […]

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4/19/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Washington Post and New York Times are, in my opinion, two of the most dishonest media outlets around. Truly, the Enemy of the People! https://t.co/AG3vccsJvg” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, 2019 4:23 pm […]

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4/19/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….big, fat, waste of time, energy and money – $30,000,000 to be exact. It is now finally time to turn the tables and bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people who have committed very serious crimes, perhaps even Spying or Treason. This should never happen again!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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4/19/2019

GOP/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday [4-19-19] he was ‘sickened’ by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. Romney, now a U.S. senator from Utah and an off-and-on Trump critic, […]

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4/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Mueller report — the result of a 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election — didn’t end the debate over whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice or acted inappropriately while in office. But there’s one thing it proved beyond any debate: The President lies with remarkable ease […]

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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

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “For two years, President Donald Trump and his close associates contradicted, denied and dodged reports and questions of Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign. Now that the Mueller report is out, redacted as it may be, we have the chance to fact-check those public denials against what many people […]

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4/19/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “A day after claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report had vindicated him, President Donald Trump was in a foul mood about Mueller’s detailed findings, lashing out at the Russia investigator and fuming about aides who cooperated with him. Close White House advisers said they expect Trump’s hottest […]

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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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4/19/2019

NORTH KOREA/SOUTH KOREA/SUMMIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “South Korean President Moon Jae-in has a message from President Donald Trump to relay to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, South Korean diplomatic sources told CNN Friday…Trump and Moon met at the White House a week ago to discuss plans for reviving the diplomatic process between the US and […]

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4/19/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…agreed to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the ‘Report’ about me, some of which are total bullshit & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad). This was an Illegally Started Hoax that never should have happened, […]

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4/19/2019

DEMS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue. Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 19, […]

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4/19/2019

2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday [4-19-19] declined to comment on whether Congress might launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, saying it was not appropriate to criticize him while abroad. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his inquiry into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election […]

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4/19/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the summer of 2016, not long after WikiLeaks began releasing damaging material hacked by the Russian government from the servers of the Democratic National Committee, candidate Donald Trump was traveling to an airport with campaign aide Rick Gates. Trump got off a phone call and told Gates more material […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kimberley Strassel should get the Pulitzer. She is a treasure (and I don’t know her) who correctly called the Russia Hoax right from the start! Others who were soooo wrong will get the Prize. Fake News! https://t.co/TJJPY5MM6X”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 9:34 pm   […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller was able to complete his investigation because President Donald Trump let him, the president asserted Thursday [4-18-19] afternoon, in his first public reaction since Mueller’s report was released hours earlier…Trump was initially mum after Mueller’s report into Russian interference during the 2016 election went public […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In December 2016, a few weeks after Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, Russian president Vladimir Putin convened what a Russian oligarch described as an ‘all-hands’ meeting with some of his country’s top businessmen. A main topic of discussion: U.S. sanctions against Russia. One of the oligarchs present was Petr Aven, co-founder […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘The Mueller Report is perhaps the single most humiliating thing that has ever happened to the White House Press in the history of this Country. They know they lied…Many reporters lied about Russia Collusion and so much more. Clapper & Brennan, all lies’ @TuckerCarlson” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 7:38 […]

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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

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mr. Mueller examined about 10 actions by President Trump to determine whether he sought to obstruct justice but could not reach a conclusion. He found a concerted effort by Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, but established no criminal conspiracy between Mr. Trump’s campaign and Russia.The report detailed […]

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4/18/2019

ECONOMY/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A government report has concluded that the Trump administration’s revised North American trade agreement would offer modest benefits to the economy, challenging the president’s claims that the accord would make far-reaching changes. Mr. Trump has reviled the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement as the worst trade pact in existence and blamed […]

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4/18/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For 21 minutes on Thursday [4-18-19] morning, with the nation watching, President Trump had the loyal attorney general he had always longed for. Reading a prepared statement and then answering questions from reporters, Attorney General William P. Barr presented the special counsel’s report, 90 minutes before its public release, in […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III laid out roughly a dozen episodes that revealed that President Trump was intent on using his position to protect himself and his associates from the investigation into links between his campaign and the Russian government’s covert operation to manipulate the 2016 election. Mr. Mueller, the […]

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4/18/2019

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the time President Trump woke up on Thursday [4-18-19] morning, he was ready for the Mueller report. The day before, his lawyers had given him a matter-of-fact recounting of the special counsel’s sprawling, 448-page document during a briefing in the White House residence. It left Mr. Trump concerned about its […]

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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III revealed the scope of a historic Russian campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential election in a much-anticipated report made public on Thursday [4-18-19], and he detailed a frantic monthslong effort by President Trump to thwart a federal investigation that imperiled his presidency from the start. […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, examined an array of actions President Trump took in office that could have constituted obstruction of justice. Ultimately, Mr. Mueller declined to make a decision about whether Mr. Trump broke the law and Attorney General William P. Barr stepped in to cleared the […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: It was a really great day for America! A special evening tonight on @TuckerCarlson, @seanhannity & @IngrahamAngle Wil…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 6:47 pm […]

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4/18/2019

MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When there is not an underlying crime with regard to Collusion (in fact, the whole thing was a made up fraud), it is difficult to say that someone is obstructing something. There was no underlying crime.’ @marthamaccallum @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 6:46 pm […]

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4/18/2019

FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHITE HOSUE STAFF: “When ousted FBI Director James Comey delivered damaging testimony to Congress in 2017, attracting nationwide attention, White House aides insisted that President Donald Trump’s mood was ‘light.’ Shortly after news broke that Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet with Russian nationals promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, Trump reported […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump White House and its allies went into overdrive on Thursday [4-18-19] to spin the Mueller report as a vindication, even as it became clear that the 448-page document was filled with unflattering details about the president and even suggested that he might still be hiding unknown criminal activity. […]

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4/18/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Attorney General decided that President Donald Trump did not obstruct a probe into whether his campaign colluded with Russia, but some legal experts said prosecutors laid out a wealth of evidence to the contrary and that they intended to leave that determination to Congress. Special Counsel Robert […]

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4/18/2019

JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump responded to news of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2017 appointment by telling then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he was ‘fucked,’ according to a redacted version of Mueller’s report released Thursday [4—18-19]. ‘Oh my God,’ the president told Sessions, according to the report. ‘This is terrible. This […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller may not have found evidence of a criminal conspiracy between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, but his report details extensive contacts between the campaign and Russian operatives who sought to influence the election. Mueller said in his report released on Thursday [4-18-19] that he found ‘numerous […]

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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

MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, I was thrilled to host the @WWP Soldier Ride once again at the @WhiteHouse. We were all deeply honored to be in the presence of TRUE AMERICAN HEROES….https://t.co/q6D5875xCw“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2019 3:37 pm […]

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4/18/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited report is more damning than President Donald Trump has publicly claimed, detailing Trump’s aggressive efforts to interfere in the Justice Department’s Russia probe and declining to rule out that Trump obstructed justice. Far from the ‘complete and total exoneration’’ the president has declared in […]

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4/18/2019

CHRIS CHRISTIE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump asked former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie about the prospect of firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller and also asked him to be an intermediary to FBI Director James Comey, according to the Mueller report released Thursday [4-18-19]. The redacted report reveals for the first time that […]

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4/18/2019

ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s calculated move to pre-emptively declare ‘complete exoneration’ in the Russia probe will be put to the test in a matter of hours. After nearly two years of waiting, the public on Thursday will finally see the results of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into whether the Trump […]

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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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4/18/2019

2016 ELECTION/E-MAILS/HILLARY CLINTON/MICHAEL FLYNN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald J. Trump ordered the man who would later serve briefly as his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, to find thousands of missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s computer server at the height of the 2016 presidential campaign, the special counsel’s report revealed on Thursday [4-18-19]. The episode […]

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4/17/2019

DHS/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is in the midst of a purge at the Department of Homeland Security, evidently aimed at implementing more severe immigration and border security policies. Last week he ousted Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and followed by firing or threatening to fire other top figures in the department, even forcing out […]

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4/17/2019

IVANKA/WORLD BANK: “White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump says her father asked her if she was interested in the job of World Bank chief but she passed on it. In an Associated Press interview, President Donald Trump’s daughter said Wednesday she was happy with her current role in the administration. She was traveling in Africa […]

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4/17/2019

JAPAN/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on April 26 to discuss trade and efforts to contain North Korea’s nuclear program, a U.S. official said on Wednesday [4-27-19]. Abe is one of Trump’s closest allies on the world stage and the […]

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4/17/2019

2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election has ensnared dozens of people, including several advisers to President Donald Trump and a series of Russian nationals and companies. Rod Rosenstein, the No. 2 U.S. Justice Department official, in May 2017 appointed Mueller to look […]

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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

REGULATIONS/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [4-15-19] proposed new regulations aimed at making it easier for investors to take advantage of tax breaks for investing in ‘Opportunity Zones’ in low-income areas. The proposed regulations issued by the Treasury Department seek to clear up questions that were keeping some investors from using the tax […]

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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

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the last couple of weeks, President Trump repeatedly called his enemies ‘treasonous.’ He threatened to punish Democrats by dumping migrants in their districts. He promoted a video tying a Muslim congresswoman to images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The message seems clear and so does […]

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4/17/2019

CHINA/DEMS/FTC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A strange dynamic has gripped the Federal Trade Commission: President Trump’s biggest allies are the Democrats. In a vote made public Wednesday [4-17-19], the commission’s two Democratic appointees voted to impose financial penalties on companies the agency found violated federal law by falsely marketing their products as ‘Made in America’ when, in […]

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4/17/2019

DEMS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many viewers of Monday [4-15-19] night’s Fox News town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders saw a left-wing candidate in the hot seat on a network known for its tight relationship with President Donald Trump. But Trump himself saw something else: sinister forces at his favorite news network aligning against him. […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A former Trump administration official who cooperated with Robert Mueller’s probe is having serious second thoughts about talking to the special counsel’s office, citing concerns about being named in the Justice Department’s redacted version of the report. This aide noted the White House requested that former senior officials cooperate […]

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4/17/2019

DEFENSE/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected and directed a ‘new tactical guided weapons firing test’ Wednesday [4-17-19], according to a report from the country’s state media. The report, published Thursday [4-18-19] morning local time (Wednesday evening ET) by news agency KCNA, did not state exactly what kind of weapon was […]

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4/17/2019

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When the Mueller report crashes into a Washington feverish with anticipation on Thursday [4-18-19], the White House hopes to show President Donald Trump busy doing his job — and far away from a phone-sized keyboard. Trump typically spends the first half of his workday in the White House residence in […]

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4/17/2019

IVANKA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Ivanka Trump is the eldest daughter of Donald Trump. And a senior adviser in his White House. And, according to her, she could have been the head of the World Bank, too. In an interview with the Associated Press in the Ivory Coast (she’s in Africa along with the head of USAID) Ivanka […]

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