9/14/2018

CHINA/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump may believe that China will eventually wave the white flag in a trade war, but his posture is inviting only more resistance from Beijing, where skepticism of his administration’s ability to negotiate in good faith is growing…The question was raised just before China announced that it would […]

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9/14/2018

BUSINESS/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump signed legislation on Thursday [9-13-18] that would reduce tariffs on nearly 1,700 imported products used by U.S. manufacturers — an uncharacteristic move for the leader who has shown an affinity for imposing tariffs on foreign goods. The bill, which House lawmakers passed last week, temporarily reduces or suspends tariffs […]

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9/14/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As a federal prosecutor, I heard dozens of defense attorneys criticize the use of accomplice testimony in criminal trials. The arguments are familiar—unseemly witnesses lie to curry favor with unscrupulous prosecutors motivated by a desire for conviction. They suggest to juries that these ‘snitches’ are the real criminals in […]

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9/14/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort had something very, very special that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wanted so badly: His cooperation. Today, as he promised to plead guilty to a set of reduced charges, Manafort agreed to cooperate ‘fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly’ with the special counsel’s investigation. Documents Mueller might […]

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9/14/2018

BETSY DEVOS/EDUCATION/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Latest on the effort by the Trump administration to delay Obama-era efforts to protect students defrauded by for-profit schools. (all times local): 4:30 p.m. The Trump administration is asking the court for another chance to delay an Obama-era policy meant to boost protections for students defrauded by for-profit schools. The […]

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9/14/2018

ELECTION/GOP/HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In just a few moments and two tweets, President Donald Trump roiled Florida’s crucial elections, upending his party’s ongoing efforts to make inroads to the battleground state’s growing Puerto Rican population. Trump’s tweets Thursday [9-14-18] claiming that ‘3,000 people did not die’ in the hurricanes that hit the island last year […]

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9/14/2018

ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is finally making moves against foreign election meddling – and Russia says it couldn’t care less. Trump’s executive order this week authorizing sanctions on foreigners who mess with American elections could herald new headaches for Moscow. But Russian officialdom shrugged it off as internal U.S. politicking, and analysts say […]

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9/14/2018

GOP/NATO/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization worked to shore up support in Washington this week, with boosters of the alliance anxious to retain the support of American conservatives amid criticism by President Trump and ahead of a possible Senate vote next year on expansion. Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, […]

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9/14/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election as part of a plea deal, prosecutors said on Friday [9-14-18]. Manafort, 69, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to two criminal […]

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9/14/2018

ELECTION/GOP/RALLY/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is coming to Missouri as he pushes for Republican Josh Hawley to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in a critical Senate race. Trump’s campaign on Friday [9-14-18] announced the planned Sept. 21 rally in Springfield, Missouri. McCaskill is a top target for Republicans seeking to expand the party’s slim […]

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9/14/2018

ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For President Donald Trump, the New York attorney general’s office has been a nemesis for years, one whose sting has grown more potent during his rocky tenure in office. Letitia James, who emerged Thursday [9-13-18] as the Democratic nominee for New York’s top prosecutor, is expected to create more headaches […]

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9/14/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump and his allies are debating the value of political loyalty versus legal credentials in their search for a new White House counsel, a crucial decision ahead of a potential onslaught of congressional scrutiny following the midterm elections. Trump is ‘counting down the days’ until the departure of his […]

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9/14/2018

DEMS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors in New York are weighing criminal charges against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig as part of an investigation into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent in a probe that is linked to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to sources familiar with the […]

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9/13/2018

BUSINESS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos took aim at President Donald Trump over his criticism of journalists Thursday [9-13-18] night, saying his rhetoric calling the media the ‘enemy of the people’ erodes the freedom of the press the nation cherishes…Bezos bought the Post in 2013 with $250 million from his […]

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9/13/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman embattled by criminal indictments, may no longer fight the charges related to his Ukrainian lobbying operation. He and the special counsel’s office are close to a deal for a guilty plea ahead of his upcoming trial, according to a source familiar with the matter. […]

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9/13/2018

BUSINESS/EU/SECRET SERVICE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Secret Service plans to buy a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle, despite President Donald Trump’s public feud with the company. Paperwork detailing the Secret Service’s plans to purchase a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle this fall was published to the Federal Business Opportunities website, and was first reported by Roll Call. The synopsis of […]

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9/13/2018

GOVERNMENT/HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House and Senate negotiators reached bipartisan agreement on a package of spending bills, as well as a continuing resolution to fund the remainder of the government through December 7 and forestall a potential government shutdown battle, aides in both chambers told CNN on Thursday [9-13-18]. The agreement, which the Senate […]

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9/13/2018

BUSINESS/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They’ve testified, tweeted, written and called with their concerns. Now American businesses, which have so far been unable to stop President Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs, are mounting a last-ditch effort to convince the president that his trade policies are hurting his political base. In a multimillion-dollar campaign that includes television […]

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9/13/2018

HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Florida Republicans have been quick to say President Donald Trump is wrong about the death toll in Puerto Rico. Trump ignited a political firestorm Thursday [9-13-18] after tweeting without evidence that ‘3,000 people did not die’ following Hurricane Maria. He called the death toll numbers a plot by Democrats to […]

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9/13/2018

GOP/HURRICANE/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “With all attention on Hurricane Florence, Republicans are dealing with a separate, familiar kind of storm in the halls of Congress — one of the president’s own making. As happens often, congressional Republicans were blindsided Thursday [9-13-18] morning by a tweet, as President Donald Trump challenged without evidence the official […]

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9/13/2018

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LOBBYING/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It was the summer of 1986, and Paul Manafort, then a top-tier Washington lobbyist, counted no fewer than 10 foreign governments and political groups as clients. He directed American media campaigns for them, met with officials in the White House, State Department and Congress on their behalf and strategized about how […]

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9/13/2018

DEMS/HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Thursday [9-13-18] falsely accused Democrats of inflating the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year, rejecting that government’s assessment that the storm had claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Mr. Trump said that the toll was only six to 18 dead after his visit following the storm, […]

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9/13/2018

HURRICANE/INTELLIGENCE/MILITARY/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A military intelligence assessment warned days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico of a ‘high’ potential for government failure on the island, new documents obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveal…The committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings, is seizing on the newly obtained intelligence assessment to urge his Republican counterpart atop […]

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9/13/2018

MILITARY/SOUTH KOREA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration has approved a deal to sell six P-8A patrol aircraft to South Korea for an estimated cost of $2.1 billion and 64 Patriot Advanced Capability missiles for $501 million, the US State Department announced Thursday [9-13-18]. If approved by Congress, the aircraft sale will provide an upgrade over […]

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9/13/2018

HURRICANE/POLLS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump was hunkering in Washington on Thursday [9-13-18] as winds from Hurricane Florence began lashing the Carolina coast, his mind split between emergency preparations, long-simmering grievances over the Russia investigation and criticism of a lackluster approach to last year’s storms. Trump, beleaguered and down in the polls, was […]

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9/13/2018

DEMS/E-MAILS/HURRICANE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Emails released Thursday [9-13-18] by congressional Democrats show correspondence between first responders that appears to undermine the Trump administration’s public reporting of the human toll from Hurricane Maria last year. In one email, dated Sept. 29, 2017, a first responder — whose name has been redacted — describes ‘finding mass graves in […]

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9/13/2018

BORDER/CONGRESS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “U.S. Congress negotiators on Thursday [9-13-18] moved to put off until after the Nov. 6 elections decisions on future funding for President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar southwest border wall, as lawmakers advanced legislation funding many other government programs. Racing against a Sept. 30 deadline when the current fiscal year ends, Republicans and Democrats […]

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9/13/2018

AUTO INDUSTRY/JOBS/NAFTA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Proposed changes to North American auto trade rules expected in the new NAFTA pact are unlikely to significantly increase U.S. manufacturing jobs or boost wages in Mexico, an analyst at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. said…That blunt assessment of one of the major components of the new […]

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9/13/2018

AGRICULTURE/DEMS/ENTITLEMENTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator Debbie Stabenow and the Democrats are totally against approving the Farm Bill. They are fighting tooth and nail to not allow our Great Farmers to get what they so richly deserve. Work requirements are imperative and the Dems are a NO. Not good!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 13, 2018 12:56 pm […]

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9/13/2018

COURTS/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LAWSUIT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday [9-13-18] vowed to fight back against federal courts that issue injunctions barring the federal government from implementing regulations nationwide, and accused federal judges of engaging in ‘judicial activism’…Nationwide injunctions have become a favored tool by states and other groups who have staunchly opposed many […]

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9/13/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TAXES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A Republican-led panel in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday [9-13-18] to make permanent individual tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul, a move widely seen as a partisan ploy to help Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 congressional elections. Members of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee […]

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9/13/2018

FEMA/HURRICANE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was just briefed on Hurricane Florence. FEMA, First Responders and Law Enforcement are supplied and ready. We are with you! https://t.co/mP7icn0Yzl https://t.co/a8KQ0lcoSD“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 13, 2018 12:26 pm […]

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9/13/2018

DHS/ETHICS/FEMA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long is the target of an ongoing Department of Homeland Security inspector general investigation into whether he misused government vehicles during his commutes to North Carolina from Washington, according to three people familiar with the matter, including current and former administration officials. The actions by Long, the […]

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9/13/2018

CHINA/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Wall Street Journal has it wrong, we are under no pressure to make a deal with China, they are under pressure to make a deal with us. Our markets are surging, theirs are collapsing. We will soon be taking in Billions in Tariffs & making products at home. If we meet, […]

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9/13/2018

DEMS/FBI/GOP/NOMINATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday [9-13-18] set a vote for next week on President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court pick while a Democratic senator sent unspecified new information about nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the FBI. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the committee’s top Democrat, said she received the information about Kavanaugh from […]

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9/13/2018

DEMS/HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!” […]

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9/13/2018

HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report […]

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9/13/2018

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: ‘We have found nothing to show collusion between President Trump & Russia, absolutely zero, but every day we get more…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 13, 2018 7:16 am […]

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9/13/2018

FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More text messages between former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are a disaster and embarrassment to the FBI & DOJ. This should never have happened but we are learning more and more by the hour. ‘Others were leaking like mad’ in order to get the President! ……..” -Donald Trump, […]

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9/13/2018

ECONOMY/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The problem with banker Jamie Dimon running for President is that he doesn’t have the aptitude or ‘smarts’ & is a poor public speaker & nervous mess – otherwise he is wonderful. I’ve made a lot of bankers, and others, look much smarter than they are with my great economic policy!” -Donald […]

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9/13/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/LAWSUITS/TRUMP AS PRESDIENT: “President Donald Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S. border as part of a deal to settle lawsuits over his ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration policy. The settlement, detailed in court documents late on Wednesday [9-12-18], represented a victory for […]

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9/13/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The prospect of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort cutting a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office to avoid a second criminal trial set to open next week doesn’t concern President Donald Trump or his legal team, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told POLITICO…Giuliani said Trump and his […]

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9/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/NSA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former Director of the National Security Agency, retired Admiral Mike Rogers, said Tuesday [9-11-18] that he thought President Donald Trump should have taken the opportunity to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly in Helsinki, Finland over Russia’s election meddling…In July, Trump met one-on-one with Putin, a meeting he did not […]

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9/12/2018

ECONOMY/MIDDLE CLASS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The income of the median American household has finally rebounded from the damage caused by the 2008 financial crisis, a significant milestone in the nation’s painfully slow economic recovery. Median household income reached $61,372 in 2017, the Census Bureau reported on Wednesday [9-12-18], a number that it said was statistically indistinguishable […]

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9/12/2018

FEMA/HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A year after presiding over a sluggish and chaotic response to a devastating storm in Puerto Rico, the Trump administration girded on Wednesday for a test of its ability to do better as Hurricane Florence continued to bear down on the Carolina coast. If responding to the destruction from Hurricane Maria […]

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9/12/2018

DHS/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESDIENT: “President Trump has promised for years that Mexico would pay for a vast border wall, a demand that country has steadfastly refused. Now, in the Trump administration’s campaign to stop illegal immigration, the United States plans instead to pay Mexico. In a recent notice sent to Congress, the administration said it intended […]

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9/12/2018

CYBERWAR/MIKE POMPEO/SENATE/STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A bipartisan group of senators called out Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the State Department’s failure to meet federal law on cybersecurity standards, including basic protocols used by major internet companies. The lawmakers sent a letter to Pompeo on Tuesday [9-11-18] citing a General Services Administration report that found the State […]

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9/12/2018

ABORTION/GOP/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a key GOP vote, said Wednesday [9-12-18] that she is still reviewing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record and plans to speak with him later in the week…Collins is one of the few Republican lawmakers who say they support abortion rights, and she has yet to announce […]

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9/12/2018

DEMS/DHS/FEMA/HURRICANE/ICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a potentially catastrophic hurricane bears down on the East Coast of the US, the shifting of $10 million from FEMA’s operating budget to fund immigration detention and deportations is drawing condemnation from Democrats. But that’s a drop in the bucket. The Trump administration this summer quietly redirected $200 million from all […]

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9/12/2018

ELECTION/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Republicans are in a jam when it comes to Jeff Sessions. While resigned to President Donald Trump firing the attorney general after the midterm elections, they suspect that perhaps only a sitting senator could win confirmation as Sessions’ successor — that is, someone they could trust not to interfere […]

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9/12/2018

HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Facing renewed criticism of his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump lashed out again on Wednesday [9-12-18], grousing about his administration’s ‘unappreciated great job’ on the Puerto Rico recovery – despite the remoteness of the island, poor access to electricity and the ‘totally incompetent Mayor of San Juan’…The president’s […]

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9/12/2018

NOMINATION/SENATE/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Angus King announced his opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday [9-12-18]…He joins a handful of senators, including New Hampshire Democratic Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen and Virginia Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, in declaring themselves ‘no’ on Kavanaugh…Most Democrats are expected to oppose […]

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9/12/2018

IRS/NOMINATIONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The U.S. Senate on Wednesday [9-12-18] confirmed President Donald Trump’s choice of Beverly Hills, California, tax lawyer Charles Rettig to be commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the federal agency that implements tax laws. The Senate voted 64-33 to install Rettig, who will replace Acting Commissioner David Kautter. Kautter has been […]

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9/12/2018

HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [9-12-18] ratcheted up his fight with Puerto Rican officials, dwelling on the intense criticism he received last year for his response to Hurricane Maria, even as Hurricane Florence threatens millions of Americans on the East Coast. Trump has been aggressive this week in warning Americans in […]

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9/12/2018

CONGRESS/DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Juli Briskman, who flipped off President Donald Trump’s motorcade while she was bicycling last fall near the President’s golf course, will run for local office in Virginia. Briskman said she plans to run in 2019 as supervisor for the Algonkian District in Loudoun County, where she will face Republican Suzanne Volpe. The […]

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9/12/2018

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who claims she had a sexual encounter with President Donald Trump, revealed on Wednesday [9-12-18] that she has penned a tell-all book that will be released Oct. 2. Daniels made the announcement on ‘The View,’ telling the hosts that she will share more details about her […]

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9/12/2018

HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-11-18] said the federal government would spare no expense in responding to the likely damage from Hurricane Florence, which is forecast to slam the Carolina coast later this week…In remarks aimed at Americans who could find themselves in harm’s way, the president noted that experts were […]

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9/12/2018

MEDIA/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The unnamed insiders who claim to be working clandestinely to resist Donald Trump are not heroes. As a State Department whistleblower who lost his career to tell the truth about the Iraq war, I am burdened by how the interviewees in Bob Woodward’s new book, ‘Fear,’ and the anonymous writer of that […]

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9/12/2018

HURRICANE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is imperative that everyone follow local evacuation orders. This storm is extremely dangerous. Be SAFE! #HurricaneFlorence https://t.co/94Ue4e26PD https://t.co/KvF54CwomW“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 12, 2018 11:37 am […]

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9/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/ELECTION/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under fire over his handling of Russian election meddling, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday [9-12-18] meant to strengthen election security by slapping sanctions on foreign countries or people who try to interfere in the U.S. political process. The order, coming only eight weeks before congressional elections […]

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9/12/2018

BUSINESS/CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After months of waging a behind-the-scenes war against President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs that have escalated far beyond what business groups once imagined, more than 60 U.S. industry groups are launching a coalition on Wednesday [9-12-18] to take the fight public. Emergence of the group, Americans for Free Trade, comes after […]

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9/12/2018

HURRICANE/PUERTO RICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has been criticised for hailing the US response to the deadly Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year as ‘tremendous’. The mayor of its capital tweeted: ‘If he thinks the death of 3,000 people is a success God help us all.’ Puerto Rico only finished restoring full power […]

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9/12/2018

2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order authorising sanctions against any countries or individuals found interfering in US elections. The order instructs the intelligence community to monitor and report on attempts to disrupt election infrastructure as well as propaganda. The directive itself is not a sanction, but imposes […]

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9/11/2018

ECONOMY/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “WHAT WAS SAID: The GDP Rate (4.2%) is higher than the Unemployment Rate (3.9%) for the first time in over 100 years! THE FACTS False. Gross domestic product increased at a 4.2 annualized rate in the second quarter of 2018, and the unemployment rate was 3.9 percent in April, 3.8 percent in […]

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9/12/2018

MEDIA/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Following a week of brutal headlines for the White House, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows that explosive allegations from journalist Bob Woodward’s new book and an anonymous New York Times op-ed are affecting voters’ opinions of President Donald Trump’s executive branch. The majority of those polled, 61 percent, say the Trump […]

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9/12/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller’s approval rating for handling the Russia investigation stands at 50% in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. That outpaces President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the matter by 20 points. The poll is CNN’s first since the conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul […]

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