8/27/2018

BRITAIN/EU/FRANCE/SANCTIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Emmanuel Macron on Monday [8-27-18] said preserving European Union unity was more important than forging a close relationship with post-Brexit Britain, and hit out at what he called U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘aggressive’ isolationism. As pressure mounts on Prime Minister Theresa May to agree terms for Britain’s divorce from the EU […]

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8/27/2018

ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Joe Arpaio built a national reputation as a staunch opponent of illegal immigration while sheriff of Arizona’s largest county and found a powerful ally in President Donald Trump, who pardoned him last year after he ran into legal trouble. But as the self-styled ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ hustles for votes in Arizona ahead of […]

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8/27/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Monday [8-27-18] that the United States and Mexico had reached an accord to revise key portions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and would finalize it within days, suggesting he was ready to jettison Canada from the trilateral trade pact if the country did not get […]

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8/27/2018

MIKE POMPEO/MILITARY/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “North Korean state media criticized the United States over the weekend for ‘extremely provocative and dangerous military moves’ in Pacific waters and warned that the diplomacy forged between the two countries’ leaders during their Singapore summit meeting in June could be in jeopardy. The belligerent articles were the first official […]

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8/27/2018

LEGAL/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The man identified these days as President Trump’s lawyer seems vaguely familiar. It’s in the way he feigns genuine laughter. How he clasps his hands. How he widens his eyes, as if he’s just been handed a birthday cake with a firecracker for a candle. He is, of course, Rudolph […]

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8/27/2018

TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It wasn’t supposed to take long for the Trump tax cuts to hobble housing prices, particularly in the high-tax, high-cost metro areas where the new law was poised to rip federal incentives to buy new homes. Nearly nine months later, those warnings have not materialized. While the nation’s housing market is showing […]

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8/27/2018

JOHN MCCAIN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the Senate chamber on Monday [8-27-18], John McCain’s desk was draped in black and topped with a vase of white roses. The majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, rose to praise Mr. McCain as a colleague and hero who ‘spotlighted many of our highest values.’ Outside, an impromptu memorial took shape […]

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8/26/2018

POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over 90% approval rating for your all time favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party and 52% overall. This despite all of the made up stories by the Fake News Media trying endlessly to make me look as bad and evil as possible. Look at the real villains please!” -Donald Trump, […]

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8/26/2018

ECONOMY/MEDIA/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Mainstream Media tries to rewrite history to credit Obama for Trump accomplishments. Since President Trump took office, the economy is booming. The stronger the economy gets, the more desperate his critics are. O had weakest recovery since Great Depression.’ @WashTimes” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 26, 2018 5:01 pm […]

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8/26/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “RT @realDonaldTrump: ….FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal surveillance of Tr…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 26, 2018 8:21 am […]

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8/26/2018

JOHN MCCAIN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senator John McCain’s death this weekend laid bare the long-simmering Republican tensions over who will be appointed to fill his Arizona seat, pitting the pragmatic wing of the party that Mr. McCain represented against the ascendant, hard-line forces loyal to President Trump — and hostile to the late senator. On Sunday […]

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8/25/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Friday [8-24-18] abruptly called off a trip to North Korea by his secretary of state, citing a lack of progress in nuclear disarmament talks and acknowledging for the first time that his diplomatic overture to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had run into trouble. Mr. Trump […]

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8/25/2018

FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD. Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!” […]

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8/25/201

JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@LindseyGrahamSC ‘Every President deserves an Attorney General they have confidence in. I believe every President has a right to their Cabinet, these are not lifetime appointments. You serve at the pleasure of the President.’” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 25, 2018 7:46 pm […]

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8/25/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UNION: “A U.S. federal judge on Saturday [8-25-18] rejected key elements of President Donald Trump’s May executive orders that would make it easier to fire federal employees and reduce their ability to bargain collectively. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said in a court order […]

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8/25/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A week that began with bad news closed with worse news for President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is currently investigating the Trump Organization. In particular, they are examining the source of the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and […]

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8/25/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump publicly criticized his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, again on Saturday [8-25-18], saying this time that Sessions doesn’t understand what’s happening beneath him at the Department of Justice…Trump has frequently criticized Sessions over the attorney general’s decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. The President […]

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8/25/2018

MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour. Some really good people within both the new and old government, and all working closely together….A big Trade Agreement with Mexico could be happening soon!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 25, 2018 8:22 am […]

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8/25/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jeff Sessions said he wouldn’t allow politics to influence him only because he doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position. Highly conflicted Bob Mueller and his gang of 17 Angry Dems are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched. No Collusion!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]

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8/25/2018

LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Michaels Cohen’s attorney clarified the record, saying his client does not know if President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting (out of which came nothing!). The answer is that I did NOT know about the meeting. Just another phony story by the Fake News Media!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 25, […]

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8/25/2018

CANADA/MEXICO/NAFTA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said on Saturday [8-25-18] that the United States could reach a ‘big Trade Agreement’ with Mexico soon as the incoming Mexican trade negotiator signaled possible solutions to NAFTA energy rules and a contentious U.S. ‘sunset clause’ demand. Trump tweeted on Saturday morning that the United States’ ‘relationship with […]

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8/24/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘Think Allen Weisselberg,’ a person who knows Donald Trump well told me a few days ago. Even as news was breaking about the president’s personal attorney’s stunning, Trump-implicating, plea-deal admission that he had arranged hush-money payments to an ex-Playboy playmate and a porn star, it was a reminder to not lose […]

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8/24/2018

CRIME/DEMS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-24-18] tied the death of 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts to Democratic policies, continuing the administration’s politicization of crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants…The President’s remarks on Tibbetts come not long after the White House added the slain University of Iowa student to a list of […]

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8/24/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATIOM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The photos of Paul Manafort’s ostrich and python jackets may make it in front of a jury after all. After prosecutors used the luxury purchases as evidence in the former Trump campaign chairman’s Virginia trial this month but weren’t permitted by the judge to show photos of them to the […]

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8/24/2018

MEXICO/SPORTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday [8-24-18] thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for treating Mexicans with more respect — or at least not saying anything insulting lately…Earlier this week Trump said about Lopez Obrador: ‘I think he’s going to be terrific.’ Mexico’s president-elect also said that bilateral talks on renegotiating […]

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8/24/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump’s mission is to rally Republicans behind GOP candidates in the nation’s premier swing state. But when he steps into battleground Ohio on Friday [8-24-18], he’s entering a state — and a Republican Party — deeply divided by his presidency. The Republican president is set to offer the keynote […]

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8/24/2018

LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He’s one of the longest-serving employees in Donald Trump’s family real estate business. Through triumphs, scandals and bankruptcies, he was there. Allen Weisselberg was handling the books when Fred Trump ran the company in the early 1970s. He was handling them when his son Donald made his mark with Trump Tower in […]

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8/24/2018

GOP/JOHN MCCAIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump didn’t mention Arizona Sen. John McCain during his speech at a Republican party dinner in Ohio Friday [8-24-18], hours after the family of the ailing senator said he had chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer. The White House didn’t address McCain’s announcement and the president didn’t […]

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8/24/2018

DEMS/JEFF SESSIONS/MEDIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is again complaining that social media companies are ‘silencing millions of people.’ Trump tweeted Friday [8-24-18]: ‘Can’t do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what […]

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8/24/2018

DEMS/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump, closing out a brutal week that plunged him deeper into legal and political peril, warned Ohio Republicans on Friday [8-24-18] that Democrats would destroy their state and impose policies that would spill ‘innocent blood’ if they were successful in November. While presenting himself as the savior of the party’s fortunes […]

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8/24/2018

DRUGS/PHARMA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Great to see the Senate working on solutions to end the secrecy around ridiculously high drug prices, something I called for in my drug pricing Blueprint. Will now work with the House to help American patients! #AmericanPatientsFirst” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2018 7:40 pm […]

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8/24/2018

HURRICANE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I spoke with Governor David Ige of Hawaii today to express our full support for the people of Hawaii as the State is impacted by #HurricaneLane. The Federal Government is fully committed to helping the people of Hawaii. https://t.co/P35yAAovIk“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2018 7:20 pm […]

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8/24/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A juror who voted to convict Paul Manafort and who is also a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump has some advice for Trump if he is considering whether to pardon his former campaign chairman: don’t do it. Paula Duncan is so far the only juror to speak out since Manafort […]

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8/24/2018

CHINA/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [8-24-18] asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cancel an upcoming trip to North Korea, saying on Twitter that the United States has not made ‘sufficient progress’ on nuclear talks with the country in what appeared to be his first admission that the discussions […]

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8/23/2018

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “As his fixer pleads guilty and the White House says President Donald Trump has not been implicated in any crime, the President can’t seem to keep his story straight about alleged hush payments. Trump’s story has continued to change as the President’s own words contradict claims he and his aides have made […]

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8/24/2018

LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according […]

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8/24/2018

CHINA/NUCLEAR/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Additionally, because of our much tougher Trading stance with China, I do not believe they are helping with the process of denuclearization as they once were (despite the UN Sanctions which are in place)…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2018 12:36 pm […]

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8//24/2018

CHINA/MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…Secretary Pompeo looks forward to going to North Korea in the near future, most likely after our Trading relationship with China is resolved. In the meantime I would like to send my warmest regards and respect to Chairman Kim. I look forward to seeing him soon!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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8/24/2018

CAMPAIGN/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is sticking with his ambitious midterm campaign schedule amid a cascade of scandal — a break from the typical pattern of politicians dropping out of sight in politically damaging moments. The president will visit Ohio on Friday [8-24-18] to speak at the state Republican Party dinner. He also is […]

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8/24/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at President Donald Trump on Thursday [8-23-18] after Trump gave a scathing assessment of his leadership at the Justice Department. Sessions, a former U.S. senator from Alabama, was one of the first Republican lawmakers to back Trump’s presidential election bid and has […]

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8/24/2018

GOP/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Republican finance leaders have been flaming out amid scandals, but donors, frankly, don’t give a damn. Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and a former Republican National Committee deputy finance chairman, is just the latest such figure to be felled after he copped this week to eight felony charges. […]

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8/24/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/KELLYANNE CONWAY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “George Conway, husband of top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, ripped his spouse’s boss on Twitter on Friday [8-24-18], saying the country needs a president capable of comprehending the law. George Conway took issue with Trump’s Friday morning tweet berating Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The president had called on Sessions to […]

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8/24/2018

LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg in a probe involving President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [8-24-18]. Weisselberg was called to testify before a federal grand jury earlier this year, the Journal said. Cohen, who arranged […]

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8/23/2018

DEMS/ECONOMY/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [8-22-18] that ‘the market would crash’ and ‘everybody would be very poor’ if Democrats were to take control of the House of Representatives after November’s midterm elections and then impeach him…The president sat for the interview as impeachment talk swirled around him in the wake […]

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8/24/2018

MEDIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people. Can’t do this even if it means we must continue to hear Fake News like CNN, whose ratings have suffered gravely. People have to figure out what is real, and what is not, without censorship!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2018 6:34 am […]

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8/24/2018

2016 ELECTION/CIA/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia’s intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward — thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial […]

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8/24/2018

CAMPAIGN/DEMS/HILLARY CLINTON/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….FISA abuse, Christopher Steele & his phony and corrupt Dossier, the Clinton Foundation, illegal surveillance of Trump Campaign, Russian collusion by Dems – and so much more. Open up the papers & documents without redaction? Come on Jeff, you can do it, the country is waiting!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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8/24/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.’ Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the ‘other side’ including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr……” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2018 5:17 am […]

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8/24/2018

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our Economy is setting records on virtually every front – Probably the best our country has ever done. Tremendous value created since the Election. The World is respecting us again! Companies are moving back to the U.S.A.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 24, 2018 5:04 am […]

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8/24/2018

DEMS/ELECTIONS/NEW YORK/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A political action group formed in the wake of the 2016 presidential election as a counterweight to the Trump presidency is pumping significant resources into local primary races in New York, providing rookie candidates with funding and training to battle entrenched Albany incumbents. The group, called ‘The Arena,’ is the brainchild […]

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8/24/2018

BUSINESS/ECONOMY/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Target CEO raves about the Economy. ‘This is the best consumer environment I’ve seen in my career.’ A big statement from a top executive. But virtually everybody is saying this, & when our Trade Deals are made, & cost cutting done, you haven’t seen anything yet! @DRUDGE_REPORT” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August […]

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8/24/2018

IRAN/RUSSIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump criticized social media companies on Friday [8-24-18] for silencing ‘millions of people’ in what he called an act of censorship. Trump did not mention any of the companies by name. On Tuesday [8-21-18], Facebook Inc (FB.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) removed hundreds of accounts […]

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8/24/2018

MIKE POMPEO/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Citing insufficient progress on the issue of denuclearization, President Donald Trump nixed plans for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to make what would have been his fourth visit to North Korea Friday, canceling next week’s trip just one day after it was announced by Pompeo…Pompeo had said Thursday [8-23-28] newly […]

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8/23/2018

ITALY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump told the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in a recent meeting in Washington the United States was ready to offer Italy help in funding its public debt next year, Il Corriere della Sera reported on Friday [8-24-18]. Citing three unnamed Italian senior officials, the newspaper said Trump made […]

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8/23/2018

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network, the second in the last three weeks to defect for those reasons. Adam Housley, a Los Angeles-based reporter who joined Fox in 2001, felt there was diminished opportunity at the network for reporters and disapproved […]

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8/23/2018

CRIME/GOP/JARED KUSHNER/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [8-23-18] tabled a criminal justice package being pushed by a group of lawmakers and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, multiple sources said. But Trump and Republican leaders also agreed on a path forward for the legislative effort after the midterm elections, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]

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8/23/2018

PARDONS/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While Paul Manafort was on trial for charges of serious financial crimes, President Donald Trump asked his legal team about the prospect of pardoning his former campaign chairman, according to Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer. But Trump ultimately agreed with his legal team to delay the decision […]

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8/23/2018

MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York City may push for criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior officials at the company over hush money that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid to an adult-film actress, according to a report. Investigators led by District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance […]

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8/23/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MICHAEL COHEN/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump blamed the Justice Department on Thursday [8-23-18] for the investigations surrounding him, criticized the deal struck with his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen and lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who countered with a rare public rebuke of the president. Mr. Trump also praised Paul […]

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8/23/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department on Thursday [8-23-18] praised President Donald Trump’s decision not to back a prison and sentencing reform bill that was crafted by top Republican leaders and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser…Trump met with Kushner, who has made prison reform a priority; Attorney General Jeff Sessions and […]

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8/23/2018

BORDER/CHILDREN/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for the U.S. government and families separated by border officials after they entered the United States from Mexico said 37 more children have been freed from federal custody in the last week, as both sides work out means to enable children to seek asylum. In a Thursday [8-23-18] court filing, the […]

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8/23/2018

AFRICA/MEDIA/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a group of people in Africa President Donald Trump is seriously concerned about. That group of people is white farmers in South Africa. This is the first time as President that Trump tweeted his concern about Africa — Twitter is our window into his brain, remember — and it was […]

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8/23/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “…Cindy has voted for our Agenda in the Senate 100% of the time and has my complete and total Endorsement. We need Cindy to win in Mississippi!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2018 4:10 pm […]

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8/23/2018

ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP PEOPLE: “.@cindyhydesmith has helped me put America First! She’s strong on the Wall, is helping me create Jobs, loves our Vets and fights for our conservative judges…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2018 4:10 pm […]

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8/23/2018

HOUSE OF REPS/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday [8-23-18] for legislation to fund much of the government, including $675 billion for the Department of Defense, as lawmakers worked to minimize the risk of a government shutdown before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. The Senate voted 85-7 to pass the $854 […]

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8/23/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday [8-23-18] took the unusual step of publicly pushing back against Donald Trump after the president freshly ripped into his top law enforcement official for recusing himself from the Russia probe. The rare statement from Sessions also came after two prominent senators expressed […]

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8/23/2018

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Paul Manafort’s jury of 12 Northern Virginians couldn’t reach a unanimous agreement on 10 criminal charges, it was because of one juror. A photocopied version of the jury’s original handwritten verdict form, released Thursday [8-23-18] by the federal court, confirms that Manafort’s jury hung 11-to-1 on 10 counts of foreign banking […]

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8/23/2018

BUSINESS/ECONOMY/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A group of chief executive officers at the largest U.S. companies expressed serious concern about the Trump administration’s immigration policy and said the rules increase uncertainty and undermine economic growth. In the letter signed by 59 CEOs including Tim Cook of Apple Inc (AAPL.O), JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM.N) Jamie Dimon and […]

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8/23/2018

JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at President Donald Trump Thursday [8-23-18] afternoon, after Trump said he ‘never took control’ of the Justice Department. ‘While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. I demand the highest standards, […]

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8/23/2018

DEMS/SENATE/SPENDING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Senate overwhelmingly approved an $854 billion measure Thursday [8-23-18] that combines military spending with disbursements for the departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor and other agencies. The 85-7 vote sends the measure to the House and means the Senate has now passed nine of the 12 mandatory spending bills […]

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8/23/2018

HURRICANE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have authorized an emergency disaster declaration to provide Hawaii the necessary support ahead of #HurricaneLane. Our teams are closely coordinating with the state and local authorities. You are in our thoughts! https://t.co/lrhwbdUavj“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 23, 2018 2:21 pm […]

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8/23/2018

ETHICS/LEGAL/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After one day where truth and facts triumphed, America is back to its alternative realities. The convictions of two close associates of President Donald Trump in a mind-bending double-header drama in two cities on Tuesday [8-21-18] were a moment of clarity in the legal morass that has thickened around the White […]

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8/23/2018

ELECTIONS/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday [8-23-18] that President Donald Trump could replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the midterm elections in November. Graham’s comments make him one of the first Republicans on the Senate committee to signal an openness to Trump ousting Sessions in […]

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8/23/208

LEGAL/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The one juror who prevented a conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on all 18 criminal charges did not trust any of the witnesses and exasperated other members with her reasoning, a juror in the trial told Reuters. The comments from Paula Duncan, the only juror so far to […]

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8/23/2018

LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The chief executive of the publisher of the National Enquirer was granted immunity by prosecutors investigating payments arranged by U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to silence two women who said they had sex with Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday [8-22-18]. Another AMI executive, […]

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8/23/2018

AGRICULTURE/ETHICS/LOBBYING/TRUMP PEOPLE/USDA: “From suggestions for members of a science committee to emails sent ‘on the sly’ and thoughts for the secretary’s speeches, new internal emails from the US Department of Agriculture show big food industry lobbyists are working hand-in-glove with agency staffers. The newly released emails were obtained by the nonpartisan independent Project on Government […]

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2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors reached an immunity deal with the tabloid executive David J. Pecker, a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump, according to two people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Pecker is the chairman […]

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CHINA/TARIFFS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A restart of trade talks between the United States and China ended on Thursday [8-23-18] with little sign of progress as Washington moved ahead with additional tariffs and President Trump met with legislators to discuss a new law aimed at curbing Chinese investment. The bilateral talks, while low level, were the […]

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