WASHINGTON — President Trump and his army of far-right supporters wasted little time coalescing around a theory to try to discredit the intelligence officer who blew the whistle on Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. Promoted by House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Sen. Lindsey …
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President Trump has claimed repeatedly that his July 25th call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky was totally innocuous. “The conversation, by the way, was absolutely perfect,” he told reporters on Sunday.“It was a beautiful, warm, nice conversation.” A written record of the conversation allegedly at the center of a whistleblower …
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If the emerging details are accurate, Donald Trump‘s efforts to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election are not just a repeat of his overtures toward Russia in 2016 — they’re worse. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, on a late-July call with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump …
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During a reception at the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, France, at the recent G7 summit, President Donald Trump was looking for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and called out, “Where’s my favorite dictator?” according to the Wall Street Journal, citing several people who were in the room at …
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Chrissy Teigen appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss to talk about her recent spat with President Donald Trump on Twitter. After Teigen’s husband, musician John Legend, appeared on NBC to talk about criminal justice reform, the president tweeted, “Guys the boring musician @johnlegend, and his filthy mouthed wife, …
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I’ve spent the past month traveling across Africa and Europe as racial tensions in America boiled over, stoked by the tweets and temper-tantrums of Donald Trump. Even while traveling abroad, it felt like I couldn’t change the channel on Trump’s demented reality show. Perhaps most importantly, with my children — …
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President Trump was in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday night for another campaign rally. It wasn’t much different from any of his others. The president bashed Democratic presidential candidates as socialists, trashed liberal-leaning cities as crime-ridden, and railed against undocumented immigrants. All standard fare. So too were his attacks against windmills, …
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It felt like President Trump’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Wednesday night was probably going to be an ugly one. It was grotesque. The East Carolina University arena was pulsing with white nationalist synergy through the president’s time on stage, provided a horrifying glimpse of what the next 16 …
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Prior to his death in October of 2018 notorious South Boston mob boss and FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger heaped praise on President Donald Trump in prison letters obtained by NBC News. Bulger was impressed with Trump’s attacks on the media, writing in August 2018, “Trump is tough and fights …
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Update: Trump has called the protests “fake news.” Original post below. *** The British aren’t too fond of President Trump. Last October, a Pew Research Center study found that only 28% of residents of the United Kingdom have confidence he will do the right thing regarding world affairs. The results …
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