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“He is terrified,” says Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio. “This is 40 years of deceit coming home to torment him.”
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Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. repeatedly claimed that photos in a story we ran yesterday — showing him in a Miami nightclub — were photoshopped. That prompted a Miami-based website to dig into their photo archives, where they found even more photos of him:
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Trump made $50,000 per episode for season one of "The Apprentice." For season two, “he wanted a million dollars an episode,” said Jeff Zucker, then the head of NBC. He settled for $60,000 an episode. “We ended up paying him what we wanted to pay him.”
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Khizr Khan didn't use the teleprompter. There was nothing to put on it, because he had written nothing down.
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From Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joe Kennedy II, and Maeve Kennedy McKean: "RFK Jr. is our brother and uncle. He's tragically wrong about vaccines."
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In his new memoir, John McCain concedes that the war in Iraq he fought so hard to launch and then escalate now “can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.”
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“It is our job,” Kavanaugh wrote in an email to his colleagues in Ken Starr’s office, “to make [Clinton's] pattern of revolting behavior clear — piece by painful piece.”
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"I've been studying authoritarian regimes for three decades, and I know the signs of a coup when I see them," writes former Trump administration official Fiona Hill
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Reines: Immersive debate prep taught me being Trump means never having to face the consequences of your actions
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The attorney general has made a total hash of the Mueller report, undermining the very department he runs, writes @matthewamiller :
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"As a former federal prosecutor, when I look at Mueller’s work, I don’t see a murky set of facts. I see a case meticulously laid out by a prosecutor who knew he was not allowed to bring it." More from @renato_mariotti :
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“If Ivanka Trump wants to recuse herself from the tough questions, here’s what she should do: Withdraw from the very public political life she has chosen.”
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"Graham told himself: by staying close to Trump, he could influence him and prevent horribly bad decisions," writes @SykesCharlie . Then came Trump's decision to abandon the Kurds.
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“We are basically fucked,” Yang said, “unless we un-fuck ourselves, systematically and collectively.”
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Many of the president’s most vicious tweets, which often baffle observers because they seem to come out of nowhere, make more sense when you realize that they are actually his responses to Fox’s programming.
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Boehner on today's Congress: “We have some of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet, and some that are Nazis.”
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“The president of the United States has a 12-second attention span,” NATO’s Sec.-Gen. told a former senior official
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Among voters in Pueblo, Colorado—the largest and most politically unpredictable city in Lauren Boebert’s vast district—there is a growing sense of exasperation with the freshman representative not yet six months into her tenure
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"You’ve so consistently misstated the virus facts that I could be convinced that you’re colluding with the virus to destroy the country," writes @jackshafer . "You can’t be that dumb, can you?"
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Trump is alleging a conspiracy of unfathomable proportion to deny him a second term in the White House. His evidence for this? Nonexistent. But he has never been deterred by a lack of proof.
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"It is all about to get worse: the evidence, the venue and the president’s conduct," writes @SykesCharlie . "There may be more smoking guns, the trial will be televised, and based on the past few weeks, Trump is likely to be more unhinged than ever."
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"While it is rare among leaders of developed democracies, during the past 50 years we’ve seen a number of high-profile flights by national leaders facing major legal, political or societal problems at home."
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It’s time to say it: @realDonaldTrump is a mortal threat to the Western alliance.
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Greenfield: "Trump has, to use the late Daniel Moynihan’s famous phrase, 'defined deviancy down,' and what is more, he has done it with the more or less full backing of his party’s congressional and institutional wing"
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OPINION: Joe Biden should run for president in 2024. But if he decides against it for whatever reason, Jon Stewart should run on the Democratic ticket instead. He’s exactly the person they need.
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“Anyone who agreed to be part of the Russian effort in any way could be charged with criminal conspiracy.”
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It is important to understand precisely what Russian intelligence tried to do last year in the United States
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Instead of talking straight about Russia, Trump has tried to distract by attacking the press. It’s not working.
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"If there is any exoneration on the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, it has been done by Barr, not by Mueller," writes @neal_katyal :
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After the "Access Hollywood" tape, Priebus told Trump he should be prepared to lose or drop out. Trump's reply, says David Bossie: “If the Republican Party is going to run away from me, then I will take you all down with me. But I’m not going to lose.”
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He “describes himself as a ratings machine, which is an absolutely absurd thing for a president to be reflecting on”
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In the 1980s, there were many ambitious real estate developers in the United States. So why did Moscow pick Trump?
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“Mueller writes, ‘while the OLC opinion concludes that a sitting president may not be prosecuted, it recognizes that a president does not have immunity after he leaves office,'” notes @jentaub :
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“Flawed as he may be, Trump is telling more of the truth than is any politician of our day.”
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Self-dealing and foreign influence were the Framers' biggest fears for the presidency, writes Asha Rangappa:
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“Trump is our post-literate president, incapable of following a complex argument in a talk or in a text.”
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In 1987, the Trumps stayed in Lenin’s suite at the National Hotel near Red Square. “The hotel was linked to the glass-and-concrete Intourist complex next door and was — in effect — under KGB control. The Lenin suite would have been bugged.”
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John Dean, the former Nixon White House counsel, has a stark warning for President Donald Trump’s defenders as they enter 2018: Believing the investigation and prosecutions will be over anytime soon is “wishful thinking.”
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“Moments like these have become the lifeblood of modern liberalism, when visionaries shoved aside naysayers and shattered outdated bigoted norms.”
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“It was around this time that Donald Trump appears to have attracted the attention of Soviet intelligence.”
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Amash: The Republican Party has "changed its identity over the past few years and I really don’t feel like it’s a home for people who believe in classical liberalism, or what many would call constitutional conservatism."
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Trump’s lifelong addiction: It's his lawyers — and now they're his biggest vulnerability.
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"I recall one busy Saturday night, walking the casino floor with him, when he saw what he considered an inordinate number of black customers. 'It’s looking a little dark in here,' he calmly stated."
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Who's the leader of today's Trump-era Republican Party? “There is nobody,” says John Boehner.
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Evan McMullin’s candidacy is the perfect trial balloon for a theory on how to beat far-right Republicans in red states. It requires Democrats in a mood to compromise, independents and Trump-skeptical Republicans. Utah has all three. via @sambbenson
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"We gave less money to the entire child care sector than we gave to one single airline, Delta. I don’t mean to pick on Delta, but it seems crazy that we care more about saving Delta Airlines than we do about the entire child care industry."
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Soon after then-freshman lawmaker Joe Biden was seated on the Senate Banking Committee, his brother James became the beneficiary of unusual bank loans:
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"I used to laugh when my more progressive friends warned me that Trump wanted to turn America into a third-world banana republic."
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We went to Oktoberfest in Germany with @Schwarzenegger . It did not disappoint.
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Trump pulled the U.S. out of TPP — a decision that has cleared the way for other nations to undercut U.S. exporters
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A recent poll shows 45% of Sanders voters aren't ready for Hillary. The conditions exist for Stein to catch fire.
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If Hillary Clinton wins Florida, Trayvon Martin’s mother will be one of the state’s Electoral College members
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“These players, and an increasing number of white players, are going to push back if this keeps happening.”
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Hamilton never could’ve envisioned an enemy state so stunningly effective in manipulating America’s election process
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“Republican politicians and their allies in the conservative media behaved exactly as the Kremlin intended.”
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Why did Trump lie so tirelessly about the status of the Trump Moscow project? Why did he attempt to conceal the true purpose of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a gaggle of Russians? @jackshafer on the questions the Mueller Report leaves unanswered:
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What if Mexico were to break with the U.S. on NAFTA? Cooperation could end on migration, drugs, and more:
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“Of all the Fredos occupying Trump world, perhaps Donald Trump Jr. proved to be the easiest mark for the Russians.”
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“A rape is a violent crime. It is not, ‘Ask her when she is sober,’” Gillibrand said at one point, nearly leaping out of her chair with outrage.
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How Mick Mulvaney convinced Trump to propose about $70B in cuts to disability benefits:
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Once given information regarding Fred Trump’s role in his son’s business success, the percentage of Republicans who think Donald Trump is a competent businessman drops by 9 points:
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Cooley Law accepts almost anyone who can pay the $51,000 annual tuition bill — more than 85 percent of its applicants were admitted last year.
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“The American people are suffering because Democrats are not in power,” says Rep. Seth Moulton
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. @realDonaldTrump is the least athletic president in generations. Here’s why it matters:
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Nefarious or not, the NFL’s collective refusal to put Kaepernick on the field has backfired.
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Investigation: Trump pick Monica Crowley plagiarized parts of her Ph.D. dissertation
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Boehner on Bernie: “He’s the most honest guy who ran for president. He really believes all that crazy stuff…”
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John Boehner says Joe Biden would’ve won in 2016.
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“Electing someone to the presidency with bad moral character isn’t just a four-year embarrassment. It’s also a constitutional risk,” writes Asha Rangappa
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The Trump years have knocked conservatives off a high horse they'd been riding since the Reagan era, writes @harrispolitico :
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Shafer: "Having made dishonesty his careerlong policy, Trump encourages us to believe that his lies don’t necessarily point to any definable goals."
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“Not since J. Edgar Hoover has an FBI director shown such a lack of accountability.”
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Sen. Mazie Hirono has become Democrats’ firmest pillar of resistance on judicial nominations
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Kushner, says a former employee, “has bought his way into everything… (with money he got from his criminal father)”
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"Congress did pass one law during his tenure that reduced Medicare spending by more than $700 billion, but that law was Obamacare, and Ryan bitterly opposed it."
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In inviting the spotlight to shine on Washington, Trump is sure to give media attention to local officials eager to undercut the exact narrative he’s trying to sell, writes @harryjaffe
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"That’s what created Trump. And I think people keep misidentifying the problem. What they don’t recognize is that he’s a creature of this system where everyone is hyperpartisan and hates each other," Justin Amash tells @TimAlberta :
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A recent poll shows 45% of Sanders voters aren't ready for Hillary. The conditions exist for Stein to catch fire.
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Liberty employees detailed instances of Falwell’s behavior that they see as falling short of the standard of conduct they expect, from partying at nightclubs, to graphically discussing his sex life with employees, to electioneering:
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Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was mocked for taking a hard line on the pandemic. Then the cases started going up.
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Carrie Fisher was a feminist, fighting sexism and ageism in Hollywood
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Absent any pressure from Democrats, the FBI is likely to simply follow its orders from the White House. So what should Democrats do? Treat the FBI like the GOP does, writes @matthewamiller
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"A close look at the language of Trump's executive orders shows that most of them are basically press releases."
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Brazile: The Clinton camp “had the DNC on life support,” while “using the party as a fund-raising clearing house.”
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He talked a big game. But he got outmaneuvered and outsmarted by his enemies at nearly every turn.
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“We’re not a school; we’re a real estate hedge fund,” said a senior Liberty University official with inside knowledge of the school's finances. “We’re not educating; we’re buying real estate every year and taking students’ money to do it.”
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Perry: A nuclear catastrophe is more likely than it was during the Cold War, and “people are blissfully unaware”
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O'Brien: “The Rhona Graff stuff could open the Trump Org’s whole Rolodex and appointment calendar to prosecutors”
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Brazile: When I was asked to run the DNC, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.
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“There is no Rep—.” He stops himself. “You were about to say, ‘There is no Republican Party,” I tell him. He shrugs.
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In March, American moviegoers helped Coogler and DuVernay make history: For the first time, the two highest-grossing films at the U.S. weekend box office — Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time — were directed by black filmmakers. #Politico50
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Among the Democratic 2020 candidates, Yang has carved out a unique role: He offers what may be the single most specific diagnosis of the problem at the heart of the American economy, and has proposed a solution that no other candidate has fully embraced.
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