Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump’s campaign manager, promoted a new campaign site aimed at helping supporters beat that “liberal snowflake relative who starts an argument and then runs and hides” during “Christmas and ‘holiday time.’” Parscale linked to the site via Twitter on Tuesday, writing, “We know that at Christmas …
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“This thing will come to the Senate, and it will die quickly, and I will do everything I can to make it die quickly,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said of the coming senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump during an interview with CNN. When asked if expressing an opinion …
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President Trump has made a few friends around the world since taking office, but none are as “special” as Kim Jong-un, the murderous North Korean dictator with whom he has met three times, tweeted at repeatedly, and exchanged at least one piece of novelty-size correspondence. In recent weeks, however, their …
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WASHINGTON — Marie Yovanovitch, the daughter of Soviet refugees, joined the American foreign service under President Reagan. She served in seven different countries, from war-torn Somalia to corruption-riddled Ukraine. She helped open the U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan. She once dodged bullets when a gunman opened fire during a visit to …
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Few figures have been more entangled in the Trump administration’s plot to extort Ukraine into investigating the Bidens than Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union who was deposed by the House Intelligence Committee last month. On Tuesday, Congress released Sondland’s full testimony, along with an addendum he …
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President Donald Trump threatened to withhold aid — one of his favored tactics — from California, claiming Governor Gavin Newsom “has done a terrible job of forest management” and has not listened to Trump’s demand that he “clean” the forest floors, a bizarre suggestion he first made in 2018 alleging …
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While discussing President Donald Trump’s most recent controversy, Ukraine, a staunch ally of the president, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, was challenged by CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. Tapper used facts and Jordan’s own issues while confronting him about “throwing out wild allegations against people,” which the congressman continues to do …
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The whistle-blower complaint at the center of a dispute between the White House and Congress concerns a phone call President Trump had with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to reports published a minute apart in the Washington Post and New York Times. At the time of the phone call, …
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Hear an audio version of this story below: Fittingly enough, it was hot as blazes in Kentucky when Mitch McConnell slunk back home for Congress’ annual summer recess. One week earlier, Robert Mueller had testified that Russia was meddling in the 2020 U.S. elections. McConnell, the Senate majority leader, responded …
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President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday evening to call out John Legend and his “filthy mouthed wife” Chrissy Teigen for not giving him enough credit for the passage of criminal justice reform legislation. In a series of tweets, the president also singled out NBC news anchor Lester Holt for …
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