Chris Megerian
@ChrisMegerian
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@AP White House reporter. Previously @latimes in Washington and Sacramento, @starledger in Trenton. Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at cmegerian.45
Joined April 2009
Why do the armed white people have their faces blurred out, but the black protestor does not?.
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Here's another way to think about these chairs at the White House — you could fill roughly all of them with the number of people who died of COVID-19 yesterday.
Social distancing not in effect for seats set up for Pres Trump's convention speech tonight on the South Lawn.
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It’s not normal for presidents to describe someone who cooperates with law enforcement as a “rat.”.
The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide. .
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"I don't want people to be frightened. I don't want to create panic," says a president who has tried to convince the country that rampaging mobs will be invading suburbs everywhere.
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The president is now being fact checked by Playbill
Trump responds to Michael Moore's recent Broadway show with an inaccurate claim
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The White House announces that the president has withdrawn Chad Wolf's nomination to be the permanent Homeland Security secretary, hours after Wolf urged the president to denounce yesterday's violence.
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The president is complaining that officials will want to count all the ballots before deciding who wins the election.
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So now we know that right-wing media circulated an unverified account purporting to be the president’s sister, and then the president himself shared the coverage rather than confirm that it was, in fact, his sister behind the tweets.
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I noticed something strange on Twitter this morning, so I started poking around. Here’s what I found.
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Rep. Schiff tells me tonight that House Intel wasn’t previously aware of the allegation involving Paul Manafort and polling data. He calls it “deeply alarming.”.
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Things Trump has criticized on Twitter post election-- media, protestors. Things Trump has not criticized-- racist incidents around country.
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This is big. The vaccine doesn’t just prevent you from getting sick — it prevents you from getting others sick too.
JUST IN: Pfizer's Covid vaccine stopped 89.4% of transmission in Israel, the first real-world sign that immunization will curb the spread of coronavirus
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Two tweets from yesterday. Turns out the reporters were correct.
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So Sean Hannity has been using his perch at Fox News to rail against the investigation into someone who he didn't disclose was his own lawyer.
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Apparently New York has already arrived in hell, but California still has time to change course.
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The self-proclaimed president of law and order has now defended one of his supporters who was charged with two murders.
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One year ago today.
We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.
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Trump is at the White House addressing a national emergency over a global pandemic while wearing a baseball hat you can buy on his campaign website.
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“Infest,” “animals,” “changes their culture.” A parade of dehumanizing and nativist language.
Democrats are the problem. They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!.
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Classic Trump — right after Murphy says she made her decision independently, he tweets that he told her to do it.
. fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.
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Tonight the president complained to Iowans that the news talked more about flooding in their state, which directly affected their lives, than his Nobel nominations, which did not.
Trump tells his story about he how and Melania recently watched the evening news expecting to see coverage of his Nobel nominations, but were dismayed that the news was covering a hurricane in Florida and flooding in Iowa instead. This is supposed to make the media look bad.
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President Trump personally called the two Republican canvassers in Wayne County, @AP_Politics reports. Now they’re trying to rescind their support for certifying the vote.
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This is the equivalent of the Bible photo op, but for covid.
President Trump, wearing a mask, rides by his supporters outside Walter Reed while in the back of a Suburban.
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Here’s the answer — it’s not really the president’s sister
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Sitting in front of a roaring fire in the Oval Office, Biden and Zelenskyy have begun their meeting
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“OAN,” Trump says as he points to the reporter standing in the corner in violation of White House press corps rules after being invited by the administration.
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Kayleigh McEnany said no one from the campaign would be at the president's meeting with Michigan Republicans later today. Rudy Giuliani told Fox 5 New York that he'll be there to "answer any questions that they have.".
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Quite the concurring opinion from Kavanaugh and Gorsuch —. "In our system of government, as this Court has often stated, no one is above the law. That principle applies, of course, to a President.".
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I’ve asked a spokesman for the Trump Organization whether this is actually the president’s sister. But it appears that the president’s original tweet — thanking his sister for her support — was responding to a fake account that got picked up in the right-wing echo chamber.
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It’s worth noting that “disband” does not mean “abolish.” Camden, New Jersey has been considered an example of police reform after disbanding its department and creating a new county force.
BREAKING: A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members will announce today their commitment to disbanding the city’s embattled police department following the killing of George Floyd.
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Speaking in a raspy baritone that hasn't been heard publicly in two years, Robert Mueller refused to clear the president and told Americans to guard against foreign election interference
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The president shares a Breitbart article saying white male rage is key to his reelection.
Michael Moore: I‘m ‘Begging‘ Dems -- Don‘t Underestimate White Male Trump Supporter‘s ‘Rage,‘ ‘Emotion‘ via @BreitbartNews Well, he got it right in 2016?.
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“We’re trying to find out” who the whistleblower is, Trump told reporters just now. The whistleblower is entitled to federal protections under the law.
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A Border Patrol agent who was nearby when the Uvalde shooting began rushed into the school without waiting for backup and shot and killed the gunman, according to an @AP source
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Two weeks before his term ends, the president is being deplatformed. He's indefinitely banned from Facebook and Instagram, his Twitter access is suspended and Shopify just shut down his campaign's online store.
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I asked Rudy Giuliani how long he’s had the copy of this hard drive. He responded, “Your interested in the wrong thing. This time the truth will not be defeated by process. I’ve got a lot more to go. We just started. Print a headline saying Lyin’ Joe and we can talk.”.
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The sourcing here is the real story.
A source close to the White House who is in touch with some of the rioters at the Capitol said it's the goal of those involved to stay inside the Capitol through the night.
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Just a reminder that this governor lifted anti-coronavirus restrictions in his state.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is preemptively blaming undocumented immigrants for a spike in Covid cases in Texas
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File that under “not how this works.”.
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"It takes a village, not a village idiot," says a union worker in Johnstown when I ask him about Donald Trump running the country.
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It's actually against the law to present a false weather forecast and suggest that it was issued by the U.S. government (h/t @wxdam)
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Ivanka Trump is, um, taking some heat for this photo
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Even by President Trump’s own standards, his late-night retweeting spree was gratuitously coarse and vulgar.
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Carl Bernstein writes that President Trump's calls with foreign leaders convinced top administration officials that "the president himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States."
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“You’re not saying all poor people are criminals though.” One of multiple times that Laura Ingraham tries to steer the president away from gaffes.
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.@AndyMills_NJ gets pics of Christie lounging on a state beach closed to the public during government shutdown
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One year ago tomorrow, Trump suggested impeaching a former president.
"We should impeach him for that. Why aren't we impeaching him?" -- Trump suggests Republican should impeach former President Obama for his comments about health care
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Standing with Vice President Harris, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis says he will increase defense spending from 2% to 2.5% of GDP.
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Trump supporters firing paintball guns and pepper spray as they drive through Portland. Here’s a @nytimes reporter on the scene.
Clashes. Trump people unload paintballs and pepper spray. They shot me too.
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This is not a requirement for holding an election of any kind.
Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!.
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The president won't be able to tweet until tomorrow morning.
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Remember Willie Horton? . President Trump's campaign is tweeting mugshots of black people to attack Joe Biden.
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Jenna Ellis, a Trump lawyer, said "the entire Giuliani-affiliated legal team was probably exposed" to COVID-19, @jonathanvswan reports. Giuliani's son tested positive this morning and was at yesterday's news conference.
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Here’s a Parler post from Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio
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President Trump is silent about the daily tragedy of COVID-19, but families who lost loved ones are turning their obituaries into pleas for others to take the virus seriously
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COVID-19 has entered the White House in a potentially significant way. Doug Emhoff tested positive earlier today. Vice President Harris skipping this equal pay event that is about to start. She was with President Biden earlier for bill signing.
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What did the president’s team think of the speech? One person called it a “disaster.” . “Our country is on fire, people are out of work and scared and he’s talking about ramps and water!!!!”
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This is like a Godfather montage of social media companies knocking off Trump-aligned accounts and message boards.
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“Her account was also corroborated by several people she confided in about the incident. They include a friend in New York and Dorris’s mother, both of whom she called immediately after the alleged incident.”
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What a strange time for the FBI. Sometimes politicians imbue you with magical powers to uncover the truth and heal a divided nation. And sometimes they call you corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.
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It's startling how so many pieces of Donald Trump's universe are colliding in court today. The sex allegations, the Russia investigation, the conservative media world — all the pieces seem to be somehow connected.
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The view of Cape Coast in Ghana en route to tour Cape Coast Castle
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There has, in fact, been a virtual debate. Nixon was in Los Angeles, Kennedy was in New York and the moderator was in Chicago.
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Air Force One passed low over the Grand Canyon before we landed — spectacular view
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A father and daughter, both dying from the coronavirus, talked one last time on the phone. “I’ll look for you in heaven,” he told her. @PaightenHarkins
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Breaking — House Democrats are releasing new evidence gathered from Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani.
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Rudy Giuliani met with Andrii Derkach while digging up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine. Now the U.S. Treasury is sanctioning Derkach, saying he’s “been an active Russian agent for over a decade.”
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Did the president’s 78-year-old sister join Twitter this month?
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So I clicked the link to the website run by conservative commentator Wayne Dupree to read the purported statement from Elizabeth. The article had this odd disclaimer at the top.
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“As his first term comes to a close, the professionals around Trump are not all that professional.”
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The account tweets incessantly about cable news and disloyal Republicans
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A lot of national pundits questioning whether this case was made up. But only a local reporter showed up to find out for sure.
I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned. This confirms that the case exists.
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New video of New York Times preparing for Trump lawsuit
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I can’t recall any precedent for this kind of searing rebuke from a former first lady
Laura Bush writes in the Washington Post: "I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.".
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Remember when Sean Spicer said it wasn't a ban?
First the Ninth Circuit rules against the ban & now it hits again on sanctuary cities-both ridiculous rulings. See you in the Supreme Court!.
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@wxdam Here's an official White House photo that shows the map before it was altered to falsely suggest that Dorian was originally on track to hit Alabama.
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President Biden and his family are at their church in Delaware on the anniversary of the 1972 death of his first wife and baby daughter in a car crash.
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On today’s front page — Robert Mueller’s report shows how President Trump sits at the center of an ecosystem of lies
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It’s extraordinary how many people close to President Trump have become felons. Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone. Now Steve Bannon has been arrested and charged in a fundraising scheme.
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For those just tuning into this saga, Trump tweeted that Alabama was one of the states in Dorian's path. Government officials were forced to correct him, and Trump has been defensive about it ever since.
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I asked Rudy Giuliani about his phone calls involving OMB and Rep. Nunes. "No comment," he texts.
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Far-right and anti-vaccine protestors blocked access to Dodger Stadium, where people were lined up to get inoculated
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“Only take from USA?” Puerto Ricans are citizens.
Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA. .
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Our ride to Cape Coast, where the vice president will tour a slave fort
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Schiff wants to know whether the Russians could have used the data to guide their social media efforts. “If there was a benign explanation, why would he lie about it?”.
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The issue with Sidney Powell may be as simple as Georgia — at the same time Republicans are desperately trying to hold onto two Senate seats there, she’s suggesting the state’s top Republicans are part of an election rigging conspiracy.
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So the president's own team is portraying him as a genocidal villain that is defeated by the Avengers? . Not to mention that this clip comes right before Thanos realizes he's lost.
House Democrats can push their sham impeachment all they want. President Trump's re-election is 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.
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The Trump presidency begins and ends with lies about crowd sizes.
AMAZING!. More than one MILLION marchers for President @realDonaldTrump descend on the swamp in support. Best base in political history — we LOVE you guys!!! ❤️🇺🇸
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President Biden's speech on Afghanistan was delayed from 1:30 to 2:45. It's 3 o'clock now, and no word on when it will start.
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And then lower down, the article cites this tweet from an unverified account.
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I'm not sure the president read to the end of this Politico tweet
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President Biden kicks off his speech at a Maryland factory by saying, "Let me start off with two words — Made in America.".
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Dan Coats says he starts his mornings by asking his staff to "tell me the bad things that happened since I fell asleep.".
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An incredible moment, given how much Trump allies have downplayed the events of Jan. 6 since then.
—@Liz_Cheney reads texts sent by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr. to Mark Meadows during the insurrection, imploring him to get Trump to do something.
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It started with this tweet from the president, thanking his older sister for publicly supporting him.
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Trump just made fun of a protestor for being overweight, so that's how tonight is going.
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