Leigh Kimmins McManus
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Reporter at @thedailybeast. All views are my own. Story? [email protected]
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Joined January 2012
Excited to get started at @thedailybeast on Monday! Any tips, get me on: Leigh.Kimmins@thedailybeast.com I’ll be covering everything from US domestic politics to international relations. 🇺🇸
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Gavin Newsom took a sharp jab at Donald Trump and all those who “bend the knee” to him by announcing the launch of a range of “MAGA Kneepads.”
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The California governor slammed individuals and institutions rolling over for the president.
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Trump has suggested that he was involved in the pager attacks in Lebanon that killed dozens of people, including children, despite not being president at the time. https://t.co/80Dy6qXaJ4
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The president declared that “All of those attacks were done under my auspices” despite not being in office at the time.
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The MAGA curious billionaire owner of TIME magazine has publicly backed the president sending National Guard troops into San Francisco. https://t.co/GbfS5m6M1k
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The magazine’s owner, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, has publicly backed the president sending National Guard troops into San Francisco.
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So impressed by @ZackPolanski and the new look Greens. We’re all voting Green aren’t we? Green is the new red.
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TIME magazine has had another go at a Trump cover after the president ripped the first one! https://t.co/ezuO6qGisc
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The magazine’s owner, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, has publicly backed the president sending National Guard troops into San Francisco.
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Trump, 41, has made several questionable plugs for his memoir, but this might be his worst yet. https://t.co/FiViUepfwh
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Trump, 41, has made several questionable plugs for his memoir. He might have produced his worst yet.
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Paul Ingrassia’s racist text messages cost him a Senate-confirmed job, but not his White House one. https://t.co/l7Tpdc9woB
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The White House has yet to sever ties with its DHS liaison despite his reported racist text messages.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at President Donald Trump’s beef import plans by resurrecting one of the most iconic ads of the 1980s.
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Gavin Newsom is on the warpath over Trump’s plans to import foreign beef into the U.S.
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CNN host Abby Phillip fact-checked Scott Jennings live on air, prompting the panel to burst out laughing at the MAGA commentator after he claimed that Trump’s approval rating was on the rise.
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Scott Jennings clings to one number amid a deluge of bad news.
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Tulsi Gabbard has quietly assembled a secretive network of officials tasked with enforcing the president’s demand for MAGA retribution. https://t.co/yIL0Lh8Mns
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The Interagency Weaponization Working Group has been meeting for months.
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Dan Bongino used a Fox News interview to tear into the California governor. https://t.co/nKRVhgTqtS
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Dan Bongino used a Fox News interview to tear into the California governor.
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"Consider yourself a journal."
For context, S.V. Dáte of the Huffington Post is not a journalist interested in the facts. He is a left-wing hack who has consistently attacked President Trump for years and constantly bombards my phone with Democrat talking points. Just take a look at @svdate’s feed, it reads
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Trump has insisted he’s no monarch—just hours before thousands of protesters plan to remind him of that fact. https://t.co/PiLCnc8gQx
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“They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” the president insisted, walking back on previous grandiose rhetoric.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom roasted President Donald Trump’s waistline and attention span, urging “Dozy Don” to “slim down.”
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“SLIM DOWN, DONNY!” the California Governor wrote in Trumpian style on X.
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Podcaster Joe Rogan ripped into Trump’s deployment of troops on the streets of U.S. cities, warning that it could have serious long-term consequences.
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The comedian-podcaster, who endorsed Trump, is now in the habit of criticizing his policies.
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The then-Sen. JD Vance made claims in 2023 about Biden "using the government to target political opponents" that are now eerily on-script with Trump's current playbook. https://t.co/yc0k7u50oe
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The vice president has spoken before about “weaponization of the IRS.”
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@JDVance November 2023 btw. I'm sure you'll agree this is hypocritical from the VP @IngrahamAngle?
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Just leaving this here. A video of Ohio Senator JD Vance complaining that if the IRS guns for someone based on their beliefs, it constitutes a middle finger to the Constitution. You've changed your tone @JDVance! https://t.co/pulJVYaae2
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Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, reacts to the IRS allegedly targeting conservative groups on 'The Ingraham Angle.'
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Pritzker warned that no one around Trump is getting him help “because they benefit from him having those diminished capacities.” https://t.co/N4DuVg5BCU
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said no one around him is getting him help “because they benefit from him having those diminished capacities.”
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“It’s very tough to compete with what we have in Scotland,” Trump said earlier this week. The numbers tell a different story. https://t.co/HKpZWo9Loz
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“It’s very tough to compete with what we have in Scotland,” Trump said earlier this week. The numbers tell a different story.
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