Annie Karni
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Congressional correspondent, New York Times. Co-author of the NYT besteller "Mad House.” https://t.co/65LGhXtS9F
Joined June 2011
On a flight back to Baltimore. Flight attendant welcomes passengers flying to the “spectacular, beautiful, amazing city.”. Passengers cheer.
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Trump, this morning, introducing his Secretary of the Interior: "He loves the Interior.".
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WALLACE: You can end this controversy right now. Does the president disavow, does he condemn QAnon? . MEADOWS: Well, listen, we -- we don't even know what it is.
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When Trump gives commencement speech at West Point, one of the new Army officers he will be addressing will be an Indian-American woman breaking a barrier as old as the 218-year-old military academy -- first observant Sikh to graduate.
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Bizarre argument from Mulvaney at CPAC, saying the media doesn't cover what a good dad Donald Trump is to Barron. The White House specifically asks us not to cover Barron, who is 13.
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Trump spoke for 18 minutes, after officials said it would be 30 minutes. Unusual.
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Trump's chopper talk just interrupted on TV for Bill Clinton's eulogy of Cummings.
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The guidance that we needed a floor-length gown for tonight's imperial banquet came hours before my flight departed. I only own one floor-length gown. So, here I am, pooling a presidential event in my wedding dress.
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The canceling of the WH media christmas party was a story last year, and now it's just gone and it's not even a thing, like the press briefing and the NYT/WaPo subscriptions.
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Trump was greeted with "Lock Him Up" chants when he went to the World Series last year. And "Vote Him Out" at the Supreme Court today, where he paid respects to Justice Ginsburg. Reminder of how rarely he ventures outside of his supportive bubble.
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Ivanka gets booed and hissed by audience when she says her father is a"tremendous champion of supporting families.".
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A non-Trump story from West Point today:. Anmol Narang is first observant Sikh ever to graduate. “The chaplain approached me and said, ‘You have “unidentified” for a religious preference.’ I said ‘That’s because Sikhism wasn’t on the list to include it.’”
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Something very through-the-looking-glass about Trump surrogates like McEnany and McDaniel appearing on TV from their homes, bc they have tested positive, and blasting the debate commission for "not following the science" and continue to flack the WH's response to the virus.
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None of these people are related to the candidate in a tight Virginia house race, Derrick Anderson.
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“I’m just a daughter” card easier played when you’re not a senior government official.
“Do you believe your father’s [sexual misconduct] accusers?” -@PeterAlexander. “I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated there’s no truth to it.” -@IvankaTrump
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"The president didn’t meet a single storm victim, see an inch of rain or get near a flooded street." Via @jdawsey1
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Trump said it was his "great honor" to fund Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, "which you have been trying to get for 30 years." In fact, Obama always funded the program, and Trump's budget proposes a 90 percent cut. via @YLindaQiu.
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Experts are not mincing words about Trump's Easter declaration:. Dr. Keith Martin, who heads the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, said simply that if restrictions were lifted prematurely, “President Trump will have blood on his hands.”.
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Moderator gets to it! "The Germans are not that familiar with the concept of a first daughter. What is your role?”.
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Trump has a habit of ripping up all of his paper -- his own "filing system" of sorts. Officials working in records management spend their days taping them back together to avoid violating Presidential Records Act
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July.
Kushner on Fox & Friends: "The hope is that by July the country's really rocking again.".
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“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was Trump and Epstein.” Me and @MaggieNYT on the Trump and Epstein relationship.
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The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held.
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One clear financial loser in this chaotic story: Trey Gowdy, who lost his Fox News contract for a job he’s never going to occupy.
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Mulvaney is saying that the press is now covering Coronavirus because "they think this will bring down the president. That’s what it’s all about.".
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Trump just ad-libbed "they came down from heaven" when quoting a Holocaust survivor watching American soldiers liberate Dachau. Jews don't believe in heaven.
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Biden campaign is hosting conference call today with “Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Khizr Khan, and Rep. Connor Lamb (D-PA) in reaction to the appalling revelations about Donald Trump and veterans”.
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"His point in tweeting out that video was to stand with his supporters, who are oftentimes demonized," says @PressSec, on Fox, explaining why Trump tweeted out a video of a supporter at The Villages yelling "white power.".
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In an unrelated interview just now with me and @katierogers, we asked @PeteButtigieg if he, too, was "born to do this," a la Beto. "I think I was born to make myself useful," he said. "We're all trying to figure out how to do it.".
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The same person who throws a party for a bill that only passed the House.
Who announces a partial trade deal? Somebody trying to change the topic, maybe?.
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Remembering when Trump tried to pressure WH reporter Jeff Mason to take off his mask at a news conference, and when he didn't, mocking him by saying, “you want to be politically correct.”.
From WHCA President @ZekeJMiller: “As of this moment, three White House journalists tested positive for COVID-19 today.”.
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Trump - who has exited Paris Agreement, loosened restrictions on toxic air pollution and removed climate change from a list of national security threats - says he is "the great environmentalist" and that if Biden wins, "the environment will be badly hurt. permanently injured.".
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NEWS: Schumer is postponing his book tour, amid major backlash from Democrats to his decision last week to pass the CR.
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History in the making - two Black women Senator-elects at the same time, for the first time. @AlsobrooksForMD @RepLBR
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No, Trump’s sister did not publicly back him. He was duped by a fake account.
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Mark Meadows, the fourth White House chief of staff, has complained that he had no idea how fractious and unwieldy the climate was until he got there.
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MSNBC reporting that young people have been standing online for up to three hours in Austin, TX, to vote. and haven't made up their mind about who they are voting for. That's commitment to the concept.
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It is ironic that the senators running for President are tied up in Washington because of an impeachment trial and the man on trial is swooping into Des Moines tonight, unfettered.
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So much for the canceled subscription.
The Fake Washington Post keeps doing phony stories, with zero sources, that I am concerned with the Impeachment scam. I am not because I did nothing wrong. It is the other side, including Schiff and his made up story, that are concerned. Witch Hunt continues!.
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"Mayo Clinic shared the masking policy with the Vice President's office," said Ginger Plumbo, a spokeswoman for the clinic.
Karen Pence told @foxandfriends this morning that @VP was not made aware of the @MayoClinic mask policy until his visit was over. This contradicts a Mayo tweet that he was made aware of the policy before beginning his visit.
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New: Group pledges up to $50 million to defend Republicans who support impeaching Trump.
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Trump just now: "no collusion, and, essentially, no obstruction." Essentially?.
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Mulvaney says Trump didn't sleep on flight home from India, then didn't sleep at all during the day before his Coronavirus press conference.
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Trump just demonstrated that he could drink out of a water glass without any problem. The crowd erupted in cheers of "Four More Years.".
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“I never should have done this f-king vaping thing," feels like an instant classic.
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Nothing makes me feel more Jewish than other people in matching pajamas.
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Now, people at the WH are wearing masks. No one who traveled with POTUS — which was everyone — did this week. //By Thurs, it was clear something unusual was happening at the WH. Several staff members who have avoided masks were suddenly wearing them.
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“That’s a call no president wants to make,” she said. “In those moments, I saw the president’s heart. And I also saw his commitment to the men and women of our great military.”. In fact, that’s not a call that any president ever makes.
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Ivanka Trump to Help Choose New World Bank President. Interviews with candidates start tomorrow. Ethics watchdogs raise red flags. via @NYTimes
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Pence is currently speaking in a heavy rain in Kinston, N.C., after his chief of staff has tested positive for the virus, a sign of how concerned the Trump campaign is about holding onto this state.
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Cheney: "I don’t believe we have the luxury of writing in candidates names, particularly in swing states.". "I have thought deeply about this and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.".
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President Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty Bank of Oklahoma Center in horror. @maggieNYT and me on what happened last night.
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Source tells me Sadler called Meghan McCain today. And that it didn’t go so well.
SCOOP: White House official mocked ‘dying’ McCain at internal meeting (w/ @JonEasley)
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Credit and blame game. BARTIROMO: But now, we’ve got 33 million people filing for unemployment. We’ve got 20 percent --. TRUMP: Nobody blames me for that.
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Another briefing, this tweet still stands ----->.
No news at this briefing so far.
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Biden is fighting back on Clooney. From a source familiar with event planning: “The President stayed for over 3 hours, while Clooney took a photo quickly and left.”.
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That makes sense. What never made sense to me was Chris Cuomo covering him when things were going well for Andrew Cuomo.
>> @ChrisCuomo at the top of @CuomoPrimeTime tonight: "Obviously I am aware of what is going on with my brother. And obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so."
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Just in from Governor’s office:. “Governor Walz thanks President Trump for finally following public health guidance at a campaign rally.”.
Angry at restrictions on gatherings in Minnesota that prevented him from speaking in front of a large crowd of supporters, Trump stalked off the stage after less than 30 minutes at his final stop of the day Friday.
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More on who will be getting the vaccine and when —. a transition official says @JoeBiden will consult with Dr. Fauci about when to take the vaccine — and plans to take it publicly when Fauci recommends he do so.
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What’s your best unintentional appearance in a photo of someone else?.
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Pence and Trump this afternoon are hearing a last minute pitch in the W.H. from Giuliani and John Eastman, another Trump attorney, re Jan. 6, including a discussion of the VP's role, per multiple sources.
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The question was should the president be honest about his medical condition and Pence has thanked the moderator again, and then thanked Kamala and Biden for their well-wishes, and killed all of the clock without answering.
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Ivanka writes in her book about the importance of "cultivating authenticity," a phrase that has given me pause.
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In reality, the mistake was not in the booking, but in a garbled game of telephone. Giuliani and Lewandowski told the president on Saturday morning their intended location for the news conference and he misunderstood, assuming it was an upscale hotel.
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.@jpaceDC: “So Covid vaccines are safe. Climate change is real. There was no widespread fraud in the U.S. election. Those are not political positions; those are fact-based positions.”.
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Trump's sole acknowledgement of the indoor setting of his rally, which is ignoring a state directive limiting indoor gatherings to under 50 people:. "If the governor comes after you, which he shouldn’t be doing, I’ll be with you all the way.".
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James Baker memo from 1992: “They wanted us to contact the Russians or the British to seek information on Bill Clinton’s trip to Moscow. I said we absolutely could not do that.” via @PeterbakerNYT.
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"So proud of you," Obama, the first Black president, can be heard saying to Harris, the first Black vice president and first woman to hold that role. @npfandos.
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Rep Omar says she won’t be attending Netanyahu speech and is giving her tickets to family members of American hostages taken by Hamas.
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Jon Meacham, the presidential historian and biographer, wrote Biden's first speech as president-elect and has had a bigger behind-the-scenes role shaping his addresses than I (at least) had realized.
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So glad to be back in NYC, specifically for the famous Trump Tower pizza.
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We thought she was threading a needle but she sewed herself to Trump.
Nikki Haley on NBC just now insisting Trump is a “truthful” president and tougher on Russia than any previous president. She appears to be all in.
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Yale psychiatry prof spent two days last month briefing lawmakers on Capitol Hill about Trump's mental state. She says: “Their level of concern about the president’s dangerousness was surprisingly high.”
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At Tulsa mayor's press conference, officials announce 96 people tested positive for Covid-19, call it a new record for daily increase.
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Pic of Hampden Roland Park Post Office, 21211, in Baltimore, sent by a reader.
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“Trump has suffered a double whammy w/seniors from the coronavirus crisis, both in terms of a dislike for his personal demeanor and disapproval of his policy priorities. If there’s a durable change w/older voters, it could well cost Trump the election.” .
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Biden’s advice to Obama after his first full NSC meeting. Now following his own advice.
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The immediate skepticism from Trump critics about his negative coronavirus test is the latest reminder of how he has squandered the credibility he needs in a moment of national emergency — especially when it come to his health.
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Walter Reed physician on the car ride:. ““When I first saw this, I thought, maybe he was being transported to another hospital.”. @peterbakernyt @maggieNYT
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Part of his rally stump speech is making fun of Biden for not knowing where he is and noting that “when you do that, you can’t really recover.".
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Just wild. He appointed Lankford to negotiate the deal and approved of it every step of the way until it became politically untenable.
NEWS — McConnell recommended to GOP senators behind closed doors that they BLOCK the border bill on Wednesday, per multiple sources, bc it’s clear that most Republicans are preparing to vote no — either because they oppose the bill or want more time. w/ @bresreports @JakeSherman.
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Fiona Hill: " “We’re doing this to ourselves now. The Russians don’t have to do a thing.”. via @NewYorker.
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Taboos in Saudi Arabia. Last bullet point = Trump's signature gesture.
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So Kushner's now infamous comment, that the country would be "'really rocking again" by July, meant. a different July.
NEW >> @POTUS announces we have secured 100M more doses each of Pfizer/Moderna vaccines. They'll be delivered faster than expected too: by the *end of July*. That means we'll now have 600M doses of Pfizer/Moderna - enough to vaccinate 300M people - by end of July.
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Trump rallies are a time suck, a money suck, which aren't being carried on national TV. And it's not clear that hosting large gatherings mid-pandemic doesn't hurt him with voters in the end. But the adoring crowds keep the president happy.
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It seems like the most shocking part of yesterday happened during the press conference, but that’s bc we have no clue what happened in the 1 on 1 meeting between Trump and Putin.
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Watch the full “Axios on HBO” interview with President Trump - Axios
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Everyone loves to say how Washington is more Veep than House of Cards, but this season is very Homeland.
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Trump briefly participated in a virtual G20 summit. But he was not listed as a participant at a sideline event on “Pandemic Preparedness and Response.” Speakers there included Macron and Merkel. Trump went to golf.
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To everyone saying DC reporting is "boring now," @JakeSherman this AM says "getting stuff done is interesting.".
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Do famous dogs know they are famous.
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.@PressSec responds to Kelly:. “I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.”.
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The kicker: A spokeswoman for Mrs. Trump, who at first expressed interest in the ban as a mother of a teenage son, did not respond to a request for comment about whether she was still invested in the issue.
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Mary Trump's “cheating as a way of life" sounds like Bolton's characterization of life in the WH as "obstruction of justice as a way of life.". via @politico.
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