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              Washington Managing Editor covering politics & investigations for @ABC News. @UVA. Signal: KFaulders.54 // [email protected]
              
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              Joined August 2010
            
            
           DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing 1/2 
          
                
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             UPDATE: The flatly accurate description of the attack on the Capitol has apparently led DOJ to suspend the prosecutors who signed it: 
           The two prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were locked out of their government devices and informed Wednesday morning they will be placed on leave just hours after filing a sentencing memorandum in the case of Taylor Taranto, the sources said. 
          
                
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             Valdivia and White were furloughed due to the government shutdown and were informed they would be put on administrative leave when the government reopens, the sources said. 
          
            
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              Two federal prosecutors have been told they will be put on leave after filing a brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021, attackers a "mob of rioters," sources say.
            
                
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             The two prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were locked out of their government devices and informed Wednesday morning they will be placed on leave just hours after filing a sentencing memorandum in the case of Taylor Taranto, the sources said. 
           NEWS - Two federal prosecutors were informed Wednesday they will be put on leave after filing a legal brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as being carried out by "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters," sources tell me & @alex_mallin
            
          
                
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             NEWS - Two federal prosecutors were informed Wednesday they will be put on leave after filing a legal brief that described the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as being carried out by "thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters," sources tell me & @alex_mallin
          
          
                
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             Joe Kent's investigation of the killing of Charlie Kirk drew the ire of the FBI and Kash Patel. Officials were concerned it could interfere with the prosecution. Kent's defenders said he was looking into important questions. w/ @maggieNYT & @DevlinBarrett
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              An inquiry by Joe Kent, who leads the National Counterterrorism Center, is said to have alarmed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director.
            
                
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             .@GavinNewsom tells me he is “deeply concerned” about President Trump running for office again in 2028.  “Guys like Bannon, they're not screwing around.” Watch Wednesday at 8:30pm ET on ABC News Live and stream on Disney+ and Hulu #TikTok
          
          
            
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              1075 likes, 64 comments. “California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom tells ABC News’ @Jonathan Karl he is “deeply concerned” about President Trump and his longtime adviser Steve Bannon making refere...
            
                
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             SCOOP: Timothy Mellon, a billionaire and major financial backer of Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.  https://t.co/0QVy19PvK0 
          
          
            
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              Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.
            
                
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             Trump said late last night “I don’t have any plans to call it after myself” and calls this reporting “fake news.” However, on a list of donors to the ballroom, provided to ABC News by the White House, the White House referred to it as the “President Donald J. Trump Ballroom” 
           President Trump will likely name the new $300 million ballroom after himself, I'm told by senior admin officials. Already, officials are referring to it as "The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom" and that name will likely stick. 
          
                
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             President Trump will likely name the new $300 million ballroom after himself, I'm told by senior admin officials. Already, officials are referring to it as "The President Donald J. Trump Ballroom" and that name will likely stick. 
          
                
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             NY Attorney General Letitia James has pleaded not guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution. Via @newsfromnick @alex_mallin @PierreTABC
          
          
                
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             The White House is requiring at least some of the construction workers tasked with demolishing the East Wing to sign non-disclosure agreements barring them from discussing their work, according to a White House official and sources familiar with the project. w/ @KFaulders
          
          
                
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             I tried talking to construction workers leaving the East Wing area earlier. Some told me they signed NDAs, others said everything has to go through the WH press office:  https://t.co/QRSBMahHoc 
          
          
            
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              Construction workers in lime green vests, hoodies and hard hats who have spent the last several days clearing the White House’s East Wing departed through the Treasury grounds on their way out for...
            
                
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             NEWS - Evidence appears to undercut claims against Letitia James, prosecutors found. Story w/ @alex_mallin @PCCharalambous @stevenportnoy
          
          
            
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              Prosecutors who investigated NY AG Letitia James for mortgage fraud found evidence that would appear to undercut some of the allegations in her indictment, sources say.
            
                
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             'Biggest Trump fan': How Bannon says he helped former Mafia hitman get early prison release  - ABC News 
          
            
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              Steve Bannon told ABC's Jon Karl that he struck up a friendship with a mob hitman he called the 'biggest Trump fan' as reported in his new book "Retribution."
            
                
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             NEW: The first excerpt of “Retribution” (to be published next week) in The Atlantic - Steve Bannon and the Murderers and Hitmen Who Became His ‘Besties’: What the man who has Trump’s ear learned in prison 
          
            
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              What the man who has Trump’s ear learned in prison
            
                
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             I'll be at @PoliticsProse in Washington, DC - 3pm on November 2 for a book signing and talk with my great colleague @KFaulders. Please come! 
          
                
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             Seven of the transmissions allegedly occurred during the time when Bolton was serving as Trump’s national security adviser in 2018 and 2019, while another document was allegedly sent by Bolton just days after President Trump removed him from the administration in September of 
          
                
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