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Mike Allen
3 years
🚨 🦊 NEW ... Source tells me Trump plans to use vote-count rallies to "wreck Fox" so he can start his own paid MAGA channel, built from his campaign text-message database: "He's going to spend a lot of time slamming Fox"
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7 years
BITE DU JOUR: @JoeNBC Scarborough on @msnbc @Morning_Joe : "TIME magazine was right: Steve Bannon is the president of the United States" ...
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11 months
🦊 NEW in @axios AM: @FoxNews sends cease-and-desist to @TuckerCarlson , who ramps up plans for "Tucker on Twittter" >>Ep. 3, on Trump indictment, drops tomorrow >>Tucker adds staff, books big-name guests >>Lawyer tells me: "Tucker will not be silenced"
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5 years
🚨 Scoop: Biden, Bloomberg, McAuliffe rattled by liberal lurch, rethinking runs: Internal polling shows socialism surging in Iowa
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7 years
If you're starting to forget what a leader sounds like, we have a refreshing reminder to start your Friday:
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2 months
🥊 Former AG Bill Barr brings down the house today at a Forum Club of Southwest Florida lunch in Naples — and suggests he'd vote Trump if there's no Biden alternative: "Voting for Trump is playing Russian roulette with the country. Voting for Biden is outright national suicide"
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2 years
🚨 SCOOP in @Axios AM: Former SecDef Mark Esper, fired by Trump, writes in "A Sacred Oath," out 5/10, that a red-faced Trump said as demonstrators filled DC after George Floyd's death: "Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"
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1 year
🚨NEW in @axios AM: @SpeakerMcCarthy has given @TuckerCarlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from 1/6 Carlson producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove 📺 Excerpts begin in coming weeks
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4 years
🚨 "THE RED MIRAGE" ... Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns @margarettalev on @Axios on @HBO @HBODocs that Trump could win electoral college and popular vote on election night -- potentially in landslide -- then lose when mail votes counted
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1 year
💰NEW: Trump campaign hauls in $5 million+ since indictment news broke •Over $4m in first 24 hrs, as campaign announced •Over $1m in second 24 hrs, campaign tells @axios @JasonMillerinDC : "a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by" news
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6 years
⚡️ @realDonaldTrump , @IvankaTrump announcement @ 3 p.m.: A key goal is retraining workers so they can fill data-economy jobs that are created in their current workplaces, rather than being laid off
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5 years
🚨 Exclusive look @ Christie unleashed: Trump surrounded by “amateurs , grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons”
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5 years
⚡️On @NBCNews @TODAYshow , @SavannahGuthrie to @NancyPelosi : “Do you believe the special counsel should honor...the Department of Justice guidance that...a sitting president cannot be indicted?" Pelosi: “I do not think that that is conclusive. No, I do not”
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6 years
🍦 by @jonathanvswan : Axios obtains a spreadsheet, circulating in Republican circles, that meticulously previews probes Dems will likely launch if they flip the House
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Mike Allen
4 years
🧨 it’s official ... Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday evening that the House will be called back from August recess — likely on Saturday, Axios is told — to act to "save the Postal Service."
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5 years
🚨 “What happens if all of a sudden someone gets shot — someone shoots one of these reporters?”
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2 months
🧐NEW: Biden's cheat sheets, from @axios @HansNichols Biden's reliance on notecards to explain his own positions, on questions he knows are coming (sometimes at closed-door fundraisers), is raising some donors' worries about his age Behind the scenes👇
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8 years
per @FrankLuntz : "My focus group is turning deeply against Kaine because of these interruptions. They want the moderator to be even tougher"
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3 years
🚨 Scoop ... Top sources tell me Trump has no plan to call for national unity. "No chance," says a person who talks often to the president. A senior Republican who talks often to Trump said the president is "angry ... volatile ... disconsolate"
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7 years
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Mike Allen
6 years
⚡️ McCabe met with Mueller, corroborated Comey account of firing by Trump ... also turned over memos documenting exchanges w POTUS
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5 years
🚨 Exclusive: “Anonymous” met frequently with Trump, took detailed notes, says other officials will soon go public ...
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5 years
🚨 Source close to Trump tells @jonathanvswan that an emergency declaration remains the most likely ultimate option ... Conservatives, including sources in the conservative legal orbit around Trump, don’t like what they view as an abuse of this authority
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2 years
🚨 @alaynatreene in @axios Sneak Peek: Pence former chief of staff Marc Short, former press sec Alyssa Fara and former nat-sec adviser Keith Kellogg cooperate with 1/6 committee. Source tells us Short, Kellogg wouldn't have cooperated without Pence approval
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Mike Allen
8 years
OVERHEARD: "Did he just factcheck the MODERATOR?"
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5 years
☕️🚨 Scoop: Howard Schultz to end presidential campaign ... Will send letter to supporters later today ... Plans to spend $100m on reform
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Mike Allen
7 years
Christmas @ Mar-a-Lago: @realDonaldTrump , relaxed and chatty, hosts press for drinks -- off-record but pics OK @axios
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4 years
🚨💥 @axios @JimVandeHei : It's as if God or the galaxy, or whatever you believe in, are screaming for politicians and the public to pop our bubbles and pay attention — believe our eyes. ... Think about the no. of educated people in your life who believe BS
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Mike Allen
2 years
🚽FIRST on @axios : Trump’s telltale toilet … ⁦ @maggieNYT ⁩ obtained these photos ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book “Confidence Man” Source tells her pic on the left shows a White House commode Pic on the right is from a Trump overseas trip
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Mike Allen
8 years
Huge applause for wireless @Apple AirPods #AppleEvent
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Mike Allen
7 years
Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump
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Mike Allen
3 years
🚨 Spoiler alert: Arizona "recount" finds Biden won (bigger): After all that, the new tally widens “Biden’s margin by 360 more votes than certified results,” ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩ reports
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Mike Allen
6 years
Scoop: sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling. Staff dejected, defeated....
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Mike Allen
3 years
🚨 JUST DROPPED ... Ep 1 of "Off the Rails," @axios @jonathanvswan , @zacharybasu fly-on-the-wall reporting from Trump final days: POTUS acted out premature victory speech in OCTOBER ... Most infamous line of election night speech wasn't in prompter
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Mike Allen
7 years
!BREAKING @Axios : Speculation mounts US cyber-terminated NK missile: "very strong belief" cyber methods used in past
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Mike Allen
2 years
🚨 SCOOP @sarafischer @axios : CNN's Chris Licht scrutinizes talent for partisan tone ... monitoring anchors including Jim @Acosta , @brianstelter to see if they can comport w new style — no interviews that look like stunts Those who can't may get canned
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Mike Allen
7 years
⚡️📨 Make sure you subscribe to AXIOS PM — your afternoon catch-me-up on the day's news!
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5 years
Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S.
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7 years
Trump's "dangerously low" support among his base via @axios
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2 years
📚NEW from @axios AM: Trump obsession w @maggieNYT included threats to expose sources — per her "Confidence Man," out Tue.: Trump "would bellow that he wanted administration officials to obtain my phone records and identify my sources." No sign anyone did
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Mike Allen
8 years
No handshake! ... Overheard: "Even Ali and Frazier touched gloves" #FightNight
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7 years
NEW YORK (AP) - CORRECTION: CBS reporter clarifies on saying Kaepernick would stand for anthem, says they didn't discuss issue.
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Mike Allen
6 years
Be smart: Jokes are funnier if you don't have to say they're jokes.
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Mike Allen
8 years
My last @POLITICO Playbook: #3 ,304, a streak that started June 25, 2007 -- THANK YOU for all these great mornings:
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Mike Allen
7 years
A source close to Trump predicts he will explode when he reads the Cohn interview.
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7 years
💥 @Axios AM: when I ask Sean Spicer if Mueller might want his notebooks - sign up free here:
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2 years
🚨 🎧 Exclusive audio sneak from @jonkarl @ThisWeekABC Mar-a-Lago interview for "Betrayal," coming Tue. ... Trump defends chants of "hang Mike Pence": "The people were very angry ... How can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?"
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Mike Allen
5 years
👀 Trump asked one trusted adviser: "Did you know [incoming chief of staff Mick Mulvaney] called me 'a terrible human being'" back during the campaign?
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Mike Allen
7 years
Republicans getting nervous about Dem recruitment
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Mike Allen
3 years
🚨📚 Detonating Tue. ... @washingtonpost @yabutaleb7 @damianpaletta "Nightmare Scenario" ... Trump: "Hopefully COVID takes out John" ... In @axios story, @jonathanvswan gets Bolton's classic response
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Mike Allen
7 years
You were Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon. Now you're Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State to Donald Trump. Your life blows.
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2 months
🚨🚨 @NikkiHaley will suspend her campaign with 10 a.m. remarks, top source tells @axios , confirming @WSJ WON'T ENDORSE TRUMP: Instead, she'll encourage Trump "to earn the support of Republicans and independent voters who backed her," The Journal reports
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Mike Allen
6 years
Exclusive: Trump plans to sign an executive order terminating birthright citizenship.
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5 years
🚨The midterm results were actually a terrible leading indicator for Trump 2020: Turns out that without Hillary atop the ticket, Midwest states like Wisconsin are tough for him — Southern states with rising Hispanic populations are getting more Democratic
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7 years
3 people fired by Trump were all investigating Trumpworld
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Mike Allen
2 years
🍿 7,500-word reporting tour de force @jonathanvswan Preparations for Trump II are far more advanced/ambitious than previously reported. What's happening behind the scenes is the REVERSE of the slapdash start to '17 REVENGE TOURS are on the drawing board
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Mike Allen
7 years
Acosta: "It's not often you're accused of a cosmopolitan bias from someone who went to Duke University"
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6 years
"A detailed look at how Trump and his allies used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs — sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously — out of the press."
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Mike Allen
7 years
In the media, the focus is on the son. In the West Wing, colleagues are watching the son-in-law.
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Mike Allen
7 years
The sources say Trump feels ill-served by not just his staff but also by several of his Cabinet officials.
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Mike Allen
2 years
😢Sobering stat from @caitlinnowens leads @axios AM: Guns have passed cars as the leading cause of death for America's kids, per CDC data 2/3 were homicides Guns kill more young men; cars kill more young women 📨 Sign up for AM
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Mike Allen
6 years
hot in @Axios AM ... James @Comey compares Trump to mob boss during taping with @ABC @GStephanopoulos (airs Sun. @ 10pm; "A Higher Loyalty" book out Tue.) ... source tells me interview is "going to shock the president and his team" See the promo:
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Mike Allen
6 years
UPDATE just posted: Trump lawyer charges 'unlawlful' leak by career employees, claims 4th Amendment violation
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Mike Allen
8 years
on @MSNBC , Steve Schmidt says @mike_Pence won on TV style, but "When we look back a week from now, @timKaine scored the points" #VPDebate
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Mike Allen
6 years
leading @Axios AM: The "known knowns" on Russia that even Trump’s closest friends don’t deny tell a damning tale that would sink most leaders
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1 year
🚨 NEW ... @axios @SophiaCai99 aboard Trump Force One, leaving Waco after rally Trump, w/o evidence, suggests Bragg has dropped Stormy case: "I think they've already dropped the case ... It's a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing"
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4 months
🚨 NEW @axios : @JohnKerry to leave @POTUS administration in coming months to help @JoeBiden campaign >>Says Biden's reelection is "single biggest" difference that can be made on climate in '24 Deets ⬇️
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5 months
🚨 NEW in @Axios AM: @maggieNYT & @jonathanvswan sign deal for definitive book on Donald Trump's final act in public life • More enduring than a campaign book: Lots of juicy inside-the-room detail but also deeply reported, longer arc 👇 Full details:
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6 years
A source who’s spoken to POTUS: “He’s wondered aloud if there may be any way to go after Amazon with antitrust or competition law."
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8 years
SIREN: Source close to Aryeh Bourkoff tells me he never followed up with Trump team re Trump TV: "no interest in being in business w/ Trump"
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6 years
NEW: Trump’s lawyers tell @Axios they want SECOND special prosecutor ASAP; they are more upset w/ FBI than Mueller. They want an investigator to investigate the investigation
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10 months
🤬Old yeller … @axios @AlexThomp : Behind closed doors, Biden has such a temper that some aides try to avoid meeting him alone. POTUS classics: •"God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!” •"Don't f**king bullsh*t me!" •"Get the f**k out of here!"
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2 years
📚 NEW: @MarkLeibovich vivisects Trumptown in "This Town" sequel ... "Thank You for Your Servitude," out 7/12 Leibo tells me the book's stars are the "Republican collaborators who enabled him despite profound misgivings" Preorder
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Mike Allen
7 years
Conservatives should have seen this coming. Trump goes where the applause is loudest.
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5 years
⚡ crashing through Trump's red line ... Rep. Eric Swalwell, a senior Democrat on House Intel, tells @jonathanvswan : "We are going to take an MRI to any Russian financing that the Trump Organization and the president may have had"
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Mike Allen
11 months
🐊 Some candidates struggle to nail their message. @RonDeSantis struggles to nail his NAME In videos and interviews in the past week, the governor has gone back and forth between Dee-Santis and Deh-Santis, per reporting by @axios @AlexThomp , @SophiaCai99
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7 years
Scoop: Trump budget to slash entitlements by $1.7 trillion
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7 years
leading @Axios AM: Trump, who craves approval, made deal with Dems after realizing: "People really f@& @ing hate me"
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Mike Allen
1 year
🚨 NEW in @axios AM w/ @sarafischer : "Succession"-worthy media power play, starring 3 moguls! Michael Bloomberg is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, per a source familiar with his thinking
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Mike Allen
7 years
Once upon a time, Saturdays were devoid of news beyond boring presidential radio address. Now, they are wild affairs
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7 years
4/ When @CLewandowski_ interrupts Team HRC @HarvardIOP , pollster Joel @benensonj scolds: “We’re not at a Trump rally, Corey” . follow @axios
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7 years
Source: the Trump budget will save $1.7 trillion on the mandatory side over the next ten years.
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6 years
Why China is winning, from @jonathanvswan and me: Trump desperately wants the upcoming summit in Singapore to work. Going hard against China now could derail an already fraught journey
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5 years
🍦 Scoop w @JimVandeHei : As a sign of the mood inside, officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue tell us that Trump is complaining about his incoming chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, in conversations inside the West Wing and with Capitol Hill
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6 years
According to three sources familiar with the call, Trump asked Bibi bluntly if he actually cares about peace or not.
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6 years
🚨 @HolmesJosh tells @jonathanvswan : “Private polling shows the enthusiasm shift is ... unmistakable in the red states that will determine control of the Senate”
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6 years
Long Hogg summer: @davidhogg111 , who graduated yesterday and plans to work on voter registration during his gap year ahead, told me: "I’m glad I’m getting my diploma and not my death certificate"
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Mike Allen
6 years
Data from @jonathanvswan : The signals look every bit as bad for Republicans as they did for House Democrats when they got wiped out in the 2010 Tea Party wave
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1 year
🚨 NEW @axios : Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman tells us he's defecting from Trump for '24: "It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries"
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6 years
breaking @axios via @jonathanvswan SIREN: Ryan tells confidants he won't run again; announcement imminent
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5 years
🚨 🕵🏻 White House leaker keeps leaking Executive Time schedules amid leak crackdown
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7 years
Scoop: Trump pledges to personally pay some legal bills of WH staff and associates
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6 years
🚨 leading @axios AM: In a foreshadowing of how much uglier U.S. politics could get, top Democratic operatives are already talking about impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh as a 2020 campaign issue if he gets confirmed to the Supreme Court
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