Michael D. Shear
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The thing is, I was at the
@JustinTrudeau
news conference, and he went out of his way to try to downplay tensions. He didn’t attack
@realDonaldTrump
in any way, other than restate Canada would retaliate for tariffs. Not sure what
@larry_kudlow
means re: “stabbed” US in the back
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BREAKING NEWS --
@realdonaldtrump
paid only $750 in taxes in 2016 and again in 2017, a vastly smaller tax bill than most working Americans, according to a sweeping new examination of his tax information by the
@nytimes
.
@susannecraig
@russbuettner
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BREAKING -- "We need to take away children." A damning internal investigation concludes that top Justice Dept. officials were "a driving force" behind
@realdonaldtrump
's family separation policy. My new report, with
@nytmike
@ktbenner
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Hours after he received the call from Meadows informing him of a positive test, Trump came to the back of AF1 without a mask and talked with reporters for about 10 minutes. I was wearing a mask, but still got COVID, testing positive several days later.
Trump popped a positive test, then a negative, per his former chief of staff. Knowing this, Trump still blamed a top aide for getting him sick.
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BREAKING - President-elect Joe Biden will name Ron Klain, a longtime Democratic operative and close confidant, as his chief of staff as early as tomorrow morning. w/
@maggieNYT
@katieglueck
@thomaskaplan
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Mueller is investigating whether
@realDonaldTrump
’s used Twitter to intimidate or pressure Jeff Sessions:
Today,
@realDonaldTrump
uses Twitter to pressure Sessions to end the Russia investigation:
..This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further. Bob Mueller is totally conflicted, and his 17 Angry Democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to USA!
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EXCLUSIVE: Former President Obama is in talks with Netflix to produce shows for the streaming service that would give him a massive, post-presidential platform. With
@ktbenner
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When
@realDonaldTrump
today complained about the Flores legal settlement that governs treatment of migrant children and families, he blamed “Judge Flores, whoever you may be.” Wonder who will tell him that Jenny Flores was an unaccompanied 15-year-old girl from El Salvador?
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The history books will record this evening as a pivotal moment in America — the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by a sitting president to overturn the will of the people within hours of the (expected) approval of a vaccine to end a pandemic that killed 275,000+ so far.
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CLOSING ARGUMENT: Build tent cities for migrants. End birthright citizenship. Fear the caravan. Send active-duty troops to the border. Refuse asylum. If you ever doubted that immigration is the animating force of the
@realDonaldTrump
presidency, just look at the last few weeks.
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BREAKING — Our investigation into the Trump virus response shows how the effort by
@realDonaldTrump
to shed responsibility to governors in April was a catastrophic policy blunder and an attempt to escape blame for a crisis engulfing the country
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SIREN — Hard to overstate the jaw-dropping nature of this scoop by
@nytmike
and
@maggieNYT
. The WH counsel, fearing he was being set up by the president, is a cooperating witness against
@realDonaldTrump
in the obstruction case. Just wow.
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Must say I’m struck by the fact that
@realDonaldTrump
made no mention of
@SenJohnMcCain
here at the Naval Academy, where McCain is revered. Would have thought he would have said that everyone’s thoughts are with McCain, who is battling brain cancer.
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It’s important to step back and think about how stunning this is. The lawyer for the president is going to jail. With all the chaos swirling around the White House for the last two years, it’s easy to forget how remarkable that is.
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It is really stunning how quickly
@realDonaldTrump
has seen his executive powers limited by the courts. Its less than three weeks in office
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The craziest G7 I have ever covered, capped off by
@realDonaldTrump
blowing up a deal that took two days of diplomacy. I just need to stop being surprised.
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SCOOP -- Joe Biden will nominate Xavier Becerra, the attorney general in California, to be the next HHS secretary, a victory for the Cong. Hispanic Caucus, which he used to lead, and had pressed for more high-profile Latinos in the cabinet. w/
@SherylNYT
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FACTCHECK --
@realDonaldTrump
repeatedly says, as he did just now in Allentown, "if we didn't do any testing we would have very few cases." No. If we didn't do any testing, you would still have the same number of cases (if not more) -- you just wouldn't know about them.
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CRITICALLY IMPORTANT: States never finish counting ballots on Election Night. They are legally allowed--in fact required--to continue counting properly submitted ballots. Claims by
@realDonaldTrump
that post-Election Day ballots are fraudulent are false.
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Dr. Debbie Birx was the chief evangelist for the idea that the threat from the virus was fading. She would roam the the White House, passing out diagrams to bolster her case. “We’ve hit our peak,” she would say, a message that would find its way to Trump.
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ANONYMOUS REVEALED -- Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at DHS, told me today that he is the anonymous author of an
@nytimes
op-ed and the book "A Warning" that roiled Washington 2 years ago and sparked a hunt for his identity
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Here's a way of visualizing
@realDonaldTrump
's schedule since election day. I've been covering the White House for 12 years. Except for vacations, I can't remember so little on a presidential calendar.
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SHOOT THEM IN THE LEGS: The crazy week in March that began with a two-hour angry diatribe about immigration by
@realDonaldTrump
and ended with Kirstjen Nielsen's firing. Adapted from my book with
@juliehdavis
, which is out next week.
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Odd day — Russian journalist says he faked his own death; Kim Kardashian is at the WH meeting with the president’s senior adviser;
@realDonaldTrump
is obsessing again about his crowd size; the maker of a drug has to deny that racism is a side effect.
And it’s only 10:40 am
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Maybe the most controversial joke by
@realDonaldTrump
tonight:
"I like turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Who is going to be the next to leave? Steve Miller or Melania?”
He did turn to his wife, who was in the audience, and ask if she still loved him.
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Rod Rosenstein, the former Deputy Attorney General, told prosecutors that they should prosecute all migrant adults, without regard to the age of children they had with them, according to the draft report from the DOJ inspector general.
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He obsessed over the music. He choreographed the movement of his coffin. And he sent an unmistakable rebuke to President Trump.
How
@SenJohnMcCain
spent eight months planning the week after he would die.
The story that I wrote with
@katierogers
:
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The inspector general also found that senior DOJ officials “were aware that full implementation of the zero tolerance policy would result in ... children being separated from families.”
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BREAKING -- In 2018, the Trump administration considered and rejected using a "heat ray" weapon at the border that uses microwaves to make skin feel like it's burning. It was part of efforts to satisfy Trump's demand for extreme measures to repel migrants
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The
@WhiteHouse
denied the “Haitians have AIDS” story that I wrote with
@juliehdavis
. They have not denied today’s “shithole” story. The difference?
@realDonaldTrump
made the AIDS comment to his own staff; the “shithole” comments were to others he doesn’t control.
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At 7:22 am,
@realDonaldTrump
tweeted: “Won’t be talking about the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax for a while!” That lasted until about 8 am, when he talked about his right to pardon himself. By my count, that’s about 38 mintutes.
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NEWS -- Senate Republicans have invited a leading anti-vaxxer to be the lead witness at a Homeland Security committee hearing on Tuesday at a time when the US is preparing the largest-ever vaccination campaign to fight Covid. From
@SherylNYT
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SCOOP -
@joebiden
chief of staff
@RonaldKlain
lays out for WH staff the plan for first 10 days. It will include dozens of executive actions. Including a dozen on Jan. 20 alone. Obama did none in Jan. 20 and only 2 the next day. w/
@peterbakernyt
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Today,
@realDonaldTrump
proclaimed National Character Counts Week: “This week, especially, we refocus our efforts to be good examples -- to our Nation's youth and each other.”
Yesterday, he gushed about assaulting a reporter. “Any guy who can do a body slam, he's my candidate.”
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No matter what
@realDonaldTrump
says, his administration has made a choice to separate children at the border. For Bush & Obama, the idea of crying children torn from their parents’ arms was too inhumane and politically perilous to embrace. w/
@juliehdavis
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The IG concluded: “The department’s single-minded focus on increasing prosecutions came at the expense of careful and effective implementation of the policy, especially with regard to prosecution of family unit adults and the resulting child separations."
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In late February,
@realDonaldTrump
said the number of cases of Covid 19 would quickly be zero. This week, we passed 16 million cases. That dramatically wrong prediction — and the consequences that followed — will be an indelible part of his legacy.
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BREAKING -- In an astonishing (but not surprising) moment,
@realDonaldTrump
pressures Georgia's top election officials to "find" him the votes to win the election, and threatens him with a "criminal offense." My 1st quick take. (scoop by
@AmyEGardner
.)
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Rarely — if ever — has there been the kind of visceral and unanimous outrage at an American president. My story about what
@realDonaldTrump
faces when he arrives in Canada tomorrow for the G7 summit with America's allies.
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BIG NEWS -- From
@maggieNYT
: The doctor who led the federal agency involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine said he was removed from his post after pressing for a rigorous vetting of a coronavirus treatment embraced by
@realDonaldTrump
.
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TRUMP’S LIES — While candidates occasionally bend the truth,
@realDonaldTrump
is fundamentally different. His falsehoods are the foundation of his rallies and the connective tissue of the narrative he spins. My examination of one rally, w/
@YLindaQiu
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This is, literally, right out of the playbook of white supremacist / KKK. This is what they say. Stunning (or not) to see
@POTUS
parrot it.
Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You.....
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Yes, we tried again and again to speak with Dr. Birx for this story. When she declined repeatedly, we also sent her detailed questions through a White House spokesman that she also declined to answer, issuing only a general statement which we included in the story.
Regarding this statement from Dr. Birx to
@DanaBashCNN
, the Times has repeatedly asked her directly, or White House officials, if we could speak with the doctor, over several months, for various stories. She chooses not to interact with press very often.
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The thing is, it never made any sense that the deputy press secretary knew “countless” FBI employees, much less that they had all called her to support the president’s decision. Just glad to know my instinct was right.
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BREAKING --
@realDonaldTrump
chose today, in the midst of a government shutdown, to announce the departure of Jim Mattis as secretary of defense. No successor named yet. Mattis to leave in February. Stunning timing. The news just gets more and more crazy.
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I'm curious,
@realDonaldTrump
. Which of your actions so far, in particular, do you claim are responsible for the decrease in public debt.
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EXCLUSIVE — Our in-depth examination of the warnings given to
@realDonaldTrump
and the White House about the virus, and the failure to heed them as weeks passed.
@maggieNYT
@SangerNYT
@MarkMazzettiNYT
@julianbarnes
@EricLiptonNYT
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@realDonaldTrump
@PhilipRucker
@AshleyRParker
No, Mr. President. They are two of the most well-sourced, honest and straight-forward reporters in the business. And they happen to be fantastic people, too. Your personal attacks on them (and other reporters) are completely misplaced, beneath your office and simply wrong.
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I’ve never met any other politician like
@SenJohnMcCain
. He was a complicated man, but also one of the most authentic people I’ve ever met. Most politicians are closed and guarded. For most of the time I rode on his bus with him, he wouldn’t stop talking. RIP John McCain.
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Can confirm this good NBC story. Despite having signed an executive order reversing the automatic family separation policy last summer,
@realDonaldTrump
has in recent months told his aides that he wants it back, saying it’s the best way to deter migrants.
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump has for months urged his administration to reinstate large-scale separation of migrant families crossing the border, three U.S. officials told NBC News.
@JuliaEAinsley
@GeoffRBennett
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Shameless
@bts_bighit
photo in attempt to boost my followers. (They are here to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes and other issues with
@POTUS
)
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VIRUS DETECTIVE — The White House said the source of the outbreak there was “unknowable.” Not so, say the scientists who swabbed my nose and sequenced the genome of the infection that made me sick.
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Taylor said "I wanted the attention to be on the arguments themselves. At the time I asked, ‘What will he do when there is no person to attack, only an idea?’ We got the answer. He became unhinged. And the ideas stood on their own two feet.”
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Huge news from
@maggieNYT
and
@nytmike
. This has real potential to roil the Capitol tomorrow even as the White House puts on the second day of their defense in the impeachment trial and Republicans confront again the question of whether to call witnesses.
EXCLUSIVE: Bolton's book draft says Trump told him in August that he wanted to continue freezing aid to Ukraine until they helped with investigations into rivals. w/
@maggieNYT
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A top adviser to two former Republican House speakers:
Stuff happens so fast and there’s always another outrage, but we should really stop to recognize that what he did tonight, to innocent people, is deeply messed up and should not happen in this country. Immoral and abusive.
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This is just obnoxious. To call
@maggieNYT
a third-rate reporter is the definition of Fake News, and to deny you speak to her is just not true. Maggie just won a Pulitzer, and well deserved. She’s an amazing reporter and person.
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ALERT:
@realDonaldTrump
tells Axios he plans an executive order ending birthright citizenship for babies born in the US to non-citizens and illegal immigrants. How he thinks he can sign away a right conferred by the 14th amendment is unclear. Legal fight is guaranteed if he does
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The usual political reaction to being mocked by comedians is to laugh and take it in stride. Not the approach taken by
@realDonaldTrump
I watched parts of
@nbcsnl
Saturday Night Live last night. It is a totally one-sided, biased show - nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?
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On Feb. 11, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said that “the President believes that sanctions are intended to deter.”
Today,
@potus
told us: “No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening."
Those are basically the opposite of each other.
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On May 3, 1942, my grandmother’s sister, Gerda, her husband Heinz and their infant son Denny were taken by Nazis from their home in Breslau, Germany to a concentration camp and killed for being Jewish. I’m thinking of them this morning as the same hate erupts in America.
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SCOOP:
@realDonaldTrump
approved a strike against Iran today, but pulled back later in the evening, even as the military was poised to launch. Our story:
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NEW — From a
@twitter
spokesperson: the “LIBERATE” tweets by
@realdonaldtrump
do not violate rules prohibiting content that is “a clear call to action that could directly pose a risk to people’s health or well-being.” Trump’s tweets are “vague and unclear” re: any harmful intent.
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Will be interesting to see what
@gtconway3d
looks like on Twitter after his views are no longer constrained by having a wife in the administration. 😉
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NEW — Trump Using Last Days to Lock in Policies and Make Biden’s Task More Difficult. It is one final norm shattered by
@realDonaldTrump
— and a stark contrast to the last Republican president who handed over power to a Democrat.
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Had to take my tie off. Literally none of the hundreds of reporters and others here at Apple event had one. The West Coast is so weird.
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The insane rants against
@maggieNYT
underscore how irrational the conversation can be. She has done more to expose this president’s actions than any other person, yet with exacting fairness. The left should be thanking her for toughness. The right should welcome her objectivity.
.
@maggieNYT
is the most indispensable journalist of the Trump era. She's relentless, tough and thoroughly fair.
And she's a big part of why you know so much of what you do about this WH
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BREAKING -- It appears that this is Mattis resigning because he says he can no longer serve Trump. In resignation letter he says
@realDonaldTrump
deserves a secretary of defense who is "better aligned" with the president's views. That is a bold and stunning statement.
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NEWS -- President Trump wanted Attorney General Barr to hold a news conference to declare that there was nothing wrong with his July 25 call with President Zelensky of Ukraine. My story with
@nytmike
and
@maggieNYT
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ALL STARS — Individually, they are the best in the business. Put them together and they are unstoppable. Can’t say enough about how
@PhilipRucker
@jdawsey1
and
@AshleyRParker
have held Trump accountable for more than 4 years. (Plus, they’re nice people!)
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As the number of known Covid cases in the US passes 7 million, it’s instructive to recall what
@realDonaldTrump
said on Feb. 26:
“And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."
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Not sure if this is the president’s best strategy. If Biden just agreed with him on this, Biden would win.
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LEGACY:
@peterbakernyt
&
@stavernise
show how the trial "stitched together the most comprehensive account of the deadly assault, ensuring that Trump's name will be inextricably associated with a violent attempt to subvert the peaceful transfer of power."
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BREAKING -- Judge rules that the Trump administration must fully restore DACA by Monday, dealing what could be a final blow to Mr. Trump’s long-fought effort to end the protections from an Obama-era program for undocumented immigrants. w /
@itscaitlinhd
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THE LOST MONTH -- New in tomorrow's paper, our deep look at the failure to test for the virus in February, leaving the US largely blind as Covid 19 spread silently around the country. w/
@abbygoodnough
@BySheilaKaplan
@sherifink
@noahweiland
@katie_thomas
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GEEK ALERT — The new Space Force logo — tweeted out just now by
@realDonaldTrump
— draws inspiration from Star Trek! cc:
@dannysullivan
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One big development in the last 24 hours was the Supreme Court deciding not to take the DACA case. Trump has said he was waiting for the court to uphold his decision to terminate DACA. Now, looks like that leverage gone until at least summer, 2020.
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Yes. I'm going to try a version of it myself:
Looks like this defensive line about how Trump really is working hard even though he has nothing on his public schedule is going to be a regular thing.
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BREAKING — New details from John Bolton’s book describes a meeting in early May in which
@realDonaldTrump
directed him to help with the pressure campaign on Ukraine, with Mick Mulvaney, Rudy Giuliani and Pat Cipollone present.
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My story today tracing the spread of the virus inside the West Wing over the past seven days, culminating in
@realDonaldTrump
’s stunning hospitalization. With
@maggieNYT
@kenvogel
and many others.
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"Inside the wrought-iron fences that surround the 18-acre White House complex, the 2020 election rages on, with President Trump angrily refusing to concede. But the rest of the world — and President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. — is moving on."
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After
@realDonaldTrump
was elected,
@BarackObama
mused that “we’re about to find out just how resilient our institutions are, at home and around the world,” according to a new book.
@peterbakernyt
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It also evicerates a senior admin official who told us with straight face on AF1 that no one in admin had ever heard of Article 5 concerns.
So much for that whole "it goes without saying" story. It doesn't & key members of Trump's team knew it
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Read this amazing story today. (And here is our official response to yet another incorrect accusation from
@realDonaldTrump
)
@realDonaldTrump
@nytimes
We are confident in the accuracy of our reporting on the U.S. Border Patrol's detention centers. Here's how we reported today's front-page article on the squalid conditions at the migrant detention center in Clint, Texas. Read the story here:
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There's a lot we don't know: "It was not clear whether Mr. Trump simply changed his mind on the strikes or whether the administration altered course because of logistics or strategy. It was also not clear whether the attacks might still go forward."
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COMEY TRANSCRIPT: Here’s my annotated excerpts of the full, 5-hour interview that James Comey did with ABC News.
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My uncle spoke after Lewis and right before Dr. King. Obviously (and rightly), it is Dr. King's speech that is remembered. But I have always been proud that my family played a small part in an important moment.
My great uncle, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, helped organize the March on Washington with John Lewis and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and marched with them that day. RIP John Lewis, an inspiration for anyone interested in social justice and peace.
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Statement from Pelosi and Schumer: “We are calling on President Trump to demand that all protestors leave the U.S. Capitol and Capitol Grounds immediately.”
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NEWS — nearly 100 superdelegates tell
@reidepstein
and
@llerer
that they would cast ballots for another candidate if
@BernieSanders
doesn’t come to the DNC with more than 50% of the delegates, raising prospect of a messy convention.
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Trump will see more Americans die from the coronavirus than Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon saw die in the Korean and Vietnam Wars combined.
@peterbakernyt
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Sometimes, for all the words we use, images become iconic presidential moments.
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HUGE SCOOP: Trump’s personal lawyer talked about pardoning Manafort and Flynn with their lawyers. From the great
@nytimes
investigative and WH team.
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Jewish people in
@realDonaldTrump
orbit have remained largely silent about his comments on neo-Nazis. My story.
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EXCLUSIVE: A month ago,
@realDonaldTrump
told reporters on AF1 that he did not know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, the porn star. Our sources tell us he knew months earlier. W/
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@jimrutenberg
@mattapuzzo
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Stephen Miller and
@realDonaldTrump
pushed for anti-immigrant policies that their own officials thought were impractical and unwise. The clashes led to the recent purge in leadership. My story with Eileen Sullivan.
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