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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump vows ‘insurance for everybody’ in Obamacare replacement plan — President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama's signature health-care law with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” while also vowing …
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
Health Insurance “For Everybody” and the “Government Will Pay” Says “Republican” Donald Trump. AGAIN. — This should not be big, surprising, new news. But somehow it is. … - Excerpt from Washington Post interview with Donald Trump, published yesterday, Sunday the 15th of January, 2017.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Case for Not Being Crybabies — Last week I watched a conversation on MSNBC in which the anchor asked a guest whether it wasn't a problem that Buzzfeed had published the Trump ‘dossier’ because this would now give Trump some credibility in dismissing any reporting he didn't like as “fake news”.
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Is Making Journalism Great Again — Donald Trump and his forthcoming presidency may be the greatest gift to Washington journalism since the invention of the expense account. His unorthodox approach to politics and governance has vaporized the standard, useful, yet boring script for reporting on a new administration's doings.
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Oliver Laughland / The Guardian:
Talk radio hosts and bloggers may be included in White House press briefings
Talk radio hosts and bloggers may be included in White House press briefings
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
WH Correspondents' board responds to Trump on media access
WH Correspondents' board responds to Trump on media access
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Adam Goldman / New York Times:
F.B.I. Arrests Wife of Killer in Orlando Mass Shooting — WASHINGTON — The wife of the man who carried out a deadly terrorist attack in Orlando, Fla., has been arrested in connection with the mass shooting, a law enforcement official said Monday. — Noor Salman was taken into custody …
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Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Germany hits out at Donald Trump after he labels Nato ‘obsolete’ and threatens car makers with 35pc tariffs — The German government has said it is “concerned” after Donald Trump described Nato as “obsolete”. — It came as German car manufacturers also rounded on the President-elect warning …
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Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
Trump Calls NATO Obsolete and Dismisses EU in German Interview — President-elect chastises Merkel on refugees, praises Brexit — Comments to Bild suggest policies to mirror campaign rhetoric — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called NATO obsolete, predicted that other European Union members …
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump eager to work with Putin
Trump eager to work with Putin
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
John Lewis ‘a racist pig,’ Gwinnett commissioner writes on Facebook — On the Saturday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one of Gwinnett County's highest elected officials took to his personal Facebook page to call United States Rep. John Lewis “a racist pig.”
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
In Trump's Feud With John Lewis, Blacks Perceive a Callous Rival
In Trump's Feud With John Lewis, Blacks Perceive a Callous Rival
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
In feud with John Lewis, Donald Trump attacked ‘one of the most respected people in America’
In feud with John Lewis, Donald Trump attacked ‘one of the most respected people in America’
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Carrie Teegardin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Atlantans say Trump is wrong about their city and John Lewis
Atlantans say Trump is wrong about their city and John Lewis
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dem dilemma: Stand with Lewis? — Once Donald Trump responded to John Lewis's “illegitimate president” attack, the question wasn't whether Trump's pushback would cause a Twitter furor. It would. The question was how many Democrats, beyond those who occupy the left-most wing …
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Adriana Cohen / Boston Herald:
Not much legitimate about more Dems bashing Trump
Not much legitimate about more Dems bashing Trump
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Trump expanding Scottish golf course after vow of no new foreign deals: report — A multi-million dollar expansion of President-elect Donald Trump — 's golf resort in Scotland is reportedly underway just days after his attorneys said no new foreign deals would be made.
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Mary Papenfuss / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Expanding Scottish Golf Resort After Vowing Not To Make New Foreign Deals — “No new foreign deals ... whatsoever” apparently doesn't include this one. — Trends reporter, The Huffington Post — A multimillion-dollar expansion of Donald Trump's Scottish golf resort …
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Washington Times:
Monica Crowley to forgo post in Trump White House — GOP foreign policy adviser Monica Crowley said Monday she will relinquish the senior job she'd been poised to take in the Trump White House. — Ms. Crowley, who had been tapped to be senior director of strategic communications …
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The White House:
Statement by the President on the One-Year Anniversary of Implementation Day Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — Today marks the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - a deal that has achieved significant …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Obama Fades Away As Trump Laughs At His Enemies — America's Nobody-in-Chief is finally going away, his last spasm of rhetorical onanism completely overshadowed by Donald Trump neatly turning the tables on the media purveyors of that fake dossier that tried and failed to paint the PEOTUS as the second coming of Bob Crane.
Bryan Wendland / KUSA-TV:
Congressman Coffman leaves frustrated crowd — AURORA - When Berthie Ruoff arrived at the Aurora Central Library to meet with Congressman Mike Coffman, she was hopeful to find encouraging answers about the impending changes to the Affordable Care Act. — “My husband passed away …
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
GOPer Who Vowed To Stand Up To Trump Flees Constituents At Community Event
GOPer Who Vowed To Stand Up To Trump Flees Constituents At Community Event
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