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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump's Voter Fraud Example? A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer — WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Trump gathered House and Senate leaders in the State Dining Room for a get-to-know-you reception, served them tiny meatballs and pigs-in-a-blanket, and quickly launched into a story meant …
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Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders
Kris Kobach says he advised Donald Trump on voter fraud probe, immigration orders
Jillian Kay Melchior / Heat Street:
EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Trump Is Currently Registered to Vote in Two States
EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Trump Is Currently Registered to Vote in Two States
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Tiffany Trump is registered to vote in two states: report
Tiffany Trump is registered to vote in two states: report
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Donald J. Trump / TIME:
White House Prepares Executive Action to Probe Voter Fraud Claims
White House Prepares Executive Action to Probe Voter Fraud Claims
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ABC News:
TRANSCRIPT: ABC News Anchor David Muir Interviews President Trump — ABC News “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir interviewed President Donald Trump in the White House. The following is a transcript of the interview: — DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, it's an honor to be here at the White House.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir Alleged Voter Fraud Probe Has ‘a Lot to Look Into’
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir Alleged Voter Fraud Probe Has ‘a Lot to Look Into’
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The White House:
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States — ENHANCING PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE INTERIOR OF THE — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more — Apparent Trump administration drafts suggest a harsh crackdown on immigrants. — On Tuesday, Vox was given six documents that purported to be draft executive orders under consideration by the Trump administration.
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
How Trump can defund ‘sanctuary cities’ protecting undocumented immigrants
How Trump can defund ‘sanctuary cities’ protecting undocumented immigrants
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Amie Gordon / Daily Mail:
Shia LaBeouf is ARRESTED live on camera during anti-Trump livestream after ‘getting in a fight with a passing protester’ — Shia LaBeouf was led away in handcuffs after a spat during an anti-Trump protest. — The Hollywood actor was arrested by NYPD officers during his ‘He will not divide us’ live stream …
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TMZ.com:
Shia LaBeouf — Arrested at His Trump Protest — EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — NYPD officers hauled Shia LaBeouf away in handcuffs from his marathon protest site in NYC ... after he got into it with another protester. — The arrest happened right in the middle of Shia's “He will not divide us” …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us — As David Brock attempts to position himself as a leader in rebuilding a demoralized Democratic Party in the age of Trump, many leading Democratic organizers and operatives are wishing the man would simply disappear.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In his first major TV interview as president, Trump is endlessly obsessed with his popularity — The lengthy interview revealed a man fixated on his following and eager to provide evidence of his likability, even if that information doesn't match reality.
Austin Wright / Politico:
Mattis, Pompeo stunned by CIA ‘black sites’ report — Two of the officials who will be in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump's terrorism detainee policies, Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, were “blindsided” by reports of a draft executive order …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats hold lessons on how to talk to real people — Senate Democrats geared up for battle with President Donald Trump by preparing to talk to people who voted for him — and by hearing from one of his arch-nemeses. — Gathering in Sheperdstown, W.Va., Democrats were scheduled to hear …
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The National Elite Nervous Breakdown — It cannot go on like this. It's been five days since the inaugural and the adrenalized, hypercaffeinated, speed-freak affect of the entire chattering class is beginning to seem like we're living through Bob Woodward's classic depiction in his book Wired …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes' — President Trump's longtime ally, Roger Stone, outlines the billionaire's thinking as he decided to run for the White House in his new book. — In an excerpt of “The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump
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Chelsea E Manning / The Guardian:
Compromise doesn't work with our political opponents. When will we learn? — In Chelsea Manning's first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama's legacy is a warning against not being bold enough — Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
BuzzFeed hires reporter to cover Trump's relationship with the media — President Donald Trump's complicated relationship with the news media has riveted the political class for months — his impromptu TV appearances where foreign policy is made, his early-morning tweets, his crowing about ratings …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
It's No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones
It's No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump isn't ‘lying’ — CNN's Jake Tapper provided the best evisceration of President Trump's claim that massive voter fraud, namely millions of illegal immigrants casting votes, threw the popular vote to Hillary Clinton: — The media, understandably, try to understand why Trump would tell such an easily debunked falsehood.
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Says Infowars Has Been Invited To Trump's White House Press Briefings — ALEX JONES: He keeps saying CNN is fake, and I'm not going to any of your fake news. What's CNN doing in the front row, when [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer keeps going to them?
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Mexican president rebuffs Trump on wall executive order — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto reaffirmed Wednesday that Mexico will not pay for a border wall, in response to President Donald Trump — 's executive actions on immigration. — Trump signed two executive orders Wednesday …
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
As Trump Orders Wall, Mexico's President Considers Canceling U.S. Trip
As Trump Orders Wall, Mexico's President Considers Canceling U.S. Trip
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CNN:
Donald Trump's doublethink: How to undermine your own election — Trump believes fraud cost him popular vote — (CNN)Doublethink is, of course, a construct made famous by George Orwell's classic and newly popular novel, “1984.” It is the ability — for all who engage …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
A Lie by Any Other Name — This is not a presentation of “alternative facts,” whatever that may mean, as Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's mistress of misdirection, posited over the weekend. — These are lies; good old-fashioned lies, baldfaced and flat-out lies.
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Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Grills Buzzfeed's Editor-in-Chief on Decision To Publish Dossier — Ben Smith, editor of “failing pile of garbage” Buzzfeed, appeared on Fox News tonight to talk to Tucker Carlson about his site's decision to publish that dossier. He's explained the decision multiple times …