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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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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’ — “Then he's groveling again. You know I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear.”
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir: Construction of Border Wall Will Begin in ‘Months’
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir: Construction of Border Wall Will Begin in ‘Months’
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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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Max Fisher / New York Times:
Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States' role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process …
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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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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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Fox News:
Trump orders construction of border wall, targets sanctuary cities
Trump orders construction of border wall, targets sanctuary cities
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Blocks Syrian Refugees and Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built
Trump Blocks Syrian Refugees and Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built
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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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Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
Trump White House senior staff have private RNC email accounts
Trump White House senior staff have private RNC email accounts
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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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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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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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USA Today:
How Donald Trump, Theresa May are the 2017 version of '80s power couple Reagan-Thatcher — LONDON — He was a skilled communicator and a celebrity. She was strong-willed and shared his disdain for big government. — They were the power political couple of the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Dan Barry / New York Times:
In a Swirl of ‘Untruths’ and ‘Falsehoods,’ Calling a Lie a Lie — And from the moment he became president, Donald J. Trump has unleashed so many of consequence that the public has barely had time to parse their full implication. Words about the dishonest media, the end of Obamacare …
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Mar-a-Lago membership fee doubles to $200,000 — Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach resort owned by the Trump Organization, doubled its initiation fee to $200,000 following the election of Donald Trump as president. — People close to the Florida resort said the increase took effect Jan. 1.
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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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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.
New York Times:
Clinics for World's Vulnerable Brace for Trump's Anti-Abortion Cuts — DAKAR, Senegal — The clinic, tucked discreetly inside the student health center on the University of Dakar campus, prescribes birth control pills, hands out condoms and answers questions about sex that young women …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
A white Trump voter explains why he left a black waitress a $450 tip with an uplifting note — When Jason White walked into Busboys and Poets Monday morning, a Washington restaurant that promotes social justice, he looked around and told his friend he might want to remove his red “Make America Great Again” cap.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Awesome: Trump Fans Leave Huge Tip, Kind Note for Stunned Anti-Trump Waitress
Awesome: Trump Fans Leave Huge Tip, Kind Note for Stunned Anti-Trump Waitress
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