No other 2020 candidate for president, including Donald Trump, can come close to matching Bernie Sanders’ level of support among members of the U.S. military, to go by the most recent campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have donated a total of $185,625 …
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WASHINGTON —Jerry Brown doesn’t want to talk about impeachment. He won’t say if he has a preferred candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential field and professes not to be following the race all that closely. At a time when it can feel like Donald Trump and the nonstop coverage of …
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The Supreme Court voted in favor of letting the Trump administration move forward on more of its harsh immigration policies. In a 5-4 vote, the conservative majority won out on Monday, allowing enforcement of a rule called a “wealth test” by immigrant rights advocates and “public charge” policy by the …
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President Trump said he’s happy with the way the impeachment trial is going thus far because his administration has not released “materials” that would hurt his cause. “When we released that conversation all hell broke out with the Democrats,” Trump said. “Because they said, ‘Wait a minute, this is much …
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In the first episode of Michael Moore’s new podcast,Rumble,he tells a story of being given a gift of a new reel-to-reel tape recorder as a child, kicking off his media career. He taped everyone in sight, produced his own ad-hoc version ofThe Tonight Showbefore nap time, and went on to …
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Like Pete Buttigieg, I’ve been the guy dispatched by a more senior television producer to get a camera crew into a place where we are unwelcome. Investigative journalist Renee Ferguson told The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels the story of how the current South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential upstart, then …
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President Donald Trump’s Medicare chief, Seema Verma, filed a $47,000 claim for lost property in an effort to have taxpayers reimburse her for items that were stolen this summer while she was on a work trip. The property that went missing along with Verma’s bags, according to Politico, included an …
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WASHINGTON — With his block-lettered talking points in hand and visible for every White House photographer to see, President Trump sought to rebut the testimony of his current EU ambassador, Gordon Sondland, as Sondland testified on Capitol Hill in the fifth public impeachment hearing. To understand Trump’s response, you have …
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Donald Trump marched out his same cast of sycophants last week to make the case that black voters — particularly the men — have a friend in the president with the white-nationalist policies. It’s a tired routine, but it remains fascinating that Trump and his party expend so much energy …
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President Trump is reportedly already in talks with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett to develop a post-presidency version of the show, but he’s not waiting until he leaves the White House to indulge his inner (outer) reality show host. On Friday, Trump tweeted plans to announce winners of the #MAGACHALLENGE — …
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