President Trump took to Twitter early Monday suggesting that the “Fake News Russian collusion story” has driven his base “even closer together,”—this, while slamming the media and their “fake news polling.”
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White House routinely blindsided, upended by Trump’s tweets
Donald Trump regularly tweets big news without telling his staff in advance — blindsiding them and derailing their work in the process.
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Conway suggests lie-detector tests may be used in White House
To combat leaks, Kellyanne Conway suggested lie-detector tests may be used in White House. Perhaps she hasn’t thought this one through.
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Trump: I’m ‘working hard from New Jersey’
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Republican senators realizing legislative agenda is in their own hands
Republican senators left Washington for the annual August recess last week, devoid of the kind of monumental accomplishments many of them had hoped for.
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The Note: Pence bats down 2020 talk and pledges loyalty
Mike Pence is strongly denying he’s considering a run in 2020 for president.
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Republicans brace for dissatisfied voters this summer
Sen. John Kennedy is expecting to get an earful when the freshman Republican returns to Louisiana for the August congressional recess and holds his regular live radio town hall with constituents.
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Trump heads out on vacation, pretends it’s ‘not a vacation’
It’s hard to blame Trump for taking a vacation. It’s easy to blame him for saying his vacation isn’t a vacation, after running on an anti-vacation platform.
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More than 50 House Dems urge Mattis to reject transgender military ban
More than 50 House Democrats sent a letter on Friday to Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
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Sen. Jeff Flake says GOP should have stopped Trump’s ‘birther’ push
An outspoken senator, who has long-been critical of President Donald Trump says that the Republican Party should have stopped his “birther” movement when it began.
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