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AG Jeff Sessions Vows To Prosecute Leakers [VIDEO]

CBS News reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein held a news conference about ongoing leak investigations Friday, a day after the Washington Post first published leaked transcripts of President Trump’s January phone calls with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Sessions began his press conference mentioning the leaked phone calls, …

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Trump Retweets Fox’s Jeanine Pirro’s Prediction Of An “Uprising” If Mueller Issues Indictments [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: With a tap of the thumb, President Trump on Friday invited speculation that he or a family member could be indicted by a federal grand jury whose existence was reported a day earlier by the Wall Street Journal. The president retweeted a video clip from the “Fox & Friends” morning show, his favorite, in which the …

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Sean Spicer Is Wandering Around The White House And No One Is “Exactly Sure What He’s Doing All Day”

Politico reports: Sean Spicer has been floating around the White House since he announced his resignation almost two weeks ago, dipping in and out of his office, attending meetings on tax reform and popping up for public ceremonies like retired Gen. John Kelly’s swearing in as chief of staff and a medal of honor ceremony for a Vietnam veteran. Aides …

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Listen To The Mooch’s Obscene Rant [AUDIO]

Vice reports: After segments of that on-the-record call were published—including the Mooch slamming his colleagues at the upper echelons of Team Trump, threatening to “eliminate everyone in the comms team,” calling Reince Priebus a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic,” and accusing Steve Bannon of “trying to suck [his] own cock”—many people wondered a) Where’s the audio? and b) what the hell Lizza …

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NEW HAMPSHIRE: State Leaders Demand Apology After Trump Tells Mexico Their State Is A “Drug-Infested Den”

Politico reports: New Hampshire leaders reacted angrily Thursday to President Donald Trump’s description of their state as a “drug-infested den” in a leaked transcript of a phone call earlier this year with Mexico’s president. “Up in New Hampshire — I won New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den,” Trump told Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in January, according …

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The Mooch Has Canceled His Live-Stream Event

Vanity Fair reports: Before he (temporarily) disappears from public view, however, Scaramucci had a few things to get off his chest. Which is why he promised to tell the American people what really went down during his week and a half on the job, in an “online event” Friday that could be the biggest spectacle in Washington since James Comey’s …

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The Mooch To Tell His Story In Live-Streamed Event

CNN reports: Anthony Scaramucci wants to tell his own story. Following his departure from the White House after less than 11 days as communications director, Scaramucci will be hosting an online event on Friday where he will address the American people directly. Scaramucci said this daytime event — which will be broadcast on various live platforms with help from former …

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Russian PM Blasts “Completely Impotent” Trump Over Sanctions, Declares Start Of “Full-Fledged Trade War”

WOW. The Washington Examiner reports: On Wednesday, President Trump signed a new sanctions bill targeting Russia. Russia has reacted with unrestrained fury. Indeed, fury is an understatement. In a Facebook post specifically referencing Trump, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (No. 2 only to Putin), warned that Congress sees Trump as “an incompetent player” who must be “liquidated”. Yes, you …

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Trump Craters To Record Low 33% Approval Rating

The Hill reports: President Trump’s approval rating hit a new low on Wednesday, according to a new poll. A Quinnipiac University poll finds 61 percent of voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing in office, compared to just 33 percent who approve of Trump’s performance. This marks the president’s lowest approval rating since he was inaugurated, according to the …

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Trump Considers Rick Perry For DHS Secretary

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump may tap U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry to replace former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who took over as White House chief of staff this week, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Bloomberg, citing three people familiar with deliberations, said others were also being considered for the post. White House officials had no immediate comment. Asked …

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Colbert: Junior Got Daddy To Write Him A Note

The Week reports: When Donald Trump Jr. was discovered to have met with a bunch of Russians who turned out to have ties to Russian intelligence, he “released a statement saying he didn’t know who he was meeting with and they mostly talked about adoption,” not Hillary Clinton, Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday’s Late Show. “Those were lies, including the …

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LIVE VIDEO: White House Press Briefing

Happening now! I got this post up a few minutes late, but you can rewind the clip to catch up on the insanity that has already happened, including an accusation that the Clintons colluded with Russia and the claim that Trump hasn’t yet received the Russian sanctions bill. He has, but even simple little facts like that aren’t beyond lying about. …

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The Mooch Shoots Down DWTS Buzz: I Can’t Dance

Mediaite reports: TMZ scored the first on-camera comments from Anthony Scaramucci since the former White House communications director was ousted from his job yesterday. Scaramucci didn’t really have much to say today, and he deflected questions about his future plans and whether he had a chance to say goodbye to President Trump. At the very end, Scaramucci got the question …

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Jared Kushner Brags That His Middle East Talks Haven’t Been Leaking, Bragging Immediately Leaked To Press

Talking Points Memo reports: Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Monday bragged that no details of the White House’s negotiations in the Middle East have been leaked, in a talk to congressional interns which itself was immediately leaked to the press. “Nothing’s leaked out, right?” Kushner told congressional interns, according to audio of his talk that Wired obtained. “Nothing …

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Chinese State Media Blasts Trump For “Stabbing China In The Back” With His “Emotional Venting” On Twitter

The New York Times reports: After President Trump pilloried China in 48 tweeted words, accusing it of failing to tame its neighbor and longtime ally North Korea, Beijing issued its own rebuke to Mr. Trump — in a cutting editorial of 1,000 Chinese characters from Xinhua, the official news agency. “Trump is quite a personality, and he likes to tweet,” …

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Trump: Today Was A Great Day At The White House

SURE JAN: Just hours after ousting his newly appointed communications director, President Trump tweeted that Monday was “a great day at the White House.” Trump expressed the sentiment in a single tweet, which came just hours after the ouster of White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who had took the job just 10 days ago. Earlier Monday, Trumo hosted his …

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LIVE VIDEO: White House Press Briefing

UPI reports: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is scheduled to give the daily press briefing on camera Monday. She is set to answer questions on a variety of developments at 3:45 p.m. EDT. Since her last press briefing on Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Senate failed to replace the Affordable Care Act early Friday morning. President Donald Trump on …

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BREAKING: Trump Shitcans The Mooch

The New York Times reports: President Trump has decided to remove Anthony Scaramucci from his position as communications director, three people close to the decision said Monday, relieving him just days after Mr. Scaramucci unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other senior members of the president’s senior staff. Mr. Scaramucci’s abrupt removal came just 10 days after the wealthy New …

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Trump Hits New Approval Low….With Rasmussen

Mediaite reports: Rasmussen Reports’ poll Monday puts President Donald Trump‘s approval rating at 39 percent, the first time the right leaning polling agency has reported Trump at below 40. Rasmussen polls 500 U.S. voters every night by phone and publishes their “Daily Presidential Tracking Poll” every weekday morning. They are known to report more favorably to Republicans and have consistently …

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John Kelly Sworn In To Replace Reince Priebus

ABC News reports: There’s a new chief of staff in town. Retired Gen. John Kelly was sworn in today as President Trump’s most senior staffer in the White House. Trump replaced Reince Priebus with Kelly last Friday. Kelly had left his post as secretary of homeland security to assume his new White House role. “He will do a spectacular job, …

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