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Trump To Donors: Holding Senate Will Be “Very Tough” And I Don’t Even Want To Help Some GOP Senators

The Washington Post reports: President Trump privately told donors this past week that it will be “very tough” for Republicans to keep control of the Senate in the upcoming election because some of the party’s senators are candidates he cannot support. “I think the Senate is tough actually. The Senate is very tough,” Trump said at a fundraiser Thursday at …

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Trump At NC Rally: 500 People Died In A Plane Crash And All The Media Ever Talks About Is COVID [VIDEO]

ABC News reports: At Trump’s rally in Lumberton, North Carolina, he ranted about the media’s focus on the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. After Trump said that Democrats would deliberately delay a vaccine, he said that Democrats have “prolonged the pandemic.” “They prolonged the pandemic,” he said, and turned to the saturation of Covid news. “That’s all I hear about now, it’s …

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Trump Lie: I Was On Oprah During Her Final Week

The indefatigable Daniel Dale reports for CNN: President Donald Trump makes a lot of false claims on issues that are crucial to Americans’ lives: the coronavirus pandemic, the election, health care, the economy. But Trump also makes a lot of false claims about trivial subjects nobody much cares about. One of the very strangest is about “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” …

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Politico: Bored Trump Halted Highly Classified Intel Briefing On Afghanistan Because He Craved Milkshake

Politico reports: President Donald Trump was in the middle of receiving a highly classified briefing on Afghanistan at his New Jersey golf club when he suddenly craved a malted milkshake. “Does anyone want a malt?” he asked the senior defense and intelligence officials gathered around him, an august group that included the head of the CIA’s Special Activities Center, which …

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Trump Warns That Biden “Will Listen To The Scientists”

The Hill reports: President Trump mockingly warned at his rally in Nevada late Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would “listen to the scientists” if elected and there would be more lockdowns to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Trump told attendees in Carson City that supporters of his opponent would surrender their “future to the virus,” saying: “He’s …

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Trump: If Biden Wins He’ll “Cancel Christmas” [VIDEO]

The Independent reports: Around 65 minutes into his Nevada rally the president went on a rambling rant about Biden’s plans for the state of Nevada and in a seemingly unrelated note added that Biden will completely end the Christmas season. “Under the Biden lockdown, the lights of Reno and Las Vegas were extinguished. Carson City will become a ghost town. …

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Trump Doesn’t Know Right Wing Satire Site Is Satire

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Friday shared a story from a known news satire website seemingly in earnest, using the fake report to blast Twitter’s handling of dubious allegations against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The story tweeted by the president early Friday morning was published by The Babylon Bee — which bills itself online as “the world’s best …

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Trump Defends Claim Bin Laden Is Still Alive: That Was A Retweet, People Can Decide For Themselves [VIDEO]

USA Today reports: NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie prodded President Donald Trump Thursday during his town hall when talking about him retweeting conspiracy theories, saying he’s not just “someone’s crazy uncle.” Guthrie pressed Trump on his penchant for tweets that spread disinformation, including one post he retweeted that contained a conspiracy theory that former Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack …

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Trump: Only Jesus Christ Is More Famous Than I Am

The Hill reports: President Trump said Thursday at a campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., that only Jesus Christ is more famous than he is. “Someone said to me the other day, ‘you’re the most famous person in the world by far.’ I said, ‘no, I’m not’… they said, ‘who’s more famous?’ I said, ‘Jesus Christ’,” Trump recounted, prompting cheers from …

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Trump Retweets Batshit Claim Bin Laden Is Still Alive

Will Sommer reports at The Daily Beast: President Donald Trump backed a budding conspiracy theory on Tuesday that four Americans were killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack to cover up the blood-sacrifice of Navy SEALs and the “fact” that Osama Bin Laden is still alive, marking what is perhaps the president’s strangest brush yet with far-right conspiracy theories. Trump’s promotion …

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Trump Drops Plans For Weekend Rallies In FL And PA

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump will remain at the White House this weekend, people familiar with the matter said, after he said he wanted to hold rallies in Florida and Pennsylvania despite questions over the stage of his recovery from Covid-19. Trump, who told Fox’s Sean Hannity late Thursday that he wanted to hold rallies Saturday and Sunday, won’t …

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Trump Does “MAGA Rally” On Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Show, Insanely Declares “We Have A COVID Cure”

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump, still White House bound after his COVID-19 diagnosis, called into the Rush Limbaugh show for a radio “rally” with the conservative talk host. Limbaugh started what he describe as a “mega, MAGA rally” — in which Trump is expected to take questions from callers — by praising Trump as the “strongest, most unwavering” …

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Trump Wants A Fox Host As Next Debate Moderator

Mediaite reports: With President Donald Trump bailing on the Oct. 15 debate with former Vice President Joe Biden after it was announced the event would take place virtually, the incumbent is challenging his opponent directly — going around the traditional organizers, the Commission for Presidential Debates. Only, the president wants a “fair” moderator in the chair. And you can guess …

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Trump: It’s A Blessing From God That I Got COVID And It’s China’s Fault And They Are Going To Pay [VIDEO]

CBC News reports: Mr. Trump posted a video to Twitter late Wednesday, praising the therapeutic drugs that he credits with helping him in his recovery. The president called the therapeutics a “cure” for him, even though there is no cure for viruses like COVID-19. “I feel great. I feel like, perfect,” the president said in a four-minute video. “I think …

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Trump Kills Stimulus Bill Until “After I Win The Election”

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump put an end to months of negotiations over a COVID-19 stimulus package Tuesday, rejecting the Democrats’ latest offer and saying he wanted to postpone negotiations until after the election. In a Tuesday afternoon tweet, Trump said Democrats were “not negotiating in good faith” and was rejecting their offer. Trump’s announcement comes as many of …

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Trump Lies: COVID Is “Far Less Lethal” Than The Flu

Stand by for Twitter to zap this latest lie: Fresh from telling Americans not to be afraid of the coronavirus in the wake of his release from hospital, Donald Trump has now made the untrue claim that Covid-19 is “in most populations far less lethal” than the flu. The president’s tweet contradicts his own remarks to Bob Woodward earlier this …

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Still Contagious Trump: “Maybe I’m Immune” [VIDEO]

The Insider reports: President Donald Trump on Monday baselessly suggested he might be “immune” to COVID-19 after a weekend in which he was hospitalized and administered supplemental oxygen, an experimental antibody cocktail, and a steroid generally used for severe cases of the virus. “I knew there’s danger to it. But I had to do it. I stood out front. I …

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Contagious Maskless Trump Reenters White House

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump returned to the White House on Monday, three days after he arrived at Walter Reed hospital with coronavirus symptoms that were alarming enough that doctors administered oxygen and several rounds of aggressive treatment. Marine One touched town on the South Lawn shortly before 7 p.m. ET. Minutes earlier, Trump walked down the steps of …

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Trump Does Pathetic Driveby For His Cultists [VIDEO]

The New York Times reports: Determined to reassert himself on the political stage on his third day in the hospital, Mr. Trump made an unannounced exit from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in the early evening, climbing into his armored Chevrolet Suburban to ride past supporters holding Trump flags gathered outside the building. Wearing a suit jacket and face …

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Rudy Giuliani: Hatred Of Trump Is Worse Than COVID

Media Matters has the transcript: SAMANTHA LOMIBAO (OANN HOST): I know many many politicians have expressed their best wishes for a full recovery to the president and the first lady, but we’ve seen mixed reactions from the left. Now, you tweeted earlier this morning about the reaction of the mainstream media having a, quote, “uncontrolled hatred” for our president. Do …

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