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Trump Attacks “Mini Mike Bloomberg” And NYT

There’s just no end to the infantile name-calling: President Trump on Monday ripped Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg and his eponymous news outlet hours after his campaign said it would not credential reporters from Bloomberg News at future events. “Mini Mike Bloomberg has instructed his third rate news organization not to investigate him or any Democrat, but to go after …

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Kellyanne Conway: I’ll Only Testify If Adam Schiff Does

Talking Points Memo reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says she will appear to testify on behalf of the White House as part of the House’s impeachment inquiry under one condition: House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) must do the same. Conway made the crack during a press gaggle with reporters inside the White House briefing room on Monday, …

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53% Of Republicans Say Trump Is Better Than Lincoln

Newsweek reports: 53% of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is a better president than Abraham Lincoln, according to a new poll. The Economist and YouGov published results of its latest polling on U.S. politics this week. One poll gauged Trump’s favorability versus Lincoln, who was the U.S. president between 1861 and 1865 and who steered America through the Civil War …

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Trump Campaign: No Evidence This Photo Is Doctored

Business Insider reports: The Trump campaign trolled The Washington Post for reporting that a picture President Donald Trump shared of his head pasted onto the body of fictional boxing champion Rocky Balboa had been doctored. “Trump tweets doctored photo of his head on Sylvester Stallone’s body, unclear why,” the Post tweeted on Wednesday, after Donald Trump shared the Rocky image …

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Trump Tweets Photo Of Himself As Rocky Balboa

The Hill reports: President Trump on Wednesday tweeted out a photoshopped image that depicted his face superimposed onto an image of the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa. The president tweeted out the image — which originally served as an advertisement for the film “Rocky III” from 1982 — about an hour after he arrived at Trump International Golf Club in West …

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Trump Slurs Praise For The “Sock Rocket” [VIDEO]

The Inquistr reports: Donald Trump stopped in Sunrise, Florida, to hold a campaign rally before heading about one hour north to his Mar-a-Lago resort for the Thanksgiving holiday. But the campaign rally proved to be a strange one, as video captured Trump slurring the words “stock market,” and later claiming that in the 2016 election he somehow defeated “Barack Hussein …

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Trump Doesn’t Understand How Time Works: Why Didn’t We Celebrate This Centennial A Long Time Ago?

Mother Jones reports: Does Donald Trump know what defines a centennial? The question arose on Monday during a White House event commemorating the passage of a bill honoring the women’s suffrage movement. The Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act, which directs the Treasury Department to mint up to 400,000 $1 silver coins celebrating the 19th Amendment, passed with unanimous consent …

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Trump Claims He’d “Actually Like” His Staffers To Testify But He Has To Protect The Rights Of Future Presidents

The Guardian reports: Trump has just sent a tweet thread claiming he would “actually like” his current and former aides to testify in the impeachment inquiry but that he is “fighting for future Presidents and the Office of the President.” This claim should be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism, given Trump’s past assertions that he would actually love …

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Rudy Giuliani: “I Am A High-Functioning Human Being”

Mediaite reports: In a ranting text message correspondence with New York Magazine‘sOlivia Nuzzi, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani reportedly referred to himself as a “high functioning human being,” and a “phenom.” “Garbage your publication cannot be counted on to report fairly on this salacious stupidity,” he wrote. “I am a high functioning human being able to outwork people …

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Trump Lies That Impeachment Support Is Very Low

The Week reports: President Trump is citing impeachment numbers that seem to exist nowhere but his Twitter feed. Trump on Monday morning boasted that “support for impeachment is dropping like a rock,” claiming that it’s “down into the 20s” in some polls. But he didn’t cite a single example, and no one’s sure where he’s getting that number from considering …

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Glorious Leader Promotes Award For His Miami Resort

The Hill reports: President Trump retweeted an announcement that his Doral resort received an award, saying it was “Too bad we didn’t have” the Group of Seven (G-7) summit at the Florida location. The Trump Golf account posted that the resort received the Resort of the Week award from GOLF.com. The president called Doral the “Best location” for the summit …

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Giuliani: I Have “Insurance” To Keep Trump Loyal And My RICO Files Will Be Released If I Should “Disappear”

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani gave a wide-ranging interview on Saturday in which the former New York City mayor attacked numerous figures involved in the impeachment hearings and claimed for the second time to have “insurance” when questioned whether the president would remain loyal to him. “I’ve seen things written like he’s going to throw …

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Trump Lied 18 Times In Today’s Call To Fox & Friends

CNN’s Daniel Dale reports: Trump ranted dishonestly for much of his 53-minute Friday interview with his favorite morning show, repeatedly refusing to let the show’s co-hosts get in a word in edgewise. When they did manage to make a semi-critical point, Trump brushed them off. When co-host Steve Doocy asked Trump if he was sure about his claim that the …

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Trump: I Won’t Be Impeached, “They Have Nothing”

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump says he does not expect to be impeached, claiming Democrats have “absolutely nothing” incriminating, despite days of public testimony by witnesses who said Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to press the country to investigate his political rivals. Trump said Friday, “I think it’s very hard to impeach you when they have absolutely nothing.” …

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Trump Parrots Debunked Ukraine Conspiracy To Fox

Axios reports: President Trump spent 53 minutes of his Friday morning on the phone with the hosts of “Fox & Friends” — his latest call-in to one of his favorite TV shows. President Trump spent a chunk of the interview repeating a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election. “That’s what the word is,” he claimed …

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Trump Claims He Saved Everyone’s Lives In Hong Kong: China Would Have “Obliterated Them In 14 Minutes”

Agence France-Presse reports: US President Donald Trump claimed Friday that were it not for him, Hong Kong “would have been obliterated in 14 minutes” by Chinese troops. In an interview with Fox News, Trump said President Xi Jinping refrained from sending in the military against pro-democracy demonstrators in the semi-autonomous city only because he asked him to. “If it weren’t …

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Trump Tells State TV: I Hardly Know Sondland [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday dismissed U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s testimony that there was a quid pro quo in his efforts to press Ukraine for investigations, calling it “total nonsense.” “I hardly know him,” Trump said of Sondland, a hotelier and GOP donor. “I have spoken to him a few times.” “I want nothing …

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Toddler-In-Chief Begins Selling “Bull-Schiff” T-Shirts

Newsweek reports: President Trump’s campaign is taking aim at House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., with new merchandise designed to disparage his impeachment inquiry with a pun on his name. Released on Thursday, the “Bull-Schiff” t-shirts show the word “bull” alongside a caricature of Schiff with an extended neck — an apparent reference to Trump calling him a “pencil …

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Trump Claims He’ll Release Financials Before Election And You’ll See He’s “Much Richer” Than You Thought

The Hill reports: President Trump on Thursday blasted investigators seeking his financial records and said he would release them voluntarily ahead of the 2020 election, although he made a similar pledge in 2016. Former special counsel Robert Mueller has not said he reviewed Trump’s financial records in his investigation into Russian election interference. Trump previously pledged in September to release …

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Trump Lies About Apple Plant That Opened In 2013

The New York Times reports: President Trump on Wednesday toured a Texas plant that makes high-end Apple computers, chatting with Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, and accepting a plate with the words “Assembled in USA.” It was a pretty typical publicity event, until the end. Mr. Trump walked in front of the news cameras and took credit for the …

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