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Reuters: Trump Launched Covert CIA Op Against China

Reuters reports: Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation. Three former officials told Reuters that the CIA created a small team of operatives …

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John Kelly: Trump Said Hitler “Did Some Good Things”

CNN reports: To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly, he allegedly said Adolf Hitler “did some good things,” a worldview that would reverse decades-old US foreign policy in a second term should he win November’s presidential election, multiple former senior …

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NYT: Musk Met Privately With Trump At Mar-A-Lago

The New York Times reports: Donald Trump, who is urgently seeking a cash infusion to aid his presidential campaign, met on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., with Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, and a few wealthy Republican donors, according to three people briefed on the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private …

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Biden And Trump Score Easy Wins On Super Tuesday

CBS News reports: President Biden and former President Donald Trump won commanding victories across nearly all the states holding Democratic and Republican nominating contests on Super Tuesday. Both notched wins in delegate-rich states like California, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina, the largest prizes out of the 15 states and one U.S. territory reporting results. Nikki Haley denied Trump a clean …

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Haley To Troll Trump With Age-Mocking Mobile Video

Politico reports: Nikki Haley is stepping up her attacks on Donald Trump’s age — this time at his own rally in South Carolina. The Haley campaign on Saturday will parade a mobile billboard around the Myrtle Beach area, including by Trump’s rally in Conway, where the former president will appear for the first time this year in the state ahead …

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Poll Workers Nationwide Train For Election Violence

The Washington Post reports: In training poll workers for this year’s presidential election, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is preparing them for a series of worst-case scenarios, including combat. His office is coordinating active-shooter drills for election workers and has sent kits to county election offices that include tourniquets to stem bleeding, devices to barricade doors and hammers to …

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London Court Tosses Trump’s “Steele Dossier” Lawsuit

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump lost his London lawsuit against an ex-British spy after a court dismissed his claim linked to the notorious dossier about alleged ties between the Kremlin and the former US president’s successful run to the White House. The Republican Party frontrunner for this year’s presidential election sued ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his Orbis business intelligence …

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Carville Suggests Trump Has “Secondary Syphilis”

“If you go to the Drudge Report, and I think it will still be up, there is a story that talks about Trump having hand cuts and you can link to it. They don’t look like cuts to me. They look like sores. And I’ve asked a number of MDs what medical condition manifests itself through hand sores and the …

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DeSantis: Trump Should Have Used Troops Against BLM

Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis has quibbled about whether the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol Riots constituted an insurrection, but he has no such qualms about making a similar declaration about Black Lives Matter protests and how he would have handled them. “You as the president, you absolutely have the right to prevent this type of rioting. You know, Bush …

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Epstein Victim Email: Trump Had Sex With “Many Girls”

The Daily Mail reports: In the latest dump of papers – made public on Monday – are emails sent by Epstein victim Sarah Ransome to DailyMail.com columnist Maureen Callahan in 2016. At the time, Callahan worked for The New York Post and was reporting on Epstein. Ransome claimed in those emails that Trump had sex with ‘many girls’, including a …

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Christie Apologizes For Backing Trump In 2016 [VIDEO]

Axios reports: In a new campaign ad that doubles as a confessional, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tells voters he has “an admission to make.” “Eight years ago when I decided to endorse Donald Trump for president, I did it because he was winning, and I did it because I thought I could make him a better candidate and …

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Epstein List Released Despite Earlier Report Of Delay

The Guardian reports: Numerous documents identifying associates of notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been made public on Wednesday. These associates’ just-unsealed names were contained in court documents filed as part of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell. Prior to the unsealing, the names were listed in court papers as variants of J Doe. Many of the names …

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POLL: Trump’s Evoking Of Hitler Grows His Support

The Des Moines Register reports: On the campaign trail, he has engaged in harsh rhetoric to describe political enemies as “radical thugs that live like vermin,” said that immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood” of the U.S., touted himself as “the only one who will prevent World War III,” and suggested suspending parts of the Constitution …

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Judge To Unseal Huge List Of People Linked To Epstein

The Messenger reports: The names of nearly 200 people connected to pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are likely to be unsealed in the New Year, according to ruling by a federal judge on Monday. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered that sealed names and material related to 177 people be publicly filed in 14 days, according to court filings. That …

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Trump Seeks To Block Witness In E. Jean Carroll Case

The Daily Beast reports: A New York federal jury in May already found that Trump sexually abused the journalist E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million. But that issue is coming back with a vengeance next month, with Trump bracing for a punishing second trial specifically over the way he defamed her from the White House by denying her claims. …

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DeSantis Shrugs At Trump’s “Poisoning Blood” Claim

Florida Politics reports: Ron DeSantis was a history major at Yale, but don’t expect him to offer a deep read on Donald Trump’s latest controversial comments. “I don’t know what this means with the blood stuff. I know people are trying to draw historical allusions. I don’t know if that’s what he meant,” DeSantis said on Fox News Monday. The …

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Trump Vows To End Tax Breaks For Liberal Universities

Bloomberg News reports: Former President Donald Trump said he’d end tax exemptions for universities deemed to be left-leaning if voters return him to the White House, pointing to the uproar over campus antisemitism that engulfed three college presidents in recent weeks. Trump told a campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, he’d remove tax advantages for universities that discriminate against conservatives, …

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Trump: Immigrants “Poison The Blood Of Our Country”

“We got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done. They poisoned. Mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world. They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all …

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Mitt Romney: Don’t Take Trump “Literally Or Seriously” When He Says He’ll Be A Dictator For One Day [VIDEO]

“You know, it’s funny. Donald Trump says so many absurd things that I don’t even know how you respond to them. So I sort of laugh and think he’s trying to entertain his base. It’s a dangerous course to go down, of course, but that’s what he does on a regular basis. And I sort of laugh at what he’s …

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Scathing Essay Explains Why Brits Don’t Like Trump

Nate White writes for the London Daily: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, …

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