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The Hill reports: Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Howard Dean said President Trump is “running a criminal enterprise” out of the White House. During a segment, an MSNBC host said Trump is “constantly vacationing to promote his own properties.” “The promotion is extraordinary, there hasn’t been a president in my lifetime that’s done anything like this,” Dean said in …

The Jerusalem Post reports: A train station that will be built next to the Western Wall will be named after US President Donald Trump. The decision was made by Transportation Minister Israel Katz, who said: “The Western Wall is the holiest place for the Jewish people, and I decided to name the train station that leads to it after President …

MarketWatch reports: Regulators in the Trump administration are proposing to roll back safety measures put in place after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a revision that would reduce the role of government in offshore oil production and return more responsibility to private companies. The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, which regulates offshore oil and gas drilling, estimates its …

NBC News reports: In his first interview since leaving the White House in January, former President Barack Obama told Britain’s Prince Harry that the transition out of public office left him with a sense of ‘”serenity.” In the interview, which was light on political substance, Obama told listeners to BBC Radio’s flagship morning news program, Today, that the end of …

Talking Points Memo reports: The DC Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday confirmed that Joy Villa, a singer who accused President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, of slapping her butt at a Trump hotel party last month, filed a police report on Sunday regarding her allegations. Villa “disclosed she was the victim of a sexual assault,” according to a …

The Hill reports: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller would “love to get Trump’s scalp.” Gohmert accused Mueller of trying to become a “hero of the left” through his investigation into potential Trump campaign ties to Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election during an appearance on Fox News. “I have said since day one, since …

The Associated Press reports: Exactly one week before the raid [on Paul Manfort’s home] Trump sat in the Oval Office with reporters from The New York Times and, with little prompting, veered into an attack on his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Trump blasted Sessions, once one of his closest allies, for recusing himself from the Russia probe, believing that …

Newsweek reports: President Donald Trump should pardon his former national security adviser and campaign aide Michael Flynn, who “has taken the biggest fall,” Flynn’s brother said Tuesday. In a since-deleted tweet, Joseph Flynn said Trump must get the former Army general off the hook for his December 1 guilty plea stemming from his contacts with the former Russian ambassador. The …

This afternoon liar Mike Huckabee, father of liar White House press secretary Sarah Liar Huckabee Sanders, lied that Trump is a modern day Winston Churchill. Huckabee went on to shill for the just-out Churchill biopic, The Darkest Hour. As you’ll see below, Twitter wasn’t having hit. They weren’t having it a lot. Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump couldn’t stop talking about the red carpets, military parades and fancy dinners that were lavished upon him during state visits on his recent tour of Asia. “Magnificent,” he declared at one point on the trip. But Trump has yet to reciprocate, making him the first president in almost a century to close his …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration is scaling back the use of fines against nursing homes that harm residents or place them in grave risk of injury, part of a broader relaxation of regulations under the president. The shift in the Medicare program’s penalty protocols was requested by the nursing home industry. The American Health Care Association, the …

Raw Story reports: Prince Harry’s spring wedding to Meghan Markle will be the social event of 2018 for world leaders, but UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s government is worried about former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle attending the nuptials. “The 33-year-old prince has become good friends with the Obamas since bonding with them during the Invictus Games,” The …

CNN reports: Sen. Jeff Flake says he isn’t ruling out a 2020 presidential run following his term in the Senate.  The Arizona Republican, who announced in October he would not be seeking re-election in 2018, told ABC’s “This Week” that he doesn’t have any formal plans to run for President following his time on Capitol Hill.  “I don’t rule anything …

The Hill reports: President Trump visited his West Palm Beach, Fla., golf course the day after Christmas. The president arrived at the Trump International Golf Club just after 9 a.m. on Tuesday. The president, who has insisted he is on a “working vacation,” tweeted on Christmas night that he would get “back to work” Tuesday. The White House has not …

The New York Times reports: Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, reached a milestone of sorts recently. By moving to sue the Federal Communications Commission over net neutrality this month, his office took its 100th legal or administrative action against the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. His lawyers have challenged Mr. Trump’s first, second and third travel bans and sued …

Hair Furor began his day at Mar-A-Lago by watching Fox & Friends and screaming along with them that the Russia dossier is “bogus.” Multiple media figures responded with tweets pointing out that much of the dossier has already proven to be factual: For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page …

The Scotsman reports: The Sunday Herald revealed that a change in the Scottish Government’s recent budget will remove Trump Turnberry in South Ayrshire from a business rates relief scheme. Scotland’s Finance Secretary Derek Mackay introduced new measures in February to help businesses in the hospitality sector. The move was in response to growing pressure to intervene to help struggling restaurants …

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump sent out Christmas wishes by praising himself for “leading the charge against the assault” on the phrase “Merry Christmas,” in yet another example of the president claiming to have won a dispute that never really existed. Trump has repeatedly hammered on the false notion that American citizens were somehow unable to freely say …

That’s the CNN logo on the blood spot. Via Mediaite: This isn’t the first time the president has used his Twitter account to share a meme of him committing violence against the cable news network that he constantly refers to as Fake News. This past summer, he retweeted a GIF showing him beating up a figure with a CNN logo …

The Hill reports: President Trump tore into the news media in a tweet on Sunday, saying the press has not covered the success of his administration and the strength of his political base. Trump’s comments come after he signed a sweeping tax reform plan on Friday, marking his administration’s first legislative victory. Numerous polls have shown the plan, which would …