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Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) doubled down on his criticism of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders in a tweet on Monday afternoon, saying “no president” has the power to make such unilateral policy decisions. “No president — whether named Obama or Trump or Biden or AOC — has unilateral power to rewrite immigration law …
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President Trump was abruptly escorted out of the White House briefing room on Monday before quickly returning to tell reporters, “There was a shooting outside of the White House.” “There was a shooting, law enforcement shot someone, seems to be someone, and the suspect is on the way to the hospital,” Trump said, restarting the …
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Charles “Chas” Freeman, a veteran U.S. diplomat who served in East Asia and as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, slammed a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a “psychotic rant” in an interview Wednesday with a Chinese propaganda outlet. In his July 23 speech at the Nixon Presidential Library, Pompeo said, “Securing our freedoms …
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The acting chief of the Park Police on Tuesday defended federal law enforcement agents clearing protesters from outside the White House last month just before President Trump walked through the area for a photo op at St. John’s Episcopal Church. Chief Gregory Monahan said that while he was aware Trump was scheduled to walk through …
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President Trump gave the Central Intelligence Agency authorization to expand the scope of cyber attacks against foreign nations in a secret ruling in 2018, Yahoo! News reported on Wednesday. The ruling, known as a presidential finding, allowed the CIA to authorize more of its own cyber operations without obtaining direct approval from the White House. Drafted …
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In an op-ed published Wednesday, top White House trade adviser Peter Navarro accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of being “wrong” in virtually all the determinations he made while coordinating the administration’s coronavirus response. “Dr. Anthony Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public, but he has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him …
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Gorka previously served in the Trump administration. The White House on Tuesday announced that President Trump plans to appoint Dr. Sebastian Gorka to serve on the National Security Education Board. Gorka, an ardent Trump supporter who has previously served in the administration as deputy assistant to the president, indicated that he will continue to host his talk radio show “America …
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The White House is considering rolling back some visa restrictions on foreign students whose colleges have moved to online instruction because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that foreign students on F1 visas would be required to leave the country if all their …
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A top prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced Monday that he is writing a book that will document the “mistakes” the team made over the course of their nearly two-year probe, including how they “could have done more” to prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Andrew Weissmann, an FBI general counsel for Special …
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At Monday’s White House Press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, disgusted with the flurry of questions from reporters that ignored violence around the country and instead focused on the Confederate flag, finally had had enough. Concluding the briefing, she said levelly: Finally, I’d end with this: I was asked probably twelve questions about …
Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) doubled down on his criticism of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders in a tweet on Monday afternoon, saying “no president” has the power to make such unilateral policy decisions. “No president — whether named Obama or Trump or Biden or AOC — has unilateral power to rewrite immigration law …
