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Trump, McConnell clash on closing the border
“If we don’t make a deal with Congress, the border’s going to be closed,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “100 percent.” WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is “100 percent” prepared to shut down the U.S. border with Mexico to block an influx of migrants. “If we don’t…
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Mueller investigation into Trump ends but House Democrats are just getting started
President Trump may be cleared of colluding with the Russians to win the White House, but House Democrats are hardly ready to give up investigating the president. They are gearing up for comprehensive probes that could go far beyond the narrow Mueller scope of Russian collusion that just concluded and extends into Trump’s presidency, campaign, business…
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Trump vows to release FISA docs now that Mueller probe is concluded, slams ‘treasonous’ FBI
President Trump, in an exclusive wide-ranging interview Wednesday night with Fox News’ “Hannity,” vowed to release the full and unredacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and related documents used by the FBI to probe his campaign, saying he wants to “get to the bottom” of how the long-running Russia collusion narrative began. Trump told anchor Sean Hannity…
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President Trump calls on Adam Schiff to resign, accuses him of ‘knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking’
President Trump has called on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to resign in a fiery early morning tweet. The president sent out his missive Thursday morning, accusing the California Democrat of “knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking”. Trump’s tweet read: “Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be…
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Trump signs executive order to protect the US from a ‘debilitating’ EMP attack
The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, “Ivy Mike.” Reuters President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday ordering federal agencies to strengthen the resiliency of critical American infrastructure against electromagnetic-pulse attacks. The order is the “first ever to establish a comprehensive policy to improve resilience to EMPs,” White House…
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Giuliani demands CNN apologize for Trump-Russia coverage
FILE – In this Aug. 1, 2018 file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, addresses a gathering during a campaign event for Eddie Edwards, who is running for the U.S. Congress, in Portsmouth, N.H. President Donald Trump will not answer any questions, written or in-person, about possible obstruction of justice, Giuliani told…
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Pentagon authorizes up to $1B to start 57 miles of border wall construction
The Pentagon notified Congress late Monday that it authorized the transfer of up to $1 billion to erect 57 miles of “pedestrian fencing” along the U.S.-Mexico border in direct support of President Trump’s national emergency declaration from last month. The fencing, which will be 18 feet high, is to be erected in the Yuma and El Paso sectors, the statement…
