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Dec 04 2017
News
Trump's personal lawyer claims the President can't obstruct justice
President Donald Trump's personal attorney, John Dowd, claims the President cannot be guilty of obstructing justice, according to an interview with Axios.
"(The) President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under (the Constitution's Article II) and has every right to express his view of any case," Dowd told Axios.
CNN Digital
May 15 2020
News
When Shoppers Venture Out, What Will Be Left?
The coronavirus pandemic dealt another crushing blow to retailers in April. Now the question is what the sector will look like as the economy reopens — and how much permanent damage has been inflicted.
Retail sales fell 16.4 percent last month, the Commerce Department said Friday, by far the largest monthly drop on record. That followed an 8.3 percent drop in March, the previous record
New York Times (News)
Jul 27 2017
News
Joint Chiefs: We Won’t Implement a Trans Ban Until Trump Tells Us What His Tweets Mean
On Thursday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford informed the military that the Pentagon would not implement a ban on transgender troops “until the President's direction has been received by the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary has issued implementation guidance.” Until that point, Dunford wrote, there “will be no modifications to the current policy,” and “we
Slate
Apr 06 2017
News
Here's why Donald Trump's attacks on the media will keep working
If there's been one consistent thread through Donald Trump's relatively brief political career, it's this: The media are bad, biased and generally terrible people.
New polling from Gallup suggests that Trump's view of the media is widely shared among the very Republicans who helped fuel his rise the 2016 primaries.
CNN Digital
May 26 2016
Opinion
OPINION: Hillary Clinton's shrinking email defense
While an FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server continues, the State Department's Office of Inspector General has raised the stakes with the release of a remarkable report finding that Clinton's actions violated State Department policies and were inconsistent with federal record-keeping laws.
CNN Digital
Sep 24 2020
News
With Warnings Of Socialism, Trump Seeks To Boost Support Among Young Florida Latinos
Miguel Arango had just turned 18 when he voted for Barack Obama in 2012.
Four years later, he was a passionate supporter of Bernie Sanders, but opted for a third-party candidate in the 2016 general election.
"I was not going to vote for Trump either," he said. "I thought all these things about him — that he was this, he was that. And slowly it started transitioning."
NPR (Online News)
May 13 2020
Analysis
Will Breyer Side With Trump in Congressional Subpoena Fight?
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in Trump v. Mazars, a case which asks whether the House Committee on Oversight and Reform overstepped its legal authority in 2019 when it subpoenaed Mazars USA, Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm, demanding eight years of financial records pertaining to Trump and several of his business entities.
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Reason
May 12 2020
News
'We’re winning': Biden insists his basement campaign is working
Joe Biden doesn't believe being stuck in his Delaware home's basement is hurting his chances of becoming president.
The presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee bristled when asked Tuesday about when he expected to restart his campaign for the White House ahead of the general election.
"We're on the campaign trail now. And everybody says, 'You know Biden's hiding.' Well,
Washington Examiner
Jan 26 2020
News
Trump lawyers offer surprisingly un-Trumpy defense to impeachment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just before his lawyers stepped into the U.S. Senate to begin their argument that he should not be removed from office, President Donald Trump offered a preview of sorts.
Americans should turn on their televisions, he wrote on Twitter, and watch the attorneys make “our case against” his political antagonists, who he listed with a series of taunting nicknames.
Reuters
Apr 06 2020
News
FCC Rejects Petition that Would Have ‘Dangerously’ Curtailed Free Speech
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Office of General Counsel and Media Bureau rejected a petition by the progressive Free Press on Monday to “weaponize” the agency against broadcasters and conservatives to censor political speech.
Free Press recently petitioned the FCC to censor broadcasters from showing President Donald Trump’s press conferences on the coronavirus outbreak.
Breitbart News