Born June 14th, 1946, Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business leader, author, and TV personality. He serves as Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US real-estate developer. Trump also founded Trump Entertainment Resorts, which runs numerous hotels and casinos worldwide. Trump's lavish lifestyle and outspoken personality have made him a celebrity for years. More recently he also hosts and produces the NBC reality show, The Apprentice. Trump has expressed interest in running for President of the United States in 2012.
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It’s official — the Department of “Justice” will try to take over state investigations into trump’s finances (Mazars, Deutsche Bank, etc.) as documented earlier here. IANAL, but this looks like a power grab that if successful, could seriously impede...
by 1BQ
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 09:06 PM PDT
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Apparently, Donald Trump Jr. has the self-awareness of a sea pineapple’s sphincter. (Do sea pineapples have sphincters? I’ll just say they do, because it’s 2019, and you can say whatever you want now, apparently. Go ahead, fake news. Fact-check me. I...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 06:01 PM PDT
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The Inspector General called an emergency meeting today to turn over documents. We know that those documents were from the White House and given to Secretary of State Pompeo. We also know that those documents were full of debunked conspiracy theories...
by Quaid
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 04:54 PM PDT
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Much of the news day revolved around a pair of truly bizarre press conferences and a day of tweet-ranting by a visibly furious and flailing Donald Trump. Trump's behavior is almost certainly the product of a rapidly unfolding impeachment inquiry now...
by Hunter
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 04:11 PM PDT
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For those of you who have been waiting for Donald Trump to finally crack wide open and devolve into madness, that time has come. Sure, there are those who will that say it happened long ago, but now ...
by News Corpse
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 02:12 PM PDT
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Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, writing for the New York Times, persuasively argues that Donald Trump’s violent, unhinged rhetoric, more than amply demonstrated on Twitter and in his campaign rallies, may well be sufficient grounds for impeachment in...
by Dartagnan
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 03:47 PM PDT
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Spines are stiffening all over in the Democratic Congress, as blowback to impeachment is definitely not happening and Donald Trump continues his fast downward spiral. Senate Democrats in particular are allowing themselves to hope for a Democratic...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 01:24 PM PDT
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At his Wednesday afternoon press event with the long-suffering president of Finland, Donald Trump made it clear that the next round of Republican attacks on the impeachment inquiry is going to be claims that the whistleblower isn’t just a liar, but...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 01:33 PM PDT
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Sen. Susan Collins is still trying to sell Mainers on her old, musty "moderate" cloak, even as the likes of Moscow Mitch McConnell and former Maine Gov. Paul "Trump before Trump was popular" LePage rally around her. The mantle is going to get even...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 11:12 AM PDT
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the least popular federal agency among the American public, a new survey from the Pew Research Center finds, with 54% percent viewing it unfavorably and 42% viewing it favorably. It’s not hard to figure out why...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 12:01 PM PDT
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With the unfortunate and visibly uncomfortable president of Finland at his side, Donald Trump spent the morning “treating” the press to an extended rant about “illegitimate” whistleblowers, the perfection of his extortion call to Ukraine, and how all...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 11:10 AM PDT
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Is Rudy Giuliani slowly turning into Gollum and it’s just so gradual we won’t notice until it’s too late? I mean, WT-ever-living-F is this? That’s a text exchange between Rudy and Atlantic reporter Elaina Plott. And, credit to her, she asked the...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 10:50 AM PDT
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A primary concern of the intelligence community whistleblower was not just the conversation that Donald Trump held with the president of Ukraine, but the way in which that conversation was handled. Trump madly overclassified the transcripts and other...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 10:53 AM PDT
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I should have seen this coming, but I don’t live in a rural community. Many U.S. farmers fume at Washington, not Trump, over biofuel, trade policies Instead of directing their anger at Trump, dozens of farmers interviewed by Reuters blasted the U.S....
by Merlin1963
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 10:37 AM PDT
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Don’t be too hard on Trump. I’d be pissed, too, if I thought I were emperor of America and they kept throwing checks and balances in my face left and right. This one is, to use a common Trump term, a beauty: Now there’s a great precedent. If you blow...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 10:27 AM PDT
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Seven-year-old Jakelin Ameí Rosmery Caal Maquin. Ten-year-old Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle. Sixteen-year-old Juan de León Gutiérrez. Eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo. Sixteen-year-old Carlos Hernandez Vasquez. Two-year-old Wilmer Josué Ramírez...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 10:19 AM PDT
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In case you missed this: A handful of Republican-held House seats in the Texas suburbs represent fertile ground for competitive races in 2020, according to recent Democratic polling. The surveys in six GOP districts, shared first with CQ Roll Call, are...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 09:27 AM PDT
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On Wednesday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff held a press conference to recap the current standing of events in the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump and discuss where things are...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 09:15 AM PDT
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1 Oct 2019 Rep. Maxine Waters [CA-43, Financial Services, Chair] — “I'm calling on the GOP to stop Trump's filthy talk of whistleblowers being spies & using mob language implying they should be killed. Impeachment is not good enough for Trump. He...
by e2247
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on Wed Oct 02, 2019 at 09:55 AM PDT
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Monday on the Lehrer Newshour journalist Amy Walter, right at the end of her Politics Monday segment with Tamara Keith, expressed a small dismay that Secretary of State Pompeo had been introduced into the explosive Ukraine scandal. The segment ended...
by paradox
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