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White House correspondent at HuffPost. Author of THE USEFUL IDIOT -- Now fully updated post-January 6. https://t.co/88HnBbA8a7
Joined September 2012
As a journalist, it's not my job to tell you who to vote for. As a journalist, it IS my job to warn you that if we vote Donald Trump back into office, it may be the last vote we ever cast.
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The president to date has spent 278.5 YEARS of annual presidential salary in taxpayer money to play golf.
I donate 100% of my President’s salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!.
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Trump is now calling the National Archives a radical left group of people. The National Archives. Like, librarians.
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To date, the president has spent $133.7 million of taxpayer money to play golf. That is 334 years worth of presidential salary.
President @realDonaldTrump made a commitment to donate his salary while in office. Honoring that promise and to further protect the American people, he is donating his 2019 Q4 salary to @HHSGov to support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain, and combat #Coronavirus.
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For those of you with real lives who do not have to monitor the coup-attempting criminal’s social media feed, he has been calling VP Kamala Harris “Kamabla.”. I reached out to a Senior Trump Campaign Official to sort it out. Here is how it went:
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Trump attempted a coup that wounded 140 police officers and left five of them dead.
If Kamala wins, our 235-year experiment in constitutional government may well end.
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This . is an entirely plausible theory.
i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on.
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Jason Miller was being paid $35,000 PER MONTH by the Trump campaign, which was routing it through his former firm -- making it harder for the mother of their son to prove his income in court, and helping him dodge $3k per month child support.
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Everyone knows the president lies. Most people understand he does it every day, about pretty much everything. We’ve gotten used to it. What we forget is just how corrosive it is to our democracy.
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Whoa. HuffPost has obtained a list of SHELL COMPANIES. Pages and pages; hundreds and hundreds of SHELL COMPANIES. Wait till Jordan and Comer find out about *this* guy.
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The president loves to brag that he's not taking a salary. Perhaps. But with this latest trip to Palm Beach he has spent 334 YEARS of presidential salary playing golf.
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NEW -- A new grand jury heard evidence about Trump's actions, and guess what -- even when you take out all the stuff he did that the Supreme Court said was "official" and therefore immune, jurors still think that attempting a coup is a crime.
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A BRIEF DISSERTION ON TRUMP’S CORRUPTION:. One place where journalism clearly has failed us during the past four years is in describing Trump’s personal corruption. We’re trained to be cautious with pejorative words, so we didn’t want to use it. Trump took advantage of that.
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This was sent 9 minutes after he had arrived at his golf course.
Happy Sunday! We want GOD! .
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Thank you, NPR, for stating this so clearly. All of us should be doing this.
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Huh. Weird. He looks much healthier in the fan fiction posters and memes.
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Every single school in America has had mandatory vaccines for decades. Every. Single. One. It’s the reason we don’t have measles, polio, whooping cough, etc, raging all the time.
Tapper: What he says about childhood vaccines is false. They don't cause autism. Banks: Trump won the popular vote… Mandatory vaccines is a topic that a lot of American voters want us to tackle.
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“Not one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate”. Well, that would mean no money to any school or college in the country. Of course, it also means a resurgence of measles, polio, mumps, whooping cough…. Should be fun.
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What happens with the blank sheets of paper after he's done signing them?.
Nothing can stop him from working for the American people. RELENTLESS! 🇺🇸
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Jessica Leeds, whom Trump attacked at his "news conference" last week, is again explaining her story about being sexually assaulted by Trump on a plane. "He assaulted me 50 years ago, and he continues to attack me.". "He's a sexual predator."
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I asked Mike Lindell what time and where the reinstatement would be. He responded that he was praying for me and that I was full of hate. I will note, for the record, that he would not reveal reinstatement details.
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Trump is lucky that his fate is in the hands of Republican senators, rather than an actual jury. Because Schiff is very, very good.
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Trump is reading from the teleprompter about the NY Post story. So he is now actively pushing Russian disinformation as part of his scripted campaign message. Just like 2016.
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The president’s two adult sons’ households each receives $15,000 a month in donor money. Further, Don Jr. has received many tens, if not hundreds of thousands thanks to the RNC buying up his books. Once upon a time this was considered open corruption.
Corrupt Hunter Biden Tells Convention What A Great President His Father Would Be
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If you don't like that the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan, maybe the time to raise objections was back before the previous president signed the country over to them in February 2020.
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President Obama signed the choice act into law in 2014. There are photos. And video. And the bill’s authors? John McCain and Bernie Sanders.
Last year I signed legislation that gives our Veterans CHOICE, through private providers, and at urgent care facilities! Today we fully funded this $10 billion a year effort that gets our brave Veterans care quickly, and close to home.
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Donald Trump tried to extort Ukraine into smearing a political rival by holding $391 million in congressionally approved military aid hostage, and Ted Cruz voted to let him get away with it.
None of this had to happen. We could have prevented Putin from invading Ukraine by imposing sanctions against his Nord Stream 2 pipeline. After those sanctions were waived, and he concluded his pipeline was inevitable, he launched this war.
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These 35 House Republicans were forced to choose between Donald Trump and American democracy -- and they chose democracy.
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NEW -- Trump went to Valdosta days after Helene hit and claimed he had brought truckloads of food, water and gasoline. Turns out the only thing he brought that day was traffic from his motorcade, which pulled dozens of cops away from storm cleanup.
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Trump goes to Kentucky with the Republican candidate for governor up by 5, and the candidate ends up losing. Trump goes to Louisiana -- THREE times -- and the Republican still loses, it looks like. And Republicans are afraid to cross Trump because. .
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Maybe now Republican men will be more willing to get one.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will get a coronavirus vaccine shot on Tuesday.
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Had actually forgotten that Trump had invited the Taliban to Camp David to celebrate Sept 11.
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Trump was barely six feet from Jack Smith, but didn’t call him a thug or a maniac or deranged to his face. Weird.
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This is an unprecedented abuse of the president's power. A pardon, and now a naturalization ceremony. If Obama had done something like this, Republicans would have stormed the White House gates with torches.
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This is not funny. The president's words and actions have now resulted in four people getting shot, three of them dead, in just the past several days.
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175,416 Americans have died from the coronavirus, and this is what the president is choosing to lie about this morning.
The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat National Convention. At first I thought they made a mistake, but it wasn’t. It was done on purpose. Remember Evangelical Christians, and ALL, this is where they are coming from-it’s done. Vote Nov 3!.
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Remember when we were told Trump could not go to the ceremony honoring American soldiers who died in WWI because Marine 1 couldn’t fly in the rain?.
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Btw, this flagrant politicization of Arlington National Cemetery by the coup-attempting criminal former president is a great example of the totally different standard the news media afford Trump compared to any other candidate, for whom this would be a campaign-ender.
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I asked the Trump campaign why the coup-attempting criminal former president is slurring his words and lisping. The campaign's response:
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He is wearing his CAMPAIGN HAT ON AN OFFICIAL TRIP?. TO THE CDC? WHICH IS DEALING WITH A PANDEMIC?.
The coronavirus tests are perfect, @realDonaldTrump says, just like his call with Ukraine that led to his impeachment.
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The conspiracy theory Pam Bondi is laying out on the floor of the Senate is the one Tom Bossert called “completely debunked” and one that was invented, according to Fiona Hill, by the Russian spy agencies.
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Never really understood why Republicans think picking fights with him is a good idea. He is hands down the Biden administration's best communicator, he takes apart the criticism, turns them back on the critics, and does it all without sounding mad.
Buttigieg: One thing Trump can do is express support for reversing the deregulation that happened on his watch. I heard him say he had nothing to do with it. So if he had nothing to do with it.
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At a speech at a Wisconsin shipyard, Trump just said the new Navy frigate will be able to fight anywhere on land sea or air. [This I want to see.].
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Her husband is deployed overseas in the military. Periodically it’s good to remember that apart from all the unhinged lying and the self-dealing corruption and the disdain for democracy, Trump is at his core a terrible human being.
Trump on Haley: Where's her husband? Oh, he's away. He's away! What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband. Where is he? He's gone.
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Don’t blame guns for injuries that happened because *some* people are Bad at Fleeing!
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Except for the 16 immunizations children already have to get by the time they finish 12th grade.
In Florida, there will be no vaccine mandate for children in our schools. This is a decision that belongs to parents.
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At some point, is the WH going to explain why the president speaks in a slurred speech, has trouble reading and pronouncing pretty basic words of his mother tongue, has difficulty drinking from a water glass . or what that odd, unplanned trip to Walter Reed was all about?.
What’s wrong with the President?
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Right now, under the rules as the leader of the Republican Party has defined them, Kamala Harris on January 6, 2025, has the right to name anyone she wants as president for the term that begins two weeks later.
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There were 30 reporters. Ten got questions. I don't hear the other 19 who didn't questions whining about it.
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Trump is now warning TV networks that a Biden presidency would be boring and bad for their ratings.
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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY ACCOUNT FOR THIS.
Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?.
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"Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!". -- Donald Trump, 7/26/2020.
Had the distinct honor to play golf today with @POTUS and be his partner! . Truly enjoyed talking about our families, politics and his earnest desires for our great country. he’s still got game.
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Here they are, the 121 House members who chose Donald Trump over the American democracy:
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To recap, Donald Trump:. - Tried to extort a foreign leader into smearing his opponent. - Tried to sabotage the postal service to hurt his opponent. - After losing anyway, tried a coup through the DOJ. - When that failed, encouraged a violent coup against Congress.
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Trump did not pay his respects to Ofc Brian Sicknick’s body. Nor has he offered a single word of apology to the 140 officers who were injured by his mob during his coup attempt. Yet here these guys are.
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NEW -- Yes, Trump lies all the time, about everything. But his straight-up, out-of-whole-cloth lying about the federal hurricane response is truly next level. Even more galling: He is accusing Biden and Harris of doing exactly what he himself did.
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Um…. HE HELD A ROSE GARDEN SIGNING CEREMONY CELEBRATING THE REPEAL BILL’S PASSAGE IN THE HOUSE.
Trump adamantly said today he never wanted to end the Affordable Care Act. (“I never even thought about such a thing.”). However, his 2016 campaign website called for “a full repeal of Obamacare.”. 👉🏻
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Let's be clear: this is dictator-level stuff. There was a time when if a foreign leader said something like that, our State Department would be all over them.
Reporter: "Is the President saying if he doesn't win this election that he will not accept the results unless he wins?". Kayleigh McEnany: "The President has always said he'll see what happens and make a determination in the aftermath."
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Biden had already greeted them all individually before Macron arrived.
The disturbing part of this clip is that Biden totally ignores the veterans in wheelchairs while Macron acknowledges them (like a President should).
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This happened in large measure because Trump’s uncontrolled rage at seeing it made people curious about this group and led to donate money.
Mourning In America—the ad that so enraged @realDonaldTrump—is now running on TV and digital media in the critical swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Iowa.
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Interesting. Jason Miller told a Florida court as part of his effort to avoid paying child support for his son that he would no longer be employed as of Dec. 15. Yet just moments ago, here he was on Fox, identified as a Trump campaign official.
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The dairy issue he is complaining about was resolved in TPP. Which he withdrew from right after taking office.
PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that, “US Tariffs were kind of insulting” and he “will not be pushed around.” Very dishonest & weak. Our Tariffs are in response to his of 270% on dairy!.
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Harris with a new line when “lock him up” chant starts as she describes Trump’s criminality:. “The courts are going to handle that part of it. What we’re going to do is beat him in November.”
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NEW -- Trump explicitly attacked special counsel Jack Smith's family today -- adding to a pattern that could potentially bring federal charges. As it turns out, threatening federal officers and their families is itself a crime.
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Obama left Trump a perfectly good pandemic response team. Trump got rid of it. And here we are.
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This is a ridiculous lie. Trump was not impeached for “asking questions.” He was impeached for trying to extort Ukraine in an attempt to cheat in his upcoming election.
We should remember: Democrats impeached the last president for asking questions about Joe Biden’s blatant corruption on a phone call. Republicans are impeaching a man for allowing an invasion of our country. They can pound sand.
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What? . What Maduro is doing in Venezuela right now is EXACTLY what Trump tried to do here, culminating in Jan. 6.
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Good lord. He really DID tell his people to slow the testing down.
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Reminder that Donald Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David. Right around the anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.
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Reading some of the media coverage of the "optics" of Trump choosing Doral and "questions of conflicts of interest". Guys. This is way beyond optics and conflicts. This is literally the dictionary definition of corruption. Public officials who do this in cities GO TO PRISON.
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Trump ran a hotel five blocks from the WH where he accepted cash money from foreign and domestic interest groups. It was basically a bribery center.
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In light of the president's statements on Hannity last night, a public service announcement:. The president both lies and makes up statements with zero regard for the actual facts just about every day, on just about every topic. Including coronavirus.
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NEW -- If Trump's "absolute immunity" is correct, that means Biden could have him abducted from Mar-a-Lago, spirited off to St. Helena, and secretly kept there forever without ever having to worry about criminal charges. Yes?.
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No small thing, for the NYT ed board to describe the modern GOP as an authoritarian movement.
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The president’s golf habit has now cost American taxpayers $142 million. Several million of that has flowed into his own pocket.
I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President. I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to @NatlParkService to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!
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Hey, New York Post and everyone else who got suckered into the ridiculous Hunter Biden Laptop story. Take a bow.
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Really unfair for the news media to blame the president for his behavior.
Melania Trump: "While they like to blame my husband for his behavior, the media's promotion of divisive language and attacks has led to open disdain and hostility towards voters like you and me."
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There has never been president who paid off a porn star and called it legal fees, attempted a coup after losing or took all kinds of top secret documents to his country club and then refused to turn them over under court order.
There has never been a President who was so evilly and illegally treated as I. Corrupt Democrat judges and prosecutors have gone against a political opponent of a President, ME, at levels of injustice never seen before. Corrupt judges, or judges so blinded by their hatred of me.
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$225,000 of dog rescue donors’ money into his own pocket from this event.
“We had many meetings in the White House and the Oval Office having to do with saving and helping dogs.”
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Oil imports from Russia increased 39 pct on Trump’s watch. They had gone down 44 pct over Obama’s eight years.
We can be energy independent - we were energy independent. This Administration is now choosing between oil imports from Russia, the Saudis and Venezuela. U.S. Officials Meet With Regime in Venezuela, to Discuss Oil Exports to Replace Russia’s.
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Reminder that Trump's campaign rally at Arlington is latest in a long history of dishonoring the military. As president, he stopped going to Dover AFB for dignified transfers after his very first one. Why? Because the father of the dead SEAL berated him.
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Every one of his four proposed budgets he sent to Congress while he was president cut Social Security and Medicare.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I will not cut one cent from Social Security or Medicare. I kept that promise for 4 years, and I will keep it again. And seniors should not pay taxes on Social Security!
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Treason has a specific definition which could not possibly encompass Vindman. Which makes this statement libelous on its face. (The first assertion is also, if false, potentially libelous.)
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IMPORTANT: Watch carefully. He reads this entire rant directly off the teleprompter. He fully intended to threaten unrest if he is criminally charged. And others worked with him to deliver that message.
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IF IMMUNITY IS NOT GRANTED TO A PRESIDENT, THERE IS A STRONG CHANCE I WILL GO TO PRISON FOR MY ATTEMPTED COUP
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WH press sec Kayleigh McEnany closed her briefing by scolding Speaker Pelosi for not taking the crisis seriously and claiming that Trump has not had a break. Since July 1:. No. of intelligence briefings Trump has scheduled: 4. No. of days Trump has played golfed: 13.
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Eric Trump's wife, and brother Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, are each being paid $180,000 a year through the Trump campaign's manager private company, secretly, to keep the payments off the Federal Election Commission books.
Where’s Hunter?.
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As Trump is busily lying about his relationship to Project 2025, here is what he said at a Heritage dinner in 2022:. "This is a great group, and they’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.".
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Yet another charity linked to the Trump family putting money directly into Donald Trump's pocket -- another $225,000 this weekend.
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Are people forgetting the goal of what happened?. It was to intimidate the VP and “weak” Republicans into overturning the election so Trump could remain in power. As what? Not president. That’s not what we call losers of elections. Trump wanted a coup. Plain and simple.
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