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Congressional correspondent, New York Times. Annie.Karni @nytimes .com

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5 years
On a flight back to Baltimore. Flight attendant welcomes passengers flying to the “spectacular, beautiful, amazing city.” Passengers cheer.
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Trump, this morning, introducing his Secretary of the Interior: "He loves the Interior."
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3 years
Is today going to be a “I didn’t hear the tape” day.
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4 years
WALLACE: You can end this controversy right now. Does the president disavow, does he condemn QAnon? MEADOWS: Well, listen, we -- we don't even know what it is.
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When Trump gives commencement speech at West Point, one of the new Army officers he will be addressing will be an Indian-American woman breaking a barrier as old as the 218-year-old military academy -- first observant Sikh to graduate.
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Bizarre argument from Mulvaney at CPAC, saying the media doesn't cover what a good dad Donald Trump is to Barron. The White House specifically asks us not to cover Barron, who is 13.
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4 years
Trump spoke for 18 minutes, after officials said it would be 30 minutes. Unusual.
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5 years
Trump's chopper talk just interrupted on TV for Bill Clinton's eulogy of Cummings.
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5 years
The guidance that we needed a floor-length gown for tonight's imperial banquet came hours before my flight departed. I only own one floor-length gown. So, here I am, pooling a presidential event in my wedding dress.
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4 years
The canceling of the WH media christmas party was a story last year, and now it's just gone and it's not even a thing, like the press briefing and the NYT/WaPo subscriptions.
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4 years
Trump was greeted with "Lock Him Up" chants when he went to the World Series last year. And "Vote Him Out" at the Supreme Court today, where he paid respects to Justice Ginsburg. Reminder of how rarely he ventures outside of his supportive bubble.
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Ivanka gets booed and hissed by audience when she says her father is a"tremendous champion of supporting families."
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A non-Trump story from West Point today: Anmol Narang is first observant Sikh ever to graduate. “The chaplain approached me and said, ‘You have “unidentified” for a religious preference.’ I said ‘That’s because Sikhism wasn’t on the list to include it.’”
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4 years
Something very through-the-looking-glass about Trump surrogates like McEnany and McDaniel appearing on TV from their homes, bc they have tested positive, and blasting the debate commission for "not following the science" and continue to flack the WH's response to the virus.
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6 years
“I’m just a daughter” card easier played when you’re not a senior government official.
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“Do you believe your father’s [sexual misconduct] accusers?” - @PeterAlexander “I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated there’s no truth to it.” - @IvankaTrump
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Trump said it was his "great honor" to fund Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, "which you have been trying to get for 30 years." In fact, Obama always funded the program, and Trump's budget proposes a 90 percent cut. via @YLindaQiu
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4 years
Experts are not mincing words about Trump's Easter declaration: Dr. Keith Martin, who heads the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, said simply that if restrictions were lifted prematurely, “President Trump will have blood on his hands.”
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7 years
Moderator gets to it! "The Germans are not that familiar with the concept of a first daughter. What is your role?”
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6 years
Trump has a habit of ripping up all of his paper -- his own "filing system" of sorts. Officials working in records management spend their days taping them back together to avoid violating Presidential Records Act
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Kushner on Fox & Friends: "The hope is that by July the country's really rocking again."
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“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was Trump and Epstein.” Me and @MaggieNYT on the Trump and Epstein relationship.
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4 years
The opinion of a White House staff member has no bearing on when the election is held.
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Mulvaney is saying that the press is now covering Coronavirus because "they think this will bring down the president. That’s what it’s all about."
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4 years
Move over T-Swift. Lincoln Project is trying to make the song of the summer.
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The Lincoln Project
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5 years
Trump just ad-libbed "they came down from heaven" when quoting a Holocaust survivor watching American soldiers liberate Dachau. Jews don't believe in heaven.
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4 years
Biden campaign is hosting conference call today with “Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Khizr Khan, and Rep. Connor Lamb (D-PA) in reaction to the appalling revelations about Donald Trump and veterans”
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"His point in tweeting out that video was to stand with his supporters, who are oftentimes demonized," says @PressSec , on Fox, explaining why Trump tweeted out a video of a supporter at The Villages yelling "white power."
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In an unrelated interview just now with me and @katierogers , we asked @PeteButtigieg if he, too, was "born to do this," a la Beto. "I think I was born to make myself useful," he said. "We're all trying to figure out how to do it."
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6 years
The same person who throws a party for a bill that only passed the House.
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Michael Barbaro
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Who announces a partial trade deal? Somebody trying to change the topic, maybe?
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4 years
Remembering when Trump tried to pressure WH reporter Jeff Mason to take off his mask at a news conference, and when he didn't, mocking him by saying, “you want to be politically correct.”
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Seung Min Kim
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From WHCA President @ZekeJMiller : “As of this moment, three White House journalists tested positive for COVID-19 today.”
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Trump - who has exited Paris Agreement, loosened restrictions on toxic air pollution and removed climate change from a list of national security threats - says he is "the great environmentalist" and that if Biden wins, "the environment will be badly hurt...permanently injured."
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MSNBC reporting that young people have been standing online for up to three hours in Austin, TX, to vote...and haven't made up their mind about who they are voting for. That's commitment to the concept.
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4 years
It is ironic that the senators running for President are tied up in Washington because of an impeachment trial and the man on trial is swooping into Des Moines tonight, unfettered.
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5 years
So much for the canceled subscription.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
The Fake Washington Post keeps doing phony stories, with zero sources, that I am concerned with the Impeachment scam. I am not because I did nothing wrong. It is the other side, including Schiff and his made up story, that are concerned. Witch Hunt continues!
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"Mayo Clinic shared the masking policy with the Vice President's office," said Ginger Plumbo, a spokeswoman for the clinic.
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John Roberts
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Karen Pence told @foxandfriends this morning that @VP was not made aware of the @MayoClinic mask policy until his visit was over. This contradicts a Mayo tweet that he was made aware of the policy before beginning his visit.
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New: Group pledges up to $50 million to defend Republicans who support impeaching Trump
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5 years
Trump just now: "no collusion, and, essentially, no obstruction." Essentially?
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Mulvaney says Trump didn't sleep on flight home from India, then didn't sleep at all during the day before his Coronavirus press conference.
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Trump just demonstrated that he could drink out of a water glass without any problem. The crowd erupted in cheers of "Four More Years."
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3 years
Nothing makes me feel more Jewish than other people in matching pajamas.
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4 years
Now, people at the WH are wearing masks. No one who traveled with POTUS — which was everyone — did this week. //By Thurs, it was clear something unusual was happening at the WH. Several staff members who have avoided masks were suddenly wearing them.
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“That’s a call no president wants to make,” she said. “In those moments, I saw the president’s heart. And I also saw his commitment to the men and women of our great military.” In fact, that’s not a call that any president ever makes.
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Ivanka Trump to Help Choose New World Bank President. Interviews with candidates start tomorrow. Ethics watchdogs raise red flags. via @NYTimes
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Pence is currently speaking in a heavy rain in Kinston, N.C., after his chief of staff has tested positive for the virus, a sign of how concerned the Trump campaign is about holding onto this state.
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4 years
Trump predicts he will be impeached again.
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6 years
Source tells me Sadler called Meghan McCain today. And that it didn’t go so well.
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Jordan Fabian
6 years
SCOOP: White House official mocked ‘dying’ McCain at internal meeting (w/ @JonEasley )
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4 years
Credit and blame game. BARTIROMO: But now, we’ve got 33 million people filing for unemployment. We’ve got 20 percent -- TRUMP: Nobody blames me for that.
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4 years
Another briefing, this tweet still stands ----->
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Maggie Haberman
4 years
No news at this briefing so far.
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That makes sense. What never made sense to me was Chris Cuomo covering him when things were going well for Andrew Cuomo.
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Brian Stelter
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>> @ChrisCuomo at the top of @CuomoPrimeTime tonight: "Obviously I am aware of what is going on with my brother. And obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so."
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3 years
Just in from Governor’s office: “Governor Walz thanks President Trump for finally following public health guidance at a campaign rally.”
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3 years
Angry at restrictions on gatherings in Minnesota that prevented him from speaking in front of a large crowd of supporters, Trump stalked off the stage after less than 30 minutes at his final stop of the day Friday.
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More on who will be getting the vaccine and when — a transition official says @JoeBiden will consult with Dr. Fauci about when to take the vaccine — and plans to take it publicly when Fauci recommends he do so.
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𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚
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What’s your best unintentional appearance in a photo of someone else?
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3 years
Pence and Trump this afternoon are hearing a last minute pitch in the W.H. from Giuliani and John Eastman, another Trump attorney, re Jan. 6, including a discussion of the VP's role, per multiple sources.
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The question was should the president be honest about his medical condition and Pence has thanked the moderator again, and then thanked Kamala and Biden for their well-wishes, and killed all of the clock without answering.
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Ivanka writes in her book about the importance of "cultivating authenticity," a phrase that has given me pause.
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3 years
In reality, the mistake was not in the booking, but in a garbled game of telephone. Giuliani and Lewandowski told the president on Saturday morning their intended location for the news conference and he misunderstood, assuming it was an upscale hotel
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.⁦ @jpaceDC ⁩: “So Covid vaccines are safe. Climate change is real. There was no widespread fraud in the U.S. election. Those are not political positions; those are fact-based positions.”
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Trump's sole acknowledgement of the indoor setting of his rally, which is ignoring a state directive limiting indoor gatherings to under 50 people: "If the governor comes after you, which he shouldn’t be doing, I’ll be with you all the way."
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Today’s winners taking off. @jeffmason1 @JonLemire
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James Baker memo from 1992: “They wanted us to contact the Russians or the British to seek information on Bill Clinton’s trip to Moscow. I said we absolutely could not do that.” via @PeterbakerNYT
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"So proud of you," Obama, the first Black president, can be heard saying to Harris, the first Black vice president and first woman to hold that role. @npfandos
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We thought she was threading a needle but she sewed herself to Trump.
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Nikki Haley on NBC just now insisting Trump is a “truthful” president and tougher on Russia than any previous president. She appears to be all in.
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So glad to be back in NYC, specifically for the famous Trump Tower pizza.
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Yale psychiatry prof spent two days last month briefing lawmakers on Capitol Hill about Trump's mental state. She says: “Their level of concern about the president’s dangerousness was surprisingly high.”
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Jon Meacham, the presidential historian and biographer, wrote Biden's first speech as president-elect and has had a bigger behind-the-scenes role shaping his addresses than I (at least) had realized.
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4 years
At Tulsa mayor's press conference, officials announce 96 people tested positive for Covid-19, call it a new record for daily increase.
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Pic of Hampden Roland Park Post Office, 21211, in Baltimore, sent by a reader.
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Biden’s advice to Obama after his first full NSC meeting. Now following his own advice.
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“Trump has suffered a double whammy w/seniors from the coronavirus crisis, both in terms of a dislike for his personal demeanor and disapproval of his policy priorities. If there’s a durable change w/older voters, it could well cost Trump the election.”
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The immediate skepticism from Trump critics about his negative coronavirus test is the latest reminder of how he has squandered the credibility he needs in a moment of national emergency — especially when it come to his health.
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Annie Karni
4 years
Part of his rally stump speech is making fun of Biden for not knowing where he is and noting that “when you do that, you can’t really recover."
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Ben Jacobs
4 years
This is already a classic
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Is this a billionaire subtweet
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3 months
Just wild. He appointed Lankford to negotiate the deal and approved of it every step of the way until it became politically untenable.
@AndrewDesiderio
Andrew Desiderio
3 months
NEWS — McConnell recommended to GOP senators behind closed doors that they BLOCK the border bill on Wednesday, per multiple sources, bc it’s clear that most Republicans are preparing to vote no — either because they oppose the bill or want more time. w/ @bresreports @JakeSherman
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Fiona Hill: " “We’re doing this to ourselves now. The Russians don’t have to do a thing.” via @NewYorker
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Taboos in Saudi Arabia. Last bullet point = Trump's signature gesture.
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So Kushner's now infamous comment, that the country would be "'really rocking again" by July, meant...a different July.
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Ian Sams
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NEW >> @POTUS announces we have secured 100M more doses each of Pfizer/Moderna vaccines. They'll be delivered faster than expected too: by the *end of July*. That means we'll now have 600M doses of Pfizer/Moderna - enough to vaccinate 300M people - by end of July.
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Trump rallies are a time suck, a money suck, which aren't being carried on national TV. And it's not clear that hosting large gatherings mid-pandemic doesn't hurt him with voters in the end. But the adoring crowds keep the president happy.
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It seems like the most shocking part of yesterday happened during the press conference, but that’s bc we have no clue what happened in the 1 on 1 meeting between Trump and Putin.
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Annie Karni
4 years
Watch the full “Axios on HBO” interview with President Trump - Axios
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Everyone loves to say how Washington is more Veep than House of Cards, but this season is very Homeland.
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Trump briefly participated in a virtual G20 summit. But he was not listed as a participant at a sideline event on “Pandemic Preparedness and Response.” Speakers there included Macron and Merkel. Trump went to golf.
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To everyone saying DC reporting is "boring now," @JakeSherman this AM says "getting stuff done is interesting."
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3 years
Do famous dogs know they are famous
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Jeff Mason
3 years
Out for a walk on the White House South Lawn.
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. @PressSec responds to Kelly: “I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.”
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The kicker: A spokeswoman for Mrs. Trump, who at first expressed interest in the ban as a mother of a teenage son, did not respond to a request for comment about whether she was still invested in the issue.
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Mary Trump's “cheating as a way of life" sounds like Bolton's characterization of life in the WH as "obstruction of justice as a way of life." via @politico
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Tweet lands literally as Tulsa Police Department spokeswoman is telling me in response to inquiry about the curfew that Trump supporters camped out overnight will be moved.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
I just spoke to the highly respected Mayor of Tulsa, G.T. Bynum, who informed me there will be no curfew tonight or tomorrow for our many supporters attending the #MAGA Rally. Enjoy yourselves - thank you to Mayor Bynum! @gtbynum
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My favorite telling fact about Bill Shine, departing comms director, was that he never ever set up his voicemail on his work phone.
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Annie Karni
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Good point on NYT live chat via @arappeport -- it's not just the venues + the pardon + a naturalization ceremony. No masks here shows Trump "taking advantage of the expansive Covid testing capacity at the WH to create the impression that we are in a post-pandemic world."
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Senior administration officials had expressed reservations about Pence going to Turkey at all, arguing that sending him to meet with Erdogan was a chit for Turkish president in and of itself. Trump insisted. The loyal soldier went.
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Amazing kicker. “in a campaign text to supporters shortly after the meeting, Mr. McCarthy sought to raise money by saying, ‘I just met with Corrupt Joe Biden and he’s STILL planning to push his radical Socialist agenda onto the American people.’”
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