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Marshall: "I want to flag a timeline that may be relevant and which may tie together the false Don Jr. statement dictated by the President on Air Force One on July 8th and the conversation Trump had with President Vladimir Putin earlier that evening."

Below we discussed the big Washington Post story about President Trump’s role writing what turned out to be a false...
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"His true and only purpose was to serve the country. And he will be back." –Scaramucci’s lawyer, Elliot Berke, told CNN

In addition to losing his plum White House communications director job after less than two weeks as a member of...
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Did someone order a "nothing burger"?

Confirming reports that President Donald Trump fumes about the special counsel investigation into Russia’s election interference to any White House...
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Like father, like son it seems.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said President Donald Trump did “as any father would” when he...
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Join us for a live chat on Thursday with Demos' Tamara Draut focusing on the middle class and progressive solutions to economic issues.

Post your questions in the comments below or join us on Thursday!

As Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos, Tamara Draut is responsible for developing and advancing the organization’s goals...
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Marshall: "What the Post now reports is that not only was Trump the apparently sole author of the false statement – he apparently dictated the copy – but that he overruled his top aides and advisors to construct that false statement."

Straight news reporters have to work within many important conventions. These both limit the scope of their work but are...
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Trump’s suggestion that cost sharing reduction payments (CSRs) may end has already wreaked havoc in the insurance market, causing insurers to raise rates or leave certain areas altogether.

Frustrated by the failure of the Republican-controlled Congress to pass any bill repealing any part of the Affordable Care Act,...
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“Nothing’s leaked out, right?” – Kushner to congressional interns

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner on Monday bragged that no details of the White House’s negotiations in the Middle...
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But their emails!

A prankster in the United Kingdom tricked several Trump administration officials with emails pretending to be other White House officials...
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He said his father is “the best fighter in the world” and no one can do a better job of fighting for Trump than Trump can.

Following a week of turnover in the West Wing — and claims from the President himself that there is “no chaos”...
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“Felix Sater, boy, I have to even think about it,” Trump told the AP in 2015 when asked why he had appointed a man who’d been convicted for stock fraud as his senior advisor. “I’m not that familiar with him.”

The feeling is not mutual.

In December 2015, an Associated Press reporter asked Donald Trump why he had appointed Felix Sater, a man who’d been convicted for...
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“They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” Kushner told Capitol Hill interns in off-the-record remarks.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner on Monday told congressional interns that Trump’s campaign was too disorganized...
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CNN’s sources said, in the news outlet’s words, that Comey and Kelly “had a professional relationship and a deep mutual respect for each other.”

President Donald Trump’s new chief of staff John Kelly called ousted FBI Director James Comey shortly after Trump fired Comey in...
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“He will do a spectacular job, I have no doubt, as chief of staff,” Trump said of Kelly.

President Donald Trump praised his new chief of staff, former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, after Kelly’s swearing-in on Monday. “We...
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Life comes at you fast.

Retired Gen. John Kelly, sworn in as White House chief of staff early Monday, was not so enthusiastic about getting involved in...
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"The idea that the American people need to be paying for the types of operation to change your sex is not very wise from a standpoint of economics," Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry said.

Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he stands behind President Donald Trump’s haphazard Twitter announcement last Wednesday that transgender...
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