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Tag: Donald J. Trump
👓 Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair | CNN
A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.
👓 Analysis | By a 3-to-1 margin, Trump supporters embrace his personality over his policies | Washington Post
About as many supporters like his approach to the economy as his combativeness.
👓 Trump’s company approved $420,000 in payments to Cohen, relying on ‘sham’ invoices, prosecutors say | Washington Post
President Trump’s real estate company authorized paying $420,000 to lawyer Michael Cohen in his effort to silence women during the presidential campaign and then relied on “sham” invoices from Cohen that concealed the nature of the payments, according to legal filings released Tuesday. The payments began flowing in February 2017, soon after Trump took office, when Cohen approached Trump Organization executives seeking to be reimbursed for “election-related” expenses, prosecutors said.
👓 What Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Means for Trump | The Atlantic
The president’s former fixer on Tuesday said he broke campaign laws at Trump’s behest, paying off two women who alleged extramarital affairs.
👓 Blind Confidence Couldn’t Save Paul Manafort | The Atlantic
President Trump's former campaign chairman was found guilty on eight counts of fraud and financial crimes. But it’s not too late for him to cut a deal.
It’s incredibly rare that I’ve randomly got soaps on the television, and I had even contemplated the nostalgia before the news broke. It’s almost as if the universe were listening to my brain.
👓 Trump’s Strange Tweet About Joseph McCarthy | Politico
People who have actually studied the disgraced Wisconsin senator describe a man who bears similarities to some of the president’s most notable attributes.
Sadly, we’re all being doomed to repeat history here.
👓 Let’s Hope There Is No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word | Weekly Standard
But if there is …
👓 Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring | Washington Post
In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, as he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia investigation’s widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman standing trial. And he has fretted that he is failing to accrue enough political credit for what he claims as triumphs.
At rare moments of introspection for the famously self-centered president, Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe, in his assessment simply because of their connection to him.
👓 An inside look at how Trump’s infamous jobs day tweet roiled some government economists | Quartz
The email subject lines run the gamut: "Interesting," "In case you didn't see this," "Holy moley," "Breach by POTUS," "Is it OK for us now too?"
📺 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah – July 23, 2018 | Comedy Central
President Trump tweets an all-caps threat to Iran's president, Roy Wood Jr. and Ronny Chieng react to bizarre baseball news, and Tip "T.I." Harris talks "The Grand Hustle."
👓 Michael Cohen privately questions Trump's fitness to be president | Axios
Things have been heating up since the tape was reported Friday.
👓 Why I Needed to Pull Back From Twitter | Maggie Haberman
The viciousness, toxic partisan anger and intellectual dishonesty are at all-time highs.
👓 I'm Bill Browder. Putin Made a Big Mistake When Trying to Get Access to Me Through Trump | Time
Even though the U.S. President called it "an incredible offer"
👓 Trump Putin summit: John McCain and Republicans attack Donald Trump for trusting Putin, ignoring FBI | Quartz
"Our president failed to defend all that makes us who we are—a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of liberty at home and abroad."