The decision is without precedent in modern American history: The president used his public office to direct a massive contract to himself.
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The Maryland Democrat, who died Thursday, knew that alliances and respect from rivals would only make him more powerful — so his friends ranged from Rep. Meadows to Sen. Warren.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney held a combative news conference as House investigators heard from Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
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Romney suggested that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might have given Trump an ultimatum — and that Trump caved on withdrawing from Syria.
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“Booming,” “stirring” and “powerful” were just a few of the ways Cummings’s congressional colleagues described his style as remembrances of him poured in Thursday.
In admitting that Trump had personally intervened to award a multimillion-dollar summit to his own company, and that the president had also used taxpayer money as leverage to push a Ukrainian investigation into Democrats, Mulvaney embraced a Trumpian tactic: saying the quiet — and potentially illegal — part out loud.
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“The cease-fire does not change the fact that America has abandoned an ally, adding insult to dishonor,” Romney said, hours after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on a resolution condemning the military move.
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What he says happened makes no sense. What he says Trump wanted makes no sense.
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