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Trump has not only failed to reverse the trends that are causing its staffing crisis, they have actually been pressuring one of the Justice Department's top immigration judges into leaving her job — at a time when their immigration policies are already widely criticized as cruel.
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How a major shift in Washington's establishment has left the legal community reeling
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Richard Nixon used a shocking, secret strategy to stop a looming global financial collapse—so what is holding Trump back from doing the exact same thing today? In this AlterNet exclusive, historian Luke Nichter explains why.
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Nobody, except his fanbase, likes this guy.
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When the president of the United States are in retreat mode, whether we know it or not, we’re in a different world.
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President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, are increasingly at odds, a fact brought to light by the disastrous response to the late hiring of his now-former White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia. "The first hint of trouble came after Trump hired the disa...
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The executive-dominated political landscape in which President Donald Trump has reigned in the White House is a far cry from how the Founding Fathers envisioned the U.S. running, and according to a new breakdown from The i Paper, he will soon face a harsh lesson about who is r...
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President Donald Trump's former press secretary, Katie Zacharia, left the administration in disgrace earlier this month after she was accused of falsifying her law background and bellyflopping her first press conference. Yet as Zacharia wishes for the world to clearly know, sh...
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President Donald Trump has betrayed, or "left out in the cold," a group of key workers that he once encouraged to trust him."The new, chillier approach includes a nearly six-month-long delay in a congressionally mandated pay hike for the nation’s 15,000 air traffic controllers...
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Arguing that he had "never seen a viler" attack ad in political history than the one that blew up this week, a prominent conservative New York Times columnist thrashed President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement for continuing to prove they have no rock bottom to hit when it ...
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President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite frequently being at odds with each other over prosecuting the war in Iran, are nevertheless far closer to one another politically than they are apart. Perhaps for that reason, Netanyahu is now calling on Tru...
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President Donald Trump's Attorney General attempted to defend the administration's latest bombshell election lawsuit, prompting a thorough roasting from observers across social media, with one prominent New York Times columnist calling his argument "total gobbledygook."The Jus...
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President Donald Trump currently finds that "he is as isolated and as out of it as ever," according to longtime political advocate Robert Reich, who cited "two moles" within the White House telling him what they are seeing, who also warned that "he's going to explode."Reich — ...
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President Donald Trump could continue to "push the envelope" so much that even Republicans become sick of him enough to back impeachment, according to one of his former first-term aides.Anthony Scaramucci famously served as White House Communications Director during Trump's fi...
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A new fundraising email to his MAGA faithful has exposed President Donald Trump, according to a new breakdown from The i Paper, revealing how much he is "panicking" about their support.Writing for the outlet on Sunday, veteran D.C. correspondent Simon Marks argued that Trump "...
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There was a time when former MAGA Illinois lawmaker Joe Walsh and “Jim Acosta Show” host Jim Acosta may not have seen eye to eye on some things. But on Friday both were thoroughly in accord on the topic of President Donald Trump’s rapidly deteriorating health.Aside from being ...
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Cultism expert Dr. Steven Hassan did some work with a MAGA supporter who is dealing with her children who had pushed her away as a result of her worship of President Donald Trump.
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President Donald Trump isn't happy with his son, and reports say they've been battling over several issues in recent weeks.
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The White House is making its first moves as Democrats appear likely to take back the House of Representatives after the Nov. 3 election: mass pardons.According to the Washington Sun, lawyers are considering issuing pardons for all White House junior staffers likely to be call...
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President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday morning to urge his supporters to start turning in their mail-in ballots and absentee ballots, and to go vote early. It's a surprising move, given how many years Trump has spent railing against early votes and mail-in bal...
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