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Fast Forward Is Trump Confident In Rod Rosenstein? ‘Next Question’
During a press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a reporter asked President Trump whether he was confident in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The president refused to answer, Talking Points Memo reported. “Next question?” Trump reportedly responded as he pivoted in his chair. As a second reporter began asking a different question, Trump…
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Fast Forward Aaron Schlossberg Apologizes For Anti-Immigrant Rant — Insists He’s ‘Not Racist’
New York City lawyer Aaron Schlossberg issued an apology on Tuesday for berating Spanish-speaking workers at a Manhattan deli and threatening to call immigration agents on them, a video of which went viral on social media last week. “To the people I insulted, I apologize,” Schlossberg tweeted on Tuesday. “Seeing myself online opened my eyes…
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Fast Forward Greitens’ Mistress: Speaking Out Was ‘The Only Ethical Thing I Could Do’
The woman at the center of Missouri governor Eric Greitens’ sex scandal has spoken publicly for the first time since news of the affair broke in January. “I didn’t want this. I wasn’t out to get anyone,” the woman, who is identified only by her initials K.S., told Missouri station KSDK in an interview published…
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Fast Forward Prince Harry’s New Title Last Held By Rebel Friend Of The Jews
Saturday’s Royal Wedding brought a new title for Prince Harry — who is now the Duke of Sussex, a title that has not been used in quite a while. Will Harry follow in his predecessor’s liberal and rebellious ways — which included helping Jews? The original Duke of Sussex was Prince Augustus Frederick, born in…
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Fast Forward Did Mnuchin Ease Trump Off Trade War With China?
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Sunday that the U.S. and China can step back from imposing punishing tariffs on each other’s exports, The Guardian reported. President Trump delegated Mnuchin to be the point man on the China negotiations. “We’re putting the trade war on hold, right now, we have agreed to put the tariffs…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Running For Congress Received Just One Vote
The rabbi who served in Newtown, Conn. during the deadly school shooting there in 2012 and is now running for Congress received just a single vote during the state’s Democratic convention on Monday. “When I was called to the Sandy Hook firehouse to counsel the families whose children and loved ones were murdered, I answered…
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Fast Forward Ann Coulter Says U.S. Could Learn From Israel By Opening Fire On Border
Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter thinks the U.S. should learn a lesson from Israel’s treatment of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border — by firing on immigrants here. “Can we do that?” Coulter wrote on Twitter, attaching an article reporting on Israeli troops killing at least 58 Palestinian rioters on the Gaza border following months of…
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Fast Forward Iranian Group Offers $100,000 To Destroy U.S. Embassy In Jerusalem
An Iranian student group is offering a $100,000 reward to anyone who bombs the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Newsweek reported. The Iranian Justice Seekers Student Movement has distributed posters in English, Arabic and Farsi calling for attacks on the embassy. The fliers reportedly say the group “will support anybody who destroys the illegal American…
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