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Fast Forward Trump: Watch Your Back Bibi, I’m Coming For Your Job
President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States is doing just fine — so perhaps he could run for prime minister of Israel. At the National Republican Congressional Committee annual spring dinner, Trump spoke about supporting Israel’s security and recognizing the Golan Heights as part of the country. “To support Israel’s security, just last week…
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The Schmooze Monica Lewinsky Would Have Liked Starr Report To Be Treated Like The Mueller Report
Monica Lewinsky. She’s a household name. She’s associated, in most people’s minds, with graphic sex acts and humiliation. Imagine a world in which you don’t know the name Monica Lewinsky. And now, imagine how good that would feel for Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky, whose relationship with then-President Bill Clinton as a 20-year-old White House intern led…
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Fast Forward Trump Says It’s Time For US To Recognize Israel’s Control Of Golan Heights In Tweet
Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. should officially recognize Israeli control of the occupied Golan Heights, a region once part of Syria that has Israel has claimed as its own since 1981. After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical…
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Fast Forward Even Evangelical Christians Think Trump Shouldn’t Sign Bibles
Most American Christians thought it was inappropriate for President Trump to sign the cover of a bible, as he did in early March, according to a Morning Consult poll, reports Religion News Service. According to the poll, 65% of Christians in the U.S., and 64% of Americans, think it was inappropriate to sign the bibles….
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Books New Book ‘Kushner, Inc’ Makes Wild Claims — But The Wildest Thing Is Reading About Javanka At All
A new book, “Kushner, Inc” by journalist Vicky Ward, calls itself “the first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power.” The gleaming hardcover, bearing the words “Greed. Ambition. Corruption.” promises to “dig [sic] beneath the myth the couple has created.” This is a case of beautifully coiffed snake eats tail — digging…
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Fast Forward ‘Satirical’ Video Game Allows Players To Murder Minorities As Hitler, Trump
A petition is calling for the removal of a video game, where gamers play as figures such as Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler and President Trump — and has them kill minorities. “Jesus Strikes Back: Judgement Day” was released online in January. A Change.org petition has received about 3,000 of the 5,000 signatures it’s asking for. The…
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Fast Forward Trump Tweets Again About New Right-Wing Jewish Group ‘Jexodus’
For the second time in a week, President Trump has tweeted about an all-but-unknown right-wing group that says it represents Jews who are abandoning the Democratic Party. In his Friday morning tweet, Trump wrote that the Jexodus organization “encourages Jewish people to leave the Democrat Party,” and that “Republicans are waiting with open arms.” He…
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The Schmooze Who Is Elizabeth Pipko, Trump’s 23-Year-Old Jewish Friend?
On Tuesday morning, the President tweeted the following, giving as the source of his information “Elizabeth Pipko, Jexodus.” “Jewish people are leaving the democratic party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama administration, and it got worsts & worst. There is anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party. They don’t care about…
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