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Fast Forward WATCH: Archived Footage Shows Trump, Epstein Laughing About Women At Mar-a-Lago
Producers at NBC News uncovered a 1992 clip showing President Trump and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein talking about women at a party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. The footage was captured for a profile of Trump’s then-bachelor life on Faith Daniels’ NBC talk show. It features a party Trump threw with NFL cheerleaders at Mar-a-Lago…
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Fast Forward Israeli Election Poster Promoting Likud Proclaims ‘Make Israel Great Again’
Election posters promoting Israel’s conservative Likud Party were spotted in Tel Aviv with an unusual English-language slogan: “Make Israel Great Again.” The posters echoed President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. Likud party leader Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of Trump’s closest global allies. #MakeIsraelGreatAgain Likud election posters in Tel Aviv (photo courtesy of…
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Fast Forward Trump Tweets Get Condemned By Anti-Defamation League, Supported By Neo-Nazis
The Anti-Defamation League on Monday criticized President Trump for his Twitter tirade that they and other observers categorized as racist. Trump wrote on Sunday that progressive Democratic congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Trump’s words were widely believed to refer to the “Squad”…
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Fast Forward Trump Cites Israel To Defend Telling Congresswomen To ‘Go Back’ To Their Countries
(JTA) — President Trump said that his call for some Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to “crime infested” [sic] their countries was also in defense of Israel. Trump referenced Israel on Twitter Monday morning and Sunday, amid an outcry over the earlier tweet he made, which was racist and anti-immigrant because it implied that the…
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Opinion Trump Is Using Israel To Shield His Racism
When someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse American Jews of undermining the U.S. and being foreign implants in service of Israel, we waste no time in condemning that language as anti-Semitic. But what do we do when someone uses racist and incendiary language to accuse other Americans of undermining the U.S. and being…
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Opinion Caving To Trump On Racist Tweets, American Jewish Institutions Lost All Moral Credibility
Donald Trump’s vulgar racism is not incidental to his political character. It’s not a latent undercurrent revealed in some unguarded moment, but rather the force through which his political career was launched and continues to perpetuate his hold over the Republican Party. This has been obvious for quite some time, indeed since he announced his…
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Fast Forward Kushner On Trump’s Sexual Assault Boast: ‘I Don’t Think It’s All That Bad.’
Jared Kushner responded to the “Access Hollywood” tape on which his father-in-law, Donald Trump, claimed to have sexually assaulted women, “You know, I don’t think it’s all that bad,” according to an upcoming book. Politico released an excerpt from correspondent Tim Albert’s soon to be released book, “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the…
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Fast Forward Trump Hosts NFL Owner Robert Kraft — Who’s Fighting Prostitution Charges
President Trump invited dozens of business leaders to the White House for a dinner with the Emir of Qatar on Monday. Among those on the guest list: his friend Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner who is currently charged in Florida with soliciting prostitution. Trump described the gathering as a “who’s who of people…
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