This is the Forward’s coverage of U.S. president Donald Trump and his relationship to the Jewish community.
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The Schmooze Michael Cohen Dines In Ritzy UES Restaurant Hours After Pleading Guilty
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and confidant, has transformed into our country’s unexpected saving grace and he knows it. He can do no wrong in our eyes after executing the ultimate betrayal: pleading guilty to assisting a certain “candidate” in the 2016 election by illegally paying hush money to women that he allegedly slept with…
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Fast Forward Here’s What Other Michael Cohens Think About THAT Michael Cohen
After Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, plead guilty to eight felony charges on Tuesday, other Michael Cohens began to weigh in. These Michael Cohens have been under attack in the past by Twitter users confusing them with Trump’s Cohen. Now, after receiving months of harassment that was not yet for them, they’re trying…
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The Schmooze Trevor Noah Scoffs at Strzok’s Shameless GoFundMe Attempt
Nothing gets us like an adulterous rendezvous between two high-powered government officials. It sounds like the kind of cheesy rom-com that would tank at the box-office, but we are nonetheless stupefied and enthralled by Peter Strzok’s lack of stealth and, quite frankly, brain cells. Peter Strzok was fired from the FBI last Monday, months after…
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Fast Forward Omarosa Claims To Have Secretly Recorded Jared And Ivanka
Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has told friends and associates that she has tapes of private phone calls from first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, Politico reported. Her stash of recordings, which she is soon releasing in her new book “Unhinged,” includes a condolence call she received from the couple…
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The Schmooze Baron Cohen Gets Little Out Of Lewandowski, Just Defense of White Supremacist Rights
The temerity of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen intensifies on each episode of “Who Is America.” On Sunday night, Baron Cohen may have succeeded too well — in an interview with Trump’s contentious ex-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, he may have found a person who has been so upfront in his values that he cannot say anything…
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The Schmooze Paul Manafort: Your $15K Ostrich Coat Will Be Your Downfall – Just Ask Joseph!
“Enough is enough.” US District Judge T.S. Ellis III, the judge in Paul Manafort’s highly publicized criminal trial, has been expressing frustration regarding the angle prosecutors have taken with their case. Federal prosecutors have chosen to stress to the jurors Manafort’s wildly lavish lifestyle, fixating on his extravagant purchases. These range from silk rugs to…
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The Schmooze Jake Tapper Defends Kaitlan Collins after White House Ban
After President Trump chose to single out and banish CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins from attending his Rose Garden announcement at the White House after she asked him hardball questions during a press event on Wednesday, Jake Tapper leapt to his coworker’s defense during an interview with Stephen Colbert. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and…
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The Schmooze Late Night Hosts Knock Michael Cohen’s Secret Trump Tape
Before you jump to any conclusions, the tape in question is not a sex tape as one would hope. Instead, it depicts another instance in which Trump abused his power to silence women. The audio consists of Trump and his former attorney, Michael Cohen, discussing how they planned to pay off the president’s former playboy…
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