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Fast Forward Even Elliot Broidy Couldn’t Buy A Golf Date For Malaysian Premier With Trump
Disgraced Republican fundraiser Elliot Broidy used his connections to urge President Trump to play a game of golf with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. Razak, who is under investigation by American prosecutors for the alleged embezzlement of $3.5 billion, was denied the customary Oval Office photo during his visit with the president last year because…
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Fast Forward Cambridge Analytica Executive: Hitler And Trump Used Similar Strategy
(JTA) — The CEO of the parent company of Cambridge Analytica said Adolf Hitler demonized Jews to rile political support though he “didn’t have a problem” with them, and President Donald Trump uses similar tactics as the German leader. Nigel Oakes of the SCL Group made his remarks during interviews with British academic Emma Briant…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen Went To ‘Worst’ Law School — It Accepts 80% Of Applicants
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s attorney who is under federal investigation, went to the country’s “worst law school,” Red State reported. Cohen is a 1991 graduate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Although Cooley has been accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) since the mid-1970s, “that accreditation is on increasingly shaky ground,” Red State reported….
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The Schmooze Planned Parenthood ‘Kills Females’ Nominee Asked About Dr. Ruth Quote
There’s a lot that people don’t know about sex therapist and sexual evangelist Doctor Ruth Westheimer. The 4’7” Holocaust survivor was a sniper in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. She maintains one of the best Twitters in existence. She is quadrilingual. And one of her early jobs was as a researcher at Planned Parenthood. In…
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Fast Forward Liberal Jewish Groups Join Opposition To Bolton And Pompeo
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Liberal Jewish groups are speaking out against two of President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy picks, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. Bolton began Monday as Trump’s national security adviser. Trump last month nominated Pompeo, his CIA chief, to be secretary of state. The American Jewish World Service and the National Council of…
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Fast Forward Does Joshua Kushner Even Care If Girlfriend Karlie Kloss Converts Or Not?
Brothers Jared and Josh Kushner’s opposing political views have been reported since Trump became president and the older brother took office. Now, their potentially differing opinions on intermarriage are also coming into play, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported in a Sunday Review opinion piece. The column explored whether supermodel Karlie Kloss, who has…
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Fast Forward Stormy Daniels Sues Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen For Defamation
Stormy Daniels, the former adult-film star who allegedly signed a nondisclosure agreement shortly before the presidential election promising to keep quiet about a sexual encounter with President Trump, sued his lawyer on Monday for defamation. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, said that Cohen publicly portrayed her as having made up the affair with…
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Fast Forward Trump Almost Offered Gary Cohn CIA Job, But Changed His Mind
President Trump reportedly informally offered former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn the job of CIA director, but ultimately changed his mind. Cohn, who resigned earlier this month amid a disagreement with the president’s steel and aluminum tariffs, had expressed interest in returning to the administration for the CIA job, which had become available last…
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