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Israel News Trump’s Shift On Israeli Settlements Won’t Swing Skeptical Jews In 2020
The Trump administration on Monday made its latest policy move that doubled as a bid for Jewish and Evangelical Christian votes ahead of next year’s election, declaring that they would no longer consider Israeli settlements “inconsistent with international law.” Monday’s announcement followed the transfer of the American embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, and the…
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Fast Forward Parnas And Fruman Met With Trump During White House Hanukkah Party
(JTA) — Soviet-born businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman met with President Donald Trump during The White House’s annual Hanukkah party last year, CNN is reporting. The two men, associates of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are alleged to have been instrumental in pressuring the president of Ukraine to give Trump damaging information on political…
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Fast Forward Ukranian Jewish Associate Of Giuliani Hurt By Trump’s Ghosting
Lev Parnas, a key figure in the impeachment investigation, told a group of people at a April 2018 donor event that he had discussed Ukraine with President Trump, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Trump has claimed that he doesn’t know Parnas or his arrested associate Igor Fruman. But Parnas told fellow diners at the donor…
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News The Jews Of The Impeachment Showdown: A Visual Guide
The holidays are coming, a chill settled across much of America this week, and impeachment is going public. It’s time to ask the question we’ve all been wondering about, now that several reliable news organizations have corroborated that President Donald Trump planned to give Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid if, and…
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Fast Forward Bolton: Jared & Ivanka Could Get Trump To Go Liberal To Impress Their Friends
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton claimed in a speech that First Family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump could convince President Trump to nominate a liberal to the Supreme Court if they thought it would help their reputations in New York City, NBC News reported Tuesday. In a speech at private event connected to…
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Fast Forward Trump Says He’ll Donate To Holocaust Museum After Court Shuts Down His Charity
(JTA) — President Donald Trump said he would pay $1.8 million to several charities, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, after losing a civil court case over his misuse of his charity to get elected. Trump made a statement about the payment on Thursday, after a New York judge ordered him to pay $2 million…
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Fast Forward Scorned By Trump, Lev Parnas Flips, Will Speak To Impeachment Investigators
Hell hath no fury like a Ukrainian scorned. Lev Parnas, one of the Ukrainian associates of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, has agreed to begin talks with House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry, and is accusing Trump of falsely denying that he had ever met Parnas. Parnas had resisted speaking to House investigators, but…
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Fast Forward Nationals Owners Didn’t Want To Sit With Trump At World Series
The owners of the Washington Nationals didn’t want to sit with President Trump at a World Series game, so much so that they asked Major League Baseball to make sure they didn’t have to respond to any such requests, local news station WUSA9 reported Sunday. President Trump announced that he would be attending Sunday’s Game…
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