Author: Nancy Benac
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Trump marks his first month with tweets, turmoil
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One month after the inauguration, the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of Donald Trump’s White House still is a hard-hat zone. Skeletal remains of the inaugural reviewing stands poke skyward. Random piles of plywood and cables are heaped on the ground inside crooked lines of metal fencing. The disarray outside the president’s front door,…
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Trump rides chutzpah to victory in presidential race
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He felt it in the breeze. Nearing the end of his long, improbable journey to victory in the presidential race, Donald Trump, the candidate of so much tumult and bluster, waxed nostalgic about how he got there. “I had great parents, great parents,” Trump told the crowd at a rally in steamy Orlando, Florida. “I…
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Clinton sees Trump ties to ‘alt-right’ dystopian ideology
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Hillary Clinton is ready to call out Donald Trump and his advisers for embracing a “disturbing alt-right” political philosophy that her campaign says presents “a divisive and dystopian view of America.” She’ll try to make the case in a speech Thursday in Nevada. Trump’s campaign counters that the GOP presidential nominee has never used the term “alt-right” and…
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Trump turns to conservative flame-thrower to run campaign
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Donald Trump’s new campaign CEO is a flame-thrower in cargo shorts. Steve Bannon’s career path has been an improbable journey from Goldman Sachs insider to conservative filmmaker to media provocateur to campaign chieftain. The shaggy-haired Harvard MBA partial to shorts and Timberland boots is moving to the Trump campaign from the top of Breitbart News, a conservative website that…
