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One of the attorneys gave an entire prepared statement to a publicist for the Russian businessman who requested the meeting, and said it “would be our preference” if he did not say anything else to the press. Collusion anyone? MORE
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The Nashville Statement Is an Attack on L.G.B.T. You wonder why Trump does not condemn Nazi supporters. This is what Trump’s “America First” means: A white America (committed, to be sure, to “take care of our African American people”), living behind higher walls and screens, lashing out to prove its strength and then retreating again — not a government suspiciously tolerant of foreign threats. And this is also largely what “America First” has historically meant. MORE
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