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Trump filed claims insisting that he deserved this taxpayer-funded windfall because he'd been "persecuted" by various federal investigations.

Legitimate journalists declined to agree to absurd eligibility rules for Pentagon press passes. Trump's team is very excited about their replacements.

Trick-or-treater--OR ANTIFA SLEEPER CELL?!?!?!

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It was the "excrement heard 'round the world."

Its selectively expanded boundaries exclude the people who most urgently need to defend themselves.

The government has made its bed, and now it must lie in it.

Has he learned his lesson this time?

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Some of her boldest positions have aged well.