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Kris Kobach has emerged as the outright favorite to win the GOP nomination in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary after winning an endorsement via Twitter from Donald John Trump South Korea urges Pyongyang to speed up denuclearization process More than a dozen arrested as protesters, counter-protesters clash in Berkeley Trump golfs with Graham at New Jersey club MORE Trump's tweet calling Kobach a "fantastic guy" came just hours before the polls open, and represents the first time the president has endorsed a candidate running against a Republican incumbent in a primary. The unlucky incumbent is Gov. Jeff Colyer , a former surgeon with years of experience in the state legislature, and a far more traditional candidate than Kobach has been.
If you want to know why Bruce Rauner doesn't know what to say about Donald Trump , consider the fallout from the president's latest Twitter war juxtaposed with POTUS's proposed capital gains tax cut. One of which got a ton of publicity, the other almost none at all.
Right-wing commentators had a field day last week with the news that Sarah Jeong, a young Korean American hired to write about technology for the New York Times editorial board, had a history of attacking "white people" on Twitter. She was predictably pilloried as a racist by the usual suspects - Fox News, the Daily Caller, Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Infowars, etc.
Bridgewater, New Jersey: US President Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged for the first time that a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Kremlin-connected lawyer and his son was to collect information about his political opponent. The admission - made via Twitter - casts new light on a moment central to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring - In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, like he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia investigation's widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman now standing trial.
He has visited all 254 counties in the state at least once, posting parts of his journey on Facebook where he has 354,000 followers. O'Rourke has 255,000 followers on Twitter, and a very active Instagram account.
First lady Melania Trump's move to distance herself from President Donald Trump's criticism of NBA superstar LeBron James was the latest instance of her quiet but seemingly concerted effort to subtly create space between herself and her husband, careful not to criticize him directly while making clear she does not agree with him. She took to Twitter to announce her disappointment with the Trump administration's policy of forced family separations at the border and later made a pair of trips there to visit the displaced children, a step the president had not taken.
President Trump's itchy Twitter finger made waves yet again this week on a wide range of topics, and one of them hit particularly close to home here in Wichita. Trump's two-Tweet tirade early Tuesday morning lambasting the "globalist Koch Brothers" has generated plenty of press, with leftist pundits looking to fan the flames.
On Thursday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Greg Walden demanding Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey be called in to publicly testify on Twitter's shadowbanning of conservatives. "Any solution to this problem must start with accountability from companies like Twitter, whose platforms have enormous potential to impact the national conversation - and unfortunately, enormous potential for abuse," McCarthy said in the letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden.
U.S. President Donald Trump appealed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end an investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from his fellow Republicans in Congress who said the probe must go on. It was Trump's most direct call for his top U.S. law enforcement officer to shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal investigation and Democrats promptly accused the president of trying to obstruct justice.
Lawrence O'Donnell slammed Sen. Ted Cruz and the "brainwashed" others in the GOP who stood silently by as President Donald Trump had his "5th Avenue moment" on Twitter today. O'Donnell was referring to the fact this morning on Twitter, Trump tweeted out this: "This is a terrible situation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, should end special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, arguing that the ongoing probe is hurting the United States. Although the President has repeatedly criticized the investigation and Sessions' decision to recuse himself from overseeing it, Trump's tweet that his attorney general "should stop" the probe is notable and raises fresh questions about whether the President is attempting to obstruct justice.
Roberts tweeted: 'Did you know the First Lady works by the hour? #thinkdirty #h**bag' in response to someone else's tweet about Mrs Trump A US congressional candidate from Oregon has been slammed for his offensive remarks about First Lady Melania Trump after he called her a 'h**bag' and implied that she was a prostitute. Mark Roberts, who is an independent running for Congress in Oregon's 2nd Congressional district, made the comments about Mrs Trump on Twitter on Monday.
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This image from the Twitter account of President Donald Trump shows a tweet on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018 calling for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the Russia investigation that raises difficult questions about whether Trump's frequent use of Twitter might be used to build a case of obstruction of justice against him.
United States President Donald Trump has a preoccupation with Twitter. Since his account @realDonaldTrump became active in March 2009, it has amassed 53.2 million followers, making it the 18th most popular account on the social media site.
The President of the United States of America Donald Trump during the joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump said he's "willing to" shut down the government if he doesn't get the votes he needs on border security.
As relayed on Twitter by the activist Brittany Packnett, the unnamed woman certainly had good reason to seek help, divine or otherwise. She was one of the people held hostage by a gunman last week in an L.A. Trader Joe's.
House Speaker Paul Ryan took a page out of late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel's book on Wednesday and read "mean tweets" poking fun at him. "Paul Ryan's the kind of guy who crashes your kegger, drinks all your beer, and then calls the cops to make his noise complaint," Ryan says, quoting a tweet.
President Donald Trump's explosive Twitter threat to Iran's leader comes as his administration is ratcheting up a pressure campaign on the Islamic republic that many suspect is aimed at regime change. No one is predicting imminent war.