Author: Julie Bykowicz
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Trump donates first 3 months of salary to Park Service
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is donating the first three months of his salary to the National Park Service. White House press secretary Sean Spicer handed an oversized check for $78,333.32 to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke during Monday’s briefing. The billionaire businessman turned president had promised to forgo his presidential salary. By law he must…
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Trump’s son-in-law retains scores of real estate holdings
WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and daughter are holding onto scores of real estate investments — part of a portfolio of at least $240 million in assets — while they serve in White House jobs, according to new financial disclosures. The revelations about Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were part of a massive White House…
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Conservatives urged not to ‘squander’ Trump presidency
OXON HILL, Md. — President Donald Trump’s vice president and top aides delivered one overriding message Thursday to the thousands of conservative activists gathered for their annual conference outside of Washington: Don’t blow it. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Vice President Mike Pence said Trump’s victory provided the nation with what could be…
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White House adviser ‘counseled’ after brand promotion
WASHINGTON — The White House has “counseled” a top aide to President Donald Trump after she promoted Ivanka Trump’s fashion line during a national cable television appearance from the White House. But House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz says that’s not enough, calling what Kellyanne Conway did “wrong, wrong, wrong, clearly over the line, unacceptable.”…
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Women for Trump Cabinet: Haley picked for UN, DeVos for Ed
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Injecting the first diversity into his Cabinet-to-be, Donald Trump selected two Republican women on Wednesday who had unflattering things to say about him during the presidential campaign: South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Department…
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Video: Dem activist bragged about disrupting Trump rallies
MIAMI — Conservative activist James O’Keefe has released secretly recorded, selectively edited video footage that includes a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at rallies held by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. After O’Keefe began releasing videos this week, two Democratic operatives stopped working on the presidential race and both the Democratic Party and Hillary…
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Trump children winning over delegates, broadening dad’s appeal
CLEVELAND — Sometimes the skeptical donors ask Andy Puzder what it is that he sees in Donald Trump, the controversial Republican presidential nominee for whom Puzder is raising money. “The kids,” Puzder says he often replies. “If he’s such an evil villain, how do you explain the kids?” The eldest four, Ivanka, Eric, Donald Jr.…
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Trump, GOP rivals fight on _ but politely _ in late debate
MIAMI — Abandoning the nasty insults of past debates, Donald Trump and his Republican rivals turned Thursday’s presidential face-off into a civil and detailed discussion of Social Security, Islam and trade that left Trump to shake his head and declare at the midpoint: “I can’t believe how civil it’s been up here.” The candidates found…
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Anxious to slow Trump, both Rubio and Cruz go after him
Brawling from the get-go, a fiery Marco Rubio went hard after Donald Trump in Thursday night’s Republican debate, lacerating the front-runner’s position on immigration, his privileged background, his speaking style and more. Ted Cruz piled on, too, questioning the front-runner’s conservative credentials, as the two senators tag-teamed Trump in a debate that reflected the increasing…