Author: Philip Bump
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Federal judge weighs special master to review seized Trump-Cohen records
NEW YORK — A federal judge signaled Monday that she is unlikely to grant President Trump’s request to let him unilaterally determine what material seized last week from his personal lawyer is privileged, but she indicated that she may appoint an outside attorney to assess the records in an effort to carefully navigate the high-stakes…
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The other climate change Trump doesn’t understand: How the energy business climate has shifted
If you were born in 1985 or later, you’ve never lived through a single month in which global land and ocean temperatures were colder than the 20th-century average for that month. Every single January, February, March, etc., that you’ve experienced was hotter than that month was on average during the entire past century. That fact —…
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Donald Trump is poised to complete his Cabinet faster than anyone in 40 years
Energy secretary is generally one of the last Cabinet positions to be filled by presidents-elect, or so it’s been since Ronald Reagan was staffing up in 1980. Energy, Interior, Transportation: For the last five people headed to the White House for the first time, these were low on the priority list. On average, they came…
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Working-class champion Donald Trump is now selling a $149 gold-finished Christmas ornament
Most of the pitches I get from political campaigns come to my dog, Lucy, because (1) who really wants politicians to have their personal information, and (2) it’s funny to me. On Wednesday, with the nation’s attention turning briefly to turkey before shifting to shopping for the next month, Lucy got a pitch that she…
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The first post-hot mic poll is out, and it suggests that Donald Trump is in deep trouble
Then the new poll came out. As always, one poll could be an outlier. This poll has a relatively high margin of error of about 4.6 percent. It’s always worth being cautious until more polls come in. But with all of those asterisks applied, the results of the poll are dramatic. Clinton leads Trump in…
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How Donald Trump’s bizarre voter-watch effort could get the GOP in trouble
After telling an audience in Altoona, Pa., that he would seek their help in policing the polls in November to root out voter fraud — something that even the state of Pennsylvania has noted doesn’t exist in any meaningful way — Donald Trump’s campaign nationalized the effort on Saturday morning. Now eager Trump backers can…
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Donald Trump’s terrible week just got worse: A new poll has him down by 10
If Donald Trump was hoping to stem some of the bleeding that his campaign has been suffering this week, he’s not going to get any assistance from the pollsters at Fox News. A new Fox survey released Wednesday evening shows Trump trailing Hillary Clinton by 10 points — the largest margin since the end of the…
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In the first major poll after both conventions, Trump’s bump has vanished
Prior to both conventions, a poll from CBS and the New York Times had Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tied at 40 percent. What’s remarkable about that isn’t just that the two were tied. It’s that 20 percent of respondents did not have a preference between them. In the first poll conducted after both conventions,…
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Writer at Trump Organization says she copied phrases for Melania Trump’s speech
Donald Trump’s campaign issued a letter from a staffer on Wednesday morning, admitting to having inadvertently plagiarized part of Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic convention speech. Had this come Monday evening or Tuesday morning, America would have spent the last 24 hours talking about some other part of the convention. But that’s not what happened. Which…
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Melania Trump’s speech appears to have cribbed from Michelle Obama’s in 2008
In 2008, Michelle Obama was in the position in which Melania Trump found herself on Monday night, pressed into service giving a speech making the case for her husband’s candidacy. “Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values,” Obama said at the time, “that you work hard for what you want…