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 Now that former Vice President Joe Biden has officially tossed his hat into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah revealed that he's partially hoping Biden snags the nomination just so we can see "the most entertaining debates of all time" as he and President Trump get into an "old man fight."
Explaining Thursday night that the former veep comes into the race with a "whole lot of baggage," Noah highlighted Biden's tendency to stick his foot in his mouth, showing clips of Biden asking a man in a wheelchair to stand and casually tossing out racial stereotypes.
"I feel like these gaffes are what made Biden the perfect balance to Obama," Noah remarked before impersonating the former president speaking very slowly and measured.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyThree months before Robert Mueller's report was even delivered to the Department of Justice, Donald Trump was already meeting with his lawyers about how to resist, combat, and impede the possible Democratic investigations that might arise from the special counsel's findings.
In multiple conference calls and closed-door gatherings at the White House that have taken place since January, the president began mapping out, with both White House and outside counsel, how to handle the coming onslaught of congressional probes and subpoenas aimed at his administration, his family, his business empire, according to three people with knowledge of the various conversations.
By February, Trump was actively asking those around him about the ways in which subpoenas from Democratic-controlled House committees could be fiercely challenged, a senior administration official said. By that time, those close to Trump say he had already settled, firmly, on a path forward.
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 In his first television interview since the release of the redacted version of the Mueller report, President Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night that the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election was a "coup" and an "attempted overthrow of the United States government."
Trump, who has largely avoided reporters since last week's release of the special counsel's report revealed at least ten instances of possible obstruction of justice, called his good friend Hannity to discuss the findings. Or, more accurately, to rant to a pro-Trump audience about how there was "no collusion" and it's time for some payback.
Having begun his broadcast by hyping a new Fox News story about texts previously released last year between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the conservative primetime star said he disagreed with the president when he said at the beginning of his presidency that he wanted to move past investigating 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 The legal analyst lays out the instances cited in the Mueller report that show the president likely committed a crime.
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 Democrats on several top House committees launched an investigation Thursday into the massive shakeup in leadership at the Department of Homeland Security due to allegations that President Trump removed top officials for refusing to carry out his desired immigration policies.
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President Donald Trump has been, even by his own lofty standards, on a bit of a Twitter bender over the last week or so -- simultaneously rejoicing in the fact that he was not charged in the Mueller report and angry at all of his critics for their unwillingness to drop the so-called "witch hunt."
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 U.S. President Donald Trump denied on Thursday that he had ordered then-White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller from the Russia investigation, moving to undermine McGahn's credibility ahead of a possible congressional testimony.
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Democratic lawmakers on Thursday sought documents on Trump administration firings of top officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), saying they were concerned the dismissals were prompted by the officials' refusal to break the law.
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The foreign secretary says the US president should speak to MPs during his state visit to the UK.
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 Michael Caputo, a former adviser to President Trump's campaign in 2016, told Fox News on Thursday that he paid a visit to the president in Washington D.C. a day earlier and that he plans to plead the Fifth should he receive a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee.
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President Donald Trump has his eyes on a new foreign policy prize: a grand nuclear deal with Russia and China, that he sees as a potential signature foreign policy achievement. However, some arms control experts are concerned the effort could backfire.
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 The latest entry in the 2020 race, former Vice President Joe Biden, promised Thursday that "America is coming back," which many critics compared to President Trump's 2016 campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
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 Robert Wolf, former economic adviser to President Obama, said that former Vice President Joe Biden, who officially announced his 2020 bid on Thursday morning, has "really been resonating the last few weeks because he looks like he's the most powerful candidate to go against President Trump."
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 President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign adviser, Lara Trump, said on "America's Newsroom" on Thursday that Democratic candidate Joe Biden supports policies are that too far-left for most Americans.
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 The Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie struck back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wednesday calling her accusations that the Trump administration wants to privatize the VA "nonsense."
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 Will average voters share Democrats' view that constitutional principles and the separation of powers are on the line?
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The bill for the medical care of Otto F. Warmbier, who was in a coma while being detained, was passed to the Treasury Department, but it is unclear if the Trump administration paid it.
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 Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley defended President Trump on Wednesday for pushing back against investigations by Democrats into the much debated and discussed Russia investigation.
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President Xi's nationalism is running into the reality of slower growth and a fear of political instability.
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