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Trump Now Claims He Knew Nothing About His New Acting Attorney General

Acting Attorney General Matthew WhitakerDouglas Graham/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is saying he didn’t previously know his newly appointed and already controversy-plagued acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. On Friday, before leaving for a trip to Paris, Trump said, “I don’t know Matt Whitaker.” After arriving in…

Trump Will Give the Medal of Freedom to One of His Biggest Donors

Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at President Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugurationRichard Ellis/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The White House announced today that next week President Donald Trump will award the Medal Freedom to seven American luminaries: Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former pro…

Trump’s New Acting Attorney General Claimed There Was No Evidence Russia Interfered in the 2016 Election

Charlie Neibergall/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As soon as President Donald Trump installed Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general, media outlets began mining his appearances as a radio and television pundit and discovered he had repeatedly denigrated the Mueller investigation, which he now will be overseeing, and claimed there…