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Sanders Will Likely Write A Memoir Of Her Time In The White House

Now that she's left the White House, former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is planning to write an insider account of her time there. According to Axios, she also plans to embark on a speaking…
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Sanders Will Likely Write A Memoir Of Her Time In The White House


Now that she’s left the White House, former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is planning to write an insider account of her time there.

According to Axios, she also plans to embark on a speaking tour as she tests the water for a gubernatorial run in 2022.

Sanders’ departure was blighted by controversy after some in the White House press corps — who she had frequently insulted and undermined by using President Donald Trump’s favorite “fake news” smear — threw a going-away party for her. Nevertheless, Sanders tweeted that she left the premises for the last time with her “head held high.”

She has been replaced by Stephanie Grisham, formerly first lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman.
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What Were Jared, Ivanka, And Tucker Doing With Trump In The DMZ?

As President Donald Trump’s impromptu DMZ meeting with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un turned into an hour-long conference featuring first family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on Sunday…
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What Were Jared, Ivanka, And Tucker Doing With Trump In The DMZ?


As President Donald Trump’s impromptu DMZ meeting with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un turned into an hour-long conference featuring first family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, one could almost hear diplomatic experts on the region sighing in unison.



“John Bolton’s in Mongolia, for God’s sake,” Mitchell Lerner, director of The Ohio State University’s Institute for Korean Studies, told TPM Monday. “But Ivanka, with all of her common sense and fashion design ability, she’s the advisor.”

Trump’s administration, Tuft University’s Sung-Yoon Lee wrote in The Hill, has reached “new heights” of “hubris and ignorance of history.”

“[Ivanka’s] presence undermines the professional look of the Trump delegation, both to other countries and to national security professionals in the Trump administration,” former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul told The New York Times.

Even the U.S. government was unable to explain the staffing for the President’s improvised summit with Kim. Jared and Ivanka attended the conference at the building known as Freedom House, steps from the North-South border, as did Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, among others. Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “in the room” as well, the Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Cheng noted. Whether there were regional experts in attendance on the American side remains unclear.

Asked for the attendance list, the State Department sent TPM the public phone number for the White House switchboard.

“We refer you to the White House,” a spokesperson wrote.

The White House wouldn’t comment for the record. Recently resigned press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted of Ivanka Trump and her father that they “actually created millions of new jobs and continue to make the US stronger on the global stage.”

“What this is, is kleptocracy,” said Vicky Ward, author of Kushner, Inc. “And what they are signaling to the entire world is that they are open for business.”

Ward called the summit “the most extreme example we’ve ever seen of take your children to work day”

Seemingly lacking the weeks of planning that would normally precede such a high-stakes meeting — the Times reported that Trump’s steps into North Korea “forced an extraordinary scramble to arrange logistics and security” — the weekend’s events also highlighted Trump’s own view of who belongs in his inner circle.

Yes, Bolton, the national security advisor, was in Mongolia. He had only Twitter as a platform to strenuously deny that the administration was softening its stance on denuclearization.

Pompeo, too, was sidelined somewhat by the Trump kin: Ivanka Trump, for some reason, posted a video read-out from the G20 summit and then upstaged Pompeo at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.

Also on the rise: Fox News’ Carlson, who broadcast from Japan for the week and accompanied Trump at the DMZ, alongside pool reporters whose work would usually represent the total contemporaneous media accounting of such an event, aside from state news networks. Fox News did not respond to a request for comment on Carlson’s weekend.

“It clearly crosses a line,” Lerner said of Carlson’s exclusive access. He referenced the Fox News host’s comment that “you’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people.”

“If you’re going to get privileged White House access and be allowed into diplomatic functions and then go and defend it and shape the narrative, you’re not a journalist anymore,” Lerner said. Carlson has reportedly also recently advised the President on Iran.

The familial, inner-circle nature of the President’s DMZ jaunt, Ward told TPM, “is how Trump wants it to work. That’s all he knows.”

“The danger of the media is to cover this at face value,” she said. “They should not be covering this at face value. They should see it for what it is” — in her words, “a very visceral reminder that they’re a family, and that they’re a family business.”
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Biden can do absolutely horrible in the debates and still be leading the polls lol. All he needs is Barack to do an endorsement and shit might be over for the rest
 
Inori said:
If he performs against Trump like he did in the first Dem debates we should all be concerned lol
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Keep in mind all trump is gonna do to "debate" is lie and brag about the typical bullshit his admin pushes out, oh and insult whomever hes facing, all anyone needs to do is call him out on it and watch him get flustered and mad like he does when journalist call him out , basically literally anyone should have zero issues debating him long as you know hes gonna act like a fucking child
 
Farris2k1 said:
Keep in mind all trump is gonna do to "debate" is lie and brag about the typical bullshit his admin pushes out, oh and insult whomever hes facing, all anyone needs to do is call him out on it and watch him get flustered and mad like he does when journalist call him out , basically literally anyone should have zero issues debating him long as you know hes gonna act like a fucking child
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True. Trump was only good in the debates prior because nobody had any political ammo against him and he didn't have to defend policies he enacted.

Trump will still have his base behind him, but it's up to the Democratic candidate to just not majorly fuck up and they'll win every debate.
 
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