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7 24 MICHAEL WOLFF SIEGE 25 That afternoon, a bipartisan Congress with surprising ease had passed the $1.3 trillion 2018 appropriations bill. "McConnell, Ryan, Schumer, and Pelosi," said Bannon about the Republican and Democratic congressional leadership, "in their singular moment of bipartisan magn

rs would be a unified party—or at least one that was unified against Donald Trump. Ryan and Stivers were hardly the only ones seeing such a result. Mitch McConnell was telling donors not to even bother contributing to House races. The money should go to the Senate campaign, where prospects for holding the Repu

nty-four hours before, hi had embraced. EFTA00316529 28 MICHAEL WOLFF SIEGE 29 That Friday morning, he came down from the residence into the Oval Office in a full-on rage so violent that, for a moment, his hair came undone. To the shock of the people with him, there stood an almost entirely bald Don

rker told Politico last week. In late May, Mitch McConnell, an architect of the G.O.P. strategy of non- coop

of holding their cards, because we realize that it's not game time yet," the Tennessee Republican Bob Corker told Politico last week. In late May, Mitch McConnell, an architect of the G.O.P. strategy of non- cooperation since 2009, also told Politico, "I think we have plenty of members in the Senate on both si

that the president has been qualified for the power of life and death by his reading. Perhaps he once taught the texts and their arguments; but the Oval Office is not a seminar room. This raises an interesting scruple about the relation of ideas to power. It is that the relation should never be unmediated

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penalties of this sort do not pass the international or American smell test for clarity, consistency, and transparency,' said former federal judge Michael McConnell, co-chair of the Oversight Board, during a press conference after publishing its decision on Wednesday." USA Today (5/5, Guynn, 12.7M) reports that

n's Approach To Oval Office Art "Distinct" From Predecessors. A New York limes (5/5, Buchanan, Stevens, 20.6M) analysis reports that "the art in the Oval Office is ever-present, carefully chosen and deliberately placed adding historical weight, silently commenting on the moment, the present, now more than e

ump appointed 226 Article III federal judges, including 54 federal appellate judges E4533[454][455] Senate Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, rapidly confirmed Trump's judicial appointees, shifting the federal judiciary to the right.r454E4561 The appointees were overwhelm' y white men a

r former presidents (Trump had left office on January 20; the Senate voted 56-44 the trial was constitutional).M4) Included in the latter group was McConnell, who said Trump was "practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day" but "constitutionally not eligible for conviction" 1-§

l travel restrictions for most of Europe, effective March 13.[4711 That same day, he gave his first serious assessment of the virus in a nationwide Oval Office address, calling the outbreak "horrible" but "a temporary moment" and saying there was no financial crisis.I4791 On March 13, he declared a national

national-populist movement.” One cause of Bannon’s boast and new resolve was that Trump, for no reason that Bannon could quite divine, had embraced Mitch McConnell’s establishment candidate in the recent Republican run-off in Alabama rather than support the nat-pop choice for the Senate seat vacated by now attorne

nt Republican run-off in Alabama rather than support the nat-pop choice for the Senate seat vacated by now attorney general Jeff Sessions. After all, McConnell and the president were barely on speaking terms. From his August “working holiday” in Bedminster, the president’s staff had tried to organize a makeu

Ivanka and, 69-71, 79-80, 181, 187, 237, 252, 257-58, 290 Jews and, 140-44 Kelly as chief of staff and, 285-91, 294-97, 304-7 Kislyak meeting in Oval Office and, 218-19 Kushner and, 40, 69-73, 93, 122, 126, 142, 145, 179, 181-82, 211, 252-53, 290 McMaster and, 188-90, 193, 289 Melania and, 14-15, 43 Mer

gested a delay until people can `properly, securely, and safely vote.' ... The top Republicans in Congress rebuked the idea." Senate Majority Leader McConnell: "We'll cope with whatever the situation is, and we will have the election on November 3 as already scheduled." House Minority Leader McCarthy: "Ne

d order" candidate was George C. Wallace. Fifty-two years later, "in another moment of social unrest, the law and order' candidate is already in the Oval Office and the politics of division and race ring through the generations as President Trump tries to do what Wallace could not." According to Baker, "com

gested a delay until people can `properly, securely, and safely vote.' ... The top Republicans in Congress rebuked the idea." Senate Majority Leader McConnell: "We'll cope with whatever the situation is, and we will have the election on November 3 as already scheduled." House Minority Leader McCarthy: "Ne

order" candidate was George C. Wallace. Fifty-two years later, "in another moment of social unrest, the 'law and order' candidate is already in the Oval Office and the politics of division and race ring through the generations as President Trump tries to do what Wallace could not." According to Baker, "com