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Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides
New York Times - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Trump's first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually ...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...se-tax-returns-claiming-most-people-dont-care
Trump Aide Says He Won't Release Tax Returns, Claiming Most People Don't Care
NPR - 7 hours ago
A top aide to President Donald Trump says he won't release his tax returns, insisting that voters aren't concerned about the issue. "The White House response is he's not going to release his tax returns," said Trump's senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/sean-spicer-donald-trump-alternative-facts.html
News Media, Target of Trump's Declaration of War, Expresses Alarm
New York Times - 4 hours ago
The news media world found itself in a state of shock on Sunday, a day after Mr. Trump declared himself in “a running war with the media” and the president's press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first appearance on the White House podium to deliver a ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/donald-trump-numbers-game.html
The Numbers Game of Donald Trump
New York Times - 3 hours ago
After his inauguration on Friday, President Trump's first appearances also involved talking about numbers: the collective IQs of his cabinet picks, how many military members voted for him and, again, the size of a crowd, this time the one that turned ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns.html
Trump Won't Release His Tax Returns, a Top Aide Says
New York Times - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Trump has no intention of releasing his tax returns, his senior counselor said on Sunday, ruling out a step he had said he would take once an Internal Revenue Service audit was completed. “The White House response is that he's ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-20170122-story.html
Trump's White House sets an unapologetically aggressive tone in its first days
Los Angeles Times - 4 hours ago
One by one, just hours after President Trump's inauguration, some of his most senior aides made the short journey from their new West Wing offices to the press briefing room. Press Secretary Sean Spicer stood for a moment behind the lectern where he ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html
'Alternative Facts' and the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality
New York Times - 3 hours ago
Yet there it was on Saturday, emanating from the lectern of the White House briefing room — the official microphone of the United States — as Mr. Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first appearance there to put forth easily debunked ...
What the Trump administration has done so far
CNN - 6 hours ago
Washington (CNN) Much of President Donald Trump's first weekend in the White House was driven by criticism from Trump and press secretary Sean Spicer of media coverage over the size of his inauguration crowd. But the new administration is also driving ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/22/observable-reality-1-trump-white-house-0/
Observable Reality 1, Trump White House 0
The Intercept - 3 hours ago
SOCIAL NETWORKS FILLED with laughter and derision on Sunday, in response to the bizarre claim by Donald Trump's aide, Kellyanne Conway, that the new White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, had not lied to the nation about the size of the crowd at ...
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-alternative-facts-234011
Could Trump's 'alternative facts' put lives at risk?
Politico - 7 hours ago
Donald Trump kicked off his presidency by spreading falsehoods about how many people came to the National Mall to see him take the oath of office and apparently ordering his staff to do the same — with senior adviser Kellyanne Conway calling such ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/...e-house-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html
With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift
New York Times - Jan 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first full day in office on Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/
Conway: Trump White House offered 'alternative facts' on crowd size
CNN - 12 hours ago
Washington (CNN) White House press secretary Sean Spicer's false claims about the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration were "alternative facts," a top Trump aide said Sunday. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," host Chuck ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-turns-routine-matters-day-bashing-media-44963974
Trump, Amid Combative Start, Pledges to Rise to Moment
ABC News - 7 hours ago
After a combative start to his presidency, Donald Trump delivered a more unifying message Sunday and sought to reassure Americans he was ready to begin governing a divided nation. Trump began rolling out his plans for diplomatic outreach, speaking with ...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/22/media/alternative-facts-donald-trump/
'Alternative facts:' Why the Trump team is 'planting a flag' in war on media
CNNMoney - 4 hours ago
Spicer, Conway and other Trump aides are "planting a flag, saying they're not going to tolerate this," a longtime Trump aide told CNN on condition of anonymity. The aide blasted alleged media "obsessions," using some of the exact same language Trump ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns_us_5884e7cfe4b070d8cad32f89
After Promising To Release His Tax Returns, Trump Aide Says He Won't Because 'People Didn't Care'
Huffington Post - 10 hours ago
Conway's statement not only echoes Trump's Jan. 11 assertion that only reporters care about his tax returns, but goes further in stating that he simply won't release the returns at all. She was answering a question about a White House petition for ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...e-refuses-release-trump-tax-returns-wikileaks
White House alienates WikiLeaks by refusing to release Trump tax returns
The Guardian - 7 hours ago
Donald Trump will not release his tax returns even after repeated promises to do so following a supposed audit, one of his senior advisers said on Sunday – confirming that the president will break a 40-year tradition and not show Americans the extent ...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/today-trump
Today in Trump
Mother Jones - 5 hours ago
Here's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press this morning, asking White House "counselor" Kellyanne Conway why Trump's press secretary started his first day in office by going out and lying repeatedly on national TV. Her answer: Sean Spicer was merely providing ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-assault-press_us_5884c85fe4b0e3a73569a11d
Sunday Show Hosts Hit Back On Trump Administration's Lies
Huffington Post - 12 hours ago
President Donald Trump's administration has spent its first days in office aggressively attacking the media for what it calls attempts to “delegitimize” the country's new leader. On Sunday, the hosts of the network public affairs shows hit right back ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ns-because-people-dont-care-top-adviser-says/
Trump won't release his tax returns because people don't care, top adviser says
Washington Post - 13 hours ago
A senior aide to President Trump said Sunday that he has no plans to release his tax returns, a marked shift from Trump's pledge during the campaign to make them public once an audit was completed. “The White House response is that he's not going to ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-inauguration-crowd-claims-20170122-story.html
What the White House said about Trump's inauguration crowd and how it was wrong
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago
President Trump's team set a combative tone with the press on his first full day in office when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the media of reporting incorrect information about the size of the crowds at Trump's swearing-in ceremony.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-team-welcomes-alternative-facts-assault-media-546091
Trump Team Welcomes 'Alternative Facts' in Assault on Media
Newsweek - 8 hours ago
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway ushered in the age of "alternative facts" in a highly contentious "Meet the Press" interview Sunday while Chief of Staff Reince Priebus declared virtual war on the press—one day after White House spokesman Sean Spicer ...
Sean Spicer: Who is President Trump's spin doctor?
BBC News - 12 hours ago
In a 2014 lecture to students at his former high school, Sean Spicer outlined a set of 17 "rules for life" that they would be wise to follow. Rule number 16, he told the students at Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island: "Follow your mom's advice: It's not ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...403a00-e0bf-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html
The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump's press secretary killed it.
Washington Post - 7 hours ago
The presidency is not a reality show, but President Trump on his first full day in office made clear that he's still obsessed with being what he once proudly called “a ratings machine.” He cares enough about it to send his press secretary, Sean Spicer ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/23/trumps-war-with-the-media-raises-questions-of-trust/
Trump's 'war with the media' raises questions of trust
Salon - 4 hours ago
Trump's 'war with the media' raises questions of trust An image of the inauguration of President Donald Trump is displayed behind White House press secretary Sean Spicer as he speaks at the White House, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Washington.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump-tax-returns/
Conway: Trump will not release tax returns
CNN - 12 hours ago
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump will not release his tax returns -- even after the audit he's frequently cited is completed -- senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Sunday. In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Conway was pressed on whether the ...
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-us-trumps-tax-returns-so-we-can-release-them
WikiLeaks: Send us Trump's tax returns so we can release them
The Hill - 12 hours ago
"Trump's breach of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more gratuitous than [Hillary] Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts," the organization tweeted. Kellyanne Conway, on Sunday said the president would not release his tax ...
http://nypost.com/2017/01/22/donald-trump-will-not-be-releasing-his-tax-returns/
Donald Trump will not be releasing his tax returns
New York Post - 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Trump won't be releasing any of his tax records now that he's in the Oval Office. “The White House response is that he's not going to release his tax returns,” Kellyanne Conway, a top White House adviser, said on ABC's “This ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tr...s-despite-earlier-promise-to-do-so-2017-01-22
Trump will not release tax returns, aide says, despite earlier promise to do so
MarketWatch - 8 hours ago
“The White House response is that he's not going to release his tax returns; we litigated this all through the election, people didn't care. They voted for him,” Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to Trump, said Sunday on ABC, in response to a question ...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315530-conway-trump-isnt-going-to-release-tax-returns
Conway: Trump isn't going to release tax returns
The Hill - 14 hours ago
They voted for him, and let me make this very clear: most Americans are — are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like." A White House petition calling for the president to ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lternate-facts-which-pretty-much-says-it-all/
Kellyanne Conway says Donald Trump's team has 'alternative facts.' Which pretty much says it all.
Washington Post - 12 hours ago
If there is one video clip that describes the new reality for the political media — and for the truth — during the President Trump era, it is the one above. It's a discussion about White House press secretary Sean Spicer, on his first full day in ...
Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides
New York Times - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Trump's first weekend in office unfolded much the way things often did during his campaign: with angry Twitter messages, a familiar obsession with slights and a series of meandering and at times untrue statements, all eventually ...
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...se-tax-returns-claiming-most-people-dont-care
Trump Aide Says He Won't Release Tax Returns, Claiming Most People Don't Care
NPR - 7 hours ago
A top aide to President Donald Trump says he won't release his tax returns, insisting that voters aren't concerned about the issue. "The White House response is he's not going to release his tax returns," said Trump's senior adviser, Kellyanne Conway ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/sean-spicer-donald-trump-alternative-facts.html
News Media, Target of Trump's Declaration of War, Expresses Alarm
New York Times - 4 hours ago
The news media world found itself in a state of shock on Sunday, a day after Mr. Trump declared himself in “a running war with the media” and the president's press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first appearance on the White House podium to deliver a ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/donald-trump-numbers-game.html
The Numbers Game of Donald Trump
New York Times - 3 hours ago
After his inauguration on Friday, President Trump's first appearances also involved talking about numbers: the collective IQs of his cabinet picks, how many military members voted for him and, again, the size of a crowd, this time the one that turned ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns.html
Trump Won't Release His Tax Returns, a Top Aide Says
New York Times - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Trump has no intention of releasing his tax returns, his senior counselor said on Sunday, ruling out a step he had said he would take once an Internal Revenue Service audit was completed. “The White House response is that he's ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-20170122-story.html
Trump's White House sets an unapologetically aggressive tone in its first days
Los Angeles Times - 4 hours ago
One by one, just hours after President Trump's inauguration, some of his most senior aides made the short journey from their new West Wing offices to the press briefing room. Press Secretary Sean Spicer stood for a moment behind the lectern where he ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/business/media/alternative-facts-trump-brand.html
'Alternative Facts' and the Costs of Trump-Branded Reality
New York Times - 3 hours ago
Yet there it was on Saturday, emanating from the lectern of the White House briefing room — the official microphone of the United States — as Mr. Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first appearance there to put forth easily debunked ...
What the Trump administration has done so far
CNN - 6 hours ago
Washington (CNN) Much of President Donald Trump's first weekend in the White House was driven by criticism from Trump and press secretary Sean Spicer of media coverage over the size of his inauguration crowd. But the new administration is also driving ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/22/observable-reality-1-trump-white-house-0/
Observable Reality 1, Trump White House 0
The Intercept - 3 hours ago
SOCIAL NETWORKS FILLED with laughter and derision on Sunday, in response to the bizarre claim by Donald Trump's aide, Kellyanne Conway, that the new White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, had not lied to the nation about the size of the crowd at ...
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-alternative-facts-234011
Could Trump's 'alternative facts' put lives at risk?
Politico - 7 hours ago
Donald Trump kicked off his presidency by spreading falsehoods about how many people came to the National Mall to see him take the oath of office and apparently ordering his staff to do the same — with senior adviser Kellyanne Conway calling such ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/...e-house-briefing-inauguration-crowd-size.html
With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift
New York Times - Jan 21, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first full day in office on Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/
Conway: Trump White House offered 'alternative facts' on crowd size
CNN - 12 hours ago
Washington (CNN) White House press secretary Sean Spicer's false claims about the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump's inauguration were "alternative facts," a top Trump aide said Sunday. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," host Chuck ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-turns-routine-matters-day-bashing-media-44963974
Trump, Amid Combative Start, Pledges to Rise to Moment
ABC News - 7 hours ago
After a combative start to his presidency, Donald Trump delivered a more unifying message Sunday and sought to reassure Americans he was ready to begin governing a divided nation. Trump began rolling out his plans for diplomatic outreach, speaking with ...
http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/22/media/alternative-facts-donald-trump/
'Alternative facts:' Why the Trump team is 'planting a flag' in war on media
CNNMoney - 4 hours ago
Spicer, Conway and other Trump aides are "planting a flag, saying they're not going to tolerate this," a longtime Trump aide told CNN on condition of anonymity. The aide blasted alleged media "obsessions," using some of the exact same language Trump ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-tax-returns_us_5884e7cfe4b070d8cad32f89
After Promising To Release His Tax Returns, Trump Aide Says He Won't Because 'People Didn't Care'
Huffington Post - 10 hours ago
Conway's statement not only echoes Trump's Jan. 11 assertion that only reporters care about his tax returns, but goes further in stating that he simply won't release the returns at all. She was answering a question about a White House petition for ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...e-refuses-release-trump-tax-returns-wikileaks
White House alienates WikiLeaks by refusing to release Trump tax returns
The Guardian - 7 hours ago
Donald Trump will not release his tax returns even after repeated promises to do so following a supposed audit, one of his senior advisers said on Sunday – confirming that the president will break a 40-year tradition and not show Americans the extent ...
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/today-trump
Today in Trump
Mother Jones - 5 hours ago
Here's Chuck Todd on Meet the Press this morning, asking White House "counselor" Kellyanne Conway why Trump's press secretary started his first day in office by going out and lying repeatedly on national TV. Her answer: Sean Spicer was merely providing ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-assault-press_us_5884c85fe4b0e3a73569a11d
Sunday Show Hosts Hit Back On Trump Administration's Lies
Huffington Post - 12 hours ago
President Donald Trump's administration has spent its first days in office aggressively attacking the media for what it calls attempts to “delegitimize” the country's new leader. On Sunday, the hosts of the network public affairs shows hit right back ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ns-because-people-dont-care-top-adviser-says/
Trump won't release his tax returns because people don't care, top adviser says
Washington Post - 13 hours ago
A senior aide to President Trump said Sunday that he has no plans to release his tax returns, a marked shift from Trump's pledge during the campaign to make them public once an audit was completed. “The White House response is that he's not going to ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-inauguration-crowd-claims-20170122-story.html
What the White House said about Trump's inauguration crowd and how it was wrong
Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago
President Trump's team set a combative tone with the press on his first full day in office when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused the media of reporting incorrect information about the size of the crowds at Trump's swearing-in ceremony.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-team-welcomes-alternative-facts-assault-media-546091
Trump Team Welcomes 'Alternative Facts' in Assault on Media
Newsweek - 8 hours ago
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway ushered in the age of "alternative facts" in a highly contentious "Meet the Press" interview Sunday while Chief of Staff Reince Priebus declared virtual war on the press—one day after White House spokesman Sean Spicer ...
Sean Spicer: Who is President Trump's spin doctor?
BBC News - 12 hours ago
In a 2014 lecture to students at his former high school, Sean Spicer outlined a set of 17 "rules for life" that they would be wise to follow. Rule number 16, he told the students at Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island: "Follow your mom's advice: It's not ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...403a00-e0bf-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html
The traditional way of reporting on a president is dead. And Trump's press secretary killed it.
Washington Post - 7 hours ago
The presidency is not a reality show, but President Trump on his first full day in office made clear that he's still obsessed with being what he once proudly called “a ratings machine.” He cares enough about it to send his press secretary, Sean Spicer ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/23/trumps-war-with-the-media-raises-questions-of-trust/
Trump's 'war with the media' raises questions of trust
Salon - 4 hours ago
Trump's 'war with the media' raises questions of trust An image of the inauguration of President Donald Trump is displayed behind White House press secretary Sean Spicer as he speaks at the White House, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Washington.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump-tax-returns/
Conway: Trump will not release tax returns
CNN - 12 hours ago
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump will not release his tax returns -- even after the audit he's frequently cited is completed -- senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Sunday. In an interview on ABC's "This Week," Conway was pressed on whether the ...
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-us-trumps-tax-returns-so-we-can-release-them
WikiLeaks: Send us Trump's tax returns so we can release them
The Hill - 12 hours ago
"Trump's breach of promise over the release of his tax returns is even more gratuitous than [Hillary] Clinton concealing her Goldman Sachs transcripts," the organization tweeted. Kellyanne Conway, on Sunday said the president would not release his tax ...
http://nypost.com/2017/01/22/donald-trump-will-not-be-releasing-his-tax-returns/
Donald Trump will not be releasing his tax returns
New York Post - 11 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Trump won't be releasing any of his tax records now that he's in the Oval Office. “The White House response is that he's not going to release his tax returns,” Kellyanne Conway, a top White House adviser, said on ABC's “This ...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tr...s-despite-earlier-promise-to-do-so-2017-01-22
Trump will not release tax returns, aide says, despite earlier promise to do so
MarketWatch - 8 hours ago
“The White House response is that he's not going to release his tax returns; we litigated this all through the election, people didn't care. They voted for him,” Kellyanne Conway, a counselor to Trump, said Sunday on ABC, in response to a question ...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/315530-conway-trump-isnt-going-to-release-tax-returns
Conway: Trump isn't going to release tax returns
The Hill - 14 hours ago
They voted for him, and let me make this very clear: most Americans are — are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like." A White House petition calling for the president to ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...lternate-facts-which-pretty-much-says-it-all/
Kellyanne Conway says Donald Trump's team has 'alternative facts.' Which pretty much says it all.
Washington Post - 12 hours ago
If there is one video clip that describes the new reality for the political media — and for the truth — during the President Trump era, it is the one above. It's a discussion about White House press secretary Sean Spicer, on his first full day in ...
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