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The National Enquirer paid $30K to a former Trump Tower doorman who claimed, during the presidential campaign, to have heard that Trump fathered a child with an employee in the 1980s - then never ran the story, @RonanFarrow reports
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The AP is reporting the same thing about a Trump Tower doorman paid by the National Enquirer for his silence - and says Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, acknowledged discussing the story with the tabloid apnews.com/f37ecfc4710b46…
.@RonanFarrow's story says 30 minutes after he asked Enquirer publisher AMI for comment, another of its publications - Radar - posted a story about the payment. That story said the Enquirer's investigation concluded that the doorman's story was false radaronline.com/exclusives/201…
The doorman's rumor remains unverified. But, @RonanFarrow writes: "legal experts said [the payment] is significant because it establishes the company’s pattern of buying and burying stories that could be damaging to Trump during the Presidential campaign"
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
From @DevlinBarrett & Co. on Tuesday, about the Michael Cohen raid: Feds sought info on payments to women, suggesting they're looking into "whether there was a broader pattern or strategy among Trump’s associates" to pay to silence damaging stories washingtonpost.com/politics/feder…
The former Trump Tower doorman paid $30K by the National Enquirer dismissed argument he made up his claims, telling @CarolLeonnig he took a polygraph test and arguing his story was buried as part of the tabloid's efforts to squash bad Trump stories wapo.st/2qt5XZH
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Spotted in the new Michael Wolff book about Trump: A Four Seasons breakfast featuring "Washington Post national reporter Mark Berman"

(I have never had breakfast at the Four Seasons, never actually been there) (but now I wonder if I can use this to go eat there and expense it?)
Thank you to @PostKranish for pointing this out to me and reminding me I gotta up my breakfast game
A second, less Mark Berman-centric error in the same paragraph
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It's Jones: Doug Jones wins the Alabama Senate seat, swept into office by massive turnout among African American voters to beat Trump's enthusiastically endorsed candidate. Jones will be Alabama's first Democratic Senator in 25 years. wapo.st/2Af6PVt
Some exit poll numbers wapo.st/2BjkDSo
Another interesting note from the exit polls: More than half of Alabama voters said allegations of Moore's improper sexual behavior with teenagers were a minor factor or not a factor in how they voted

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So it turns out the only thing accurate in this tweet is that the whole thing is just sad, I guess
The White House chief of staff (who was also on the call) actually appeared to back up her account today
The president has twice now accused a congresswoman of lying about something his chief of staff verified was said
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Hmmm....
Cohen is scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday where he is expected to enter a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign. abcnews.go.com/Politics/micha…
"His dealings while serving as a senior executive in Trump’s global empire include several projects thought to be of interest to Mueller’s prosecutors, most notably the pursuit of a Trump Tower project in Moscow during the presidential campaign."
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#Trump's last campaign rally of the 2018 mid-term election season is scheduled to start in about ten minutes. It's his THIRD rally of the day. Dude is likely exhausted and I doubt this rally will be less "speech" and more "incoherent tirade".
At any rate, here's the thread for it! Follow/mute at will!
Current Pre-show music is the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil." I couldn't make this up if I tried.

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1. John Kerry isn’t alone.
2. @HillaryClinton got a lot of flack Tuesday. She said: You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.
3. HRC: That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.
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💣🔥💥🍿🐾#SamPatten is a starter on this menu. A thread on #Trump #Putin #Collusion: from pop-singers in Taj Mahal to weapons in Syria, plus what Satan, black cats, soccer, Patriarchs & judo wrestling have in common. Tarantino, it is not. Oh, plus #CambridgeAnalytica. 👇
1. #SamPatten admitted failing to register in the U.S. as a foreign agent for his work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party. Breaking. 👇
2. "The nature of his cooperation isn’t clear." (Yes, but the connections are telling.👇 ) . Patten worked with Manafort and & on microtargeting operations with Cambridge Analytica.

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2.#Cohen has admitted he got inspired wanted to work with #Trump after reading the "Art of the Deal" twice.

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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
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