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The US has its eye on Chinese companies listed on American stock exchanges amid an escalating trade dispute with Beijing, President Donald Trump said. The feds are “looking at” the idea of forcing Chinese firms to follow US accounting rules if they want to trade on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq markets, Trump …
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President Trump lashed out at Wall Street bears Wednesday as the stock market digested fresh warnings about the coronavirus pandemic. Trump suggested on Twitter that it’s “barely legal” for pessimistic investors to give gloomy forecasts if they stand to profit from market crashes like the one the virus crisis caused. “When the so-called ‘rich guys’ …
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Representative Andy Biggs is accusing former President Obama of attempting to orchestrate a “coup” against his successor, saying the previous administration engaged in a conspiracy to undermine then President-elect Trump while investigating national security adviser Michael Flynn. Biggs made the claim during a Fox News appearance with Representative Jim Jordan, who alleged that over several weeks …
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A Yale University professor said the Trump administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus resembled “genocide” and questioned whether officials could be held responsible under international law. “What else do you call mass death by public policy?” Dr. Gregg Gonsalves, a professor of law and epidemiology at Yale, asked in a tweet last week. “So, what does it …
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Former Vice President Joe Biden was forced to backtrack after saying he knew “nothing” about the investigation of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, after ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out Biden has been in a January 2017 Oval Office meeting in which Flynn was discussed. When first asked about the DOJ’s decision to drop …
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President Trump on Tuesday weighed in on Tesla’s spat with California over reopening its factory there, tweeting on Tuesday that the electric automaker should be allowed to return to production despite continued COVID-19 restrictions imposed by local officials. “California should let Tesla & @elonmusk open the plant, NOW,” the commander-in-chief tweeted early Tuesday morning. “It …
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Rosie O’Donnell has confirmed she is helping former nemesis Michael Cohen write a “spicy” tell-all about his years working for President Trump, as previously revealed by Page Six. O’Donnell told the Daily Beast that she visited the then-jailed lawyer in prison for six hours and agreed to help with his memoir, an unlikely partnership Page …
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Alec Baldwin returned as President Trump for the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” — chugging Clorox while giving a college commencement speech by Zoom. In the cold open, Baldwin’s Trump was told he was the eighth pick for the graduates’ speech, with preferred options Axl Rose, murder hornets and even X Æ A-12, Elon …
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Which politician insisted SNL should pay for their kid’s braces? Which SNL impression sent a political figure into therapy? In public, most politicians pretend their Saturday Night Live impressions, which can be downright brutal, don’t bother them. Several presidents have even publicly appeared with their SNL doppelgängers, including George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford. But in private, …
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President Trump on two different occasions in January reportedly rejected the advice of advisers who urged him to ask China’s president for more transparency about the nature of the coronavirus. Trump brushed off his advisers when they urged greater transparency because he thought it might imperil future U.S.-China relations, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. …
The US has its eye on Chinese companies listed on American stock exchanges amid an escalating trade dispute with Beijing, President Donald Trump said. The feds are “looking at” the idea of forcing Chinese firms to follow US accounting rules if they want to trade on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq markets, Trump …
