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New Trump book reveals Kayleigh McEnany left reporter in 'secure' Oval Office alone for half an hour

Michael Bender's new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, revealed the shocking factoid that the White House press secretary left him alone in the Oval Office for 30 minutes while he waited for then-President Donald Trump.

Bender began with a description of the fact that Trump really liked his hair.

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White House staff sat aghast as Trump trashed police after George Floyd killing — then he changed: book

For a brief few days, former President Donald Trump was just as disgusted as most Americans watched Derek Chauvin suffocate George Floyd to death on video.

Michael Bender's new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, paints a picture of the pro-cop gathering with his aides, his children, and grandchildren on an Air Force One flight to Florida. They all sat around as Trump watched the shocking video. It didn't take him long before he stopped it.

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Republicans claiming workers are mooching off of unemployment are wrong — they just found something better: WSJ

After the COVID-19 crisis, there's now a jobs crisis, though it isn't from people refusing to work and trying to care for their family on $300 a week. In fact, many of the vacancies at lower-paid food service jobs are that when those people were unemployed, they found something much better.

That's the story that the conservative Wall Street Journal paints in a Tuesday report that revealed those who once worked as servers, bartenders or in fast food were able to find better options online while their employers were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Americans unsure about getting the vaccine did it anyway — here's what convinced them

A new survey revealed some promising numbers on those who were against the COVID-19 vaccine.

According to polling released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a slate of Americans who said that they wanted to "wait and see" before getting the vaccine or said they wouldn't get the vaccine at all were swayed mostly by someone they love convincing them to do it," said CNN.

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General Milley warned he was 'surrounded by total incompetence' in the waning days of Trump presidency

In the waning days of President Donald Trump's administration, Gen. Mark Milley was cautioned by a longtime friend that it was very clear that he was surrounded by incompetence, wrote the Daily Mail.

The tale is in the new book I Alone Can Fix It, by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, got a warning call from a friend on Election Night 2020.

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'Tell your viewers Trump lost!' Texas Dem steamrolls Fox News host for spreading election lies

The youngest legislator in Texas just took down a Fox News host in real time.

Speaking to Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Rep. James Talarico (D) called out both the host and the network for making money off of lying to the American people.

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Book reveals story behind the disastrous Trump COVID speech that crashed the stock market

In March 2020, then-President Donald Trump announced new restrictions on people coming into the United States as a way to battle the COVID-19 pandemic -- but it wound up massively backfiring when it sent the stock market crashing.

Michael Bender's new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, revealed that the speech Trump delivered crashed and burned in large part because his staff didn't know how to use the teleprompter.

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Trump's 'nutcase' medical adviser was so shady that even Kayleigh McEnany warned staff about citing him: reporter

Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender's new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, revealed several shocking things happening behind the scenes of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

One exchange between Dr. Deborah Birx and senior Donald Trump adviser Scott Atlas got heated when she informed him that he was killing Americans.

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WATCH: Author reveals how Trump threatened him if he published shocking quote about Adolf Hitler

Michael Bender's new book revealed a shocking conversation between former President Donald Trump and his former chief of staff John Kelly in which Trump said that late Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had a legacy of positive achievements.

The new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, out Tuesday, included the shocking story, but it was an interview with TMZ in which Bender revealed that Trump actually threatened him if he included the comment.

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Aides had to scramble to ensure Trump didn't take Rudy Giuliani's election night advice

As the Election Night results rolled in, it became clear to President Donald Trump's team that things weren't going as they anticipated.

Eric Trump reportedly "flipped out," asking "how can this be happening?" But, according to Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig's book, I Alone Can Fix It, it was revealed that Rudy Giuliani was trying to convince Trump to declare victory regardless of the results.

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Trump believed the pandemic would let him indefinitely delay the 2020 election until whenever he wanted: Michael Wolff

When former President Donald Trump was getting closer to the election, he was telling the country that the virus wasn't that bad anymore. Vaccines were on the way, he said. Besides, he'd told Americans many times that the deadly virus wasn't that serious. Still, Trump thought that he could push back the 2020 election indefinitely.

Michael Wolff's new book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump White House, details the horrifying plot that Trump had was to stop the election because there was "too much virus" and "people can't get to the polls." The ironic idea came while Trump was raging against mailed ballots and vote-by-mail in general.

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Trump really thought that the Democratic Party would withdraw Biden at the last minute for Michelle Obama: book

Former first lady Michelle Obama has long been the subject of speculation about her political ambitions, but the way former President Barack Obama describes it, there's no way she would ever run for a political office, or let him run for one again.

But that's exactly what Donald Trump thought would happen in November of 2020.

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Kristi Noem annoyed Melania by pushing her way into White House parties: 'If she wants to get COVID that's on her'

Former first lady Melania Trump really didn't want any kind of Election Night party, fearing that it would turn into another super-spreader event like the Rose Garden ceremony nominating Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender, whose new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, comes out Tuesday, told the story about Melania's resistance to the party in an exclusive excerpt given to The Daily Mail.

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