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President Donald Trump unveiled his midterm strategy Monday during a press conference in the Oval Office, one that hinges on what one expert described as a "monumental scandal," according to a new report.

Trump announced Monday that a massive new steel mill will be built in Iowa as part of an $18 billion overall investment, the New York Times reported. The announcement is part of the president's strategy to highlight how many jobs he's created ahead of the consequential midterm elections, and he noted during a press conference that the project likely wouldn't have gone through if a "less friendly" administration occupied the White House.

The report also gives good reason to be concerned about the investment. For instance, Mesabi Metallic, the company behind the investment, once hired Trump associate Jason Miller to a $ 240,000-a-year lobbying contract. That was during a time when Miller was also raking in about $150,000 a year from a lobbying contract from the Indian government to attract Mesabi's business, according to the report. ...

Katie Zacharia was in the middle of an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday when a knock at her West Wing door effectively ended her five days as White House press secretary, the paper reported.

She was behind her new desk, in an office with few personal touches, when senior adviser Jason Miller stuck his head in.

“JD wanted to chat with us real quick,” Miller said, referring to the vice president....

A steelworker who spent decades at an Illinois mill is calling President Donald Trump's announcement of a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa "political pandering," as doubts grow over whether the project will ever be built in a red state that's leaning away from Republicans.

The administration says India-based Mesabi Metallics will build the nation's largest steel plant in Lee County, Iowa – a project that was originally slated for Democratic-leaning Minnesota – but veteran steelworker Doug May, who worked 43 years at a mill in Granite City, Illinois, told The Guardian that the timing gives the game away.

"He pulled the same thing in 2018, just before an election, when he announced that $10 billion Foxconn project," May said....

Republicans engineered a jarring moment of their first-ever midterm convention by quietly recruiting a sitting Democrat, and the senator signed on without telling a single member of his own staff, according to a new Axios report.

The account reveals how Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania came to appear on the Dallas convention's big screen this month, praising Republican Sen. Dave McCormick and vowing to work with President Donald Trump to protect the state's steel industry. Organizers, Axios reported, were hunting for what they called an "Oh s---" moment to drive home their midterm message that Democrats have swung too far left.

GOP operative Tony Sayegh pushed the plan, Trump adviser Jason Miller backed it, and Fetterman topped their wish list. Sayegh, a friend of McCormick's, pitched it to him in July. McCormick, who has built a real friendship with Fetterman as the Democrat drifted from his party over its criticism of Israel, approached him carefully....

The White House has gone nearly a month without a press secretary, an unprecedented stretch for the role, and insiders say part of the reason is that senior aides are quietly working to keep an outside frontrunner from getting the job.

Since Karoline Leavitt departed in August, some staffers have pushed back against handing the role to Scott Jennings, the conservative CNN commentator widely seen as an early favorite, according to a person familiar with the internal deliberations. Instead, reported MS NOW, these aides reportedly want the position filled by someone already inside the building.

Jennings has been one of Trump's most loyal attack dogs on CNN, and has often landed himself in trouble, including for false claims that leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker called for bringing back lynching....

A trove of records Republicans released to accuse Jack Smith of overreach instead documents something far more damaging for President Donald Trump.

That's according to legal analyst Marcy Wheeler, who argued in a Thursday article on her blog emptywheel that thousands of donor checks Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made public last month show Trump's campaign pocketing money from loyal supporters who believed election fraud claims Trump privately mocked.

Grassley unveiled 4,782 checks during Smith's September 29 testimony before the committee, then followed up Wednesday with a memo claiming Smith's team obtained data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters. Conservative outlets seized on both releases as proof Smith had targeted the GOP base....