The Daily Populous

Friday February 14th, 2020 evening edition

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An apparent attack on Donald Trump by attorney general Bill Barr is in fact a cynical ploy, Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele has said.

In response, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told Fox News that Mr Trump “wasn’t bothered by the comments at all.”.

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Donald Trump celebrity president: A decade in two halves 1/29 Trump styles his 'You're fired!'

Not least in his 2011 book 'Time to get tough: Making America #1 again' Getty 4/29 Trump with Piers Morgan in November 2010.

He is speaking here at an event for a Republican women's group Getty 7/29 Trump was subject to a Comedy Central roast in 2011.

“This was a carefully staged message to cool down pissed off DOJ attys whom Barr undercut & to avoid any further internal strife. »

Trump contradicts past denials, admits sending Giuliani to Ukraine

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Washington (CNN) Emboldened after his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump now openly admits to sending his attorney Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to find damaging information about his political opponents, even though he strongly denied it during the impeachment inquiry.

The reversal came Thursday in a podcast interview Trump did with journalist Geraldo Rivera, who asked, "Was it strange to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine, your personal lawyer?

Trump responded, "No, not at all," and praised Giuliani's role as a "crime fighter.". »

8 days after his acquittal, Trump openly admitted sending Giuliani to hunt for dirt on Joe Biden — reversing a key part of his impeachment defense

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President Donald Trump has reversed one of the central claims of his impeachment defense by openly admitting to sending his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to hunt for dirt on the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

In November during his impeachment inquiry, Trump distanced himself from Giuliani and denied sending him to Ukraine.

President Donald Trump on Thursday casually cast aside one of the central claims of his impeachment defense by openly admitting to sending his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to hunt for dirt on the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. »

DNA evidence exonerates wrongly convicted California man who spent 14 years in jail for murder

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DNA evidence exonerates wrongly convicted California man who spent 14 years in jail for murder.

A California man who spent 14 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the killing of his roommate has been exonerated and freed after prosecutors found new DNA evidence that led to a new suspect.

Key points: Ricky Davis's murder conviction is thrown out of court after DNA evidence pointed to a new suspect. »

Social media-predicted personality traits and values can help match people to their ideal jobs

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Individuals’ scores for each of the Big 5 traits are visualized, with higher scores at the top of the graph.

Architects, female futurists, and chief information officers tended toward greater openness and emotional stability and less agreeableness, whereas librarians and doctors presented mixed profiles.

Alternatives, evident in the software programmer cluster, include DevOps—a fast-growing occupation that combines software development and information technology operations (27). »