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For Trump, Domestic Adversaries Are Not Just Wrong, They Are ‘Evil’

The president’s vilification of political opponents and journalists seeds the ground for threats of prosecution, imprisonment and deportation unlike any modern president has made.

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In returning to power, President Trump has been focused on rooting out the “enemy from within,” as he put it during the campaign.
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Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Biden on Clemency Decisions

The former president said he “made every single one of those” decisions and that Republicans were questioning them because “they’ve done so badly” and wanted to shift the focus.

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Toward the end of his presidency, Joseph R. Biden Jr. granted large batch commutations to reduce the sentences of three categories of federal convictions.
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Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions Recorded With Autopen

Donald J. Trump and his allies have begun investigations to support their claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was incapacitated and his staff conspired to take presidential actions in his name.

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Toward the end of his term as president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. reduced the sentences of nearly 4,000 federal convicts and pre-emptively pardoned dozens of politically prominent people he saw as potential targets of vindictive criminal investigations by his successor.
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David Gergen, Adviser to Presidents and Political Commentator, Dies at 83

He served under Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton before becoming a top editor and a familiar TV pundit. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said.

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David Gergen in 1997. A longtime Beltway insider, he helped set the agenda for four presidents, from Richard M. Nixon to Bill Clinton.
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Biden’s Former Doctor, Kevin O’Connor, Refuses Questions in GOP Health Inquiry

Kevin O’Connor cited both physician-patient privilege and his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee.

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Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor, in 2022.
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Elon Musk Consulted Curtis Yarvin, Right-Wing Thinker, on Third Party

The two men spoke about Mr. Musk’s push to create the America Party before the midterm elections. Mr. Yarvin has expressed support for a monarchy, along with provocative ideas about race.
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