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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Americans across the country wish that Donald Trump would reveal his secret to staying so young and vibrant, the nation’s personal trainers have confirmed. According to Tracy Klugian, a fitness professional in St. Louis, “not a day goes by” without one of his clients requesting a physical regimen that will give him or her the youthful appearance and mental sharpness that have made Trump the envy of millions. “Clients will come in and say, ‘Make me as young and vibrant as Donald Trump,’ ” Klugian said. “I have to warn them that that’s setting the bar very, very high.” Having analyzed Trump’s fitness habits, Klugian has theorized that his startling youthfulness and off-the-charts vibrance might be the result of eight hours that he devotes each day to “Executive Time.” “Lifting the remote, putting it down, lifting it again, and then tweeting is an exercise routine that very few people could keep up for one hour, and Trump does it for eight,” he said. “I tell my clients, if you want to be as young and vibrant as Donald Trump, you’re going to have to put in that kind of time.” Klugian said that he was also putting clients on a “Trump diet,” consisting entirely of hamburgers and Coke, to give their bodies the fuel necessary to complete the gruelling remote-lifting-and-tweeting workout. But the personal trainer said that he urges his clients not to be discouraged if, even after adopting Trump’s rigorous exercise routine and diet, they fail to achieve Trump’s physical perfection. “At the end of the day, Donald Trump has found the Fountain of Youth, and also the Fountain of Vibrance,” he said.

Living Elizabeth Pipko, a 23-year-old model who has appeared in Maxim, has kept a secret from her industry colleagues out of fear it could derail her career: She was a Donald Trump supporter and worked full-time on his 2016 presidential campaign. Once, after working a 10-hour-day on the Trump campaign, I went to meet with my manager (who was not affiliated with a modeling agency). My manager kept saying how evil the people who work for him must be and that he would never work with anyone who supported him. So I lied and told people I was coaching ice skating — I was a competitive figure skater for seven years — whenever I was really hard at work in Trump Tower. Once, when I was at Trump Tower, I ran into a big-time male model I knew from Wilhelmina, the agency that first signed me when I was 17. He was volunteering for the campaign, but he asked me not to tell anyone that I had seen him there — and I said the same. Not only am I proud of my work for Trump, but I also met amazing people — including my now husband, Darren Centinello, who is still part of the President’s campaign team. I think Trump is great for women. I care about what President Trump has done and will do for my country. And this time, I’m not going to hide it.

Theresa May rejects Donald Trump's criticism of Brexit deal Read more In a damning report released on Wednesday, MPs said businesses and members of the public had not been given adequate information about what might happen. They highlighted the department’s use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) while negotiating with the transport industry as hampering the spread of information. Quick guide What happens next if May's Brexit deal is voted down? MPs knuckle under and vote it through. A new leader then tries to assemble a majority behind a tweaked deal. Labour tries to force an election The opposition tables a vote of no confidence. If May lost, the opposition (or a new Conservative leader) would have two weeks to form an alternative government that could win a second confidence vote. Transport department officials have called the £35m project Operation Brock. “The slow progress and poor communication around work to avoid this through schemes such as Project Brock concerns us,” it said. The department on Monday opened applications from hauliers for internal road haulage permits, known as ECMT permits, which will be needed for British lorries to travel across the Channel in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

If the information in the FBI’s Carter Page warrant constituted probable cause for wiretapping an American political campaign, then the process and the officials involved in it carried out one of the most significant known violations of American civil liberties in recent history. The first warrant says plainly that the FBI already was convinced that the “Russian government’s efforts are being coordinated with Page and perhaps other individuals associated” with the Trump campaign. In renewals of the warrant, the FBI admits in a footnote that Steele was later fired by the FBI for lying to it, and yet the FBI maintains that his information is credible, even though the tips come from unspecified, unverified “sub sources.” The information is not first-hand from Steele, but second-hand, third-hand and fourth-hand. Even the prior case years in which the Russians did try to recruit Page were used against him, despite the fact that Page was not then an agent for the Russians and had cooperated with U.S. officials in outing the Russian approach. It details the unverified charge that the Russian government has blackmail material on Trump. They used unverified sources and echoes of those sources in the media, failed to specify relevant and known facts, considered hearsay material based on further hearsay as though it was evidence, and used its judgments and biases in place of concrete evidence to obtain a wiretap. The evidence here is that there was no real evidence. The Russians also went after the Republicans, and intercepted emails in the Mueller indictments reveal that the Russians thought Trump had only a remote chance of winning and were using the DNC hack to bolster Bernie Sanders over Clinton. We need to abolish or reform the FISA process, to put clear and severe restraints on government surveillance of political campaigns. Special counsels have now been reborn with even more unchecked power than ever.

President Donald Trump moved markets and busted norms on Friday morning with a tweet about the May employment report more than an hour before the numbers came out. “Looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning,” the president tweeted at 7:21 a.m. And the numbers were in fact quite good, showing a better than expected gain of 223,000 jobs and a dip in unemployment to 3.8 percent, the lowest level since April of 2000, sending Dow futures higher. Former Obama administration officials pounced on Trump’s tweet even before the public got to see the numbers, saying it violated rules banning federal employees with access to the jobs data from saying anything at all about it until 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. “There were times when there was a good number and they wanted to send the president out to talk about it, but Air Force One was scheduled to leave at 9:15 a.m. and we would tell them to delay the flight until after 9:30 a.m.” Furman suggested Trump should no longer get the numbers in advance. “I’d suggest that CEA no longer give the president the number. And if they do give it to him and he says anything about it at all before release, they should share all the data with everyone immediately.” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNBC that Trump was in fact briefed on the jobs report Thursday night and the tweet was appropriate because he did not put the numbers out early. Larry Kudlow, chair of the National Economic Council, told CNBC he got the numbers Thursday evening and called Trump on Air Force One to share them. I think this is all according to routine.” But even short of offering the actual numbers, the mere fact that Trump would say he was “looking forward” to the release suggested to traders that the figures would be good. “If the president just tipped that the numbers are good, he broke the law,” former Obama CEA Chair Austan Goolsbee tweeted on Friday morning. The White House’s CEA receives the jobs data from BLS around 1 p.m. on Thursday before the official release.

Some of the planet's most powerful people will take part in the infamously secretive Bilderberg meeting that begins Thursday to discuss their most pressing concerns, including Russia, free trade and the "post-truth" world. So far, 131 participants from 23 countries have confirmed their attendance, Bilderberg's organizers said. The "post-truth" world 12. Current events Some issues like the rise of anti-establishment politics and populism in Europe, persistent inequality, the West's trick relationship with a resurgent Russia and Saudi Arabia and Iran's emnity have been around for a while. Others, like the rise of artificial intelligence and quantum computing, reflect uncertainty over mankind's relationship with technology. Politics and geopolitics dominate the list, however, with the themes of Russia, the Middle East, U.S. world leadership and the domestic political environment ahead of midterm elections in November. Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg meeting is an annual event designed "to foster dialogue between Europe and North America," organizers say. "The conference is a forum for informal discussions about major issues facing the world. Organizers said the financing was a mixed bag: "Annual contributions by steering committee members cover the annual costs of the secretariat. Participation is by invitation only, and there is no attendance fee.

Investigation ordered by Turnbull revealed decade-long infiltration campaign MELBOURNE -- A secret Australian investigation uncovered a campaign by China to infiltrate the country's major political parties, a news outlet has reported, in the latest allegation of Chinese interference likely to strain relations between the trading partners. The probe ordered by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull revealed a decade-long effort by the Chinese Communist Party to compromise Australia's political process and influence policymaking, 9 News reported on Monday. The findings of the review by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet reportedly prompted Turnbull's proposal last year of pending anti-foreign interference laws that have tested ties with Beijing. Turnbull unveiled the new laws -- which would ban foreign political donations, expand the definition of espionage and create a register of foreign lobbyists -- while warning of attempts by "foreign powers" to influence Australian democracy. Beijing blasted Turnbull's remarks at the time as catering to "irresponsible reports by some Australian media that are without principle and full of bias against China." In recent months, Beijing has been accused of interference including cultivating Manchurian candidates for office, kidnapping dissidents, leaning on local Chinese-language media and spying on Chinese students studying here. "I think we can be well protected, we can protect ourselves if we understand where it is that the CCP is trying to steer our influential people and just be very alert to not being steered in that direction," Merriden Varrall, director of the East Asia Programme at the Sydney-based Lowy Institute, told the Nikkei Asian Review. Last week, Andrew Hastie, a Liberal Party MP, unleashed shock waves when he used parliamentary privilege to accuse a high-profile Chinese-born businessman of involvement in the bribery of a high-level United Nations official. Chau Chak Wing, who has launched defamation proceedings against a number of media organizations for tying him to the Chinese government, has vehemently denied the allegation. Wang said Australia should "take off the tinted glasses" and be positive toward China's growth if it wanted to improve ties.

If only Donald Trump were party to the deal to shut down Mount Ida College and turn the 74-acre campus over to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Healey also announced an investigation into Mount Ida president Barry Brown, the board of trustees, and assorted Mount Ida officials as to whether they breached their fiduciary duties. Brown, a longtime professor at Suffolk Law School, was appointed provost of that university in 2008 and became acting president in 2010. He took the Mount Ida job in 2012. After Brown and Jason Potts, Mount Ida’s chief financial officer, ducked the Senate hearing on Wednesday, Senator Kathleen O’Connor Ives, the chair of the committee, threatened to subpoena them. But to borrow from Macbeth, the shock expressed in the aftermath of this deal so far boils down to “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” According to Carmin Reiss, the chair of Mount Ida’s board of trustees, the school’s administrators knew in 2017 that they were at the financial “point of no return.” That didn’t stop Mount Ida from admitting students or taking their money. “We’re confident we’ll do just fine in that review,” she said after the Senate hearing. While Mount Ida deserves scrutiny, no one should forget the other party to this deal: UMass. What happened at Mount Ida is unconscionable. But UMass and the state’s top political leaders didn’t try to stop it.

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