Jackie Calmes

@jackiekcalmes

Editor, LA Times DC bureau. Mom. Ex NYT & WSJ, covering White House, Congress, politics & policy for 3+ decades. Ex checker: Kroger & Bargain City. Ex of TX, OH

Washington, D.C.
Joined May 2010

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  1. Retweeted

    Trump is the #1 expert on… - Taxes - Construction - Campaign finance - Drones - Technology - U.S. History - Infrastructure - ISIS - Facebook - Renewables - Polls - Courts - Steel workers - Golf - Banks - Nuclear arms - The system - Debt - Politicians …according to Donald Trump

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  2. 16 hours ago

    FUN FACT: Fully 820 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border -- 41% -- is represented by a Republican, Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who opposes a wall and was just reelected in a tough race in which he emphasized that position.

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  3. 20 hours ago

    Not excusing but the point is right on Trump's frequent profanities. AND this compilation is missing the time he used several of 'em in his 2017 address to 1000s of Boy Scouts at their annual Jamboree.

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    20 hours ago

    Critical point: GOP-led Senate just adjourned until Tuesday afternoon, Dem-led House adjourned till Tuesday evening. Earliest chance of partial shutdown ending would be Wednesday, That will be Day 19 of - surpassing 16-day shutdown in 2013.

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    Jan 3
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  6. 20 hours ago

    And Fr. Drinan didn't use the M-F phrase!!

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    WSJ Ed Board slams Trump's Soviet-Afghan remarks: "We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President ... Mr. Trump’s cracked history can’t alter that reality."

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  8. Jan 3

    More evidence that for black Americans, racism is a fact of life--one that they prepare their kids for. Yet the evidence still comes as a shock to us white friends of theirs. (Monkey noises, n-word & taunts, yet it was the black player who was suspended from the tournament???)

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    Jan 3

    Briefing comes ahead of Democratic House vote tonight on reopening the government w/ funding measure without wall $. And, tomorrow’s expected second meeting between White House and congressional leaders.

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  10. Jan 3

    So after making his own pro-wall remarks and having several of the men from the National Border Patrol Council to praise him, Trump leaves THE PRESS BRIEFING ROOM without taking a single question.

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  11. Jan 3

    Reality TV presidency: With all the attention on Pelosi this afternoon, Trump for the 1st time comes to WH briefing room with border agents as his backdrop. "I have never had so much support as I've had in the past week over my stand" for the wall.

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    Jan 3

    Someone was unhappy there was so much news coverage of the Democrats today.

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    Jan 3

    .⁦⁩ appears at the White House briefing room podium for first time

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  14. Jan 3

    Sarah Sanders, who as usual had not scheduled a WH press briefing today, now tweets that she'll have one in 5 minutes.

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    Jan 3

    Find me the story where you mentioned what Paul Ryan was wearing when he became Speaker.

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  16. Jan 3

    Or President Trump. He also has five children, by three wives.

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    Jan 3

    Speaker Pelosi quotes Aristotle on the strength of middle class regimes.

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  18. Jan 3

    "historic wins," he says, on the day that Democrats are taking control of the House of Reps after winning a net 40 seats, the most since the Watergate election. Talk about making your own reality.

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  19. Jan 2

    We still know nothing about that two-hour meeting in Helsinki between Trump and Putin, alone with their translators. Nothing.

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    Jan 2

    On Brian Williams. MSNBC. 2Jan 2019. 11 pm ET. Trump attacks on “his Generals.” His Tweet assertion he would have been better General than Jim Mattis. My wife cried. Shameful to have a President of the US talk like this. An abusive and boastful man.

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