Trump Hails Jeff Sessions and Claims His Cabinet Has 'Highest I.Q.' in U.S. History (Video)

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Trump Hails Jeff Sessions and Claims His Cabinet Has 'Highest I.Q.' in U.S. History
Our favorite moment from Thursday's pre-inauguration luncheon: when the president-elect decided he'd escorted future First Lady Melania far enough, pointed at a chair and told her to go sit in it.
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Trump Hails Jeff Sessions and Claims His Cabinet Has 'Highest I.Q.' in U.S. History

Our favorite moment from Thursday's pre-inauguration luncheon: when the president-elect decided he'd escorted future First Lady Melania far enough, pointed at a chair and told her to go sit in it.

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"I don't know that we'll have time for you to respond because I'm giving you a performance evaluation here," Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told the DHS secretary.

A new eligibility update bans trans women from women’s teams.

His attendance at this year's White House Correspondents' Association event comes amid his administration's unprecedented war on the media.

The policy does not negate the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock ruling which found that discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity is unconstitutional.

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Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

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