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President Obama Is Trump Asks: ‘Is This Nazi Germany’
Groomsman At Aide’s Wedding Hours After Farewell Party
President Obama and his personal aide, Marvin Nicholson and his bride, Helen.
As Report Claims Russians Have Info To Blackmail Him
Last weekend President Barack Obama served as a groomsman in the Florida wedding of his longtime staffer and most frequent golf partner, just hours after his star-studded farewell bash came to an end at 4 a.m.
President Obama arrived at the Jacksonville Interna- tional Airport on Saturday just in time to see Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director and the president's personal aide, marry the love of his life.
Nicholson and Helen Pa-
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jcic tied the knot at a private evening ceremony in Jack- sonville at the One Ocean Re- sort and Spa.
Photographs from the nup- tials show a smiling Presi- dent posing next to the blushing bride and a smiling Nicholson.
Nicholson and Pajcic both worked on Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Pajcic is the daughter of a longtime Obama fundraiser and - according to her LinkedIn profile - a special assistant at the Education De- partment.
The Russian government on Wednesday denied unver- ified reports that it has com- promising information about Donald Trump, dismissing the claims as a "total hoax."
Two U.S. officials said that materials prepared for Trump during last week's intelligence briefing included damaging allegations — un- verified by American intelli- gence agencies — about his dealings with the Russians.
A 35-page dossier pub- lished by BuzzFeed on Tues- day includes claims that the Russian government has been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for five years — even obtaining com- promising information in an effort to blackmail him. The document has not been au- thenticated by BuzzFeed or NBC News and contains ob- vious errors.
A senior U. S. intelligence official with knowledge of the preparation for the meeting with Trump told NBC News that the president-elect was not briefed on the so-called two-page addendum to the
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dossier originally generated as part of anti-Trump Re- publican opposition research.
Multiple officials say that the summary was included in the material prepared for the briefers, but the senior offi- cial told NBC News that the briefing was oral and no ac- tual documents were handed to the Trump team.
"Intel and law enforcement officials agree that none of the investigations have found any conclusive or direct link between Trump and the Russian government period," the senior official said.
According to the official,
the two-page summary about the unsubstantiated material made available to the briefers was to provide context, should they need it, to draw the distinction for Trump between analyzed intelli- gence and unvetted "disinfor- mation."
The briefers also had avail- able to them unvetted "disin- formation" about the Clinton Foundation, although that was not shared with Trump.
Amid increased interest in the dossier Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected all of the al- legations out of hand. Trump later blamed intelli- gence agencies for allowing the dossier to leak, tweeting: "Are we living in Nazi Ger- many?"
"The Kremlin does not have compromising information about Trump," Peskov said, according to Russian state-run news agency TASS. "It's a total hoax, absolute fabrication and utter non- sense. The Kremlin does not collect compromising infor- mation.”
Trump Names Son-In- Law As Top Advisor
Donald Trump and hs son-in-law.
Protest Break Out At Confirmation Hearing For Trump’s Attorney General Pick
Protesters dressed in KKK garb were removed from the hearings after they and civil rights protesters clashed at hearing for Jeff Sessions.
Donald Trump's son-in- law, Jared Kushner, will be senior adviser to the presi- dent, a senior transition of-fi- cial revealed Monday.
The 35-year-old business- man-turned-political strate- gist played a key part in his father-in-law's presidential campaign and his new posi- tion is expected to test the limit of federal anti-nepotism rules.
The move came ahead of the Wednesday news confer- ence in which Trump is ex- pected to detail how he plans
to manage his company's po- tential conflicts-of-interest after he enters the White House.
Kushner plans to resign from the management posi- tions he holds at his compa- nies, including as CEO of Kushner Companies, pub- lisher of The Observer and positions with other organiza- tions, and will divest from a "significant number" of his assets to comply with govern- ment ethics rules, Kush- ner's attorney Jamie Gorelick said.
At more than eight hours long, the first day of Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general was a marathon filled with al- legations and protest.
The Senate Judiciary Com- mittee questioned Sessions on a wide range of topics, in- cluding allegations of racism that have dogged the Ala- bama senator for years and his views on immigration as well as the government's use of torture.
Sessions has been viewed as a controversial choice for the country's top legal ad- viser. In 1986, a Republican- controlled Senate rejected his nomination to a federal judgeship because he had made racially insensitive re- marks and called prominent civil rights groups "un-Amer- ican," as NPR's Nina Toten- berg reported. Sessions, a harsh critic of marijuana use, also infamously joked that he
was OK with the Ku Klux Klan until he found out that they smoked pot. Protesters have doubted whether Ses- sions has changed his ways enough to serve as attorney general. The question of whether Sessions will pro- tect all citizens under the law was central to his hearing, and Sessions found himself repeatedly defending the re- marks he made more than 30 years ago.
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