Jason Le Miere

Politics and World Editor

Jason Le Miere is from the British island of Jersey, which has absolutely no relation to the Garden State, other than once lending its name. He studied media and journalism in London and California before moving to New York City where he wrote for Revolver magazine and the New York Observer. He subsequently covered global sports, religion and politics for the International Business Times and later Newsweek. He now leads Newsweek's coverage of both U.S. politics and world affairs.

  
 U.S.
 Republican Compares Mueller Report to Smollett Case "Turns out all along it was two Nigerian men in #MAGA hats who hacked the DNC & rode shirtless on horseback w Putin to mar-a-lago,” Representative Matt Gaetz tweeted.
  
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 Obama Pays Tribute to Economist Alan Krueger "He helped us return the economy to growth and sustained job creation, to bring down the deficit in a responsible way, and to set the stage for wages to rise again," Obama said in a statement.
  
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 D'Souza Calls O'Rourke 'Sicko' for Teen Murder Fiction D'Souza has previously referred to President Barack Obama as a "grown-up Trayvon,” a reference to black teen Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman...
  
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 NZ PM Says She Told Trump to Show Love for Muslims Asked whether she agreed with Trump's assessment that white nationalism was not on the rise, Jacinta Ardern replied: "No."
  
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 Beto O'Rourke Speaks in Iowa, Wows With His Hands “How long until someone makes a Twitter account for Beto's hands?"
  
 U.S.
 Ilhan Omar Rebukes Obama Policies “We can’t be only upset with Trump.”
  
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 Fox News Killed Stormy Daniels Story: Report “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert [Murdoch] wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go,” said the head of FoxNews.com at the time.
  
 U.S.
 Mike Pence Claims Freedom, Not Socialism, Ended Slavery Vice President Mike Pence also said it was freedom, not slavery, that ended two World Wars, ignoring the role played by the communist Soviet Union.
  
 World
 Fox News Guest: Kim Thinks Trump is 'Weak' "He sees Trump as kind of weak, as coming over halfway around the world twice. And so, hey, ‘He’ll take anything I give him,'" Ian Bremmer told Fox News.
  
 U.S.
 Gorka: Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Take Your Hamburgers The Green New Deal, claimed Gorka, is a "Watermelon. Green on the outside, deep, deep red communist on the inside.”
  
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 Fox News Anchor Says Trump Faces 'Criminal Exposure' Fox News' senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano added that Cohen had accused the president of "at least four potential felonies."
  
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 Trump Jr. Mocked for Sharing Tweet Damaging to Father “This is a man with nothing left, with no reason to lie or obfuscate at all," read the tweet shared by Donald Trump Jr. as he tried in vain to discredit his father's former lawyer.
  
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 Eric Trump Suggests Michael Cohen Committed Perjury “Michael was lobbying EVERYONE to be ‘Chief of Staff,’” Eric Trump claimed.
  
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 Merriam-Webster Appears to Troll Trump The definition, according to the dictionary, is “to obtain (money or property) illicitly.”
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back at Ivanka Trump Over Criticism "Imagine attacking a Jobs Guarantee by saying ‘people prefer to earn money," Ocasio-Cortez added in response to Trump's remarks about the Green New Deal.
  
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 Gates Lawyer: Trump Jr., Ivanka Shouldn't Rest Easy "If anyone in Trump world is breathing easy right now, I’d say they are very foolish,” a former defense lawyer for Rick Gates, Trump’s ex-campaign deputy chairman, told Politico.
  
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 Donald Trump Claims Ivanka Has Created Millions of Jobs "I don't know if anyone knows that, but she's created millions of jobs," Trump told the nation's governors at a White House event Monday.
  
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 Omarosa: Trump's Children Could Be Focus of Cohen  "I think on Wednesday what you'll see is a man who wants to share the inner workings of the Trump crime family," Omarosa Manigault Newman told MSNBC.
  
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 Fox News Judge: Report Shows Trump's 'Corrupt Intent' In addition, a former senior counsel to independent counsel Ken Starr’s Whitewater probe of President Bill Clinton tweeted that the actions would constitute “impeachable activity.”
  
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 Trump Gets Golf Simulator Installed: Report President Donald Trump has reportedly had a golf simulator installed in the White House.
  
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 Omar Hits Back at Trump Over Anti-Semitism Controversy “I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?" Omar tweeted.
  
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 Harvard Law Prof Slams Trump's Immigration Agenda Tribe was responding to a tweet in which Trump spread alarm over a poll showing that open borders would lead to 42 million Latin Americans entering the U.S.
  
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 Cheney Cardiologist Questions Silence on Trump Physical “It’s been 4 days since the president underwent his annual physical exam and still no data has been released. What are they hiding?” Dr. Jonathan Reiner wrote.
  
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 Fox News Analyst Mounts Bizarre Trump Defense The defense came despite Donald Trump Jr. making clear he believed the president was joking about the genocide of Native Americans.
  
 U.S.
 Kamala Harris Explains Support for Legalizing Marijuana Asked about reports that she was opposed to the legalization of marijuana, Kamala Harris joked: "Half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?"
  
 U.S.
 EX-FBI Official Slams Whitaker's Testimony “We are his client and we are represented by the Congress members sitting in that room and he treated us with utter disdain, sarcasm, barely trying to get through this seriously,” Frank Figliuzzi...
  
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 John Dingell Rebukes Trump in Final Op-Ed “In our modern political age, the presidential bully pulpit seems dedicated to sowing division and denigrating, often in the most irrelevant and infantile personal terms, the political opposition,”...
  
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 GOP’s Collins Launches Rebuke of Whitaker ‘Show’ “This is nothing more than a character assassination,” Collins exclaimed in his opening remarks at a hearing for acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker.
  
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 Ivanka Trump Says It’s Not Her Job to Speak Out “My role in this regard is not president of all women’s issues or running all women’s issues across the United States government,” Ivanka Trump told ABC.
  
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 Trump Still Trying to ‘Make America Great Again’ Donald Trump’s campaign just announced a “MAGA” rally, despite the 2020 campaign season already being underway for many.
  
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 Trump's SOTU Address Slammed by CNN's Van Jones “He tries to put together in the same speech these warm, kind things about humanitarianism and caring about children,” Jones added. “At the same time he is demonizing people who are immigrants.”
  
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 Trump Blasts Schumer, Biden in Private Meeting "When I say something that you might think is a gaffe, it’s on purpose; it’s not a gaffe. When Biden says something dumb, it’s because he’s dumb," Trump reportedly said.