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UPDATED: President Donald Trump commended those who apprehended Floridian Cesar Sayoc Jr. in connection with  "packages and devices” that have been mailed to “high profile figures throughout the country and a media organization." “I am pleased to inform you that law enforcement has apprehended a suspect,” Trump said…

UPDATED: President Donald Trump this morning declared the “bomb’ stuff” to be “very unfortunate” — for Republicans. Not long after TV news outlets began reporting two more explosive devices had been found, addressed to two more high-profile critics of Trump, Trump tweet-complained that Republicans had been doing “so…

Two more suspicious packages suspected to contain pipe bombs have been recovered in Florida and New York City, the former addressed to New Jersey senator and presumed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker and the other intended for former National Intelligence Director James R. Clapper Jr. The package…

James Clapper scolded former CIA Director John Brennan on CNN in an effort to hang on to his security clearance, President Donald Trump crowed on Twitter this morning, confirming suggestions that POTUS is pulling security clearances to intimidate and silence current and former government officials. Trump insisted…

UPDATED with additional information: President Donald Trump exacted revenge on former CIA director John Brennan this afternoon, announcing he had revoked Brennan’s security clearance and warning there is plenty more where that came from. The thunderbolt comes one day after Brennan scolded Trump for his tweet calling…

President Trump is mulling the idea of revoking former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance, and might extend the slap to other former intel honchoes he feels have “politicized and in some cases actually monetized their public service security clearances” to make “baseless accusations” against the president…

Former National Intelligence Director James Clapper spoke to CNN this afternoon about the letter President Donald Trump nastily referenced this morning on Twitter. Snarking that Clapper, who had questioned Trump’s fitness for office in the wake of his response to the violence in Charlottsville, “is now an authority…