Continental, a Washington-based law and lobbying firm with close ties to Trump’s network, helped arrange LaCivita and Blair’s recent trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
+ That 48 hour trip was focused around voting equipment, and Blair and Trump have since spoken, multiple people confirmed. More w/ @Eleanor_Mueller:
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Trump’s fraud task force announces investigations into nine US universities over alleged J-1 visa fraud: Pitt, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, US Davis, CalTech, Arizona State, MIT.
The admin is also suspending a number of IT firms from the visa program, including Microsoft and Adobe, amid federal investigations related to H1B visas.
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New: Sources across the Trump administration and in Congress have questions about executing Trump’s plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Turkey; some doubt that Turkey will ever take the needed steps for F-35 reinstatement.
At the center of the saga is the Russian S-400 system — there’s multiple potential paths forward, but no one path has been decided on, resulting in a limbo state for the deal. W/ @Eleanor_Mueller @LMorganbesser
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New: Karoline Leavitt will leave the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her kids. Trump says she’ll shift to an outside advisor role:
As Trump promises to deliver his July 4 speech no matter what, a reminder of how long he’s been thinking about the country’s 250th birthday (and potentially being president for the celebrations):
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