There are "private citizen to private citizen" and gun-show loopholes.
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"He was a private citizen at the time, and when you are a private citizen, you are allowed to engage in legal activities," Spicer said.
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A private citizen simply shouldn't be identified under those circumstances.
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When she took them, she was a private citizen — right?
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A private citizen who ignores a subpoena can be jailed.
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Mr Bolton, as a private citizen, called for regime change.
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But Chelsea Clinton's a grown woman and a private citizen.
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Second, a private citizen must be able to evaluate arguments.
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"He wrote that as a private citizen," Grassley told CNN.
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Now as a private citizen, he's still a voracious reader.
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As a private citizen, I felt free to share that.
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He has done some admirable work as a private citizen.
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Like, from a legal perspective, since I'm a private citizen.
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This is not some private citizen we are talking about.
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He told reporters he was there as a private citizen.
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But at the same time, he's not a private citizen.
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He also was sharing the information with a private citizen.
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That he so publicly targeted a private citizen very much is.
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As a private citizen, absent a subpoena, Comey has more discretion.
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Led effort as private citizen to get min wage ballot passed.
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Indeed, they are attacking a private citizen and donor, David Humphreys.
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This is not private citizen Donald Trump we are talking about.
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Speaking as a private citizen, do you believe there was collusion?
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I consider myself a private citizen who cares about the country.
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He's now a private citizen and can do what he wants.
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The Democratic view is that Bolton is now a private citizen.
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At that point, I will once again become a private citizen.
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The State Department says he is traveling as a private citizen.
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I looked forward to watching it in action as a private citizen.
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Rodriguez, working in China as a private citizen, could still move around.
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As a private citizen, I thought it important to get it out.
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Kellyanne Conway is no longer issuing litigation threats for a private citizen.
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Trump's size obsession was mildly amusing when he was a private citizen.
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RUDY GIULIANI: She didn't represent the Russian government, she's a private citizen.
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It's not for nothing that Ms. Yates testified as a private citizen.
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"Let's make sure that next year, he's there as a private citizen."
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Laliberté became the first Canadian private citizen to explore space in 2009.
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As a private citizen, Donald Trump was hostile to involvement in Afghanistan.
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His charitable activities as a private citizen have proven equally as divisive.
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He most recently traveled there a year ago as a private citizen.
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The U.S. State Department has said Rodman was traveling as a private citizen.
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The flag does not represent you or your concerns as a private citizen.
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It constitutes a fairly unprecedented high-profile presidential attack on a private citizen.
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We wish her good luck in her everyday life as a private citizen.
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She is a young adult and private citizen, and should be OFF-limits.
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If he did tag along, it would also be as a private citizen.
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Entertain the notion of CNN blackmailing a private citizen for half a second.
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She is a young adult and private citizen, and should be OFF limits.
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This could include almost any information held by any private citizen or business.
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Kushner was a private citizen at the time, not a US government official.
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First, a private citizen must be able to turn raw information into knowledge.
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As of now he's just a private citizen who owns a big company.
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"As long as he made them as a private citizen, no," Grassley said.
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Here's the thing: This isn't some random private citizen pushing debunked conspiracy theories.
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Francisco's message here: You must separate private citizen Trump from public President Trump.
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The same won't be true if private citizen Oprah becomes presidential candidate Winfrey.
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"There's no right of a private citizen to get classified information," he added.
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If Mr. Carman does it again, it will be as a private citizen.
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Mr. Bolton, as a private citizen, long called for regime change in Tehran.
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To the Editor: In his analysis, John Kerry leaves out the private citizen.
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If you doubt that a private citizen can make a difference, meet Fahey.
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If he appears before Congress, he will do so as a private citizen.
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Lying in honor refers to a private citizen and has been rare historically.
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But in fairness, Shine has been a private citizen for more than a year.
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As a private citizen, Donald Trump and his businesses were involved in numerous lawsuits.
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While still a private citizen, Donald Trump would occasionally make appearances at WWE matches.
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"I'm back to being a private citizen, and part of the resistance," she said.
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He is not some private citizen offering a series on inappropriate remarks about women.
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But to a certain, newly private citizen, America's political drama is a world away.
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The then private citizen and real estate mogul appeared on Letterman's show multiple times.
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McAuliffe would have been the first teacher and the first private citizen in space.
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Finally, a private citizen must be able to engage in reasoned debate with others.
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The charges of improper use go back to Trump's conduct as a private citizen.
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"He wrote that as a private citizen," Grassley said Tuesday ahead of his meeting.
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Mr. Carter is a private citizen who should not be involved in this matter.
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We obviously wouldn't have expected all that from Trump, who was a private citizen.
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The Clinton case involves a now-private citizen and concluded almost a year ago.
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Kyl, as a private citizen, had been helping usher Kavanaugh's nomination through the Senate.
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As a private citizen, he repeatedly called on Mr. Obama to withdraw the troops.
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But, she is a private citizen -- and she is going to stay that way.
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Instead, the Florida Republican says he'll become a "private citizen" as of January 85033.
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"My primary concern was to be treated as Mahmoud Thiam, private citizen," he said.
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While Giuliani may be protected as a private citizen, officials like Volker are not.
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Mr. Flynn, however, was no ordinary private citizen but the incoming national security adviser.
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Trump is the president, whereas Biden is a private citizen running to become president.
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Rodman most recently traveled to North Korea a year ago as a private citizen.
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Being a private citizen, I can do more than if I was hamstrung by politics.
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I have only said like 10000 times I will be a private citizen in January.
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Respondents were slightly less critical when asked to describe a private citizen paying no taxes.
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Buryakov, however, was in the United States as a private citizen, a court document said.
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He entered the United States and stayed as a private citizen, the Justice Department said.
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Sullivan asked during arguments whether a private citizen would have standing to bring the lawsuit.
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The king would be welcomed home, but only as a private citizen, Mr. Kagame said.
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As a private citizen, Mr. Trump has attacked companies, including calling several times for boycotts.
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They accused the lawmakers of targeting a "private citizen," despite the fact he is president.
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BuzzFeed News understands he is a private citizen who uploads his photos to social media.
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But Comey is now a private citizen, and not within the control of the president.
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Clapper noted that he was speaking as a private citizen and not in any government capacity.
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He said he made the "benign" visit as a private citizen, according to the interview transcript.
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Last week we learned that Cohen secretly recorded conversations with clients, including private citizen Donald Trump.
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Flynn fielded accusations that he had discussed sanctions with Kislyak as a private citizen in December.
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Donald Trump Jr., a private citizen, does not have an obligation to disclose the Russian meeting.
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When Falwell first endorsed Trump, the university clarified that he was speaking as a private citizen.
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"There's too much momentum here and this will include me as a private citizen," he promised.
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It did not rebuke the administration's attempt to fire a private citizen from the bully pulpit.
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And now I'm ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen.
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And as a private citizen, it's all too understandable that one would accept such lucrative offers.
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You've talked about how you went from a private citizen to a public figure somewhat overnight.
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The private citizen prevailed at trial, and a jury awarded him nearly $500 million in damages.
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This implied threat to unmask a private citizen is already shaping up to be another one.
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It's a continued climb that I will watch, but I will watch as a private citizen.
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Now I'm just saying the same thing that I would have said as a private citizen.
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As a private citizen, Giuliani was free to act outside the strictures of the Trump administration.
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Why should Obama be investigated for making totally and completely legal deals as a private citizen?
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The IRS is not permitted by law to disclose if a private citizen is under audit.
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"I have only said like 10000 times I will be a private citizen in January," he tweeted.
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At the time, Trump was a private citizen best known for helming the reality show The Apprentice.
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So you&aposd expect him to be in defiance of everyone that he is a private citizen.
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A full police escort, the first-ever in Douglas County for a private citizen, accompanied his family.
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It's very easy to skirt around the rules and claim ignorance, especially when you're a private citizen.
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And although Thiel argues otherwise in his op-ed, he is by no means a private citizen.
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Golfing Habits As a private citizen, Trump frequently criticized then-President Barack Obama for his golfing habits.
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Had discussions taken place while Flynn was still (nominally) a private citizen, that would indeed be true.
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This month, he is traveling to Rwanda and Greece to work with refugees as a private citizen.
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Private citizen Comey emerged Thursday to crank up the heat on the Trump administration to white hot.
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"I am not going to comment directly on the stolen emails of a private citizen," Earnest said.
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For example, Comey was a private citizen when he leaked the memos, which he said were unclassified.
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To do so, to be a "private citizen," is truly the most important office in our country.
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Technically, Trump Jr. is a private citizen who's visiting the world's largest democracy in an unofficial capacity.
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Even though the public attention has been largely positive, Johnson is a private citizen and a minor.
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"He is there as a private citizen and I don't have any comment beyond that," Nauert said.
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Flynn was a private citizen undermining the policy of the United States toward a foreign country. Period.
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Sandy Warshaw, 84, was a private citizen working for the city of New York during that time.
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The last private citizen to lie in honor was Rosa Parks, the civil rights leader, in 2005.
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"Until just now, Michael Bloomberg was just a private citizen with a bunch of money," she said.
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As a private citizen and Harvard professor, she first came up with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Schiller's ties to Trump date back to the President's time as a private citizen and television personality.
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He is just a racist man who is propagating bigoted and misogynist views as a private citizen.
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As a private citizen, he later called for military strikes on Iran, as well as regime change.
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That Comey is now a private citizen also weakens the Kasowitz's claim that he's bound to secrecy.
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Greece's demand letter "is analogous to a private citizen attempting to enforce his property rights," Failla wrote.
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He said he's a 67-year-old private citizen who will probably keep speaking about Kamala Harris's eligibility.
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Before taking the oath of office, Trump was a private citizen; afterward, he was bound by the Constitution.
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In 2011, while still a private citizen, Hice said: Most people think Islam is a religion, It's not.
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They also maintain their miranda rights, including the right to an attorney, just as a private citizen would.
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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) congratulated Comey for appearing before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing as a private citizen.
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"Now I'm just saying the same thing that I would have said as a private citizen," Trump said.
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Remind yourself of that the next time Trump says something that is demonstrably false about a private citizen.
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The lies Trump has told as President were foreshadowed by the manipulation he practiced as a private citizen.
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"I intend to do whatever I can to make that happen now as a private citizen," he said.
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Biden's aides eventually chose to take the public line that Hunter Biden was a lawyer and private citizen.
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Mr. Trump has made similar claims before about Amazon's tax payments, both as president and a private citizen.
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Later, as a private citizen, Mr. Bolton called for military strikes on Iran, as well as regime change.
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However, as a private citizen I have to say that I have serious reservations about the Fed's approach.
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Then, as a private citizen running an intelligence consulting firm, Flynn got cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Hoover officer is not being identified, he said, because he is being treated as a private citizen.
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One private citizen even tied a bouquet of white roses to the pole, according to BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Peterson.
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Michael Flynn became a private citizen and opened a private consulting business to advise companies on various issues. Gen.
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Barack Obama has stepped down as president and is heading off for a brief vacation as a private citizen.
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Payne was the only private citizen to make the list, which is otherwise occupied by news and entertainment brands.
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So, apart from eschewing social media all together, how can you, a private citizen, avoid a similar reverse-doxxing?
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As a private citizen, Barak has been involved in ventures in cyber security, emergency rescue technology and medical marijuana.
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Joyce added that Campion, as a private citizen, had a right to make money from an already intrusive situation.
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Again, Davis says that to his knowledge, no private citizen has been arrested for having Naloxone without a prescription.
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Spicer said Flynn was free to do the lobbying work because it occurred while he was a private citizen.
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Racist trolls may want to think twice before they unleash any kind of harassment campaign against a private citizen.
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Flynn was attempting to conduct official diplomacy while a private citizen, which may be illegal under the Logan Act.
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They argued that, as a private citizen, Bannon did not have the legal grounds to make such an assertion.
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If Trump fails to win a second term, he will become a private citizen the day he leaves office.
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Graham is the first private citizen to lie in honor there since civil rights hero Rosa Parks in 2005.
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"It is a continued climb that I will watch, but I will watch as a private citizen," she said.
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Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer who died in 2005, was the last private citizen to lie in honor.
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He's so close to slipping the bonds of the US presidency and returning to life as a private citizen.
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But seeking a restraining order barring testimony by Mr. Comey, who is now a private citizen, would be unprecedented.
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When asked if he's planning to run, Schultz said he's focused on helping the country as a private citizen.
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"What I am voicing publicly is what every single private citizen is saying across America," Rice said on CNN.
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Last year, Mr. Trudeau was accused of groping a reporter in 2000 while he was still a private citizen.
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Malia Obama's private life, as a young woman, a college student, a private citizen, should not be your clickbait.
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Now that she is a private citizen, she no longer enjoys the presidential privilege of immunity from criminal investigation.
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A private citizen who is one of your political advisers, totally illegitimate, there is no way to defend that.
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As high-profile as Rudy Giuliani may be, he still is a private citizen, serving as Trump's personal lawyer.
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Now that she is an private citizen, she no longer enjoys the presidential privilege of immunity from criminal investigation.
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But as a private citizen, no longer representing the bureau and all of its agents, Comey spoke more freely.
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Donald Trump has said a lot of stupid things, both as a private citizen and as a presidential candidate.
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After his time in Jackson's orbit ended, his adult life drifted back into the unobserved pace of a private citizen.
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Beyond pondering why a private citizen has yet to sue him, Musk has plenty of other issues on his hands.
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Comey says that memo, in particular, belong to him as a private citizen, but the classified documents obviously do not.
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The actor, a longtime advocate for Tibetan independence and human rights, said he prefers promoting change as a private citizen.
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But in that case Rubio will have only made good on his promise to become a private citizen after all.
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Cook's visit was as a private citizen, not in an official capacity with Apple, which is listed on the Nasdaq.
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The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa declined to comment on the endorsement on the grounds that Obama is a private citizen.
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President Donald Trump, then a private citizen, wrote a post on Twitter at the time blasting Roberts for his vote.
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It was a pretty remarkable act of disrespect—an incoming president going after a private citizen for speaking the truth.
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A liberal education prepares the private citizen to weigh the actual merits of someone's argument, not merely its emotional appeal.
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Barr wrote the memo as a private citizen, sending in unsolicited advice, but it could still impact his Senate confirmation.
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WHAT I'M THINKING ABOUT IS WHAT I CAN DO TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF THE COUNTRY AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN.
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"I have no opinion about it because he's a private citizen and not a member of the administration," he added.
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" Ivanka Trump weighed in as well, saying Malia Obama should be "OFF limits" as a "private citizen and young adult.
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As a private citizen, Trump developed this squid-ink method so that he could sell himself like a human product.
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A far simpler solution would be to abolish the office and treat the presidential spouse as a normal private citizen.
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This could indicate that the former royal may plan to continue her work with the charity as a private citizen.
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"I am doing everything I possibly can as a private citizen to advance the cause of the country," he said.
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It was an exceptional attack by a head of government against a private citizen, albeit a wealthy and powerful one.
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It would be simple to dismiss his comments on Twitter as the personal social media musings of a private citizen.
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This really was a private citizen trying to share some information with the people making this really important job decision.
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But having any private citizen, leaning right, left or anywhere in between, fund the construction of an embassy is wrong.
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After leaving the military, he was murdered by a Palestinian in March 2016 while visiting Israel as a private citizen.
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Prince has said in TV interviews and Capitol Hill testimony that he was there as a private citizen, nothing more.
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If he wants to support Trump's agenda, he should do so as a private citizen, not as president of LULAC.
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Giuliani claims he was acting as a private citizen and the State Department was aware of his efforts in Ukraine.
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt supported the bill, and FDR gave her permission to advocate for it as a private citizen.
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But now that she has been impeached, she is considered a private citizen and is subject to questioning and arrest.
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As a private citizen, Bolton suggested in the past that the United States push for a change in Iran's government.
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Social media sites offer "perhaps the most powerful mechanisms available to a private citizen to make his or her voice heard".
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But not as remarkable as this flurry of tweets that private citizen Donald Trump sent back in the fall of 2012.
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The accounting firm and bank subpoenas are held up in court, after Trump sued as a private citizen to stop them.
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An Obama spokesman tells CNN that the former president is now a private citizen and his schedule, therefore, is also private.
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Netanyahu has acknowledged receiving $40,000 from Mimran when he was a private citizen in 2001, but insists it was fully legal.
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So in 2000 he paid $300,000 for Roscosmos to study what it would cost to fly a private citizen to space.
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There are a few head-scratching problems with this accusation: First, no president can order a wiretap of a private citizen.
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Flynn wasn't simply a private citizen; he was an adviser to the President-elect and soon would be given diplomatic powers.
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Because what might have been smart for Donald Trump, the private citizen, looks a lot worse for Donald Trump, the president.
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A committed speaker of the House asked me to go as a private citizen to make the case against the expansion.
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He has even argued that he doesn&apost want to release records of Hillary because she is now a private citizen.
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Trump lawyer Patrick Philbin told the senators that there was no American foreign policy being carried out by a private citizen.
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Mueller, 74, said his office is formally closing its doors and he is now returning to life as a private citizen.
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That message being: she'll continue to be just as sophisticated as a private citizen as she was as a public servant.
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Or for a private citizen to set up a web of blogs and posts that promote particular candidates or disparage others?
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BLUNT: Were all your memos that you recorded on classified or other memos that might be yours as a private citizen?
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Moreover, the questions that could be presented to Whitaker are more complex than the ones discussed in his private citizen commentary.
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And I certainly don't, and shouldn't, have access to any classified information, as a private citizen or member of the media.
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As a private citizen, Clapper has taken a more direct tone on how Russian interference related to the 2016 presidential election.
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Cobb has a security clearance, but he represents Trump as president and not as a private citizen, the news outlet noted.
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Enforcement of any NDA would be up to the U.S. government, not to President Trump once he is a private citizen.
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Nadler seems hell bent on continuing to spend his time smearing and harassing a private citizen for purely partisan political reasons.
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Closing a page with 2.5 million followers has driven speculation that whatever Merkel does she will do as a private citizen.
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John Trochmann, out of Montana, was at this conference and introduced the idea of forming private citizen armies or militia groups.
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Going someplace far away, we now know, is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change.
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Any person — public official or private citizen — facing such penalties ought to be entitled to a fair process before being punished.
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And right now, he's a private citizen—he's not yet the government acting, so he doesn't need to respect those rights.
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"'Oversight' and 'transparency,' in a vacuum, are not legitimate legislative purposes that can justify subpoenaing a private citizen," the suit says.
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He will be known as Master Archie, in line with his father's wish that he grow up as a private citizen.
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When government employees speak in the capacity of their job, and not as a private citizen, that speech is not protected.
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His counsel said they were not ready to talk about information that unfolded while he was a private citizen, they argued.
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As a private citizen, Donald J. Trump was repeatedly critical of President Obama's fondness for relaxing with a round of golf.
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Former President Jimmy Carter, who has visited North Korea three times as a private citizen, added his voice to the criticism.
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"Before traveling to Venezuela as a private citizen, Erik Prince received clear legal guidance, which he scrupulously followed," his attorney said.
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But at the time Trump was a private citizen, without access to the vast power and resources of the executive branch.
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I questioned the ethics of his leaking FBI memos to a private citizen so they could be given to the press.
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Billy Graham should by lying in honor in the US Capitol, only the fourth private citizen to be honored this way.
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Such brazen targeting of a private citizen—the richest man in the world, no less—is alarming to say the least.
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Schiff and other lawmakers said Bannon, now a private citizen, is not entitled to effectively claim a form of executive privilege.
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Washington (CNN)First lady Melania Trump, like those before her, has battled the vast juxtaposition between public perception and private citizen.
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It was one thing when he did it as a private citizen, to puff up his chest and inflate his wealth.
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She pursued these goals as a private citizen and then turned them into reality as first lady of the United States.
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Comey is now a private citizen who does not have to worry about losing his job if he does not comply.
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Scott Perry, who has sat in on the impeachment proceedings, noted that he is a "private citizen" when asked about Giuliani's efforts.
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Please know that I would not have recommended that Mr. Giuliani or any private citizen be involved in these foreign policy matters.
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According to consumer group Private Citizen, telemarketers make 148 million calls per day – which is why something like Callblock will be welcomed.
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In reality, Gillum, who had been an elected official since he was a college student, was about to be a private citizen.
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But if she's a private citizen and she has a job and is trying to make money, I don't see [the problem].
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She is now living as a somewhat private citizen, who was hanging out with her friend and child at a Beyoncé concert.
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After he first testified at the Senate inquiry into alleged extrajudicial killings, Matobato was placed under the protection of a private citizen.
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"There's a difference between being a real estate developer in New York and a private citizen and being the president," he said.
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It's highly unlikely a court would prevent Comey, who is now a private citizen and no longer a government employee, from talking.
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It's amazing to see Shea, a private citizen, flexing for the 'gram and baring her soul in front of an open door.
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One thing seems certain as we embark on Veep's sixth season: Selina Meyer will remain, at least for now, a private citizen.
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Republicans have sought to defended Barr, arguing his opinions as a private citizen are different from how he would act if confirmed.
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This isn't to downplay the heroism of people like the private citizen who intervened in the Texas shooting or others like him.
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By turning Comey into a private citizen, Trump freed Comey to testify about those interactions, but he also made him a witness.
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Kent said Ukrainian officials understood when they met Giuliani that he was not a regular private citizen and understood he represented Trump.
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In his column published on Tuesday, Kuntzman argued that Karlov was not a private citizen but a soldier of the Russian regime.
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Nearly a year into office, Trump has yet to visit troops in Iraq or Afghanistan -- and never did as a private citizen.
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There are no formal federal rules that prohibit the younger Mr. Trump from pursuing his business interests; he is a private citizen.
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Mr. Nadler said Mr. Mueller might be more comfortable testifying as a private citizen, free from some of the Justice Department's constraints.
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PHILIP GALANES It was an interesting choice to debut your book and reintroduce yourself as a private citizen on an arena tour.
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Mr. Osius later resigned from the State Department and moved to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial capital, as a private citizen.
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We don't know exactly how much money Hunter Biden, a private citizen, earned from his work in Ukraine and with other countries.
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"As a private citizen, I'm going to have to help do what I can to help people get that information," he said.
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Sondland told Congress that Trump made top officials uncomfortable by putting Giuliani — a private citizen — in the center of his Ukraine policy.
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But the primary criticism has stemmed from how Trump, as a private citizen, slammed Barack Obama for hitting the links while president.
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"As a private citizen, I would like to see more murals and wall art that have some political merit," Miller told Hyperallergic.
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She was a private citizen and one of the country's leading bankruptcy experts, and being compensated fairly for her expertise makes sense.
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And as a private citizen once his employment as special counsel ends, he might feel compelled to set the record straight in public.
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He has for months said the trip was made as a private citizen, not as part of his role with the Trump campaign.
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In a series of tweets, Trump — then a private citizen months away from announcing his presidential campaign — warned against bringing the patients home.
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"I will watch as a private citizen and I will be tremendously proud," she told reporters after the hearing, referring to the city.
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Trump has praised the wall Israel constructed, but Mexicans — Jew and gentile, government and private citizen — did not take kindly to the comparison.
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It's not yet mandatory to meet with the Supreme Leader of the United States if a private citizen chooses to decline the invitation.
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But, Trump previously spent time spitting venom on his social media platform of choice as either a private citizen or candidate for president.
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But Cotriss' attorney, David Ates, says her dismissal was in direct violation of her constitutional right to free speech as a private citizen.
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Because of the power and prominence of his office, his words and action matter more than if he was simply a private citizen.
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Facebook's ability to give every private citizen a public identity revolutionized the way we share our lives and raise awareness about our ideas.
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Bush has consistently pointed to Ohio's expansion of Medicaid while saying he lobbied the Florida legislature as a private citizen against the expansion.
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In early 2015, Donald Trump, then a mere private citizen, decried the casting of women in the lead roles of a Ghostbusters reboot.
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AND I THINK THERE'S MANY THINGS I CAN DO AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF THE PROMISE OF THE COUNTRY.
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James involved an action by a private citizen, Melene James, against members of the Boise Police Department and the city of Boise, Idaho.
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Mainstream Democrats are frustrated by the criticism, arguing that Obama is now a private citizen who should be free to pursue new opportunities.
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Michigan is DeVos's home state, and the Education secretary as a private citizen spent millions to back school-choice efforts in that state.
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But now he's going to be a private citizen; he's going to go back to what's truly most important to him at heart.
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Federal prosecutors last month issued grand jury subpoenas seeking business records from people who worked with Flynn when he was a private citizen.
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"I'm going to spend the next year as a private citizen but I do indeed intend to run for office again," Abrams said.
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Why would the man once called the wealthiest private citizen in the world show no visible sadness at the death of a son?
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Another angle: During an Ebola outbreak in 2014, Donald Trump, then a private citizen, called for measures like canceling flights and forcing quarantines.
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This is quite common under American law because the duties and privileges of a President and a private citizen are not the same.
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I made clear to the Ukrainians that Mayor Giuliani was a private citizen, the president's personal lawyer, and not representing the U.S. government.
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It is unclear whether he will shed new light during the interview on his ties to the White House while a private citizen.
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"The adjustment from private citizen to running the country is unbelievably hard," said Dan Pfeiffer, a longtime adviser to former President Barack Obama.
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But experts say the rules are clear: Any private citizen can release his or her tax returns at any time, audit or not.
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I made clear to the Ukrainians that Mayor Giuliani was a private citizen, the President's personal lawyer, and not representing the U.S. government.
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What makes Trump unique, however, is the fact that as a private citizen he regularly slammed Obama for hitting the links while president.
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I made clear to the Ukrainians that Mayor Giuliani was a private citizen, the President's personal lawyer, and not representing the U.S. government.
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Canada accepted 58,650 Syrian refugees between 2015 and 2018 through both government and private citizen sponsorship, according to the most recent government statistics.
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In January of 2015, Donald J. Trump, then a private citizen, hired me to help him explore a possible run for the presidency.
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Intrigued by the intrigue, she had come to check out the tree not as part of her job but as a private citizen.
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The last time Trump was in the Russian capital was as a private citizen in 2013 to attend a Miss Universe beauty pageant.
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The Hyatt case brought two issues before the Court: (85033) Whether the court should overrule its own prior precedent holding that a state court may entertain a lawsuit brought by a private citizen against another state without the other state's permission; and (2) Whether it is a violation of the Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause for a court in the first state to award to a private citizen suing an agency of the second state more damages than the state court would allow were the private citizen to have sued an agency of the first state.
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" Francisco: "We are very much of the view that campaign statements are made by a private citizen before he takes the oath of office and before, under the Opinions Clause of the Constitution, receives the advice of his Cabinet, and that those are constitutionally significant acts that mark the fundamental transformation from being a private citizen to the embodiment of the executive branch.
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Clinton delivered 92 paid speeches between April 2013, when she was a private citizen, through March 2015, right before she launched her presidential campaign.
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However, I do not think it is acceptable for a federal agency to target a private citizen for a good faith, hastily rectified error.
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But the vendettas look different when one person is the potential next leader of the free world and the other is a private citizen.
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Democrats on the three committees fired back on Saturday, warning that Kupperman — now a private citizen — has a legal obligation to appear before Congress.
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So Rubio hasn't rescinded his promise to be a private citizen in January; he's just going to keep his word in a roundabout way.
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On May 9, federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas seeking business records from people who worked with Flynn when he was a private citizen.
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"Please know that I would not have recommended that Mr. Giuliani or any private citizen be involved in these foreign policy matters," Sondland said.
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Mark Warner, the Russia Senate investigation's top Democrat, invited Comey to testify before them in a closed hearing Tuesday, now as a private citizen.
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"On May the ninth, when I learned that I was fired, for that reason, I immediately came home as a private citizen," he said.
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The fundraiser is scheduled for August 24th and will be undertaken by Cook as a private citizen, rather than as a representative of Apple.
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"As a private citizen, as someone who knows the justice system, I see it proceeding incredibly quickly and very, very professionally," he told reporters.
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And on May the 9th, when I learned that I had been fired, for that reason I immediately came home as a private citizen.
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"There's a lot of things I can do as a private citizen other than run for the presidency of the United States," he said.
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"There's a lot of things I can do as a private citizen other than run for the presidency of the United States," Schultz said.
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Trump, in his capacity as a private citizen, filed the initial complaint challenging the New York law last month, shortly after New York Gov.
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Republicans have argued that there is a distinction between what Barr wrote as a private citizen and how he would act as attorney general.
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"I definitely did not represent anyone from the Trump campaign during my trip," and "was always there just as a private citizen," he said.
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"Malia Obama's private life, as a young woman, a college student, a private citizen, should not be your clickbait," Clinton tweeted at the time.
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He, his staff and friends have become a new kind of private citizen bull's-eye for the purveyors of false articles and their believers.
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Trump questioned why the "Fake News Media" was scrutinizing his son while ignoring a failed presidential candidate and private citizen for her email scandal.
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One could argue that this was the first modern Black Lives Matters case — a private citizen recording and sharing video that exposed police brutality.
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The presidential bully pulpit could have focused people on the need to change their behavior in a way that no private citizen could have.
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"Before traveling to Venezuela as a private citizen, Erik Prince received clear legal guidance, which he scrupulously followed," Matthew Schwartz said in the statement.
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And on May the 9th, when I learned that I had been fired, for that reason, I immediately came home as a private citizen.
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BLUNT: So were all of your memos that you've recorded on classified or other documents memos that might be yours as a private citizen?
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He sidelined her and other career diplomats and permitted a private citizen, Rudy Giuliani, to hijack the administration's interactions with the new Ukrainian government.
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Officer Ali underscored that he was speaking as a private citizen and not on behalf of the United States military or the Police Department.
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On November 5, 85033, a private citizen heroically stopped the fleeing shooter of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs using an AR-15.
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In June 2017, Trump met Lewandowski, then a private citizen, at the White House and dictated a message he was to deliver to Sessions.
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WASHINGTON — When an outbreak of the Ebola virus touched the United States' shores in mid-20043, Donald J. Trump was still a private citizen.
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But it will fly higher than any previous private citizen has flown before during a trip to space and offer obviously spectacular Earth views.
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If a private citizen were investigated and found not to have committed a crime, his or her name would not be released, Brocato said.
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" In a statement shared with The Hill, Barreto-Rice apologized for "comments I made as a private citizen before I was hired at HHS.
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" In June 2018, Barr, who was a private citizen at the time, authored a memo saying he thought the obstruction investigation was "fatally misconceived.
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When I asked whether he held too much influence as a private citizen, he demurred, then somehow pivoted to the subject of charter schools.
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I'll now return to private life, as a private citizen, as a proud American, proud of the opportunity I've had to serve my country.
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This is where the committee would actually learn how the presidential audit process works, and if Trump was under audit as a private citizen.
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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said all of the statements should be considered irrelevant because Whitaker was a "private citizen" when he made them.
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The troopers ran a check of Disbro's license plate, which revealed the car belonged to a private citizen and not a public agency, officials said.
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Barr revealed his shadow self in 2018 when, as a private citizen, he sent the Justice Department a 19-page memo attacking Mueller's obstruction inquiry.
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" Trump's transition responded to questions about the lobbying effort with a statement Friday, saying that Flynn's career was within his right as a "private citizen.
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Barack Obama is now a former president and private citizen but promises to step into some political battles if he deems it right or necessary.
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"I do not think it is acceptable for a federal agency to target a private citizen for a good faith, hastily rectified error," she tweeted .
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Although McGahn no longer works for the White House and is a private citizen, the White House "directed that he not produce" the subpoenaed documents.
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Justin Oshana, argued against the motion, saying that comments made by a private citizen -- whether or not they are now the President -- cannot constitute UCI.
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A spokeswoman for the agency disputed that, saying Kelly sent it to a private citizen who was bombarding Kelly and other DHS employees with emails.
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Her use of such a meeting to assail American sanctions, a neuralgic subject for Vladimir Putin, suggests that she was not simply a private citizen.
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"As a private citizen, as a parent, and as a product of CPS, I ask that you guys join and fight with me," Bennett said.
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The newly elected mayor said that as a private citizen he loved the charming 2014 'Charlie Brown' tree and plans on commemorating it this year.
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" "Comments that Matt Whitaker made as a private citizen on cable TV does not disqualify him from being fair and impartial by overseeing this investigation.
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"I would not have recommended that Mr. Giuliani or any private citizen be involved in these foreign policy matters," Sondland said in his prepared testimony.
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" "The duties of the office of private citizen," Brandeis explained, "cannot under a republican form of government be neglected without serious injury to the public.
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"I believe that Mr. Giuliani, as a U.S. citizen, has First Amendment rights to say whatever he wants, but he's a private citizen," Kent continued.
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The results were split along party lines, with 28500 percent of Republicans polled saying Trump committed crimes as a private citizen, while 6900 percent disagree.
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"Comments I made as I private citizen before I was hired at HHS were brought to light by concerned members of the press," Barreto said.
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Barr said he had no problem with Mueller testifying before Congress (not that Barr could stop him, now that Mueller is a private citizen again).
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Please note, Trump's remarks are made as a private citizen who is only now running for office, he is not actually elected to that office.
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Mueller is also expected to leave the Justice Department soon, which could leave the administration with little control over his actions as a private citizen.
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Unlike Trump, Giuliani is a private citizen and could be vulnerable to prosecution, especially as he's confirmed much of the substance of the whistleblower's complaint.
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The visits are not out of the norm for the President, who was known to regularly frequent his holdings when he was a private citizen.
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We're going to work really hard here, and we have some things we want to achieve, and then I'll be a private citizen in January.
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Though I was a private citizen, whose personal opinions on such matters was not sought, I nonetheless publicly expressed my private doubts about the invasion.
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Now a 95-year-old private citizen, he continues to negotiate on behalf of wealthy clients and elected leaders who seek influence in foreign lands.
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It is one thing to claim as a private citizen who is just reading the newspapers like everybody else that Trump is a flawed president.
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" But as a private citizen in December 2012, Trump tweeted that "the Republicans must use the debt ceiling as leverage to make a good deal!
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But his views on the issue, based on Twitter posts when he was a private citizen, are uniformly hostile to America's involvement in the war.
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And while she described herself as merely a private citizen, she placed herself publicly on the side of the popular backlash against her former rival.
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Likewise, in the absence of an attorney-client relationship, Giuliani, a private citizen, would have little justification for refusing to testify in the impeachment inquiry.
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Trump has repeatedly praised Putin While he was a private citizen, during his 2016 campaign and throughout his presidency, Trump has showered Putin with praise.
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On June 19, 2017, the president met one-on-one with Lewandowski, who was then a private citizen getting into lobbying, in the Oval Office.
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Those close to Obama say he is doing what he's always said he would do after his presidency: returning to life as a private citizen.
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As a private citizen, Trump was a loud critic of President Obama's golfing — even though his own golfing is on track to far surpass Obama's.
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MR. FRANCISCO: And we are very much of the view that campaign statements are made by a private citizen before he takes the oath of office and before, under the Opinions Clause of the Constitution, receives the advice of his cabinet, and that those are constitutionally significant acts that mark the fundamental transformation from being a private citizen to the embodiment of the executive branch.
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A spokesman told me now that the former President is a private citizen, his schedule is private and he won't be releasing comments on his whereabouts.
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Many said that any discussion of sanctions between Flynn, then a private citizen, and the Russian government would have been improper, even if it was legal.
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It's a rare instance that a private citizen will lie in state after their death — the last instance was civil rights icon Rosa Parks in 2005.
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Rubio, who ended his White House bid earlier this year, had long insisted that he would be a "private citizen" after his current Senate term expires.
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Page has insisted that he went to Moscow as a private citizen — not as a campaign representative — to deliver a lecture and meet with Russian academics.
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Cummings cited the testimony of Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who testified before Congress that Trump had inflated his net worth as a private citizen.
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But there is a big difference between a private citizen posting on their personal social media page and a large well-respected publication intentionally misleading readers.
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During the event, a young woman, a private citizen named Katie Needle, stood up and addressed Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price with a question.
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He makes a solid point ... that a private citizen with a passion for space exploration might be better suited to tool around the galaxy than NASA.
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Trump lawyers have consistently elevated the concept of his rights as a private citizen when critics have raised questions about aspects of his conduct in office.
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Schiller was a member of Trump's security team when he was a private citizen, a key player in his campaign team and at the White House.
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As a U.S. senator and now a private citizen, I also know that same obsession is not appropriate in the daily governance of our legislative institutions.
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Mueller, a private citizen after resigning from the Justice Department, is scheduled to publicly testify on the Russia investigation after receiving a subpoena from House lawmakers.
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And reporters desperate for content just accept it "I have only said like 10000 times I will be a private citizen in January," he added later.
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When a news outlet or private citizen filed a request for public records, the government could take months or even years to turn over basic information.
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Still, his schedule does seem to have more and more to do with the businesses he'd have to resuscitate as a private citizen after Nov. 8.
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All of the good she has done and would be able to continue doing as a private citizen would instantly be paused, if not irreparably harmed.
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Ted Cruz over net neutrality will provide further ammunition, but it's worth noting that the star is speaking as a private citizen, not for the movie.
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Perhaps that bravado was infectious: As a private citizen and celebrity, Mr. Trump was, somewhat mystifyingly, often sought by the media for his thoughts on vaccines.
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President Trump, for example, is currently battling cases against him as a private citizen, while remaining personally immune to cases against him as commander-in-chief.
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As the director of the FBI, Mr. Comey was ultimately responsible for conducting that investigation, which might explain why you're sitting now as a private citizen.
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As he long had done as a private citizen, he called out China for its flagrant cheating and deceit on trade, currency and other economic issues.
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Warren, as a private citizen and a Harvard professor, first proposed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part of the Dodd-Frank legislation.
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"I think I can as a private citizen help in some of those things and that's what I want to do with my life," he said.
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" Last month the State Department in a statement said Giuliani is a "private citizen and acts in a personal capacity as a lawyer for President Trump.
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The president asked Mr. Lewandowski, a private citizen who has never served in the administration, to deliver a message that Mr. Trump dictated on the spot.
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In the interview, he said it was his understanding that Ms. Veselnitskaya was simply a "private citizen" for whom Mr. Agalarov wanted to do a favor.
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As a private citizen, Mr. Trump repeatedly accused Mr. Obama of preparing to go to war with Iran to bolster his re-election chances in 2012.
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" Said Tillerson: "I'll now return to private life as a private citizen, as a proud American, proud of the opportunity I've had to serve my country.
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"I believe that Mr. Giuliani, as a U.S. citizen, has First Amendment rights to say whatever he wants, but he's a private citizen," Kent told lawmakers.
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"A private citizen cannot sue the Congress to avoid coming in when they are served a lawful subpoena," said Schiff, who is leading the impeachment inquiry.
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Choi, a private citizen who had no government title or security clearance but worked closely with the president, has already been arrested and is on trial.
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The first would be to wait until Mueller is a private citizen, although the special counsel's office has given no indication when Mueller will leave the department.
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"It is regrettable that private citizens are being drawn into this," he concludes his conspiracy thread, as if he didn't just drag a private citizen into this.
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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has signed up to be the first private citizen to go into deep space, Elon Musk announced at a SpaceX event on Monday.
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However, the spokeswoman, who would not allow her name to to be used, declined to provide evidence that the recipient of Kelly's email was a private citizen.
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Some recently told Vox they believe Mueller's imminent departure from the Department of Justice and return to life as a private citizen will help speed that up.
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Another exception relating to payments associated with travel costs could also potentially apply to a private citizen spending money on behalf of a government initiative, Smith said.
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If you go into work, such as contracting to the federal government, that requires security clearance it can still be renewed as a private citizen for cause.
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Even though legal analysts have questioned some of those restrictions -- Mueller is a private citizen, after all -- Mueller said at the very beginning he'd honor these limitations.
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Schiff noted that Giuliani has said several times that his work was on behalf of Trump not in his capacity as president, but as a private citizen.
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In 2007, that WWE video was fine; Trump was a private citizen/reality show host putting on an act and everyone involved was in on the joke.
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He expressed confidence in Democrats' ability going forward and said as a private citizen, he will continue to focus on the issues that matter most to him.
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China has previously said Liu Xia, as a private citizen, was free to do as she pleased and the details of the case remained an internal affair.
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There are three sets of skills needed to perform the duties of the "office of private citizen"; each is developed by a liberal arts and sciences education.
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"She's not going to deny her rights as a private citizen when no one else is being held to that standard," the Clinton ally told The Hill.
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He may be more fearful of being prosecuted for imagined crimes as a private citizen than he is ambitious to lead the country for a second term.
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"Comments I made as I private citizen before I was hired at HHS were brought to light by concerned members of the press," Barreto said in April.
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As a private citizen and on the campaign trail, Trump praised first responders in New York who worked to save people trapped inside the World Trade Center.
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The White House said at the time that Hunter Biden was a private citizen and that there was no conflict of interest involving him and his father.
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Schulz said in the CNBC interview that he wants to use his platform to stay engaged in public service even though he will be a private citizen.
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President Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, reportedly gave approval to onetime foreign policy adviser Carter Page to go to Moscow last summer as a private citizen.
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Ms. Park has been accused of letting Ms. Choi, a private citizen with no security clearance or background in policy making, advise her on crucial state affairs.
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Because of this, Levandowski's counsel argued that an agent of the government was forcing a private citizen to choose between his Fifth Amendment rights and continued employment.
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Back in 2014 the court ruled search engines must respect Europeans' privacy rights, and — on request — remove erroneous, irrelevant and/or outdated information about a private citizen.
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Mr. Vavilov is a private citizen, he lives in the United States, resident of the United States and resident of Russia, so there's absolutely no FARA affiliation.
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"It is really stressful, it is difficult when you are living in such conditions," Sara said of her efforts to end the ban as a private citizen.
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Ms. Briskman chose in her private time and in her capacity as a private citizen to express her disapproval of President Trump by extending her middle finger.
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"I know he's determined to go on this reconciliation tour but I think he should do that as a private citizen not as the governor," Beyer said.
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"If it is a government work product, it belongs to the FBI and not to him as a private citizen," she told MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday.
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His ties to Trump aside, he's a private citizen and not a US official, which some say disqualifies him from having any role in US foreign policy.
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The rule would have affected Mr. Spencer's appearance, which was arranged by a private citizen who had paid about $3,000 to rent space at a student center.
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In a statement earlier Wednesday, Vu said he will not vote for Trump as a private citizen and may take a similar stand in the Electoral College.
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Still, though, they are claiming that Trump's conversations with Lewandowski in 2017 are shielded by executive privilege, even though Lewandowski was a private citizen at the time.
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The revelations about the astonishing degree of power Park apparently gave to Choi, a private citizen with no official government title or security clearance, shocked South Koreans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama pardoned his last turkey as U.S. president on Wednesday, but his daughters should beware: he plans to continue the tradition as a private citizen.
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This is because, although Phillips is the Queen's eldest grandson, he remains a private citizen and has no role within the monarchy, royal expert Marlene Koenig told Insider.
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The coin's designer, who asked not to be named when the Washington Examiner tracked her down, is a private citizen who works for a firm the WHCA contracted.
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Yet Page and Trump's team said, then and afterward, that Page took this trip purely as a private citizen and not at all on behalf of the campaign.
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Rubio spokesman Alex Burgos said that the senator was not reconsidering running for re-election, pointing to Rubio's repeated statements that he'll be a "private citizen" in January.
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Mr. Biden stressed that he was undertaking the trip as a private citizen, and did not expressly mention Mr. Popoviciu, or his case, one of the people said.
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For starters, as a private citizen, Bolton doesn't have to coordinate his testimony with anyone and -- no longer being at the White House -- probably isn't worried about retribution.
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Page insisted he went to Moscow as a private citizen, but acknowledged that before leaving, he mentioned the trip to Sessions, then a top campaign adviser to Trump.
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Private citizen Barack Obama garnered a rock star-like reception this week in one of the areas where he is admired most: the liberal bastion of San Francisco.
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Getty, then the world's richest private citizen, wouldn't budge, leaving Paul as the five-month hostage of Italian gangsters who hoped to extort $1203 million for his return.
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The "dad jokes" were on full display Wednesday as President Obama pardoned his final Thanksgiving turkeys, though he implied he may continue the tradition as a private citizen.
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AND WHAT I REALLY BELIEVE IS THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS I CAN DO AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN OTHER THAN RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES.
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One is the president is very, extremely successful, he's made a lot of money as a private citizen, but also the fact that he has done nothing wrong.
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Miguna's lawyer said he had no further details of how Miguna was put on the flight, but private Citizen TV channel said he was escorted by security officers.
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When the most powerful man in the world threatens a private citizen doing her civic duty, it undermines the rule of law in a new and sinister way.
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Billy Graham, the evangelist and presidential pastor who died this week, will become the fourth private citizen to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, lawmakers announced Thursday.
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There is no claim of privilege, executive or otherwise, over the private tax returns and financial information relating to Trump's businesses, which he owns as a private citizen.
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Whether Markle will be at the forefront as a private citizen or someone else will take on the Smart Works patronage, that is something yet to be confirmed.
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Enter Flynn – as a private citizen, before his swearing-in, and a subject of the FBI's scrutiny – conversing with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States.
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This I am free to do as a private citizen and participant in a free-market system and without needing the government to punish Amazon for being successful.
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"Now we have a sitting US President ... who is threatening to sue a private citizen for over $20 million for talking about their relationship," Avenatti said last week.
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Kellyanne Conway on Thursday defended Whitaker's past statements, telling reporters that she didn't think he needed to recuse himself because of what he said as a private citizen.
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If there is no cash, there is nowhere for the private citizen to hide any assets at all, not just for criminal reasons but simply for financial security.
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"Given recent developments, I believe that it is best for the Commonwealth of Virginia if Justin Fairfax dealt with these accusations as a private citizen," said US Rep.
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Harris began her scheduled question time by thanking Comey for appearing before the committee as a "private citizen," mentioning the extended time senators were given to question Comey.
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"No, I'm not," Schultz responded when asked by Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, adding that he is trying to work toward improving the US as a private citizen.
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Whitaker testified he had never spoken with members of Trump's inner circle about his views on the probe as a private citizen before he joined the Justice Department.
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Spicer said that as long as the proper paperwork was filed, there was "nothing nefarious" about Flynn's actions, as the lobbying had occurred while he was a private citizen.
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As a private citizen in 1991, he lobbied Congress on the benefits of depreciation, and defended his use of the tax break in a presidential debate (video) in 2016.
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And although Bezos purchased the paper as a private citizen and not under the umbrella of Amazon, Trump still sees Amazon and the newspaper as one in the same.
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"Some people seem to believe that as soon as you perform on stage you lose your rights as a private citizen," he told Maclean's, a Canadian magazine, in 2001.
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In 93, it was a private citizen who caught Mitt Romney telling a crowd at a fundraiser in May that "47 percent" of Americans are dependent on the government.
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The President of the United States had nothing better to do late on a Friday night than grab his phone and call a private citizen "dumb" in a tweet.
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CNN has also reported that in late May Trump directed Perry to speak with Giuliani -- a private citizen -- about whether Zelensky was someone Trump could trust and engage with.
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He complained about it back in 2013 when he was a private citizen, and on the campaign trail he constantly vowed that he would put an end to it.
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" In response, Ms. Click's supporters released a letter calling on the university "to defend her First Amendment rights of protest and her freedom to act as a private citizen.
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Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Under Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said that the US was aware of Rodman's visit, and that he is traveling as a private citizen.
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And throughout that campaign, Rubio said he was content to leave the Senate, become a private citizen and look for new work if he failed to win the nomination.
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"The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days," McGrath told CNN.
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A Trump campaign official said Smith didn't work for the campaign and that if Flynn coordinated with Smith on the matter, it would have been as a private citizen.
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When Trump becomes president, his Twitter account won't just be the ramblings of a private citizen — it will be the remarks of the chief executive of the US government.
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Mueller, a private citizen after resigning from the Justice Department in late May, is scheduled to publicly testify on the Russia investigation after receiving a subpoena from House lawmakers.
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Now a private citizen, Lewandowski said he looked forward to the chance to testify as "a guy who's going to fight back" against Democratic claims of wrongdoing by Trump.
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But the Bidens dismissed the controversy, telling media outlets that Hunter Biden is a private citizen and his business interests don't represent or affect the views of the government.
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What I say to him privately and what I've said publicly is Hillary Clinton is the one to focus on, not another Republican, not a private citizen criticizing you.
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Page recently told the House intelligence committee that he informed Sessions that he was going on a trip to Russia, as a private citizen, to speak at a university.
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Second, the president easily could have directed the FBI director not to testify under a claim of executive privilege, but he cannot do so regarding private citizen James Comey.
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There is long-standing precedent for presidents to refuse to allow testimony by high-level executive branch officials, but the privilege weakens substantially once someone becomes a private citizen.
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As a candidate and private citizen, he has praised police officers and firefighters in New York who risked their lives to save people trapped inside the World Trade Center.
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Asking a private citizen to deliver that message, however, moves this outside the realm of the president's management of the executive branch and toward clearer-cut obstruction of justice.
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It would be one thing for a private citizen to speak up about a criminal investigation, but it's quite another for the target of the investigation to speak up.
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In the days since completing their last official duty as senior members of the Royal Family, Harry and Meghan have been getting used to their new private citizen lifestyle.
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He said the department was not currently negotiating with any private citizen for a donation, and that a new embassy building would take seven to 10 years to construct.
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And I thought, well, I'm a private citizen now, that information is unclassified, and so I will ask a friend of mine to get it out into the media.
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The $10 billion he pledged for the Bezos Earth Fund is an unprecedented contribution that affords a private citizen great power over the world's response to the climate crisis.
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" Rubio then repeatedly said that he would not seek reelection, tweeting in May that "I have only said like 85033 times I will be a private citizen in January.
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The Interior Department, asked to comment, said the letter did not indicate an intent to sanction Dr. Gonzalez and that he was free to speak as a private citizen.
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Anita and I will be forever grateful for this opportunity and I look forward to further supporting you and advancing American leadership in significant ways as a private citizen.
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Prosecutors charged him after a private citizen claimed that the references to sex and drugs in his novel had caused heartbeat fluctuations and a drop in his blood pressure.
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Mike Bloomberg, who has already helped bankroll a battle for gun reform as a private citizen, on Thursday rolled out his gun safety proposals for his 2020 presidential run.
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Giuliani told The New York Times in August that he was acting as a private citizen when he held phone calls and had an in-person meeting with Yermak.
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Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer handling Mueller's requests, has a security clearance, but Cobb represents Trump as president and not as a private citizen, the news outlet noted.
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"Now that the governor has resigned, I hope my client can go back to being a private citizen and put this matter behind her," he said in an email.
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Now that she is a private citizen, the former First Lady is giving us all sorts of high-end designers she may have shied away from during Barack Obama's presidency.
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There is no question he had discussions with the Russian ambassador while he was still a private citizen without any official authority to represent the United States in diplomatic matters.
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Alex: Did Rudy Giuliani break the law by giving the impression that as a private citizen, he could make a deal on behalf of the President and the United States?
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The visit, however, might not be as much of a stretch if Trump had remained a private citizen, considering his own appearance in a softcore Playboy porn video in 2000.
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"No proprietor of a Delaware incorporated business can sleep easy with the specter than the courts may just decide to take it, and give to another private citizen," he said.
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Giuliani, a private citizen, was trying to persuade Ukraine to investigate allegations of corruption Trump leveled against Biden — a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — and his son, Hunter.
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There is also plentiful evidence of obstruction of justice -- that more than 800 former federal prosecutors now say would have been sufficient to prosecute Trump were he a private citizen.
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The fact that a sitting president is pursuing over $21M in bogus 'damages' against a private citizen, who is only trying to tell the public what really happened, is remarkable.
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So let's say that a blogger writes an article about a private citizen accusing that person of a crime, based on a false statement by a witness, without following up.
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Will his attendance as a private citizen, as opposed to as FBI director, allow him to share more, or be more candid, about the investigations into Trump's ties to Russia?
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"But I would say the American people have a right to know if there was surveillance of any private citizen in this country," he added in the Fox News interview.
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As a private citizen, however, Trump criticized then-President Obama for considering a military operation in Syria and had urged the U.S. leader to seek congressional approval for the operation.
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"There's a lot of things I can do as a private citizen other than run for the presidency of the United States," the Starbucks executive said in a CNBC interview.
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The narrative Trump is always selling -- regardless of whether he is flacking some deal he made as a private citizen or talking up the Singapore summit -- is of total victory.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Barack Obama pardoned his last turkey as U.S. president on Wednesday, but his daughters should beware: he plans to continue the tradition as a private citizen.
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Because Mr. Percoco left the state government in 2016 and is now a private citizen, someone else can legally pay his bills; the firm could also be donating its services.
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But on Wednesday, Mr. Christie spent his first night out as a private citizen at the tiny Walter Kerr Theater to catch Mr. Springsteen cut his own boogaloo on Broadway.
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They sowed doubts with Mr. Trump, who repeatedly called for America to withdraw from Afghanistan as a private citizen and said almost nothing about the war during his presidential campaign.
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As a private citizen, with full awareness of her heightened visibility, she will broaden her efforts to take a stance on issues of critical importance to American women and families.
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"As a private citizen I thought it important to share that, I wanted to get it out," he explained, stressing that his memos were unclassified and based on personal recollection.
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They may find that the humiliations of the process serve a necessary function: an acclimatization from the rarefied atmosphere of congressional life to the normal life of a private citizen.
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The government argues that Chuang abused his discretion in basing his decision to block the order nationwide on statements Trump made during the campaign when he was a private citizen.
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" Comey, however, says that he was careful to keep classified information out of those memos, limiting their contents to material that "as a private citizen, I felt free to share.
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As a private citizen, I look forward to supporting your re-election as President, and supporting the policies that will continue to move our great country toward even greater heights.
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The statement comes amid revelations from State Department officials that Giuliani, a private citizen, has been extensively involved in U.S. foreign policy in his capacity as the president's personal lawyer.
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China has said that Liu Xia, as a private citizen, is free to do as she pleases and that the details of the case remain an internal affair of China's.
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And it's not Bannon's ilk, nor is it the voice of then-private citizen and candidate Donald Trump, who called for speedy withdrawals from Afghanistan several times beginning in 2012.
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CJ Patrol, the group that will receive the access if county officials approve the measure, bills itself as a "private citizen volunteer organization" focusing on property crimes in the area.
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Unlike President Trump, Clinton was a private citizen, but she was also a high-profile politician who was on the verge of possibly assuming the highest office in the land.
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"The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 40 days will be just that: a private vote cast in 40 days," he said in an email.
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"No proprietor of a Delaware incorporated business can sleep easy with the specter that the courts may just decide to take it, and give it to another private citizen," he said.
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Bolton, on the other hand, has for years made clear that he supports regime change in Iran and has even -- as a private citizen -- called for military action against the country.
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The Logan Act makes it a crime for a private citizen to communicate with a foreign government without proper authority in an attempt to influence the actions of the foreign government.
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But now that Haley is stepping down in January 2019 to become a private citizen, there's nothing stopping the first daughter from being appointed to yet another high level government position.
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"The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days," a Bush spokesperson told CNN.
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The President is now briefed on all the information the United States has about the Syrian civil war, something he did not have as a private citizen with a Twitter account.
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"These are strange and unusual times, and it seems kind of important to talk about the science that we do," Santer told Meyers, explaining he was there as a private citizen.
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The SpaceX CEO held a press conference Monday where he announced Yusaku Maezawa as the first private citizen the company would be sending around the moon in their new BFR spacecraft.
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Twenty years ago, she went from unknown private citizen to notorious public figure nearly overnight, thanks to a newly churning 24-hour news cycle and the nascent stirrings of clickbait culture.
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"The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days," spokesman Jim McGrath told Politico.
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That said, states retain the ability to revoke a corporate charter, either through the state attorney general or even, in the case of Alabama, from a filing by a private citizen.
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The network has been under fire from the right and from some First Amendment advocates who accused them of threatening to ruin the life of a private citizen out of vengeance.
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In an op-ed published at Bloomberg News, the former New York City mayor acknowledged his narrow path to the nomination and said he could accomplish more as a private citizen.
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In the shooting of Mr. Sterling, the police said that the officers' body cameras had been dislodged, but private-citizen video provided a record, and the Justice Department opened an investigation.
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It was only Yates's second tweet as a private citizen since being fired from the Justice Department in January over her refusal to enforce the first version of Trump's travel ban.
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"But why would a private citizen — not an employee of the United States — be involved in this unless he was working for the personal, political benefit of his client, Donald Trump?"
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Coates said he was initially avoiding the question, hoping to separate his role as a writer from his views as a private citizen, but no longer saw value in staying neutral.
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"[The decision] was not something that would be appropriate for a government entity to give someone guidance on when they should file, as an individual, as a private citizen," Spicer said.
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If the court considers him a private citizen, then he would need to show only that BuzzFeed was negligent for including allegations about him in a story it could not verify.
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After months of investigation, he comes up with the name of a private citizen very likely to be Ferrante, an Italian woman living in Rome who is not available for comment.
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The aide, the former communications director Hope Hicks, who left the White House with an enduring mystique that inspired countless news media profiles, is now a private citizen living in California.
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You are now a private citizen, and you are enduring a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, and each of us get seven minutes instead of five, as yesterday, to ask you questions.
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Now that she is a private citizen again, Ms. Hartley, the former ambassador, said she planned to donate personally and that she was also helping with fund-raising in New York.
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So talk a little bit about that: Was it a difficult adjustment from being kind of a private citizen to being a family that's dogged by paparazzi, fodder for gossip columns?
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In instance after instance, it is an individual—a bureaucrat, a contractor, a soldier, or a private citizen—who justly changes the course of civil society by protesting against the law.
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Today, if a news outlet like The New York Times, CNN or Breitbart News utters a slander, or if a private citizen campaigning for office does so, the courts stand open.
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As a candidate and private citizen, Mr. Trump espoused a transactional approach to foreign affairs that put the economic interests of the United States above all other considerations, including humanitarian ones.
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When private citizen Okiya Omtatah took the government to the high court over the shutdown, the court demanded the stations be put back on air, pending a hearing on February 14.
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Now, as a private citizen, he is tracking the moves of a Facebook group that has been secretly compiling and sharing nude photos of hundreds of women in the Marine Corps.
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The central bank would defend itself in a suit filed by a private citizen at the High Court challenging its decision to demonetize the old 1,000 shilling banknote in October, Njoroge added.
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"[Briskman] chose in her private time and in her capacity as a private citizen to express her disapproval of President Trump by extending her middle finger," her lawyers wrote in their complaint.
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Bush's spokesman Jim McGrath said in an email to the political news site that the former president would cast his vote as a private citizen and wouldn't comment on the presidential race.
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He was asked about the security implications of White House adviser Jared Kushner reportedly trying to set up back-channel communications with the Russian government while he was still a private citizen.
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"They expect to continue their commitment to improving the lives of the people around them and reengage in what President Obama calls the highest office in the land—being a private citizen."
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The fact that a sitting president is pursuing over $20 million in bogus 'damages' against a private citizen, who is only trying to tell the public what really happened, is truly remarkable.
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What to watch: The official said Pence will visit the Western Wall during his trip to Israel, and he will do it as the vice president and not as a private citizen.
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That "something else" will likely be a continued rehashing of then-private citizen Trump using Twitter and other venues to warn against attacks on Syria and more wars in the Middle East.
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But those special episodes — which were heavily promoted on Fox News — made perhaps one of the strongest cases against a single private citizen to an audience of more than two million Americans.
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Whether it's an attack on a Gold Star family, an entire religion or a private citizen like the former Miss Universe he called "Miss Piggy," Trump's not exactly a stranger to insults.
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Still, the White House is probably more than happy for Trump Jr. to look like an incompetent idiot, because Trump Jr., a private citizen, is going to take the fall for this.
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Ryan, who retired from the House in 2018 and is now a private citizen, apparently didn't hold back on his opinions on Trump in several on-the-record quotes for the story.
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Trump has frequently blasted wind power as both a private citizen and as president, wrongly claiming in speeches that it causes cancer and renders electronics unusable when the wind is not blowing.
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"The vote President Bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that: a private vote cast in some 50 days," Mr. McGrath said in an email.
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Avenatti's media honeymoon is over following Kavanaugh accuser backlash No private citizen has enjoyed more free airtime on two-thirds of the major cable news networks than Michael Avenatti has in 2018.
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"I thought it would be a good opportunity to do what I could, as an unpaid private citizen, not a government employee, to help bring our two countries together," she told me.
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It seems unjust that the title of the disgrace should commemorate the private citizen rather than the politician implicated, but that must be the price of bearing such a ferocious, unforgettable name.
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CNN said online that it had decided not to publish the user's name because he is a private citizen who apologized, showed remorse and said he would not repeat his ugly behavior.
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The identification of participants in the white nationalist demonstrations have brought up the specter of doxing — when private information is released online to harass (or encourage the harassment of) a private citizen.
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A U.S. private citizen who visited China has reported symptoms like those of U.S. diplomats afflicted with a mysterious illness in Havana and Guangzhou, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday.
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SpaceX's plan to fly 2 non-astronauts around the moon next year is insanity -- if they're sending 2 flight newbies up there ... this according to another private citizen who went to space.
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David Cicilline (D-RI), another Democrat on Judiciary, told Vox he believes it will be easier for Mueller to testify once he leaves the DOJ and resumes life as a private citizen.
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A search operation found the sunken vessel in Koge Bay, south of Copenhagen, after Mr. Madsen had plunged into the water and swam toward a boat, his rescuer, a private citizen, said.
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The warehouse was discovered this past weekend by a private citizen, highlighting the important role everyday Puerto Ricans continue to play in responding to the disasters that continued to impact the island.
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Giuliani's name comes up several times in the whistleblower report, and his involvement has been a cause for concern among officials who feel he was conducting shadow diplomacy as a private citizen.
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Now, as a private citizen, he is doggedly tracking the moves of an online group that has been secretly compiling and sharing nude photos of hundreds of women in the Marine Corps.
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Yet he continues to wield significant influence in financial markets as one of the Middle East's richest men, making significant investments as a private citizen including in Deutsche Bank and Heritage Oil.
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If CNN really intended to withhold HanAssholeSolo's information regardless of what he did, then why didn't the news organization say it was withholding his private information simply because he's a private citizen?
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The problem, though, is that it ended up strongly suggesting that an uninvolved private citizen was a sex offender — hurting his reputation and dragging him into the spotlight without any good reason.
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People who want to serve on the nation's highest court should not be willing to casually drag a private citizen through the mud, using dubiously legal tactics, to advance their own goals.
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If there's one thing "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" conveys better than any other episode, it's what happens when the mass media turns its eye on someone who was previously a fairly private citizen.
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So it would be absurd to say that private citizen Donald Trump had any responsibility for the many shortcomings of the Obama administration or any other administration in power before he became president.
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Kuczynski said only one of the deposits from Odebrecht had any connection to him: a payment for providing financial services on an Odebrecht project through First Capital when he was a private citizen.
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In her final interview as first lady, Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey about her hopes for the country as she prepares to step away from the White House and become a private citizen.
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Comey, who is now a private citizen, but one who knows more than most about the Russia probe, was invited to brief the Senate intelligence committee Tuesday but turned it down for now.
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Being CEO doesn't prepare you for the Oval Office As a private citizen, Trump controlled a multibillion-dollar family business empire, which meant that he pretty much said and did whatever he wanted.
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SpaceX signed Japanese billionaire entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa to be the first private citizen to take a flight around the Moon in the BFR, a 240,000-mile journey slated for as early as 2023.
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And I have spent many years now, as a private citizen, as first lady, and now as senator, trying to make it rare, trying to create the conditions where women had other choices.
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As a private citizen -- even a billionaire TV star who tried like hell to make news or keep himself in the news -- Trump had a relatively limited ability to draw attention to himself.
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Barr likely will answer that he merely was concerned as a private citizen and former attorney general by what he read about Mueller's obstruction inquiry, and felt compelled to express his personal view.
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As we saw in his battles with the Gold Star Khan family and Judge Gonzalo Curiel, Trump seems hellbent on waging a fight with a private citizen, which is rarely a winning proposition.
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By October, a month before the city election, the board and a private citizen who appears to have worked with its white members had challenged the legality of 187 registered voters in Sparta.
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Texas A&M University changed its policy on the use of its campus facilities following Spencer's invite to the school by a private citizen who rented out the space for a December event.
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Months after the 2016 election, Trump met with Lewandowski, by then a private citizen, and dictated a message for him to deliver to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to the Mueller report.
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The administration counters that Chuang abused his discretion in basing his decision on statements Trump made during the 2016 race as a private citizen, arguing that the ban is meant to prevent terrorism.
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Trump even acknowledged in the interview that he was setting himself up for criticism, but said that he "couldn't care less" because his views haven't changed from when he was a private citizen.
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Although Mr. Skilling was a private citizen, the opinion had a political effect: the newly limited fraud law had frequently been used to go after politicians who served themselves at their constituents' expense.
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I hold him and his family in the highest esteem both personally and professionally," Mr. Corallo wrote on Monday, adding, "I have never been shy about expressing my opinions as a private citizen.
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In 2016 he received the Pontifical Key Philanthropy Award from the Vatican, the Jefferson Foundation Award for Outstanding Public Service by a Private Citizen, and the Friends of Cancer Research Cancer Leadership Award.
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Lawmakers say Bannon's claim is an effective assertion of power that he, as a private citizen, does not have the right to invoke — particularly for the period of time before Trump took office.
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While Giuliani said he was acting on his own as a private citizen, the State Department confirmed it put Giuliani in direct contact with a Ukrainian lawyer who Giuliani said is representing Zelensky.
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And as he pulled up to the White House on Monday morning -- still the deputy attorney general, his resignation pending -- he expected he would leave a private citizen, fired by President Donald Trump.
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At Monday's press conference, Whitaker publicly addressed questions about his past statements on the Mueller probe, saying he made those comments as a private citizen who had access only to publicly available information.
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Trump brought the lawsuit as a private citizen, not as president, which means he's hired outside lawyers to fight the subpoena; the Justice Department isn't involved, and he isn't raising any executive privilege issues.
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The House doesn't need to formally vote to hold a government official or private citizen in contempt in order to take them to court, but members do have to vote to authorize legal action.
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The ashes of the murdered gay 21-year-old, whose death helped give rise to expanded federal hate crime legislation, will be interred at Washington's National Cathedral — a rare honor for a private citizen.
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Japanese billionaire and entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private citizen to take a flight around the moon in SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket, a 240,000-mile journey slated for as early as 20203.
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller is now a private citizen, but he's about to make his most public appearance yet — and lawmakers of both parties are planning to make the most of the occasion.
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I have welcomed a full investigation of my finances and, as a private citizen, will continue to work to assure that Peruvian citizens enjoy health and safety along with their human and civil rights.
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"The fact that a sitting president is pursuing over $20 million in bogus 'damages' against a private citizen, who is only trying to tell the public what really happened, is truly remarkable," Avenatti said.
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"How is it appropriate for someone who is not a private citizen, who is not sworn in as an official for the US government, to conduct diplomacy with a foreign official?" one reporter asked.
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Kushner was a private citizen at the time, not a US government official although he was acting on behalf of the incoming US government and in an official capacity having an interim security clearance.
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Lynch told Colbert that the iPhone in question was already the property of the government, not a private citizen, since Farook was employed by San Bernardino County and given it as a work phone.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. private citizen who visited China has reported symptoms like those of U.S. diplomats afflicted with a mysterious illness in Havana and Guangzhou, a U.S. State Department official said on Thursday.
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As a private citizen most of his projects, whether it be the revitalization of the now omnipresent Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach or Manhattan's eponymous Trump Tower, are renowned for their opulence.
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"My family has not only lost a son, but a fellow police officer and a private citizen lost their lives at the hands of our son," he said in a statement at the time.
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If that person is someone other than Trump, the five-year statute of limitations for federal crimes could leave Trump facing indictment and even imprisonment if charged as a private citizen upon leaving office.
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Earlier this year, the former first lady said she wouldn't run for office because she "wouldn't ask [her] children to do this again," adding she preferred to help the country as a private citizen.
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But the coroner in Lancashire, England, condemned the news media after her death and singled out The Daily Mail for what he called its "character assassination" and "ridicule and humiliation" of a private citizen.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday that he will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, saying that he believes he would better serve the country as a private citizen.
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In his Monday interview with The Post Star, he stood by his previous defense of the post, saying that he made the comment as a private citizen, and that it reflects what he believes.
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As Clinton was preparing to make a decision regarding the matter, he received a call from Jimmy Carter, who had flown to North Korea to meet with Kim Il Sung as a private citizen.
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A lawsuit seeking to halt the recount, filed late last week by two "super PACs" supporting Mr. Trump and by a private citizen, is still pending; a judge has scheduled a hearing for Friday.
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Every time Clinton draws Trump into asymmetric warfare against a private citizen, he proves one of her attacks against him is true: He's a man who is quick to anger and easy to bait.
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" CNN decided not to publish the man's name, explaining that he was a private citizen, and he'd issued an apology, showed remorse, and promised not to "repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
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It has consistently refused to weigh in on the "stolen emails of a private citizen," a reference to Podesta, who is now Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman and the target of the broader email hack.
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The case put front and center the potential consequences of public musings from an outsize figure like Musk and the effects those statements can have on a private citizen who happened to cross him.
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Giuliani told The New York Times in August that he was acting as a private citizen when he held phone calls and had an in-person meeting with Andriy Yermak, a top Zelensky representative.
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Mr. Tajani later said that he had devised the format of the questioning because the European Parliament typically does not invite chief executives for meetings and so was treating him as a private citizen.
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As a private citizen, he was actively hostile to American involvement in Afghanistan, dwelling on the high cost of the lengthy conflict and suggesting there was no way for the United States to succeed.
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But the actions of those who leaked the woman's name, and those who hounded her after it became public, surely made it harder for her to return to her life as a private citizen.
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At one point, Craig's lawyers said his use of the funds was acceptable because the decision to challenge the plea was an effort to remain in office, something a private citizen may not do.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas seeking business records from people who worked with former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn when he was a private citizen, CNN reported on Tuesday.
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"There has to be a recognition in any leader's journey that their behavior isn't solely as a private citizen with individual consequences, but their words and actions have an institutional ripple effect," Pearce said.
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The President has previously defended his comments with the same line of reasoning as Kudlow's, insisting that he is merely sharing his views in the same way he would have as a private citizen.
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Last June, when Barr was a private citizen, he wrote a secret memo arguing that the Mueller probe's investigation into obstruction of justice by Trump was illegitimate — and sent it to the Justice Department.
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This made little sense, as Barr currently isn't a federal employee — he's just a private citizen right now — and meeting with both Republican and Democratic committee members is standard ahead of any major hearing.
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In the late 1990s, South Korea persuaded the North to resume sports exchanges with the help of economic aid from a private citizen, Chung Ju-yung, the billionaire founder of South Korea's Hyundai conglomerate.
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The tension between my roles as a private citizen and an institutional worker highlights the tension between my own strategies for political resistance and what is expected of me in the museums where I work.
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O'Neill turned down the offer of a royal title at the time of his 2013 wedding, preferring to remain a private citizen so he could continue his career in finance in London and New York.
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Whether as a potential Democratic nominee or a public-spirited private citizen supporting other Democrats in the historic elections in 2020, Bloomberg could play a profound and powerful role in the future of American democracy.
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans to make Japanese billionaire Yusaka Maezawa the first private citizen to travel to the moon during a press conference in SpaceX's corporate office in Hawthorne, California, on Monday night.
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Dr. Debora Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, where Sessions is a church member, the charges against Sessions are not applicable because he acted on behalf of a government, not in his capacity as a private citizen.
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Collins told OCE that the visit was a "high school field trip" and compared it to going to "the Smithsonian" and that he was there as a private citizen, not as a member of Congress.
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"After the first round of sanctions in response to Russia's assassination attempt against a private citizen in the UK, Russia did not provide the assurances required under U.S. law," said White House spokesman Hogan Gidley.
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"Why would a private citizen — not an employee of the United States — be involved in this unless he was working for the personal, political benefit of his client, Donald Trump?" one former prosecutor told Insider.
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Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the State Department, denied Tuesday that the agency played any role in Trump Jr.'s visit to India, saying that he is traveling in his capacity as a private citizen.
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He launched the single greatest initiative to fight malaria on the continent to date, and, as a private citizen together with his wife Laura, has since been committed to the struggle against cancer in Africa.
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It may have to do with the fact that as far as Melania Trump goes, as a private citizen she has not really had to reflect on the way her choice of dress is interpreted.
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A military judge in February called the comments "disturbing and disappointing," but decided that since they were made when Mr. Trump was a private citizen, not the president, they did not constitute undue command influence.
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While Kupperman is now a private citizen, any ruling on Mulvaney would broach issues involving a Justice Department argument that presidential advisers are immune from testifying because preparations would divert them from their regular duties.
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On Thursday, in an authoritarian escalation, Trump tweeted an attack on the jury forewoman in the Stone case, singling out a private citizen for abuse because she'd dared to find one of his henchman guilty.
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" The statement went on to stress that Mr. Giuliani "is a private citizen and acts in a personal capacity as a lawyer for President Trump — he does not speak on behalf of the U.S. government.
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Yet there's one boon for Trump, amid the growing scrutiny: He doesn't have to deal with the kind of fearmongering he helped stoke as a private citizen during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in Africa.
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Committee Republicans are also deeply frustrated that the one-time Breitbart mogul is trying to claim an effective form of executive privilege that, as a private citizen, they say he is not entitled to claim.
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Remember when things were not moving fast enough against Trump, Comey leaked government documents to a private citizen friend and Mr. McCabe was likewise misleading the inspector general about his own contacts with The Press.
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Schiller left the White House in September as the director of Oval Office operations, but his ties to Trump are deep and date back to the President's time as a private citizen and television personality.
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Graham will be only the fourth private citizen to lie in honor, following civil rights icon Rosa Parks in 2005 and two slain Capitol Police officers in 1998, the Architect of the Capitol's records say.
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Offering his support to the U.K. government, the now-ex U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday "the attempted murder of a private citizen on the soil of a sovereign nation" was never justified.
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Ten years later, Clinton is a private citizen, denied the highest office she would seek by a political amateur who leveraged Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to drive enthusiasm for his nativist, protectionist, and racist agenda.
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He told Time that year that he didn't see it as a "solution" and the next year said he believed that he could do more as a private citizen and CEO than as a politician.
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"I really am not going to talk about an open and ongoing investigation otherwise, but you know, sort of the statements that I made were as a private citizen only with publicly available information," Whitaker said.
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A federal judge in Argentina is seeking information from Brazil and Switzerland to determine whether President Mauricio Macri's spy chief, Gustavo Arribas, took a $600,000 bribe from Odebrecht in 2013 when he was a private citizen.
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But it's also journalism exploring the life of a private citizen who struggled intensely with mental health issues and never had a chance to consent to some of the facts that S-Town reveals about him.
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Now a private citizen, Bolton would not be constrained by the White House's efforts to limit witness testimony unless the constitutional immunity the administration claimed over Kupperman — also a former official — is found to be valid.
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Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer and a private citizen, has taken trips to Ukrainian to pressure officials to start investigating Biden, and he seems to have worked with State Department officials to push the investigation as well.
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Cook, who will be hosting the fundraiser for the Hillary Victory Fund as a private citizen, not as an Apple rep, will be joined by Apple's vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives Lisa Jackson.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son dropped a planned speech on foreign affairs in the Indian capital on Friday after ethics experts said he should avoid wading into policy issues as a private citizen.
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The GOP members of the Oversight committee who highlighted Cummings's move were quick to bemoan what they described as a political fishing expedition for dirt on a man who at the time was a private citizen.
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The issue instead has to do with the oath Brennan took when he became a civil servant and the damage he is doing to America's national security as a private citizen with a very public platform.
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Multiple officials implicate Giuliani for running a shadow foreign-policy campaignGiuliani's outsize role in the Ukraine controversy has puzzled ethics experts and government officials, given that he is the president's personal lawyer and a private citizen.
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White House under scrutiny Just days after the President said there was nothing wrong with pursuing a plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow while he was a private citizen, Mueller suggested there might be.
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Rather, Cohen will be giving Congress an insider's view of how Donald Trump, private citizen, conducted himself behind his lawyer's closed doors, and perhaps how he sought to protect himself before the eyes of the world.
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We also venerate athletes to the point that we don't see them as real people — thus allowing us to obsess over their choices in ways that would be creepy and unacceptable for just a private citizen.
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Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, facing life as a private citizen and the possibility of jail.
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The elusive figure, Choi Soon-sil, is a private citizen with no security clearance, yet she had remarkable influence over President Park Geun-hye: She was allowed to edit some of Ms. Park's most important speeches.
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But he also acknowledged that visiting the country as a private citizen "is probably more meaningful to me than visiting as president, because I can actually get outside of a hotel room or a conference center."
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It's legal for a private citizen to buy a friend a gift or to fire an employee, but it becomes illegal to do those things if the purpose of doing them is to obstruct an investigation.
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This week, lawyers for the government argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Mr. Trump can block whomever he likes on Twitter, because he does so as a private citizen.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration's Justice Department has again taken President Donald Trump's side in a fight between him -- as a private citizen -- and the US House of Representatives over subpoenas for his personal financial records.
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This is Rudy, as a private citizen and personal attorney for the president, lamely acting as a shadow secretary of state and Trump enforcer by attempting to influence the 2020 election in favor of his client.
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The study, the interviews, a seemingly endless gantlet of meetings with politicians — it all laid the groundwork for the new law, which Mr. Pardinas, a private citizen directing a public policy group, was helping to write.
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In so doing, Lightfoot will join an endless list of elected leaders who give away taxpayer money in a way no private citizen would with their own cash or corporate boss would do with company funds.
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" Biden spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said all this is nonsense, and that Biden pushed to oust Shokin "without any regard for how it would or would not impact any business interests of his son, a private citizen.
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Clinton, now a private citizen, continues to be a favorite target of Mr. Trump and some of his supporters who have chanted "lock her up" at rallies nearly two years after she lost the presidential election.
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The ad was an ugly thing to put out there, with more than a hint of racism, but it was ultimately just a rant by a private citizen who liked to see his name in print.
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Separately, Nadler told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Monday he doesn't know what's keeping Mueller as an employee of the Justice Department, suggesting he was "more subject to their discipline" than he would be as a private citizen.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday that he would not comment directly on "stolen emails of a private citizen" when questioned about an email showing the Clinton campaign was in touch with the Justice Department.
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Whatever our politics, I hope we can agree to both leave 11-year old private citizen Barron Trump alone and celebrate 12-year old Preston Sharp for his work to honor the graves of every military veteran.
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Obama said she would help the country as a private citizen rather than run for office and would continue to focus on work for young girls and women facing challenges with education, healthcare, violence and income inequality.
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Speaking in the name of close women, these politicians condemn the "private" misconduct of a single private citizen without acknowledging or questioning the role of the public policies they promote everyday in normalizing sexism and attacking women.
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"I am a private citizen and I have a right to believe in my own political point of view, but I try not to get up on a soapbox and tell people how to think," he said.
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" Richard Painter, who used to hold Passantino's job, told me that the White House's repeated assertion that Icahn is simply a private citizen is "bogus," adding, "The ethics shop in this White House is not very good.
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Page has always maintained he went to Russia as a private citizen and unrelated to the campaign to meet with academics and deliver a lecture, in which he stated that he was not there to represent Trump.
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" The Department of Homeland Security chief said that as hackers target the devices of all Americans, "your average private citizen or company is no match against a nation-state such as China, Iran, North Korea or Russia.
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One leading area of concern is the ease by which a private citizen can earn a federal drone operators license — currently it requires answering only 70 percent of questions correctly on a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test.
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Except... The private citizen -- and even presidential candidate -- Donald Trump repeatedly bashed former President Barack Obama for how much he played golf, and pledged that he wouldn't have any time for the sport if he was elected.
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Remember, when Trump was merely a private citizen running for President in 2016, he became the first presidential candidate in recent memory to refuse to commit that he'd honor the results of the election if he lost.
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Craig's lawyers argued, among other things, that his status as a sitting senator at the time of the charges heightened the media attention to a national level, something that would not have happened to a private citizen.
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The hearing was hugely confrontational, as Democrat after Democrat grilled Whitaker over his ascension to acting attorney general, his conversations about the ongoing investigation and his past comments as a private citizen about Mueller and the probe.
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After all, Barr was not only a Trump appointee but also had made very clear in a memo written when he was a private citizen that he was disinclined to see the President as having obstructed justice.
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The blast caused minor damage to the building in a central district of Aden known as Crater and two cars nearby, one belonging to security guards and the other to a private citizen, caught fire and burned.
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But the tax matter before the court involves a criminal investigation, not a lawsuit, and focuses on hush-money payments made to two women just before the 2016 presidential election, when Mr. Trump was a private citizen.
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It would have been a modest act by a private citizen to hold a public official accountable — a way of registering dissent with the way the government conducts itself, in keeping with the Rawlsian view of civility.
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The reason I embedded "impeach" in my message is, as a private citizen, I don't even think there's room to debate that Mr. Trump is putting his own business and personal interests over that of the country.
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As nominee or private citizen, Bloomberg has the potential to give powerful and decisive support to lift the political success of countless Democrats, and the economic lives of all Americans, as the great equalizer in American public life.
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He agreed to be interviewed, but made it clear his remarks are his opinions as a private citizen and that he is not speaking for or on behalf of the United States Army or the Army National Guard.
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The president's lawsuit, which was filed "in his capacity as a private citizen," came less than a month after the Ways and Means Committee sued the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service to obtain Trump's federal returns.
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Comey skipped his scheduled speaking engagement Tuesday night at the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood after he got word of his firing, and instead headed to LAX as a private citizen ... but still with a police escort.
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When De Ritis griped to other lawyers outside of court, the 3rd Circuit held, he may have been speaking as a private citizen, but he was only talking about his own employment, not a matter of public concern.
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On Trump's tapes and leaking memos Comey said that he believed it was his right to publicize the details of what he viewed were unclassified recollections of his conversation with Trump in his role as a private citizen.
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Sánchez was operating as a private citizen — he'd left his post on Puerto Rico's fiscal control board in 2017 — but was still in the now-leaked chat with Rosselló and had direct access to high-ranking government officials.
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Exhibit B: Back in January, when Trump's transition team was helping him shift from private citizen to president of the United States, he held a press conference to show he was turning over his business to his sons.
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"Fox News is always trying to impeach me, so somebody needs to tell them that doesn't apply to a private citizen," Clinton joked during a Wing workspace panel discussion in New York, as first reported by The Wrap.
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" The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) chief said that as hackers target the devices of all Americans, "your average private citizen or company is no match against a nation-state such as China, Iran, North Korea or Russia.
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The mayor gave two other statements to the newspaper about his Facebook post, first saying that he didn't remember writing it and then insisting he posted it in his capacity as a private citizen, not a public official.
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A separate issue, however, is that while a private citizen is free to make a secret hush money payment to his former mistress if he likes, a political campaign is required to disclose what it's spending money on.
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Don's point seems to be that Trump, while a private citizen, did the exact same thing Hill did, and if her network has to apologize -- like Trump has asked -- then he should step up and do the same.
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Mr. Hickenlooper, for instance, showed up at our office flustered because he had lost his wallet, and confessed sheepishly that it had been a long time since he had dealt with certain indignities of being a private citizen.
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But like Hill's case, Schilling's speech was of a political nature, on one of the most resonant issues of the day, and the speech was made on his personal Facebook account in his capacity as a private citizen.
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The Justice Department is wading into one of the ongoing court battles between Trump as a private citizen and lawmakers, which Trump has so far lost, in an attempt to stop a congressional subpoena for his financial records.
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"As a private citizen who does not represent Zimbabwe internationally, unlike the head of state or head of government, she does not qualify for immunity under international law or under the relevant South African domestic law," she said.
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"We cannot, nor would we, fire Professor Rasmusen for his posts as a private citizen, as vile and stupid as they are, because the First Amendment of the United States Constitution forbids us to do so," she wrote.
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"We cannot, nor would we, fire Professor Rasmusen for his posts as a private citizen, as vile and stupid as they are, because the First Amendment of the United States Constitution forbids us to do so," Robel said.
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Three weeks into his job, the Washington Post revealed that Flynn, while he was still a private citizen and Barack Obama was still President, had discussed American sanctions against Russia with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador in Washington.
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Some former officials and analysts said Volker looked foolish in having engaged Giuliani at all, given that the president's personal lawyer is a private citizen who is not formally authorized to represent the United States to foreign governments.
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The Transportation Department spokesman said it was "entirely appropriate" for Ms. Chao to take her father to meetings in 2008 as her "plus-one," and said her visits between her government posts were done as a private citizen.
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Though he does not serve as an adviser to Trump and is not part of his incoming administration, Huckabee, speaking as a private citizen, said he was optimistic about the relationship between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Judge Rogerio Favreto said that incarceration had denied da Silva two fundamental rights: both his liberty as a private citizen while he awaits a final appeals court decision and his ability to effectively run in October&aposs president election.
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The best thing about All the Money in the World is Christopher Plummer, who plays J. Paul Getty, the American industrialist who was added to the Guinness Book of Records in 1966 for being the world's richest private citizen.
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A key accusation in the whistleblower's complaint that has prompted the impeachment probe into the President's dealings with Ukraine is that Giuliani, a private citizen, had been presenting to Ukraine a US policy different than that from US diplomats.
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The Justice Ministry said the official visit would be canceled in light of her resignation, but New York University confirmed that she would still be attending a conference there Friday, suggesting that she was traveling as a private citizen.
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After insisting repeatedly that he would be a "private citizen" in January if he lost his bid at the White House, the Florida senator has come under intensifying pressure from Senate Republicans and top donors to change his mind.
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And as President of the United States, unlike when he's just a billionaire private citizen, Trump won't be able to get away with making a lot of donations to get his way… or at least I don't think so.
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"What Mayor Giuliani revealed last night was that Mr. Trump, as a private citizen, had a contractual relationship with his attorney and paid him a series of payments over a stated period of time every month," Lewandowski said Thursday.
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"The Dispatch has sadly hit a new low by publicly shaming a private citizen and Renacci campaign volunteer while giving a pass to Senator Sherrod Brown on his record of domestic violence," spokeswoman Leslie Shedd said in a statement.
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Trump's history on racial issues -- both as president and as a private citizen -- shows some level of intentionality when it comes to using racially coded language and taking advantage of racial animus and stereotypes for his own political gain.
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The official said Barr had "no non-public information about the Special Counsel's investigation when preparing the memorandum (and still has none)," which he wrote as a "former official" when he was a law firm partner and private citizen.
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To be clear, it is impossible for a private citizen to put a work into the "public domain," which happens when copyright naturally expires 70 years after the creator's death, or to many works commissioned by the federal government.
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II, Page 27: Comey's briefing included the Steele reporting's unverified allegation that the Russians had compromising tapes of the President involving conduct when he was a private citizen during a 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant.
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He looked at how many gun homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings there were in comparison to "justifiable" homicides ("the killing of a felon, during the commission of a felony, by a private citizen"), based on the FBI's 2012 data.
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The suit provides a glimpse into some of the details that the congressional committees hoped to glean about Mr. Trump's finances, as well as their strategy to blur the lines between Mr. Trump as president and as private citizen.
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While Trump is unlikely to be prosecuted for any such crime while he's in office, the House report doesn't hold back in setting up the stakes should he lose re-election and become a private citizen again in 83.
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"The idea that somehow an important piece of diplomacy has been farmed out to someone who's effectively a private citizen is very strange," said Charles Kupchan, who worked on the National Security Council during the Obama and Clinton administrations.
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As a private citizen and candidate, Mr. Trump spent years arguing that Syria's civil war was not America's problem, that Russia should be a friend, and that China was an "enemy" whose leaders should not be invited to dinner.
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"The most important thread that we're teasing out of all of this is the fact that the president of the United States has been running a shadow foreign policy with Rudy Giuliani, who is a private citizen," said Rep.
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The new president is a creature of habit who loves to control his working environment, and the day of pageantry obscured the change from private citizen to leader of the free world, which will begin in earnest on Saturday.
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His actions as the former mayor of New York City and activism as a private citizen prove Bloomberg is passionate about issues — such as gun control and climate change — that could help him connect with Democratic Party primary voters.
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"From time to time, as a private citizen and friend, I provided Secretary Clinton with material on a variety of topics that I thought she might find interesting or helpful," Blumenthal wrote to Politico in a statement provided by his attorney.
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That a private citizen was able to accidentally gain access to such a precious item is a stunning revelation on its own, but the second lawsuit, in which Carlson is suing NASA for damaging its former property, is equally astonishing.
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"The Trump Organization have asked us if they could not have the suite during the time that he is president but said they would like it back when he is a private citizen again," USTA spokesperson Chris Widmaier told Reuters.
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And if a private citizen or the Department of Justice wants to file an antitrust lawsuit against an ISP, they will likely fail as well because the courts will say the FCC is responsible for handling this and not antitrust law.
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Democrats on the Oversight committee have urged Chaffetz to look into issues surrounding Trump's business interests, but earlier this week Chaffetz told reporters that he wasn't planning to weigh into the debate because the President-elect was still a private citizen.
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Marlene Koenig, a royal expert for History Extra, told Insider that despite his relation to Her Majesty, Phillips remains a "private citizen" and so he doesn't carry out decisions in the same way that other senior members of the family would.
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As a private citizen, Donald Trump repeatedly criticized President Barack Obama throughout his eight years in office for taking too many vacations, indulging in too many rounds of golf and playing fast and loose with taxpayer dollars during his downtime.
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Barr in June sent a 19-page private memo to the Justice Department as a private citizen in which he criticized the Mueller investigation for "proposing an unprecedented expansion of obstruction laws" that could have "grave consequences" for the executive branch.
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Corey is a loyal aide and trusted advisor to Mr. Trump, and is otherwise a private citizen who does not deserve anonymous, disparaging and totally false accusations and will fight back will all available legal remedies peddled by this disgruntled blogger.
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RELATED: What Robert Mueller failed to do Now, called before Congress as a private citizen, his actual spoken testimony consisted largely of throwing back to it and doing everything he possibly could to not get caught up in the political fight.
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He should merely say that he appreciates the consideration but would rather serve our country as a private citizen occasionally offering his informed views, hopefully supportive of what the president-elect does after he takes office; if necessary, in opposition.
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He complained about it back in 2013 when he was a private citizen, and on the campaign trail he continually vowed that he would put an end to the practice, saying it gave Chinese exports an unfair edge in global markets.
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There is skepticism among legal experts that executive privilege could be successfully invoked, given that Comey is now a private citizen who wants to testify and because Trump has already publicly discussed their conversations in the NBC interview and in tweets.
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We look at how a Twitter post in which a private citizen claimed he saw buses packed with paid anti-Trump protesters in Texas the night after the election became a talking point even as it was being proven false.
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But Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor, said in an NBC op-ed article that because Giuliani is a private citizen he could be vulnerable to prosecution, especially as he has confirmed much of the substance of the whistleblower's complaint.
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The Justice Department told the House committee that Mueller is expected to leave his post in "a matter of weeks", according to Nadler, who rejected the idea that there might a benefit to the special counsel testifying as a private citizen.
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But now I'm speaking as a private citizen, having left government service and knowing what I know about what the Russians did, how massive the operation was, how diverse it was, and how many millions of American voters it touched.
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Sources tell CNN the complaint surrounds Comey's testimony Thursday that as a private citizen he relayed the contents of his memos about his interactions with Trump to a friend of his and asked him to give the information to a reporter.
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"The fact that a sitting president is pursuing over $20 million in bogus damages against a private citizen, who is only trying to tell the public what really happened, is truly remarkable — likely unprecedented in our history," Mr. Avenatti said.
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"I interrupted and advised her that my father was not an elected official, but rather a private citizen, and that her comments and concerns were better addressed if and when he held public office," Trump Jr. said in the statement.
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Mr. Obama said recently that the Trump administration had taken steps "to make it harder for people to sign up for coverage," and he hinted that, as a private citizen, he might try to publicize this fall's open enrollment period.
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President Donald Trump fired his national security adviser, a hawk on Iran who as a private citizen had advocated military action to destroy its nuclear program and who disagreed with his boss on policies from Afghanistan to Russia while in office.
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Graham, who has been honored by 13 presidents, is only the fourth private citizen to lie in honor, following civil rights icon Rosa Parks in 2005 and two slain Capitol Police officers in 1998, the Architect of the Capitol's records say.
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Giuliani's name comes up several times in the intelligence community whistleblower report that brought scrutiny to the call, and his involvement has been a cause for concern among officials who feel he was conducting shadow diplomacy as a private citizen.
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Even before winning the White House -- as a candidate for president and as a private citizen -- he repeatedly demonstrated his casual disregard for truth and facts, often preferring the story he told himself to the one that comported with actual reality.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton sought the payment of over $3.5 million for their personal legal fees from the Whitewater investigation, arguing that they were subjected to a wider-ranging investigation than an ordinary private citizen would have had to endure.
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Much of the remainder concerns Giuliani's unusual insertion into foreign policy regarding Ukraine, given his status as a private citizen, and various personnel and policy changes that appear to have been motivated at least in part by pressure from Trump.
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Frustrated Democrats say Lewandowski made an inappropriate bid to assert a form of privilege that, as a private citizen, he does not have a legal basis to claim — and they have accused Republicans of allowing witnesses to get away with it.
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Jay Kaplan, staff attorney for the ACLU of Michigan, told the Detroit News that Jonker's opinion failed to mention that some of Nessel's comments were taken out of context, while others were made while she was still a private citizen.
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As a private citizen, Haley can pick and choose her moments -- campaigning for Trump if he remains popular with Republicans running up to his re-election race in 2020 while distancing herself from positions that could damage her down the road.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump is considering spending his last nights as a private citizen ensconced in his new Washington hotel, rather than at Blair House as many of his predecessors have, according to people briefed on the planning.
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Here's the full footnote: Comey's briefing included the Steele reporting's unverified allegation that the Russians had compromising tapes of the President involving conduct when he was a private citizen during a 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant.
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Lewandowski later told Hicks about Trump's request and joked with her about a suggestion by the president that Lewandowski - a private citizen - should tell Sessions that he was fired if the attorney general would not meet with the former campaign manager.
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Great lesson for our kids from HanAssholeSolo, NOT Trump (2/2) In response to the apology, CNN stated that while it was respecting HanAssholeSolo's role as a private citizen, it "reserves the right to publish his identity" should it become clear that the apology he made was insincere: CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
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"My hope is that a conservative will win the nomination and that he will go on to win the presidency, for our country's sake, and I intend to do whatever I can to make that happen, now as a private citizen," he said.
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" He later noted, "This is what [Flynn] did for a living... He was a private citizen at the time..." More takeaways: On WikiLeaks allegedly leaking CIA documents: The president believes "the systems at the CIA are outdated and need to be updated.
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It's Eric Trump's birthday on Saturday, a momentous occasion you probably would have forgotten about had the Republican National Committee not put out a sweet little reminder on its official Twitter account, asking everyone to send the private citizen some good vibes.
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His great-great grandfather was the cold and miserly J. Paul Getty, who was at one time the world's richest private citizen and in 1973 famously refused to pay the ransom to return his kidnapped grandson John Paul Getty III, Balthazar's father.
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Levin, who worked as a chief of staff for Attorney General Ed Meese under former President Reagan, said the ability to get approval to record the calls of a private citizen like Flynn is a complicated process that should not be ignored.
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"The defense once again seeks an unprecedented remedy, the dismissal of charges on the basis of comments by a private citizen without any connection to the military," military prosecutors wrote in the filing dated Wednesday and released online by Bergdahl's lawyers Monday.
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Why it matters: It's illegal under the Logan Act for a private citizen to communicate with a foreign government to attempt to influence U.S. policy, but no one has been convicted under that law and it's unclear whether that's what Mueller is investigating.
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A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat, or Using Life, was serialized in a state-owned literary newspaper and a case was brought against him last year by a private citizen who claimed the excerpt caused him distress and heart palpitations.
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Given Comey's past appearances before Congress—which he made as director of the FBI and not as a private citizen—it seemed possible, however, that the opening statement would be the most important aspect of Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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At a second meeting a month later, Trump asked about the status of the message and said Lewandowski, a private citizen, should "tell Sessions he was fired" if he would not meet with the former campaign manager, according to the Mueller report.
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Such activities—in which he has served the government in his capacity as a private citizen—are very much in keeping with the ethos of civic republicanism, the political-philosophical tradition that, after shuttering his campaign, Hart came to embrace as his own.
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The question about Donald Trump's immunity from suit is just one part in a larger—and in some ways much darker—story about the difficulties that any private citizen would have today in suing the government for violating his or her rights.
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It was that view that Attorney General William P. Barr embraced in a 19-page memo he drafted last year as a private citizen and sent unsolicited to the White House months before Mr. Trump appointed him to lead the Justice Department.
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Lynn EnglumSamoa To the Editor: Your examination of how personal travel "is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change" is an impressive statistical analysis, but ultimately an unhelpful guide for Americans who want to solve climate change.
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Advisers to Mr. Biden fielded suggestions last fall that Mr. Biden contact Ms. Hill during the confirmation hearings of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, to explain that he better understood her experience after watching last year's Supreme Court process as a private citizen.
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Later Tuesday afternoon, the Justice Department may take a position for an appeals court on whether Trump can stop House Democrats from subpoenaing an accounting firm for his tax returns from when he was a private citizen, according to a court order.
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After a lifetime of reporting the news, now is the time for me to stand up as a private citizen and do everything in my power to help defeat Donald Trump and elect Mike Bloomberg the next President of the United States.
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He wouldn't tell me what he was doing there, or for whom he was working — ''I'm just a private citizen,'' he texted — but weeks later, he tweeted about the Trump administration's decision to approve a $1.42 billion arms sale to the country.
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While you're doing that, let me remind you that Trump did the following things as either a candidate or private citizen: Impersonated a young publicist within the Trump Organization to leak flattering details about his own personal life to the New York tabloids.
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Bob Joffer, from Yankton, South Dakota, was on the line, wanting to know if he, as a private citizen, could build a satellite dish and put it in his yard to receive satellite broadcasts, and would it be legal to do so.
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For those reasons, he should not be the fourth private citizen to lie in honor at the Capitol, following civil rights icon Rosa Parks in 2005 (two slain Capitol police officers Jacob J. Chestnut and John M. Gibson were also honored in 1998).
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A chapter from Ahmed Naji's novel Istikhdam al-Hayat, or Using Life, was serialized in a state-owned literary publication and a case was brought against him last year by a private citizen who claimed it had caused him distress including heart palpitations.
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As a private citizen, Trump ran ads demanding reinstatement of the death penalty for the Central Park Five and as a presidential candidate, he announced they were still guilty even after another man admitted, and DNA evidence corroborated, he alone committed the crime.
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This was a private citizen who felt like she had information that was going to be important that she just wanted to report to the people who are going to be considering this man for one of the highest offices in the land.
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"Given recent developments, I believe that it is best for the Commonwealth of Virginia if Justin Fairfax dealt with these accusations as a private citizen," Representative A. Donald McEachin, an African-American Democrat whose district includes Richmond, the Virginia capital, wrote on Twitter.
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Giuliani's involvement in Trump's efforts to have Ukraine gather dirt on political opponents is itself a major problem for Trump: why on earth was Giuliani -- a private citizen and not an employee of the US government -- involved in any of this at all?
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" Ms. Terrell-Paige had ended the social media post in question by saying that she was "speaking as a private citizen not as an elected member of the Jersey City Board of Education" and that "these beliefs are mine and mine alone.
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Deleted this earlier (from yesterday) because I didn't want to promote a thread that dragged an unrelated private citizen into this unfortunate situationI had no idea what Ed was planning (we've never spoken) beyond what he had tweeted about having info exonerating Kavanaugh. pic.twitter.com/r453gdPmfo
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The 2016 Race When Steve Forbes ran for president in 1996 on a plan that called for no taxes on dividends and capital gains, Mitt Romney, then a private citizen, took out a full-page ad in The Boston Globe attacking his proposal as plutocratic.
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David Cicilline (D-RI), who sits on the Judiciary Committee, said he believes that since Mueller is technically still an employee of the Justice Department until the end of May, it will be easier to get him to speak once he is a private citizen.
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The lawsuit alleges that the then-private citizen ordered money from the foundation be used to settle legal disputes involving his Mar-a-Lago estate and one of his golf clubs, shining more light on how the president apparently used to run his personal affairs.
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But Giuliani's involvement in the matter raises questions: "Why would a private citizen — not an employee of the United States — be involved in this unless he was working for the personal political benefit of his client, Donald Trump?" one Justice Department veteran told Insider.
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"According to Davis, the sole purpose of Cohen's appearance before the committee is to allow Cohen to share his personal anecdotes about his time working for the then-private citizen Donald J. Trump, and his experiences after Mr. Trump became President," Jordan and Meadows wrote.
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In June of 2018, while he was still a private citizen, Barr, of his own accord, wrote a nineteen-page memo to senior officials of the Justice Department asserting that, in light of the President's inherent constitutional powers, Trump could not have obstructed justice.
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Those results will be released, and we will need to learn from them to ensure government's intelligence and law enforcement powers are never again turned on a private citizen or political candidate as a result of the political leanings of a handful of FBI agents.
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If someone makes a deepfake of a private citizen—think vindictive exes or harassers scraping someone's private Facebook page—and no images or videos of them appear publicly online, these algorithms won't be able to find videos, and will categorize it as the original.
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He has also continued to conduct high-risk nuclear negotiations with Mr. Kim despite the deep skepticism of advisers like Mr. Bolton, who as a private citizen called for pre-emptive military strikes on North Korea two months before he entered the West Wing.
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When he was a private citizen, Mr. Trump frequently called in to the shock jock Howard Stern's bawdy radio program — the same one that made Stuttering John, Mr. Stern's sidekick on the show for more than 15 years, famous — and engaged in salty banter.
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"It is kind of chilling that something that was posted on my own time as a private citizen could be misconstrued to the point where they are calling for my job and making threats of physical violence to me," Mr. Phansey said on Thursday.
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U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, testified that Trump directed him, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and former Ukraine special envoy Kurt Volker to work closely with Giuliani on Ukraine matters, a request that he viewed with alarm as Giuliani was a private citizen.
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His statement puts him in opposition to the position taken by Mr. Trump and his incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who has traveled to Russia as a private citizen for RT, the state-controlled news operation, and attended a dinner with Mr. Putin.
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Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) pushed hard on Whitaker to name the names of people who he talked to when determining whether past comments critical of the Mueller probe -- made as a private citizen -- meant he should recuse himself from oversight over the Mueller probe.
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The law is vague and sets no limit on the number of guns a private citizen can sell, but guidelines from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives say those "repetitively buying and selling firearms" for profit are unlicensed dealers, which is illegal.
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However, legal experts say it is not clear whether certain conversations between Trump and Comey that the president has talked about publicly would be covered, and any effort to block Comey, who is now a private citizen, from testifying could be challenged in court.
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" — Simon Menendez, small business owner in San Juan The report says Molina claims she was punished for reporting on the allegedly rigged system and that she was blocked from her right "to report wrongdoing in her capacity as a private citizen, not as a public employee.
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That is one reason why I signed a letter along with more than 400 other former federal prosecutors who said that if Trump were a private citizen they would have indicted him on obstruction of justice charges based on the evidence set forth in Mueller's report.
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U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called Richardson's decision to resign from the board and his reasons for doing so "cause for concern", but noted he had been acting as a private citizen in joining the board and visiting Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.
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The government likely has the authority to empower a private citizen to deal with a foreign country but it is unclear who in government can give such permission; for example, Giuliani might argue that Trump, as president, duly empowered him to conduct foreign relations with Ukraine.
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McAuliffe lawyer James W. Cooper confirmed to CNN that McAuliffe was being investigated, but said FBI investigators are looking at his time as a private citizen, before he ran for governor, and said the investigation has nothing to do with either Wang or the Clinton foundation.
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If Flynn—a private citizen at the time—calling the Russian ambassador to tell Russia to look past a foreign policy action by the White House doesn't constitute a case worthy of a Logan Act prosecution, it's hard to see what else might down the road.
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Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued in court that "no one has ever attempted to set aside a law that is neutral on its face and neutral in operation on the basis of largely campaign trail comments made by a private citizen running for office," he said.
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"Your failure to respond fully to our questions here today in no way limits the ability of this committee to get the answers in the long run — even if you are a private citizen when we finally learn the truth," Nadler said in his opening remarks.
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So welcome to 7503, where not only is Trump still our president, but a legion of shared-economy predators are doing their best to cash in on the many, many forgotten products the man emblazoned with his brand while he was still, technically, a private citizen.
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As a private citizen, Myers lobbied to prevent NOAA's National Weather Service from having direct contact with the public, saying that "the government should get out of the forecasting business" — despite the fact that AccuWeather repackaged free government weather data and sold it for a profit.
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Protesters are undeterred, Mr. Quinn said, even though Mr. Trump was known to stay sealed in his tower when he was a private citizen, commuting between his penthouse and his offices on a lower floor and sometimes not leaving the building for days at a time.
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U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called Richardson's decision to resign from the board and his reasons for doing so "cause for concern," but noted he had been acting as a private citizen in joining the board and visiting Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.
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Days after picking up the pieces from a failed bid to take his electric car manufacturer private — an attempt seemingly initiated by an ill-advised tweet — the billionaire revisited a groundless accusation he made about a private citizen involved in a child-rescue operation that caught the world's attention.
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Page told the intelligence committee that he was "a low-level junior guy in this informal group" of foreign-policy advisers, and that he went to Moscow as a private citizen, invited by an official at the New Economic School just after he had joined the Trump campaign.
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H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, declined to say whether he would be concerned if a private citizen attempted to set up backchannel communications with a foreign government to influence US foreign policy and said he would not be concerned if a White House official attempted to do so.
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"When I left the White House in 220006 and returned to life as a private citizen, I wanted to continue working in areas I had long cared about, where I believed I could still make an impact," Clinton wrote in a note posted Monday on the Clinton Foundation's blog.
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But it's also remarkably on brand, if not for the royal family, then at least for House Sussex, which initially locked down the details of Archie's birth, rejected the traditional photo op on the hospital steps, and have expressed their desire to raise their son as a private citizen.
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" In an interview with Bloomberg, Stefan Passantino, the White House lawyer in charge of ethics and compliance, questioned any characterization of Icahn as a government official, saying, "He is simply a private citizen whose opinion the President respects and whom the President speaks with from time to time.
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In a rare bout of consistency between 2011 and 2017, private citizen Trump beat a loud drum for withdrawal from Afghanistan—after President Barack Obama, who had campaigned on ending the Iraq war, approved an Afghanistan troop surge and laid the groundwork for U.S. involvement in Syria against ISIS.
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"Those results will be released, and we will need to learn from them to ensure the government's intelligence and law enforcement powers are never again turned on a private citizen or political candidate as the result of the political leanings of a handful of FBI agents," Collins said.
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No one could have foreseen, for example, that in 2012, then private citizen Donald Trump would lease the old post office building in Washington, D.C., and that Irwin's aerial installation there, "48 Shadow Planes" (1983), would end up sharing the space with crystal chandeliers and a giant U.S. flag.
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He had made those views clear last June in a 19-page memo he wrote as a private citizen for the Justice Department, in which he castigated Mr. Mueller's investigation for "proposing an unprecedented expansion of obstruction laws" that he said could have "grave consequences" for the presidency.
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Comey told the inspector general that he needed to leak the memo because it was something he was "uniquely situated to do, because [he was] now a private citizen" and that it concerned an issue of "incredible importance to the Nation, as a whole," according to the report.
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Being "presidential" is not a thing for Trump What most presidents would do in a situation in which a private citizen -- albeit one who used to be the vice president of the United States and is actively considering a future run for president -- attacked them is to ignore it.
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Yang's press secretary told Time that experts who believe the pilot breaks personal use rules are mistaken, because although Yang is obviously personally a believer in UBI, he is not a big enough believer that he would give away $2000,2120 of his own money as a private citizen.
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While the prevailing view at the Justice Department is that a sitting president cannot be indicted, the prosecutors in Manhattan could consider charging him after he leaves office, particularly if he does not win re-election and is a private citizen before the legal deadline to file charges expires.
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" The majority staff said in the memo that the White House "sent several letters, including on the day of the interview, vastly expanding its previous assertions of Executive Privilege to apply to Mr. Kobach—a private citizen who did not work for the Trump Administration when these communications took place.
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CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
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The complaint was broadened on Wednesday to allege Trump violated Mexican law by, as a foreigner, seeking to buy property within 31 miles (50 km) of the U.S. border to develop the Trump Ocean Resort Baja project, the official Jaime Martinez, who filed the complaint as a private citizen, told reporters.
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The Watch What Happens Live host and Real Housewives executive producer recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he never approached the first lady to appear on The Real Housewives of New York City back when she was just a private citizen living in N.Y.C.'s Trump Tower with her husband.
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Although he does not technically have the right to determine who can and cannot run in elections, he effectively prevented his sister, Princess Ubolratana (who had renounced her title and is technically a private citizen) from running for prime minister at the head of one of the pro-Thaksin parties.
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An obscure law called the Logan Act forbids private citizens from conducting diplomacy, and Flynn was technically nothing more than a private citizen before Trump took office—but no one has ever been charged with breaking that law, and Flynn might not have done anything illegal during his calls to Kislyak.
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If Tillerson had not joined the Trump administration and just sold some of his Exxon shares to diversify as a private citizen, those sales would have been subject to capital gains taxes, meaning he'd only have about 75 to 80 percent of his Exxon shares' value to invest, Willens estimates.
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Admittedly, my joy may be a fleeting, but still it was satisfying to see the NFL and its 403 team owners finally realize how dangerous it is when we have a President who insists on using his position to attack any business or private citizen who disagrees with his politics.
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John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy O'Rourke says he will not 'in any scenario' run for Senate MORE (Texas), the No. 85033 Senate Republican, noted that Comey is now a private citizen.
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Billy Graham, who died last week at the age of 99 and on Wednesday became only the fourth private citizen in American history to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, as politicians including President Trump, along with hundreds if not thousands of ordinary Americans, came to pay their respects.
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The killing was condemned by leaders of the European Union — which Malta joined in 2004 — and by the pope, who in a rare message expressing condolences about a private citizen asked the archbishop of Malta to "convey his condolences to her family," according to a statement that was released on Friday.
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Original copies of the little books that started it all have been discovered in the hands of a private citizen in the Netherlands, and are up for auction until Monday through a Dutch online auction house, with an estimated price of 2,500 to 3,500 euros, or about $2,800 to $4,000.
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And while gestures like elevating the status of the King Historical Site or issuing a proclamation for Martin Luther King Day are nice, it does not compensate for the years of intemperate racial comments that Trump made as a private citizen and has continued to make as commander in chief.
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The investigation by the state into Mr. Torres's actions was prompted by a tip from a private citizen, Mr. Porrino said, as well as "ongoing investigative reporting" by WNBC, which first broadcast video of city officials in March doing work on Mr. Torres's home while on the clock for the city.
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Mulvaney's comments came after the U.S. ambassador to the European Union said in written testimony in the impeachment inquiry that Trump told senior U.S. officials to talk directly to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, about U.S. policy in Ukraine, raising concern that the president was outsourcing American foreign policy to a private citizen.
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Furthermore, the measure would allow private citizen viewers to report violations of the condom law to Cal/OSHA; if OSHA fails to act on a complaint within 21 days, those citizens would then be allowed to sue anyone with financial interest in the production, and see a 25 percent cut of penalties paid.
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"After the first round of sanctions in response to Russia's use of 'novichok' in an assassination attempt against a private citizen in the United Kingdom, Russia did not provide the assurances required under U.S. law so we are imposing the second round of sanctions," a senior administration official told The Hill on Friday.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Bannon the private citizen stood where his latest fight had taken him: the mulch floor of a barn in southern Alabama, where he delivered a passionate plea to elect Roy S. Moore, the former judge who faces numerous accusations that he preyed on young women, some of them teenagers.
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When a principled private citizen, Gina Miller, mounted a legal challenge against the government's intention to implement Brexit without further consulting Parliament, she was forced to hire round-the-clock protection, while the judges who ruled in her favor were named and shamed as "enemies of the people" by The Daily Mail.
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"I'm going to be constrained in what I do with all of you until I am again a private citizen," Mr. Obama, who will be living a few miles from the White House next year, told a meeting this past week of Organizing for Action, the group that maintains his political movement.
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" Asked why he, a private citizen, would have been coordinating with the State Department to speak with top Ukrainian officials about a matter of political, not official, concern to the President of the United States, Giuliani told CNN, "I know more about this subject than probably anybody in the United States of America.
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Mr Flynn, a retired three-star general and former chief of a Pentagon spy agency, had to quit after admitting that he had misled Vice-President Mike Pence about his contacts with a Russian envoy after the November presidential election but before the inauguration in January, when Mr Flynn was still a private citizen.
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Even when he takes off his tie, as he has for his recent TV appearances, or swaps the jacket for a collared shirt in a dark shade, as he did for his Twitter page and his author photograph, as if to acknowledge his role as a private citizen, his clothes still convey sincerity and sobriety.
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Although Page has long insisted he traveled as a private citizen — and not as a campaign official — to speak at a Moscow university, he acknowledged in his testimony that before departing he mentioned the trip to then-senator Jeff Sessions, a top Trump campaign adviser whose own contacts with Russians have come under scrutiny.
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As a private citizen, she had been known as Elizabeth Mountbatten (the surname Prince Philip had taken when he renounced his Greek citizenship in order to marry the heir to the British throne), but as Queen Elizabeth, her last name would also be the one passed down to the future monarchs of her line.
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The former head of the CIA saw evidence Russian operatives were trying to cultivate Trump campaign aides Brennan, testifying for the first time as a private citizen, offered up a stream of news and developments Tuesday morning, but the biggest was clearly that he saw evidence that Trump aides were being courted by Russian operatives.
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"Whether you like it or not, it's the first time a sitting United States president has used the full power of the Oval Office, the first family, the right-wing media and, more importantly, two departments within the Department of Justice to open an investigation on a private citizen who did nothing wrong," she said.
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" The former vice president told The New York Times in a recent statement that his son's business dealings was not a consideration in pressuring Ukraine to fire its prosecutor general, noting the decision was made "without any regard for how it would or would not impact any business interests of his son, a private citizen.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's long-time confidant Keith Schiller privately testified that he rejected a Russian offer to send five women to then private-citizen Trump's hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, according to multiple sources from both political parties with direct knowledge of the testimony.
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Russia investigation President Donald Trump's long-time confidant Keith Schiller privately testified that he rejected a Russian offer to send five women to then-private citizen Trump's hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, according to multiple sources from both political parties with direct knowledge of the testimony.
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When I went looking for the house (it is occupied by a private citizen, its location only known to architecture geeks), I had the address wrong and spent hours wandering through nearby streets, for once frustrated by the extraordinary heterogeneity of Japanese architecture, with each house different from the other in style and dimension.
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Trump's strike against Assad, and the real possibility that he could do so again the future, mark a stark departure from his oft-stated belief, both as a private citizen and a presidential candidate, that US foreign policy should be intervention-averse and not be conducted to enforce international norms or pursue humanitarian ends.
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Sometimes a private citizen is caught up in a viral moment and learns that a great deal of information about him or her exists online, just waiting to be splashed across the news — like the guy in the red sweater who, after asking a question in a presidential debate, had his Reddit porn comments revealed.
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Just this week, the destruction of personal responsibility by online anonymity was made clear in a sensational way: The unnamed private citizen who created the video of Trump beating up on a CNN-headed wrestler begged CNN to keep his identity private and promised to stop his racist, anti-semitic, and anti-Muslim posting.
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"We are so far past the period where those comments were made by Matt Whitaker as a private citizen, Chris," Conway told host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday," adding that the president and lawyers have produced millions of pages of documents and that over 30 of Trump's associates have testified to Mueller's team.
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It included these paragraphs: CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
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Nadler said that while Whitaker on the one hand denied ever speaking to White House officials about the Mueller probe while he was a private citizen, he later acknowledged interviewing for a White House legal position that was ultimately given to attorney Ty Cobb - the person who was then tasked with managing the president's response to the probe.
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He will be a private citizen in early 2021 and, theoretically, might have to answer for, among other things, the incidents of obstructive behavior as outlined in the Mueller report and his current status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case of illegal campaign finance contributions made via Michael Cohen to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
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Schiff said the lawsuit filed by Charles Kupperman, a deputy to former national security adviser John BoltonJohn BoltonHouse panel advances resolution outlining impeachment inquiry Democrats raise stakes with impeachment vote The Memo: After Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens MORE, questioning his obligation to appear before Congress "has no basis in law" since Kupperman is now a private citizen.
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" (The nominee has denied Dr. Ford's claims.) The president then targeted Dr. Ford, a private citizen, and tried to cast doubt on her allegations: "I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents.
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So I did a lot of research on this because I didn't want to be spouting off, but I am actually the first person that has had a sitting United States president use the full power of the Oval, the first family, the Department of Justice, and the entire right-wing media to try to ruin a private citizen.
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As often happens in political battles of the Trump era, his supporters took a few random facts at the margins of the story and constructed an alternative reality, so that the story became not about the president's endorsement of a threatening video created by a political extremist, but about a powerful news network harassing a private citizen.
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" In the story, CNN's original statement read: "CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
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"Since becoming a private citizen, knowing what I know they did, the variety of means Russians used, millions and millions of voters they got to ... to me it stretches logic not to think they didn't help swing the election ... the full magnitude of what they did, in my mind, in my opinion, they did affect the election."
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While a private citizen meeting with a sanctioned individual or someone associated with a sanctioned entity like VEB bank is not in itself a sanctions violation, the move at best reflects poor judgment and at worst, could pose violations of the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments in disagreements with the United States.
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But rather than follow the regular order, as Nixon had, President Trump selected as acting attorney general a lackey who had been chosen as chief of staff to the attorney general because of his TV appearances as a private citizen in which he echoed the president's position on the special counsel's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 election.
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RONALD L. HIRSCH, BROOKLYN To the Editor: If a reasonable definition of a Washington leak is the unauthorized release of information, how can anyone suggest that James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, "leaked" a memo when he was the author of that memo (and, not incidentally, was a private citizen at the time of the release)?
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"The reported meeting amongst individuals known for their anti-vaccine views did include a local staffer of the U.S. embassy, but these meetings were conducted on his own time in his capacity as a private citizen and do not in any way reflect the position of the embassy nor the U.S. government," the State Department said in a statement.
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If private contracts between individuals are suddenly criminalized — and if the attorney-client privilege of those involved in drafting them aren't held sacred — then every businessman, politician and private citizen should be concerned, as we are heading down a slippery slope where contract law in America will no longer exist and neither will our civilized society.
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" CNN wrote in the article that it was not publishing the user's name "because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
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