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  1. a person who is honest and direct

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"I think overall he is a straight shooter," she said.
But Hastings also has acquired a reputation as a straight shooter.
"Straight shooter" was the innocuous phrase often used to describe him.
She's also a straight-shooter when it comes to talking trends.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz is, by all accounts, a straight shooter.
Let's try something new — and at least he's a straight shooter.
"Your audience knows that I'm a straight shooter," Trump told Pirro.
Judge Jackson is a straight shooter with a deep moral core.
You are always a straight shooter and it is much appreciated.
"He's a straight shooter; very honest, very decent man," Hatch told reporters.
Durham has also won praise from Democrats for being a straight-shooter.
Christie was the good guy, straight shooter, tough, and one of us.
Blumenthal said Durham risks "sullying" his long record as a straight shooter.
Right now, Democrats and Republicans alike characterize him as a straight shooter.
Me: He has a reputation as a straight shooter, but he lies.
I've known him a long time; he is a very straight shooter.
She decided to follow the program — "like a straight shooter" she said.
When it comes to advice, Jazmine Hughes is such a straight shooter.
I am straight shooter and my personal bias has never affected my work.
Comey is regarded as a straight shooter by both sides of the aisle.
"Straight shooter" is one of the most common phrases used to describe him.
Indeed, Barr called Mueller a "straight-shooter" and praised Mueller's ability and integrity.
What a cynical hack Mr. "straight shooter" Chris Christie turned out to be.
He's a straight shooter: "There is no answer to your question," he says.
So what if he trashed his previous reputation as a reasonably straight shooter?
But let me tell you something about myself: I am a straight shooter.
"My personality is that I'm a straight shooter — almost to a fault," says Perry.
I'm a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
" Earlier, Warner made a point of emphasizing Comey's integrity, calling him a "straight shooter.
Or the straight shooter who later disclosed portions that were damaging to President Trump?
But knowing him personally all these years, his family, his background -- he's a straight shooter.
CEO John Legere portrays himself as a straight shooter in an industry full of phonies.
I am a straight shooter and I'll go right to the heart of the matter.
His statements are simple and decisive, giving the impression of a tough talking straight shooter.
Voters would rather disagree with a straight-shooter than agree with a political wind-tester.
Current Politburo member This Chinese vice premier is often seen a reform-minded straight shooter.
In "Krisha," he plays Uncle Doyle, an ornery straight shooter who hangs out with Krisha.
"Mueller was appointed [FBI chief] by Bush, and he's a total straight shooter," Painter said.
To the Editor: Judge Emmet Sullivan is a straight shooter with a deep moral core.
Screenshot: YouTube/Bloomberg NewsSteve Wozniak has always been a straight-shooter who speaks his mind.
That would be Michael Atkinson, a Trump-appointed official widely regarded as a straight shooter.
Sen. John Kennedy has long been known as a folksy, straight shooter on Capitol Hill.
Either way, this affable Midwesterner is a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.
Dimon said Shipley was widely respected as a "straight shooter" who fostered an open, entrepreneurial meritocracy.
He's always been a straight shooter and always professional, yet people keep talking smack about him.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff describes Yovanovitch as a straight shooter and principled public servant
The nominee said he called Mueller a straight shooter and recommended dealing with him as such.
I thought he was a straight shooter, and frankly I'm offended with the president's comments today.
It's a straight-shooter of a show with a clear angle for where it wants to go.
He's a straight shooter — brash, combative, and insulted that I've Facebook messaged him out of the blue.
The White House has cited Mr. Rosenstein's reputation as a straight shooter in justifying Mr. Trump's move.
He said he described Mueller, a longtime friend, as a "straight shooter" when Trump asked about him.
I think it is a professional investigation conducted by a man I've know to be a straight shooter.
Maybe you like a mason jar, or maybe you're a straight shooter and want a traditional cocktail glass.
It made those around Mr Trump, a self-declared straight-shooter and problem-solver, appear phoney and incompetent.
McAleenan, a career official who worked in the Obama administration, is considered a straight shooter compared to Nielsen.
He is really of unimpeachable integrity," King said, describing the longtime Republican director as "a total straight shooter.
He loved to talk about himself as a straight shooter (his campaign bus was "the Straight Talk Express").
Weather people love him or don&apost love him-- (CROSSTALK) (OFF-MIC) TRUMP: -- Mitt Romney is a straight shooter.
Widely respected for being a straight shooter, Walter believed there was no substitute for talent, drive and hard work.
Throughout his career, Mr Calvey developed a reputation as a straight-shooter who understood how to operate in Russia.
I'm not backing away from it down here [and] I love [CEO] Barry Pennypacker because he's a straight shooter.
Even in the private sector, Mr. Lhota has long been seen as a competent manager and a straight shooter.
Mueller is, by everyone's pre-2017 estimation, the very definition of a straight-shooter, an authority trusted on all sides.
" He offered praise for Whitaker, calling the former acting attorney general a "very straight shooter" and "a very fine man.
"The irony to me is that Judge O'Neill has a reputation as being a total straight shooter," Mr. McAndrews added.
Registered as "nonpartisan," Mr. Khuzami has served during Republican and Democratic administrations and has a reputation as a straight shooter.
Donald was a straight shooter, a magnate, a playboy, a marrier of Eastern European blondes, a conqueror of distant Manhattan.
His fiery rhetoric and slurs against gays, women and minorities have thrilled followers who view him as an authentic straight shooter.
Instead of being praised as a straight-shooter, I was called a gold-digger, a con artist, and a pathological liar.
The two-time House Agriculture chairman has built a reputation as a brash straight-shooter who frequently bucks the Democratic Party.
" Blumenthal, asked if he had concerns about Grassley's leadership of the panel, also defended the Iowa senator as a "straight shooter.
Instead of being praised as a straight shooter, I was called a gold digger, a con artist, and a pathological liar.
But the problem for Trump's team in relying on this argument is that his calling card is that he's a straight shooter.
Before his involvement in this affair, Rosenstein had a reputation as a nonpartisan straight shooter, and had garnered praise from both parties.
They were scenery-chewers, to be sure, but I think that was the only way to play opposite the straight shooter Batman.
On the other hand, the flip side of Trump's reputation as "a king of verbal abuse" is that of a straight-shooter.
He described Ellison, who officially took the helm at Lowe's in July, a "straight shooter" and praised his leadership of the company.
"I've known him a long time, he is a very straight shooter," Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday.
Trump went on to praise Whitaker as "a very, very straight shooter" and said he had "a lot of respect" for him.
The game holds up reasonably well today, played especially with an eye for its immersive sim DNA and less as a straight shooter.
I'm a professional, I'm straight shooter, and I'm going to have to wait until March 5th to put my hands on this guy.
"I think the chairman has been a very straight shooter," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and a member of the panel.
With Micron, President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra has been a straight shooter about both the good and bad facing the company, Cramer said.
He said he was "very committed" to supporting Mr Mueller's investigation, calling him a "consummate straight-shooter and somebody I have enormous respect for".
Reid has always told me is ... 'Know who you are, stay true to yourself, stay true to your values and be a straight shooter.
"Zack can't not shoot straight, and bless him for it, 'cause in that moment, I needed a straight shooter who I couldn't argue with."
"Iowans have chosen him for his successful track record as the chief executive, his trustworthiness and his reputation as a straight shooter," Grassley said.
Despite the obvious pro-Trump bias of lots of the shows (and people) on Fox news, Wallace is a straight-shooter and tough questioner.
Sanders, who I would call one of the great truth-tellers in American politics today, is a straight shooter who believes in straight talk.
I think it's a professional investigation conducted by a man that I've known to be a straight shooter in all my interactions with him.
"He's a straight shooter whom I would expect to answer the questions that are asked directly," said former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst.
Durham's reputation as a straight shooter helped ease those fears for a time but the newly reported involvement of Barr may well worsen them.
"He's always been honest, he's always been a straight shooter with me, even when I was wrong, which was most of the time," Tyson joked.
Given that President Trump isn't such a straight shooter in the facts department, it might not surprise you to learn that he cheats at golf.
He is a straight shooter — and something I respected — and it didn't matter if he was a young major and I was a brigadier general.
On top of being very open minded I'm kind of a straight shooter and so I consider bickering just a waste of time and crappy.
His supporters say that he may not be politically correct, but that he is a straight shooter who defends family values and traditional Christian education.
His reputation as a straight shooter took serious hits with revelations about cases involving some of the country's most famous, and currently most controversial, names.
Wang Yang, the Chinese vice premier who is likely to head the country's top political advisory body soon, is often seen a reform-minded straight shooter.
I don't like his politics, but I do think he comes across as smart and a straight shooter and I don't think his career is over.
His reputation was as a vigorous investigator who takes his job quite seriously — "straight shooter" is one of the most common phrases used to describe him.
Last week, the No. 2 Republican in the State Senate, John DeFrancisco, an irascible straight shooter from the Syracuse area, said he was exploring a run.
Respected among agents who felt he was a straight shooter, he probably has the credibility to steer the F.B.I. out of a hurricane of bad publicity.
Hoping to rectify her past, she takes a job at a pizzeria owned by Mr. Bacon's character, a fatherly straight shooter with secrets of his own.
A veteran of Salomon Brothers and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, he became known as a straight-shooter with a knack for navigating in Russia.
The same voters who used to think he was a straight shooter speaking his mind got uncomfortable seeing poor children locked up in cages at the border.
Peterson is one of few remaining rural Democrats in Washington, and has built a reputation as a brash straight shooter not afraid to buck his own party.
"At first, Kelly seemed like a reasonable, straight shooter," said Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, who is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
"They're both the type of straight shooter in the private setting that will say it like it is, even if the language gets colorful," Mr. Bossert said.
For a politician who has cultivated a reputation as a straight shooter who puts country before party, the about-face on early elections could smack of opportunism.
The intelligence community's chief watchdog, Michael Atkinson, is known to his peers and colleagues as a highly cautious "straight shooter" who tends to keep his head down.
One FBI source described Mueller as a straight shooter who "will go where the facts take him" ... and wouldn't be swayed by President Trump or any other politician.
""Zack can't not shoot straight," he told the magazine, "and bless him for it, 'cause in that moment, I needed a straight shooter who I couldn't argue with.
One crucial reason Netflix has always been a Wall Street favorite even as it loses money is that CEO Reed Hastings has a reputation as a straight shooter.
Still, at least when it comes to electricity transmission and wholesale markets, FERC has generally been seen as an empirically grounded straight shooter, an outpost of old fashioned technocracy.
But I think there's some chance that we'll find out he was a straight shooter in the Comey episode who was manipulated by the president and the attorney general.
His manner makes him come across as straight shooter who speaks his mind freely, and unlike most CEOs, he doesn't seek approval from his communication team for his talking points.
"He is a terrific person, straight shooter," Rice said of Mueller in a wide-ranging conversation with David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," which aired at 7 ET Saturday night.
The clip, released Wednesday, kicks off with the jangling guitar and bass groove of "Straight Shooter," a track by the group the Mamas and the Papas found on their 1966 debut.
John Pistole As the former administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, Pistole carved out a reputation as a straight-shooter who easily worked with both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Jeffries characterized Kushner as "a straight shooter" on the topic and voiced some optimism that similar cooperation is possible this Congress on other big-ticket issues, like drug pricing and infrastructure.
Those who have served with Harris insist he is well equipped to deal with the pressures he faces, while some of his foreign military peers respect him as a straight shooter.
At the same time, despite Republican allegations that Mueller is running a partisan witch hunt, he appears to actually be a straight shooter who is hewing closely to his legally defined mandate.
He called special counsel Robert Mueller a "straight shooter" and declined to push back directly on criticisms levied against the FBI by Trump, instead reiterating a strong defense of the bureau's work.
" Yates, who was fired in January for refusing to defend Trump's travel ban executive order, added that she admires Comey, calling him a "straight shooter" and "a very qualified and talented guy.
When he agreed late last year to take the job, many of them had cast him as a Republican straight shooter, steeped in pre-Trump mores, who would restrain an impetuous president.
But Bowdich has a "straight shooter" reputation inside the bureau, and as a former Los Angeles executive at the FBI he differs from some of the recent leadership ranks drawn from Washington.
Horowitz has spent much of his career trying to rise above politics, say former colleagues who describe him as a "straight shooter" who avoids ever talking about politics around the water cooler.
"Bolton is a hawk and he's a real right-winger, but I think he's a straight shooter," said Robert Deitz, who held top positions in George W. Bush's National Security Agency and CIA.
"Game of Thrones" star Jacob Anderson is a straight shooter -- he's got sage advice for some 'Thrones' fans and a harsh reaction to that angry fans' petition, but his opinions are totally Unsullied.
Many Democrats now view Comey as more of a partisan operative than a straight shooter, and they doubt his willingness to lead any investigation into possible links between Russia and Trump's presidential campaign.
Rogers, who held the gavel on the House Intelligence Committee and is a former agent at the bureau, reportedly has a solid reputation inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building as a straight shooter.
There's plenty for both sides to chew on Horowitz, a political appointee under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has been characterized as a straight shooter by both Democrats and Republicans.
What can they really do to stop the confirmation of a judge who is such a straight shooter and one who has so consistently applied the Constitution in a scholarly and objective manner?
Volker is seen as "a well-respected straight shooter who is likely to testify in ways that will damage other Trump allies," Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, wrote in an emailed analysis.
Volker is seen as "a well-respected straight shooter who is likely to testify in ways that will damage other Trump allies," wrote Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, in an emailed analysis.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former military chief Benny Gantz portrays himself as a straight-shooter who will restore simple values to Israel if he wins power in the country's third election in less than a year.
Hull is a straight-shooter, funny, and personable, and when he talks about art, there's no jargon, so when he throws in a reference to several lines of poetry, it's all the more compelling.
I think Rob Ford was one of the earlier examples of, across North American culture, that you could violate norms and get away with it if you were likable enough and were a straight shooter.
I mean, I love me some B. Frank (my straight-shooter nickname for Bethenny Frankel, not Senator Barney Frank), but girl needs to start taking it if she's going to dish it out so much.
And so I think that she will be able to provide a lot of insight into their conversations, perhaps more so than she already has because publicly she's known to be an extremely straight shooter.
Heather Navarro, who assumed Ms. Krewson's seat on the board this year, said that the mayor was regarded as a responsive straight-shooter in the ward she represented, a majority-white area west of downtown.
Naturally, the straight-shooter charisma of the 16-year-old activist has triggered a cult of personality to form around her image — even as her message remains unambiguously focused on policy change and anti-capitalist sentiment.
" He also praised her credibility and said that people who have worked with her "have described her as a straight shooter, somebody who is just willing to level to you and deliver good information and facts.
Barr's efforts to protect the presidency, and by extension Trump, have undoubtedly damaged his reputation as a straight shooter in Washington, and it was in that context that he made the comments about Trump not shredding institutions.
Of course we should cover Clinton's sins, but when the public believes that a mythomaniac like Trump is the straight shooter, we owe it to ourselves and the country to wrestle with knotty questions of false equivalence.
Yes, it's possible a straight-shooter could have accepted an executive position in the Trump Organization, but anyone with an interest in honesty and fair-dealing would not have stuck around for as long as Cohen did.
" He also defended Special Counsel Robert Mueller&aposs investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, saying, "I think it is a professional investigation conducted by a man I've known to be a straight shooter.
Asked if she's received any advice from the former Senate majority leader and political kingmaker (or queenmaker), she nodded: "Know who you are, stay true to yourself, stay true to your values, and be a straight shooter."
Once widely celebrated as an "independent straight shooter," in the words of The New York Post's Michael Goodwin, Comey left office under a cloud of partisan recrimination and suspicion, attacked first by Democrats and then by Republicans.
Many in the Philippines see him as a man of the people, a straight shooter who genuinely wants to help his country but whose style (he compared himself to Hitler and joked about rape) often gets him into trouble.
You've been a straight shooter with this committee, and have been willing to speak truth to power, even at the risk of your own career, which makes the way in which you were fired by the president ultimately shocking.
William Taylor, the veteran diplomat in charge of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, is being hailed within foreign policy circles as a hero of sorts — a straight shooter who plays by the rules even in a chaotic political environment.
Although Mr. Barr agreed to meet with Mr. Trump — and told him, he said, that Mr. Mueller was both a personal friend and "a straight shooter who should be dealt with as such" — he declined to join his legal team.
The power of that story helped McCain fashion a role in American politics as the ultimate straight shooter—the man who would always tell the truth, and who wasn't afraid to buck his own party for the good of the country.
Defense officials described him as a "straight shooter" largely expected to approach the war with a more realistic attitude of defeating the Taliban than General Nicholson, who on multiple occasions suggested that the United States had turned a corner in the war.
If we apply this idea to present politics, the Trump supporter has a web of belief around Trump, including that he is a "straight shooter," that he "tells it like it is," that he is treated unfairly by the media, and so on.
But, I needed to know more, so I went to straight-shooter and Beauty Rx founder Neal Schultz, MD. "If you use coconut oil — or any oil for that matter — on acne-prone skin, you are up a creek without a paddle," Dr. Schultz says.
"He's always been considered incredibly solid, trustworthy, a straight shooter," said Juan Zarate, who worked with Garcia when the two were young federal prosecutors and later, when Zarate was deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism in the Bush administration from 2005 to 2009.
In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash shortly after his firing was announced, Lewandowski seemed to offer his own version of the Trump style, insisting that he was a "straight shooter," and offering some fact-challenged assertions about Trump's poll numbers in Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
"I think it in one sense it is bad news for Trump and it is good news for people who want a robust investigation because Mueller is definitely a straight shooter and he has a good reputation as an FBI director," said Jens David Ohlin, a Cornell University law professor.
Before his fateful and deeply controversial decision to publicly denounce Hillary Clinton for being "extremely careless" with classified information during the 2016 campaign, Comey had a reputation for being something of a boy scout who plays by the rules—a straight shooter with little taste for anything resembling partisan politics.
And Kourtney wasn't about to pass up that perfectly Boomerang-able motorcycle game moment herself: All of this really just goes to prove that even if you're a straight shooter like Khloé, who doesn't play games in real life, one can still play a mean game of skee-ball every now and then.
"Bill O'Reilly called me yesterday, and although complimentary toward me personally, regarding me as a straight shooter and so on and so forth, said that because of his history with [CNN], he just wasn't comfortable in coming on, at least not at this time," Smerconish said on his Sirius XM radio program.
A significant portion of those lives came from the poor and working class—the same demographic that would come to believe, 50 years later, that they finally have a champion in the White House, a champion who, for all his faults, is a straight-shooter, someone who avoids the doublespeak so common to typical politicians.
But while I suspect Facebook believes Stamos has gotten perhaps more than his share of credit for the company's cybersecurity efforts, the loss still stings: Stamos had a lot of credibility with the press, who sees him a straight shooter, and he spoke about his work with an urgency and moral seriousness that were unusual for a corporate executive.
"Cal's record of bipartisanship during his time in Congress and his reputation as a pragmatic, straight shooter who is committed to intellectual consistency, sound science and good policy has helped ACC become one of the most effective and successful trade associations in Washington," said Bob Patel, the chief executive of LyondellBasell and chairman of ACC's board.
"He has a reputation for being a straight shooter who plays it right down the middle, and those are important qualities for a deputy attorney general," said Matthew S. Axelrod, who was the top aide to former Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and is now in private practice in Washington at the Linklaters law firm.
After lauding his accomplishments, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyOmar says US should reconsider aid to Israel I'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Trump finds consistent foil in 'Squad' MORE (R-Calif.) joked about Young's brusque demeanor and the reputation he's gained for being a straight shooter in Congress.
S. ambassador , prominent financier FBI boss Wray says Russia engaging in 'malign influence operations,' calls Mueller a 'straight shooter' &aposTHE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK&apos:  The timing of the Justice Department&aposs indictment of 212 Russian intelligence agents last week was "very hard to believe," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on "Hannity" Wednesday ...  A federal grand jury on Friday indicted the agents for allegedly hacking emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic Party during the 29 election -- just days before Trump&aposs one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

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