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(WASHINGTON) Hours before he was to help commission a new aircraft carrier at a patriotic ceremony on the Virginia coast, President Donald Trump fired off a volley of early morning tweets that again showed how furious he remains over multiple investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The tweets were unusual in their breadth and scope, even for Trump, given the wide variety of topics he touched on as Saturday dawned. His 10 tweets, all sent within two hours starting before 6:30 a.m., ranged from the Russia investigation and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to Hillary Clinton, the health care effort and his newly appointed White House communications director.

Trump said in one missive: "While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS."

The Washington Post recently reported that Trump has inquired about the authority he has as president to pardon aides, relatives or even himself in connection with the widening investigation into Russian interference in the election and whether any Trump associates were involved.

The president has long criticized leaks of information about the investigation and has urged authorities to prosecute leakers.

Trump maintains that no crimes have been committed.

One of Trump's attorneys, Jay Sekulow, said the president has not discussed the issue of pardons with his outside legal team.

Next week, Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.; his son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared Kushner; and Paul Manafort, a former campaign chairman, are scheduled to appear before Senate committees investigating Russian meddling.

Trump defended his son, saying he "openly gave his e-mails to the media & authorities whereas Crooked Hillary Clinton deleted (& acid washed) her 33,000 e-mails!" Trump's namesake has become a focus of the investigation after it was revealed that he, Kushner and Manafort met with Russian representatives at Trump Tower in June 2016. Trump Jr. later released email exchanges concerning the meeting on Twitter, after learning that The New York Times was about to publish them.

The FBI investigated Clinton for using a private email server as secretary of state. She turned thousands of emails over to the government, but deleted thousands of others that she said were personal or unrelated to her work as the nation's top diplomat.

Trump also complained Saturday about a Washington Post report that the Russian ambassador to the U.S. said he discussed election-related issues with Jeff Sessions when the men met during the 2016 presidential race. Sessions, now the attorney general, at the time was a U.S. senator and foreign policy adviser to Trump.

Trump tweeted: "A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions.These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!"

The Post on Friday cited anonymous U.S. officials who described U.S. intelligence intercepts of Ambassador Sergey Kislyak's descriptions of his meetings with Sessions.

The Justice Department said Sessions stands by his previous assertion that he never had conversations with Russian officials about any type of interference with the election.

Trump also said "Republican Senators must step up to the plate and, after 7 years, vote to Repeal and Replace" the Obama-era health care law. An effort to advance legislation collapsed in the Senate earlier this week after several Republicans said they wouldn't vote for the bill.

Trump ended the tweet with "Tax Reform and Infrastructure. WIN!"

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Clinton's generosity, service reflects her Christian faith Fresno Bee I support Hillary Clinton in calling out Donald Trump and his minions for embodying these deplorable characteristics. Now, let's consider Jesus' teaching about turning the other cheek. Clinton's response to those who continue to malign her: dignified ...

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There is a specter haunting the United States, or at least the Republican Party and its friendly news outlets. You may think its just a former government official who holds no office and wont be running for anything again, but they know the truth. America needs to get worried and, more important, angry at Hillary Clinton.

Oliver Darcy of CNN has been watching Fox News:

The former Democratic presidential candidate, a favorite villain of the right, has been featured prominently across Fox News programming this week.

In many cases, instead of the networks hosts applying pressure to the current President, who is grappling with the fallout from a federal investigation related to Russian election meddling, Fox News personalities have deflected and turned their attention to Clinton. On Tuesday night, for instance, Clinton found herself a key point of discussion throughout the networks primetime lineup.

It isnt just them. President Trump himself seems to be practically obsessed with Clinton, as Philip Bump explains:

Whatever Trump does or doesnt do, hes always willing to point out what Clinton did or didnt do thats worse.

So she comes up in his interviews a lot. In fact, in 19 interviews that hes conducted since becoming president, we found that Clinton tended to be mentioned much earlier than a number of Trumps other favorite topics: The 2016 election, the votes he received, the electoral college and Barack Obama.

In 17 of 19 of his interviews, Clinton came up, on average about 36 percent of the way in.

Without going back and checking, Im pretty sure Obama didnt bring up how he beat John McCain in 90 percent of the interviews he conducted during his first six months in office. I dont recall George W. Bush talking about Al Gore at all after he became president. So whats going on here?

For Trump personally, I think its mostly about the deep insecurity that comes through every time he opens his mouth. Its why hes always telling everyone how smart and knowledgeable and accomplished he is, something that people who are actually smart and knowledgeable and accomplished dont do. He feels a need to remind everyone that he won the election, usually embellishing the story by characterizing it as bigger and more emphatic a victory than it actually was. As his vanquished opponent, Clinton is a symbol of his potency and dominance.

The fact that Clinton got millions more votes than him is obviously a wound that wont stop hurting, so he keeps trying to convince everyone that the vote was fraudulent and that whatever hes being accused of, she did it worse. Eight months after the election, shes still the yardstick hes measuring himself against.

President Trump signed an executive order on May 11, initiating an investigation into voter suppression and election fraud. Here's what we know so far. (Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

Trump also seems to bring up the campaign (and Clinton) so much because things were much clearer for him then. It was him against her in a contest that made sense, and he won. Now he has to spend his days worrying about policies he neither understands nor cares about, hes bedeviled by investigations, and he doesnt have the succor that comes from hearing the cheers of an adoring crowd every night. When he brings up Clinton, hes like an aging athlete reliving his glory days. Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I threw a touchdown pass to win the homecoming game? Yes, Uncle Don, only about a hundred times.

For the conservative media, theres a slightly different motivation at work. If youre Fox News or a conservative talk radio show, the fact that Trump squeaked out an electoral-college victory laid waste to the plans you had for the next four years. It was going to be such fun! A Clinton presidency would have been a glorious time, filled with purpose and professional success. Now you find yourself defending a dreadful health-care plan, but if she were president, you would have been luxuriating in constant congressional investigations, innumerable phony scandals and an endless supply of things to get outraged about. And outrage is the fuel of conservative media its what provides the content, engages the viewers and listeners, and keeps the audience coming back. Getting people mad is much easier than persuading them to feel happy or hopeful or excited about what the administration is doing.

Thats especially true if the administration isnt actually doing very much. As the months drag on without any significant achievements from the Trump administration, the need to pump up the emotional volume becomes more acute. And emotion comes not from discussions about policy but from stories with heroes and villains.

The problem for conservatives is that American politics today is a story that has its hero but doesnt have a villain. The president makes news nearly every day, but we can go weeks without hearing something interesting from Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) or Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). And like all opposition leaders, next to the president with the majesty of his office behind him, they look small and inconsequential, barely worth getting mad at.

Trump got elected in large part by getting his voters mad at immigrants, at Muslims, at politicians and at a supposedly rigged political system. But as president, hes had a hard time sustaining that anger and constructing that story of himself as a warrior fighting against a threatening enemy.

Other Republican presidents had it much easier. President Ronald Reagan had a natural counterpoint in the Russians, an enemy Americans had hated for decades. The Cold War provided opportunities for threat and confrontation invade a tiny island country here, make a speech in Berlin there, and you have a drama that never gets old. President George W. Bush spent eight years telling Americans they were about to be annihilated by villainous Middle Easterners, first al-Qaeda, then Saddam Hussein. By the end of his tenure the story had lost its punch, but it did get him reelected.

Trump, on the other hand, has no villain to fight. So he and his allies are left looking backward to the person who was supposed to be the villain of the moment but now is just a retiree strolling around the woods in Westchester County. No wonder they seem so dispirited.

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Hillary Clinton is even less popular now than she was when she was running for president and according to an article in the Huffington Post, thats because shes a woman.

A little background: According to a Bloomberg poll that was released earlier this week, Hillary Clintons favorability rating is now at 39 percent lower than the 43 percent rating that she had during her presidential run making her the only losing candidate since 1992 to not see an increase in favorability after losing an election, according to Gallup data cited by the Huffington Post.

Now, why could that be? Could it be because she insists on blaming other people including some of the people who supported her for her loss? Could it be because shes still so desperately trying to look cool and hip that shes hocking Nasty Woman T-shirts for Samantha Bee on Twitter? Is it her bitterness, or her stubborn refusal to accept the past?

In other words: Could the difference in Clintons post-election approval rating be, in fact, her own post-election behavior, seeing as its distinctly different from the post-election behavior that we saw from John McCain or Mitt Romney?

That seems like a pretty reasonable explanation to me, but good ol HuffPost has decided to focus on something else instead:

There is, of course, one thing that sets her apart from the pack of failed candidates: Clinton is a woman, Emily Peck writes in the article, titled Why Hillary Clinton Is Really Unpopular Again.

Women with strong ambitions and opinions typically take a likability hit, Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business Schools Gender Initiative, told HuffPost.

A mountain of research on women leaders has found that the idea of a powerful woman runs counter to most peoples expectations for whats considered feminine quiet, supportive, nurturing and definitely not ambitious.

According to Peck, people tend to hate strong women who voice their opinions. Therefore, the reason that Clinton keeps becoming less and less popular is because she just keeps voicing and voicing her opinions!

Now, Id never argue that sexism doesnt make it tough to be a woman in a position of power. Of course it does. A lot of people are uncomfortable with female leaders but in this case, I think to chalk up Hillary Clintons post-campaign unlikability to that would be to ignore the obvious truth: Hillarys main problem has not been that shes voicing her opinions as a woman, but what those opinions actually are.

Although Peck claims that Clinton said she took personal responsibility for her defeat, anyone who has been paying attention knows that Clinton doesnt really blame herself for her loss. How do I know? Well, because every chance she gets, shes blaming someone else for her loss.

First its sexism, then its the media, then its Internet content farms in Macedonia. She even had the nerve to blame the Democratic National Committee. Yes, the same DNC that wanted her to win so badly that it broke the rules to help her, the same DNC whose chairwoman had to resign after it got busted rigging the nomination process in her favor. I mean seriously: If I were Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and I got myself fired for helping rig the nomination for Clinton? And then she essentially blamed me for losing? Well, Ive got to say, shed lose a couple of likability points from me, too. In fact, Hillary Clinton has blamed so many damn people for her election loss that it in itself could explain the decline in her post-election popularity. After all, maybe the reason that some of the people who liked her before dont like her now is that they have since been blamed for her losing.

Peck says that it isnt so much about what Hillary Clinton is actually saying, as it is the fact that shes saying it as a woman. I say for the love of God, dont encourage her.

Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.

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Anthony Scaramucci deleted tweets in which he previously criticized Donald Trump hours after accepting his new job as White House communications director on Friday.

Scaramucci also previously expressed support for his boss's old rivals, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obamaeven donating money to their campaigns.

In December 2011, Scaramucci referred to the "Trump spectacle" in a tweet about Mitt Romney. Two months later, the new White House pick tweeted a National Journal article about Trump endorsing Newt Gingrich in the 2012 race: Odd guy. So smart with no judgment.

The deleted tweets were spotted by freelance journalist Josh Billinson, who Scaramucci briefly blocked.

I'm just shocked he hadn't deleted them earlier, Billinson told The Daily Beast. That he could've been in the running for communications director and not even thought to check what he had publicly said about Trump in the past is wild to me.

In December 2015, Scaramucci attacked Trump's call for a border wall between Mexico and the U.S.

"Walls don't work. Never have never will. The Berlin Wall 1961-1989 don't fall for it," he tweeted, above a picture of the wall.

Scaramucci, a Wall Street millionaire, also donated to Obama and Clinton's presidential campaigns. Scaramucci gave $5,600 to Obama in 2008 and $4,600 to Clinton in 2007. (Scaramucciwrote in November 2011 that he voted for Obama and Bill Clinton.)

Ahead of the 2016 election, Scaramucci said he hoped Clinton would be the next president.

I hope she runs [in 2016], she is incredibly competent, he tweeted in April 2012, adding she was "the real deal."

I like Hillary," he also tweeted. "Have to go with the best athlete. We need to turn this around. Another tweet said a Hillary run makes everyone better.

He responded to a tweet from Vanity Fair asking When did Hillary Clinton Become the Coolest Person on the Planet? by writing: When she stopped caring about her image.

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By 2015, Scaramucci turned on Clinton: Hillary will be out of race before Thanksgiving[.] the democratic nominee will be a governor.

But he was far from pro-Trump.

On a Fox News appearance in August 2015, Scaramucci called Trump a "hack politician" whose rhetoric is "anti-American and very, very divisive." He warned Trump to "cut it out now" and "stop all this crazy rhetoric."

Scaramucci also tweeted a quote from a David Cameron interview where he bashed Trump for making a fundamental mistake of trying to blame all of Islam and all Muslims for what is the ideology and the actions of a minority.

"It is a fight within Islam, overwhelming majority see Islam as a religion of peace, want to live in multiracial/ethnic/faith democracies," Scaramucci tweeted.

Scaramucci was a founder of a global investment firm who served as the national finance co-chair for Romneys 2012 campaign. As soon as Scaramucci was named, Sean Spicer quit as White House communications director.

A month after his critical tweets, Scaramucci citing robocalls Trump made for the Romney campaign.

Kudos to The Donald for making Gov Romney's journey to the 45th Presidency a touch easier. His support has been invaluable, he tweeted in March 2012.

Scaramucci endorsed Scott Walker and then Jeb Bush before joining the Trump Finance Committee in May 2016.

The new comms director tweeted that Bush will make a great president in 2015.

Joanna Purpich contributed to this report.

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