One side berates the other for the sin of politicizing, even though calling someone out for politicizing is itself an act of politicizing, too.
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Lastly, they blame Republicans and conservatives for politicizing a deadly attack, often while politicizing the attack themselves.
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"Public opinion in Canada has claimed recently that China is 'politicizing' Schellenberg's case, but what Canada is doing is actually politicizing law," the Global Times said.
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Retired generals told Politico he's politicizing the Independence Day celebration.
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What about him politicizing intelligence as an employee of NBC?
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Obama's instinct was to avoid politicizing it at all costs.
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Because doing so would invite accusations of politicizing a tragedy.
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"No one should be politicizing what happened this week," Rep.
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I am all for politicizing storms in the correct context.
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Likely, he'd say that Ms. Maddow was politicizing the news.
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And he has not been shy about politicizing the process.
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"Once again, he risks further politicizing the military," Kirby added.
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"The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," he told the crowd.
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All this comes amidst burgeoning state legislation politicizing LGBTQ identity.
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At the time, I deprecated the event for politicizing aesthetics.
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In a tweet, Schumer also criticized Trump for politicizing the attack.
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This is the fault of Bret Weinstein for politicizing the issue.
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On Wednesday, the United Nations warned against politicizing aid to Venezuela.
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Critics accused Trump of hijacking and politicizing a traditionally nonpartisan holiday.
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The two parties have already traded accusations of politicizing the hurricane.
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Sessions also accused the Obama White House of politicizing the issue.
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"No one should be politicizing what happened this week," Luján said.
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Otherwise, please stop politicizing the legal process for your re-election.
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Politicizing these genuine American heroes is an insult to their sacrifice.
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"Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," he told the crowd.
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Then thinking politically about journalism instead of politicizing it means what?
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Some incoming freshmen are warning against overpromising or politicizing a tragedy.
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"The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," Trump asserted at the rally.
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The resistance to "politicizing" disaster is also written into the script.
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Britain's U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce accused Russia of politicizing the issue.
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It is shameful that the Trump administration is politicizing this tragedy.
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And it's not just products, either — it's branding, politicizing, team structuring.
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The White House later accused Wilson of politicizing a "sacred" issue.
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Most have taken pains to avoid politicizing the Labour MP's murder.
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He added politicizing Khashoggi's death would fuel division in the Islamic world.
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Bill O'Reilly is politicizing mass shootings by saying they shouldn't be politicized.
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SCARAMUCCI: And politicizing it, Martha, is not going to help the situation.
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Personal development goals should remain private to avoid politicizing the work environment.
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Likewise, politicizing religious issues was a powerful tool for filling church pews.
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MORE, accusing the administration of politicizing the office of the attorney general.
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"This administration knows no depths they won't plummet politicizing defense," he said.
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Clapper criticized Trump for what he described as "politicizing" the FBI's activities.
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Sanders accused the former officials of "politicizing" and "monetizing" their public service.
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"Politicizing it" means using the issue to transfer wealth to favored constituencies.
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Elias, Pir, and Ismael struggled to resist the politicizing of the crisis.
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In response, Snyder accused Clinton of politicizing the issue for political gain.
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Mr. Mattis, the defense secretary, has long argued against politicizing the military.
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Mr. Schumer said on Wednesday that the president was politicizing the tragedy.
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Fintan Warfield, 27, credits Irish music with politicizing him as a teenager.
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Is it about the politicizing of sports, the appropriateness of it all?
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James Comey — leaking of information, questionable statements under oath, politicizing an investigation.
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What does not work Politicizing school safety does not make schools safer.
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Intelligence professionals faulted Trump for publicly discussing, and politicizing, a classified briefing.
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"Before you post a nasty Facebook message saying I'm politicizing my son's health problems, I want you to know: I am politicizing my son's health problems because I have to," Kimmel said to a round of cheers and applause.
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But it does look a lot like the politicizing of the Justice Department.
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Lamar Smith from Texas accused scientists and the newspaper of politicizing the report.
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"Instead of dividing, instead of politicizing, do something real, Mr. President," he said.
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Schumer fired back from the Senate floor, accusing Trump of "politicizing" the tragedy.
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Because France is a cardinal example of the dangers of politicizing law enforcement.
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Then comes the response: the first group is accused of politicizing the tragedy.
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That led Schumer to fire back that the president is politicizing this tragedy.
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"We reject what Qatar is doing in politicizing (the pilgrimage)," Al-Jubeir said.
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But Democrats don't have a monopoly on politicizing Garland, even though they should.
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It's time to think differently about funding disasters and to stop politicizing them.
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Both sides are accusing the other of politicizing the issue for partisan gains.
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He argued that "Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus" to make him look bad.
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He argued that "Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus" to make him look bad.
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Furthermore, Trump is also politicizing national security decision-making in an unprecedented fashion.
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At the same time, many say they have erred in politicizing their faith.
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That's something that worries inflation hawks fearful of politicizing monetary policy longer term.
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"The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," he told the crowd in North Charleston.
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The comments upset Canada, which warned the United States against politicizing extradition cases.
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There's a lot of politicizing behind the platform you relentlessly rewatch re-runs on.
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But he did say he's told the Trump administration that politicizing intelligence was inappropriate.
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Politicizing consumer privacy and subordinating it to net neutrality made consumers the biggest losers.
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With this latest development, President Trump is politicizing our military and militarizing our politics.
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Politicizing the oversight function is dangerous, especially in the absence of any Congressional oversight.
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Warner on Wednesday accused Trump of setting a "dangerous precedent" and politicizing national security.
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The "politicizing," apparently, comes when you ask the audience to feel bad about it.
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" Mr. Lopez thinks that "lawmakers can't do anything about mass shootings without politicizing them.
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They're politicizing it ... They tried the impeachment hoax ... and this is their new hoax.
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"The GOP is politicizing this crisis with things like targeting Planned Parenthood," Democratic Sen.
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A spokesman for the Trump campaign accused the Democratic candidates of politicizing a crisis.
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He is corrupting institutions, politicizing the military, and acts like he is the law.
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"I am politicizing my son's health problems because I have to," Kimmel said recently.
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They're politicizing it," and went on to describe the illness as "their latest hoax.
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Many of Ms. Abdel-Magied's critics accused her of politicizing a day of remembrance.
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Russia also seems to have cornered the market on politicizing the potential side effects.
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His detractors accused him of politicizing what was supposed to be a neutral role.
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Expanding lateral entry to the FS would only create more openings for politicizing diplomacy.
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The Social Democrats say ANO is politicizing the issue and not respecting police independence.
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Pleas to tighten gun laws, immediately trailed by calls to avoid politicizing a tragedy.
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The FBI was intervening in the election and politicizing our legal system, they warned.
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They should not be politicizing this at a time when these are very serious matters.
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And when you are a proponent of sanctuary cities, again, you&aposre politicizing law enforcement.
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Politicizing and politics are how we voice our feelings and voice our needs in society.
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" Haley also accused the organization of "politicizing and scapegoating countries with positive human rights records.
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Some of their peers, however, bridled at the outspokenness, saying they were politicizing the military.
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"This isn't about politicizing," House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in Flint last week.
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This has led some angry visitors to make complaints that the tours are "politicizing" history.
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Pushing to oust Trump beforehand, she's said, risks politicizing the probe and undermining its conclusions.
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It risks politicizing financial disclosure by directing it to specific topics rather than material information.
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"There is no room for politicizing the military," Shanahan said, according to the news service.
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Conservatives like to complain about liberals "politicizing tragedy," whether in Las Vegas or Newtown, Conn.
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It's also unclear that the Johnson Amendment is really an effective deterrent from pulpit politicizing.
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On Wednesday morning, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio cautioned against politicizing the incident.
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Critics worry that Mr. Trump is politicizing the Fed, which is meant to be apolitical.
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Two intelligence officials pushed back on any suggestion that the officials were politicizing their assessments.
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After every mass shooting, the NRA's backers scold gun-reform advocates for politicizing the tragedy.
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Whether all of this portends a night of politicizing come the Academy Awards, on Feb.
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" Trump had said at a rally (emphasis ours): "Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.
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The politicizing of Hollywood awards events is nothing new, of course, especially in recent years.
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Instead of adding to the pain, he needs to disarm instead of politicizing the situation.
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Earlier on Monday, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accused opposition parties of politicizing the issue.
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Blumenthal on CNN discussed the Russia investigation and the prospect of "politicizing" the Justice Department.
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Schumer to Trump: Stop "politicizing and dividing America," rescind proposed cuts to anti-terror funding.
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Her office is still investigating the shooting and has argued that Phillips is politicizing Clark's death.
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Politicizing our relationship with technology will most likely prove the most effective way of changing it.
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Do you worry that Trump's reliance on the military risks politicizing the military as an institution?
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People attacking us for politicizing what happened to our baby, which to me is truly crazy.
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Others accuse Democrats of overly politicizing a scientific issue in an attempt to demonize their opponents.
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The White House said Wednesday that the president was not politicizing the attack with his statements.
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Republicans have in the past bristled at Shaub's tactics and believe he is politicizing his office.
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Bolton played a key role in politicizing the intel that misled us into the Iraq War.
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Trump's adversaries are saying that he is punishing federal employees and politicizing the government workforce. Nonsense.
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Some Democrats have raised concerns about Trump politicizing Independence Day and the military with Thursday's event.
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While we used to steer away from politicizing tragedies too quickly, now the response is rapid.
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Trump referred to his executive order as a "travel ban" and accused courts of politicizing it.
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President Trump will smash the Fed's compass altogether if he succeeds in politicizing the Central Bank.
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He accused Democrats of "politicizing the coronavirus" and suggested they are using it to hurt him.
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The White House has responded to the potential pandemic by ignoring, minimizing and politicizing the coronavirus.
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Democrats counter that the GOP is politicizing intelligence and distorting facts of the Trump-Russia investigation.
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Others complain those people are politicizing Tibbetts' death, and they should focus on violence by men.
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Critics predict that the proposed order risks meddling in a university's autonomy or politicizing academic freedom.
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Politicizing clean water in order to curry favor with big dollar dairy donors is downright immoral.
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Off hand, I cannot imagine anything worse for professional athletics than this politicizing of the industry.
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"The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," the president said at a campaign rally in South Carolina.
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"There is no room for politicizing the military," Shanahan told reporters traveling with him to Seoul.
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Correct. And frankly, breaking the norm of politicizing law enforcement—it's a great basis for impeachment.
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That's likely made the Obama administration even more hesitant about inviting charges of politicizing executive agencies.
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Saudi officials asked pilgrims to focus on the rituals of worship and warned against politicizing the rite.
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GUTFELD: They actually believe that if you attack them for being dishonest that you&aposre politicizing it.
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Snyder has accused critics, including Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, of politicizing the crisis for personal gain.
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It's sad that people can't enjoy a beautiful show and embrace its unifying message without politicizing it.
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Since then, Trump's allies have consistently accused Shaub of politicizing his role as the top ethics watchdog.
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Republicans have brushed aside the letter, with the Trump team accusing officials of "politicizing" the confirmation process.
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Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) said the memo is part of the administration's history of politicizing defense issues.
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The White House has denied that claim and has accused the congresswoman of politicizing the soldier's death.
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By refusing to do so, McConnell is totally politicizing one of the Senate's most sacred constitutional responsibilities.
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But making pointless "commonsense" gun laws and politicizing every shooting will do nothing to help the situation.
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Kelly was visibly upset by what he called Wilson's "selfish behavior" in politicizing such a sensitive call.
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Those questions and ones about politicizing the military are only expected to increase after the McCain incident.
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Putting politics firstThere is another key reason Pompeo needs to go: his flagrant politicizing of the office.
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Opponents accuse PiS of politicizing World War Two to build a nationalist sense of grievance among Poles.
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The President said at a rally in South Carolina Friday that Democrats are now "politicizing" the virus.
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Trump's transition team swung back at the office on Saturday, accusing officials of "politicizing" the confirmation process.
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The Left is politicizing the #MeToo movement, undermining a valid and important resetting of our cultural norms.
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The EU has accused PiS of politicizing the judiciary since the party swept to power in 2015.
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When we raise these issues, certain pundits and politicians are quick to caution against "politicizing" a disaster.
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Both Oliver and Sarah Gollust pointed to Michelle Obama's efforts to combat obesity for politicizing the issue.
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Despite Mollie Tibbetts's family's requests that people — namely, conservatives — stop politicizing her death, they're doing it anyway.
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Now, he, along with Governor Cuomo, another clueless one in New York, are also shamelessly politicizing this attack.
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They are accusing President Trump of politicizing the tragedy, which is exactly what they just did earlier today.
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No. This is beyond-the-pale inappropriate behavior, politicizing the military for a president's personal benefit and vanity.
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Politicizing assault: A few are concerned that sexual assault could become a political weapon — and perhaps already has.
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Republican supporters accused Democrats of politicizing her nomination and initially trying to derail an otherwise highly qualified nominee.
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They were "politicizing the tragedy" of Lucero's killing and "should be ashamed of what they're doing," LaValle said.
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By politicizing the past, the holiday winds up inflaming old animosities and further alienating former Khmer Rouge fighters.
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Earlier this month, Cruz accused Democrats of "politicizing" Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing as revenge for the 2016 presidential election.
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But there has also been the backlash, she said, with accusations of their "politicizing" their baby's health crisis.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), accusing him of politicizing the recent mass shooting in O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso.
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Since then, Pruitt has proposed restructuring the environmental justice program, a move environmentalists see as "politicizing" the work.
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The model requires discrediting independent media, demonizing critics, politicizing the judiciary and assaulting the very notion of truth.
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They're making the work of the intelligence community and the FBI a lot harder by politicizing the investigation.
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The officials are accused of politicizing and monetizing their public service, said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
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What does our analysis say more generally about the efficacy of politicizing xenophobia and racism in American elections?
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Numerous political action committees and dark money groups have put money into politicizing the president's response to coronavirus.
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Despite criticism from certain corners about politicizing the game, the league has continued to embrace symbols of patriotism.
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The President also should refrain from commenting on the investigation or politicizing the actions of the Justice Department.
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"Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," Mr. Trump told a crowd of supporters, who roared in response.
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Rush Limbaugh and Fox News pundits accused Democrats and journalists of "politicizing and actually weaponizing" an infectious disease.
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Ankara has condemned the move and said it was null and void, accusing U.S. lawmakers of politicizing history.
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"In this brew that generates anti-immigrant sentiment, there needs to be a politicizing factor," Mr. Hopkins said.
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Gonzales was soon after accused of politicizing hiring, sidelining the Civil Rights division, and improperly firing U.S. attorneys.
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What they're saying: Netanyahu's political opponents criticized his statement and blamed him for politicizing intelligence and national security.
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Schumer for diversity visa program which let terror suspect into country; Democrats claim the president is politicizing the tragedy.
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Opponents accuse the PiS of politicizing World War Two to build a nationalist sense of grievance among the population.
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Saudi Arabia says safety has improved over the years and accuses Iran of politicizing the rite with its criticism.
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"I worry about politicizing these decisions," said Supervisor Catherine Stefani, a former prosecutor who was the sole no vote.
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Name: Todd Jennings, Alternate DelegateHometown: Tampa Bay, FloridaAge: 35 We've spent a long time politicizing how everyone is different.
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They weaponized the powerful tools of intelligence, turned it on us and they are now politicizing differences, political differences.
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Polanski's lawyer Jan Olszewski said the prosecution's statements on the case were "misleading" and aimed at politicizing the case.
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Politicizing Christianity also secularized it; no one, not even ardent churchgoers, can build a political machine without making compromises.
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Many Democrats and Republicans refrained from politicizing the attack or casting it as a referendum on the Second Amendment.
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The maneuver prompted both parties to blame the other for politicizing the work of the normally bipartisan intelligence panel.
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Clinton took steps to avoid politicizing the process, reasoning that America's system depended on him staying out of it.
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The Daily Caller: Justice Elena Kagan says she worries that politicizing nominations harms the public's perception of the courts.
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) ripped the "lib left" on Sunday for "politicizing" Hurricane — now Tropical Storm — Harvey.
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He should lead by example, stop politicizing these issues and stop smearing members of Congress," he continued," Greenblatt continued.
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"I am politicizing my son's health problems because I have to," he said to roaring applause from the crowd.
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Many analysts believe that this strategy helped him win the election by politicizing latent nativist sentiment among white Americans.
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He has a right to put his story on, but basically politicizing the whole judiciary with how he acted.
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"The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," he said at a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, last month.
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But Democratic presidential candidates, led by former Vice President Joe Biden, are ripping into Trump for politicizing the situation.
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"How can you argue that Bill Barr is doing anything but de-politicizing the Department of Justice," said Rep.
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Because providing thoughtful comments on monetary policy sets up a presidential candidate to be pummeled for "politicizing" the Fed.
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Republicans, in turn, scold their colleagues for "politicizing" the killings, while offering their "thoughts and prayers" to the victims.
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"There is no room for politicizing the military," Mr. Shanahan told reporters traveling with him to Seoul, South Korea.
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Reading fiction and poetry written in and about contemporary Arab life can also be a political and politicizing act.
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The Republican presidential candidate was chastised by a Flint, Michigan pastor about politicizing his visit to her church on Wednesday.
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"It's sad that people can't enjoy a beautiful show and embrace its unifying message without politicizing it," Del Vicario said.
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The people opposed to such measures come out and say that gun control advocates need to stop politicizing a tragedy.
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The Debt Collective is seeking people to stand in solidarity with the 250 strikers already politicizing their lack of payment.
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Her comments swiftly received criticism on Twitter with many chastising the star for politicizing the event while it is ongoing.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday accused six former officials of "politicizing" and "monetizing" their government service.
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"It was a very politicizing experience for me because the U.S. was doing a lot of bad stuff," he said.
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Op-Ed Contributor CALLS to resist "politicizing" tragedy have become a standard feature of our political discourse following mass shootings.
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Conservatives urged against politicizing the moment, while liberals argued that 59 senseless deaths and hundreds of injuries demanded policy changes.
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On Thursday, President Moon accused Japan of "politicizing" the South Korean court rulings, a sentiment echoed by his prime minister.
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The Trump administration finally appears to be taking this crisis seriously, after months of Trump himself trivializing and politicizing it.
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Opponents of the British motion warned of politicizing the organization's work, a charge with a long history and some justification.
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His comment risked further politicizing the question of Russian election meddling in a way that could further undermine public confidence.
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Members of both political parties must stop politicizing acts of extremism and vilification by the members of the other party.
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And even if Roberts does believe he has such authority, he wouldn&apost risk politicizing himself by acting on it.
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A statement released on Sunday on behalf of Khashoggi's family in Saudi Arabia accused the media of politicizing his disappearance.
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The comments on the Ford echoed other moments when military officers and defense analysts winced about politicizing the armed forces.
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In response, the state of Qatar is politicizing human rights in a quest to gain sympathy from the international community.
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But multiple former military leaders are publicly expressing dismay, calling it the latest example of Trump politicizing the armed services.
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He is taking this raw, real pain that these poor families are suffering, which is authentic, and he&aposs politicizing it.
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Using the aesthetics of abundance, Ai continues his interest in politicizing everyday objects that he encodes with new, sometimes subversive meanings.
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If the killer is an immigrant you can talk about policy change, but if he's natural born, you're "politicizing the tragedy".
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McConnell has blamed Democrats for politicizing the issue and asserted that elections should be primarily controlled by state and local authorities.
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But Coats did say that politicizing intelligence was inappropriate — and that he'd made that position clear to the Trump administration. Sen.
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China accused the nations involved in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue as "politicizing or excluding relevant parties," since China was not included.
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The Puerto Rico debt mess now has arrived on Congress's agenda, a sure sign that some perceive gains from politicizing it.
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"The US a long history politicizing the term 'terrorism' for its own political ends, which undermines others fighting terrorism," Miryousefi said.
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The prime minister was later criticized as politicizing police officers who were instructed to stand behind him during his launch speech.
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Republicans have rejected those proposals, accusing Democrats of politicizing the tragedy and shifting the discussion from gun laws to mental health.
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Thus, even without politicizing the judiciary, more than mere technical skills are necessary to determine one's qualifications to be a judge.
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James Comey — leaking of information, questionable statements under oath, politicizing an investigation — those are real reasons for why he was fired.
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" At a rally in South Carolina Friday, the President accused Democrats of "politicizing" the virus, saying, "This is their new hoax.
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They're politicizing something that's totally different from what the intent is...That shit just got so totally lost in the conversation.
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"Football is such an escape, no one should be politicizing it," said Laurie Flynn, 403, who works in marketing in Boston.
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Powerful, moneyed forces are working diligently to keep the pay-to-play system intact, in part by politicizing critical democratic reforms.
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"I regret if they do it because it will be such a disastrous step into politicizing the justice system," she said.
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Kelly's emotional and tense remarks were also a rebuke of the press, which the White House blames for politicizing the matter.
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But the statement only intensified the uproar over Mr. Trump's storm prediction as critics accused his administration of politicizing the weather.
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No Uighur family was untouched by this tragedy, but it seemed to her that too many people were politicizing the crisis.
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McConnell addressed the whistleblower complaint in remarks on the Senate floor on Monday afternoon and accused Schumer of politicizing the issue.
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When the vote on the Deripaska sanctions took place on the Senate floor, Republicans bizarrely accused Democrats of politicizing the sanctions.
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One SEAL who had testified against Gallagher told The San Diego Union-Tribune last month that it risked politicizing the military.
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The problem goes deeper: Traditional Muslim thought regarded the caliphate as an inherent part of Islam, unintentionally politicizing the faith for centuries.
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Former intelligence chiefs are now politicizing their role in going after Trump, and here&aposs what a former acting CIA director said.
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The existing article on Trump administration family separation policy sufficient covers this situation without further politicizing it by associating them with Nazism.
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So it seems by publicly revoking clearances, Trump is really going on the record and politicizing this more than he has to.
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The President reacted to the decision by politicizing it -- painting it as somehow invalid because Mehta had been appointed by his predecessor.
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"I would not like to believe the mayor is politicizing this issue and this situation that the island is facing," he said.
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"This forced resignation has compromised the dignity of the House of Representatives by politicizing the office of the House Chaplain," Crowley said.
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Critics of Cain's potential appointment have raised concerns about him politicizing the independent board because he would likely be loyal to Trump.
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" The New York lawmaker says Trump is "politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy.
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After Saturday's terrorist attacks in London left seven dead and 53 injured, President Trump responded to the tragedy by immediately politicizing it.
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Qatar had accused Saudi Arabia of politicizing the pilgrimage and complained to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion last month.
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If true, the latest ProPublica report makes clear that Bharara's firing falls into a pattern of Trump politicizing the Department of Justice.
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" Ex-DNI Clapper: Trump's DOJ demand is "politicizing what is a legitimate activity, an important one on the part of the FBI.
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" Sanders went on to refute the suggestion that Trump is himself politicizing matters of national security by going after his "political enemies.
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Addressing selected members of the Indian diaspora in London, Modi called on society to do more while urging against politicizing the issue.
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While speaking on the matter, Sanders accused the officials, who are frequent critics of Trump's, of "politicizing" and "monetizing" their public service.
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President Trump would be accused of politicizing the Justice Department were he to fire Sessions on the heels of firing Jim Comey.
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Because political engagement is strongly influenced by social ties, she argues, Latinos should improve their participation by politicizing their existing social networks.
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She said Republicans should spend less time "grandstanding and politicizing" and work with Democrats to push policies that would reduce premium increases.
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They are also politicizing one of the most grave powers the Constitution grants to legislators — the power to impeach senior government officials.
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The White House later appeared to confirm what Trump said during the call but has accused Wilson of politicizing a "sacred" issue.
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NRA officials have lashed out at gun control advocates, arguing that Democratic elites are politicizing the Parkland rampage to erode gun rights.
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Some of Biden's allies worry that he'll look like he's politicizing the issue if he's just chirping at Trump from the sidelines.
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For us, the convention was a trigger in terms of politicizing the youth, especially Puerto Rican youth, in the Lincoln Park community.
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Presidents normally refrain from commenting on or interfering with law enforcement investigations or intelligence analyses to avoid being seen as politicizing them.
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Fourth, and perhaps most sinister, Trump is already politicizing national security and using the "rally around the flag" effect to erode rights.
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Trump's rally remarks actually claimed that the Democrats were were politicizing the rally, in the manner that he claims they politicized impeachment.
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Former military commanders, for their part, said Mr. Trump was politicizing one of the saddest and most sacred duties of the presidency.
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The White House later appeared to confirm what Trump said during the call but has accused Wilson of politicizing a "sacred" issue.
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President Donald Trump said mounting fears of the coronavirus are the "new hoax" of the Democrats, accusing them of politicizing the disease.
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Schumer, who played a role in the program's conception in the 1990s, hit back at Trump, accusing him of politicizing the attack.
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Sudipto Mundle, who worked on a previous set of statistics that showed higher growth, said politicizing India's economic data was "very troubling".
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He now should pledge to refrain from politicizing voting rights enforcement and resist any effort to pressure prosecutors to chase imaginary fraud.
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" "President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America...should be bringing us together and focusing on the real solution: anti-terrorism funding.
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Among these steps are media consolidation and censorship, weakening watchdog institutions, politicizing and restructuring the judiciary, and undermining an independent civil society.
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That might involve a strong political statement, as the NFL has denied reports that they've forbidden the outspoken singer from politicizing the show.
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And while some have criticized him for "politicizing" his son's condition, Kimmel addressed them too, pain spiking his indignant delivery on September 19.
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When Democratic senators, including Menendez, asked at the July hearing regarding the content of the meeting, Pompeo accused them of politicizing foreign policy.
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Several groups including the American Civil Liberties Union have accused President Donald Trump of politicizing the military ahead of next week's midterm elections.
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The Cuban government has denied any involvement in the alleged attacks on diplomats in Havana and warned the Trump administration against politicizing them.
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Several groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, had accused President Donald Trump of politicizing the military ahead of Tuesday's midterm congressional elections.
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Critics of climate policies, including the Trump Environmental Protection Agency, cautioned against politicizing Harvey by drawing connections between the storm and climate change.
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Democrats on the committee accused Nunes of politicizing and complicating an ongoing investigation of Russian election meddling and Trump's potential ties to Moscow.
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"The speaker is politicizing this," he shouted, a reference to House Speaker Paul Ryan's office having requested Conroy resign in the first place.
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He's a popular target of Democrats, who accuse him of politicizing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and acting as the president's personal attorney.
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But the path from populist autocracy to full-fledged dictatorship has one indispensable element: taking control of the judiciary and politicizing law enforcement.
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Penalizing a country, even at the risk of politicizing the process, seems a much more effective method of ensuring rapid and enduring change.
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White House officials aren't supposed to talk with the FBI about pending investigations, to prevent the administration from politicizing or interfering in investigations.
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Their politicizing of K-12 education has done more than anything else to create the teacher shortage that threatens our country's economic stability.
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Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), a former CIA undercover officer, cautioned fellow lawmakers against politicizing Sunday's deadly terrorist attack at an Orlando, Fla.
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"The president doesn't like the fact that people are politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political," Sanders said.
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The irony that Trump, of all people, is criticizing others for politicizing the intelligence community or profiting from public service is rich indeed.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said its opponents were "unnecessarily politicizing" the issues when the economy was doing well under the current government.
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Withholding Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island's HUD funding over alleged lack of technical capacity risks weaponizing disaster recovery by politicizing tragedy.
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Saudi Arabia responded to CNN's request for comment by accusing Turkey of "politicizing" Khashoggi's killing by leaking details of evidence to the media.
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But Mueller, seemingly afraid of politicizing the report and his role in it, has said he has no desire to speak on it.
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The agency has also come under fire from some lawmakers, who have accused agents of abusing surveillance orders and politicizing the FBI's work.
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Politicizing drug development—allowing bureaucrats to pick drug classes or diseases where government will break patents to lower prices—will only hurt patients.
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The other panelist during the interview was "doing nothing but politicizing the issue of making an example of one particular child," Lewandowski said.
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Trump allies are already denouncing his critics for "politicizing" the outbreak; Donald Trump Jr. has accused Democrats of wanting to see millions die.
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First of all, the US has already been weakening the WTO by ignoring some of its rulings and politicizing its trade dispute process.
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Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, accused Ms. Nielsen of politicizing the department.
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" The Trump campaign is hitting back against Biden and Sanders, accusing Biden of politicizing the outbreak and calling Sanders's approach "the wrong prescription.
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"Taken out of the context of the presidential election and politicizing it, the president's veto might be supported by a majority," said Rep.
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Ben: Normally, an attorney general will go to lengths to avoid the appearance of politicizing the Justice Department (though they often fall short).
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The EU has accused the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party of politicizing the judiciary ever since it came to power in 2015.
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The EU has accused Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party of politicizing the judiciary since it swept to power in 2015.
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" A slickly produced video circulated by opposition members claimed that Mr. Modi "had no qualms capitalizing on a national tragedy" and "politicizing terror.
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Analysts speculated that Widodo may have been politicizing the case, as it came ahead of a presidential election he now appears poised to win.
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The state-owned tabloid The Global Times blamed "radical opposition forces" and "the Western forces behind them" for hyping up and politicizing the amendments.
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Since Nasty Gal's move to Downtown Los Angeles six years ago, Amoruso's had to make tough decisions around layoffs, restructuring, and politicizing the company.
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On Saturday, Trump blamed Democrats for the deaths of the two children in a Twitter post, drawing criticism that he was politicizing the tragedies.
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" On Monday, Sanders said Trump is bothered that the former officials are "politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political.
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"I think at the end of the day, what we have to look at is the idea of politicizing Gold Star families," Manion said.
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The schedule change occurred following sharp criticism from Democrats that the White House was politicizing intelligence by initially offering the briefing only to Republicans.
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This isn't the first time members of Tibbetts' family have requested that people stop politicizing her death, and still conservatives continue to do so.
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"I want to thank you for not politicizing this and for waiting until we were ready," said Patty Sheehan, an Orlando city commissioner. Mrs.
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Democrats have expressed concerns that Trump is politicizing the holiday and that his use of military equipment will mirror parades held in autocratic regimes.
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Defenders of the president contend that it is his opponents, not Trump, who are politicizing these events, including the impending storm in the Carolinas.
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Battleground state Speaking Thursday, Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of Kerala, blamed the BJP for politicizing the issue and turning the state into a battleground.
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Moreover, she argued that politicizing software is generally perceived by the community as curtailing its members freedom and is considered a form of censorship.
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" Taking it further, at a South Carolina rally Friday, Trump said, "the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus" in what he called "their new hoax.
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Republicans are defunding research, politicizing grantmaking, diminishing science's role in the agency rulemaking process, and flat out refusing to accept conclusions they don't like.
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Meanwhile, large humanitarian organizations at the border, including the U.N. and the Red Cross have distanced themselves from the operation, wary of politicizing aid.
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But Mueller, seemingly afraid of politicizing the report and his role in it, has clearly said he has no desire to speak on it.
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"It is unfortunate that lawmakers are politicizing this absolutely awful tragedy," said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy organization.
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India's External Affairs Ministry called the comments "factually inaccurate and misleading" and said they seemed "aimed at politicizing the issue," The Associated Press reported.
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First, several prominent US conservative pundits and politicians — known to regularly spew nonsense (and bash China) — have been politicizing the bioweapon rumor for weeks.
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That the top-rated cable news network in the country is no longer dismissing, downplaying, and politicizing the coronavirus pandemic is a good thing.
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"I think I helped open a door for criticism against Bush and particularly the politicizing of terror in 212, 103, 210," he told me.
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An inquiry into years-old disclosures of classified information is highly unusual and leaves law enforcement officials open to accusations of politicizing their work.
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In the future, smaller countries or non-state actors could cause havoc with increasingly accessible AI. Go deeper: The danger of over-politicizing AI
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The four prosecutors resigned, and Attorney General William Barr faced criticism by congressional Democrats and others that he was politicizing the criminal justice system.
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By firing Dr. Murthy, President Trump is politicizing the position of Surgeon General and risking the credibility of our nation's top public health official.
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The comments set off a firestorm of criticism from lawmakers and retired military officials alike, who accused the president of politicizing a sensitive topic.
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The top Democrat on the panel acknowledged the FBI's handling of the case was unique, but argued Republicans are politicizing their own panel's work.
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Rodriguez also accused the U.S. of politicizing the so-called health incidents and warned of strained relations between Washington and Havana as a result.
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The European Union has accused the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party of politicizing the judiciary ever since it came to power in 2015.
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Week after week, "Call the Midwife" delves into female reproductive experience with grit and specificity, politicizing matters more often left personal, and vice versa.
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The real politicizing happens when legitimate questions and discourse about a tragedy like Edwin Jackson's death are shut down to further a political agenda.
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In Beijing on Thursday, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said it was an "ordinary maritime accident" and he warned against "irresponsibly politicizing" the collision.
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And the council continued politicizing and scapegoating of countries with positive human rights record, in an attempt to distract from the abusers in their ranks.
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Trump's apparent willingness to do so underscores his disregard for our Constitutionally-mandated national count and his politicizing of what should be a nonpartisan exercise.
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Fireworks instead were more prevalent between Republicans and Democrats on the committee, who lobbed accusations against each other of politicizing the Supreme Court nomination process.
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The deeper reason is that critics of "politicizing" massacres actually are getting the government to act in a certain way — by not acting at all.
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Moore was swift to take action, writing an op-ed in the Washington Post that addressed a wider Christian tendency to avoid politicizing social justice.
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Last week, the United Nations warned against politicizing aid in Venezuela after the United States accused Maduro of blocking the delivery of food and medicine.
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State media has accused the firm and its associates of orchestrating protests outside courts and politicizing ordinary legal cases in order to attract international attention.
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Some NGOs have warned of politicizing aid, while others say they will support the opposition's efforts given the extreme needs in some sectors of society.
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"By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia," Spicer said.
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"By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia," he said.
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Clay Higgins has removed a controversial video of himself inside a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial after he was accused of politicizing a genocide.
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Tom MacArthur of New Jersey walked over to Crowley on the Democratic side of the House floor and accused him of "politicizing" the chaplain controversy.
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Instead, while publicly criticizing both Obama and Trump for politicizing court decisions, Roberts looked the other way as his colleagues repeatedly ventured into political controversies.
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Internet advocacy groups have started politicizing digital divide and net neutrality, to remind voters of the connection between the ballot box and their wifi connection.
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The official added that the Israeli foreign and justice ministries were furious and saw the move as another step of politicizing the ICC against Israel.
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Critics of the Fourth of July event have argued that Trump is politicizing the annual fireworks display and driving up the cost of the celebration.
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But both liberal and conservative groups have charged previous administrations with politicizing its activities, and the division has come under scrutiny before for partisan activity.
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In recent days, NRA officials have lashed out at gun control advocates, arguing that Democratic elites are politicizing the Parkland rampage to erode gun rights.
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As a proud Eagle Scout who first joined the Boy Scouts almost 20 years ago, I can't stress how damaging Trump's politicizing rhetoric really was.
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That ideological takeover of the native belief system emphasized the emperor's divine origins and viewed him as a living god, while politicizing Shintō's religious practices.
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"Politicizing and weaponizing antitrust law is ripe for abuse," said Mr. Szabo, who is a professor of privacy law at George Mason University's law school.
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The power of their testimonials goes beyond their authenticity: They, unlike politicians and advocates, can usually avoid the accusation that they are politicizing a tragedy.
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Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, drumming up irrational fears in the media, and causing an economic meltdown, all in hopes of bringing down the president.
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At a rally in South Carolina on Friday night, Trump defended his administrations response to the coronavirus outbreak and accused Democrats of politicizing the disease.
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But House Appropriations Republicans argued the CDC is already free to study firearm injuries and that the language would risk further politicizing the spending bill.
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Many on the right accused Mr. Zapatero of politicizing tragedy and reopening old wounds, while historical memory campaigners felt the legislation had been watered down.
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Bernie Sanders criticized Trump's response to the outbreak during their own Sunday show appearances, slamming him for politicizing the issue and trying to blame Democrats.
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And it threatens to spotlight his close relationship with President Trump, feeding the widespread perception that the president is politicizing intelligence work for partisan ends.
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NRA spokespeople have lashed out at gun control advocates, arguing that Democratic elites are politicizing the deadly rampage in Florida to erode gun owners' rights.
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The delay, according to President Obama's press secretary, was partly due to a desire to avoid politicizing intelligence findings and interfering in the presidential race.
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The push was met with resistance by GOP lawmakers who warned against politicizing the tragedy and questioning whether new laws would have stopped the shooter.
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During the 2015 debate over the USA Freedom Act, Coats took to the Senate floor to accuse privacy advocates of politicizing the national security debate.
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Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said in a statement that comments politicizing the fatal crash were "ghoulish and inappropriate," The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
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It's easy to speculate that this recent de-politicizing of overtly political science fiction is a new trend, especially given the current heightened political climate.
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The irony, of course, is that Democrats have been accused of politicizing federal employees, hundreds of thousands of whom will miss their paychecks on Friday.
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This whole fake Russia collusion thing -- and they are angry about it, and the politicizing of this, there is no evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump colluded.
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The liberation movement has many detractors, particularly among right-wing Catholics who see it as unnecessarily politicizing a religion whose concerns should transcend individual political issues.
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But on Wednesday, Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warned against politicizing the case, and the Russian ambassador was invited to the Foreign Office for discussions.
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" Rodriguez urged the United States "not to continue politicizing this matter, which can provoke an undesirable escalation and could rarify and reverse even more bilateral relations.
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It is truly unfortunate that in today's toxic environment, politicians at both ends of the spectrum have sought to inflame passions by politicizing what we do.
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Steele urged Trump to avoid politicizing Lewis' comments, and warned the president-elect that by insulting Lewis he would only further isolate himself from black voters.
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Some Trump allies have argued that Mueller is politicizing the investigation, pointing to his early hiring of prosecutors who have donated money to Democratic political candidates.
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Should Trump skip over Gordon, it could further the criticism that he is politicizing the intelligence community at the expense of long-serving career professionals. Sen.
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The Post reported that Thomas's spread of baseless claims and conservative commentary has generated criticism from some who worry she is further politicizing the Supreme Court.
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It's also why MCC has become a best practice leader within the global development community and why politicizing the agency today could undermine its mission tomorrow.
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Bolsonaro has accused Macron of politicizing the issue, and his government said European countries are exaggerating Brazil's environmental problems in order to disrupt its commercial interests.
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She also clashed with Trump's political appointees over science policy and gave congressional testimony in June 2017 in which she questioned the administration's politicizing of science.
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Some members of the campaign that backed a British exit from the European Union have accused Mr. Carney of politicizing the central bank before the referendum.
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Critics of the president's plans for the holiday say Trump is inappropriately politicizing July Fourth and have warned about the high price tag for the event.
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So we end up politicizing and extracting funds out of new construction even though we are 40 years deep into a largely self-imposed housing shortage.
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The other side: Reuters reports that Iowa congressional Republicans and other candidates competing in competitive districts have avoided politicizing the case amid fears of voter backlash.
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It has now become evident that Republicans are better at politicizing cultural issues and Democrats are better at offering economic benefits to those who are struggling.
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"Bolton played a key role in politicizing the intel that misled us into the Iraq War," Senator Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote on Twitter.
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"The system is rigged" is their slogan, and they are now politicizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process used to collect critical intelligence about our adversaries.
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As a result, Republican lawmakers are more resistant to calls for gun control — arguing against "politicizing" mass shootings and focusing on issues like mental health instead.
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Little evidence has emerged to back the Republicans' assertions, and Democrats have accused them in return of politicizing a legitimate inquiry with major national security implications.
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For anyone concerned that President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr are politicizing the criminal justice system, Friday afternoon has been a real roller coaster.
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"By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia," Mr. Spicer said.
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To his critics, Mr. Comey has twice flagrantly violated the longstanding norms of law enforcement, politicizing the F.B.I. by injecting it into a hard-fought election.
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The WikiLeaks founder's attorneys are also expected to present evidence that they believe shows Trump explicitly tasked Grenell with making the offer, thereby politicizing the process.
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His nomination would likely draw scrutiny from Democrats who have raised concerns about politicizing the intelligence agency and staffing it with loyalists rather than career professionals.
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The slow work of criminal justice reform is often piecemeal, a matter of politicizing the system's routine practices and developing a moral language to undo them.
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Several other BJP ministers and leaders took to Twitter to attack Congress, accusing it of politicizing a deal the government says is critical for India's defense.
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" Rodriguez urged the United States "not to continue politicizing this matter, which can provoke an undesirable escalation and could rarify and reverse even more bilateral relations.
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But critics say Trump is politicizing the military, deploying them as a stunt to drive Republican voters to the polls without any real national security threat.
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Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) criticized President Trump for politicizing the partial government shutdown into "a made-up fight so that the president could look like he's fighting."
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Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump is "politicizing and dividing America" in the aftermath of Tuesday&aposs attacks in Manhattan that killed eight people and wounded 11.
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Russia is a country where admitting fault is not part of the political lexicon and President Putin has turned the tables, accusing Russia's accusers of "politicizing" sports.
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The congressional opposition, for its part, has criticized Modi and the BJP for politicizing the standoff with Pakistan for its own political gains during this election season.
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Spicer later tweeted in part that it was "sad & disappointing you are politicizing such a holy day" in response to a reporter's question about the RNC statement.
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Shortly after the shooting, his father-in-law complained that "the black people" were unjustifiably politicizing Sterling's death, expressing little regard for the loss of black life.
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That press conference alienated both sides while politicizing the FBI, which, ironically, was threading this needle so it would not to be seen as a political tool.
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Matthews said he would have used foul language to describe people arguing the Clinton is politicizing the issue, but didn't want to in a house of worship.
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So they continue telling others to stop politicizing the tragedy — knowing full well that this will have a major policy consequence: the continuation of the status quo.
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The federal government says funds were cut to Chihuahua for budgetary and technical reasons, not as revenge, and Pena Nieto has criticized Corral for politicizing the matter.
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"I'm not the one politicizing this," Crowley yelled, loud enough to be overheard by a handful of reporters sitting in the press gallery above the House floor.
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While Kelly lambasted Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson for politicizing the issue, he conceded that her account of the conversation between Trump and Myeshia Johnson was substantially accurate.
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Such a managerial style is echoed by Infinite's refusal to take a side or make, concretely, any point—its politicizing may be visible, but it's always safe.
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The president's tweet, confusing and politicizing a serious matter of military justice, is yet another dispiriting reminder of the civilian-military divide that exists in this country.
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Biden's latest ad does not make the same error, instead putting together the two audio clips, "Now the Democrats are politicizing..." and "this is their new hoax."
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After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus.
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"Politicizing cooperation in education and artificially putting up barriers is not good for either side and does not enjoy popular support," he told a daily news briefing.
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He went on to take a swing at House Democratic leadership, accusing them of politicizing the must-pass legislation, which he feels could have passed days earlier.
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He lamented the violence and cautioned against "politicizing the tragedy" when asked by a reporter about comments from a union official who had warned about school safety.
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" The President's namesake, in an op-ed published Friday in the Des Moines Register, said the accusation that Republicans were politicizing Tibbetts' death was an "absurd claim.
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"Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," Trump said, adding, "They can't even count their votes in Iowa," referring to the disastrous Iowa caucuses earlier this month.
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The dispute with the N.B.A. was also quickly politicizing an audience of sports fans who would not normally focus on issues like the protests in Hong Kong.
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"I regret if they do it because it will be such a disastrous step into politicizing the justice system," she said during an interview with Mother Jones.
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After eight years of Democrats politicizing the Justice Department, there are countless investigations he could take up to restore the public's trust and faith in the department.
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Asked whether he himself was politicizing the event, Merritt said he would not have spoken up if the attack had not been used in a political way.
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It would interpose government bureaucrats between patients and their doctors, curtailing patient and physician autonomy, lowering quality, politicizing delivery and creating shortages of essential and desired services.
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Instead, he is hurting the military and military families, harming national security, politicizing the Defense Department, and playing games with the Constitution, for his own political benefit.
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Mr. Mnuchin had defended the deal in meetings with lawmakers, and Mr. McConnell on the floor of the Senate accused Democrats of politicizing the sanctions on Tuesday.
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The move set off a furor inside and outside the Justice Department, with Barr facing accusations he was politicizing the department by seeking to favor Trump's friends.
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"I'm concerned about the Trump administration politicizing this issue, using Venezuelans' suffering to score political points here in Florida," said Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Democrat of Miami.
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At least one Democratic-leaning veterans' group Sunday criticized Pence's appearance before the troops as doing exactly what he was accusing the Democrats of: politicizing the military.
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That drew censure from Auden, who, in an open letter in The New York Review of Books, said that he considered the politicizing of the award unseemly.
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Following the USS John McCain controversy, Shanahan repeatedly insisted that "there's no room for politicizing the military" -- a point he again emphasized in Tuesday's memos to DoD personnel.
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Politicizing this shared legacy and turning it into a cynically misused political tool will undermine the very foundations of Western democracy, a goal Putin actively strives to achieve.
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Politicizing the Jewish high holiday is sure to rub some the wrong way, and come off as a request for more lenient treatment by the public and press.
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But first ignoring and then politicizing the massive death toll from Hurricane Maria is a scandal that would not have been tolerated in the mainland United States. 20.
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In recent days, NRA spokespeople have lashed out at gun control advocates, arguing that Democratic elites are politicizing the deadly rampage in Florida to erode gun owners' rights.
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Prime Minister John Key was accused of politicizing the debate when he expressed a preference for the new design which replaced a U.K. flag with a silver fern.
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The recent inclusion of an immigration question on the 2020 U.S. Census serves as a politicizing of the count and is yet another blow to the immigrant community.
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And when Glawe explains why the report did not meet I&A standards, they will brush away testimony as cover for politicizing intelligence work, effectively challenging Glawe's honesty.
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Obama criticized Trump for politicizing the Department of Justice, unwinding the social safety net and busting the budget with a tax-cut bill he said would exacerbate inequality.
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When a lawyer says that the men's hopes are dampened by the "highly politicized" situation, it's understood that the fallout from the series has contributed to the politicizing.
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"Just when you thought Dems couldn't get any lower in their desperate attempt to take down this president, they're now spreading fear by politicizing the coronavirus," Jones said.
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"The judicial activism is destroying the image of the judiciary and politicizing it more," said Matiullah Jan, a journalist and talk-show host who covers the Supreme Court.
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But they say their coronavirus criticisms are legitimate and that it is Republicans who are politicizing the issue by trying to shield Mr. Trump's management from necessary scrutiny.
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As Catherine unwisely decides to mix painting and politicizing and gin up opposition to the treaty, her stays loosen and her hair escapes its elaborate pins and tucks.
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Perhaps if we rename the danger "pending calamity," elected officials will be able to recognize the threat to civilization posed by climate change rather than politicizing scientific facts.
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Mr. Mnuchin has insisted that any such disclosure be delayed until after the 2020 election, according to a senior Trump administration official, to avoid politicizing the Secret Service.
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The White House, under presidents of both parties, has generally restricted direct contact with the Justice Department about prospective investigations to avoid the appearance of politicizing law enforcement.
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Authorities have accused dissident lawyers and legal activists of orchestrating protests outside courts, politicizing ordinary legal cases, and conspiring with "foreign forces" to undermine China's ruling Communist Party.
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" Raveesh Kumar, a spokesman for India's Ministry of External Affairs, said the commission's criticisms were "factually inaccurate and misleading, and appear to be aimed at politicizing the issue.
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Her status as a career professional — rather than a politician — is seen as a major mark in her favor in an administration accused by critics of politicizing intelligence.
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After Crowley offered a similar resolution for a second time Tuesday, MacArthur walked over to the Democratic side of the chamber and accused Crowley of politicizing the issue.
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But by characterizing the trip so baldly in this fashion, Pence's aides risk politicizing the Games in exactly the same manner they accuse Kim of wanting to do.
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Obama had reason to play it safe: As a Democratic president, he was rightly worried about politicizing national security and using his power to hurt the Republican nominee.
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After the October mass shooting in Las Vegas, some members of the GOP lashed out at Democrats, claiming they were politicizing the tragedy with calls for gun control.
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"The fact that the president has talked about politicizing investigations and the attorney general has nothing to say?" said Matthew Miller, a department spokesman during the Obama administration.
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"By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia," Spicer said in a statement.
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Loeb said the Justice Department's actions repeatedly seeking early relief from lower court orders risk undermining the credibility of the solicitor general's office and politicizing the Supreme Court.
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"The Biden rule reminds us that the decision the Senate announced weeks ago, remains about a principle and not a person," McConnell said, accusing Obama of politicizing the nomination.
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If the government went with Amazon, it might have raised Trump's ire, but now that it is rejecting the company, it will inevitably be accused of politicizing the choice.
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Even so, Democrats view the prospect of Roberts settling the argument over whether new evidence should be weighed as a long shot because it would risk politicizing the court.
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How much of it do you attribute to the fact that you — as someone who never really seemed interested in politicizing his show — were just speaking from the heart?
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And again, in 1991, through a constellation of think tanks and funded thinkers, Koch exploited that weak point in scientific discourse and started politicizing the issue of climate change.
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Uh, that this institution that theoretically should remain above the fray of politics has been politicized, and we're going to see yet another knockdown drag-out round of politicizing.
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Barr, who oversaw the tail end of the special counsel's probe and whom Democrats accused of politicizing its release, skipped a House Judiciary Committee hearing scheduled for May 2.
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This politicizing by Justice Scalia weakened the moral authority and the stature of the court to a far greater extent than his scholarly decisions on the court strengthened it.
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He made no apologies for politicizing the issue and warned "this is not something I can do myself" before going the extra step of worrying about his nation's soul.
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China's partners backed that claim in their Friday letter, claiming the signatories to the Thursday statement were politicizing human rights issues, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
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The notion of gun violence looms over every second of the film but the movie is so wary of politicizing grief that it ends up feeling like weak soup.
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But when U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida was asked about Flint during Thursday's debate in Detroit, he defended Snyder and said the "politicizing" of the crisis was unfair.
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Hillary Clinton tells Mother Jones that appointing a special counsel to investigate her ties to a Russian uranium deal would be a "disastrous step into politicizing the Justice Department."
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In the same statement, Burr defended the intelligence community against a growing chorus of Trump supporters accusing them of politicizing a narrative of Moscow's intervention in the presidential elections.
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Whatever his intentions, the Philippine president's decision regarding Diokno is seen by some analysts as another example of Duterte politicizing an institution that's supposed to be independent and neutral.
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Because they are more concerned with politicizing an issue that has devastating effects on pregnant women and their babies than they are about doing their jobs and passing legislation.
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Opponents of the product labeling say that it unfairly singles out Israel by delegitimizing settlements, sets a dangerous precedent of politicizing the consumer market and plays on anti-Semitism.
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Democrats campaigning across the country have largely implicated both sides as they walk a tenuous line between using the events for messaging without being seen as politicizing a tragedy.
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Politicizing enforcement action also weakens US arguments to foreign governments that the rule of law and good governance are crucial to healthy political systems and regulated interaction between governments.
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Bannon, who served as the chief executive of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was elevated to the NSC's Principals Committee in January, sparking criticism the president was politicizing the council.
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Politicizing the military That explanation did little to temper criticism from some lawmakers about what they viewed as an effort by Trump to manipulate the military for political purposes.
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"It's sad that people can't enjoy a beautiful show and embrace its unifying message without politicizing it," tweeted theatergoer Joe Del Vicario, who posted a photo of the incident.
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Mr. Lutsenko has no legal training and has been widely criticized in Ukraine for politicizing criminal probes and using his tenure as Prosecutor General to protect corrupt Ukrainian officials.
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Of all the attempts at politicizing the institutions of the U.S. government, the politicization of the intelligence community is probably the most dangerous yet undertaken by the Trump administration.
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In a meeting with Tillerson Tuesday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denied that Cuba was involved in attacks on diplomats and said the United States was politicizing the incidents.
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Their goal appears to have been their own survival, even if protecting themselves risked politicizing the Justice Department -- and turning it into a political arm of the White House.
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Their goal appears to have been their own survival, even if protecting themselves risked politicizing the Justice Department -- and turning it into a political arm of the White House.
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On Sunday, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke—fresh off a bizarrely off-topic mid-hurricane Twitter endorsement from President Donald Trump—hit out at liberals for "politicizing" Hurricane Harvey.
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde pushed for a return to multilateralism, while Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan suggested the world needs to fight against protectionism and stop politicizing trade issues.
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All of this is to say that pointing out legitimate concerns about the Trump administration's response is not tantamount to politicizing a viral outbreak, despite the administration's claims otherwise.
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The experts got plenty of time to speak, and beyond obligatory praise for Trump from his subordinates, there was limited evidence that the White House was politicizing the crisis.
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"So she's out tweeting and politicizing, and she is free to lie and say whatever she wants to say about climate change and who's responsible for it," Limbaugh said.
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" The Freedom Caucus member then pointed to the Democrats for politicizing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, saying "we need to calm down, follow the law.
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"Neither one of us are interested in politicizing this or having this provoke a backlash," Dr. Kelly said in a telephone interview from his home after the news conference.
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But a new executive order, politicizing the process for national security decisions, suggests Mr. Bannon is positioning himself not merely as a Svengali but as the de facto president.
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Combined with Trump's earlier assertion that he would replace Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, this amounts to politicizing the Federal Reserve - and pushing it toward a high inflation policy.
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There is a risk, however, that the Republican and Democratic efforts in 2018 and beyond could end up further politicizing and undermining public trust in these law enforcement positions.
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Kennedy said he believed it was wrong that the lenders, both of which received taxpayer-backed funds during the 2007-2009 financial crisis, seemed to be politicizing banking services.
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On top of the healthcare debacle, Trump came under fire for banning transgender people from the military, and was pilloried for politicizing a speech he made to the Boy Scouts.
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Responding to a question from a reporter, Shanahan said Sunday that "there's no room for politicizing the military" -- a point he also made on Friday when asked about the controversy.
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So they continue telling the president and others to stop politicizing the tragedy — knowing full well that this will have a major policy consequence: the continuation of the status quo.
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One of the companies responsible for politicizing climate change is ExxonMobil, which for years funded climate change denial groups despite its own research confirming that greenhouse gases cause global warming.
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Some scientists argued that the march was politicizing science and infusing it with "identity politics," as the March's diversity committee worked to respond to calls for a diverse, inclusive march.
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The city's leaders have also been accused of politicizing the police force by putting it on the front lines of a crisis playing out between the government and its critics.
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Why it matters: Graham said he wants to know if Obama Administration officials were "politicizing" any of the 1,950 conversations of Americans that have been collected inadvertently while surveilling foreigners.
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There is a reason the criticisms about "politicizing" gun control tend to come from conservative pundits on Fox News and Republican lawmakers: They want the federal government to do nothing.
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A former CIA director issued a sweeping rebuke of President Trump's treatment of the U.S. intelligence community on Thursday, accusing the real estate mogul of politicizing and hindering intelligence gathering.
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Taming homegrown terror and tightening gun control will be dismissed as inappropriate or unnecessary politicizing of a tragedy and quickly become secondary to more pressing issues on the administration's agenda.
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The possibility of security revocations represents an effort by Trump to reprimand former officials whom the White House accuses of "politicizing" their public service by speaking out against the president.
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said in a Monday report that the attacks have been in areas like censoring scientific findings, halting studies, stopping data collection and politicizing grants.
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"Bolton played a key role in politicizing the [intelligence] that misled us into the Iraq War — We cannot let this extreme war hawk blunder us into another terrible conflict," Sen.
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"Zinke is politicizing Interior's Freedom of Information Act process to deny the public access to information and hide the oil industry's dirty secrets," said Meg Townsend, an attorney for CBD.
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During her confirmation, her allies sought to contrast her with her predecessor, Mr. Holder, an outspoken liberal voice who clashed frequently with Republicans who accused him of politicizing the office.
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In fact, they risk politicizing the process, undermining the use of sound science, and threatening the collaborative state and federal conservation efforts that have helped save many species to date.
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Keith Chu, a Wyden spokesman, said his boss objected to breaking decades of precedent and politicizing the Senate Finance Committee by holding a subcommittee field hearing in an election year.
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Republicans are politicizing this issue in an attempt to keep their power and win elections, but there is no winning unless we address the existential threat that is global warming.
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They accuse him of taking partisan positions against the country's withdrawal and of politicizing the bank before the June 2016 referendum in which Britons voted to leave the European Union.
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Last month, after the United States ordered representatives for China's state-run news media to register as foreign agents, China accused the United States of obstructing and politicizing the media.
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Sources say that Whitaker presented himself as a sympathetic ear to both Sessions and Rosenstein — telling them he supported their efforts to prevent the president from politicizing the Justice Department.
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The administration has also come under fire for the number of testing kits available in the U.S. Trump's reelection campaign hit back at Biden, accusing him of politicizing the virus.
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At the United Nations on Friday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denied that Cuba was involved in attacks on diplomats and said the United States was politicizing the incidents.
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But the article made Dr. Bates into something of a hero in the community of climate change denialists and others who claim that some climate scientists are politicizing the subject.
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At the same time, culture wars over Japan's occupation of China have resurfaced, with Beijing politicizing wartime atrocities while nationalists in Tokyo argue their country should recapture its national pride.
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PiS has pushed through a range of reforms since taking power in 2015 that the European Commission and rights groups say jeopardize the rule of law by politicizing judicial appointments.
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Hashim Mooppan from the Justice Department, which is defending McGahn, warned the appeals court to stay out of the House-White House fight, at the risk of politicizing the court.
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However, as a former FBI agent who worked many counterterrorism investigations, I was infuriated watching the Trump White House so blatantly attempting to manipulate public opinion by politicizing national security.
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Former analysts Jeff Asher, Nada Bakos and Cindy Otis wrote in an opinion piece for CNN that Nunes degraded the committee's effectiveness as an oversight mechanism by politicizing intelligence information.
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On the other side you have congressional Democrats, yes, who believe releasing the memo is a major step in politicizing an arena -- intelligence gathering -- that has never before been politicized.
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She posted a letter of complaint from regional officials on Facebook that accused her of politicizing the service and said she thought Nasirov had prompted the officials to send it.
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Trump's salvos against the prosecutors in Stone's case prompted accusations that he is putting his thumb on the scale in a federal criminal trial and politicizing the Department of Justice.
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"Whatever a campaign may think it gains by plowing forward is erased by a story suggesting they are politicizing 9/11," said Josh Holmes, former chief of staff to Sen.
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Obama himself argued before leaving office that his actions were calibrated to avoid the appearance of politicizing the issue, and since then former members of his administration have defended his approach.
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"The gun control lobby and anti-gun politicians are intentionally politicizing the Violence Against Women Act as a smokescreen to push their gun-control agenda," NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker told NPR.
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Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said last week in an interview there was no political pressure and that this was "normal" in business, but warned Washington against politicizing the Freeport issues.
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In Washington, Trump planned to preside over celebrations with a speech about patriotism and a show of military might that critics decried as politicizing an important holiday and wasting taxpayer money.
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" In a statement made at the Belt and Road Forum, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cautioned against politicizing CPEC, which he said aimed to build "a peaceful, connected and caring neighborhood.
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Trump's politicizing of a humanitarian relief effort is troubling enough, but to see and hear those words while photos like these still surface every day... it's almost too much to bear.
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"This latest attempt to politicize the science — because make no mistake, it is the politicians who are politicizing the science — follows in this well-trodden and very successful pathway," she said.
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Andrew Torba, former ad tech founder and now head of "free speech" social network Gab, argued that Twitter is politicizing its platform and is no longer accepting of an open dialogue.
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This sets a dangerous precedent of politicizing intelligence, which is exactly what we saw the Bush administration do when they wanted to start a war with Iraq in the early 2000s.
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" Schumer also accused the President of "politicizing and dividing America" and urged him to focus "on the real solution -- anti-terrorism funding -- which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget.
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And it's sure to be a drawn-out and complicated process, as the judges involved will likely seek to avoid politicizing the role of the courts in an inherently political fight.
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" Haley said the council acted as a "protector of human rights abusers and cesspool of political bias" and accused the body of "politicizing and scapegoating countries with positive human rights records.
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Political infighting in Kabul could undercut Afghan security, including fracturing or dangerously politicizing the country's security forces ahead of the planned parliamentary election in July and the presidential vote in 2019.
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Which is perhaps why some Democrats, many of them traditionally enamored of unifying rhetoric and technocratic fixes, have started to reclaim the idea of openly "politicizing" certain issues, especially gun violence.
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Some on the left were hopeful that the unsullied voices of teenagers, cutting through the usual tussle over whether gun control advocates were politicizing a tragedy, would move previously unbudgeable lawmakers.
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This joke, Ron Johnson, is actually politicizing a committee that right now should have one focus: What is going on with the United States of America's federal response to the coronavirus?
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The idea that a president should hew to the "expertise" of an unelected IC bureaucracy and seek its stamp of approval, or else be cast as "politicizing" the community, is nonsense.
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What good is being reasonable if the majority of voters, who chose Clinton over Trump, can only watch as Trump exercises uncompromising control of the Senate while politicizing the Supreme Court?
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Near the site of Monday's exercise, two small but loud groups of anti-war protesters held signs and passed out leaflets, accusing the Japanese government of politicizing the North Korean threat.
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He defended Trump's handling of the call and accused Wilson, who revealed its contents after listening in, of politicizing the "sacred" issue of how the nation honors those killed in combat.
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Warsaw has pulled at the fabric of the European Union as it has pursued a series of anti-democratic steps, silencing independent media, politicizing security services and undermining the judicial system.
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They simply could not see past their own intensely-held political beliefs in order to objectively weigh the facts of the case or appreciate the inherent danger of politicizing law enforcement.
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Without them as a means for overcoming the hurdles to acting individually, not to mention the educational and mobilizing effects that come from politicizing sexual harassment, retaliation will simply carry on.
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Saudi officials have asked Muslims to focus on rituals of worship and warned against politicizing the rite amid regional wars and heightened tension between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Muslim Iran.
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" White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest warned that Republicans were setting the stage for a "historic and unprecedented acceleration of politicizing a branch of government that's supposed to be insulated from politics.
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Heritage was a pioneer in politicizing the once staid work of think tanks, but it nevertheless maintained the pretense of doing policy work and of being aligned with a larger conservative movement.
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" Haley argued that the council acted as a "protector of human rights abusers and cesspool of political bias" and accused the body of "politicizing and scapegoating countries with positive human rights records.
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Venezuela offers a case study in how by politicizing the law, the regime -- incompetent in every other respect -- managed to seize control of the country without the need to impose military rule.
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This danger of further politicizing the Court can be fixed on a bipartisan basis if the Senate will change the precedent and begin adhering to the actual language of the filibuster rule.
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The bureau has been criticized for politicizing its activities, abusing its authority, exceeding its statutory authority, and even for a failure to catch clear frauds in time to mitigate damage to consumers.
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"Once again the Democrats are politicizing this effort when they know full well that the subpoenas do not ask for and in fact instruct that no patient information be included," he said.
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I'm sure those politicizing their trauma in this way believe truly that if only the government deported more people faster, things might have been different for them or for their loved ones.
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"We are writing to urge your cooperation in quickly negotiating an agreement that rejects politicizing disaster response with extreme and unnecessary partisan priorities," the Senate's four top Democrats added in the letter.
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While the right raged at liberals "politicizing" the event, the misidentified man's political leanings were simply transferred to Paddock, despite lack of evidence that he had had any political affiliations at all.
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The president's high-profile involvement in the celebration has drawn criticism from Democratic lawmakers and local officials who say Trump is politicizing the long-standing tradition of fireworks on the National Mall.
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In a recent memo to House Republicans, Tom Emmer, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, accused Democrats of politicizing the novel coronavirus and warned his caucus not to do the same.
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The Treasury secretary has warned that allowing House Democrats to retrieve the president's tax returns would open the door to lawmakers from both parties politicizing the Internal Revenue Service in the future.
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Though he has criticized the Congolese government for acts of sexual violence by its troops, the government congratulated him on Friday for the prize, even while chiding him for politicizing his work.
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Beyond an initial statement on August 4 expressing sympathy with the victims and pledging not to "participate in the politicizing of these tragedies," the NRA and its leadership has been relatively quiet.
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The Judiciary Committee's scrutiny could make things only more difficult for the attorney general, whose actions have drawn intense criticism inside and outside the Justice Department for politicizing the law enforcement system.
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The president also drew widespread criticism for politicizing the issue by later bringing Golsteyn and Lorance on stage at a GOP fundraiser and feting Gallagher at a dinner at his Florida estate.
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By politicizing these issues and attacking Pete and others personally, they undercut the credibility of our country's law enforcement, weaken our national security, and encourage the forces that threaten our democratic process.
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A former deputy director of the CIA accused President Trump on Sunday of "politicizing" the intelligence-gathering process, warning in an interview that the president risks undermining U.S. intelligence across the globe.
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There is also a belief that the current fight has energized the conservative base, even the Trump skeptics among them, as GOP leaders rebuke Democrats with claims that they're politicizing the allegations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. senator on Thursday criticized Citigroup Inc and Bank of America Corp's restrictions on lending to firearm makers and sellers, saying the new policies were wrongly politicizing banking services.
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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez denounced the decision as "unjustified," accused the United States of insufficient cooperation with Cuba's investigation of the health incidents and urged Washington to stop politicizing the matter.
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SANDERS: The president doesn&apost like the fact that people are politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political and not meant to be monetized off of security clearances.
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China says they are criminals wanted for serious crimes in China and that it has every right to try them, accusing Taiwan of turning a blind eye to crime and politicizing the issue.
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But the reality is — as Trump prepares to speak to Venezuelan-Americans in Miami on Monday, further politicizing the crisis in the US — the main threat to Maduro is coming from the inside.
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And I feel like the Koch network played a huge role in politicizing normal scientific language, by taking advantage of the general public's unfamiliarity with how uncertainty is discussed in the scientific community.
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Court watchers fear the partisan showdown over whether to fill the vacant seat left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia is politicizing a court designed merely to settle disputes, not shape public policy.
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The appalling act of politicizing a mass shooting should have been denounced in the media, and cooler heads should have called for all the facts to be considered before any fingers were pointed.
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While the President can remove top Justice Department officials and the head of the FBI, presidents have traditionally sought to avoid perceptions they are influencing or politicizing the act of implementing the law.
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"Even for a president who has a casual relationship with the truth," Thompson said, it is "outrageous" and "dangerous" for Trump to have claimed over the weekend that Democrats are politicizing the crisis.
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From MS-13 gangs, to kneeling professional football players and the recent death of Mollie Tibbetts, nothing is out of bounds — even the pleas of Tibbetts's father that Trump stop politicizing her murder.
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" Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, said she was "deeply troubled that NOAA is politicizing weather prediction critical for the protection of life and property in contravention of internal operations services and policy directives.
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"The president doesn't like the fact that people are politicizing agencies and departments that are specifically meant to not be political and not meant to be monetized off of security clearances," she said.
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Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused its opponents of "unnecessarily politicizing" high fuel prices and the weakening currency, which it blamed on external factors such as Turkey's economic crisis which affected emerging markets.
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It shuns shares in companies which cause severe environmental damage but has resisted using its investment clout to promote green causes because of the risk of conflicts of interest or politicizing monetary policy.
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By politicizing Charlottesville, they're sticking to the modus operandi of the Democratic Party, which exploited Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, and countless tragedies to promote the Left's anti-gun, and now Anti-Trump, agenda.
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Rob Kim/Getty Images There is a reason the criticisms about "politicizing" gun control tend to come from conservative pundits on Fox News and Republican lawmakers: They want the federal government to do nothing.
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READ: Russia hits back at 'unfounded' allegations Assange calls report a "press release" Assange hit back by labeling the report a "press release" and criticized the Obama administration for politicizing the US intelligence services.
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Of course this litany of trivia was crucial to the movement in the beginning, a key technique in the politicizing of women who perhaps had been conditioned to obscure their resentments even from themselves . . .
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But some members of the club, which is noted for being mostly Jewish in demographic, protested Obama's joining, politicizing the issue by saying he wasn't a big enough supporter of Israel while in office.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not refute the Times story but said it was Comey's "grandstanding and politicizing" of the Russia investigation that put pressure on the administration's ability to engage Moscow.
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Coats declined to comment on the report when asked about it by lawmakers on Tuesday but did say that politicizing intelligence was inappropriate -- and that he'd made that position clear to the Trump administration.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Two senior members of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives on Thursday warned election rivals the Social Democrats (SPD) against politicizing Germany's efforts to increase military spending, saying security threats made such steps essential.
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" The White House did not deny the report, saying that Comey had been "grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions," and "created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia.
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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy blasted Grenell in a tweet: When I raised concerns to Grenell about politicizing this post, he personally assured me that once he became Ambassador he would stay out of politics.
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Clinton's experience, quietly positing her as the steady hand the nation needs to steer it through a stormy time, effectively lands as a deft response to last week's traumatic shootings, without directly politicizing them.
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POLITICIZING GITMO: The Hill's Jesse Byrnes reports: Bernie Sanders praised President Obama's push to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and noted in a statement Hillary Clinton's 2007 vote to keep the prison open.
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We will not participate in the politicizing of these tragedies but, as always, we will work in good faith to pursue real solutions that protect us all from people who commit these horrific acts.
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Last year Russia accused Ukraine of politicizing the competition by choosing as its entrant a Crimean Tatar, Jamala, whose song decried war-time deportations of Tatars under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1940s.
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"Taken together, these developments give the strong impression that the Trump Administration may be endangering American lives by politicizing law enforcement and interfering with the operation of the agencies you lead," the lawmakers wrote.
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Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who has made his mark by regularly calling into question the ethics of scientists and, in the end, politicizing science to an extent rarely, if ever, seen on Capitol Hill.
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General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has not spoken specifically in public about Trump politicizing the military but has repeatedly spoken about the ethos of a non-political military force.
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Just days ago at a rally, President Donald Trump said: "This is their [Democrats] new hoax," unhelpfully politicizing a public health crisis that is endangering Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and people of all parties alike.
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"The only people who seem outraged by the term 'Wuhan Virus' are those whose primary goal is to continue" politicizing the outbreak, Ben Goldey, the congressman's press secretary, wrote in an email on Monday.
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"The only people who seem outraged by the term 'Wuhan Virus' are those whose primary goal is to continue" politicizing the outbreak, Ben Goldey, the congressman's press secretary, wrote in an email on Monday.
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Some of those games — and their developers — have been heavily criticized for politicizing games, a trend that started in 2014 with "GamerGate," when a fight about ethics in games journalism became a culture war.
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But we shouldn't shy away about talking about gun laws right now, or be cowed into not "politicizing" an event that has become so horribly commonplace that there's no way not to politicize it.
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Mostly male video-game players began to publish personal information — including home address and phone numbers — for women in their community, typically journalists and game designers who they said were unfairly politicizing gaming culture.
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McCabe has also been a favorite target of Republicans, who have, without solid evidence, accused him of conflicts of interest and politicizing the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
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The family of a Barnard College freshman who was found stabbed to death outside of Morningside Park on December 11 is calling on top police union brass to stop needlessly politicizing their daughter's death.
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While the measure received a sizable amount of GOP support on the floor, Republicans accused Democrats of politicizing the whistleblower complaint by calling for a formal impeachment inquiry before seeing all of the facts.
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The ruling in Brown polled well, and Dahl didn't foresee the protracted unrest over school integration that was just over the horizon, politicizing a decision that the court tried hard to place above politics.
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A Democratic-controlled Senate would constrain Trump's ability to replace his own executive branch appointees, which in turn would meaningfully reduce his ability to continue politicizing the Justice Department and eroding the rule of law.
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It can feel mean-spirited: We so often use fiction as a means of escape from the real world, and how dare we take that escape away from people who need it by politicizing it?
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Earlier Wednesday, Trump praised Attorney General William Barr online for "taking charge" of the Stone matter — provoking further outrage from congressional Democrats who have accused the president and Barr of politicizing the criminal justice system.
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The bottom line: By politicizing an essentially bureaucratic and technical decision with his attacks on an individual company, Trump insured that this process would be a mess — and a no-win choice for the Pentagon.
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Past agency officials call the politicizing of a public health agency misguided, and public affairs experts told BuzzFeed News it will likely continue making the embattled agency's press shop itself a source of bad news.
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In the past, US leaders have tended to wait for the facts before drawing conclusions, and to do everything to avoid politicizing the situation or angering a victimized ally at a time of national trauma.
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What was unsustainable about the Tebow moment, beyond the bizarre aesthetic facts of his throwing motion, was how much wild rhetoric and tryhard politicizing was leveraged on his wobbly left arm and earnest Christian faith.
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Politicizing them in where our lawmakers and media tries to spin these incidents into gun control arguments or warnings about religious tolerance is a disservice to the memories of the victims of these attacks. Why?
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First, Trump is openly politicizing the Department of Justice by calling for the prosecution of a political opponent, with the implied threat that he'll fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions if that threat isn't carried out.
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" And top Democrats on the House Homeland Security and Judiciary committees, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus, quickly knocked the president, saying he is "politicizing a national tragedy to further his anti-immigrant agenda.
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Take one long look at the images of that young woman collapsed across the flag-draped casket of her equally young husband and tell me how in the hell you can justify politicizing this tragedy.
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" Pressed by reporters, Sanders snapped that Comey was fired, "for lying, leaking and politicizing the FBI," before adding, "The president has repeatedly been proven to be exactly right in his decision to fire James Comey.
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday warned against politicizing the doping scandal that has touched a number of Russian athletes, and he criticized his nation's sports officials for failing to take the issue seriously.
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Milley would take over as the Pentagon's top military officer at a time when critics in Congress are accusing Trump of politicizing the military, including with his deployment of U.S. troops to the Mexico border.
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Politicizing global suffering may be wrong, but it may also be irresponsible not to point out that those who made poor decisions should be held accountable and replaced by others who would make better ones.
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The decline of her marriage and her subsequent breakdown have been subject to so much projection and politicizing that it is an enormous contribution to see the poet tackle these events in her own words.
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Washington (CNN)Amid accusations of politicizing the US Census, President Donald Trump's campaign touted the administration's move to add a question about citizenship status on the consequential survey in an email to supporters on Wednesday.
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"He's using the powers of his office in an attempt to intimidate and silence his opponents, and he is politicizing a process that is, by design, supposed to be non-partisan and apolitical," Warner said.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's government appointed a new director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Thursday, as the ruling nationalists face accusations of politicizing museums to reflect their view of history.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's government appointed a new director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on Thursday, as the ruling nationalists face accusations of politicizing museums to reflect their view of history.
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Barr has been an outspoken defender of the president and has aggressively sought to implement his agenda, frequently drawing charges from Democrats and former Justice Department officials that he is politicizing the rule of law.
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Facing unprecedented EU legal action over accusations of backsliding on democracy by politicizing Polish courts, the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party may seek to ease tensions in other areas like environmental policy or defense.
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The head of the National Rifle Association lashed out at gun control advocates, saying Democratic elites are politicizing the latest mass school shooting in the United States to try to erode constitutionally guaranteed gun rights.
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The move prompted sharp criticism from Democrats and others that Trump was abusing his power and that he and his allies were politicizing the probe to protect the White House just weeks before November's congressional elections.
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That makes it a greater concern for me than if it were a different president who happened to be Republican but was making wise decisions with respect to the judiciary and wasn't so blatantly politicizing it.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday Japan's political leaders should not undermine bilateral ties by "politicizing" the issue of South Koreans forced to work by Japanese companies during World War Two.
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"The more you have coherent groups that are politicizing, the more likely people in those groups will see their interests furthered, their identity strengthened as part of that group, by going out to vote," she said.
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But he has also been accused of politicizing the justice system, using the state's anti-gambling laws to target casinos in predominantly black counties for alleged violations that his office has allowed at Indian-owned casinos.
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Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack sparked a heated debate on Monday when he accused climate activists, whom he called "woke capital city greenies," of politicizing a tragedy at the expense of people in the danger zones.
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Reuters this week reported the three countries had agreed an aggressive timetable to broker a deal on NAFTA in order to avoid politicizing Mexico's presidential election in July 2018, forecasting rounds held at three-week intervals.
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In that investigation, Acosta was singled out for failing to closely supervise a subordinate who was accused of illegally politicizing the hiring process and was accused of a lax approach to racial bias and voting rights.
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Trump represents, in effect, abandonment of that goal in favor of a very different idea of responding to the shrinking white share of the population by politicizing and mobilizing white identity while downplaying free market doctrines.
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Downplaying the epidemic, calling worries about it a 'hoax,' politicizing it — all things that I think have left the country far less prepared than it needs to be for what is a very substantial challenge ahead.
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Downplaying the epidemic, calling worries about it a "hoax," politicizing it — all things that I think have left the country far less prepared than it needs to be for what is a very substantial challenge ahead.
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Fidesz has cemented its power by politicizing the judiciary, creating rigged election rules, suppressing opposition media and using the power of the state to reward the party's cronies while punishing businesses that don't toe the line.
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Even some of Mr. Adelson's allies expressed concern that if the administration accepts his offer for the permanent embassy, it could be seen as a well-heeled financial contributor effectively privatizing — and politicizing — American foreign policy.
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While Mr. Bolton has left plenty of bruises over the years and he was accused of politicizing intelligence before the Iraq war, an accusation he denied, many former colleagues said he was forthcoming to a fault.
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But critics say that Mr. Trump has himself violated a longstanding norm of American politics: the unwritten rule that presidents should not remove the F.B.I. director without extreme justification, in order to avoid politicizing law enforcement.
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The move prompted an outcry from Democrats and former intelligence officials, who argued that the President could be jeopardizing intelligence sources and politicizing intelligence during an ongoing investigation into ties between his campaign associates and Russia.
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In giving Mr. Bannon an official role in national security policy making, Mr. Trump has not simply broken with tradition but has embraced the risk of politicizing national security, or giving the impression of doing so.
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Any attempt to examine such a case for what it actually is — the product of a nonsensical immigration policy and the people who advocate for it — is condemned as race-based, opportunistic "politicizing" of a tragedy.
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Among them there was a sense of skepticism over the importance and accuracy of the Russia investigation, as well as a strong distaste for the news media and progressives who they felt were politicizing the issue.
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Democratic lawmakers have accused the former reality-TV show host of wasting taxpayer money to stage a campaign rally ahead of his 2003 re-election bid, while some commentators have raised concerns about politicizing the military.
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I was struck by hearing her testimony but then was blown away to see her story animated—I initially saw her from a very political point of view, which reminded me that you weren't politicizing this story.
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"What we're seeing from Powell's policies is to push from that politicizing very strongly, so a big pontification speech at Jackson Hole is the complete opposite of what he's trying to achieve at the moment," he added.
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Poland's right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party has pushed through a range of reforms since taking power in 2015 that the European Commission and rights groups say jeopardize the rule of law by politicizing judicial appointments.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will preside over July Fourth Independence Day celebrations on Thursday with a speech about patriotism and a show of military might that critics say is politicizing an important holiday and wasting taxpayer money.
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In a statement from the White House on Wednesday, he avoided politicizing the attack, which was carried out by an assailant who had expressed anti-Trump views, as well as support for Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders.
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"If you are over the mass hysteria, if you're over politicizing and weaponizing of the coronavirus, you are not alone," Sean Hannity, the highest-rated host on Fox News, assured the network's prime time audience this week.
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" The Register on Friday published a column by the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., in which he blamed Democrats for Ms. Tibbetts's death and said claims that conservatives and Republicans were politicizing her death were "absurd.
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Instead of thoughtfully acknowledging a possible error in their approach and defusing the issue, Mr. Kelly has gone on the attack, further politicizing it and making it personal by trying to make it all about his grief.
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Putting troops at the border to protect against what Mr. Trump deemed a threat, in his rallying cry for the midterms, has put Mr. Mattis's views about politicizing the military on a collision course with the president.
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By continually and bitterly politicizing things that shouldn't be political, like natural disasters, journalism, the criminal-justice system, you name it -- Trump and his followers have fanned growing fears that everything they do is about partisan advantage.
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An industry that likes continuity and tradition, a global audience that wants a big spectacle, younger voters interested in aesthetic risk and social awareness, a domestic public that somehow both hates politics and insists on politicizing everything.
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"First of all, what I'm taking issue with is people making the slanderous accusation that she was taking intelligence or politicizing it or urging the intelligence agencies somehow to surveil Donald Trump," he told CNN's Chris Cuomo.
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The European Commission believes the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has been politicizing the judiciary since it came to power in 2015 and it has launched unprecedented legal steps against Poland to preserve the courts' independence.
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Among other things, we talked about FERC's mandates, the growth of distributed energy resources, the possibility of expanding wholesale electricity markets, his disagreement with his Republican chair over pipelines, and whether Trump will succeed in politicizing the agency.
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It was in part a response to anger and frustration in the agency at doubts and charges -- many from GOP lawmakers and President-elect Donald Trump -- that the CIA was somehow politicizing intelligence and analysis regarding Russian hacking.
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And Gardner said during another closed-door meeting that Democrats were politicizing the trial, and cautioned "the longer this goes on and [is] used as a political tool, the more it divided the country," according to his spokesperson.
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Politicizing humanitarian aid to justify a strike on Syria would forever undermine the perception of humanitarian organizations as neutral, risking the lives of aid workers and limiting the future access of aid organizations to conflicts around the world.
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"America has made a bad mistake by politicizing oil and using it as a weapon in the fragile state of the market," Zanganeh said in a parliamentary session, according to Reuters, which cited the Islamic Republic News Agency.
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For her book, Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals: Politicizing the Female Body, Brown visited numerous independent abortion clinics across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, though she wasn't granted access to any Planned Parenthood clinics.
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This week's headlines from OPEC have focused on the fiery comments of Iran Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, who has been blasting Trump for politicizing oil when he blamed OPEC for high prices and reinstated sanctions on Iran.
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In an appearance on the network's "America's Newsroom," Mr. Lewandowski refused to apologize for his remarks, blamed Mr. Petkanas for "politicizing children" and said his "womp womp" response had nothing to do with the girl with Down syndrome.
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Hart had remained silent about the case for months out of concern for her safety and "politicizing the matter," but spoke out on Facebook this month after four prosecutors quit the case amid controversy over Stone's possible sentence.
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And if that produced grumbles about politicizing the military and the Scouts, he had no need to worry at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, a 7,000-seat arena filled to the rafters as more watched on screens outside.
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Canada's government has emphasized that it follows the "rule of law" and cautioned against politicizing the case after U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters last month he would intervene if it served U.S. trade or national security interests.
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The president, in a Friday morning tweet, continued his assault on the nation's top law-enforcement officials, accusing leadership in the FBI and Justice Department of politicizing "the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans."
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With the release slated for April 17, an onslaught of media coverage is expected to be met with criticism by those who say he is politicizing the FBI and unfairly attacking the president, among them being Trump allies.
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Many Republicans have come to Trump's defense, saying the FBI director serves at the president's discretion and that Comey had lost the confidence of his peers by politicizing his role during the campaign and in congressional testimony after.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden on Friday accused Canada of "politicizing" a U.S. government anti-subsidy investigation into Canadian softwood lumber imports by threatening retaliation against wine and other products from his home state of Oregon.
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She could even decide to put the whole Democratic presidential field on blast for politicizing the impeachment process, after tweeting recently that candidates fundraising off the inquiry were "undermining credibility" of House Democrats' probes of President Donald Trump.
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Though a news blackout about the reason for the latest arrests was lifted on Sunday, right-wing leaders and activists have been protesting the conditions of the teenagers' detention, politicizing the issue during an already-heated election campaign.
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The governor's wife was going through a rough period over claims that she was politicizing aid for earthquake victims — an accusation she rejected — so a state official suggested that Animal Político do a few positive stories on her.
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Saudi officials asked Muslims to focus on rituals of worship, warning against politicizing the rite as wars rage on in the region and at a time of heightened tensions between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Muslim adversary Iran.
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Republican presidential candidates have steered clear of Flint on the campaign trail, but when U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was asked about Flint during Thursday's debate in Detroit he defended Snyder and said the "politicizing" of the crisis was unfair.
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In the lead-up to Saturday's expected conflict, organizations like the Red Cross repeatedly warned about the dangers of politicizing the aid and trying to push it through border checkpoints where it would surely come up against strong force.
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If a bartender asks guests to refrain from discussing those decisions, those who disagree can accuse the bartender of politicizing the situation or taking an inappropriate stand, even if their principal motivation was the potential comfort of other guests.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the National Rifle Association lashed out at gun control advocates on Thursday, saying Democratic elites are politicizing the latest mass school shooting in the United States to try to erode constitutionally guaranteed gun rights.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that Kelly might not have been specifically aware Trump was going to raise his son's death during an interview, but slammed the media for, in her words, politicizing Robert Kelly's death.
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As we watch our country's leaders confront the Zika epidemic, we must insist that our politicians stop politicizing women's health and address Zika for the public health crisis that it is, not the latest opportunity to control women's bodies.
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But Trump has not shied away from politicizing the military in the past, as he did during last month's controversial Thanksgiving phone call with service members stationed around the world, when he steered the conversation toward controversial political topics.
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Some Democrats have raised concerns about Trump politicizing the Fourth of July and have worried that the involvement of the military could damage local infrastructure and give the appearance of a show of force similar to authoritarian regimes. Rep.
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Outside a Republican presidential debate in Detroit on Thursday, protesters chanted "Flint Lives Matter," while, inside, Senator Marco Rubio answered a question about Flint by describing what happened here as "terrible" but adding that "politicizing of it" was unfair.
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In response to Heitkamp's new blitz against Cramer, a spokesman for the North Dakota Republican Party said the senator's ad was proving she is politicizing those in the agricultural business as a way to win her re-election fight.
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Politicizing beef The political push by Hindu nationalists to enforce the cow ban is relatively new, with the BJP seizing on it as a way to attract the Hindu vote ahead of the country's forthcoming election, the report said.
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At Wednesday's briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Kelly was "disgusted and frustrated" by the way his son's death has been politicized — a curious remark since it was their mutual boss, Donald Trump, who did the politicizing.
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Multiple sources say the CIA director was responding in part to anger and frustration in the agency at charges -- many from GOP lawmakers and President-elect Donald Trump -- that the CIA was somehow politicizing intelligence and analysis regarding Russian hacking.
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But Durham, as part of his probe, is also planning to assess the conclusions of CIA analysts who determined the Kremlin acted to benefit Trump — a move that's unnerved some who see the Justice Department as politicizing intelligence and potentially overstepping.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is hitting President Trump for "politicizing" the terror attack in New York City – though the Democrat did the same thing after last month's grisly Las Vegas massacre when he called for new gun control measures.
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"The bottom line is the career officials who handled this case have determined that no further action is appropriate here, no matter how much Republicans may seek to continue politicizing this," Brian Fallon, Clinton's press secretary, said over the summer.
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The First Son has made headlines in recent weeks for his controversial meeting with Russian nationals, but when he's not politicizing or running the family business in N.Y.C., he escapes with wife Vanessa and their five children to Roscoe: population 600.
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The ambassador was criticized for politicizing diplomacy at a time when US-German relations are strained over Trump's withdrawals from the Iran deal and the Paris climate accord and his imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union.
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While critics hit Trump hard for what was seen as politicizing the situation, some members of the veteran community were open to giving him the benefit of the doubt in terms of his intentions and responsibilities as commander in chief.
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Trump rejects politicizing attacks -- unless it's Islamist terrorism "That was a horrible event, and we have to stop it, and we have to stop it cold," said the President, who rarely misses a chance to incite the fight against Islamic radicalism.
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The criticisms: Some Democrats have raised concerns about Trump politicizing the Fourth of July and have worried that the involvement of the military could damage local infrastructure and give the appearance of a show of force similar to authoritarian regimes. Rep.
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In a series of actions that began in 1999, the former lieutenant colonel and one-time coup leader began taming the military by bloating it, buying it off, politicizing it, intimidating the rank and file, and fragmenting the overall command.
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Speaking at the Common Good forum in New York City, Gillibrand argued that Trump has "tried to undermine the basic institutions of our democracy," by firing former FBI Director James Comey earlier this week, saying Trump was further politicizing the department.
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Which is why accusations of "politicizing" might seem like so much mudslinging but often reflect deeper assumptions and arguments about what is objective, what is natural — what is the truth, in other words, free from the distortions of political interference.
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Read more:Trump needs to stop making the coronavirus about himselfThe Trump administration says Medicare and Medicaid might not cover all healthcare for coronavirus patientsTrump accuses Democrats of politicizing the coronavirus, calling criticism of his handling of the outbreak their 'new hoax'
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The Trump administration's move fueled accusations that it was politicizing the Justice Department, which is supposed to defend the constitutionality of federal statutes in court — even if the administration in power does not like them — if reasonable arguments can be made.
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HONG KONG — President Xi Jinping of China delivered a tough speech Saturday at the end of a three-day visit to the semiautonomous Chinese city of Hong Kong, warning against politicizing disputes or challenging the authority of the central government.
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Washington (CNN)Democratic members of Congress are warning that the Justice Department is being targeted by President Donald Trump's tweet politicizing two investigations into GOP House members by the Justice Department, where Attorney General Jeff Sessions remains at the helm.
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"Politicizing of fuel choices is not necessarily new, but it's taken on a higher profile as we graft on environmental and climate issues" to FERC issues, said former FERC Chairman Pat Wood III, a Republican appointed by President George W. Bush.
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Their communications, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, provide a rare behind-the-scenes look into how the president's politicizing of a weather event upended and overwhelmed the federal agency tasked with informing the public at a critical time.
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Democratic candidates and party committees have been careful to avoid the appearance of politicizing the inquiry in an attempt to frame it as a decision made on members' principles, but they could also experience a similar bump in energy and fundraising.
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" Channel NewsAsia, in its account of the ambassador's response, quoted him as saying, "We will respond strongly to the moves of the hostile forces towards us with their intent to besmirch the image of our republic by politicizing this incident.
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"President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solution — anti-terrorism funding — which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget," Schumer said.
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But one word was missing from his remarks -- guns -- as Democrats demanded reforms to deal with high-powered, military style weapons the killer used, and Republicans immediately accused them of politicizing the tragedy to snatch the guns of law abiding Americans.
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And if intelligence agencies ever were to start politicizing their work – as has happened in the past with the Iraq War – our view of the threats against us could become occluded and skewed to the point that we're all less safe.
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In April, Ms. Abdel-Magied's Anzac Day Facebook post — calling for Australians to remember Syrians, Palestinians and the detainees at Nauru and Manus Island — set off a firestorm of vitriol, as she was accused of politicizing a day of remembrance.
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Inside the department, career employees worried that Mr. Sessions was politicizing its day-to-day work and redefining who deserved civil rights protections, particularly on matters like gay rights and the oversight of police departments that had histories of racial discrimination.
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Taken together, the increasingly strange saga of Nunes's shadowy interactions with the administration and his improper interactions with questionable White House sources suggests that the Trump White House is deliberately politicizing intelligence to defend the president's wackiest and most unsubstantiated tweets.
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And the longer that we have this discussion, it may not be about politics, but it absolutely is about the next generation, and to understand where they Constitution matters, the Bill of Rights matter, and that we should not be politicizing everything.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Syrians from territory held by opposing sides in the civil war prayed together for peace as they flew to Mecca for the haj, even as President Bashar al-Assad's government accused Saudi Arabia of politicizing the annual Muslim pilgrimage.
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"The Iranian Hajj Organization's refusal to sign the minutes of the Hajj arrangements shows an intent of distorting the rite of Hajj and politicizing it before its own people and the world," Sheikh Mohaimeed said in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency.
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MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, THE FEDERALIST: There&aposs a really good argument for not politicizing events like this, waiting for families to be notified and having some time for people to process and mourn the lives of people who have died in these attacks.
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Kimmel has health insurance and said in September that he doesn't have to worry about affording Billy's care but that he's "politicizing his son's health problems" to draw attention to the fact that lots of people do have to worry about it.
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Paul Ryan: 'I do' have confidence in Trump White House press secretary Sean Spicer did not refute the Times story but said it was Comey's "grandstanding and politicizing" of the Russia investigation that put pressure on the administration's ability to engage Moscow.
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The city raised the new flag last week at City Hall, but while many have welcomed and celebrated its presence, others have criticized the design for politicizing the iconic symbol, with some even sharing their thoughts on social media with the hashtag #NotMyFlag.
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" During this same appearance, Sekulow went further in accusing Democrats of politicizing the IRS: "This idea that you can use the IRS as a political weapon, which is what is happening here, is incorrect both as a matter of statutory law and constitutionally.
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"President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solution - anti-terrorism funding - which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget," Schumer said in a statement.
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The ambassador has been rebuked for politicizing diplomacy at a time when US-German relations are already strained over Trump's withdrawals from the Iran deal and the Paris climate accord, along with his imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union.
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Cerf stated Wednesday that the dates marked on the filters "do not necessarily correspond to the dates of the filter replacement," and lashed out at the union which has repeatedly called for his resignation, accusing them of politicizing the contamination and spreading misinformation.
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" She's angry, too, particularly at the suggestion Trump made at a rally that Democrats were trying to gain advantage: "'This is their [Democrats] new hoax,' unhelpfully politicizing a public health crisis that is endangering Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and people of all parties alike.
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But the figure I actually have in mind is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, whose success in getting away with obvious corruption by politicizing law offers a disturbing preview of how Trump may become the authoritarian ruler he clearly wants to be.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced a March 10 intelligence community briefing for lawmakers, and she's slammed Trump for what she says is politicizing the intelligence community, in part by installing Richard Grenell, a loyalist ambassador, as the acting director of national intelligence.
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But Marie Tillman, who was married to Corporal Tillman when he left a lucrative contract with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army, has asked the hundreds of people invoking him in the debate over the players' kneeling to stop "politicizing" his memory.
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"The Trump administration is destroying the Bureau of Land Management by mistreating its staff and politicizing its mission and then lying to Congress and the public about the damage it's causing," Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva said in a statement Thursday to The Hill.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration spent months deliberating whether to blame Russia for a cyberattack on the Democratic National Committee, with action delayed in part because President Obama did not want to be blamed for politicizing intelligence, the White House said on Wednesday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday accused the FBI and the Justice Department's top officials of politicizing its investigations as the White House prepared to approve the release of a secret Republican memo alleging FBI bias against him in its Russia probe.
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Both the White House and leaders on Capitol Hill have already committed to certain areas of reform that are promising, including efforts to modernize the Endangered Species Act to focus on the actual conservation of species, not the politicizing of land development.
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Comey takes personal shots at the president in the book, commenting on Trump's physical appearance and comparing him to a mob boss — comments that have been met with criticism by those who say he is politicizing the FBI and unfairly attacking Trump.
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The New York Post shared the Instagram post early Friday morning and it instantly went viral, with fans on social media praising Pearl and calling for a boycott of the ceremony, while others criticized the dancer for politicizing one of America's oldest performing groups.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazilian indigenous leaders left the Amazon rainforest for Rio de Janeiro to push for land rights on Friday, the opening day of the city's famous Carnival, as critics accused campaigners of politicizing one of the world's biggest parties.
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"President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be bringing us together and focusing on the real solution – anti-terrorism funding – which he proposed to cut in his most recent budget," Schumer said.
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A CBP spokesperson declined to comment for this story, but the Washington Post reported that McAleenan wrote a letter to another member of Congress on Friday saying he didn't tell lawmakers about the girl's death due to privacy concerns and to avoiding politicizing it.
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"President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solution - anti-terrorism funding - which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget," Schumer said in a statement Wednesday.
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"Kim Guadagno should be ashamed of herself for the way she's politicizing the deaths of three children and painting a community with the broad brush of a murderer, a tactic she must have gleaned from President Trump," Murphy said in response to the ad.
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" The minority leader in the Senate responded, "President Trump instead of politicizing and dividing America which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real situation, antiterrorism funding at which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget.
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In January, a Republican PAC sent a series of FOIA requests "to understand better what partisan politics are afoot at OGE," and then incoming White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus warned Shaub to "be careful" about politicizing his office during a TV appearance.
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Jacob Frenkel, the chairman of JP Morgan Chase International and a former Bank of Israel governor, told CNBC Thursday that Yellen would risk politicizing the Fed by waiting until December to hike rates only because of the potential impact on the presidential and congressional races.
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"The benefit of preventing him from further politicizing the tax agency would far outweigh collecting however many millions of dollars he may have shorted the U.S." Trump has frequently cited the audit as the reason for not being able to release his tax returns.
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As we have tragically seen in recent months, the terrorist threat is on the rise in Europe, leading to the unfortunate side effect of politicizing the migration crisis and in some cases scapegoating desperate people – men, women and children – who are fleeing war and repression.
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In one of the least polarizing speeches of his presidency, Trump paid tribute to America's armed forces at a July Fourth appearance before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington that unfolded amid stormy skies and criticism that he was politicizing the nation's Independence Day celebrations.
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"All I can say for sure is that @GovRicketts is politicizing the naming of a One Book One Nebraska selection by demanding that the panel apply a political litmus test, only picking books that match with his goals or remain silent about them," Genoways wrote.
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Ben SasseBenjamin (Ben) Eric SasseThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump lauds tariffs on China while backtracking from more To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies Feds face mounting pressure over Epstein's death MORE (R-Neb.): Blame Congress for politicizing the courts.
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His best bet, though far from ideal, would probably be to ask Mr. Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to put off the U.S.M.C.A. until after the 2020 elections, to avoid politicizing it, and leave the current Nafta in place until then.
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By weaponizing and politicizing a medium so typically associated with the 'feminine,' one that is in and of itself intricately linked to the storied Mexican textile tradition of elaborate embroidery and needlework, these collectives potently condemn Mexican impunity while lending a voice to the silenced.
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Now, with the tables turned and a Republican president in the White House, Democrats are working to use the administration's response to the novel coronavirus to amplify their own campaign messages, and Republicans are quick to charge that they are improperly politicizing the outbreak.
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When NBC's Chuck Todd questioned Pence on Meet the Press over politicizing rhetoric on the right, such as right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh's claim that Democrats have "weaponized" the coronavirus as well as Trump Jr.'s inflammatory remarks, Pence declined to condemn them.
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Democrats on the panel, as well as across the House and Senate, have accused the president and Barr of politicizing the DOJ after it requested "far less" time for Stone's sentence than was recommended only a day earlier by career prosecutors on the case.
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The crisis she goes through in the opera is the choice between sitting at home with your partner and ranting about what you see going on in the world, or getting out there, politicizing your body, and standing up against the injustices that you see.
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White House chief of staff John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE on Monday stood by his defense of President Trump's call to the widow of a fallen U.S. soldier in which he had accused a Florida congresswoman of politicizing the death, saying he would "never" apologize.
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Lawyers for Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, aim to save their client from American prison by ripping Trump for politicizing the U.S. legal system, and arguing their client couldn't possibly hope for a fair trial under Trump if the U.K. grants America's extradition request.
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Mr. Trump's latest assertions were made after The Washington Post reported on Friday that President Barack Obama was aware of Russia's campaign as early as August, but did not publicize the findings for fear of politicizing the election and of escalating aggression from the Kremlin.
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And on the presidential campaign trail, Democrats are talking up impeachment, which poses a danger that the public will think the party is prejudging the outcome of the inquiry and politicizing a solemn task that has grave implications for the future of the nation.
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As frustrations over confirmations grow, a group that supports Republicans accused the ethics office and its leader — in a highly unusual attack on the nonpartisan agency — of politicizing a process long viewed by both parties as arduous but essential for anyone serving in government.
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Though this is being breathlessly mentioned in the same context as Trump's request that the Ukrainian president investigate Joe Biden, it's a somewhat different situation, one that raises its own concerns about whether Barr is politicizing the Justice Department to serve Trump's electoral needs.
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Others in DHS disagree with that assessment of the I&A report and a senior official in the Department of Homeland Security told CNN that some DHS officials are concerned that the new I&A director -- Acting Undersecretary for Intelligence David Glawe -- may be politicizing intelligence.
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Aid funding from the US totaling hundreds of millions of dollars benefiting Palestinians were cut off last year before Washington effectively ended aid to the West Bank and Gaza last month, moves critics say have had a devastating impact on health care programs, politicizing human health.
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The black and brown Twitter avatars coming after Cardi were particularly upset, because these same people placed Cardi B on a sex-positive, pro-black, feminist pedestal — not because of her work or her continued advocacy — but because politicizing pop culture is currently profitable and trendy.
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Rubio also suggested that removing Trump from office would be a victory for Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinCollins reacts to angry voicemails in response to acquittal vote Sham acquittal will come back to bite GOP Politicizing the Holocaust is a danger to us all MORE.
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So far, 250 strikers have signed on, with the hope of politicizing the millions of Americans—more than half of all borrowers—who are currently not paying their student loans, as well as encouraging others to stand in solidarity and demand the slate be wiped clean.
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First impression based on the trailer (which the CW showed at its upfront, but hasn't made available) Aging up the Roswell idea is interesting in itself, and politicizing it more than the original one was during these Troubled Times of ours is certainly a good twist.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump accused the FBI and the Justice Department of politicizing its investigations on Friday, just as the White House is expected to approve the release of a secret Republican memo alleging FBI bias against him in its Russia probe.
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While even Republican voters overwhelmingly say in polls that they favor sensible steps like universal background checks, the Republican candidates are politicizing what should be a public health issue, and they are scaring Americans into buying more guns, which magnifies the problem and causes more carnage.
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"This would be a historic and unprecedented acceleration of politicizing a branch of government that's supposed to be insulated from politics," said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, who said on Twitter that every Supreme Court nominee since 1875 had received a hearing or a vote.
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Given his history—such as when he falsely claimed, in 2002, that Cuba was developing a biological weapons program which could be shared with terrorists—there's a genuine danger that he'll use his office to do what he accused the Obama administration of doing: politicizing intelligence.
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Many of the former deep state Obama era officials who propagated all of these Russian lies that were found in Hillary&aposs bought and paid for a dirty dossier, and by the way, are still to this day politicizing and weaponizing the powerful tools of intelligence.
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Trump's involvement in the holiday celebration has drawn some pushback from Democratic lawmakers and local officials who have raised concerns that the president is politicizing the long-standing tradition of fireworks on the Mall, and that his presence will drain additional resources from the National Park Service.
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News of the high cost for the celebration comes as the president has faced criticism over politicizing the event, which grew in volume this week as it was reported by HuffPost that Republican National Committee members and top donors were given VIP tickets to the events.
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Yet congressional sources pushed back against Trump's claims, saying the notion of using the vets-benefits bill as a debt-ceiling vehicle, while bounced around, was rejected out of hand for fear of politicizing veterans and risking the failure of legislation that had strong bipartisan support.
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It's not just Trump's unpredictable decision making that has officials on edge, it's also his penchant for politicizing the military— something that's come into focus in recent months as he's struggled to fulfill his campaign promise to crack down on immigration and build a border wall.
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Such a strategy isn't just the work of cynical operatives; no doubt there are plenty of white people who sincerely believe that affirming the value of "all lives" states something simple and neutral and matter-of-fact, while Black Lives Matter activists are needlessly politicizing the issue.
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In a day of harsh recriminations over Tuesday's attack that killed eight people in America's largest city, Trump appeared to assign some blame for an incident that authorities have labeled as terrorism to top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, who accused Trump of politicizing a national tragedy.
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WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials told lawmakers behind closed doors on Tuesday that Russia was not directly supporting any candidates as it tried to interfere in the presidential race, an assertion that contradicted an earlier briefing and prompted accusations from Democrats that the Trump administration was politicizing intelligence.
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Wary of being seen as politicizing their findings, C.I.A. analysts had been reluctant to come to that conclusion in the midst of the election — even as many supporters of Hillary Clinton believed it was obvious, given the leak of emails from her campaign chairman and others.
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The two nominees' backgrounds in conservative politics have stoked fears about politicizing the Fed, even among Trump's GOP allies in Congress, after months of the President publicly railing against Jerome Powell, the Fed chairman he appointed, and the board's decision to raise interest rates late last year.
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Yet the spectacle of the President apparently politicizing the justice system, feuding openly with the FBI director and straining at the limits of his powers also gives Democrats yet more ammunition to build a case against Trump and stir engagement among their voters in the midterm elections.
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In a statement responding to the Times story, the White House said, "By grandstanding and politicizing the investigation into Russia's actions, James Comey created unnecessary pressure on our ability to engage and negotiate with Russia," a line of reasoning that was not cited when Comey was fired.
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One day after Donald Trump Jr. published an op-ed using Mollie Tibbetts's death to advance an anti-immigrant agenda — as her family had already asked people not to do — her father responded with his own column, imploring everyone to stop politicizing the slain Iowa student's death.
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President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solution — anti-terrorism funding — which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget,' Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said in a statement Wednesday.
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When you look at what the administration is accusing these former officials, two of them who work for Trump, Comey and McCabe, of doing in terms of politicizing this, they see it as an interference with the nation&aposs business and interference of the office of the presidency.
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But what I refer to in that discussion is people politicizing the decision that we take in seeing what's best for our country and for our strategy going forward in the energy industry and twisting that around due to the conflict of the blockade that we have against Qatar.
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In his address, Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinCollins reacts to angry voicemails in response to acquittal vote Sham acquittal will come back to bite GOP Politicizing the Holocaust is a danger to us all MORE used the tragedy of the European Jews to promote his foreign policy objectives.
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"Labor-H tends to be a bit more politicizing, but we're hoping that we can run the same playbook that we have in the last approps bills," said a Democratic Senate aide, referring to the relatively smooth passage of the first seven of 12 appropriations bills this summer.
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The trio began arguing for a "feminism for the 99%" in 2017, when they joined five other feminist activists to plan the International Women's Strike, a collective action they say provided the basis for "re-politicizing" and "re-animating" a feminism that had been co-opted by capitalism.
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"Politicizing this terrible tragedy is beyond disgusting and I think we ought to wait a respectful period of time out of respect for the people who lost their lives or who have been injured before we get into the push and push of politics around here," he said.
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According to excerpts of the book released last week, Comey takes personal shots at the president, commenting on Trump's physical appearance and the strength of his moral fiber — remarks that have been met with criticism by those who say he is politicizing the FBI and unfairly attacking the president.
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It appears that, following first contact, Public First took the initiative to draw up the strategy suggesting politicizing ride-hailing in key target regions which it emailed to Winterton but only presented to a more junior Ola employee in a follow-up meeting the legal director did not attend.
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At least before the speech in Miami, some administration officials said they were concerned that politicizing the issue at home might actually prop up Mr. Maduro in Venezuela, where he is unpopular even among supporters of Hugo Chávez, the former Venezuelan president who founded the country's socialist party.
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Art or not then, all of these collectives, by weaponizing and politicizing a medium so typically associated with the 'feminine,' one that is in and of itself intricately linked to the storied Mexican textile tradition of elaborate embroidery and needlework, potently condemn Mexican impunity while lending a voice to the silenced.
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"Ron DeSantis knows first-hand that President Trump honored all requests for Hurricane Maria relief and it is sad, though predictable, that Democrats are wrongly politicizing this issue and that the media is constantly trying to drive a wedge between the president and members of his own party," the campaign said.
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"Politicizing this terrible tragedy is, I think, beyond disgusting," Senate Majority Whip John CornynJohn CornynThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (R-Texas) said Monday afternoon.
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What is needed, to begin with, is for university administrators to identify political history as a priority, for students and families to lobby their schools, for benefactors to endow professorships and graduate fellowships and for lawmakers and school boards to enact policies that bolster its teaching — and without politicizing the enterprise.
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"Your accusations that the Defense Department is politicizing this investigation are completely baseless, do a disservice to our service members and appear calculated to deflect attention from the fact that Republicans have dragged this investigation deep into an election year," Cummings and Smith wrote in a letter to Gowdy on Monday.
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Given the turbulent politicizing the British four-piece offered on their ruthless, Mercury Prize-winning debut Silence Yourself and the rough-hewn catharsis of their feedback-drenched live sets, there's something a little disorienting about the fact that Savages' newest record, Adore Life, is almost entirely an album of… love songs?
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The effort to deny weapons to an American ally that was threatened by Russia's Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinCollins reacts to angry voicemails in response to acquittal vote Sham acquittal will come back to bite GOP Politicizing the Holocaust is a danger to us all MORE rubbed the national security adviser the wrong way.
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In terms of the politicizing of this, I for one believe that the President of the United States has the exact right to politicize at this moment just as Democrats or liberals or anti-gun people have the right to politicize the Las Vegas mass murder when it happened about gun control.
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The simple math is that one can reduce the cost of ACA in either or both of two ways: Neither of these are winners (and the GOP should stop politicizing the Congressional Budget Office: It does hard work under short timelines, and its numbers tend to help both parties in equal proportions).
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"We are tired of responding to false information and stories invented from nothing," Sheikh Mohammed told Al Jazeera TV. Qatar did accuse the Saudis of politicizing hajj and addressed the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion on Saturday, expressing concern about obstacles facing Qataris who want to attend hajj this year.
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Levy BoxerOnly four Dem senators have endorsed 2020 candidates Hispanic civil rights icon endorses Harris for president California AG Becerra included in Bloomberg 50 list MORE (D-Calif.) is politicizing this bill because it favors the Democrats, rather than thinking of the welfare and equal representation of all the states.
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Berman's rare remarks follow actions taken by Attorney General William Barr, from his characterization of former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative conclusions to the sentencing of Trump ally Roger Stone, that have raised concerns among current and former prosecutors that Barr is doing the bidding of the President and politicizing the Justice Department.
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"They were pretty low-key about it, to be honest," Thomas says, which is noteworthy because the topics he and Nick have discussed already and plan to tackle in coming podcasts can be controversial: politicization of the military, including with figures who have arguably done the politicizing, and stereotypes about the military.
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It is also a topos of modern and contemporary art—from Giorgio de Chirico's 1913 canvas The Uncertainty of the Poet to Andy Warhol's 1967 cover for the Velvet Underground & Nico's debut album—many artists played with the peculiarities of its shape, politicizing it and carving out meanings in their own right.
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Although Congress has a vital oversight role, enshrined in the founding of the House Iintelligence Committee in 1977 after gross civil liberties abuses by government agencies, those same agencies would be correct to question the motives of Nunes, who has proved time and again that he is not above politicizing intelligence agencies for partisan gain.
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"The reason this has energized so many is because it is a fundamental threat to the Constitution and to our democracy by politicizing civic instructions that have not been politicized," said Marge Baker, the executive vice president of the People for the American Way, a liberal group that has been lobbying on the issue.
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Mr. Groves said he grew up in a family that hunted and included members of the N.R.A. In recent years, though, he said the organization has become more focused on lobbying, gun sales and politicizing gun ownership in an attempt to frighten owners into thinking that other Americans want to take their guns away.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz85033 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas) wasted no time training his criticism on the press for "politicizing" the tragedy with questions of gun reform.
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"Ron DeSantis knows first-hand that President Trump honored all requests for Hurricane Maria relief and it is sad, though predictable, that Democrats are wrongly politicizing this issue and that the media is constantly trying to drive a wedge between the President and members of his own party," his campaign said in a statement to The Hill.
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These appropriate policy goals must be kept in mind — finding a path forward for Puerto Rico while: A retroactive resort to Chapter 9 would "solve" the immediate debt crisis while politicizing the process of allocating the pain; can anyone believe that local politicians would not have powerful incentives to protect local interests at the expense of everyone else?
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But Netanyahu's decision Thursday to bar entrance to Tlaib, of Palestinian descent, and Omar, a native of Somalia, immediately strained the alliance, particularly in the eyes of Democrats, who quickly rushed to the defense of their colleagues while warning that politicizing such visits could erode the decades-long tradition of bipartisan support Israel has enjoyed from Congress.
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Politicizing the Department of Justice Obama criticized Trump's drumbeat of tweets attacking Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE and calling for his department to be used for political purposes.
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After decades of gestation in relative obscurity, leading-edge technologies like AI and quantum computing have been thrust into the center of an era-defining competition between China and the U.S. Why it matters: Politicizing these technologies has led to a rush of investment — but it risks hobbling international collaboration and potentially even derailing some critical research.
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It's time, then, for Republicans to pray in public and demand that everyone stop politicizing an event with obvious political implications: To all those political opportunists who are seizing on the tragedy in Las Vegas to call for more gun regs...You can't regulate evil... This is not the time for disingenuous claims of gun control.
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While the White House's statement cited requests from "a number of committees of Congress," the decision to publicly release the records prompted an outcry that the President was potentially jeopardizing critical intelligence sources and politicizing sensitive materials -- in the midst of a criminal investigation into ties between his campaign associates and Russia -- to score political points.
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Instead of looking for quick fixes and politicizing the issue, the President should work to reassure the public, even as he prepares the country to accept the reality that it's virtually impossible to prevent the kind of attacks that occurred in downtown Manhattan this week: a suspect drove a rented pickup truck down a bike path, killing eight and injuring about a dozen.
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Since then, Mr. Trump has increasingly obstructed the special counsel's investigation in plain view, in the process politicizing both the Justice Department and F.B.I. It is no longer news when the president — the head of the executive branch — maligns the F.B.I., calls on the Justice Department to investigate his political enemies or teases pardons to try to influence potential witnesses against him.
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While Sessions, Rosenstein, and other senior department officials resisted Trump's demands to open politically motivated investigations into this enemies, Whitaker met with the president privately to discuss how they might pressure Sessions and Rosenstein to accede: Sources say that Whitaker presented himself as a sympathetic ear to both Sessions and Rosenstein — telling them he supported their efforts to prevent the president from politicizing the Justice Department.
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Former President Obama criticized President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Friday for politicizing the Department of Justice, saying that members of both parties should be concerned with that behavior.
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But some former SEAL team members claim that Mr. Zinke has also exploited his past — he placed the SEALs' insignia (with six stars, presumably for SEAL Team 403) on his campaign bus in violation of Defense Department guidelines against politicizing such symbols — and that he exaggerated what he did in his later military jobs to obscure that he never received commands of his own.
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True, Dana Schutz did not create her painting at the request of Civil Rights activists — however, the fact that she was stirred to resurrect the image of Emmett Till's open casket is a sign of the success of the Black Lives Matter movement in forging awareness of patterns of state violence by politicizing the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, and others.
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The good news is that, as Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer noted recently, institutions have proven willing to stand up to Trump, ranging from the military (which won't carry out his ban on transgender people serving) to the Senate (which defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions from Trump's attempt to elbow him out of office) to the Boy Scouts (which criticized the president for politicizing his appearance at their annual jamboree).
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C.) on Tuesday backed President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE declassifying a series of documents related to former campaign adviser Carter Page and Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr while blaming the Obama administration for "politicizing" the DOJ and the FBI.
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When the shooting happened in Vegas, you've got people on the far left and people on the far right politicizing it and using it as some kind of political equity to be able to sway people to their way of thinking ... We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference ... I truly believe that love is greater than politics.
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I know people would love to politicize this and they have politicized it and I see media and a lot of people even my country when you look at some of the media have been politicizing this because they don't know really the facts and the fact is the absolute truth is that this has been done on a methodical way of looking at strategy and looking at what's our business going forward.
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In the fevered atmosphere of Washington, placing the vast bulk of FBI headquarters personnel at a remove from the District of Columbia will play a role in de-politicizing the bureau (or at least some of the perception of its politicization) and allow the special agents, analysts, technicians and other professionals to better concentrate on their core missions of fighting crime at home and keeping the nation safe from external terrorist and hostile intelligence threats.
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The House Financial Services Committee just approved two bills that restrict the Federal Reserve's ability to provide emergency liquidity in a credit freeze (the Fed would need congressional approval, politicizing what should be an independent judgment by the central bank), and to buy any securities other than Treasury bonds (had this been in place, the Fed would not have been able to provide essential credit to the housing market after that bubble burst).
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WHAT WE'RE READING: Clinton revives support for public option (Politico) Dems, Drug Policy Groups Worried Schumer Is Politicizing Heroin (Huffington Post) Valeant plunges on report of potential earnings reinstatement (Bloomberg) States start to let pharmacists prescribe birth control pills (Pew Trusts Stateline) IN THE STATES: Idaho lawmakers stall on Medicaid alternative, but talk expansion (AP) Coverage for autism varies by state (Stateline) ICYMI FROM THE HILL: Democrats storm Flint amid water crisis http://bit.
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But she was picking up strong hints that the president's personal lawyer wanted her gone from two very different sources: a Ukrainian Cabinet official leery of politicizing U.S.-Ukraine relations and conservative opinion columnist John Solomon, formerly with The Hill, who published accusations from Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine's former top prosecutor, that Yovanovitch had provided him with a list of figures he should not prosecute — allegations she denied and he later retracted, according to a Ukraine media outlet.
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In a similar vein, but receiving much less national attention, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE recently issued an executive order removing administrative law judges from the competitive service to the exempted service, further politicizing the federal civil service workforce.
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Some of the most prominent members of the Democratic party understand this reality, which is why former Senate Majority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, two pugnacious operators both known for relishing political brawls, recently advised their party against politicizing impeachment and the Russia investigation.
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For 25 minutes, the group sipped coffee and listened as Mr. Muna laid bare his thoughts on what he described as Israel's muzzling of cultural and religious leaders ("It's created an incredible amount of contradiction in our society"); how he harnesses culture to create more political discourse ("We are politicizing culture because it's the only venue available to us"); and even the spate of Palestinian knife attacks in the city ("Israeli soldiers may be your friends or loved ones, but to us they are a symbol of the occupation, and a legitimate target").
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But we know what will happen next: Mr. Langendorff and Mr. Willeford will have their 15 minutes of fame, and then we will move on to the next mass shooting in another state where any number of people will die because no one can be bothered to go up against the N.R.A. But before the two men get exploited for their bravery — and before I get pilloried for politicizing a disaster — I would like to say that there is nothing particularly Texan about a mass killing these days.
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Sanders accused Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James ClapperJames Robert ClapperEx-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity Former DHS, intelligence leaders launch group to protect presidential campaigns from foreign interference Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief MORE, former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE and others of "politicizing" and "monetizing" their public service.
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Ted CruzRafael (Ted) Edward Cruz3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Democrats keen to take on Cornyn despite formidable challenges MORE (R-Texas) and Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioTrump moves forward with F-16 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (R-Fla.), who have warned against politicizing the shooting, were afraid to come on the program.
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As Americans come together to fight back against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in an unprecedented whole-of-America response led by the Trump administration, Democratic presidential candidate Joe BidenJoe BidenOvernight Health Care — Presented by PCMA — Last-minute complaints threaten T coronavirus aid deal | What's in the package | Pelosi scrambles to secure quick passage | Expanded testing shows signs of strain Hillicon Valley: Coronavirus deal includes funds for mail-in voting | Twitter pulled into fight over virus disinformation | State AGs target price gouging | Apple to donate 10M masks Poll: 59 percent say coronavirus crisis has had a negative effect on their finances MORE is busy politicizing the pandemic.
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