Carol Leonnig

Washington Post

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Reporter covering federal agencies and government accountability for the Washington Post

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The president calls himself a “very stable genius,” and stories from a new book by that name are already part of Trump lore. He was confused about Pearl Harbor.

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The president calls himself a “very stable genius,” and stories from a new book by that name are already part of Trump lore. He was confused about Pearl Harbor.

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The Secret Service is in hot water, again. Two senior secret service agents ran a government car into White House security barricades, last week.

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