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Trump: ‘I am the chosen one’ to battle China on trade

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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President Trump called himself “the chosen one” Wednesday in referring to his role confronting China for chronic U.S. trade deficits that his predecessors didn’t tackle.

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, photo, Vice President Mike Pence, center, listens as President Donald Trump argues with House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. Across the world, people are questioning truths they had long held to be self-evident, and they are dismissing some of them as fake news. They are replacing traditions they had long seen as immutable with haphazard reinvention. In the United States, a president who some accuse of upending ideals that the nation holds dear is aggressively abandoning protocol and customs that have prevailed through a dozen of his predecessors. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump-Pelosi budget deal sends deficit soaring

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Attorneys Eric Dubelier, left, and Katherine Seikaly, right, representing Concord Management and Consulting LLC, leave federal court in Washington, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, after pleading not guilty on behalf of the company, which has been charged as part of a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Indicted firm: Mueller meddling accusations ‘at best misleading and at worst demonstrably false’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump moves to cancel illegal immigrant family loophole

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President Donald Trump walks with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, hidden, along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump says he’s considering cut in payroll taxes, calls on Fed to cut rates

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In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017, file photo, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer smiles as he answers a question during a briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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President Donald Trump pauses while speaking with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: ‘I am the chosen one’ to battle China on trade

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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen makes a comment on US President's cancellation of his scheduled State Visit, in front of the State Department in Copenhagen, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. U.S. President Trump announced his decision to postpone a visit to Denmark by tweet on Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019, after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed the notion of selling Greenland to the U.S. as "an absurd discussion." (Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix)

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Ford CEO Jim Hackett, right, and Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess participate in a news conference in New York, Friday, July 12, 2019. Volkswagen will sink $2.6 billion into a Pittsburgh autonomous vehicle company that's mostly owned by Ford as part of a broader partnership on electric and self-driving vehicles, the companies confirmed Friday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Trump bashes ‘foolish’ auto execs for joining California emissions standards

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden greets audience members during a community event, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Prole, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Joe Biden camp hits Trump on gun control: ‘Parroting the NRA’s corrupt rhetoric’

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Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg hosts a "grassroots event" at Harold Washington Cultural Center on Chicago's South Side, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019. (Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

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Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders speaks at the beginning of a town hall meeting to discuss his criminal justice reform plan on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Bernie Sanders pushes back at Trump: I’m Jewish and have ‘no concerns’ about voting Democratic

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.., speaks to former Vice President Joe Biden during a break in the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, June 27, 2019, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) ** FILE **

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a House Oversight Committee hearing on high prescription drugs prices on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Electoral College a racist ‘scam’ that ‘has to go’

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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This May 21, 2018, file photo shows a row of dishwashers for sale at Lowe's Home Improvement store in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

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FILE - In this June 2, 2009, file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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In this Friday, July 12, 2019, file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., gestures while testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at City Hall, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired Officer Daniel Pantaleo, involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, whose dying cries of &quot;I can't breathe&quot; fueled a national debate over race and police use of force. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) **FILE**

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Four Guatemalan nationals consisting of two men and a pair of 12- and 13-year-old boys, remove their shoe laces and personal itmes after being arrested by a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent Wednesday, July 18, 2018 in Yuma, Ariz. Thousands of families and unaccompanied children are continuing to cross the U.S. border in Arizona and California even after learning of the government's family separation policy upon apprehension. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

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Attorneys Eric Dubelier, left, and Katherine Seikaly, right, representing Concord Management and Consulting LLC, leave federal court in Washington, Wednesday, May 9, 2018, after pleading not guilty on behalf of the company, which has been charged as part of a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim leaves the federal courthouse Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Washington. A federal judge approved the $85 billion mega-merger of AT&T and Time Warner on Tuesday, a move that could usher in a wave of media consolidation while shaping how much consumers pay for streaming TV and movies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

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Washington Redskins running back Derrius Guice signs autographs for fans at training camp in Richmond, Virginia, on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. (Photo by Rina Torchinsky / The Washington Times)

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Starling Marte runs behind Washington Nationals first baseman Matt Adams (15) after hitting a two-run home run in the eighth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Pirates won 4-1. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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Washington Redskins running back Adrian Peterson (26) runs with the ball during an NFL football minicamp at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va., Thursday, June 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

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