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Defense Dept. Deploying New Troops to Middle East Over Tensions in Turkey Days After Trump Pulls Out US Forces

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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper will be deploying up to 1800 new  troops into the Middle East in response to the tensions caused when President Donald Trump pulls U.S. forces out of Northern Syria. The Commander-in-Chief’s move has led to dozens of deaths, mostly civilians, and the displacement of at least 100,000 people, after Turkish dictator Recep Erdogan began an immediate assault on the Kurds, who are allies of the U.S. and helped in the fight against ISIS.

Bloomberg News reports the “new deployment of U.S. forces to the Middle East” will begin “as tensions rise over Turkey’s military operations in northern Syria and an explosion on an Iranian oil tanker.”

In defending his highly-criticized decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Northern Syria, Trump repeatedly said he was fulfilling his promise to end “endless wars.”

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Judge Orders Trump to Pay $44,100 to Cover His Porn Star Mistress’ Legal Fees

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A California Superior Court judge has ordered Republican President Donald Trump to pay $44,100 to former porn actress Stormy Daniels (birth name Stephanie Clifford) to cover her legal fees incurred by the legal battles around her nondisclosure agreement to keep quiet about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

In January 2018, the Wall Street Journal broke the story of Trump paying $130,000 to Clifford as hush money. Their alleged affair is said to have occurred just after Trump’s wife, Melania, had given birth to their son, Barron. Clifford called their sexual encounter “generic.”

Clifford and other Twitter commentators took the occasion of this legal decision to laugh at Trump’s expense.

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