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US First Lady Melania Trump has said she started her anti-cyberbullying campaign because she is "the most bullied person on the world".

In a wide-ranging interview with ABC News, she also said she does not trust some people who have worked in the West Wing.

And she said that women who allege sexual abuse must produce "really hard evidence".

The interview was recorded on her trip last week across four African nations.

"I could say that I'm the most bullied person on the world," the first lady said.

"You're really the most bullied person in the world?" asked presenter Tom Llamas.

"One of them - if you really see what people are saying about me," Mrs Trump said in the interview, which was recorded last week in Kenya and airs in full on Friday.

Mrs Trump was also asked if she is Mr Trump's gatekeeper.

"Oh, I wish," she said, laughing.

She said she does not trust some people who have worked in the West Wing, and that she has given Mr Trump her "honest advice" about them.

"Well, some people they don't work there anymore," she said, when asked what action Mr Trump had taken.

"It's harder to govern," she said. "You always need to watch your back."

Mrs Trump last week undertook her first solo trip abroad as US first lady, travelling to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt.

In the ABC interview she also said women alleging they have been sexually abused "need to have really hard evidence".

She did not clarify what she meant by hard evidence.

"I do stand with women but we need to show the evidence," she said.

"You cannot just say to somebody, 'I was sexually assaulted,' or, 'You did that to me'.

"Because sometimes the media goes too far and the way they portray some stories [that are] not correct. It's not right," she added.

Earlier in her trip overseas, she defended Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

His nomination was almost derailed by an allegation - which he denied - that as a high school teenager he once sexually assaulted a girl.

The online reaction to Mrs Trump's interview was scathing.

The 30-stock index has surged more than 31 percent since Trump's inauguration.
That marks the index's best performance during the first year of a president since Franklin Roosevelt.
"You've got lower taxes, less regulation and confidence in the economy is high," said one investor.
The S&P 500 has surged 23 percent during Trump's first year in office.

31% compared to the 3% lost yesterday. Investors have already cashed in and they will again.

They'll also do nothing about guns, but instead take actions against black and brown people.

Barack Obama and Coward McCain were the guys who crippled America's defenses by scrapping our real air-superiority fighters. Don't blame the F-35 for their treason.

That's better than a country being run by a lying treasonous bully, as Canada's neighbor is.

On the contrary, they made the right choice.

Both the F-35 and the F-22 were the most expensive weapons systems ever. We couldn't afford both,

we chose the better one.

The F-35, despite a series of setbacks in production, has capabilities to not only drop bombs but also to enable F-16s to dramatically up their performance when the F-35 is in the area. It does this by using its stealth capabilities to send F-16s where they won't be in danger.

Two young Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members of the Communist party in an apparent attempt to tie him to the far left.

On Friday afternoon, two men who called themselves Jose Rosales and Ahmahd Sadia walked into the campaign office of first-term Democrat Tom O’Halleran with $39.68 and an urgent desire for the Northern Arizona University Communist party to be given a receipt for the donation.

The pair initially walked in to sign up to volunteer but had brought along a jar full of money that they wished to donate. After being directed to a finance staffer, they were told to fill out paperwork. In doing so, they identified themselves as members of the Northern Arizona University Communist party. They made clear they were not an official group but were holding meetings. But they also insisted upon a receipt.

When told they get only an emailed receipt, Rosales immediately scratched out one email and wrote another. The entire process raised eyebrows among O’Halleran’s staff.

Lindsey Coleman, the finance director for the campaign, then drove to the local Republican field office to return the money. Almost immediately, the man who identified himself as Rosales appeared from a room inside the office and was identified as Oscar. He accepted the money from Coleman.

Speaking to the Guardian, Coleman identified the second man as a field organizer for the Arizona Republican party and said Ahmahd Sadia was not his real name. Neither the Arizona Republican party nor Wendy Rogers, O’Halleran’s Republican opponent for Congress, responded to requests for comment.

Making federal campaign contributions under a false identity is a crime. However, as a dirty trick, the attempt to smear opponents by linking them to unsavory political groups has a long history. In 1972, Roger Stone, then a young campaign staffer for Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign, sent a donation to Nixon’s anti-war primary opponent in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance. Stone went on to serve as Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser, a role he left early in Trump’s presidential campaign.

The rural Arizona district was narrowly won by both Donald Trump in 2016 and Mitt Romney in 2012. However, the non-partisan Cook Political Report classifies the race as Likely Democratic.

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Doing away with America's air superiority capabilities means that in a future war against a peer power,

Only because liberal politicians always fight to undermine military funding.

Neither (F-35 or F-22), is better. They are very different planes that fill very different roles.

For that matter, without F-22s providing air superiority, in a war against a peer power there isn't a safe place for F-35s either.

Two young Arizona Republicans tried to make a donation to a Democratic congressman as members of the Communist party in an apparent attempt to tie him to the far left.

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Behind the numbers and the jargon, what we’re really talking about here is people’s lives: Thousands of parents and children fleeing violence in Central America who wound up separated and confused in the United States.

At a bare minimum, the government in this Dickensian scenario should have counted them accurately and kept the public informed with reliable data on reunifications.

The Trump administration offered inaccurate totals on June 23 and perhaps at other points. It claimed to have a “central database” that appears not to exist. Although there is a “matching table,” it came after DHS said it had a database on June 23.

The OIG’s report shows the public was misled this summer on an issue of profound national importance, and so we will once again award Four Pinocchios to the Trump administration.