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Around the same time the president was tapping out those tweets, White House Cabinet Secretary Bill McGinley, who oversees the various cabinet agencies, assembled the chiefs of staff of those agencies and issued a directive from the president aimed at disrupting a weekend typically used to foster camaraderie between the White House and the news media. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's entire speech from the Al Smith charity dinner in New York.

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