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Donald Trump closes out April with 73 interviews by our count... beating last month's 62. Way back at #3 is Oct. '18 @ 35. The trend of brief phoners continues. Only 8 (10.94%) had had a public recording or transcript. Data and leaderboards by reporter and outlet below.

"...FOREVER BARRED..." Quoth Prince: Forever's "a mighty long time." justice.gov/opa/media/1441…

Full proofread transcript and analysis of the 41 minute, 38 second interview between Sean Hannity and Donald Trump at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing. f2.link/dt260514c

So the Fact Cave is on Beijing time for a couple of days. Two points: a) We did not have "Thucydides Trap" ("修昔底德陷阱") on our bingo card/Poly/Kalshi. b) Whatever that interpreter is earning, double her pay for nailing the translation. Transcript: f2.link/dt260513

NEW: It’s a familiar pattern: Trump announces a new policy on Truth Social. News alerts are sent out. Lawmakers issue statements. Furor ensues. And then ... nothing. In today’s newsletter, I investigate: how often do Trump policies announced on social media actually happen?

Without apology, we laughed our tushes off in the Fact Cave. If you can't laugh at The Onion regardless of politics, that's on you, folks 😀 theonion.com/trump-claims-c…

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(cut off)... photos of Cole Allen, video of some of the activity, a brief clip of Russell Vought being evacuated with security.

So as a photographer, we're great data people. As a videographer, we're awesome writers. Here's the best of the images and videos we have. Photos of Cole All

And more in the normal comfort zone of The Fact Cave, the transcript and analysis on the Trump press conference… rollcall.com/factbase/trump…

Shoutout to the many WHCD attendees leaving with bottles of un-drunk wine.

Russell Vought with members of security, moments after the lockdown.

@TeslaBoomerPapa On behalf of someone in the room: once you find out everyone is okay, and you’re getting thrown out, it’s entirely a normal reaction. Also, everyone paid for the dinner and the wine on the tables. You can quibble with the reflex, but it ain’t stealing when you paid for it.

So, there you have press members STEALING wine bottles: this is who the press is! Repugnant!

We’re actually happy folks are asking for confirmation of the video source. Confirmed it was shot by Bill Frischling / CQ Roll Call. Screenshot of the iPhone exif… can send the raw with exif.

@ReikoSPCT Bad bandwidth. Yes. Hard confirm I help manage factbasefeed but I shot the video as listed. Confirmed with editor in chief reuse with attribution is fine, no other restrictions.

@FactbaseFeed Hope you are safe. Hi, I’m Reiko with Spectee, an online news agency. 1. Did you record/own this video yourself? 2. May we and our media partners use it with credit? Thanks.

@BamaChi70040414 @ReikoSPCT use Yt-dlp. You’re welcome to it

@FactbaseFeed @ReikoSPCT Can you let me download your video? Please?

We have other videos and photos. We need to get to a computer. More in a bit.

@ReikoSPCT See above. Use with attribution.