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President Trump Tweets And Context: 'Fake News Media hates when I use ... Social Media - over 100 million people!'

Here's what President Trump is tweeting about — and what it means.

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Twitter has become a modern-day version of the fireside chat for Donald Trump, whose tweets are his preferred 140-character forum for getting out his message — both when he was a candidate and now as commander in chief.

Patch will share Trump's daily dispatches from his preferred platform in one handy post, as well as the context and facts, when appropriate. (For more national political news, sign up for the free White House Patch email newsletter.)

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The context: For the first time, Trump appeared to confirm he is under investigation for obstructing the probe into Russia's interference with the presidential election.

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The facts: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller to oversee the Russia investigation, had recommended that Trump fire FBI Director James Comey due to his mishandling of the Hillary Clinton investigation. However, Trump told NBC's Lester Holt that he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation.

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The context: Trump was referring to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of State and the subsequent investigation of it during the 2016 presidential election.

The facts: According to Politico: "A staffer destroyed Clinton’s phones with a hammer, according to FBI documents, and an employee managing her private email server deleted tens of thousands of emails after her staff was subpoenaed for Benghazi-related emails, though the FBI couldn’t conclude whether the act was deliberate."

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The facts: "Some of Clinton's critics have accused her of improper dealings with Russia for her part in an agreement that allowed the country to control a company owning substantial amounts of American uranium," Patch reports. "However, Clinton's agency was one of only nine to approve the deal, and no significant evidence of malfeasance has been shown regarding the decision."

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The context: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into Trump's conduct as potential obstruction of justice, sources tell the Washington Post.

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The context: Rep. Steve Scalise was among four people shot by a gunman Wednesday at a GOP team baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. Scalise underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the left hip and was listed in critical condition Wednesday night.

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The context: On Monday, the Trump administration said there are nearly 2 million fewer people on the Obamacare rolls as of mid-March.

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The context: It's unclear which news stories Trump is referring to.

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The context: "Fired FBI Director James Comey testified last week that he felt 'queasy' after [Loretta] Lynch asked him to characterize his probe into Clinton's private email server as a 'matter,' rather than an investigation," as The Hill reports.

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The context: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold the injunction against Trump's travel ban, which temporarily bans the issuance of new visas to nationals of six majority-Muslim countries and also temporarily suspends the United States refugee program.

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The context: It's unclear which news stories Trump is referring to.

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The context: Corsa Coal Corp. opened the Acosta mine, about 60 miles from Pittsburgh, last Thursday, according to Mining.com.

The facts: Corsa Coal Corp. made the decision to open the mine more than a year ago, when Barack Obama was president.

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The facts: "The Dow and Nasdaq have indeed increased, but mostly on the same trajectory from when he took office in January, and while 601,000 jobs have been added and the unemployment rate is at a 16-year low this month, those numbers are also mostly in line with 2016 figures," reports the International Business Times.

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