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Two FBI insiders texted each other insults about Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, including calling him an “idiot” and saying the thought he might win was “terrifying”.

Peter Strzok, a senior FBI agent, said Mrs Clinton “just had to win”.

Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer, called Mr Trump a “loathsome human”.

They were both working on the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails at the time and later helped in the probe into claims of Russian campaign meddling.

The content of the text messages was released to the US Congress on Tuesday, and details have been obtained by US media.

The justice department is investigating the FBI’s handling of its inquiry into Mrs Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.

The text messages have been known to exist since it emerged earlier this month that in the summer Mr Strzok had been removed from the special counsel investigation into alleged Russian interference in Mr Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Mr Trump has previously tweeted about Mr Strzok, calling him “tainted (no, very dishonest?)”.

Mr Strzok now works in human resources at the FBI. Ms Page also spent some time on the special counsel investigation but returned to her normal duties before the existence of the text messages was made public.

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In other messages, as reported in the US press:

• Mr Strzok wrote that he was “scared for our organisation” – the FBI – if Mr Trump won
• Mr Strzok called Mr Trump a “douche”
• Ms Page called Mr Trump “awful”
• “I cannot believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president,” Ms Page wrote
• She said she thought he would be a worse president than his Republican primaries opponent, Ted Cruz
• Mr Strzok wrote that Mr Trump was an “idiot” and was “unable to provide a coherent answer”
• On election day, when Mr Strzok saw that Mr Trump might win, Ms Page wrote: “Yeah that’s not good”

Under FBI regulations, agents may express political opinions “as an individual”. It is not clear whether these texts were sent from work phones.

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Omarosa Manigault Newman, one of US President Donald Trump’s most vocal black supporters, is to quit.

A White House spokeswoman said Ms Manigault Newman was quitting the Office of Public Liaison to “pursue other opportunities”.

“We wish her the best in future endeavours,” said press secretary Sarah Sanders.

Mrs Manigault Newman was often referred to by viewers as the “villain” on Mr Trump’s reality TV show the Apprentice.

Mrs Sanders added that Mrs Manigault Newman would depart on 20 January, one year after Mr Trump took office.

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She was fired by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and escorted out of the building after a vulgar tirade, according to White House correspondent April Ryan.

Critics said Mrs Manigault Newman’s role at the White House was vague and ill-defined, and that she seemed to spend more time planning her wedding than organising outreach.

During her tenure, she attracted controversy when she brought a 39-person wedding party to the White House for an impromptu photo shoot, according to Politico.

Over the summer, she caused uproar at an event for black journalists, when she paced on stage while arguing with the panel’s moderator and refused to discuss her boss, President Trump.

In a 2004 interview with Playboy, Mr Trump described her as a liar.

He said he would not offer her a job reference, except if she was appearing on a soap opera.

But following his election to the White House, he appointed her to the Office of Public Liaison earning a reported $179,700 ($134,000) a year.

This was not her first time working for a presidential administration.

After graduating from Washington DC’s historically black Howard University, she worked for Vice-President Al Gore, before joining President Bill Clinton’s personnel office, then the US Commerce Department.

She wrote a 2008 book The Bitch Switch, which was billed as “a step-by-step guide for locating your inner BITCH, personalising your switch, and knowing when to turn it on and when to turn it off”.

In her book, Mrs Manigault Newman described her government supervisor as someone who “constantly sabotaged her efforts”.

But a former Clinton official told People magazine Mrs Manigault Newman “was asked to leave as quickly as possible” and one member of staff “wanted to slug her”.

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The editorial board of USA Today has said President Donald Trump is “unfit to clean the toilets” in Barack Obama’s library or shine George W Bush’s shoes.

The scathing editorial comes after Mr Trump claimed a female senator “would do anything” for campaign cash – words which some regarded as sexual innuendo.

“Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low,” the newspaper added.

USA Today is not known for publishing such blistering editorials.

One of the nation’s highest-circulated newspapers, it usually includes an “opposing view” column with each opinion piece.

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But during the 2016 election, the newspaper broke its tradition of not endorsing a presidential candidate by publishing an editorial outlining why, it argued, Mr Trump was “unfit for the presidency”.

Although USA Today did not endorse his challenger Hillary Clinton, it told their readers to vote “just not for Donald Trump”.

Its latest editorial came a day after Mr Trump tweeted that New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand had “come to my office ‘begging’ for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)”.

Mrs Gillibrand earlier this week called on Mr Trump to resign over allegations of sexual harassment by multiple women.

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By Wednesday, five other Democratic senators had joined her call.

USA Today responded: “A president who would all but call Sen Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W Bush.

“This isn’t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions.

“Obama and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.”

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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Mr Trump was referring to political corruption in his tweet about the New York senator, and dismissed the notion that his words were sexist.

“I think only if your mind is in the gutter would you have read it that way,” Ms Sanders told Tuesday’s daily press briefing.

The USA Today piece goes on to describe Mr Trump as “uniquely awful”, and having an “utter lack of morality, ethics and simple humanity”.

Nearly 60 congresswomen have urged Congress to investigate claims against Mr Trump of sexual harassment and groping.

Mr Trump said this week Democrats were seeking to capitalise on “the false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met. FAKE NEWS!”

The White House press secretary later qualified the president was only referring to three Trump accusers who appeared at a news conference on Monday.

That clarification came after one accuser offered photographic evidence of her meeting Mr Trump in December 2005.

The former writer for People Magazine claims Mr Trump pushed her against a wall and “forc[ed] his tongue down my throat” when she interviewed him at his Florida resort Mar-a-Lago.

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A leading US dictionary has named “feminism” as its word of 2017 following a surge in online searches.

Merriam-Webster said interest in the term was driven by women’s marches, new TV shows and films on women’s issues and the string of news stories on sexual assault and harassment claims.

The number of people searching for the word was up 70% on 2016, it said.

The dictionary defines feminism as “the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes”.

It adds that it is also “organised activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests”.

In January the first spike in interest occurred after the Women’s March on Washington and similar marches in cities across the world. Many wore pink knitted “pussyhats” in reference to controversial remarks Donald Trump was recorded making in 2005.

March organisers claimed that women’s rights were under threat following the election of Mr Trump to the White House.

The following month, interest in feminism surged again when White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said she did not consider herself a feminist.

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Speaking at a conservative event, she said she found it difficult for describe herself as a feminist because she was not “anti-male” and “pro-abortion”.

She said she was a “product of my choices, not a victim of my circumstances”, which she described as “conservative feminism”.

There was further interest in the meaning of feminism with the release of the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the Margaret Atwood novel, and the hit film Wonder Woman, Merriam-Webster said.

“The word was in the air,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large.

More look-ups have been driven by the #MeToo movement in which millions of women shared experiences of sexual abuse following accusations against major Hollywood figures and others.

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, Time magazine named “the Silence Breakers” – women and men who had spoken out against sexual abuse – as its “Person of the Year”.

Its cover featured five women – two of them celebrities – who had reported sexual misconduct, but said many more people were part of the movement behind the cover picture.

The dictionary said another much-researched word in 2017 was “complicit” which has been widely used in stories about President Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey and about the inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.

Interest spiked when President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, said she did not know what the word meant.

Merriam-Webster said its fifth most looked-up word was “dotard”, which North Korean leader Kim Jong-un used to describe President Trump.

Dotard is defined as “a person in his or her dotage”, with dotage described as “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness”.

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Being friends with George Clooney is probably cool enough.

Now it’s been revealed he’s given $1 million to each of his 14 best pals to thank them for helping him.

Rande Gerber, who has been close to the actor for years, told MSNBC’s Headliners that George did it as a surprise in 2013.

“It was really important to me that while we’re still all here together, that I give back,” he recalls the star saying.

Image caption Rande is married to the supermodel Cindy Crawford

“There’s a group of guys that we call ‘The Boys’. George had called me and The Boys and said ‘Hey, mark 27 September, 2013, on your calendar.

“‘Everyone’s going to come to my house for dinner’,” says Rande, an entertainment businessman.

He says that when the group arrived at George’s house, they found suitcases at their places at the table.

“George begins to say ‘Listen, I want you guys to know how much you’ve meant to me and how much you mean to me in my life.

“I came to L.A., I slept on your couch. I’m so fortunate in my life to have all of you and I couldn’t be where I am today without all of you’.”

Image caption George married human rights lawyer Amal in 2014

When the men opened the suitcases, Rande says, each found $1 million (around £750,000) in $20 notes.

“Every one of us, 14 of us, got a million dollars. Every single one of us. We’re in shock. Like ‘What is this?’

“He goes ‘I know we’ve all been through some hard times, some of you are still going through it.

“‘You don’t have to worry about your kids, you don’t have to worry about, you know, school, you don’t have to worry about paying your mortgage’.”

He claims that as well as giving money to the group, George also paid off their taxes for the year.

Image caption The actor made his big breakthrough in 1994, as Dr Doug Ross in the TV series ER

“One was working at a bar in Texas at the airport, trying just to support his family, rides a bicycle to work every day,” he explains.

“I mean these are guys that took care of George and now he’s giving it all back.”

Rande says George refused to take no for an answer when he tried to turn down the offer.

Image caption George directed Suburbicon, starring Matt Damon (L) and Julianne Moore

The Sunday Times Rich List put the joint wealth of the actor and and his wife Amal at £121 million in 2015.

It’s likely to have risen a lot since then because of the 56-year-old’s business deals.

Earlier this year he sold his tequila brand Casamigos, co-founded with Rande, for almost $1bn (around £750m).

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