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Trump: Keep America great!

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discount to a school operator with ties to his wife, Akie, behind him. But it has gathered steam with a series of fresh revelation­s.

A source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Saturday the Finance Ministry planned to report to Parliament today that it had found instances where content was deleted from documents submitted to lawmakers.

“If this is true, isn’t political responsibi­lity unavoidabl­e?” Akira Nagatsuma, a senior lawmaker in the opposition Constituti­onal Democratic Party of Japan, told reporters yesterday.

Abe had repeatedly denied he or his wife did favours for school operator Moritomo Gakuen, which bought the land, and had said he would resign if evidence were found that they had.

The issue last year sharply eroded Abe’s popularity.

Former Moritomo Gakuen head Yasunori Kagoike and his wife were arrested in July on suspicion of illegally receiving subsidies.

On Friday, National Tax Agency chief Nobuhisa Sagawa abruptly resigned over his remarks in parliament about the case.

Also on Friday, media said police were investigat­ing as possible suicide the death of a Finance Ministry official, whose local office had handled the land sale. MOON TOWNSHIP (Pittsburg): It’s barely 2018, but President Donald Trump is gearing up for a 2020 campaign, with a familiar sounding slogan: “Keep America Great!”

Addressing a rally in a Pittsburgh suburb here, Trump endorsed a Republican candidate in a closely-watched special congressio­nal election, before turning to his own future.

“Our new slogan when we start running — can you believe it, in two years from now — is going to be: ‘Keep America great, exclamatio­n point,’” he said.

Trump’s snappy but controvers­ial “Make America Great Again” slogan dominated the 2016 election, and his supporters have used it as a catchphras­e.

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