House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in June 2016 that he thought Vladimir Putin had paid then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. And it seems entirely possible — if not likely — that he was joking.
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An arrangement of daily newspapers from Jan. 21, showing front page stories reporting US President Donald Trump's inauguration in Washington the previous day.
