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Trump shares Senator Tom Cotton’s phone number in daylight saving time clash
US President Donald Trump shared online the supposed phone number of a Republican US senator on Saturday in an escalating dispute over making daylight saving time permanent. In a social media post, the president urged people to call a phone number he said belonged to Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas
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Both outlets focus on Trump and Tom Cotton in the context of a push to make daylight saving time permanent, but NBC News foregrounds the apparent posting of Cotton’s cellphone number, while CBS News frames the story as Trump urging supporters to call the senator. CBS says the number appears to be the senator’s personal cellphone, which is the only extract to phrase it that way.
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