memeorandum: Donald Trump: I'm worth $10 billion (MJ Lee/CNN)

5:45 PM ET, July 15, 2015

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Trump's popularity spikes among Republicans — Donald Trump's popularity has surged among Republicans after dominating several news cycles with his anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — Nearly six in 10 — 57 percent …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Gallup, The Week, Business Insider, Forbes, Daily Kos, Liberal Values, SaintPetersBlog, AMERICAblog News, Mashable, Mediaite, Booman Tribune and Althouse

Keith Koffler / Politico:

How Barack Obama Created Donald Trump — The Donald's appeal is real—and his anger connects with conservatives. — AP Photo. — SHARES — It is an unassailable doctrinal truth in the modern Republican Party that Ronald Reagan was a great president and that the United States …

Nick Gass / Politico:

Donald Trump: I don't know why I'm meeting Ted Cruz — Donald Trump is meeting with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in Manhattan on Wednesday, though he claimed in an interview on MSNBC that he does not know why. — “Ted Cruz called me. And I don't know why I'm meeting him, to be honest …

Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Trail Blazers Blog

MJ Lee / CNN:

Donald Trump: I'm worth $10 billion — Trump: ‘They are laughing at us back in Iran’ 07:14 — (CNN)Donald Trump — to quote the businessman himself — seems to be a “very rich” man. — His campaign announced Tuesday that the Republican presidential candidate's net worth is in excess of $10 billion …

Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Swears He's Not Running For President As A Democratic Plant (VIDEO)

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USA Today:
Poll: Trump leads the GOP field but falters against Clinton

Paul Waldman / Washington Post:

The next GOP president won't walk away from the Iran deal. Here's why. — Now that we have a nuclear deal with Iran, Republicans are jostling each other to determine who can make the most angry and apocalyptic statements about it. — Scott Walker said it “will be remembered as one of America's worst diplomatic failures.”

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Fox News:
‘You should know better’: Obama scolds critics, press on Iran nuke deal

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Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News:
Benjamin Netanyahu to Lester Holt: Iran Nuclear Deal Poses Threat to U.S., Israel

Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air, The Iran Project and Jihad Watch

John Podhoretz / New York Post: How Democrats will pretend to fight the nuclear deal

CNN:
Iran nuclear deal: What does it mean for Americans held in Iran?

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP crafts Iran deal attack plan

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Sen. Mark Kirk On Iran Deal: Obama “Wants To Get Nukes To Iran,” Predicts Nuclear War In Middle East — “...tens of thousands of people in the Middle East are gonna lose their lives because of this decision by Barack Hussein Obama.” — Mark Wilson / Getty Images — w.soundcloud.com

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Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
Far Worse Than Munich

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Nick Gass / Politico:
Dick Cheney: Iran deal makes ‘actual use of nuclear weapons’ more likely

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Tyler Miller / The Daily Beast:

Planned Parented Doesn't Sell Fetuses: The Real Story Behind That Shady Video — A pro-life group's viral video would have you believe an abortion doctor is hawking body parts. — Pro-lifers are already calling it the end of Planned Parenthood. An undercover video released early Tuesday morning …

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Steve Allen / National Review:
‘A Lot of People Want Liver’: Planned Parenthood's Bloody Business

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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Video Accuses Planned Parenthood of Crime

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

C-SPAN to preempt first GOP debate — C-SPAN is partnering with a handful of regional newspapers in early-voting states for a nationally televised forum with the Republican presidential candidates just days before Fox News Channel's first scheduled debate. — The network has invited all 17 …

Discussion: FishbowlDC, Washington Monthly, Political Insider blog and The Week

Politico:

Revenge of Citizens United — Republicans could barely contain their glee when the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision cleared the way for unlimited spending in political campaigns. — But now — headed into a crowded presidential primary that promises to be longer …

Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog, Washington Monthly and The Daily Caller

Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
Presidential election already fueled by $377 million

Discussion: ABC News

Mark Leibovich / New York Times:

Re-Re-Re-Reintroducing Hillary Clinton … A few minutes before my meeting with Hillary Clinton on the Fourth of July, during my drive to the Mount Washington hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., where she was staying, I passed a moose near the side of the road.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and The Week

Los Angeles Times:

This is the video Gardena police didn't want you to see — The day after the release of videos showing Gardena police officers shooting two unarmed men, one fatally, the survivor and the deceased victim's brother called for a deeper investigation into the Gardena Police Department.

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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

This Parody Perfectly Nails Every Jade Helm Conspiracy Theory Video — What's more sinister than FEMA death camps? Some black tarps and a chain-link fence. — Just in time for the Wednesday kickoff of “Jade Helm 15,” a YouTube user under the handle Get Right America posted an amazing parody …

Discussion: Guardian and The Daily Banter

Jennifer Wright / Philly.com:

Before Ben became Bibi, he played soccer at Cheltenham HS — THE ISRAELI prime minister recently got a blast from the past courtesy of a few former classmates from Cheltenham High School. — Alums from the 1973 class sent Benjamin Netanyahu, a 1967 graduate, his class yearbook.

Discussion: Washington Times

Frederick Kagan / Wall Street Journal:

Why They're Cheering in Tehran — The nuclear deal is an opaque 159 pages, offering sanctions relief and vague promises of inspections. — The nuclear agreement with Iran announced Tuesday is an astoundingly good deal, far surpassing the hopes of anyone . . . in Tehran.

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New York Times:
Who Got What They Wanted in the Iran Nuclear Deal

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Alex Davies / Wired:

Self-Driving Cars May End the Fines That Fill City Coffers — Before long, self-driving cars will deliver a lot of benefits. First and foremost, they'll increase safety. Accidents won't be eliminated, but surely will produce better results than humans, who play an outsized role in the 30,000 fatalities in US roads.

Discussion: Hit & Run

Martin Matishak / The Hill:

Dems: Benghazi panel has ‘abandoned’ its work to focus on Hillary — Democrats serving on the House Select Committee on Benghazi say the panel's GOP chairman has “abandoned” plans for hearings to shift the focus of the investigation to Hillary Clinton. — “At the beginning of this year …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Matthew Cole / The Intercept:

Israeli Special Forces Assassinated Senior Syrian Official — On Aug. 1, 2008, a small team of Israeli commandos entered the waters near Tartus, Syria, and shot and killed a Syrian general as he was holding a dinner party at his seaside weekend home. Muhammad Suleiman, a top aide to the Syrian president …

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and Guardian

Jordain Carney / The Hill:

Reid threatens to block No Child Left Behind renewal — Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) warned Tuesday that Democrats would block a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law unless they are allowed to make further changes. — “We are not going to allow cloture to succeed unless …

Discussion: RedState and ThinkProgress

Nick Gass / Politico:

Republican senators warn Iran in open letter — Republican senators want to give Iranian leaders — and the president — a refresher on the constitutional balance of power. — In a highly unusual move, a group of 47 Republicans in the upper chamber has written to Iran's top leaders …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo