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Louis Nelson / Politico:
McCain slams Trump over Khan fight — Sen. John McCain slammed Donald Trump Monday morning for feuding with the parents of a fallen Muslim soldier, offering perhaps his sternest rebuke yet of a candidate with whom he has clashed throughout the campaign process.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Longtime Trump confidant smears Khan family as members of the Muslim Brotherhood — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — While Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence was posting a Facebook statement claiming Donald Trump “cherishes” the Khan family, a close confidant and advisor …
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CANNONFIRE and Media Matters for America
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Did Trump go too far? — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump's criticism about the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier has generated — once again — a backlash within his own party. — Just 100 days from the election, Trump has responded in his standard fashion — dig in, claim he's being treated unfairly and attack back.
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Republicans denounce Trump as confrontation with Muslim parents escalates
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The Atlantic, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Politico and ABC News
Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Trump: Muslim soldier was a hero, but his father ‘has no right’ to criticize me
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Politico, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, The Week, ABC News and Patterico's Pontifications
CBS News:
Did Clinton get a post-convention bump? — Hillary Clinton has received a bump in support after the Democratic convention and has now pulled ahead of Donald Trump. — Forty-six percent of voters nationwide say they'll vote for Clinton in November, while 39 percent say they'll back Trump.
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump Surrogate on CNN: ‘Russia Did Not Seize Crimea’ — A Donald Trump campaign surrogate argued on CNN Sunday night that Russia did not seize Crimea from Ukraine, despite the fact that Russia recently seized Crimea from Ukraine. — “Again, Russia did not seize Crimea,” GOP consultant Boris Epshteyn argued.
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New York Times:
How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump — WASHINGTON — Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort's did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014. — President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Clinton's claim that the FBI director said her email answers were ‘truthful’ — “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”
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Fox News, Weekly Standard, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, Instapundit, Fox News Insider and Independent Journal Review
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton Says Trump's Remarks About Putin Show He's Unfit
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Politico
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Melania Trump's girl-on-girl photos from racy shoot revealed — Here's the nation's would-be first lady — and right beside her, a second lady. — Three years before she met husband Donald Trump, Melania Trump was snapped in a nude frolic with another female model, bombshell photos obtained exclusively by The Post show.
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The Jawa Report, CNNMoney, Independent Journal Review, Slate, Hit & Run, The Week, The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, The Root, TalkLeft, AOL and Joe.My.God.
Max Boot / New York Times:
How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump — It's hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.” — Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, driftglass and Politicus USA
Peter Schweizer / Wall Street Journal:
The Clinton Foundation, State and Kremlin Connections — Why did Hillary's State Department urge U.S. investors to fund Russian research for military uses? — Hillary Clinton touts her tenure as secretary of state as a time of hardheaded realism and “commercial diplomacy” that advanced American national and commercial interests.
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RedState and Power Line
Seton Motley / RedState:
ObamaCare and Net Neutrality Are Doing Exactly the Damage Their Opponents Predicted — ObamaCare and Network Neutrality are really dumb policy. For many, many reasons. — Like with all huge new government power grabs, there are a few very predictable post-grab outcomes.
John Tierney / City Journal:
Monuments to Idiocy — Let's honor the public servants responsible for giving us the TSA. — Summer 2016 — Public safety — Naming anything after a living politician is usually a bad idea; but this summer, we can make an exception. Now that Americans will be spending …
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Israel Matzav
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz's problems aren't over yet — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's political troubles aren't over yet. — The Florida Democrat is facing the toughest political race of her life after ending her controversial tenure as leader of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
LeftOfCenter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Mark Cuban: ‘Is There Any Bigger Jagoff In The World Than Donald Trump?’ — Is there a bigger jagoff than Donald Herr Drümpenführer? When Trump seemed less insane, (maybe it's a medical issue?) he was a pro-choice, Hillary supporter who had no problem admitting that he had liberal views.
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The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE: Breitbart/Gravis Blockbuster Immigration Poll Demonstrates Americans Want Total Revolution Against Mass Immigration — New polling data shows that it would be virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to win the general election if the Republican nominee were able to frame …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Trouble for Hillary — Watching the Democrats' smoothly staged, potently scripted convention last week, voters could easily think that Hillary Clinton has this election in the bag. — The critiques of Donald Trump made devastatingly clear that he's a preposterous, dangerous candidate for the presidency.
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Washington Post and JustOneMinute
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Liberalism's Big Bet
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