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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
I Know Trump's New Campaign Chairman, Steve Bannon. Here's What You Need To Know. — On Wednesday, the Trump campaign shifted top campaign staff: the new CEO of the campaign is, predictably and hilariously, Steven K. Bannon, the current chairman of Breitbart News.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump shakes up campaign, demotes top adviser — Donald Trump, following weeks of gnawing agitation over his advisers' attempts to temper his style, moved late Tuesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism.
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Associated Press:
AP Sources: Manafort tied to undisclosed foreign lobbying — WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's campaign chairman helped a pro-Russian governing party in Ukraine secretly route at least $2.2 million in payments to two prominent Washington lobbying firms in 2012, and did so in a way that effectively obscured …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump, in Shake-Up, Hires Breitbart Executive for Top Campaign Post — LAS VEGAS — Donald J. Trump has shaken up his presidential campaign for the second time in two months, hiring a top executive from the conservative news site Breitbart News and promoting a senior adviser to a key …
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Trump Campaign CEO's Résumé Includes Goldman and ‘Seinfeld’ — Ten things to know about Steve Bannon. — JoshuaGreen — Last year, I wrote a 7,000-word Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on Breitbart News honcho Stephen K. Bannon, who on Wednesday was named chief executive …
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon's Hire Highlights Breitbart's Cozy Relationship With Trump
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: What Trump's latest shakeup says about his flailing campaign
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Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones:
Trump Campaign's New CEO Peddled Conspiracy Theories About Clinton Team
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP ANNOUNCES MAJOR CAMPAIGN HIRES
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Donald Trump just put a Breitbart executive in charge of his flailing campaign
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Nicole Auerbach / USA Today:
Ryan Lochte: 'We were afraid we'd get in trouble' — RIO DE JANEIRO — Ryan Lochte told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday that he initially did not tell the U.S. Olympic Committee that he and three other American swimmers were victims of a robbery early Sunday morning “because we were afraid we'd get in trouble.”
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Shaken Ryan Lochte seen in new security footage as he reached safety of athletes' village …
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Christine Brennan / USA Today:
Judge orders two U.S. swimmers to stay in the country
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The Huffington Post:
Aetna CEO Threatened Obamacare Pullout If Feds Opposed Humana Merger — Give us our merger or we'll quit Obamacare, the insurer told Justice Department officials in a July letter. — Senior National Correspondent, The Huffington Post — The big health care news this week came from Aetna …
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Aetna's Retreat From Obamacare Is More Than It Seems
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Dumps All Over U.S. Intel Community: 'I Won't Use Them' — Donald Trump said Wednesday he was wary of relying on the U.S. intelligence community because he does not trust them and believes they've made “bad decisions.” — During an interview with Fox News, Trump was asked …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: I don't trust U.S. intelligence information — Donald Trump offered a blunt explanation for why he wants retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn at his side as he gets his first classified briefing at FBI headquarters on Wednesday — he doesn't trust intelligence information coming from those currently in charge.
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
What happens when you tie your career to Donald Trump? Ask Sean Spicer in a few months. — It was the third day of the Republican National Convention, the party's big chance to pitch America on its vision for the country, and all anybody wanted to talk to Sean Spicer about was “My Little Pony.”
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Spox Likens His Role To That Of Doctors, Lawyers Assisting ‘Bad’ People
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Richard J. Cross, III / Baltimore Sun:
GOP speechwriter may vote for Hillary Clinton — (Washington Post) … I am a lifelong political animal and a longtime Maryland Republican. I worked on the staffs of Maryland Congresswoman Helen Bentley and Congressman/Gov. Bob Ehrlich. I also served on the GOP staff of the House Financial Services Committee.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Latina Former Bush Treasurer Endorses Clinton, Blasts Trump
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Kristine Guerra / Washington Post:
A 4-year-old found beaten and abused said she thought her name was ‘Idiot,’ according to police — The 4-year-old girl had deep purple bruises, a black eye, a swollen cheek and a mark on her forehead. — She also had healing scars across her back, dried blood in the corner of her mouth …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Giuliani: I want people to think Trump ‘has no organization’ — Donald Trump's campaign shakeup means nothing more than an expansion, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday, praising the Republican nominee's organization and recent on-message speeches. — “More people.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Asking for black votes, a very different Donald Trump
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump's Strange New Attack On Hillary Clinton Echoes White Supremacists — In a major foreign policy speech on Monday, which offered few details and many inaccuracies, GOP nominee Donald Trump attacked his Democratic opponent's stance on immigration and refugees by comparing her to the chancellor of Germany.
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Nina Schutzman / The Poughkeepsie Journal:
Fire chairman seeks ‘compromise’ after American flag controversy — Alex H. Wagner/Poughkeepsie Journal — Will flags return to Arlington Fire District trucks after their removal attracted national attention and criticism? A compromise may be in the works.
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
This morning a friend of mine told me he expected to see an exodus from Breitbart to the Trump campaign. “After all,” he said, “they're the new establishment.” — Now it appears Matthew Boyle is headed over to the Trump campaign. … Bruce says this is not a joke.
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