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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of ‘Nixon/Watergate’ plot to wiretap Trump Tower — President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election.
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Mark Levin: Was Obama Using NSA Against Trump During 2016 Campaign? — Radio host Mark Levin spent most of his Thursday evening show discussing the alleged scandal surrounding Attorney General Jeff Sessions and what he says is the real scandal: A “silent coup” by the former Obama administration against President Trump.
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New York Times:
Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump on Saturday accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of having tapped his phones at Trump Tower the month before the election, calling Mr. Obama on Twitter a “bad (or sick) guy.”
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Graham: 'I'm very worried' about Trump's wiretapping accusation — (R-S.C.) on Saturday said he is “very worried” about President Trump's accusation that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. — “I'm very worried that our president is suggesting the former president has done something illegal …
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Fox News:
Trump accuses Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower phones — President Trump made a startling claim Saturday that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower phones tapped in the weeks before the November 2016 election. — In early Saturday morning tweets that began at 6:35 a.m. …
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Top Obama adviser to Trump: ‘No president can order a wiretap’ — A former policy adviser to President Obama is firing back at President Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, saying it didn't happen — at least not under Obama's orders. — “No President can order a wiretap.
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Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump Repeats Talk Radio Rumor That Obama Wiretapped Him During Election — Trump provided no evidence to back up his claim. — Without offering a scintilla of evidence, President Donald Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of spying on him by wiretapping the phones …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Goes Nuclear With Claim Obama Wiretapped Him During Election [Updated]
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump was a conspiracy-theory candidate. Now he's on the edge of being a conspiracy-theory president.
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David Shepardson / Reuters:
Obama denies Trump claim he wiretapped him during campaign
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Joe.My.God.
Javier E. David / CNBC:
Trump accuses predecessor of ‘McCarthyism,’ wire-tapping during general election; Obama camp denies
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Last Refuge and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump flashes anger over Sessions recusal, Russia stories in tense Oval Office meeting — Before heading off to his so-called “winter White House” in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went “ballistic,” senior White House sources told ABC News.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sessions Controversy Heightens Trump's Feeling of Being Under Siege
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Axios
New York Times:
Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles — WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea's missile program in hopes of sabotaging test launches in their opening seconds.
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RedState, Mashable, The Daily Caller and Axios
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump expected to sign new executive order on travel ban on Monday — President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Monday a new executive order on his controversial travel ban at the Department of Homeland Security, according to senior government officials familiar with the matter.
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Political Wire and Axios
Lisa J. Huriash / Sun-Sentinel:
The ‘new normal’ for S. Fla. pilots: keeping president's airspace clear on weekends — CBS4's Weijia Jiang Reports — Sun Sentinel — Some pilots just aren't getting the message: They can't come and go as they please across South Florida's skies this weekend or any other time the president is in town.
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CBS Pittsburgh
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
A 13-Year-Old Girl Sobbed While Recording Her Immigrant Father Get Arrested By ICE Agents — Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was arrested this week while dropping off his daughter at a school in Los Angeles. — A sobbing 13-year-old girl recorded the arrest of her undocumented immigrant father …
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The Root
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Donald Trump vs. the Food Snobs — Donald Trump's riches, rages and romance with Russia all demand scrutiny. They shape our fates. — His meals don't, so leave the man to his supper. Let him eat steak. — Let him order it as he wishes and slather it with whatever he pleases.
New York Times:
Trump Team's Links to Russia Crisscross in Washington — WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump's second campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had regular communications with his longtime associate — a former Russian military translator in Kiev who has been investigated in Ukraine …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Russia investigations a ‘witch hunt’? Not according to polls
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Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
The Mob at Middlebury — A mob tries to silence Charles Murray and sends a prof to the ER. — Once again a scholar invited to speak at a university has been shouted down by an angry mob clearly unable to challenge him intellectually. On Thursday at Middlebury College …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Special Prosecutor . . . For What? — There is no crime to probe in the matter of the Trump campaign's contact with Russians. — S — o, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself. Great! — Just one question: From what? — Yes, yes, Sessions is a good and decent man.
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