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5:30 AM ET, May 11, 2017

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New York Times:
‘Enough Was Enough’: How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in His Firing  —  WASHINGTON — The countdown to President Trump's dismissal of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, began last weekend, which the president spent stewing over Mr. Comey's testimony to Congress last week in which he provided …
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Washington Post:
How Trump's anger and impatience prompted him to fire the FBI director  —  Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia.
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Source close to Comey says there were 2 reasons the FBI director was fired  —  Washington (CNN)There are two reasons why President Donald Trump fired James Comey, according to a source close to the now-former FBI director:  — Comey never provided the President with any assurance of personal loyalty.
Wall Street Journal:
Comey's Firing Came As Investigators Stepped Up Russia Probe  —  FBI director had been providing updates to top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee  —  WASHINGTON—In the weeks before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, a federal investigation …
New York Times:
An Open Letter to the Deputy Attorney General  —  Dear Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:  —  It's rare that any single person has to bear as much responsibility for safeguarding American democracy as you find yourself carrying now.  Even before President Trump's shocking decision …
David Choi / Business Insider:
Trump's deputy attorney general reportedly threatened to resign after being painted as the mastermind behind Comey's firing  —  While President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI director James Comey came as a shock for many, one of the alleged architects of the dismissal was also reported …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and New York Times
New York Times:
Days Before He Was Fired, Comey Asked for Money for Russia Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference …
The Daily Beast:
White House Lawyers Warned Trump: Stay Away From Michael Flynn … White House lawyers have had to warn President Donald Trump repeatedly against reaching out to his fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter tell The Daily Beast.
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Why Trump expected only applause when he told Comey, 'You're fired.'  —  Donald Trump has always acted in the moment, with little regard for the past and proud contempt for the way things are usually done.  —  For half a century, he's believed that by refusing to be weighed down by precedent or procedure …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Associated Press Goes Around the Bend on Comey  —  Associated Press news stories on controversial topics are generally adapted from Democratic National Committee press releases, but when the AP really wants to cut loose it labels its stories “AP Analysis.”
Discussion: LifeZette and The Daily Caller
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The White House Story On Comey Just Gets Worse and Worse  —  Comey Comey Comey Comey.  Let's catch up.  Why exactly did Donald Trump fire the guy, anyway? … Right.  Yesterday's official narrative was that, out of the blue, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein recommended Comey's termination, and Trump was like whatevs.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Easy Tells of Comey's Canning  —  With Donald Trump, the tells are always easy.  —  When the president says, “I'm, like, a smart person,” you know he nurses deep insecurities about his intelligence.  When he says, “I'm really rich,” you know that he knows that you know that, really, he probably isn't.
Reuters:
Comey infuriated Trump with refusal to preview Senate testimony: aides
Discussion: Mediaite, Political Wire and Axios
Joshua Keating / Slate:   If It Happened There: Political Chaos as Regime Purges Powerful Security Chief
The Daily Beast:   New FBI Boss Could Be More Controversial Than Comey
National Review:
The Comey Ouster  —  A combination photo of James Comey …
Discussion: Fox News and New York Times
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More very bad news for Trump: His poll numbers just hit a bunch of new lows
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi threatens to force vote on outside Russia probe
Discussion: TheBlaze
Mark Hensch / The Hill:   Comey refused preview of Senate testimony to Trump: report
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
After Comey, Justice Must Be Served
Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP scrambles to shield agenda from Comey fallout
John Hayward / Breitbart:   Gorka: Trump Fired FBI Director to Make a Statement After Comey's Latest Testimony
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Chris Cuomo stunned as Kellyanne Conway says it's inappropriate to question Trump's Comey firing
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Dershowitz: Comey Firing ‘Appropriate,’ No Special Prosecutor
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Presence of Russian photographer in Oval Office raises alarms  —  A photographer for a Russian state-owned news agency was allowed into the Oval Office on Wednesday during President Trump's meeting with Russian diplomats, a level of access that was criticized by former U.S. intelligence officials as a potential security breach.
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Week
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Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Russia's Oval Office Victory Dance  —  When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump holds auditions while Spicer's away  —  Press secretary Sean Spicer's absence from the briefing room on Wednesday comes at a tenuous time, as President Donald Trump has asked senior advisers for weeks if he needs to change the face of his administration, several White House officials and outside advisers to the president said.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Sean Spicer ‘spent several minutes hidden in the bushes’
Clive Irving / The Daily Beast:
U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe … The Department of Homeland Security will ban laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the United States, European security officials told The Daily Beast.  The announcement is expected Thursday.
GQ:
Dwayne Johnson for President!  —  No one gets up earlier than Dwayne Johnson.  Or goes to bed later.  Or is more awake during the hours in between.  No one in Hollywood is more buff, more driven, or gets paid better.  The man has so much charisma and ambition he can do anything.
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Commentator who amplified Macron hacks given White House press access  —  A U.S. far-right online activist credited with initially sharing on Twitter hacked emails from the French presidential campaign of centrist Emmanuel Macron is the latest conservative media figure to receive White House access from the Trump administration.
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Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News:
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Financial Times:
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