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New York Times:
Election Is Over, but Trump Still Can't Seem to Get Past It — WASHINGTON — In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election.
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New York Times:
‘Looking Like a Liar or a Fool’: What It Means to Work for Trump — WASHINGTON — President Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short-term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Cutout of Sean Spicer in the bushes becomes Internet meme
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Business Insider, Daily Kos, Axios, Washington Post and New York Times
The Daily Beast:
White House Staff React in Real-Time as Trump Tweets: ‘Jesus’
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CNN, Politicus USA, Wall Street Journal and Hot Air
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gingrich urges Trump: ‘Close down the press room’ — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging President Trump to follow through on his threat to cancel daily White House press briefings, accusing news media of being “dishonest opponents” of the president. — “What they ought …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Hannity: Trump Should End Press Briefings and ‘Tweet Out All of His Accomplishments’ Instead
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New York Times:
A Look at the Candidates Trump Is Considering to Head the F.B.I.
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Politico, Joe.My.God., The Guardian, Above the Law and The Atlantic
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump threatens to cancel White House briefings because it is ‘not possible’ …
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right — They are called “must-runs,” and they arrive every day at television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group — short video segments that are centrally produced by the company. Station managers around the country …
Mark Scott / New York Times:
Hacking Attack has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout — Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain on Saturday raced to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they do not succeed, companies will lose their data unless they meet ransom demands.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm — CORONADO, Calif. — With the White House in meltdown mode, top Republican Party officials and operatives gathered at a posh oceanside resort here and contemplated a 2018 midterm election that will test them in unimaginable ways.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet:
Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands — Dutch TV did what no American TV network dares, suggesting Trump's past includes illegal racketeering. — Donald Trump's business partners have included Russian oligarchs …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump — Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events. — We haven't had a single conversation with a top Republican that doesn't reflect this.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them — I would recognize a crisis if it were happening. — When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why it's likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
A Top Trump Official Just Flunked The Jimmy Kimmel Test — It's fine to pay for sick kids, Mulvaney says, but diabetics are another story. — You've heard of the undeserving poor? Get ready for the undeserving sick. — A top Trump administration official defended the American Health Care Act …
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ThinkProgress, Axios and Politicus USA
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
The New Yorker drew Comey being dragged off a plane. The United passenger's lawyer critiqued it. — Thomas Demetrio is no art critic; he's the attorney for David Dao — whom you and probably the rest of the world saw dragged off a United Airlines flight last month.
Wall Street Journal:
Former Trump Adviser Paul Manafort's Bank Records Sought in Probe — Federal investigators looking into Russian election interference requested information; New York investigators also examining his real-estate transactions — The Justice Department last month requested banking records …
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The Hill, Politicaldog101.Com, RedState and Political Wire
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Trump: ‘In America We Do Not Worship Government, We Worship God’ — Donald Trump made a return visit to Liberty University on Saturday, speaking at the 44th commencement of famous Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia. Before a crowd of hopeful graduates, America's next generation of evangelical leaders …
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Mother Jones
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
The Senate Starts to Look at Trump's Businesses — I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump's, and asked his thoughts about the various investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. He laughed and said that there is no way Trump could have been part of such a conspiracy.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Candidates interview for FBI director post — Top Justice Department officials are scheduled to interview four candidates Saturday to serve as FBI director on a permanent basis, a source familiar with the process told POLITICO Friday night. — The four potential nominees set to be interviewed are …
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