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New York Times:
The Election Is Over, But Trump 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 — Cutouts of press secretary Sean Spicer in bushes have quickly become a new Internet meme. — The joke began after a report from The Washington Post on Tuesday following President Trump's stunning decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.
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Business Insider, Daily Kos, Axios, Washington Post and New York Times
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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Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
Jason Chaffetz Has Been Telling House Republicans He Will Join Fox News — When House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz announced in April that he would not seek reelection, speculation reigned—did the powerful Utah Republican have his eyes on another office?
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Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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
Hannity: Trump Should End Press Briefings and ‘Tweet Out All of His Accomplishments’ Instead
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New York Times, Raw Story, Refinery29, Washington Post and Geller Report
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 …
New York Times:
Hacking Attack Has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout — Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain raced on Saturday to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they did not succeed, companies would lose their data unless they met ransom demands.
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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 …
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Raw Story
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
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Trump stokes fears of how he'd handle real crisis — So, what if there's a real crisis? — A real war — not a war with the media, or James Comey. A real showdown — not a political showdown. A real surprise that's out of the White House's control — not a situation …
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Daily Kos, CNN and Viking Pundit
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
The Comey Debacle — Rather than rationalizing and enabling the president's behavior, conservatives need to convince Trump that he's his own worst enemy. — EDITOR'S NOTE: — The following is Jonah Goldberg's weekly “news"letter, the G-File. Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.
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.
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The American Conservative
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Pope Francis previews meeting with Trump — Although he once said anyone who wants to keep migrants out of their country “is not Christian,” Pope Francis said today he won't try to get Trump to soften his tone when they meet on May 24, per AP. — Pope Francis told reporters he'd listen respectfully …
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 …
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Inside Trump's Coming War with the F.B.I. — “Agents are pissed off at the way he was fired, the total disrespect with which it was handled. It was a slap in the face to the F.B.I., to everybody in the F.B.I.” — James Comey thought he had a year. That's the amount of time it was likely …
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Balloon Juice
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Candidates interview for FBI director post
Candidates interview for FBI director post
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New York Magazine, The Week and Axios