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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
First Republican raises impeachment for Trump — (R-Mich.) on Wednesday said reports that President Trump pressed ousted FBI Director James Comey to end an investigation would merit impeachment if true, becoming the first Republican lawmaker to broach the idea.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House on edge: ‘We are kind of helpless’ — It was, in the words of one senior White House official, the worst day of Trump's presidency. — White House officials spent early Tuesday wondering who was leaking details of President Donald Trump's classified conversations with Russian officials …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump to graduates: ‘No politician in history... has been treated worse’ — New London, Connecticut (CNN)President Donald Trump, amid his own swirling controversies, advised United States Coast Guard Academy graduates that while things aren't always fair, “you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight.”
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USA Today:
Pretend Clinton did what Trump has done — Republicans in Congress and conservative media would be clamoring for investigations, if not impeachment: Our view — Imagine what would have happened had a President Hillary Clinton abruptly fired the man overseeing an investigation of her campaign's ties to a hostile foreign government.
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Has Really Screwed Himself This Time — He suggested he taped conversations with James Comey. Now, a memo by the former FBI director reveals damaging details about those conversations. — Last Friday, several days after firing FBI Director James Comey, President Donald Trump tweeted something …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
“Comey's revenge” may be far from over — Republicans close to the White House fear that yesterday's revelations could take President Trump into a legal or constitutional realm where his staff and supporters can't save him. — “A whole new door has opened,” said a well-known Republican operative …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Is the Comey Memo the Beginning of the End for Trump?
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New York Times:
Comey Memo Fallout: Senate Committee Invites Comey to Testify
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Washington Examiner:
GOP fears Trump will take the Republican Party down with him
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: No politician has been treated worse by media than me
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
First Republicans talk possibility of impeachment for Trump
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Trump Presidency Falls Apart
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Murkowski: ‘May’ Be Time For Independent Probe On Trump-FBI-Russia
New York Times:
The Criminal President? — After the revelations of the past 24 hours …
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Chuck Grassley:
Judiciary Committee Leaders Seek Copies of Reported Comey Memos and Possible Trump Tapes
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump claims ‘no politician in history’ has been ‘treated worse or more unfairly’
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Chaffetz invites Comey to testify next Wednesday
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Here's why Comey couldn't just quit in February
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Officials on Comey Memo: 'Don't See How Trump Isn't Completely F*cked'
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Jack Welch: Impeachment of Trump would ‘blow the market away’
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The 25th Amendment Solution for Removing Trump — It was just three days and a lifetime ago that I wrote a column about Donald Trump's unfitness for the presidency that affected a world-weary tone. Nothing about this White House's chaos was surprising given the style of Trump's campaign, I argued.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
The Media Elite Is Indulging Dangerous Fantasies About Removing Trump From Office
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
On Ross Douthat and the 25th Amendment
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Jeff Larson / ProPublica:
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago — We tested internet security at four Trump properties. It's not good. — Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida's coastal waterway. But not for fish. — We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian State-Run Bank Financed Deal Involving Trump Hotel Partner — A Russian-Canadian developer put money into a Donald Trump hotel project in Toronto after receiving hundreds of millions from a deal involving Russian state-run bank VEB.
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
What Does Barack Obama Really Think of Donald Trump? 'He's Nothing But a Bullsh-ter' — She packs her own lunch, and he still isn't allowed to drive. Subscribe now for all about Michelle and Barack Obama's lives after moving out of the White House - only in PEOPLE
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Jimmy Fallon Was on Top of the World. Then Came Trump. — Ambling onto the Art Deco set of “The Tonight Show” for his monologue rehearsal one Monday afternoon, Jimmy Fallon gave the crowd here at Studio 6B a warm, practiced welcome before trying out a new batch of jokes about the French election …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Said to Rule Out Moving Israel Embassy to Jerusalem — The embassy will remain in Tel Aviv for now, official says — Administration seeks to avoid provoking Palestinians — President Donald Trump has decided not to immediately move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem …
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Reuters:
Embroiled in controversies, Trump seeks boost on foreign trip
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump to unveil plans for an ‘Arab NATO’ in Saudi Arabia
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Judah Ari Gross / The Times of Israel:
Former Israeli spymasters rip into Trump, say Israel must reassess intel sharing — Shabtai Shavit says the US president is like a ‘bull in a china shop’; notes, ‘If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them’
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The guy who predicted Comey's memos thinks the former FBI director may be trying to take down Trump — News broke Tuesday evening that then-FBI Director James B. Comey had written notes in February indicating that President Trump had asked him to end an investigation of former White House national security adviser Michael T. Flynn.
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Austin American-Statesman:
‘THIS IS CRAZY’: Austin man sues date for texting during movie — A man is suing a Round Rock woman for texting during a movie date at the Barton Creek Square theater, according to a petition filed in small claims court in Travis County. — Brandon Vezmar, 37, of Austin filed the claim Thursday against his date.
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Story on DNC staffer's murder dominated conservative media — hours later it fell apart — It took only hours for one of the biggest stories in conservative media this week, which some outlets had chosen to focus on over news that President Trump disclosed classified information to senior Russian officials, to fall apart.
NBC News:
Trump Gave Russians Secrets News Orgs Are Being Asked To Withhold — Some of the intelligence President Trump provided to Russian officials is so secret that American news organizations are still being asked not to report it, two U.S. officials told NBC News.
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