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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Incompetence Defense — During former FBI Director James Comey's dramatic testimony before the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators settled on a pair of strange arguments for why President Trump hadn't obstructed justice: He didn't try very hard, or he was really bad at it.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ryan denies GOP would try to impeach Dem accused of same actions as Trump — (R-Wis.) insisted on Thursday that Republicans wouldn't be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same actions as President Trump. — As fired FBI Director James Comey was before a Senate committee …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republicans' emerging Trump defense: A naif in the Oval Office
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
In denying President Trump's abuse of power, Republicans have chosen party over country.
Alan Dershowitz / Washington Examiner:
History, precedent and James Comey's opening statement show that Trump did not obstruct justice
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New York Times:
Mr. Comey and All the President's Lies
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Todd Shepherd / Washington Examiner:
James Comey admits leaking his Trump memo to the press
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Nicole Serratore / New York Times:
James Comey and the Predator in Chief
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Comey's devastating indictment of President Donald Trump
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CNN:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey over memos — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's outside attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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CNN:
Comey told senators Sessions may have met Russia's ambassador a third time — Comey: AG may have met ambassador a third time — But the sources said it is possible the Russian ambassador exaggerated the extent of the encounter — Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey told senators …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey: report — President Trump's outside attorney is planning on filing a complaint against fired FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department over his handling of memos on his interactions with the president, CNN reported Friday.
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Steve Vladeck / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer says Comey violated executive privilege. He's wrong.
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: White House Orders House Members To Defend Trump On Cable News Following Comey Hearing
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Behind Trump's temporary silence: Why the counterpuncher let others do the punching
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Robert Barnes / LawNewz:
Comey was Before Congress to Indict Trump. Instead, He Might Have Indicted Himself. — The key interlude occurred with the ubiquitous Kamala Harris, the same Senator Harris who failed the bar the first time she took the bar exam. Only a Kamala-Comey marriage could birth this debacle:
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, the ‘Cloud’ Just Grew That Much Darker — WASHINGTON — Upset about the investigation into Russian interference in last year's election, President Trump sought relief from James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director. By Mr. Comey's account, Mr. Trump asked him to help “lift the cloud.”
U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Issues Statement on Testimony of Former FBI Director James Comey — In response to testimony given today by former FBI Director James Comey, Department of Justice Spokesman Ian Prior issued the following statement: — Shortly after being sworn in …
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Bloomberg:
Comey Leaves Trump Under a Crippling ‘Cloud’ of Investigations
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Fall of Theresa May — and Donald Trump? — Just a few months ago, it's worth remembering, we seemed to be careening to a new and possibly long-lived right-populist era in Anglo-American politics. In the U.S., Donald Trump had stunned the world and his own party Establishment by seizing …
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The Guardian:
DUP leader vows to help bring stability to UK with Conservatives — Arlene Foster confirms she will be having talks with Theresa May about details of arrangement with Northern Ireland party — The Democratic Unionist leader and most recent first minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster …
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Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election — An extraordinary night for British politics has ended in a hung parliament. — LONDON — It was an astonishing election by any estimation. A prime minister humiliated, a Labour leader dismissed as a no-hoper massively outperforming expectations …
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BBC:
UK election 2017: UK set for hung parliament — The Conservatives have failed to win an overall majority, and the UK is now set for a hung parliament, says the latest BBC forecast. — It shows gains for the Labour Party after Thursday's general election.
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Press Association:
Shock result as UK election returns hung parliament - as it happened
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
AJC poll: Ossoff opens lead over Handel in Georgia's 6th — An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows Democrat Jon Ossoff has a 7-point edge over Republican Karen Handel in the nationally watched race to represent Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
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Richard Elliot / WSB-TV:
NEW POLL: Ossoff support increases after debate with Handel
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Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
Theresa May rejected the Tory detoxification project. That's what's behind this mess — Once she talked of modernisation. Then she allowed the flat-earthers of that toxicity, Lynton Crosby chief among them, to flourish at the top of the party … ost people have heard of the term …
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New York Times:
‘I Was Right’: As Trump Watches Comey on TV, Anxiety Yields to Relief — WASHINGTON — President Trump dipped in and out of the small dining room off the Oval Office on Thursday to monitor a television as James B. Comey, the ousted F.B.I. director, told a tortured tale — and to insist to his huddled legal team, “I was right.”
New York Post:
Puerto Rican day parade loses half its floats over honoree controversy … Folks attending Sunday's Puerto Rican Day Parade will have plenty of time to take a break between floats — because half of them will be missing, sources said Thursday. — The sources said only 25 of 50 scheduled rolling displays …
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