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New York Times:
Russian Dirt on Clinton? ‘I Love It,’ Donald Trump Jr. Said — The June 3, 2016, email sent to Donald Trump Jr. could hardly have been more explicit: One of his father's former Russian business partners had been contacted by a senior Russian government official and was offering to provide …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Category 5 hurricane’: White House under siege by Trump Jr.'s Russia revelations — The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Freaking Out Over Don Jr.'s Russia Email: The ‘Sum Of All Fears’ … President Donald Trump's son, his former campaign chairman, and his son-in-law were all told that the opposition research they were soliciting on campaign rival Hillary Clinton was coming from the Russian government …
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New York Post:
Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot — We see one truly solid takeaway from the story of the day: Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot. — SEE ALSO — In the heat of your father's presidential campaign, a bozo British publicist e-mails you to set up a sitdown with a “Russian government attorney” …
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr. tells Sean Hannity: ‘In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently’ — Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged in an exclusive interview with Fox News' “Hannity” Tuesday night that he “probably would have done things a little differently” when he met …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Pro-Trump media scrambles to react to bombshell emails — Donald Trump Jr. released emails moments before N.Y. Times report — Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of Breitbart London, reacted to the story of Donald J. Trump's newly-released emails in a way that wouldn't typically be expected …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump Jr. delivers ‘smoking gun’ to Mueller — Donald Trump Jr. may have just given Robert Mueller “smoking gun” evidence signaling his father's presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, according to veteran prosecutors and white-collar defense attorneys experienced in Washington scandals.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Gowdy fumes at Trump administration over latest Russia controversy — House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy lashed out at the Trump administration Tuesday over the “drip, drip” in the ongoing Russia controversy, sarcastically suggesting that officials get checked for amnesia about any contacts with Russia.
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New York Times:
Rancor at White House as Russia Story Refuses to Let the Page Turn — WASHINGTON — If President Trump emerged from his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last week hoping he had begun to “move forward” from the controversy over the Kremlin's election meddling, as advisers put it …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
New details emerge on Moscow real estate deal that led to the Trump-Kremlin alliance … While in Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in November 2013, Donald Trump entered into a formal business deal with Aras Agalarov, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, to construct a Trump Tower in the Russian capital.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian Connection Has Ties to Former Kremlin Spies … The Russian lawyer who peddled dirt on Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump Jr. has ties to former Russian military and intelligence officials, a key congressional committee will hear in testimony next week.
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Raw Story
Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
OPINION | Forget Don Jr.'s email — it's Hillary Clinton who ‘colluded’ with Russia — The effort to prove collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government has proven to be little more than a conspiracy theory desperately in search of evidence. With only “rumors... newspapers stories...
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Conspiracy of Dunces — Here is a good rule of thumb for dealing with Donald Trump: Everyone who gives him the benefit of the doubt eventually regrets it. — This was true of clients and contractors and creditors throughout his business career. It was true of the sycophants and opportunists …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the White House scramble on the Trump Jr. emails — The general view of the Donald Trump Jr. email bombshell, according to sources within and close to the White House: no crime, all perception. They know it was politically awful, but have decided there was no real crime.
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CNN:
Source: Justice Dept. probe will look at Trump Jr.'s disclosed emails, meeting — (CNN)Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators plan to examine the meeting and email exchanges disclosed by Donald Trump Jr. as part of the broader Russian-meddling investigation, according to a US official briefed on the matter.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A revelation unlike any other in the Russia investigation
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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Just Security:
The Media Is Not Asking the Right Questions on Trump Jr. Emails and Meeting with the “Russian Government Lawyer”
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Lawfare
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Donald Trump Jr. Emails Paint Serious Case of Campaign Finance Violations
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Tested by the many chapters of the Russia story, Republicans stand by Trump
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Jr. Releases Emails; They Support His Account
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National Review
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Five key facts about Donald Trump Jr.'s just-released explosive email exchange
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NBC News:
Russian Lawyer Who Met With Trump Jr.: I Didn't Have Clinton Info They Wanted
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
We are past the point of innocent explanations on Trump and Russia
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Carly Sitrin / Vox:
Vox poll: before the Trump Jr. emails, Republicans thought the Russia question was a distraction
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Amy Zegart / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Vindicate the Intelligence Community
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New York Times
New York Times:
‘Not Right Now’: Republicans and the Art of Not Talking About Trump
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Rob Goldstone / New York Times:
Read the Emails on Donald Trump Jr.'s Russia Meeting
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
OPINION | Don Jr.'s Russia meeting wasn't collusion — just amateur hour
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Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Whatever Trump Jr. did, it's not treason
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John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Best-Run States Are Low-Tax Republican, Worst-Run Are High-Tax Democratic, Study Finds — Several states, including Republican states, have decided to raise taxes this year to cover budget shortfalls. But a new study suggests that the states might find themselves in worse financial shape after the money starts rolling in.
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Eryn Dion / Northwest Florida Daily News:
Amazing human chain formed to rescue drowning family in PCB — “I honestly thought I was going to lose my family that day,” Roberta Ursrey said. “It was like, 'Oh God, this is how I'm going.' ” — PANAMA CITY BEACH — It was supposed to just be a quick trip to the beach …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
A riptide swept away a Florida family. Then beachgoers formed a human chain.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
How We Are Ruining America — Over the past generation, members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status. They have also become devastatingly good at making sure the children of other classes have limited chances to join their ranks.
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New York Post:
Cops protest de Blasio at slain officer's funeral — Hundreds of cops once again turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio at a police funeral. — SEE ALSO — Scores of officers who assembled outside the World Changers Church in The Bronx for assassinated police officer Miosotis Familia …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Report: Hundreds of NYPD cops turn backs to de Blasio at funeral
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Bloomberg:
Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working With Russian Intelligence — Emails show the security-software maker developed products for the FSB and accompanied agents on raids. — Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab boasts 400 million users worldwide. As many as 200 million may not know it.
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Trump administration restricts popular Russian security software
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