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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Needs To Not Be President Yesterday — We're done with the “Well, maybe it won't be so bad and we should take what we can get” phase of this administration. It's time for the “He's a disaster and needs to go” phase. For everybody's good, Donald Trump needs to not be president …
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
'I'm terrified': Neo-Nazi blubbers like a baby in video reporting he's wanted for arrest in Charlottesville — Neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell — who was one of the “Unite the Right” Charlottesville marchers interviewed by Vice.com — released a weepy, rambling video of himself discussing …
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Business Insider and Towleroad
The Times of Israel:
Yair Netanyahu says leftists more dangerous than neo-Nazis — Echoing Trump, PM's son claims ‘thugs of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are getting stronger’ while Nazis are a thing of the past — The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said American left-wing groups are more dangerous than neo-Nazis.
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Faith Gates / Mediaite:
Shep Smith: We Haven't Yet Found ‘The Very Fine People Protesting With the White Supremacists’ — Fox News' Shep Smith opened up his show Wednesday with a monologue on how both sides can agree on one thing, that Donald Trump's press conference about Charlottesville was indefensible.
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How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville
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Hannah Parry / Daily Mail:
‘The president let a Jew steal his daughter’: White nationalist Charlottesville rally co-organizer …
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’
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New York Times:
Trump Ends C.E.O. Advisory Councils as Main Group Acts to Disband — President Trump's main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president's controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them.
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CNBC:
Top CEOs jump from Trump, disband strategic council of corporate giants — Members of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum have agreed to disband the group, sources told CNBC, as corporate backlash mounts against the president. — The business advisory council …
Bloomberg:
Trump Ends Business Councils as CEOs Turn Against President
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Members of Trump's remaining commissions say they have no plans to resign
CNNMoney:
White House business panels collapse as CEOs flee Trump
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump abruptly ends manufacturing council after CEOs disband strategic and policy forum
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
What Steve Bannon thinks about Charlottesville — On Tuesday night, while Gary Cohn was fuming about President Trump's latest comments, Steve Bannon was excitedly telling friends and associates that the “globalists” were in mass freakout mode. — Today, Bannon reveled in the disbanding …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him
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CJ Hunt / GQ:
A Charlottesville White Supremacist Stripped Down to Escape Protesters and We Got It on Video — I arrived in Charlottesville at sundown on Friday, where I'd come looking for an ending to the documentary I'm making on Confederate monuments. In two years of covering the debate in New Orleans …
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Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight — Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Alabama AG Sues Birmingham, Mayor For Covering Confederate Monument
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Threats Force Hollywood Cemetery to Remove Confederate Memorial
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Special counsel's Russia probe loses top FBI investigator — One of the FBI's top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, has left Mueller's team, sources tell ABC News.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Right-Winger Jack Posobiec, Retweeted by Trump, Is Navy Intel Officer — WASHINGTON — A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed …
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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Liberals Helped Create Trump's New Bogeyman, the “Alt-Left” — The term was coined by the right-wing as a slur. Then it was adopted by the left's would-be allies. — President Donald Trump on Tuesday introduced a new nemesis to join the “fake news” media, Crooked Hillary, and Mexican rapists: the alt-left.
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German Lopez / Vox:
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News
CNN:
Trump defiant after outburst and GOP picks up pieces — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Republican lawmakers and administration aides found themselves again Wednesday weighing the costs and benefits of remaining loyal to President Donald Trump, whose equivocal statements about neo-Nazis …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Source: McConnell upset at Trump over latest Charlottesville comments
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Angry White Boys — What do the white nationalists actually want? — W — hat is it these white boys are so angry about? — You don't go to a protest because you're happy. You go to a protest because you are mad about something or, in my case, because it is your job.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Aides Tried to Conceal His Crazy, Racist Beliefs From the Country — Donald Trump's aides have been angry with him frequently — indeed, usually — since the beginning of his presidential campaign. But they have rarely registered their dismay as nakedly as they did Tuesday night …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox's Abby Huntsman Humiliates Herself as Guests Weep Over ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Trump … What's a Fox & Friends host to do when they desperately want to push President Donald Trump's narrative the “both sides” are to blame for Charlottesville, but their guests want to talk about what's really going on in America right now?
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Daily Caller has a White Nationalist Problem — On Monday, August 14, the Daily Caller very quietly removed white nationalist Jason Kessler's contributions to the publication after the violence and chaos in Charlottesville. The white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally was organized by Kessler.
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Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks To Be Named White House Comms Director
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Marist Poll:
8/16: Trump at Lowest Point With 35% Job Approval Rating... Crack at the Base — President Donald Trump's job approval rating is at its lowest point since taking office with only 35% of Americans giving him a positive score. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Fox's Shep Smith: We couldn't find a Republican willing to come on and defend Trump — Fox News host Shepard Smith said Wednesday that the network tried and failed to get a Republican on-air to defend President Trump's controversial comments on violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend
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