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New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric — WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter …
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Steve Bannon, Unrepentant — Steve Bannon on the phone, December 9, 2016 — You might think from recent press accounts that Steve Bannon is on the ropes and therefore behaving prudently. In the aftermath of events in Charlottesville, he is widely blamed for his boss's continuing indulgence of white supremacists.
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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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Business Insider, Raw Story, Politico, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Washington Free Beacon
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon's colleagues disturbed by interview with left-wing publication
Bannon's colleagues disturbed by interview with left-wing publication
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Business Insider and The American Conservative
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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Jerusalem Post, ThinkProgress, NPR and israpundit.org
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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
USA Today:
After Charlottesville, time to censure President Trump
After Charlottesville, time to censure President Trump
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Raw Story, The Week, Mediaite, Burlington Free Press and Balloon Juice
Faith Gates / Mediaite:
Shep Smith: We Haven't Yet Found ‘The Very Fine People Protesting With the White Supremacists’
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
‘Nazis must be confronted’: World leaders accuse Trump of ‘glossing over’ racist violence
‘Nazis must be confronted’: World leaders accuse Trump of ‘glossing over’ racist violence
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The Guardian, Infowars, Politico, NBC News, ACS Blog and Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
After Trump Hedges His Condemnation of Hate, C.E.O.s Organize a Mass Defection — On Monday, Indra Nooyi, the chief executive of Pepsi, picked up the phone and began calling other prominent corporate chieftains who — like her — had agreed to advise President Trump. — A rebellion was brewing.
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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 …
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Congressman Meets With WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange — College Cancels Free Speech Event, Cites ‘Campus Safety’ Reasons — Why Did One Of Mueller's Investigators Leave The Trump-Russia Probe? — POLITICS | CHUCK ROSS — Transferred to FBI's HR department
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Little Green Footballs, Disobedient Media and The Gateway Pundit
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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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The Hill, Mediaite, RedState, AOL, Washington Free Beacon, Raw Story, IJR, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Politicus USA and Talking Points Memo
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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Esmeralda Bermudez / Los Angeles Times:
California confronts its Confederate past as monuments are abruptly removed
California confronts its Confederate past as monuments are abruptly removed
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Threats Force Hollywood Cemetery to Remove Confederate Memorial
Threats Force Hollywood Cemetery to Remove Confederate Memorial
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Los Angeles Times, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Infowars
New York Times:
Baltimore Mayor Had Statues Removed in ‘Best Interest of My City’
Baltimore Mayor Had Statues Removed in ‘Best Interest of My City’
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight
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CANNONFIRE, Power Line and The Atlantic
Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNNMoney:
The ‘March on Google’ is off — Fired engineer: Google a ‘psychologically unsafe environment’ — Rallies were slated to happen Saturday in at least nine major U.S. cities to protest Google (GOOG)'s firing of James Damore, an engineer who wrote a controversial memo on the company's diversity policies.
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RedState, CNN, Mashable, Business Insider and IJR
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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Liberals Helped Create Trump's New Bogeyman, the “Alt-Left”
Liberals Helped Create Trump's New Bogeyman, the “Alt-Left”
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The Stranger …, FAIR, Mashable, Liberal Values, Scared Monkeys and New York Times
German Lopez / Vox:
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News
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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Raw Story, Politicus USA and Politico
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Cloudflare CEO on Terminating Service to Neo-Nazi Site: ‘The Daily Stormer Are A**holes’ — Internet companies typically take a hands-off approach to offensive content on their networks, erring on the side of maintaining an open internet. But this approach sometimes ends in PR disaster.
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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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New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Outside the Beltway and The Independent
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Former CIA director slams Trump's ‘despicable’ comments in letter to CNN anchor — Washington (CNN)Former CIA director John Brennan slammed President Donald Trump's “dangerous” and “ugly” comments on the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
'He is stubborn and doesn't realize how bad this is getting' — President Donald Trump's decision to double down on his argument that “both sides” were to blame for the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was driven in part by his own anger — and his disdain for being told what to do.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him
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Raw Story
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Rabbi That Oversaw Ivanka Trump's Conversion to Judaism Slams Trump on Charlottesville Response — The rabbi that oversaw Ivanka Trump's conversion to Judaism has released a letter to the congregation of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's longtime synagogue condemning President Trump's widely …
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Raw Story
Fox News Insider:
Tucker Carlson Bill Kristol Charlottesville Violence Anti-Semitism Slavery — Tucker Carlson fired back at former Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who appeared to accuse the host of “rationalizing slavery” in his monologue the previous night. — Carlson recounted how he said the outrage …
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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Louis Jacobson / PolitiFact:
Are there white nationalists in the White House?
Are there white nationalists in the White House?
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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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Weekly Standard and The Week