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New York Times:
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost — WASHINGTON — President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations — equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’ — Every day, the White House communications office sends official talking points to Republican members of Congress. These communiqués help the GOP stay on the same page (and, in the Trump era, help the embattled president's allies come up with arguments in his defense).
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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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’ — White House aides say Trump lashed out because he felt that the barrage of media criticism for his Saturday remarks was unfair and wrong — that he was fighting back, campaign style. — A veteran of several Republican White Houses told us …
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
Time for My Fellow Republicans to Stand Up and Be Counted — Watching Donald Trump's train crash of a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, one unwelcome thought preoccupied me: What if he actually pours gasoline on himself and takes out a match on live TV?
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The Definitive Source:
How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville — The events in Charlottesville are an opportunity to take another look at our terminology around “alt-right” and the way that we describe the various racist, neo-Nazi, white nationalist and white supremacist groups out there.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Drags GOP Onto Dangerous Ground, This Time Over Race
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Liam Stack / New York Times:
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language
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Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks To Be Named White House Comms Director — Hope Hicks will be named the new White House communications director, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. — President Trump has offered the job to Hicks and she has accepted the position, according to a White House insider.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him … Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's besieged chief strategist, came into the White House in late January with a core group of right-wing allies and ideological fellow travelers, including senior policy adviser Stephen Miller …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides wrestle with Trump's race comments — White House aides are wrestling with how to respond to President Donald Trump's defiant news conference on Tuesday in which he doubled down on his statement that “both sides” are to blame for the Charlottesville violence and offered …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Hope Hicks expected to take over comms director duties — Hope Hicks is expected to take over the duties of the White House communications director on an interim basis, per a source familiar with the arrangements. — The big picture: A lot of people think she is the only one who can do the job …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Hope Hicks to serve as interim White House communications director
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CNN:
Hope Hicks named interim WH communications director
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel to white supremacists: 'We don't want your vote'
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Hope Hicks takes interim White House communications role amid search for Scaramucci replacement
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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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New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues; Mayor Cites Public Safety — BALTIMORE — The mayor said Wednesday that she was acting in the “best interest of my city” when she ordered the removal overnight of statues dedicated to Confederate heroes, just days after violence broke out over efforts …
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Washington Post:
The nation can only weep — TUESDAY WAS a great day for David Duke and racists everywhere. The president of the United States all but declared that he has their backs. — When a white supremacist stands accused of running his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Did Trump Get His George Washington And Thomas Jefferson Line From Fox News?
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Source: McConnell upset at Trump over latest Charlottesville comments — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been publicly silent so far over President Donald Trump's latest remarks on Charlottesville, is privately upset with the President's handling of the episode …
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Texas Republicans Intentionally Discriminated Against Minority Voters, Court Rules — This is the seventh time courts have found Texas guilty of intentional discrimination since 2011. — On Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump refused to blame white nationalists for the violence in Charlottesville …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump — “What I just saw gave me the wrong kind of chills,” a visibly stunned Chuck Todd said on MSNBC. “Honestly, I'm a bit shaken by what I just heard.” — Unable to disguise her disgust, the Fox News host Kat Timpf said …
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David French / National Review:
Donald Trump Just Gave the Press Conference of the Alt-Right's Dreams — Let's be very clear about what just happened at Donald Trump's press conference. He gave the alt-right its greatest national media moment ever. He even called some of them “very fine people.” Don't believe me?
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's horrifying ‘take three’ on Charlottesville
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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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New York Times:
In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking — KIEV, Ukraine — The hacker, known only by his online alias “Profexer,” kept a low profile. He wrote computer code alone in an apartment and quietly sold his handiwork on the anonymous portion of the internet known as the Dark Web.
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