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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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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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Bloomberg:
Trump Ends Business Councils as CEOs Turn Against President
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Trump announces end to manufacturing council amid resignations
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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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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 …
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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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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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Needs To Not Be President Yesterday — We're done with the ‘take what we can get’ phase of Donald Trump's administration. It's time for the 'he's a disaster and needs to go' phase. — 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.
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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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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
'I'm terrified': Neo-Nazi blubbers like a baby in video reporting he's wanted for arrest in Charlottesville
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
Time for My Fellow Republicans to Stand Up and Be Counted
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Hope Hicks expected to take over comms director duties
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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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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
THE FALLOUT: Republicans line up against Trump …
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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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German Lopez / Vox:
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News — A video compares what Trump said to what Fox News said. — President Donald Trump's remarks Tuesday on the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, shocked a lot of Americans.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump
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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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Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
The World Trusts Putin More Than Trump on Foreign Affairs, Pew Says — People around the world have more confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin handling world affairs than in his U.S. Counterpart Donald Trump, a Pew Research Center survey showed. — Of 36 countries canvassed, 22 …
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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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Bloomberg:
Texas Voter Maps Blocked as Racially Biased by U.S. Judges — Federal courts declare Texas voter maps unfair for fourth time — State given three days to say whether it will correct maps — Texas can't use its current voter maps in the upcoming congressional midterm elections after a panel …
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