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5:30 PM ET, August 23, 2017

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned  —  PHOENIX — Just before President Trump strolled onto the rally stage on Tuesday evening, four speakers took turns carefully denouncing hate, calling for unity and ever so subtly assuring the audience that the president is not racist.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why Ben Carson's appearance in Phoenix was likely a violation of federal law  —  Right before Ben Carson took the stage at President Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night, the announcer introduced him.  —  “The secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Discussion: Business Insider
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Trump Goes Off-Script in Hour-Long Public Meltdown  —  Trump explained that the biggest victim in the Charlottesville violence last weekend was, in fact, himself.  —  After walking on stage at the Phoenix Convention Center to “God Bless the U.S.A.” for what was, effectively, a 2020 campaign rally …
Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Wire and ABC News
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Wall Street Journal Editor Admonishes Reporters Over Trump Coverage  —  Gerard Baker, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, has faced unease and frustration in his newsroom over his stewardship of the newspaper's coverage of President Trump, which some journalists there say has lacked toughness and verve.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Holds Steady After Charlottesville; Supporters Think Whites, Christians Face Discrimination  —  PPP's newest national poll finds that Donald Trump's approval rating is pretty steady in the wake of the Charlottesville attack, probably because his supporters think that whites and Christians …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Politicus USA and The Week
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump hits new low after Charlottesville  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a new low following a week in which a majority of voters believe he did more to divide the country than unite it, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows.  —  Only 39 percent of voters approve …
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Trump's Approval Rating Dips Below 40% for First Time After Charlottesville
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Leinz Vales / CNN:
James Clapper calls Trump speech ‘downright scary and disturbing’  —  (CNN)James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, said Wednesday morning he questioned President Donald Trump's fitness for office.  —  “I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's 57 most outrageous quotes from his Arizona speech  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump went to Arizona on Tuesday night and delivered what has now become a trademark speech: Full of invective, victimhood and fact-free retellings of recent historical events.
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Trump snubbed missing US sailors during Arizona speech, referenced himself nearly 250 times
Discussion: IJR, Grist, ABC News and Mashable
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House has paperwork ready for Joe Arpaio pardon  —  (CNN) The White House has prepared the paperwork for President Trump to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio when he makes the final decision to do so, CNN has learned.  —  An administration official said the White House …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Shutdown threat grows as Trump digs in on wall  —  President Donald Trump's vow Tuesday to close down the government if he doesn't get money for the border wall mirrors private comments he has made to advisers in recent days — and could cause significant rifts within his own party if he follows through.
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CBS News:
West Wing gets new look in Trump White House renovations
Discussion: Axios
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Steven Morris / The Guardian:
Firefighters eat sausages made of piglets they saved from blaze
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Gina Cherelus / Reuters:
Charlottesville shrouds divisive Confederate statues in black cloth  —  (Reuters) - To applause from spectators, workers in Charlottesville, Virginia, covered two statues of Confederate generals with black tarpaulins on Wednesday in honor of the woman who was killed during a rally …
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Week
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Clay Travis / Outkick the Coverage:
MSESPN Pulls Asian Announcer Named Robert Lee Off UVa Game To Avoid Offending Idiots
MSNBC:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton in her own words  —  Hillary Clinton reflects on the 2016 campaign in her new book ‘What Happened.’ Morning Joe has an exclusive first look. ...  more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Insidious Libertarian-to-Alt-Right Pipeline … Libertarianism has an alt-right problem.  Many prominent leaders of the alt-right have, at some point, identified as libertarian.  I am curious as to... why?  —  Milo Yiannopoulos has billed himself (and has been billed by others) as libertarian.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Washington Post
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The strange story of that ‘Blacks for Trump’ guy standing behind POTUS at his Phoenix rally  —  At a number of political rallies over the year, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
Federal Trade Commission:
Statement of Federal Trade Commission's Acting Director of the Bureau of Competition on the Agency's Review of Amazon.com, Inc.'s Acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc.  —  Bruce Hoffman, the Acting Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, issued this statement …
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Angelica LaVito / CNBC:
FTC allows Amazon, Whole Foods deal to proceed
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
State Dept. science envoy resigns with letter that spells out ‘Impeach’  —  The science envoy for the State Department has resigned following President Trump's response to the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.  —  Daniel Kammen announced his resignation …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump's ambassador to Israel: Charlottesville response 'wasn't fine'
Mark Murray / NBC News:
12 Days That Stunned a Nation: How Hillary Clinton Lost  —  WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton held a clear lead in the polls and it looked like her campaign was trying to run up the score — just as the race was about to turn upside down.
Discussion: NBC News
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
CNN's Big Secret  —  BREAKING: Host reveals that journalists don't like Trump.  —  Now it can be told.  A CNN host named Brian Stelter confided to his audience this week about conversations occurring off-camera and off the record across the media landscape.  According to Mr. Stelter:
Discussion: Instapundit
PolitiFact:
Fact-checking President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Phoenix  —  President Donald Trump defended his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., during a campaign rally in Phoenix, on Aug. 22, blaming the media for distorting or omitting his full comments.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
German magazine cover shows Trump doing Nazi salute  —  A German news magazine's latest cover image shows President Trump doing a Nazi salute.  —  German publication Stern is portraying Trump wearing an American flag and doing the salute, which is illegal in Germany.
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
FOX6Now.com:
16-year-old MPS student arrested after punching teacher several times in the head  —  MILWAUKEE — A teacher at South Division High School punched by a student.  The whole thing was captured on camera.  —  The video shows a student punching a teacher several times in the head.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Negassi Tesfamichael / Politico:
Rabbis ditch High Holy Days call with Trump  —  A prominent coalition of American rabbis has decided not to hold its annual conference call with the president to mark Jewish holidays, citing Donald Trump's remarks on the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as supporting …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
John M. Donnelly / Roll Call:
Members of Trump's Infrastructure Panel Resign in Protest  —  Administration not responsive to sound advice, letter says  —  Analysis: Why Won't Trump Discuss Troop Numbers?  Defense to Get Historically High Share of Research Budget Trump's Tweet on Transgender Service Members Roils Congress
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
David Smith / The Guardian:
'He's anti-left, anti-PC, anti-stupid': Trump supporters in their own words  —  Trump is breath of fresh air.  He's totally not a political person.  He's a businessman: he's anti-left, he's anti-PC, he's anti-stupid.  He just wants to go in and make the best deal for Americans that he can.
Discussion: Shakesville
David Roth / The Baffler:
The President of Blank Sucking Nullity  —  Put a cone on it.  —  W  —  O  —  R  —  D  —  F  —  C  —  T  —  O  —  R  —  Y  —  MY FATHER IS CONVINCED that his dog is embarrassed.  He doesn't mean the rudimentary way that dogs ever show embarrassment …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 
 
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Hollywood Conservatives Still Standing With Trump: “The Media Is Irrelevant”
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Billy Joel dons Jewish star against Neo-Nazis
Stuart Leavenworth / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: Trump team goes to bat for NRA-backed bill, deleting Park Service concerns
Discussion: New York Magazine
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Dems to Trump: We won't yield on wall funding
Discussion: Politico
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Breitbart:
Exclusive— Rick Santorum Crafting Different Obamacare Repeal Plan with Lawmakers: 'It Will …
Discussion: Raw Story
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
‘Raised up by God’: Televangelist Paula White compares Trump to Queen Esther
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Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
‘This Is Not Hazing. This Is Rape’: Inside a Texas Town's Football Nightmare
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Lucien Greaves / Washington Post:
I'm a founder of the Satanic Temple. Don't blame Satan for white supremacy.
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