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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Baldwin returns to SNL as confused Trump responding to Puerto Rico — Actor Alec Baldwin resumed his impersonation of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” this week for the season premiere, appearing in the cold open as a confused Trump responding to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico.
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Tobin Harshaw / Bloomberg:
No, Trump Didn't Botch the Puerto Rico Crisis — A Q&A with former Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix on smart preparations the White House and Pentagon made for the looming storm. — “Send in the cavalry.” — That was the advice retired Army General Russel Honore gave President Donald Trump …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Puerto Rico is all our worst fears about Trump coming real — A real crisis comes and Trump can't handle it. — For the first nine months of his administration, observers have had occasion to wonder — and wonder, and wonder, and wonder — how exactly Donald Trump would manage to handle …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Full text: Homeland security adviser's update on Puerto Rico — Here's the full text of an update on Puerto Rico that White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert sent his West Wing colleagues: — To inform you, I traveled with Brock to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Dem senator compares Trump to Marie Antoinette — (D-Ore.) is comparing President Trump to Marie Antoinette, the French queen whose lavish spending and aloofness became the subject of public ire during the French Revolution. — “Trump plays Marie Antoinette: Sits at his golf club …
Chris Gillette / Associated Press:
In hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, a stunning silence
In hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, a stunning silence
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Axios and New York Times
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Neighboring mayor praises Trump, says San Juan mayor playing ‘politics,’ AWOL at meetings
Neighboring mayor praises Trump, says San Juan mayor playing ‘politics,’ AWOL at meetings
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump's Behavior
The Media Needs To Stop Rationalizing President Trump's Behavior
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Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, Mediaite, New York Times and IJR
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fellow Puerto Rico Mayor Rips San Juan Mayor — 'She's Not Participating In Any Meetings'
EXCLUSIVE: Fellow Puerto Rico Mayor Rips San Juan Mayor — 'She's Not Participating In Any Meetings'
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
General Defends San Juan Mayor: She's ‘Living on a Cot...Hope the President Has a Good Day at Golf’
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
San Juan Mayor Responds To Trump's Attacks: ‘I Was Asking For Help’
San Juan Mayor Responds To Trump's Attacks: ‘I Was Asking For Help’
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Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Lin-Manuel Miranda to Trump: 'You're going straight to hell'
Lin-Manuel Miranda to Trump: 'You're going straight to hell'
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Washington Post:
Trump called San Juan's mayor a weak leader. Here's what her leadership looks like.
Trump called San Juan's mayor a weak leader. Here's what her leadership looks like.
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Time's up: As CHIP expires unrenewed, Congress blows a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children — Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price voted twice against expanding CHIP as a George state legislator. — Advocates for children's health started worrying months ago …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner — Hugh Hefner, gone to his reward at the age of 91, was a pornographer and chauvinist who got rich on masturbation, consumerism and the exploitation of women, aged into a leering grotesque in a captain's hat, and died a pack rat in a decaying manse where porn blared during his pathetic orgies.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Barcelona soccer game played without fans — https://apnews.com/7cd3046388ac4ca59d44 3c2ea9cb6936 — Link copied! — BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on Catalonia's plans to hold a referendum Sunday on breaking away from Spain (all times local): — 5 p.m.
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Trump Tax Cut Already In Trouble — Don't believe the unrestrained enthusiasm coming from the White House and congressional leaders: The tax cut they announced last Wednesday is already in trouble and isn't going to be enacted quickly. — Of course the party line coming from the Trump administration …
New York Times:
At Trial, a Focus on the Facts, Not the Politics, of Benghazi — WASHINGTON — Almost from the moment that Islamist militants overran the American consulate and assaulted a C.I.A. annex in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012, politics consumed the deadly attacks.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
‘The New Washington’: Though Out of Power, Democrats Are Winning the Fight, Pelosi Says — WASHINGTON — Representative Nancy Pelosi might have retired from Congress had Hillary Clinton been elected, content that she was leaving the government in capable female hands.
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Political Wire
Rebecca Everett / New Jersey Online:
For NJ.com — Medford survivalist Joseph Badame with some of the many barrels of dried food and supplies he has accumulated over the years. (Al Amrhein | For NJ Advance Media) — The home of survivalist Joseph Badame is seen prior to his estate sale this past weekend.
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