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Michael Wolff / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President — One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration's shocked first days. — Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.” — On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower.
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump attorney sends Bannon cease and desist letter over ‘disparaging’ comments — Lawyers on behalf of President Donald Trump sent a letter Wednesday night to former White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon demanding he refrain from making disparaging comments against the president and his family.
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CNN:
Inside Trump's two days of fury — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump started 2018 in a fury partly fueled by anger at his legal team for offering shifting timelines about when the Russia investigation would end, according to two sources familiar with the President's mindset.
David Smith / The Guardian:
Trump Tower meeting with Russians ‘treasonous’, Bannon says in explosive book … Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president's son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” …
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Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers send cease-and-desist letter to Bannon … Lawyers for President Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump's former senior strategist Stephen K. Bannon, arguing he had violated a non-disclosure agreement in speaking about his time on the campaign and in Trump's most trusted inner circle.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it? — Among the many things he's been called — “blunt,” “pathetic,” “calculating” — the one thing Michael Wolff has never been described as is boring. — A provocateur and media polemicist …
Summer Meza / Newsweek:
TOP 20 REVELATIONS FROM TRUMP ‘FIRE AND FURY’ BOOK ABOUT GOLDEN SHOWERS, IVANKA, BANNON AND MORE — A new book by Michael Wolff offers an insider look at President Donald Trump's candidacy and first year in office, and reveals dozens of fascinating details about the administration.
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Washington Post:
Trump slams Bannon: ‘When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’ … President Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign manager Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Stephen K. Bannon's mental stability, honesty and political influence.
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Hope Hicks fled the room after Trump called her ‘the best piece of tail’ Lewandowski will ever have: report
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Wolff's unbelievable — sometimes literally — tell-all about the Trump administration
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Enraged Trump Personally Dictated Scathing Denouncement of Strategist Steve Bannon
Eli Stokols / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Denounces Steve Bannon After Comments in Book
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon Privately Called Trump A “Narcissist” Before Taking Over His Campaign
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Washington's growing obsession: The 25th Amendment — Lawmakers concerned about President Donald Trump's mental state summoned Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee to Capitol Hill last month for two days of briefings about his recent behavior.
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Weekly Standard:
GOP Senators: ‘Trump Being Trump’ in Nuclear-Button Spat with Kim Jong-un
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
“He's going to unravel.” Psychiatrist warns members of Congress about Trump in secret briefing
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The scary reality behind Trump's long Tuesday of weird tweets
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Ankit Panda / The Diplomat:
When a North Korean Missile Accidentally Hit a North Korean City
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CNN:
Trump dissolves voter fraud commission — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump dissolved his much-touted voter fraud commission on Wednesday, attributing the step to various states' refusal to participate in the board, which was criticized as a misguided step to solve a practically non-existent problem.
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Trump Disbands Commission on Voter Fraud — President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday evening to disband a White House commission investigating claims of voter fraud, ending an inquiry started after he falsely claimed that unauthorized votes had cost him the popular vote in the presidential election.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump disbands voter fraud commission
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Deputy AG, FBI director make unannounced visit to Paul Ryan's office — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray made an unannounced visit to Speaker Paul Ryan's office Wednesday as the Justice Department grapples with an increasingly hostile faction …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Rosenstein meeting with Paul Ryan about Russia investigation
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Top FBI, DOJ officials huddle with Ryan to talk dossier
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lohud.com:
Fire reported at Hillary and Bill Clinton's house in Chappaqua — New Castle police have confirmed a fire at the Clintons' home in Chappaqua. — Police declined to give further details on the fire at 15 Old House Lane where Bill and Hillary Clinton have lived for nearly 20 years after buying it for $1.7 million in 1999.
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump's media uses Clinton house fire to invent totally bonkers conspiracy — Firefighters in Chappaqua, New York, responded to what was described as a “small fire” in a building owned by Bill and Hillary Clinton Wednesday afternoon. The fire was put out within 25 minutes and was not located in the home where the Clinton's live.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CBS News fires political director amid allegations of ‘inappropriate behavior’ — CBS News said Wednesday that it has fired its political director, Steve Chaggaris, amid allegations of “inappropriate behavior” in his past. — Chaggaris was a longtime CBS News employee.
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Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
IGN Fires Editor-In-Chief For ‘Alleged Misconduct’
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
New interim US attorneys include Giuliani law partner — (CNN)A new year brought the Trump administration a crop of new top prosecutors Wednesday to lead several of the nation's most high-profile US attorney's offices. — CNN has learned that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has tapped …
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Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
Peter Thiel Is Exploring The Creation Of A Conservative Cable News Network — Peter Thiel addresses the final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. — Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images — Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel wants …
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Nora Krug / Washington Post:
Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. — SAN MATEO, Calif. — The literary pairing was inevitable. — “When Breath Becomes Air,” Paul Kalanithi's memoir of his final years as he faced lung cancer at age 37, was published posthumously …
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Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:
Russian Social Media Giant Gave Info on Trump Contacts to Senate Probe — The Russian social media giant Vkontakte has given information to Senate investigators about contacts between an executive at the company and the Trump campaign, TPM has learned. — The Russian tech firm appears …
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Sen. Feinstein Says Trump's Social-Media Guru “May Have Corresponded With Russian Nationals”
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Manafort sues Mueller, Justice Department — 's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort — , has filed a lawsuit challenging the authority of special counsel Robert Mueller — In a court filing, lawyers for Manafort argue that the order establishing Mueller's investigation is overly broad …
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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks on Power and the #MeToo Moment — In a wide-ranging conversation, the stars discuss President Trump, the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein case and why they hadn't worked together until “The Post.” — “The Post” tells of the tense days leading …
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