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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
“You Can't Make This S— Up”: My Year Inside Trump's Insane White House  —  Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now details the feuds, the fights and the alarming chaos he witnessed while reporting what turned into a new book.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials  —  Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them.  —  Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Steve Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Jeffrey Smith / New York Magazine (Used by permission)  —  Amid the firestorm over Michael Wolff's forthcoming book “Fire and Fury,” a lawyer for President Trump says legal action against Steve Bannon is “imminent,” accusing the former White House aide of breaking a confidentiality …
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.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: White House officials discuss removing Katie Walsh from outside group  —  Senior White House officials are debating whether Katie Walsh should be fired from Trump's main outside group, America First, after comments she reportedly made to the author Michael Wolff, according to two sources with direct knowledge.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Forget Treason.  Money Laundering Is Serious.  —  Steve Bannon's charge against Trump's son isn't the worst thing he's saying about the president's inner circle.  —  Trump watchers have been treated to a world-class cage match over the last couple of days between President Donald Trump …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump legal team blasts explosive Michael Wolff book in cease-and-desist letter  —  President Donald Trump's lawyer, Charles Harder, has demanded on behalf of his client that author Michael Wolff and his publisher immediately “cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination” …
Robert Kraychik / Breitbart:
Bannon Praises Trump: POTUS ‘Is a Great Man... I Support Him Day In and Day Out’  —  “The President of the United States is a great man,” said Breitbart News's Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Wednesday's edition of SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight.  —  Bannon's comments came …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Questions about Trump's fitness raised by bombshell new book pose growing threat for Republicans in 2018 elections  — In a new book informed by extensive White House access, top officials described the president with words like “crazy” and “stupid.”  — “It raises the question about whether …
John Bowden / The Hill:
Bannon loses support of pro-Trump billionaire backer over media fights  —  Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has reportedly lost the support of billionaire backer Rebekah Mercer after he suggested he might run for president himself.  —  A person close to Mercer told …
Madison Park / CNN:
Despite blast by Trump, Bannon reiterates support for President
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Dana Loesch: Trump ‘Proved He Had a Bigger Nuclear Button’ Than ‘Opportunist’ Bannon
Discussion: RedState
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump lawyer threatens to sue Bannon
Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
AP NewsBreak: US to end policy that let legal pot flourish  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country, two people with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.
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Washington Examiner:
Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan: It's time for Jeff Sessions to go, as shown by the latest FBI leak … As the first year of the Trump administration comes to a close, one can't help but look back on how allegations of “Russian collusion” dominated the headlines of almost every news agency.
Olivier Knox / Yahoo:
Republican Sen. Gardner torches Sessions over pot reversal
Discussion: IJR and Business Insider
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Justice Department ‘Looking Into’ Hillary Clinton's Emails— Again … Justice Department officials are taking a fresh look at Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  An ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who is familiar …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Cory Gardner just showed how Senate Republicans could check Trump if they wanted to  —  But they don't want to.  —  This morning, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced changes to Obama-era marijuana policy guidelines that had in effect allowed several states to move forward with pot legalization …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:   GOP strategist: Republicans will turn on Trump, impeach him if party is blown out in midterms
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
2018 is the year that will decide if Trumpocracy replaces American democracy
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
Trump administration to expand drilling off U.S. continental waters  —  The Trump administration unveiled a controversial plan Thursday to permit drilling in most U.S. continental shelf waters, including protected areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic, where oil and gas exploration is opposed …
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Shut Down His Election Fraud Commission, But He Hasn't Given up on Voter Suppression  —  President Donald Trump abruptly shut down his commission on election integrity on Wednesday evening.  That's the good news for voting rights advocates.  —  The bad news: the Administration …
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USA Today:
Trump disbands controversial voting commission, citing ‘endless legal battles’
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's explanation for shutting down his voter fraud commission is just as untrue and partisan
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Virginia just determined control of its state house by picking a name out of a bowl  —  The random drawing to settle a tied race delivered the house majority to Republicans.  —  Virginia settled the outcome of a tied House of Delegates race that would determine control of the chamber …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republican wins drawing to decide control of Virginia statehouse
Discussion: Axios
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Republicans win ‘lot draw’ for Virginia House seat
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:   “He's going to unravel.” Psychiatrist warns members of Congress about Trump in secret briefing
New York Daily News:
Socialite Jacqueline Kent Cooke accused of smacking lawyer with her glass purse in anti-Semitic attack  —  Millionaire NFL heiress Jacqueline Kent Cooke allegedly got blitzed on New Year's Eve, spewed anti-Semitic remarks in a Manhattan restaurant and then bashed a man bloody with her glass purse …
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Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast:
Millionaire NFL Heiress Filmed in Upper East Side Brawl After Allegedly Making Anti-Semitic Remark
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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