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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Bannon apologizes — Battered by the backlash from Michael Wolff's book, Steve Bannon is trying to make amends with the Trump family, providing a statement to Axios that expresses “regret” to President Trump and praises his son, Donald Trump Jr. Show less “Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man.
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Tapper cuts off interview with Trump adviser — In a heated interview, White House adviser Stephen Miller talks with CNN's Jake Tapper about Michael Wolff's book “Fire and Fury” and its revelations about life inside the Trump campaign and White House.
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KQED News:
Billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer: We're Hand-Delivering New Anti-Trump Book to All of Congress — Billionaire investor and Democratic donor Tom Steyer says he bought 535 copies of the controversial new book about the Trump presidency, “Fire and Fury,” and plans to have them hand-delivered to each member of Congress.
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Shaun King / New York Daily News:
KING: Stephen Miller is the latest insufferable liar and bigot on Team Trump
KING: Stephen Miller is the latest insufferable liar and bigot on Team Trump
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Joseph Weber / Fox News:
Pompeo, Lewandowski vehemently defend Trump, slam ‘Fire and Fury’ book as fiction
Pompeo, Lewandowski vehemently defend Trump, slam ‘Fire and Fury’ book as fiction
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Mixed signals on infrastructure plan emerge from Trump retreat — President Trump expressed misgivings about his administration's infrastructure plan Friday at Camp David, telling Republican leaders that building projects through public-private partnerships is unlikely to work …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
CIA director pushes back on claim in Wolff book: Trump reads — pushed back Sunday on a claim that President Trump — does not read, calling the assertions made in author Michael Wolff's explosive new book on the White House “absurd.” — “This president reads material that we provide to him.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
WikiLeaks shares full text of Wolff's Trump book — WikiLeaks posted the full text of Michael Wolff's explosive new book about President Trump — on Sunday. — The website's official account tweeted a link to a Google Drive containing the full text of the book. — “New Trump book ‘Fire and Fury’ by Michael Wolff.
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
Eric Garland Has Blown Our Cover — Terrible news. Project Gizmodnik, our brilliant plan to secretly infiltrate the U.S. tech media for the glorification of Matushka Rossiya's Great Leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and/or the destruction of global capitalism*, has been compromised by American “super spy” Eric Garland.
Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:
You'll miss me, Jersey! And with that, Chris Christie's just getting warmed up — Gallery: Governor Christie reflects on his time in office — The first time I asked Gov. Chris Christie a question we were 2,000 miles from New Jersey. I was a year into my first newspaper job in southeast New Mexico.
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Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
Kushner's Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role — Last May, Jared Kushner accompanied President Trump, his father-in-law, on the pair's first diplomatic trip to Israel, part of Mr. Kushner's White House assignment to achieve peace in the Middle East.
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
‘Learn his name first’: The politicizing of military widows is touching a nerve — In a way, Jenn Budenz lies with him, her right hand resting on their infant, with a gaze fixed on a framed photo of Maj. Andrew Budenz in a sharp Marine Corps uniform. — His face is everywhere at the grave …
Doug Palmer / Politico:
White House preparing for trade crackdown — President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to unveil an aggressive trade crackdown in the coming weeks that is likely to include new tariffs aimed at countering China's and other economic competitors' alleged unfair trade practices, according to three administration officials.
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
Why hasn't Michael Wolff's dementia-Trump ever been seen in public? — President Trump is on TV and in newspapers more than any human on earth, and yet Michael Wolff, based on his time gossiping, has convinced the national media that grandpa got away and is now drooling in the Oval Office.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi's son hobnobs with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago — Paul Pelosi Jr., son of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, appears to be quite the nonpartisan partyer. — At least judging by the pair of Instagram photos of himself arm-in-arm with first daughter Ivanka Trump …
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
House GOP intensifies assault on Mueller probe — House Republicans are intensifying a multipronged assault to chip away at special counsel Robert Mueller — 's investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election. — A vocal group of conservative members has for weeks blitzed …
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