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11:30 PM ET, May 1, 2018

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CNN:
Exclusive: Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter  —  (CNN)When Dr. Harold Bornstein described in hyperbolic prose then-candidate Donald Trump's health in 2015, the language he used was eerily similar to the style preferred by his patient.  —  It turns out the patient himself wrote it, according to Bornstein.
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Anna R. Schecter / NBC News:
Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer ‘raided’ his office, took medical files  —  In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice …
Associated Press:   White House defends seizure of Trump's medical records
Washington Post:
Mueller raised possibility of presidential subpoena in meeting with Trump's legal team  —  In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Trump's lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends  —  THE BEGINNING OF May marks the longest period of public silence from special counsel Robert Mueller's team since his first charges last October—more than two months without any new plea deals, fresh indictments, or publicly “flipped” witnesses.
CNN:
Trump's legal team prepares for showdown with Mueller  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyers are preparing for a legal showdown with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources familiar with their thinking.  —  Trump's legal team is bracing for the dramatic possibility …
Discussion: Raw Story and WTVR-TV
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump  —  Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller  —  , said Tuesday he believes President Trump  —  leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing  —  (CNN)The special counsel's office wants two more months before it looks toward sentencing former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators and is cooperating in the Russia probe.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
DEBUNKING TRUMP'S BIGGEST RUSSIA LIE  —  It is very hard to read the list of questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump (questions which Trump's lawyers memorialized, and which ultimately leaked to the New York Times) and see how the Russia investigation ends without …
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Mueller requests Flynn's sentencing be delayed at least two more months
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:   Attorney: Mueller team floated possible subpoena for Trump
Washington Post:
Lobbyist helped broker Scott Pruitt's $100,000 trip to Morocco  —  MARRAKESH, Morocco — A controversial trip to Morocco by Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt last December was partly arranged by a longtime friend and lobbyist, who accompanied Pruitt and his entourage …
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New York Times:
Friend Helped Steer E.P.A. Leader's Agenda Abroad  —  WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, allowed a lobbyist friend to play an unusually influential role in setting his agenda during a visit in December to Morocco, according to internal communications related …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Two Top Aides to Scott Pruitt Quit the E.P.A. Unexpectedly  —  WASHINGTON — Two top aides to Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency chief who is facing an array of investigations related to his spending and management practices, have resigned amid widening scrutiny of their roles at the agency.
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Two top Pruitt aides leave EPA abruptly as ethics investigations heat up
Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
Nancy Pelosi says she intends to remain in leadership role  —  Nancy Pelosi wants you to know she's not going anywhere.  —  Despite grumblings from some Democrats and dismal approval ratings, the House minority leader aims to keep an iron grip on her leadership role, saying in an interview Tuesday …
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Dick Morris / The Western Journal:
Trump Ratings Up, Dem Chances Down
Discussion: Reuters
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Horrible 2018 Senate Map Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time
Cheri Jacobus / USA Today:   Never Trump Republican's midterm plea to Democrats: Reach out to people like me
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Trump ‘well-positioned’ for 2020, keeps GOP alive for 2018, pollsters say
Discussion: Power Line
USA Today:   In midterm elections, Republicans are running against ... Hillary Clinton. Still.
CNN:
White House poised for more chaos over Veterans Affairs pick  —  (CNN)The White House is in an increasingly familiar place: Facing down a chaotic nomination process.  —  As the Trump administration seeks to move past the failed nomination of Ronny Jackson to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs …
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
White House ignores executive order requiring count of civilian casualties in counterterrorism strikes
Discussion: Axios
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
Better Call Cohen: The Shady Cases of a Trump Lawyer's Personal Injury Practice  —  The president's personal attorney represented multiple clients in New York who allegedly staged car crashes to cheat insurance companies  —  A few years before he started working for Donald Trump …
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Feinstein drops opposition to legal pot, giving legal marijuana a new ally  —  WASHINGTON  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime opponent of legalizing recreational marijuana, now says the federal government should not interfere in California's legal marijuana market.
TMZ.com:
Kanye West — Stirs Up TMZ Newsroom Over Trump, Slavery, Free Thought  —  Kanye West just told the TMZ newsroom why he believes slavery is a choice and why he decided to sport his Make America Great Again hat ... and it all went down Tuesday morning on “TMZ Live.”
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Rosenstein: Justice Department won't be extorted by Congress  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday lashed out at Republican allies of President Donald Trump who have drafted articles of impeachment against him, saying the Justice Department won't be extorted or give in to threats.
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Carl Higbie, who works at pro-Trump group, says racist comments were ‘statistical observation,’ ‘out of context’  —  (CNN)Carl Higbie, a top staffer at an advocacy group closely aligned with President Donald Trump, said on a radio show that past racist comments he made had been taken …
The Times of Israel:
Abbas says Jews' behavior, not anti-Semitism, caused the Holocaust  —  In rambling speech, PA president gives a ‘history lesson’ in which he tries to negate Jewish connection to Israel, accuses Zionists of cooperating with Hitler  —  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday …
Discussion: Informed Comment
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BBC:   Holocaust row: Abbas accused of anti-Semitism
David French / National Review:
How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul  —  Keziah Daum and the insidiousness of the online cultural-appropriation police  —  I'm going to tell you perhaps the dumbest story you've ever heard — a story that is stupid with a heaping helping of malice on the side.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
White supremacist is guilty in Charlottesville parking garage beating of black man … CHARLOTTESVILLE — One of the white supremacists who viciously beat a black man inside a parking garage during last year's “Unite the Right” rally here was found guilty Tuesday night of malicious wounding.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes or suppresses its content based on that metric.
Kyle Smith / National Review:
How Much Does Hillary Clinton Drink?  —  Amy Chozick probably knows, but she isn't telling.  —  When the author of a book on the Hillary Clinton campaigns admits to breaking down in tears as Clinton's defeat registered, you have to read between the lines to guess just how flawed Clinton is.
Esquire:
The Passion of Jordan Peterson  —  BY WESLEY YANG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAKE STANGEL  —  “WHAT  —  AM  —  I EXACTLY?  Here in a guest cottage at the summit of a high hill in northern California, the tenth stop on a three-continent tour to promote his new book,  —  12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,
Discussion: Samizdata
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Iran Deal Is a Lie  —  “The sanctions lifting will only occur as Iran takes the steps agreed, including addressing possible military dimensions.”  —  That was State Department spokesman John Kirby in June 2015, speaking just as negotiations for the Iran nuclear deal were wrapping up.
CNN:
Michael Caputo slams Senate intel panel in interview  —  (CNN)Former Donald Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo slammed the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia investigation on Tuesday, charging that the probe has cost him $125,000 and is forcing him to move from the Buffalo area in order to pay off legal bills.
Lee Smith / Tablet Magazine:
Are NBC and CNN Paying Off Top Spies Who Leaked Info With On-Air Jobs?  —  Nor is Clapper the only source of misinformation to land a paying job with a news outlet he leaked to while ostensibly protecting America's secrets.  Former CIA head John Brennan, another spy chief at the Trump briefing …
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Trump's former health secretary: Americans will pay more because GOP weakened Obamacare … President Trump's former top health official on Tuesday said the Republican tax law would raise the cost of health insurance for some Americans because it repealed a core provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Caleb Howe / Daily Wire:
The Truth About RedState's Layoffs, From A Non-Liar  —  I really didn't feel like defending RedState this week, all things considered, but I've been put in that position by flatly inaccurate information that was spread through a conservative email newsletter.  —  In that newsletter, The Transom, Ben Domenech called me a liar.
Julia Halperin / artnet News:
‘It Is an Unusual and Radical Act’: Why the Baltimore Museum Is Selling Blue-Chip Art to Buy Work by Underrepresented Artists  —  The museum is selling seven works to build a “war chest” that will fund acquisitions designed to make its holdings less white and less male.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Founder of pro-Brexit thinktank has link with Russian intelligence, says MP
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump asks court to dismiss emoluments lawsuit against him
Discussion: Axios
Carole Glines / Fox News:
‘DWTS’: Ex-baseball star Johnny Damon: Trump ‘doing a great job’ as president
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Apple's tax break yields $102 billion boon for shareholders
The Harvard Crimson:
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Hayes Brown / BuzzFeed:
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
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Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Was In Moscow Just Weeks Before Court Documents Were Unsealed
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