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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump sounds off on FBI report: “Doesn't get any lower than that!”  —  President Trump is sounding off on the Justice Department's inspector general report, released Thursday, about the FBI's conduct in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.  —  FBI Agent Peter Strzok …
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James Comey / New York Times:
This Report Says I Was Wrong.  But That's Good for the F.B.I.  —  The Department of Justice's independent watchdog, the inspector general, has released a report that is critical of my decisions as F.B.I. director during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email account.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Report's Real Message: Trump Is Lying  —  The new report from the Justice Department's watchdog covers a lot of ground.  It runs more than 500 pages and evaluates investigations that touch both President Trump and Hillary Clinton.  As a result, some of the initial news coverage …
Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Meet the Other Amorous FBI Staffers Who Texted About the Clinton Email Investigation  —  Parsing the Inspector General's report.  —  Criticism of James Comey is nothing new—it's one of the few things that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.  Which made the headline takeaway …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump allies seize on DOJ report as they seek to undercut Mueller probe  —  Thursday's report from the Justice Department's inspector general gave new and potent ammunition to President Trump and his allies in their ongoing efforts to undermine special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Report Gives Trump an Opening, but Undercuts His Narrative  —  WASHINGTON — The report that had much of Washington buzzing on Thursday required 500 pages to outline its findings, but to President Trump, three words mattered most — “we'll stop it.”  —  Those were the words that a senior F.B …
Lawfare:
Nine Takeaways From the Inspector General's Report on the Clinton Email Investigation
Discussion: Washington Monthly and CNN
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
‘Viva Le Resistance’: Mueller Team Attorney Sent Anti-Trump Texts
Josh Campbell / CNN:
The FBI got swamped by a 500-year flood
John Harwood / CNBC:   Inspector general's report on FBI's Clinton email investigation discredits yet another Deep State conspiracy theory
Washington Post:
'Why can't we just do it?':  Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes  —  Some of the most intense drama surrounding President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came not across the negotiating table, but in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday's historic meeting …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“There's No Stopping Him”: Trump Insists on a Putin Summit  —  After Singapore, the President is pressing ahead with the meeting that he's always wanted.  —  Fresh off his closely watched Singapore summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, President Trump is pushing his team …
Discussion: Politico
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Trump Does It His Way  —  In February, then-secretary …
Washington Post:
In defense of separating immigrant families, Sessions cites same Bible passage used to defend slavery  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a Bible verse on Thursday to defend his department's policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the border from Mexico, suggesting that God supports …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents
NBC News:
Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Sarah Sanders makes disastrous, ill-informed attempt to defend Trump's family separation policy
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Recidivism Watch: Trump administration again blames others for its own family separation policy
Discussion: The Week and Jezebel
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's tariffs are already backfiring  —  Before steel and aluminum tariffs alienated our allies, before President Trump suggested car imports threatened our “national security,” before that 1,000-plus-item list of Chinese goods targeted for new tariffs, there were washing machines.
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Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors Investigating Michael Cohen for Possible Illegal Lobbying  —  Manhattan prosecutors have contacted AT&T, Novartis over dealings with Donald Trump's lawyer  —  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for Donald Trump …
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Wall Street Journal:   'What's He Doing Here?': Inside Trump's Turbulent Relationship With Michael Cohen
Jeff Pegues / CBS News:   Exclusive: Michael Cohen believes Trump and his allies are turning on him
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Assistant Spokeswoman Latest to Leave White House  — Kelly Love will be moving to the Department of Energy  — Latest departure from the White House Communications Team  —  White House senior assistant press secretary Kelly Love plans to leave her job for a position …
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New Yorker:   Dean Baquet and Maggie Haberman Discuss Trump's War on Journalism
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Top White House communications aide has history of rhetoric strongly critical of Trump  —  Mercedes Schlapp, the White House's director of strategic communications, posted a number of tweets in 2015 strongly critical of Donald Trump and his agenda, assailing the then-presidential candidate …
The Daily Beast:
Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids' Detention … Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn't just an emotionally wrenching policy.  It's an enterprise that is benefitting intelligence and defense contractors.  —  Those contractors—including …
Washington Post:
Pence turns VP's office into gateway for lobbyists to influence the Trump administration  —  Vice President Pence has transformed his office into a new entry point for lobbyists seeking to influence the Trump administration across federal agencies, according to federal records and interviews.
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
Giuliani: Mueller probe should be suspended ‘tomorrow’  —  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Thursday evening that special counsel Robert Mueller's probe should be suspended and Friday is the last chance for Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to “redeem themselves.”
Discussion: New Republic and Breitbart
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Calls for Mueller's Suspension, Criticizes Top Justice Department Officials
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Cohen lawyer seeks gag order against Avenatti  —  The judge is asked to block the ‘media circus.’  —  Attorney Michael Avenatti's months-long publicity tour attacking President Donald Trump and Trump attorney Michael Cohen could be brought to an abrupt end soon if a federal judge agrees …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Trump's America does not care  —  Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He writes a monthly foreign affairs column for The Post.  He is the author of the forthcoming book “The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.”  —  Since the end of the Cold War …
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
How the I.R.S. Could Punish Trump and His Foundation  —  The New York attorney general sued President Trump and his foundation on Thursday.  But his bigger problem might be with the Internal Revenue Service.  —  The lawsuit accused Mr. Trump and three of his children of using …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Grimm lobs grenade into GOP primary with Trump pardon claim  —  Incumbent GOP Rep. Dan Donovan calls the ex-convict trying to retake his seat ‘a confessed liar.’  —  During a debate on Monday, former Rep. Michael Grimm leveled a stunning charge against his primary opponent and successor in office …
Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
The Parkland School Guard Who Didn't Stop The Shooter Was Accused Of Sexually Harassing One Of The Victims  —  Two female students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas reported a 39-year-old campus guard for sexual harassment.  One of the girls later died in the massacre.
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senate now open to considering House immigration plan  —  WASHINGTON  —  Republican senators who previously said immigration was a dead issue said Thursday the House immigration plan drafted by House Speaker Paul Ryan could get a vote in their chamber.  —  “If the House passes something …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Congress Paralyzed Over Trump's Family-Separation Policy
Discussion: KTLA and Politico
 
 
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We Are in a Linguistic Emergency When It Comes to Trump
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Candidate for Georgia Governor Bought Condo From Lobbyist
Discussion: Political Wire
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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Niraj Warikoo / Detroit Free Press:
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Trump Is Everything Voters Hoped/Feared He Would Be
Christopher Hooton / The Independent:
Netflix film crews ‘banned from looking at each other for longer than five seconds’ in #metoo crackdown
Dan M. Clark / New York Law Journal:
NY Court of Appeals Denies Trump Stay in Defamation Suit by Ex-'Apprentice' Contestant
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
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