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Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
TRUMP'S BREXIT BLAST I told May how to do Brexit but she wrecked it — the US trade deal is off, says Donald Trump — In a world-exclusive interview with The Sun, the US President said Theresa May had ignored his advice by opting for a soft Brexit strategy — DONALD Trump today accuses …
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Scotsman:
Leader comment: A denunciation of Donald Trump — Sorry, we're having problems with our video player at the moment, but are working to fix it as soon as we can — Waiting for Video... Donald Trump, due to arrive in the UK later today, is a racist, a serial liar, and either a sex abuser …
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New York Times:
With May's Government Teetering, Trump Gives It a Shove
With May's Government Teetering, Trump Gives It a Shove
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CNN, Breitbart, The Week, The Guardian and TheBlaze
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
PROTESTERS BRUSHED OFF Donald Trump ‘feels unwelcome’ in London but insists real Brits ‘love the President’
PROTESTERS BRUSHED OFF Donald Trump ‘feels unwelcome’ in London but insists real Brits ‘love the President’
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
TRUMP'S BOJO TIP Donald Trump says Boris Johnson would be a ‘great Prime Minister’
TRUMP'S BOJO TIP Donald Trump says Boris Johnson would be a ‘great Prime Minister’
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Week, NBC News, The Guardian and The Daily Caller
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Things will not be okay — Human beings often choose self-delusion over painful reality, and so in the days and weeks to come, we will hear reassurances that the NATO alliance is in good shape. After all, there have been spats in the past — over the Suez crisis in 1956, Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s …
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Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Ronald's out. Donald's in. — President Trump's trip to Europe is being portrayed by both him and his critics as revolutionary. He tells us that he single-handedly and miraculously got members of NATO to increase their defense spending sharply. His critics claim that he single-handedly wrecked …
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CNN, IJR and Front Page Magazine
NBC News:
Pentagon goes into ‘damage control’ mode to reassure NATO allies — “One thing you need in this alliance is predictability,” one diplomatic official said. — Between NATO and Putin meetings, what is Trump's strategy? — WASHINGTON — Hours after President Donald Trump departed NATO …
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Raw Story, Political Wire, MSNBC and NBC News
Foreign Policy:
Trump Fumed, but NATO Members Got What They Wanted — Think the NATO summit was a complete dumpster fire? Think again. — He ranted, he threatened, he rebuked. — U.S. President Donald Trump did just about everything he could to spoil the NATO summit in Brussels this week.
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Politico:
‘Very stable’ Trump? European leaders beg to differ — The president's wild shifts in tone left many NATO allies concluding no hidden strategy lies behind his unpredictability. — As a NATO summit he threw into chaos wrapped up Thursday, President Donald Trump cheekily declared himself a “very stable genius.”
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Althouse, The Week, Washington Post, Raw Story and Axios
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani says Mueller probe results should be dismissed after Strzok testimony — President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Friday that congressional testimony by FBI agent Peter Strzok demonstrated such a bias against Trump that the results of the investigation being led …
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The New Civil Rights Movement and The Atlantic
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Thought Peter Strzok Would Be a Punching Bag. He Just Knocked Them Out. … Those who forget the lessons of televised congressional hearings are doomed to repeat them, which is why the morning segment of the Capitol Hill show trial of veteran FBI agent and former head …
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Raw Story, Washington Post and The New Civil Rights Movement
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
The Peter Strzok Hearing Was a Total Fiasco, but One Moment Was Particularly Unreal — On Thursday, the House Oversight and Government Reform and the House Judiciary committees held a joint hearing on the Clinton email investigation in which they questioned FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’
Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Peter Strzok just gave a hard-to-rebut defense of the objectivity of the Russia investigation's origins
Peter Strzok just gave a hard-to-rebut defense of the objectivity of the Russia investigation's origins
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Hullabaloo, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and The Daily Beast
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
The Peter Strzok fiasco wrecks the GOP's bogus conspiracy theory
The Peter Strzok fiasco wrecks the GOP's bogus conspiracy theory
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Talking Points Memo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Mahablog
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
White House Orders Broader Access to Files About F.B.I. Informant — WASHINGTON — The White House has rebuffed concerns among American intelligence and law enforcement officials and ordered that more lawmakers be given access to classified information about an informant the F.B.I. used …
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
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Washington Post:
Jared Kushner lacks security clearance level to review some of the nation's most sensitive intelligence in White House role — Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law, lacks the security clearance level required to review some of the government's most sensitive secrets …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, The Week, Vox and One America News Network
Amy Chua / Wall Street Journal:
Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women — I can't think of a better judge for my own daughter's clerkship. — Judge Brett Kavanaugh's jurisprudence will appropriately be dissected in the months ahead. I'd like to speak to a less well-known side of the Supreme Court nominee: his role as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women.
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Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
What the Yale Law School Freakout Says About the Opposition to Kavanaugh
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Liberals attack Brett Kavanaugh for ‘frat boy’ name
Liberals attack Brett Kavanaugh for ‘frat boy’ name
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National Review, LifeZette, The Daily Beast, Townhall and Chicks On The Right
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Don't drink the water if you live in parts of Northeast and Northwest Washington — D.C. residents who live in parts of Northwest and Northeast should not drink the water until further notice, officials said, after a problem arose at a pumping station. — The warning came from D.C. Water …
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Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
A Man Has Been Charged With A Hate Crime After Going On A Racist Tirade Against A Woman For Her Puerto Rico Shirt — “You should not be wearing that in the United States of America. Are you a citizen? Are you a United States citizen?” the man said. — A man who was filmed yelling …
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Gary Varvel / USA Today:
Donald Trump is the president I didn't want, but now I know we need … Over the years, my caricatures of Donald Trump have evolved but not as much as my opinion of him. — When Trump announced he was running for president, I admit that I didn't take this millionaire, hotel magnate, reality TV show celebrity as a serious candidate.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“An Amateur Boxer Up Against Muhammad Ali”: Washington Fears Trump Will Be No Match for Putin in Helsinki — All American Presidents adore the pageantry of summits, none more so than Donald Trump, who is addicted to the idea of himself as one of the great men making history with a capital “H.”
Tim Kaine / The Atlantic:
Don't Let Trump Go to War With Iran — Fifteen years after the U.S. entered Iraq, the president is inching us closer to another unnecessary fight. — The decision of the United States to wage war against Iraq in 2003 was one of the worst mistakes our country has ever made. Was Saddam Hussein a brutal dictator?
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Politico:
‘Kiss my you know what’: Schumer hamstrung in SCOTUS fight — The Democratic leader has little sway over the Democrats he needs the most. — Chuck Schumer says he's going to fight Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court with “everything I've got.” To do so, he'll need to get centrist Democrats to hold the line.
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Political Wire
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Senate Democrats blast former Trump attorney for ‘selling access’ to White House — Michael Cohen's relationship with the Swiss drug company Novartis was more extensive than the company previously disclosed, as shown in newly uncovered emails exchanged by President Donald Trump's former lawyer and the company's former top executive.
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Raw Story
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
FEMA admits failures in Puerto Rico disaster response, in after-action report — The Federal Emergency Management Agency experienced personnel shortages, was caught with a critical lack of aid supplies, had trouble coordinating logistics and found itself struggling to do the work …
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New York Times:
As Trade War Persists, Mnuchin Says China Talks Have ‘Broken Down’ — WASHINGTON — The trade war between the United States and China showed no signs of yielding on Thursday, as Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, told lawmakers there was no clear path to resolution and Beijing blasted the administration over its approach.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Democrats ahead in election enthusiasm, interest — and the vote — Democrats are more interested in the upcoming midterm elections and more enthused to vote than usual, and that helps them to an 8-point edge in the generic congressional ballot test.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump is a bully. Brett Kavanaugh will stand up to him. — The Trump administration is not known for its consistency, but some contradictions are too revealing to ignore. — In nominating Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, President Trump has chosen a jurist who is deeply committed to the Bill of Rights and the rule of law.
Sally Quinn / Politico:
What Ben Bradlee Would Think of Donald Trump — My late husband would not have been impressed. Nor intimidated. He believed the truth mattered. — There is a big, white, two-story wall in the center of the newsroom at the Washington Post directly across from the glass-walled Ben Bradlee conference room.