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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Trump doesn't admit Russian election interference — Was Russia's effort to interfere in the 2016 election the most important issue on the table at President Trump's Helsinki summit with President Vladimir Putin? No. But it's not an unimportant issue either, and Trump knew the American press is obsessed with it.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Diplomats say it's settled. They can't rely on Trump. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's extraordinary remarks Monday, siding with Russian President Vladmir Putin's denials of 2016 campaign meddling over U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion, has left U.S. and foreign diplomats worried …
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Come home, Ambassador Huntsman, your country needs you — Ambassador Huntsman, you work for a pawn, not a president. It's time to come home. — There is no other reasonable course of action to take after Monday's disgraceful joint news conference with President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Party Is Now the Blame America Party … At some point in the last week or so, “Make America Great Again” became “Blame America First.” — What we saw on Monday from Helsinki is why conservatives (like me) can't back Trump—even with two Supreme Court picks.
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CNN, New York Times, TheBlaze and Washington Post
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Fulfilling All of Those Obama Conspiracy Theories — Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, critics and commentators have played a regular game of What if Obama did that?, in which they contrast conservative outrage with the former president to the complacency toward the current one.
Douglas Schoen / Fox News:
Putin eats Trump's lunch in Helsinki — This is no way to win against Russia
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Fox News's Chris Wallace gives Putin the grilling Trump won't
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Maria Bartiromo: Trump's Presser ‘Was Probably the Low Point’ of His Presidency
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Rand Paul: “Trump Derangement Syndrome” Has Gone Over The Top And People Have Lost The Big Picture
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Sheds All Notions of How a President Should Conduct Himself Abroad
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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Just Security:
Helsinki Summit: A Time for Choosing—Three observations by former senior CIA officer
Politico:
Rand finds lots to like in Trump's presser with Putin
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Charles J. Sykes / Weekly Standard:
A New Servility — Donald Trump's atrocious performance …
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Washington Post, Raw Story, New York Magazine and Axios
New York Daily News:
Putin's poodle: Trump sells out U.S. intelligence agencies with the world watching
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The Daily Caller, TheJournal.ie, The Guardian, The Week and Mediaite
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump surprised at fierce criticism of Putin news conference — Commentators slam Trump for summit performance — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was upbeat immediately after his news conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, but by the time he returned stateside …
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Hot Air, Des Moines Register, Splinter and Test Feed Using Fields
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trump First Doctrine — Putin respects strength but Trump showed weakness. — Donald Trump left for Europe a week ago with his reputation enhanced by a strong Supreme Court nomination. He returned Monday with that reputation diminished after a tumultuous week of indulging what amounts to the Trump First Doctrine.
Washington Post:
‘Very much counter to the plan’: Trump defies advisers in embrace of Putin — Administration officials had hoped that maybe, just maybe, Monday's summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladmir Putin would end differently — without a freewheeling 46-minute news conference …
Axios:
Trump officials embarrassed by Putin show — President Trump sucking up to Vladamir Putin after the summit in Helsinki yesterday was such an unbelievable, indelible moment that many deflated White House officials didn't even bother to defend or explain it. — Between the lines …
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Washington Post, Common Dreams and CBS San Francisco
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump Shows the World He's Putin's Lackey — Maybe the president is exactly as compromised as he looks. — No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the American president's slavish and toadying performance.
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Protests erupt outside of White House as Trump returns from Putin summit — as he returned from his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday, with dozens gathering outside the White House and yelling “traitor” late into the night. — The impromptu protest …
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit
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Front Page Magazine, Grabien News and The Hill
Max Boot / Washington Post:
We just watched a U.S. president acting on behalf of a hostile power
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CNN, NewsBusters and The Guardian
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Putin tussles with Chris Wallace in Fox interview
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Washington Post and Politico
Bill D'Agostino / NewsBusters:
Video Montage: Cable News Sees the Apocalypse in Trump/Putin Summit
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The Federalist, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Angelo Codevilla / American Greatness:
Diplomacy 101 Versus Politics Writ Small
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Power Line and NPR
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Trump's Appeasement Summit with Putin
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RedState, Washington Post, NBC News, BBC, The Federalist, Fox News and The American Spectator
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump's Helsinki Disgrace
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New York Post, Washington Post, Politico and CNN
The Daily Beast:
MGM Resorts Sues Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting — MGM Resorts International has reportedly filed federal lawsuits against hundreds of victims of last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to pre-empt any compensation claims. MGM, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino …
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Rachel Crosby / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Lawsuits claim MGM has no liability to Las Vegas shooting victims
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Bustle, Law & Crime and The Free Thought Project
Beck Dorey-Stein / New York Times:
I Was a White House Stenographer. Trump Wasn't a Fan. — On Friday, at a news conference with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain a reporter asked President Trump about disparaging comments he had made about her to The Sun newspaper. He denied ever having said them and declared …
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Watchdog: First lady spokeswoman may have violated Hatch Act with ‘MAGA’ tweet
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Russia-NRA Arrest: This Is as Close as It Gets to Collusion … It's the first time the Justice Department has explicitly claimed that a Russian spy working to influence the 2016 campaign had deliberate assistance with her efforts from a U.S. citizen. On Monday, the DOJ arrested and charged …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Own Team: He ‘Looked Incredibly Weak’ Next to Putin
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Bustle, Splinter, Joe.My.God., POLITICUSUSA, WEEK-TV and Vox
U.S. Department of Justice:
Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States
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Kim Zetter / Motherboard:
Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States — Remote-access software and modems on election equipment ‘is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.’ — The nation's top voting machine maker …
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Neck and Neck in CD48 — 6-in-10 partisan voters satisfied with their nominee — West Long Branch, NJ - The race for California's 48th Congressional District between Republican incumbent Dana Rohrabacher and Democratic challenger Harley Rouda is virtually tied according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Trump's ‘Missing DNC Server’ Is Neither Missing Nor a Server … Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he's cornered, and he was cornered on Monday. Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Obama reflects on “strange and uncertain times” in Mandela speech — Addressing a huge crowd in South Africa on the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's birth, former President Barack Obama offered some guidance for what he described as the “strange and uncertain times” in which we live.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Obama speaks in South Africa: how to watch
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Associated Press and Nelson Mandela Foundation
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
One Country, Two Radically Different Narratives — The United States is one country, but Americans are living in two separate worlds. — In one version of America, the country is headed in the totally wrong direction. Billionaires control politics. Foreign governments meddle in elections.
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Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Legal Experts Say Manafort Could Be Cutting Plea Deal as Judge Suddenly Delays Proceedings — The judge overseeing Paul Manafort's federal court case on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud in Virginia delayed proceedings in a surprise move on Monday afternoon.
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Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and CANNONFIRE
David Morgan / Reuters:
U.S. Treasury moves to protect identities of ‘dark money’ political donors — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association and Planned Parenthood …
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