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FISA warrant application supports Nunes memo — The weekend release of a highly-redacted version of the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap onetime Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page has renewed the argument over the Nunes memo …
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Washington Post and Mediaite
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The Associated Press Lies About the FISA Application — The Associated Press carries on a daily vendetta against the Trump administration, systematically misleading the American people in articles that appear in hundreds or thousands of newspapers. Thus, it is no surprise that the AP's story …
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Fox News, RedState and Chicks On The Right


Trump says Carter Page documents show DoJ and FBI misled courts — (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that documents about his former presidential campaign adviser Carter Page confirmed with little doubt that the Department of Justice and FBI had misled the courts.
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The Daily Caller, RedState, France 24, The Hill, BBC, Washington Post, USA Today and The Week


How a Trump Decision Revealed a G.O.P. Memo's Shaky Foundation
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Florida Politics, Wall Street Journal and Jamie Dupree - AJC

As Trump Struggles With Helsinki's Fallout, Congress Faces a New Charge: Complicity
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Raw Story, CNN and The Gateway Pundit

Without Evidence, Trump Claims Vindication From Release of Carter Page Documents
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Mediaite, Hit & Run, CBS New York, The Gateway Pundit, LifeZette, CNN, Mother Jones, Political Wire and twitchy.com

With the release of new documents, Devin Nunes's memo on Carter Page has gotten even less credible
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Carter Page was ‘more like Inspector Gadget than Jason Bourne,’ Gowdy says amid FISA release
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Mediaite


GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick: ‘The President Was Manipulated By Vladimir Putin’ — A GOP Congressman and former FBI agent says he thinks President Trump was manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Brian Fitzpatrick told NPR's Michel Martin on All Things Considered that he drew …
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Chris Wallace on Interviewing Putin, and Why He Isn't Afraid to Visit Russia
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Mediaite



Exclusive: Accused Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials …
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The Accused Russian Agent as Trump Republican
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Mediaite and Hullabaloo

Russian billionaire with U.S. investments backed alleged agent Maria Butina, according …
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Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Splinter, Raw Story and Political Wire


Donald Trump's Approval Rating Inches Higher, Buoyed by Republican Support — In the latest WSJ/NBC News poll, the president's job approval rose to 45% but remains among the lowest of any modern president at this point his first term — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's approval rating …
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National Review, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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NBC/WSJ poll: Public gives Trump thumbs down on Russia, thumbs up on economy — ‘The more Trump gets criticized by the media, the more his base seems to rally behind him,’ pollster Fred Yang says. — WASHINGTON — After an eventful and tumultuous month in American politics …


Tesla Asks Suppliers for Cash Back to Help Turn a Profit — Electric-car company, in memo, requests supplier returns meaningful portion of money spent since 2016 — Tesla Inc. TSLA -2.08% has asked some suppliers to refund a portion of what the electric-car company has spent previously …
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Investor's Business Daily

Birthright Citizenship: A Response to My Critics — expected the reaction to a recent op-ed I published calling for the end of birthright citizenship to be cantankerous. I even expected it to be hysterical—from the Left. I did not expect self-described “conservatives” …
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Power Line


Judgment days — In a small Alabama town, an evangelical congregation reckons with God, President Trump and the meaning of morality — Clay Crum opened his Bible to Exodus Chapter 20 and read verse 14 one more time. — “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” it said. — He prayed about what he was going to do.
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The Daily Caller and Raw Story


Sanders' wing of the party terrifies moderate Dems. Here's how they plan to stop it. — Party members and fundraisers gathered for an invitation-only event to figure out how to counteract the rising progressive movement. — Ocasio-Cortez joins Sanders to rally for Kansas Democrat, progressive values
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Common Dreams


Leader of the Persistence … It was unremittingly hot at the farm in Natick, Massachusetts, where 1,500 people had gathered on the Sunday after the Fourth of July. Remarkably, this crowd had assembled under a blistering sun not for a free concert, or outdoor theater, or even a protest, exactly.


Scoop: World leaders turning Trump tricks against him — World leaders are learning to play President Trump using his own set of predictable negotiating tricks. The most vivid example of this: French President Emmanuel Macron bragging to Trump that he was jamming him by stealing “The Art of the Deal” techniques, Axios has learned.


John Kelly Signed Off on a ‘Purge’ of Scott Pruitt Loyalists From EPA … The Trump White House has moved quickly to force out a trio of staffers loyal to former, scandal-plagued Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Raw Story


US commander in Middle East hesitant to cooperate with Russians in Syria on refugees — The commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East has expressed reservations about America possibly working with Russia in Syria to help Syrian refugees return to their war-torn nation …
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Defending Donald Trump, First Baptist's Robert Jeffress compares him to ‘known womanizer’ Ronald Reagan — Rev. Robert Jeffress went on Fox News Friday night to defend President Donald Trump amid the news that the president's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, recorded him discussing payment of a Playboy model.
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National Review, Mother Jones, AOL and RedState


THE TRUMP GOP-RUSSIA ALLIANCE IS A NATURAL ALLIANCE — Many Republicans must be asking themselves how their party came to be led by a pawn of the Russian government. Russians must be similarly surprised that Vladimir Putin has found an ally in an American political party …


Gowdy: Trump advisers should consider quitting over Russia — The South Carolina Republican chastised Trump for inviting Putin to Washington this fall. — House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy chastised Donald Trump for inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington …
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Kerry calls Trump's Helsinki performance ‘disgraceful’
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Breitbart and Joe.My.God.


“Nanette” and why a new wave of comedians don't want to be funny — In Hannah Gadsby's highly acclaimed comedy special Nanette, she announces that she's quitting comedy. Jokes are too simplistic, she says: they convert her trauma into humor and obscure the ugly truth of her story.
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twitchy.com and Althouse


Why we need local journalism: Look around at how vulnerable we are right now — No one lives in America, exactly. We all live somewhere in America, like the nearly 9 million of us in New York City. — The thing I love about local news is that it doesn't scale.


Kavanaugh: Watergate tapes decision may have been wrong — WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh suggested several years ago that the unanimous high court ruling in 1974 that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes, leading to the end of his presidency, may have been wrongly decided.
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