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8:10 PM ET, August 12, 2018

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Washington Post:
Proposed Consulting Agreement and Companion Agreement that Omarosa Manigault Newman said the Trump campaign offered - and she declined - after she was fired from her White House position  —  The companion agreement includes no-disclosure and no-disparagement provisions.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Why Omarosa's attack on Kelly could backfire  —  Recording a conversation in the Situation Room was a potential security breach in a room that's meant to be one of the most locked-down in Washington.  —  Apprentice star-turned-spurned White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman opened a new front …
Discussion: Breitbart, The Week and Washington Post
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Omarosa claims she heard Trump N-word tape after book's publication  —  In an exclusive interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Newman says the tape confirmed her worst fears about Trump.  —  Full Omarosa: ‘I had a blind spot where it came to Donald Trump’  —  WASHINGTON — Former White House …
Axios:
What they're saying: The legal debate over Omarosa's secret tape  —  Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman's alleged taping of John Kelly firing her in the Situation Room has prompted questions over the legality of the act, given the supposed location in which it took place.
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Omarosa Manigault Newman releases recording purportedly made in White House Situation Room  —  Omarosa Manigault Newman, the fired White House aide seeking publicity for her new memoir about her time in the Trump administration, said in an interview Sunday that the way Chief …
Discussion: Axios and HuffPost
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Conway: Trump White House requires nondisclosure agreements
Discussion: ABC News
Jonathan Swan / Axios:   Inside Omarosa's reign of terror
Daily Mail:
Omarosa secretly recorded John Kelly firing her in the SITUATION ROOM and claims she heard …
Austin Aslim Monahan:
Please read, if you care about my mother please share.  —  I love you momma, you wont have to stand alone  —  #ibelieveher  —  #wearemanenough  —  #timesup  —  Keith Ellison Keith Ellison for Attorney General Jason Sole Shvonne L Johnson Will Moore @Shiranthi Goonathilaka Stephen Davis …
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Briana Bierschbach / mprnews.org:
Abuse allegation made against Keith Ellison, who denies it  —  Keith Ellison, one of the leading candidates to be Minnesota's next attorney general, confronted allegations Sunday of domestic abuse of a former girlfriend that surfaced days before the election that will decide the party's nominee.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Kyle Potter / Associated Press:
Ellison denies abuse allegations from ex-girlfriend  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison on Sunday denied an allegation from an ex-girlfriend that he had once dragged her off a bed while screaming obscenities at her — an allegation that came just days before a Tuesday primary …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Star Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison denies domestic violence allegation
Discussion: Power Line, Splinter and RightWire
Sam J. / twitchy.com:
WHOA if true: MN Dem.  Debra Hilstrom tweets SHOCKING Facebook post accusing Keith Ellison of domestic violence
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Police, counterprotesters dramatically outnumber white supremacists at rally  —  Police and counterprotesters significantly outnumbered a small group of so-called Unite the Right participants Sunday in Washington, D.C., at a rally on the one-year anniversary of the deadly clash in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one person dead.
Discussion: ABC News, Daily Wire and Breitbart
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Washington Post:
Anti-hate protesters far outnumber white supremacists as groups rally near White House  —  A short and sparsely attended white nationalist rally broke up late Sunday as police ushered the attendees into white vans and drove them away from a crowd of thousands of angry protesters in downtown Washington.
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
Anti-racist protesters and activists march through the streets of Charlottesville  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE — Confusion over an extraordinary police presence on the anniversary of a violent and deadly white nationalist rally turned into anger Saturday night as hundreds of black-clad protesters marched through …
New York Times:
At ‘Unite the Right’ Rally, White Nationalists to Gather in Front of White House
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
‘Beautiful’ and ‘Lovely’: Trump Tweets Reflect Fixation on Women's Appearances  —  When President Trump took to Twitter to complain about two women with connections to the Russia investigation, he affixed special descriptions to both.  —  “Beautiful,” he said of Nellie Ohr …
Sandy Hingston / Pushback:
How Millennials Killed Mayonnaise  —  The inexorable rise of identity condiments has led to hard times for the most American of foodstuffs.  And that's a shame.  —  I write this in the dead of summer, always a bittersweet season — why is it we got summers off from school for all those years …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Dinesh D'Souza and the Decline of Conservatism  —  Few have enjoyed quite so spectacular a comeback under President Trump as the conservative polemicist and filmmaker, Dinesh D'Souza.  In 2012, D'Souza resigned as president of a Christian college amid charges of adultery and deception.
Megan Keller / The Hill:
Giuliani: It would take extreme action for Trump to obstruct justice  —  's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that it would take some sort of extreme action for the president to obstruct justice.  —  “There are people who argue that he could never obstruct justice.
Discussion: The Week
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Margaret Coker / New York Times:
The Iraqi Spy Who Infiltrated ISIS  —  BAGHDAD — The driver was sweating as his white Kia pickup truck sped along a rain-slicked Baghdad highway toward a neighborhood bustling with open-air markets.  —  With every jolt and turn, his pulse quickened.  Hidden in the truck's chassis …
Arelis R. Hernández / Washington Post:
Hurricane Maria: Thousands of displaced Puerto Ricans might be pushed out of temporary housing  —  The calls, warning that they soon would have to leave and find their own places to live, came by robot.  —  Every two weeks or so, the automated voice would tell Analee Dalmau and hundreds …
Discussion: Splinter and CBS News
Wall Street Journal:
Tensions Flare as Hackers Root Out Flaws in Voting Machines  —  Defcon hack-a-thon conference aims to help test election security, but makers of voting equipment raise doubts  —  LAS VEGAS—Hackers at the Defcon computer security conference believe they can help prevent manipulation of U.S. elections.
Streiff / RedState:
Sea-Tac Airplane Hijacking Shows We Have Security Theater Not Security  —  This undated image posted to Richard Russell's YouTube channel shows Russell, an airline ground agent.  Investigators are piecing together how Russell stole an empty commercial airplane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport …
Discussion: The Seattle Times
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Wall Street Journal:   Horizon Air Plane Theft, Crash Exposes Cracks in Airport Security
Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
NBC Ignores Own Reporter and Crew Assaulted By Antifa in Charlottesville  —  On the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protests, white supremacists and radical leftists known as Antifa descended on the Virginia town once more to commit more violence.
Sue-Ann Levy / Toronto Sun:
Masked anti-hate demonstrators show no love at Toronto rally  —  They claimed to be protesting at Nathan Phillips Square on a sizzling Saturday afternoon to “stop the hate” of anti-Islamic groups.  —  But as it became clear to the unruly, ill-mannered protesters that the target of their anger …
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
 
 
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Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

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