memeorandum: CNN calls marchers chanting ‘f*ck the police’ and throwing eggs ‘anti-hate groups’ (Greg P./twitchy.com)

9:20 PM ET, August 12, 2018

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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.

Meridith McGraw / ABC News:

White House looking to stop Omarosa Manigault Newman from releasing more tapes — Omarosa Manigault Newman's former White House colleagues are looking into legal options to stop her from releasing more tapes and to punish her for secretly recording her conversation with Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly …

Discussion: twitchy.com and Mediaite

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Inside Omarosa's reign of terror — Want to know the secret behind Omarosa's wild, largely unchallenged, run in the White House, during which she would swan in and out of the Oval Office, secretly recording the president and his chief of staff? — It's simple: Some of the most powerful men in government were terrified of her.

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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 …

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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 …

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Omarosa Manigault Newman Taped Her Firing by John Kelly — Omarosa Manigault Newman secretly taped John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, as he fired her in December in the Situation Room, a breach of security protocols, but one that revealed him suggesting that she could face damage …

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Axios:
What they're saying: The legal debate over Omarosa's secret tape

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Washington Post:
Omarosa Manigault Newman releases recording made in White House Situation Room

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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Conway: Trump White House requires nondisclosure agreements

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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 …

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.

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Kyle Potter / Associated Press:
Ellison denies abuse allegations from ex-girlfriend

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Star Tribune:
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison denies domestic violence allegation

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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Keith Ellison denies abuse allegations

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Latest on Keith Ellison's Domestic Abuse Story [Updated]

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Christine Bauman / Alpha News:
DEVELOPING: Keith Ellison Accused Of Domestic Violence

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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.

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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.

Discussion: CNN, The Daily Beast, Common Dreams, Politico, Media Matters for America, Shareblue Media, IJR and Reuters

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 …

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New York Times:
At ‘Unite the Right’ Rally, White Nationalists to Gather in Front of White House

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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 …

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Jackie Wattles / CNN:

Trump encourages boycott against Harley-Davidson — (CNN)President Donald Trump said it's “great” that consumers might boycott Harley-Davidson if it moves some motorcycle production overseas. — The President tweeted about the potential boycott on Sunday

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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

Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Giuliani: ‘There was no conversation’ between Trump and Comey on Flynn

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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 …

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Washington Post:

‘A natural’: Donald Trump Jr. emerges as a campaign star, despite Russia baggage — President Trump was watching Fox News Channel with aides in his private dining room off the Oval Office recently when Donald Trump Jr. flashed across the giant flat screen. — “Don's gotten really good,” …

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Greg P. / twitchy.com:

CNN calls marchers chanting ‘f*ck the police’ and throwing eggs ‘anti-hate groups’ — Welp: — Banner on CNN: “ANTI-HATE GROUPS DRAMATICALLY OUTNUMBER WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN DC” — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 12, 2018 — Here's a screenshot: — By “Anti-Hate Groups,” …

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

Brittny Mejia / Los Angeles Times:

Under Trump, the rare act of denaturalizing U.S. citizens on the rise — Working a Saturday shift in the stuffy Immigration and Naturalization Service office in downtown Los Angeles in the 1970s, Carl Shusterman came across a rap sheet. — A man recently sworn in as a United States citizen …

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.

New York Post:

De Blasio lets security haul away Post reporter for asking question — Mayor de Blasio is a such a big believer in the free press that he let two bodyguards physically remove a credentialed Post reporter who had the temerity to ask him a question in public on Sunday.

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