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11:30 PM ET, August 13, 2018

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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. ‘a f—kup’ after he released emails about controversial meet with Russian lawyer, book says  —  President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f—kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer …
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Omarosa Slams Her Former Colleagues in Forthcoming Tell-All  —  In her new book Unhinged, set to be released on Tuesday, Omarosa Manigault Newman charts her fifteen years in the “cult” of Trumpworld, from her “Apprentice” days to the West Wing.  She uses the word often throughout her 330-page memoir …
CNN:
President Trump visits upstate New York
Discussion: New York Times and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:   ‘Everyone signed one’: Trump is aggressive in his use of nondisclosure agreements, even in government
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump has no black senior White House staff
Discussion: TheBlaze and KTLA
Linda Qiu / New York Times:   Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch. (He's Still Wrong.)
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
Daily Mail:
The president tweeted that his onetime African-American outreach director had signed an NDA …
Discussion: Hot Air, AOL, Law & Crime and Mediaite
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Bill Named for McCain Without Saying Senator's Name
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News … It is “in the public interest” for a pair of senior White House officials to be excused from federal ethics laws so they can meet with Fox News, according to President Donald Trump's top lawyer.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards  —  President Donald Trump's former aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out phony Fox News business cards, Mediaite has learned.  —  Gorka, who was fired from his nebulous role at the White House late last year …
Discussion: Splinter
Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books  —  Sources say top officials were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting such books without the express permission of the president.  —  Long before Omarosa Manigault Newman lodged explosive claims against her former boss …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Politico:
Omarosa claims to have secretly recorded Jared and Ivanka  —  The former White House aide is saying the president's son-in-law and daughter offered emotional support after she was fired.  —  She says she's got Javanka on tape, too.  —  Jilted ex-"Apprentice" star and former White House …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club  —  There's an under-the-radar perk being offered to staffers in President Donald Trump's administration — discounts on Trump-branded merchandise sold at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
Discussion: Raw Story
gofundme.com:
Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok  —  $25,031 of $150,000 goal Raised by 607 people in 3 hours  —  Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok  —  Peter Strzok, a man who has spent his entire life working to help keep us and our nation safe, has been fired.  He needs your help.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts  —  The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.  —  Aitan Goelman, Strzok's lawyer …
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone  —  appears to be narrowing his focus on Roger Stone  —  in his investigation into Russian interference in the election, prompting widespread speculation that the longtime adviser to President Trump  —  is likely a target in the probe.
kob.com:
Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State prosecutors' motion to detain five adults arrested after a raid in northern New Mexico earlier this month was denied by a judge on Monday.  —  Judge Sarah Backus made the determination …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and TheBlaze
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Matt Richardson / Fox News:
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ compound that allegedly conducted school-shooting training  —  The children discovered at an “extremist Muslim” compound in New Mexico earlier this month were both trained to use firearms and taught multiple tactical techniques …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Rapper Azealia Banks claims she was at Elon Musk's house over the weekend as he was ‘scrounging for investors’  — Rapper Azealia Banks claimed that she spent the weekend at Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk's house, setting social media ablaze.  — Banks told Business Insider she saw Musk at home …
Discussion: Consequence of Sound and Gizmodo
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Elon Musk / Tesla:
Update on Taking Tesla Private
Liam Denning / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Hands Tesla's Wheel to Saudi Arabia
Discussion: BloombergQuint, CNBC and CleanTechnica
Zoe Greenberg / New York Times:
What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?  —  The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.
Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
The Witch Hunt Continues  —  One of Stone's Rules is “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”  Even I may have taken exception to that rule last Friday.  —  If you followed the news last Friday, you know that my longtime friend Kristin Davis testified …
Discussion: emptywheel and Populist Media
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Mueller Is Examining Roger Stone's Emails
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's diplomatic learning curve: Time zones, ‘Nambia’ and ‘Nipple’  —  The president has often perplexed foreign officials and his own aides as he learns how to deal with the world beyond America's borders.  —  Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted …
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Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:
3 missing men at the Manafort trial  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman resumes today, it appears prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office have decided not to call three seemingly key figures.  The absence of these witnesses offers …
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Save Yourself, Mr. President  —  When it comes to overseeing the FBI and Justice, he's all tweet and no action.  —  Even a summer respite from Washington at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey couldn't keep Donald Trump off Twitter .  —  Over the weekend the president went on a tear …
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers  —  In May, the Justice Department told Americans to reboot their routers.  But there's more to do — and NSA says it's up to device makers and the public.  —  LAS VEGAS — The Russian military is inside hundreds …
Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum  —  On a recent visit to the federal prison in Victorville, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano was caught by surprise.  Of the hundreds of immigrants detained there, he learned, possibly 40% had traveled from India seeking asylum.
Discussion: KTLA
David S. Glosser / Politico:
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite.  I Know Because I'm His Uncle.  —  Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.  —  It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus.
Bloomberg:
Kushner's Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch  — Trump son-in-law met Center for National Interest in March '16  — Alleged Russian agent Butina used center to set up meetings  —  In March 2016, as the U.S. foreign policy establishment shunned presidential candidate Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Binder / Breitbart:
More Than Half of Foreign Refugees Are on Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps  —  More than half of the annual inflow of foreign refugees arriving in the United States are on food stamps, analysis of a government report reveals.  —  Since 2008, as Breitbart News reported, the U.S. has permanently resettled …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
There's a big tell in Trump's latest defense of Donald Jr.  —  President Trump has spent the past year and a half emphatically declaring that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, adamantly and angrily insisting that any suggestion to the contrary is nothing but a “hoax.”
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
New Report Uncovers (Even More) Ethical Issues For Wilbur Ross  —  US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross addresses the Indo-Pacific Business Forum at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2018.  (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / Getty Images)  —  On May 18, 2017 Secretary …
Discussion: CNBC and CNN
Peter Beinart / The Forward:
I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs  —  Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my kids.  Last weekend I can say, with some confidence, that I succeeded.  —  The weekend started on Rhodes, the Mediterranean island …
Discussion: Breitbart
Caleb Ecarma / USA Today:
I was at the sad white supremacists gathering.  It didn't fool me.  Their movement is rising.  —  Don't be fooled by the sad display of two dozen white supremacists in front of the White House.  Racists are on the rise in our country.  —  One year ago, I personally witnessed hundreds …
 
 
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Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
New York Mayor De Blasio Fantasizes About a Better World Without Fox News
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Kellen Browning / Sacramento Bee:
Two men identified in fatal fight on I-5; witnesses say one chased the other with a bat
Discussion: Daily Wire
Haiyang Zhang / Voice of America:
VOA Reporters Freed After Hours-long Detention by Chinese Authorities
Mark Richardson / Pitchfork:
Listening for Silence With the Headphones Off
Axios:
Scoop: Netanyahu and Sisi held secret meeting on Gaza
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Fusion GPS Founder Shared ‘False Story’ About GOP Lawyer In Meeting With DOJ's Bruce Ohr
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones names his allies in the fight against the globalists: Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham …
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Nada Farhoud / Mirror.co.uk:
15 acid attacks every week in Britain and even children as young as TWO are doing it
Discussion: Breitbart
Marc Caputo / Politico:
'Where's the blue wave?' Voter data show Florida Democrats aren't surging
Discussion: Daily Wire
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
An Old OLC Opinion on Whether the President Can Be Subpoenaed
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Archeology of Trumpism
Benjamin Kentish / The Independent:
Jeremy Corbyn admits being present at wreath-laying for Munich terrorists but says 'I don't …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
In 2014, political spending at Trump properties was $35K. In 2018, it's $3.5M
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