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CBS News:
Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word — President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape. The president tweeted Monday night, “I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have.
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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 …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
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 …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Omarosa puts Trump on his heels — DRIVING THE DAY — AN OMAROSA OBSERVATION ... THIS IS the second time PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has been entangled with a woman who is equally adept at playing the media. First it was Stormy Daniels. Now it seems like Omarosa has gotten in Trump's head.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post and New York Times
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue Media:
Trump calls a black woman a ‘dog’ to prove he's not racist — Yes, Trump is racist. Very, very racist. And he always has been. — Trump is horribly racist. But we've known that all along. — He launched his campaign in 2016 by calling Mexicans rapists. He says predominantly Latino immigrants are “animals.”
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The Week, France 24 and Populist Media
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 …
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Greg Price / Newsweek:
Melania Can't Wait to Divorce Donald Trump and Punishes Him With Her Fashion Choices, Omarosa Claims — First lady Melania Trump is eager for her husband, President Donald Trump, to leave office so that she can divorce him, and until then, deliberately chooses to “punish” …
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, VICE, Raw Story, Mediaite, CNN and ThinkProgress
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House — NEW YORK — Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, says Republicans will hold the House this fall and the economy will be a big reason why. — “These are very good times and the midterms will be a report card on that …
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Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News
White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes
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Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
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MSNBC, Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime and Deadline
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump has no black senior White House staff
Trump has no black senior White House staff
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Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and New York Daily News
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead — Antifascists, according to their own doctrine, fight fascism. Sounds simple enough. — Granted, members of the loosely organized Antifa movement define “fascism” vaguely …
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Caleb Ecarma / USA Today:
I was at the sad white supremacists gathering. It didn't fool me. Their movement is rising.
I was at the sad white supremacists gathering. It didn't fool me. Their movement is rising.
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Liberty Unyielding, Mediaite and ThinkProgress
Lucia Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Antifa's violent confrontations with police, journalists mar otherwise peaceful rally counterprotesters
Antifa's violent confrontations with police, journalists mar otherwise peaceful rally counterprotesters
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Conservative Tribune, twitchy.com, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Vox and RightWire
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch. (He's Still Wrong.) — While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.
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Bloomberg:
Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job — Stephen Calk sought U.S. Army secretary job, treasury post — Email request surfaced at Manafort fraud trial on Monday — Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job …
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Political Wire and Politico
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CNN:
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts — Banker testifies after unexplained recess — (CNN)Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is now officially part of the trove of evidence in Paul Manafort's criminal trial, as part of an email exchange …
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POLITICUSUSA
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 …
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CNN:
New Mexico compound suspects can be freed on bond, judge says
New Mexico compound suspects can be freed on bond, judge says
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Matt Richardson / Fox News:
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ …
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ …
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Townhall and Daily Wire
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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Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete
Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete
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New York Times, CNN, Just Security and Washington Post
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 …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone
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Mother Jones
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Gonzales poll: Hogan leads Jealous by 16 points in Maryland governor's race — With less than three months until the general election, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealousaccording to a new poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies.
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.
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Washington Square News and Front Page Magazine
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
The media's blatant hypocrisy — even about media-bashing — Welcome to the age of self-congratulatory media. “Democracy dies in darkness” goes the ridiculous tagline on The Washington Post's front page. Reporters openly call themselves heroes and firefighters.
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Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Will Don Jr. Be Left Holding the Bag? — The meeting that launched a thousand controversies. — On the first Sunday in August, President Donald Trump was up early and tweeting. — “Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower,” the president said.
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Power Line
New York Times:
Trump's Sabotage of Obamacare Is Illegal — A president doesn't have the right to dispense with laws he dislikes. — Mr. Bagley and Ms. Gluck are law professors. — From the moment he took office, President Trump has used all aspects of his executive power to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.
Carlo Muñoz / Washington Times:
Taliban blindsides U.S. forces with surprise Afghan offensive — The Taliban is on the verge of dramatically expanding its control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench …
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.
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KTLA
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 …
John Legend / Washington Post:
It's time for Louisiana to strip white supremacy from its constitution — John Legend, a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and producer, is founder of FreeAmerica, a criminal-justice reform advocacy group. — It's been a year since I traveled to Baton Rouge to support a series of reforms …
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