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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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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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AOL, The Atlantic and The Week
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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Talking Points Memo and Splinter
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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Washington Post, New York Times and FiveThirtyEight
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements — FORT DRUM, N.Y. — President Trump appeared to acknowledge on Monday something his aides have declined to confirm for months: that his White House had aides sign nondisclosure agreements.
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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
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 …
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, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Deadline, Mediaite and CNN
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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Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Townhall, ABC News, Conservative News Today, twitchy.com, AOL and Contemptor
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House
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Talking Points Memo, The Root and Shareblue Media
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Splinter
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 Daily Wire
CNN:
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts
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POLITICUSUSA
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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emptywheel and The Hill
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Mueller Homes In On Stone, Combs Through His Emails
Mueller Homes In On Stone, Combs Through His Emails
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Mother Jones, Raw Story and Law & Crime
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone
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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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump snubs John McCain during bill signing intended to honor him
Trump snubs John McCain during bill signing intended to honor him
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MSNBC, Common Dreams, Raw Story, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and New Republic
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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CNN, New York Times, Just Security, Breitbart and Washington Post
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.
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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Daily Wire, Fox News, Liberty Unyielding and twitchy.com
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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
CNN:
New Mexico compound suspects can be freed on bond, judge says — Taos, New Mexico (CNN)A New Mexico judge on Monday granted bond to five adults accused of child abuse on a compound outside of Taos. — Judge Sarah Backus granted an unsecured appearance bond to the defendants …
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Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing
Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing
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Clarion Project and TheBlaze
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
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, Lawyers, Guns & Money 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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The Tracinski Letter
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who's Afraid of Nancy Pelosi? — Normally, a party that gives away $2 trillion without worrying about where the money will come from can buy itself at least a few votes. But Donald Trump's tax cut remains remarkably unpopular, and Republicans barely mention it on the campaign trail …
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Raw Story and New Republic
Maria Cramer / BostonGlobe.com:
Agencies set ‘trap’ for immigrants seeking legal status, ACLU says — Two federal immigration agencies coordinated a campaign to bring unauthorized immigrants who were seeking legal residency in for interviews at government offices, where they were then arrested and in some cases deported, according to internal agency communications.
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Aviva Shen / The Appeal:
NEW ORLEANS COURT ORDERED TO STOP FUNDING ITSELF ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR — The criminal court was funneling millions of dollars a year from poor communities to itself. — New Orleans courts will need to drastically revamp the way they treat poor defendants after two orders handed …
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 …
Politico:
Swedish PM to arsonists: ‘What the f*** are you up to?’ — Cars were set alight across Sweden overnight in what police believe was a coordinated attack orchestrated on social media. — About 80 cars were set on fire in western Sweden, in and around Gothenburg, and there were further incidents in Stockholm and Malmö.
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One America News Network and The Guardian
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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