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9:55 AM ET, August 14, 2018

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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.”
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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.
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Ben White / Politico:
Kudlow: Economy will help GOP keep its grip on House
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club
CNN:
Manafort emailed Kushner with recommendations for senior administration posts
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’
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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CNN:
President Trump visits upstate New York
Discussion: Vox, New York Times and POLITICUSUSA
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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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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kob.com:
Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing
Discussion: Clarion Project and TheBlaze
Matt Richardson / Fox News:
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ …
Discussion: 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
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 The Hill
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone
Discussion: 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.
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.
Discussion: The Tracinski Letter
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.
Discussion: HuffPost
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Power Line
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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
 
 
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Kansas City Star:
Why are Missouri Democrats imposing a pro-choice purity test ahead of midterms?
Discussion: National Review
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who's Afraid of Nancy Pelosi?
Discussion: Raw Story and New Republic
CNBC:
US reaps more than $1.4 billion from steel and aluminum tariffs, report finds
Susan Estrich / Boston Herald:
Donald Trump numbers not as bad as some believe
Discussion: Instapundit
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Tom Steyer plans to register 100,000 millennials to vote
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Aviva Shen / The Appeal:
NEW ORLEANS COURT ORDERED TO STOP FUNDING ITSELF ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Today's Supreme Drop Is All Over the New York Post
Discussion: Observer
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
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Rapper Azealia Banks claims she was at Elon Musk's house over the weekend as he was ‘scrounging for investors’
Discussion: Consequence of Sound and Gizmodo
Bloomberg:
Kushner's Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

 
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