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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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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Exclusive: Charges against Omarosa filed by Trump campaign, ‘millions’ sought — President Trump's campaign organization Tuesday filed charges against friend-turned-enemy Omarosa Manigault Newman, claiming that she broke a 2016 nondisclosure contract by disparaging the president in her new book …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Trump calls Omarosa a ‘dog’ in latest attack on ex-aide — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, the only African-American to have served in a senior role in the White House, as a “dog.”
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National Review, POLITICUSUSA, IJR and CBS Philly
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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ABC News, Weekly Standard, USA Today, HuffPost, Washington Post, CNN, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Talking Points Memo and Law & Crime
Lynne Patton / TwitLonger:
Official Statement on Omarosa Manigault-Newman — My name is Lynne Patton and I am a senior official in the Trump Administration. — White House leadership, both past and present, can confirm that I was the closest confidante & friend to Ms. Manigault-Newman during her tenure at the White House …
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The American Mirror, Contemptor, Breitbart and The Week
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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Washington Monthly, AOL and France 24
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump campaign files arbitration against Omarosa for violating nondisclosure contract — A senior Trump campaign official confirms to ABC News, the campaign has filed arbitration against Omarosa Manigault-Newman Tuesday morning in New York for allegations that she violated her non-disclosure agreement with the Trump campaign.
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Daily Kos
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
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, Daily Kos and New York Times
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards
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Politico, Talking Points Memo and Splinter
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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Townhall, FOX31 Denver, theGrio, Conservative News Today, New Republic, The Atlantic, Contemptor and twitchy.com
Frank Scheck / Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett
Trump Claims N-Word Tapes Don't Exist, Cites Mark Burnett
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ThinkProgress, Conservative News Today and ABC News
Greg Price / Newsweek:
Melania Can't Wait to Divorce Donald Trump and Punishes Him With Her Fashion Choices, Omarosa Claims
Melania Can't Wait to Divorce Donald Trump and Punishes Him With Her Fashion Choices, Omarosa Claims
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, VICE, Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Deadline and Mediaite
Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books
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ABC News, Washington Post, Breitbart, The Week, theGrio, Daily Mail, Raw Story, Splinter, Political Wire, Weekly Standard and Talking Points Memo
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
Michael Burke / The Hill:
Roger Stone shares image of himself and Trump as ‘Space Force’ wearing swastikas — on Monday shared a digitally altered image on Instagram of himself, President Trump — and several other people serving in or aligned with the administration wearing spacesuits with swastikas on them.
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Political Wire and Towleroad Gay News
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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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POLITICUSUSA, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Tight Race in CD03 — Low awareness of either candidate — West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur faces a tough challenge from former national security adviser Andy Kim in the race for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.
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Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As Trump keeps raging at Mueller, another poll shows his lies are failing — Because so many of us got it wrong in 2016, we often tend to reflexively tell ourselves that President Trump must be working some kind of hidden magic over public opinion that we're all missing.
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Reuters, Conservative News Today, The Daily Caller and CNN
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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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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.
Cory Bergman / Factal Blog:
Introducing Factal from the founders of Breaking News — When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company. — There were many personal stories from Breaking News users who were caught …
Bradley P. Moss / Politico:
Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete — With the odd firing of Peter Strzok, the president has cleansed the bureau of the men who started the Russia investigation. This is not normal. — The announcement Monday morning that former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok had been fired likely brings …
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CNN, New York Times, Just Security, Breitbart and Washington Post
Sohrab Ahmari / Commentary Magazine:
Never Corbyn — An appeal for sanity. — Can a right-wing American writer help spark a resistance movement inside the U.K. Labour party? Probably not. But these aren't ordinary times. There is a great danger looming inside Labour. Its shadow extends from the British Isles across the West, including the United States.
Politico:
Swedish PM to arsonists: ‘What the hell 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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NPR, One America News Network and The Guardian
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.
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Balkinization and Shakesville
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
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, Daily Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Front Page Magazine
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Deflation of the Academic Brand — When self-professed experts are wrong over and over, for decades, what's the value of a university degree? — Trumpism is sometimes derided as an updated know-nothingism that rejects expertise and the input of credentialed expertise.
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Handler of alleged spy Butina tied to suspicious U.S.-Russia exchange program — Russian politician Alexander Torshin's meetings with American students, coupled with his role managing alleged covert Russian agent Mariia Butina, suggest he may be a more important Kremlin operative than previously known.
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won — Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them. Then came a challenge in their own backyard. — The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening …
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Breitbart, Mashable and CBS Los Angeles
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Star Seth Abramson Wants to Turn His Threads Into a Book … Over the past two years, New Hampshire professor and writer Seth Abramson has cultivated a #resistance Twitter following of more than 500,000 by posting lengthy threads prognosticating about the direction …
Bloomberg:
Turkey Crisis Tests Putin's Powers in Global Game With U.S. — Russia cautious amid divisions between U.S. and Turkey — Erdogan warns U.S. he may seek new allies as Putin ties grow — Turkey's political conflict with the U.S. and the crisis engulfing its currency offer …
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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HuffPost
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.
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.
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 …
NBC News:
Avenatti's ‘swagger’ stirs Iowa Democrats — The Trump-bashing attorney says 2020 presidential race will be a battle of personalities, not ideas. — CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — The man known to most Americans as a porn star's lawyer may never formally enter the presidential race.