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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 …
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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Breitbart, Contemptor, The American Mirror, The Week and The Guardian
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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New Republic, Refinery29, Washington Post and New York Times
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.
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump unloads on special counsel Robert Mueller, the FBI, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department in a furious morning tweet storm — Trump again slams special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for allowing the “witch hunt” to take root in the first place.
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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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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue Media:
Trump calls a black woman a ‘dog’ to prove he's not racist
Trump calls a black woman a ‘dog’ to prove he's not racist
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Fox News, Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress
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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HuffPost, Breitbart and Mother Jones
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump campaign files for arbitration against Omarosa
Trump campaign files for arbitration against Omarosa
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ABC News, Conservative News Today and theGrio
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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The Root, Shareblue Media and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. 'a f …
President Trump called Donald Jr. 'a f …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Manafort attorneys opt to skip defense, proceed to closing arguments — Attorneys for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is on trial for financial crimes in federal district court Alexandria, Virginia, will not call additional witnesses to present a defense.
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Yahoo:
Ex-Trump aide Manafort's defense rests, case headed to jury — ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - Attorneys for Paul Manafort rested their case on Tuesday without calling any witnesses, including the former Trump campaign chairman himself, who told the judge he did not want to testify in his own defense against bank and tax fraud charges.
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Washington Monthly and Political Wire
NBC News:
How three conspiracy theorists took ‘Q’ and sparked Qanon — Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanon's spread — and the originators' financial gain. — In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website …
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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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
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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CNN:
CNN poll: Most say Mueller should try to end investigation before Election Day — Giuliani: Trump, Comey never discussed Flynn — WASHINGTON (CNN)Two-thirds of Americans, including majorities across party lines, would like to see special counsel Robert Mueller try to finish the investigation …
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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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Roll Call and Political Wire
Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the Sarah Palin of the Left — If you're one of the many American progressives cheering on the performance of your new political rock star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look around: Many of the people cheering with you are Republicans.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Deflation of the Academic Brand
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Fentanyl Used to Execute Nebraska Inmate, in a First for U.S. — LINCOLN, Neb. — Prison officials in Nebraska used fentanyl, the powerful opioid at the center of the nation's overdose epidemic, to help execute a convicted murderer on Tuesday. The lethal injection at the Nebraska State Penitentiary …
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KTLA and Mother Jones
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on H.R. 5515 — Today, I have signed into law H.R. 5515, “an Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy …
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Lawfare
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Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch. (He's Still Wrong.)
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Trump Won't Follow Congressional Directives on Russia and Crimea
Trump Won't Follow Congressional Directives on Russia and Crimea
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MSNBC
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.
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WTVY:
Doug Jones heckled over Brett Kavanaugh at Birmingham town hall — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AL.com) — Sen. Doug Jones was heckled at a town hall meeting Monday night in Birmingham when a woman threw a pair of stuffed lips in the senator's direction while venting her anger that Alabama's junior senator …
Roy Strom / LAW.com:
Mayer Brown Supreme Court Practice Founder Shot and Killed — Stephen Shapiro, a former U.S. deputy solicitor general and leading Supreme Court advocate, is dead at 71. — Stephen Shapiro, the founder of Mayer Brown's U.S. Supreme Court practice, was shot and killed at his home …
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Above the Law
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 …
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David Gauthier-Villars / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey to Boycott U.S. Electronics in Retaliation Against Sanctions
Turkey to Boycott U.S. Electronics in Retaliation Against Sanctions
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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 …
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.
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IJR
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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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.
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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