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Wall Street Journal:
Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Is Granted Immunity in Cohen Probe — Weisselberg earlier this year was subpoenaed to testify before grand jury — Allen Weisselberg, President Trump's longtime financial gatekeeper, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Immunity for Trump CFO Is a Potential Game-Changer — Prosecutors know that Allen Weisselberg is privy to the Trump Organization's most sensitive information. — Allen Weisselberg is an unassuming, soft-spoken guy who has spent decades avoiding the limelight, first in the 1970s as an accountant …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Here's Where Things Get Dangerous With Trump — There was a sense among some this week that we had at last reached that golden “inflection point” when all of Trump's lies, scams, cons, and crimes finally sink in with Republicans, and the cult begins to crack.
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Towleroad Gay News, The American Conservative, Fox News and Wall Street Journal
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Spiro Agnew lawyer: Trump should resign to keep Mueller from prosecuting his family — Martin London, a lawyer who represented former Vice President Spiro Agnew, said that President Trump — should resign from office to keep federal prosecutors from prosecuting his family.
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The Rush Limbaugh Show
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Leaders Crack Down on Mentions of Cohen After He Turned on Trump … Michael Cohen's guilty plea Tuesday shook up believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, who had previously believed special counsel Robert Mueller was secretly working with President Donald Trump, not investigating him.
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Hullabaloo
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Manhattan D.A. Eyes Criminal Charges Against Trump Organization — The Manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen's hush money payment to an adult film actress …
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Erica Orden / CNN:
New York AG plans criminal investigation into Michael Cohen's taxes — Cohen's ‘flip’ had to meet criteria, says fmr prosecutor — New York (CNN)The New York State Attorney General's Office is poised to pursue a criminal probe of Michael Cohen's potential state tax law violations …
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Sunlight Foundation
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg given immunity by prosecutors to testify — Prosecutors say Weisselberg told another executive to designate a reimbursement to Cohen for the Stormy Daniels hush-money payment as “legal expenses.” — The longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization …
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The Atlantic, Mother Jones and MSNBC
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
No collusion? We'll see. But what about tax fraud? — President Trump's touchstone mob boss, Al Capone, famously went down for tax evasion when the feds couldn't nail him on more serious crimes. Has Trump stopped to consider whether he could be headed for the same fate?
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Washington Monthly and Fox News
Martin London / TIME:
I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew. President Trump Should Consider Resigning
I Was a Lawyer for Spiro Agnew. President Trump Should Consider Resigning
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Raw Story, Just Security, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Donald knew about Trump Tower meeting
Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Donald knew about Trump Tower meeting
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Omarosa: I'm ready to testify at Trump impeachment trial
Omarosa: I'm ready to testify at Trump impeachment trial
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New York Times:
Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms — The spy agency does not believe its Russia informants have been killed, but sources have gone largely dormant amid heightened scrutiny and rising threats. — Technology companies and political campaigns …
Alex Thompson / VICE News:
“Hottie Avenatti” brings his show to the DNC summer meeting — CHICAGO — Michael Avenatti — attorney, potential presidential candidate, and owner of a strong jawline — dropped in on the Democratic Party's summer meeting on Thursday as he continued to tease a 2020 run.
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The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed News:
Michael Avenatti's Next 2020 Move: His Own PAC — Michael Avenatti, the self-described potential 2020 contender and lawyer representing Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Donald Trump, is launching his own federal PAC to support Democratic candidates with “the size and the presence …
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Joe.My.God., Daily Caller News Foundation, Mediaite and Politico
Jill Filipovic / New York Times:
Stormy Daniels, Feminist Hero
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment — Tom Frieden, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been arrested amid allegations of forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.
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Washington Post, Splinter, WPIX 11 New York, The Week and Boing Boing
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Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Former CDC director Frieden arrested for sexual abuse
Former CDC director Frieden arrested for sexual abuse
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CNN, Fox News and Daily Caller News Foundation
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Guilty Plea Reveals Link to Qatari Royal Family — Trump's former lawyer received a $100,000 brokerage fee for a Florida real-estate deal in which he represented a company owned by Sheikh Abdul Aziz — A $100,000 real-estate brokerage fee that was part of former Trump attorney …
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Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch: Democrats are “trying to Al Capone the president” — VIDEO ››› August 24, 2018 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF — From the August 22 edition of NRATV's Relentless: — Loading the player reg...
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New Republic and Joe.My.God.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
NRA Says FBI Is Treating Trump As Unfairly As Al Capone
U.S. Department of Justice:
Nineteen Foreign Nationals Charged for Voting in 2016 Election — Multiple Defendants Voted In More Than One Election — WILMINGTON, NC - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina today announced that nineteen foreign nationals were charged with …
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Associated Press:
Balderson retains GOP hold on open House seat in Ohio — COLUMBUS, Ohio — A two-term state senator who was backed by President Donald Trump but who also promoted his ties to Trump critic Gov. John Kasich won a previously deadlocked congressional special election in Ohio …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Republican declared winner in closely contested Ohio congressional race
Republican declared winner in closely contested Ohio congressional race
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Axios
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
When Justice Is Partial — Mueller is determined to sniff out any wrongdoing he can find—on one side. — U.S. Attorney Robert Khuzami took a few moments in his Tuesday statement about Michael Cohen's plea deal to sing neutrality's praise: “His day of reckoning serves as a reminder …
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Axios:
Trump's fantasy legal system
Trump's fantasy legal system
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Politico, ABC News, NewsWars, The New Neo, The Week, Breitbart and Political Wire
Paul Fontelo / Roll Call:
Duncan Hunter is Using Campaign Funds to Defend Himself Against ... Misusing Campaign Funds — Rep. Duncan Hunter's legal defense is coming from the same campaign coffers he and his wife are accused of misusing, so far amounting to more than $600,000 for the lawyers.
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter: My wife handled my finances
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter: My wife handled my finances
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Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Joe.My.God., Mediaite, MSNBC, Splinter and Press Enterprise
Mark Landler / New York Times:
With a Vocabulary From ‘Goodfellas,’ Trump Evokes His Native New York — WASHINGTON — For much of the 1980s and 1990s, “the Dapper Don” and “the Donald” vied for supremacy on the front pages of New York's tabloids. The don, John J. Gotti, died in a federal prison in 2002 …
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James Gagliano / Washington Examiner:
Trump is acting like a mob boss — I know because I lived with one
Trump is acting like a mob boss — I know because I lived with one
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CANNONFIRE, The Atlantic, New York Magazine and CNN
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
How This Will End — Michael Gerson, one of the most eloquent and principled critics of Donald Trump, insists that we are at June 1973, the moment when John Dean's testimony broke the dam that a year later swept Richard Nixon off into disgrace. Others agree: This is an inflection point.
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network — In the Trump era, hard reporting is being crowded out by opinionated panels, current and former staffers say. — Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network …
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New York Times:
John McCain Will No Longer Be Treated for Brain Cancer, Family Says — WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been battling brain cancer for more than a year, will no longer be treated for his condition, his family announced on Friday, a sign that the Republican war hero is most likely entering his final days.
William March / Tampa Bay Times:
Watch the most misleading campaign ad so far this year. — Congratulations Frank White, Republican candidate for Florida Attorney General. — The campaign of Frank White for Florida attorney general appears to have altered the audio and manipulated video from an Orlando television station's news story …
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The Capitolist and Florida Politics
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The ‘Echo Chamber’ Isn't A Conspiracy Theory, It's A Fact — The New Yorker's new blockbuster piece exposing the ‘echo chamber’ conspiracy memo only helps prove the document's contention. — When I finally got to the end of a supposed blockbuster piece by the New Yorker's Adam Entous …
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Contemptor, Talking Points Memo and National Review
WNCN:
‘Silent Sam’ to be reinstalled within 90 days, UNC BoG member says — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) - The Confederate monument known as Silent Sam will be reinstalled with 90 days, according to a member of the UNC System Board of Governors. — Thom Goolsby posted to Twitter and YouTube saying …
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Raw Story
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
For Female Candidates, Harassment and Threats Come Every Day — The abuse already common in many women's everyday lives can be amplified in political campaigns, especially if the candidate is also a member of a minority group. — Four days before the 2016 congressional primary …