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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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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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jesse Eisinger / ProPublica:
Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They'd Get Away With It  —  Oh, the audacity of dopes.  The crimes of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen are notable not just for how blatant they were but also for their lack of sophistication.  The two men did little to hide their lying to banks and the Internal Revenue Service.
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
Allen Weisselberg, the Man Who Knows Donald Trump's Financial Secrets, Has Agreed to Become a Coöperating Witness  —  In late 2016, I had lunch with a former high-ranking Trump Organization executive, a person who said he was happy to share dirt on his old boss, but who confessed to not having much dirt to share.
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Rudy Giuliani distances himself from Trump over his ‘flipping’ comments: ‘The President is not a lawyer’  —  When it comes to flipping, Rudy Giuliani won't budge.  —  The former federal prosecutor — famous for coaxing New York mobsters into spilling the beans on their bosses …
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 …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story, Splinter, IJR, Politico and MSNBC
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Trump on Weisselberg: ‘He Did Whatever Was Necessary’  —  Perhaps the most important person in the Trump Organization has had the lowest profile.  Until he agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.  —  “Think Allen Weisselberg,” a person who knows Donald Trump well told me a few days ago.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's hell week: fear and fury
Discussion: The Atlantic, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Spiro Agnew lawyer: Trump should resign to keep Mueller from prosecuting his family
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 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story, Axios and alicublog
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult … President Donald Trump posed for Oval Office photos on Thursday with one of the leading promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that top Democrats are part of a global pedophile cult.
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon  —  The president's comments are being read as a signal that he wants to ignore his lawyers and exonerate his former campaign chairman.  —  President Donald Trump's lawyers and a cadre of informal White House advisers claim they've convinced …
Sonia Moghe / CNN:
Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair  —  (CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump says it's ‘probably tougher’ for GOP to retain control of House  —  COLUMBUS — President Trump acknowledged a “probably tougher” path to retain GOP control of the House at the state party's annual dinner here, injecting some political reality into his standard rhetoric that boasts of a “red wave” in November.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
At GOP event, Trump is silent on dying McCain  —  President Donald Trump said nothing Friday at an Ohio Republican dinner about Sen. John McCain, following the announcement that the Arizona senator had opted to stop receiving treatment for terminal brain cancer.
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New York Times:
John McCain Will No Longer Be Treated for Brain Cancer, Family Says
Nick Gillespie / New York Times:
Republicans Are Exploiting the Murder of Mollie Tibbetts  —  Immigrants commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans.  But the party doesn't want to talk about that.  —  Mr. Gillespie is an editor at large of Reason.  —  Where does the conservative commitment to limited government …
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Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
TPUSA Members Quit in Protest of ‘Exploiting’ Mollie Tibbetts' Death
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and Mediaite
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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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
NRA Says FBI Is Treating Trump As Unfairly As Al Capone
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Devin Nunes silent after Trump gang's 16 convictions and guilty pleas  —  Rep. Devin Nunes seems to hope that ignoring the damning news will make it go away.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is one of Trump's most outspoken defenders.  He even admitted, during a private fundraiser …
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.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering  —  On his Wednesday evening program, Fox News host Tucker Carlson roared about the issue of land reform in South Africa.  “The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has begun — and you may have seen this in the press …
Bloomberg:
Putin's Economic Armor Suffers Cracks in Showdown Over Sanctions  — Bank of Russia pauses foreign-currency purchases to aid ruble  — Growing fears of U.S. curbs put Russian assets under pressure  —  The upheaval set off by the threat of American sanctions is roiling …
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 …
Tal Kopan / CNN:
‘It IS bad there’: Emails reveal Trump officials pushing for TPS terminations  —  TPS: What is Temporary Protected Status?  —  Washington (CNN)There was a simple explanation in October 2017 when a Department of Homeland Security official was asked why a memo justifying ending immigrant protections …
Discussion: Axios
Rachael Bade / Politico:
‘How do you stay married to a guy who does that?’  —  Hill Republicans are appalled by Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is facing indictment, blaming his wife.  —  House Republicans are whispering one word over and over again to describe embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter: Shameless.
Discussion: Fox News and Splinter
David French / National Review:
Stop Blaming Investigators More Than Criminals for Trump's Woes  —  At the end of a yet another tawdry, scandalous week, I'm seeing the same thing I see at the end of every other tawdry, scandalous week.  Lots of folks on the right continue to believe that the true scandal is not that the president …
The Onion / politics.theonion.com:
Discussion: TheBlaze and Daily Wire
Jim Baker / Lawfare:
Donald Trump, Twitter and Presidential Power to Interpret the Law for the Executive Branch  —  The president's former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to several federal criminal violations, including making certain unlawful campaign contributions.
Discussion: USA Today, CNBC and The Right Scoop
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Erica Orden / CNN:
New York AG plans criminal investigation into Michael Cohen's taxes
Discussion: Sunlight Foundation
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 …
Discussion: IJR
Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Jailed Russian of Interest in U.S. Election Probe, Official Says  — Lawyers say Russian embassy keen on visting accused hacker  — Judge questions pychiatrist chosen to examine Yevgeniy Nikulin  —  A Russian charged with hacking LinkedIn is of great interest in a U.S. probe of election meddling …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Dave Eggers / New Yorker:
No One Is Safer.  No One Is Served.  —  An immigrant family hides from Donald Trump in a Connecticut church.  —  The legendary Chicago oral historian and moral force Studs Terkel once said, “There is a decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”
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 …
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 …
Talia Lavin / Village Voice:
Paul Manafort Is Going to Jail.  But in Ukraine, He Has Left Ghosts in His Wake. … On the morning of February 24, 2014, hundreds of Ukrainians streamed through the doors of the famed presidential palace of Mezhyhirya.  The billion-dollar residence, finished in wood, as if to mimic a rustic cottage …
Kevin Lewis / WJLA-TV:
Police: Drunken undocumented immigrant sets fire to Washington Adventist Hospital ER  —  A highly inebriated man set a fire within the Washington Adventist Hospital emergency room, putting dozens of lives at risk, the Montgomery County Fire Marshal's Office tells ABC7.  —  It was 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, May 27.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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