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Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump comes out swinging in many directions — President Trump lashed out Tuesday morning at threats from many directions, taking aim at the special counsel's Russia inquiry, the Federal Reserve, social media companies and undocumented immigrants in tweets that spanned more than two hours.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Michael Flynn Is Owed an Apology — One year after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, there is still no evidence that he is a traitor. — Remember when Michael Flynn was a traitor? It was early 2017. Democrats were still stinging from their defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.
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Talking Points Memo
USA Today:
Poll: Most Americans don't believe Trump's denials, setting a rocky landscape ahead — WASHINGTON - A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll has sobering findings for President Trump: Most Americans don't believe his denials that his campaign colluded with Russians in the 2016 campaign.
Washington Post:
Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, scheduled to be sentenced — Under questioning from a federal judge, President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn conceded Tuesday he was aware lying to the FBI was a crime when he did so and declined to withdraw …
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Balloon Juice, HuffPost and Hill Reporter
emptywheel:
Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning …
Mike Flynn Steps in It: In a Bid to Feed the Frothy Right, He Leads to Release of Damning …
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Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Axios:
Judge postpones Michael Flynn's sentencing
Judge postpones Michael Flynn's sentencing
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Judge Rips Flynn, Asks About Treason Ahead Of Sentencing For Lying To FBI
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn
Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn
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NY State Attorney General:
A.G. Underwood Announces Stipulation Dissolving Trump Foundation Under Judicial Supervision, With AG Review Of Recipient Charities — News from the New York Attorney General's Office — Attorney General's Office Press Office / 212-416-8060 — nyag.pressoffice@ag.ny.gov
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit — President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and give away its remaining funds amid allegations that he used it for his personal and political benefit, the New York attorney general announced Tuesday.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Foundation to Close After Lawsuit by New York Attorney General — The Donald J. Trump Foundation has agreed to close following a court decision that allowed a lawsuit against the foundation to move forward, the New York attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
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The Mahablog
Washington Post:
Trump agrees to shut down his charity amid allegations he used it for personal and political benefit — New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday that the foundation is dissolving and distributing its remaining funds as her office pursues a lawsuit against the charity …
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Political Wire
Washington Post:
White House signals it will back down on President Trump's demand for border wall funding and avert a partial government shutdown — The Trump administration wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall money it wants, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
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Washington Post:
White House says it wants to avoid government shutdown, will find other ways to fund border wall — The White House wants to avoid a partial government shutdown and has found other ways to get the border wall President Trump is demanding, spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
Washington Post:
Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government
Top Republicans struggle to persuade Trump not to shut down the government
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HuffPost:
White House Nightmare: Trump Golfs While His Secret Service Agents Work Without Pay
White House Nightmare: Trump Golfs While His Secret Service Agents Work Without Pay
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Shareblue Media
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
White House Signals Retreat on Shutdown Threat
Arizona Republic:
Martha McSally will be appointed to John McCain's Senate seat — Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl to fill for the next two years the Senate seat long held by the late U.S. Sen. John McCain. — Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to appoint McSally …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Arizona governor taps Martha McSally to fill Senate seat once held by McCain — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed fellow Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, he announced Tuesday, picking a favorite of GOP leaders to fill the seat John McCain held for decades.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Republican who lost midterm election appointed to Arizona Senate seat
Republican who lost midterm election appointed to Arizona Senate seat
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Martha McSally appointed to John McCain's Senate seat
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Ready to Pounce on Trumpworld Concessions to Moscow — New court filings by Mueller's office could answer a central question of the Russia investigation: What did the Kremlin hope to get from its political machinations? — For more than a year, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …
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Steve Denning / Forbes:
Mueller Exposes Putin's Hold Over Trump
Washington Post:
Russian disinformation teams targeted Robert S. Mueller III, says report prepared for Senate — Months after President Trump took office, Russia's disinformation teams trained their sites on a new target: special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Having worked to help get Trump into the White House …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump Hates Christmas Parties — On Monday and Wednesday this week, Donald Trump will leave the Oval Office in the West Wing in the late afternoon and walk eastward to the White House residence, where he will meet Melania Trump. Together, they will head downstairs at 5:15 to the Grand Foyer …
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Roger Stone Admits Spreading Lies on InfoWars — Trump adviser made the admission in settling a defamation suit brought against him by an exiled Chinese businessman — As questions swirl about his credibility, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone settled a defamation suit seeking $100 million …
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Roger Stone admits he pushed false statements on Infowars
Roger Stone admits he pushed false statements on Infowars
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Wonkette
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
Ocasio-Cortez weighs a new primary target: Hakeem Jeffries — Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eyeing a new member of House Democratic leadership as a 2020 primary target: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). — Ocasio-Cortez, who ousted House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley earlier …
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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine — President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president's campaign into a single entity.
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CNN
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Right to bear ... nunchucks? Federal judge strikes down ban on weapon as violation of Second Amendment — Just blame Bruce Lee. Back in 1974, New York state decided to ban the possession of nunchucks as lawmakers feared they were becoming enticing tools of violence among hooligan children …
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Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Death of The Weekly Standard Signals Rebirth of the Right — Neoconservatism is dead, long live American conservatism. That's what I thought when I learned The Weekly Standard would be shuttered by longtime owner Clarity Media. The Standard was a creature of a particular time and place …
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The Daily Caller
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
A mother's leap of faith at an African airport, and a 15-year mystery — The story of Tom and Maya and Zainab is about trust, about listening to your heart over your mind, and about that gut feeling you have when you meet a good person. — And it's a story that could've gone horribly wrong.
Will Oremus / Slate:
Twitter Has Finally Made It Easy to Set Your Timeline to Reverse-Chronological — Congress Now Has a Very Full, Very Ugly Picture of How Russia Targeted Black Americans. Will Lawmakers Finally Do Something About It? — lmost three years ago, Twitter introduced one of the most controversial changes in its history.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Emerald Robinson's Stupid Lies — She peddles conclusions and innuendo pretending that they're facts, and she's doing that about NR. — One of the problems with the political moment we're in is that there are powerful incentives for people to be stupid and dishonest.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Former National Equirer editor claims the tabloid has unpublished ‘embarrassing’ and ‘criminal’ stories on Trump family — The National Enquirer likely has damaging unpublished stories on President Donald Trump and has family, a longtime employee of the tabloid explained on MSNBC on Monday.
Associated Press:
Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.
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ABC News
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
New York Times assailed for Alice Walker interview endorsing ‘anti-Semitic’ conspiracy theorist — Critics call it anti-Semitic, saying it places Holocaust revisionism at the center of an odious and addled worldview. Its title has been borrowed by followers of QAnon, a conspiracy movement …
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