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Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance — WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify — The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump's money. Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization's receipts. — The House intelligence community intends to call …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Michael Cohen's perjury problem: Witnesses refute testimony about not wanting White House job — View Latest Opinions >> — Michael Cohen, the disgraced former lawyer for President Trump, repeatedly and aggressively lobbied for a job in the White House but was rejected …
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Axios:
House Democrats plan to turn their Trump investigations into a ongoing public spectacle — Even before Robert Mueller has delivered his final communiqué, Democrats have activated a new phase in the Trump-Russia wars that ultimately could prove more damaging to the president than the special counsel's investigation.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's money man draws unwelcome spotlight — President Donald Trump's top money man, Allen Weisselberg, has long managed Trump's global business while shunning the blinding spotlight his boss commands. — Now, with Democrats demanding Weisselberg come to Capitol Hill to answer their questions …
New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Testimony Opens New Phase of Political Turbulence for Trump — A small group of Republican strategists opposed to President Trump, branding themselves Defending Democracy Together, quietly conducted polling and focus groups last fall to gauge whether the president was vulnerable to a primary challenge in 2020.
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Alex Wagner / The Atlantic:
Michael Cohen's Made-for-TV Mea Culpa — In Trump's television presidency, a former confidant has weaponized the medium. — It was a frenetic scene on Wednesday morning outside hearing room 2154 in the Rayburn building of the U.S. Capitol complex: Reporters, producers, cameramen …
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Washington Post:
Trump demanded top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner last year despite concerns …
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Associated Press:
Fordham confirms that Trump team threatened the school if his grades became public
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
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Associated Press:
Democrats eye new inquiries, witnesses after Cohen testimony
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Marcy Wheeler / New York Times:
Did Cohen Give a Peek at the Mueller Report?
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HuffPost:
Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen — The questions that won the New York congresswoman praise were the combined product of committee staff expertise, collaboration and oratory skills. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went viral again yesterday.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates — House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.
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Axios
John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘This is not a day at the beach’: Pelosi tells moderate Dems to stop voting with GOP — House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives.
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Sensible Politics of Soaking the Rich — Democrats are avoiding questions about how to pay for Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. The answer is quite simple. — Everybody hates taxes. That's one of the unalienable truths in U.S. politics, and it's been proven again as the April 15 filing deadline approaches.
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Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep — Trump hates to prepare and likes to negotiate from the gut. The Hanoi humiliation with Kim Jong Un was the direct result. — Nothing about the Hanoi summit's outcome is a surprise. The writing was on the wall, the president just refused to read it.
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Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Officials say Trump overstated Kim's demand on sanctions
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump got played by Kim Jong Un — again
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’ — Earlier this month, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted, “It's all about the Benjamins, baby!” in response to a report about AIPAC, a pro-Israel organization. Omar's tweet echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope …
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Emily Larsen / checkyourfact.com:
FACT CHECK: Ilhan Omar Says It's A ‘Myth’ That Trans Women Have A ‘Direct Competitive Advantage’ In Powerlifting
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Unrepentant Ilhan Omar suggests Jews who criticize her anti-Semitic statements are doing …
Laura Kelly / Jewish Insider:
Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel
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Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon:
Omar on Anti-Semitic Tweets: I Did Not Apologize for Being Anti-Semitic
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Washington Post:
GOP opposition to emergency declaration grows as Trump warns lawmakers — GOP opposition to President Trump's emergency declaration at the border grewin the Senate Thursday, even as Trump warned that fellow Republicans who vote to overturn it are putting themselves “at great jeopardy” politically.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Tom Udall and Susan Collins introduce Senate disapproval of Trump's border security emergency
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Page Six:
Brian Williams may score top time slot after late-night rating success … Brian Williams could come back from TV news exile, Page Six is told. — The anchor was booted from the “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 after it was revealed that he'd embellished some stories with fictional details …
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy — It has not stood the test of time. Quite the opposite. — It's still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week. On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado …
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Adam Entous / New Yorker:
How a Private Israeli Intelligence Firm Spied on Pro-Palestinian Activists in the U.S. — Hatem Bazian, a veteran pro-Palestinian activist in his fifties, lives with his family on a quiet street in North Berkeley, near the campus of the University of California, where he lectures.
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