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Trump cheered Kraft's team to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where he was busted — Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: White House leak to House Dems on Jared and Ivanka's clearances — From a White House source, the House Oversight Committee has obtained documents related to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's security clearances that the Trump administration refused to provide, according …
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Fred Barnes / Washington Examiner:
None of this is normal — A front-page headline in the Washington Post …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Post and Variety
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House Democrats may probe Kushners' NYC real estate deal
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Political Wire
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Dems to bring resolution next week to make Mueller report public
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar's Microaggression — Her words were bad. The reaction was worse. — The identity politics fiasco surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been excruciating. Half of me is angry at her. The other half is furious for her. — Among the most basic anti-Semitic tropes …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans manage to get Democrats out of a jam — by showing the GOP's true colors — After a remarkably successful start for the new Congress, House Democrats got themselves tied up in knots this week. In responding to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who accused Israel supporters of loyalty …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Ilhan Communication — Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Omar bails out Trump
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The ‘Otherwise Blameless Life’ of Paul Manafort — “He has lived an otherwise blameless life,” said Judge T. S. Ellis as he sentenced Paul Manafort to just 47 months in prison on Thursday. — In an otherwise blameless life, Paul Manafort lobbied on behalf of the tobacco industry and wangled millions in tax breaks for corporations.
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Washington Post:
Paul Manafort says at his sentencing he feels ‘humiliated and ashamed’
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Elie Honig / CNN:
A shockingly lenient sentence for Paul Manafort
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Manafort's light sentence slammed as ‘disrespectful,’ ‘lenient,’ ‘an outrage’
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NBC News:
Paul Manafort sentenced to less than 4 years in prison after judge praises ‘otherwise blameless life’
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months for fraud in Mueller case
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Scared Monkeys, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Big League Politics
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Paul Manafort Will Serve At Least 38 Months In Prison, But His Legal Fight Isn't Over Yet
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Raw Story
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon — Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is bidding to be the policy pacesetter in the Democratic presidential primary, is set to announce another expansive idea on Friday: a regulatory plan aimed at breaking …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Here's how we can break up Big Tech — Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist. Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world. It's a great story—but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops — ‘Cost Plus 50’ plan could worsen tensions with key allies — Frustration over spending by NATO countries behind proposal — For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren't paying enough.
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Associated Press:
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners — Creators of firms that donated revealed by Guardian as Indian financier, lobbyist with links to Taiwan and Israeli real estate developer — Donald Trump's inauguration received tens of thousands of dollars …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Case for Reparations — A slow convert to the cause. — I've been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America's divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor. There's been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define. It is that the racial divide doesn't feel like the other divides.
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Tennessee Star
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
More bad news for President Donald Trump in latest Michigan poll — WASHINGTON — A new poll has more bad news for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election hopes in Michigan, showing that more than half of those surveyed either plan to vote for someone else or are considering doing so next year.
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Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and NB Blog
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job creation grinds to a near-halt in February; wages still on the rise — Job growth screeched to a near halt in February, with nonfarm payrolls up just 20,000 as the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent. — It was the worst month for job creation since September 2017, offset somewhat by a solid increase in wages.
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Political Wire
CNN:
Lynne Patton, a Trump housing official, says she has presidential OK for reality TV — (CNN)Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump family associate who made a controversial appearance at last week's House hearing with Michael Cohen, says she has the President's blessing to follow in his footsteps …
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Democrats' Dilemma — MINNEAPOLIS—They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February's night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding around the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.
John F. Harris / Politico:
How Trump Is Like JFK — Why is the mainstream media so agitated about President Donald Trump's close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity? A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.” — Not sure I buy the premise.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
What Kirsten Gillibrand Is Missing: New York Endorsements for 2020 — WASHINGTON — Senator Cory Booker has been endorsed for president by New Jersey's entire 11-member Democratic congressional delegation, his state's governor and its other senator. Senator Bernie Sanders has the backing …
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Jamie Weinstein / The Bulwark:
The Great Hungarian Snowflake — Don't get too close to Dr. Seb Gorka. He might melt. — He calls himself Dr. G, and he's been hilariously parodied as the Dragon of Budapest, but Dr. Sebastian Gorka is perhaps best described as the Great Hungarian Snowflake.
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