memeorandum: Barr's spy talk emboldens Trump's allies ahead of Mueller report's release (Washington Post)

Sen. Kamala D. Harris releases tax returns showing nearly $1.9 million in household income in 2018 — Sen. Kamala D. Harris released 15 years of her tax returns Sunday, showing that she and her husband earned almost $1.9 million in 2018. — Most of the adjusted gross income of $1,884,319 …

Discussion: Axios and Joe.My.God.

Christopher Cadelago / Politico:

Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns — Sen. Kamala Harris and her husband reported a total income of about $2 million in their 2018 federal tax return, according to a large release of filings on Sunday by the California Democrat that her presidential campaign is billing as the “most transparent” of the sprawling 2020 field.

Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:

Washington Waits in Suspense for Mueller Report — Officials were hashing out logistics for the delivery of the 400-page document, expected this week — WASHINGTON—When is the Mueller report coming? — Thousands of Congressional staffers, reporters, White House officials …

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Washington Post:

Barr's spy talk emboldens Trump's allies ahead of Mueller report's release — For two years, President Trump's most devoted allies have struggled to legitimize their accusations that the FBI conducted political spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 — at times openly feuding with Republican leaders …

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump White House braces for full Mueller report

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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:

Wonder Boy Pete Buttigieg is a gay Harvard alum, fluent in Gramsci, Joyce, and Norwegian. And he's the Democrats' folksiest heartland hope. Really! — By the time Pete Buttigieg arrived at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, on the night of April 5 …

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CBS News:

Presidential candidate Cory Booker calls Trump's 9/11 tweet “vicious, crass, disgusting” — Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) accused President Trump of “moral vandalism” for his verbal attacks on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and told CBS News that she …

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Rowaida Abdelaziz / HuffPost:
Latest Attacks On Ilhan Omar Show That Anti-Muslim Hate Isn't A Partisan Issue

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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Yemeni bodegas boycott New York Post over attacks on Ilhan Omar

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Associated Press:

Biden to campaign as extension of Obama's political movement — BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden is finalizing the framework for a White House campaign that would cast him as an extension of Barack Obama's presidency and political movement. He's betting that the majority of Democratic voters …

Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:

Everyone's Income Taxes Should Be Public — Disclosure of tax payments would make it easier to hold politicians accountable. It also would help to reduce fraud and economic inequality. — Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board. — In October 1924, the federal government threw open …

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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

Why Isn't Assange Charged with ‘Collusion with Russia’? — The government would have a chance to prove in court that Russia was WikiLeaks' source. — Prior to the publication of the stolen Democratic-party emails and internal documents, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks exhorted Russian government hackers to send them “new material.”

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The Babylon Bee:

‘I Disagree With Your Ideas,’ Man Says In Hateful Call To Violence — NEWARK, NJ—Everyone thought local man Peter O'Brien was a civil, friendly, and tolerant guy. He seemed normal. He seemed agreeable. He never disagreed with anybody or contradicted their ideas.

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

The mob-boss presidency — A normal president confronted with a news story suggesting he ordered underlings to illegally transport asylum seekers to so-called sanctuary cities in order to retaliate against political enemies would deny knowledge of such a heinous plot.

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Alex Horton / Washington Post:

Reading ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ in Baghdad: What Vonnegut taught me about what comes after war — A group of kids sat on the schoolhouse wall and watched Stryker 2-1 approach, and they had a way of knowing that children often do. Some of them plugged their ears. — It was March 14, 2007, in Iraq, which is on Earth.

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:

Ken Starr shielded Hillary Clinton in report on Vince Foster's death — The death of Vince Foster, a close associate of the Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as Hillary's law partner in Arkansas, sparked lots of speculation by detractors of the Clintons. Was it really a suicide, as initially supposed, or was there foul play?

Washington Post:

Venezuela's military, despite U.S. expectations, has not turned on Maduro — When the Trump administration first demanded in January that Venezuela's government step aside and allow the political opposition to take over, hopes were high that the Venezuelan military would quickly change sides and make it happen.

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