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New York Times:
Mueller Hints at a National-Security Nightmare — The missing piece of the report is a counterintelligence investigation that should set off alarm bells about our democracy and security. — Mr. Geltzer is the executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law.
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Washington Monthly, Just Security and Raw Story
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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him. — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York. — So it turns out that, indeed, President Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not “totally” or “completely,” as he claimed.
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Vox, Snopes.com, Boston Globe, IJR, Politico, The Hill, Fox News, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Washingtonian, Splinter, New York Post, Washington Times, CNN, Mediaite, Raw Story, Little Green Footballs and The Nation
ABC News:
5 key takeaways from special counsel Robert Mueller's report — The report is a trove of information about the current presidency. — While there will be no legal case brought against President Donald Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, the much-anticipated redacted report …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Comparing Barr's Excerpts With Mueller's Report — Attorney General William P. Barr sent a letter to Congress last month citing brief fragments from the Mueller report. Now that the document is public, his selections are coming under scrutiny. — When Attorney General William P. Barr sent Congress …
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Vox, Washington Post, Raw Story, Northeastern and Power Line
New York Times:
A Portrait of the White House and Its Culture of Dishonesty — WASHINGTON — As President Trump met with advisers in the Oval Office in May 2017 to discuss replacements for the F.B.I. director he had just fired, Attorney General Jeff Sessions slipped out of the room to take a call.
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Daily Wire, Breitbart, The Intercept and Slate
David French / National Review:
The Mueller Report Should Shock Our Conscience — I've finished reading the entire Mueller report, and I must confess that even as a longtime, quite open critic of Donald Trump, I was surprised at the sheer scope, scale, and brazenness of the lies, falsehoods, and misdirections detailed by the Special Counsel's Office.
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Townhall, Raw Story, Conservative Tribune, wabe.org, NPR, CNN, Quartz, The Week, Mediaite and Shakesville
Lawfare:
What Mueller Found on Russia and on Obstruction: A First Analysis — “Really the best day since he got elected,” said Kellyanne Conway, the president's counselor, about a day on which 400 pages dropped into the public's lap describing relentless presidential misconduct and serial engagements between his campaign and a foreign actor.
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USA Today, Salon, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Outside the Beltway, Vox and Breitbart
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump suspected that former White House counsel Don McGahn wore a wire — Late in Don McGahn's tenure as White House counsel, President Trump became so suspicious that he wondered aloud whether McGahn was wearing a wire, a source familiar with the president's private conversations told Axios.
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New York Times, Townhall, Law & Crime, Raw Story, Mediaite, DCReport.org and Washington Monthly
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sarah Sanders grilled on her contradictory statements highlighted in Mueller report — The report found that Sanders' claims were “not founded on anything.” — In a tense exchange on “Good Morning America,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to defend statements …
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ThinkProgress, IJR, New York Times, Breitbart, The Guardian, Daily Kos and The Week
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Mueller Report Won't End Trump's Presidency, But It Sure Makes Him Look Bad — In the most memorable scene in the most anticipated government report in recent history, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, takes us inside the Oval Office on May 17, 2017.
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CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Columbia Journalism Review, Politico and Wired, more at Mediagazer »
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
How We Characterized Michael Cohen's Testimony
How We Characterized Michael Cohen's Testimony
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Politico, Daily Mail, VICE News, Daily Wire, The Wrap, Vox, Mediaite and Breitbart, more at Mediagazer »
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
The Obstruction Case Against Trump that Barr Tried to Hide
The Obstruction Case Against Trump that Barr Tried to Hide
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, RedState, Breitbart and Axios
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller's Report Speaks Volumes
Mueller's Report Speaks Volumes
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RedState, Instapundit, Daily Wire, Power Line, twitchy.com, New York Times and The Gateway Pundit
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Re-Read Bill Barr's Infamous Letter With Full Quotes From the Mueller Report
Washington Post:
Mueller report updates: Nadler subpoenas full findings; White House calls it ‘political grandstanding’
Mueller report updates: Nadler subpoenas full findings; White House calls it ‘political grandstanding’
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Breitbart, Axios, Politico, Media Matters for America, IndieWire and The Moderate Voice
Abe Greenwald / New York Post:
The Mueller report just left egg on Democrats' faces
Claire Spellberg / Decider:
Stephen Colbert Slams Trump After Mueller Report: “That's Not How an Innocent Person Reacts”
Timothy O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Does Mueller Think Trump's Guilty? Read Closely
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Mueller, Trump, and ‘two years of bullshit’
Mueller, Trump, and ‘two years of bullshit’
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Instapundit and Daily Wire
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Release of Mueller report finally sets Trump — and America — free
Release of Mueller report finally sets Trump — and America — free
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Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Politico:
The Surprises in the Mueller Report
The Surprises in the Mueller Report
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Lawfare, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Slate, New York Times and CNN
David Brooks / New York Times:
It's Not the Collusion, It's the Corruption
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
In the Mueller Report, Erik Prince Funds a Covert Effort to Obtain Clinton's E-mails from a Foreign State
In the Mueller Report, Erik Prince Funds a Covert Effort to Obtain Clinton's E-mails from a Foreign State
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Axios
Britain Eakin / courthousenews.com:
Trump Feared End of Presidency, Mueller Report Recounts
Trump Feared End of Presidency, Mueller Report Recounts
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Missoula Current
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Joe Biden Is Running for President — Joe Biden is running. The former vice president will make his candidacy official with a video announcement next Wednesday, according to people familiar with the discussions who have been told about them by top aides. — Seriously, he's actually made a decision.
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Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
South Florida Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Democratic Lawmakers, Including Ilhan Omar … Lately, Donald Trump fans have enjoyed attacking left-leaning Americans. Last year, for instance, Miami-area resident Cesar Sayoc sent pipe bombs to prominent liberals around the country and went to jail.
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Talking Points Memo and Joe.My.God.
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Possible 2020 contender Michael Bennet gets clean bill of health after cancer treatment — Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who is contemplating jumping in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race, has been given a clean bill of health after undergoing surgery to remove cancer, his office said in a statement.
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Axios
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Bennet's cancer surgery was ‘completely successful,’ spokeswoman says
Sen. Michael Bennet's cancer surgery was ‘completely successful,’ spokeswoman says
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Politico
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sarah Sanders admitted she lied to the White House press. Does she have any credibility left? — New York (CNN Business)"Not founded on anything" is the new “alternative facts.” — The term applies to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her misleading statements from the press briefing room podium.
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Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
How Trump Practices ‘Escalation Dominance’ — “You have restraint on your side. He has no restraint. So you lose,” says outgoing French Ambassador Gérard Araud. — Following in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gérard Araud has made a study of the United States …
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Shareblue Media, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘Whimsical, uninformed’: French ambassador's parting verdict on Trump
‘Whimsical, uninformed’: French ambassador's parting verdict on Trump
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The Local
New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend's Black Police Chief. It Still Stings. — SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis. — It was March 2012, and 300 residents of South Bend, Ind. solemnly marched to the Martin Luther King Center …
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Democrats Are Hoping You Don't Understand What “Impeachment” Entails — The 1974 vote in the House of Representatives to give the Judiciary Committee broad subpoena power for its investigation into whether or not President Richard Nixon committed any impeachable offenses passed 410-4.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster
Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster
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Crooked Media, Rolling Stone and CNN
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint — [Read the latest edition of Crossing the Border, a limited-run newsletter about life where the United States and Mexico meet. Sign up here to receive the next issue in your inbox.] — ALBUQUERQUE — A right-wing militia group operating …
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Videos appear to show armed militia detaining migrants at US-Mexico border
Videos appear to show armed militia detaining migrants at US-Mexico border
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BuzzFeed News, Joe.My.God., Splinter and ThinkProgress
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians — Julian Assange repeatedly blamed Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, for Russia's leaks. The Mueller report shows that Assange was lying from the start. — Julian Assange not only knew that a murdered Democratic National …
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TheBlaze, Lawyers, Guns & Money and NBC News
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Report Describes a Businessman President Indifferent to Facts, Unwilling to Take on Tough Tasks — President Trump's aides avoided controversial orders without directly rebuffing the requests, the report shows — President Trump in June 2017 gave his former campaign manager a directive …