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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
The counterintelligence investigation of the Trump team and Russia hasn't stopped — Officials say they're still looking into whether any Americans helped the Russians interfere in the 2016 election, or are still compromised by Russia. — WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller's …
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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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sarah Sanders grilled on her contradictory statements highlighted in Mueller report
Sarah Sanders grilled on her contradictory statements highlighted in Mueller report
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Timothy O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Does Mueller Think Trump's Guilty? Read Closely
Lawfare:
What Mueller Found on Russia and on Obstruction: A First Analysis
What Mueller Found on Russia and on Obstruction: A First Analysis
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Washington Post, Salon, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Hullabaloo, Vox and Breitbart
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Mueller report: Donald Trump failed us as commander-in-chief
Mueller report: Donald Trump failed us as commander-in-chief
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Outside the Beltway and Politico
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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NBC News, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Mueller Did His Job. Now It's Our Turn
Mueller Did His Job. Now It's Our Turn
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Mueller Report Could Alienate the Voters Republicans Need
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
The Hustlers and Swindlers of the Mueller Report
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
How We Characterized Michael Cohen's Testimony
How We Characterized Michael Cohen's Testimony
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Mueller's Report Speaks Volumes
Mueller's Report Speaks Volumes
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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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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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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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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘Whimsical, uninformed’: French ambassador's parting verdict on Trump — Gérard Araud compares regime to court of Louis XIV and warns UK over post-Brexit trade — The outgoing French ambassador to the US has compared the Trump administration to the court of King Louis XIV …
Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Rep. Hunter pretends to cross the Mexico border and gets called out for violating his parole — Rep. Duncan Hunter and his Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar traded Twitter barbs Thursday over a video Hunter posted where he appeared to suggest he was crossing the southern border into Mexico.
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Ken Stone / Times of San Diego:
Rep. Hunter Hops Border Barrier — But Not Into Mexico as Video Suggests
Rep. Hunter Hops Border Barrier — But Not Into Mexico as Video Suggests
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint
Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint
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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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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 …
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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Scott Jennings / CNN:
Mueller's report looks bad for Obama
Mueller's report looks bad for Obama
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USA Today, Conservative Tribune and Mediaite
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Re-Read Bill Barr's Infamous Letter With Full Quotes From the Mueller Report — Context is everything. Trump's attorney general is a partisan hack — Attorney General William Barr released a letter to Congress on March 24, 2019, purporting to summarize the top-line conclusion of the Mueller report.
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Josh Blackman / Lawfare:
The Special Counsel's Constitutional Analysis — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report spans more than 400 pages. In a 12-page section near the end of the thick volume, Mueller tackles a critical question: Can the federal obstruction of justice statute apply to the president?
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Politico:
The Surprises in the Mueller Report
The Surprises in the Mueller Report
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The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Hires Speechwriter Fired From White House Over White Nationalist Conference — Dr. Darren Beattie was pushed out of the administration over his appearance alongside alt-right figures. Less than a year later, he has a new gig on the Hill. — One of President Donald Trump's top …