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CNN:
From ‘total exoneration’ to ‘total bullsh**’: Trump lingers on damning report — Washington (CNN)By the time President Donald Trump had passed through the prime rib buffet at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to sit for dinner with family and a top aide, the damning picture Robert Mueller's report painted of his presidency had become clear.
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Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’ — The prestige press has some explaining to do — for subjecting the nation to a long, cruel ordeal named “collusion” and “obstruction.” Almost two years and millions of column inches later, special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Daily Wire, Liberty Unyielding, The Federalist and Washington Post
New York Times:
Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier — WASHINGTON — The 35-page dossier, spiced up with tales of prostitutes and spies, sketched out a hair-raising story more than two years ago. Russian intelligence had used bribery and blackmail to try to turn Donald J. Trump …
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JustOneMinute, twitchy.com, the daily howler, Wall Street Journal and Althouse
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Conservatives Should Thank Mueller — A scrupulous report saved an unscrupulous president. — For the better part of two years, Donald Trump and his partisans did everything they could to denigrate and discredit Robert Mueller and his investigation. — They're not done yet.
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WVSports.com, Mediaite, Washington Post and Mother Jones
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump approval drops 3 points to 2019 low after release of Mueller report: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report …
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Rolling Stone and Mediaite
New York Times:
Giuliani Attacks McGahn's Account to Mueller — WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, attacked the credibility of a former White House counsel on Friday, saying his account of how Mr. Trump told him to remove the special counsel was inaccurate.
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Axios, fox8.com, The Hill, Mediaite, Washington Press and Above the Law
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The PDF Association thinks the Mueller report sucks
The PDF Association thinks the Mueller report sucks
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Outside the Beltway and PDF Association
Jennifer Taub / Slate:
Don McGahn Not Listening to Donald Trump Doesn't Absolve the President of a Crime
Don McGahn Not Listening to Donald Trump Doesn't Absolve the President of a Crime
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why was Trump so afraid of the Mueller investigation? We may never know.
Why was Trump so afraid of the Mueller investigation? We may never know.
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Balloon Juice
Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?'
Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?'
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Raw Story
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Mueller's done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon
Mueller's done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon
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Liberty Unyielding
David French / TIME:
Donald Trump Is Weak and Afraid. The Mueller Report Proves It
Donald Trump Is Weak and Afraid. The Mueller Report Proves It
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Vanity Fair, Vox, Washington Press and CANNONFIRE
New York Times:
The Mueller Report and the Danger Facing American Democracy
The Mueller Report and the Danger Facing American Democracy
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Press Herald and Raw Story
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Mueller Report Vindicates Bill Barr
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins: Mueller report includes ‘an unflattering portrayal’ of Trump
Collins: Mueller report includes ‘an unflattering portrayal’ of Trump
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Vox, The Daily Beast and Law & Crime
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment
In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment
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The Atlantic and Vox
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Five unresolved mysteries about Russian meddling in Mueller's report
Five unresolved mysteries about Russian meddling in Mueller's report
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Political Wire, ABC News, Daily Wire and Fox News
Washington Post:
How a legal dispute between Mueller and Barr drove the end of the special counsel's probe — For nearly two years, the public, Congress and the White House waited to learn if special counsel Robert S. Mueller III would find that President Trump had committed crimes.
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Anna Dubenko / New York Times:
A Reader's Guide to the Journalism Behind the Mueller Report — If some of the revelations in Robert S. Mueller III's long-awaited report sound familiar, it's because many of them were previously published by The New York Times and other news outlets. — Times Insider explains …
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Washington Post, Political Wire and Raw Story
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Trump aides worry Sarah Sanders' collapsed credibility will drag the White House down even more: report — Special counsel Robert Mueller revealed in his report that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted under oath that she had lied to the American people as part …
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Timothy Meads / Townhall:
CNN's April Ryan Accuses Mike Huckabee Of Inciting Violence After He Quotes Her Saying Sarah …
CNN's April Ryan Accuses Mike Huckabee Of Inciting Violence After He Quotes Her Saying Sarah …
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Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Accuses Media of Anti-Liar Bias
New York Times:
Sanders's ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses. Not Trump's.
Sanders's ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses. Not Trump's.
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Raw Story
Bonchie / RedState:
CNN's April Ryan Says Sarah Sanders' Head Should Be “Lopped Off”
CNN's April Ryan Says Sarah Sanders' Head Should Be “Lopped Off”
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Lawfare:
The Mueller Report Demands an Impeachment Inquiry — Here is, as Bill Barr might call it, “the bottom line”: The Mueller Report describes, in excruciating detail and with relatively few redactions, a candidate and a campaign aware of the existence of a plot by a hostile foreign government …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘The Democratic base is angry as hell’: Cory Booker's message of love falls flat — SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Sen. Cory Booker launched a bid for the White House in February on a message of love and unity, painting himself as an inspirational leader who would help a polarized America find common ground.
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New York Times:
Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet — Workers at a 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina have complained of defective manufacturing, debris left on planes and pressure to not report violations. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Boeing broke ground …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘I Do Not Remember’: Trump Gave a Familiar Reply to the Special Counsel's Queries — WASHINGTON — President Trump has boasted at various points that he has “one of the great memories of all time” or even “the world's greatest memory.” — But the world's greatest memory failed him repeatedly …
Kyle Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
After 40 Years, C-Span's Founder Signs Off — Brian Lamb, the man who put Congress on live television, reflects on the results and explains why the Supreme Court ought to be next. — Washington — 'Lying is the word that I would use to describe this town," says Brian Lamb, in his usual Midwestern deadpan. "
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed News:
“Fixer Upper” Is Over, But Waco's Transformation Is Just Beginning — HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines helped convert a sleepy Texas town into a tourist mecca. But not everyone agrees on what Waco's “restoration” should look like. — There are dozens of new stores in Waco, Texas …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Mueller's report proves why Trump loves Fox News — and why he needs it now more than ever — It's no secret that Fox News and the Trump administration are deeply entwined with each other: They are the conjoined twins of misinformation. — So it hardly raised an eyebrow when the president took …
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Bob Price / Breitbart:
Armed Mexican Soldiers Disarm, Question U.S. Soldiers on Texas Side of Border — A group of armed Mexican soldiers detained and disarmed a pair of U.S. soldiers on the U.S. side of the Texas border with Mexico. The U.S. soldiers were eventually released and their weapons returned.