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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Can Wharton Revoke Trump's Economics Degree Now? — His ideas are dumb and destructive. — Despite all the success enjoyed by 19th Century industrial magnate Joseph Wharton, the 21st Century has not been kind to his family's legacy. His great-great-great grandson, Josh Rosen …
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Breitbart, One America News Network and POLITICUSUSA
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers, not China, pay for tariffs on imports — National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration's tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump's repeated claim that the Chinese foot the bill.
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New York Times, Quartz, Slate, Vox, The Guardian, POLITICUSUSA and Fox News
Allan Smith / Associated Press:
Trump aide Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers pay for tariffs, not China
Trump aide Kudlow acknowledges U.S. consumers pay for tariffs, not China
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Splinter, CNBC, New York Times and Sputnik International
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Rashida Tlaib says thinking of the Holocaust provides her a ‘calming feeling,’ shockingly claims Palestinians created ‘safe haven’ for Jews — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has made yet another shocking and historically ignorant claim: That thinking about the Holocaust gives her a “calming feeling” …
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Human Events, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, RedState, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
House Republicans criticize Rep. Tlaib over remarks on Holocaust, Israel — House Republican leaders took aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Sunday for a podcast interview in which she discussed her support for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Haaretz
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
‘The safe choice:’ Biden widens SC lead in 2020 Democratic presidential primary — Now that he's formally entered the race, former Vice President Joe Biden widened his lead in South Carolina among 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, according to a new poll.
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Washington Monthly, Bloomberg, POLITICUSUSA and Axios
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Suddenly conservative lawyers are condemning Trump for abuses of power … Washington seems to be barreling toward a constitutional crisis. — Democrats are barraging President Trump with demands for witnesses and documents. Trump has answered by stonewalling, vowing to fight “all the subpoenas.”
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The Moderate Voice
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff: Trump's obstruction of Congress “does add weight to impeachment”
Schiff: Trump's obstruction of Congress “does add weight to impeachment”
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Politico
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Pentagon will pull money from ballistic missile and surveillance plane programs to fund border wall — The Pentagon will shift $1.5 billion for President Trump's border wall from programs that include the military's next nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile and a plane that provides surveillance …
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Slate
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
‘There He Goes Again’? Not Yet, as Biden Avoids Major Gaffes — LOS ANGELES — The mayor of Los Angeles was attempting to praise Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the press, but Mr. Biden's aides were more focused on shooing the press away. — At the end of a made-for-cameras lunch he shared …
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Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
SOURCE: Wall GoFundMe just paid for a ‘nearly’ $1 million yacht — A source close to the Florida man who raised over $22 million on GoFundMe in the “We The People Will Build the Wall” campaign just revealed today that the money has been diverted to pay for a ‘million dollar’ yacht and high-flying lifestyle.
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Boing Boing, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Splinter
Wall Street Journal:
Frustration, Miscalculation: Inside the U.S.-China Trade Impasse — The latest breakdown shows the two countries still haven't found a way to negotiate effectively. 'Sometimes you need to say “stop screwing me.”
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Backed Libyan Warlord After Saudi Arabia and Egypt Lobbied Him — The leaders of Saudi Arabia and Egypt successfully lobbied President Trump to reverse U.S. policy in Libya and support a rogue general leading an offensive on a government in Tripoli backed by the United Nations …
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The American Conservative
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
What Joe Biden Is Teaching Democrats About Democrats — Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has seemed to race leftward so fast that its recent standard-bearers are considered no longer qualified to lead it. Bill Clinton? An embarrassment not welcome on the campaign trail. Barack Obama?
Washington Post:
'Who's going to take care of these people?' — As emergencies rise across rural America, a hospital fights for its life — The hospital had already transferred out most of its patients and lost half its staff when the CEO called a meeting to take inventory of what was left.
Mattha Busby / The Guardian:
Andrew Neil: questions to Ben Shapiro were legitimate — BBC presenter says interview style not aimed at ‘destroying’ anyone after criticism — Play Video — Andrew Neil has defended his interviewing style following criticism from supporters of the conservative US pundit Ben Shapiro …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Your 5G Phone Won't Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise. — RT America, a network known for sowing disinformation, has a new alarm: the coming ‘5G Apocalypse.’ — The cellphones known as 5G, or fifth generation, represent the vanguard of a wireless era rich in interconnected cars, factories and cities.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Chamber of Commerce courts Trump, comparing him to Reagan — Sign of the times: The top advocate for corporate America, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has installed a sign on the front steps of its headquarters in Washington, D.C., comparing Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower.
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Buttigieg calls out Democrats for playing ‘identity politics’ — In a risky speech to the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT rights group, Buttigieg warned of a “crisis of belonging in this country.” — LAS VEGAS — Pete Buttigieg sought to diffuse weeks of fraught questions about white privilege …
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The Week, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Times
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Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Buttigieg takes shot at social conservatives, describes coming out during Vegas LGBTQ gala
Buttigieg takes shot at social conservatives, describes coming out during Vegas LGBTQ gala
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Breitbart
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The “Year Five Plan”: Team Trump's post-election dream — Some of President Trump's top aides, who assume he will be re-elected, are already planning for an epic 2021 spending battle. — What's happening: Senior administration officials — including acting Office of Management …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
On the scene: The Pentagon commits to the border crisis — North Korea fired missiles, a U.S. warship deployed to the Middle East and unrest continues in Venezuela, but two days after President Trump announced he would appoint him as Defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan spent his Saturday in McAllen …
Bloomberg:
China's Latest Crackdown Target Is Liberal Economists — Around 10 a.m. one day last summer, a low-ranking government official visited the offices of China's most prominent free-market think tank to lodge a complaint. The scholars of the Unirule Institute of Economics were being too loud for the neighbors …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Nadler squeezed with calls for ‘inherent contempt’ — House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is in a bind. — A growing number of Democratic committee members are pushing Nadler to take more aggressive steps to force President Donald Trump and top administration officials to comply with a host of congressional subpoenas.
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New York Times, Power Line, Breitbart and Raw Story