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Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Seeks New $15 Billion Subsidy To Protect Farmers From His Own Trade War — The president falsely claims that tariffs are paid “directly” to the U.S. Treasury by China and indicates these nonexistent Chinese funds will cover the subsidy cost. — President Donald Trump is seeking …
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Splinter, Associated Press and Washington Post
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
China to retaliate on $60B in U.S. goods, defying Trump's warning — China is set to fire the next salvo in the escalating trade conflict with the United States, announcing on Monday it will raise tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods at the start of next month.
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Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Breitbart
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is staking reelection on one of his biggest lies — President Trump has spent the past 24 hours tweeting manically about trade, repeating the absurd falsehood that China is paying us billions in tariffs. We keep hearing that this shows Trump “doesn't understand” how tariffs work.
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's China grudge match may be spinning out of control — NEW YORK — Donald Trump the Dow Man and Donald Trump the Tariff Man found themselves back on a collision course Monday as U.S. markets tanked and fear of a full-scale trade war between the world's two largest economies reemerged with a vengeance.
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Associated Press, Outside the Beltway and Fortune
Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Stocks Close Sharply Lower on Renewed Trade Anxiety — Dow drops more than 600 after China says it will raise tariffs on some U.S. imports — U.S. stocks slid Monday, heading for one of their worst days of the year, after officials in Beijing and the White House exchanged fresh threats …
Washington Post:
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off
Trump's trade approach under attack as China readies retaliation; markets poised for big sell-off
Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Chinese State Media Calls Donald Trump's Tariffs ‘Irrational’ Because They Will ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
Chinese State Media Calls Donald Trump's Tariffs ‘Irrational’ Because They Will ‘Hurt the U.S. Economy’
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Bloomberg, New York Times and ABC News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Call Tlaib Anti-Semitic for Saying Something Nice About Israel — The Republican Party, which has a hair-trigger sensitivity to left-wing anti-Semitism as censorious as any social justice warrior, has whipped itself into its latest frenzy over comments by Representative Rashida Tlaib.
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Townhall, Fox News, Yahoo News, IJR, HillReporter.com, Common Dreams, Daily Wire, RedState, twitchy.com, The Federalist and The Week
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap
Many Democrats fear Trump is laying an impeachment trap
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The Resurgent, Outside the Beltway and Front Page Magazine
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
Rashida Tlaib's Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist
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Politico, NB Blog and Washington Post
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Republicans are ignoring reality to twist Rep. Tlaib's ‘calming’ Holocaust remarks
Republicans are ignoring reality to twist Rep. Tlaib's ‘calming’ Holocaust remarks
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National Review, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and twitchy.com
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
What's the Real Reason Trump Is Stonewalling Congress? — Maybe he wants to avoid more bad publicity. Or maybe it's something worse. — If President Donald Trump thinks he's been totally exonerated, as he says, why is he stonewalling Congress? Why wouldn't he want special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Hullabaloo, Raw Story, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Moderate Voice
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won't Endorse His Theory of Victimhood — On March 24, Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report that stressed positive news for President Donald Trump. The redacted text of the report …
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Raw Story, HillReporter.com and Mediaite
CNN:
How Donald Trump Jr. and Richard Burr hit an impasse — Erin Burnett: Why is Trump afraid of Don Jr. subpoena? — (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. is balking at answering more questions about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting and the pursuit of a Trump Tower Moscow project, two sources familiar …
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Gillian Edevane / Newsweek:
Senator Lindsey Graham advises Donald Trump Jr. to Avoid Testifying Over Russia Deal: “Call it a Day”
Heather Digby Parton / Salon:
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
Impeaching Donald Trump is risky: But not impeaching him might be even riskier
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Hullabaloo
New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio's NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up — Mayor de Blasio's NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows.
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Gothamist, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Anna Flagg / New York Times:
Is There a Connection Between Undocumented Immigrants and Crime? — It's a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it. — A lot of research has shown that there's no causal connection between immigration and crime in the United States.
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Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, TalkLeft, ImmigrationProf Blog, Splinter and twitchy.com
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
How Does Donald Trump Keep Getting Away With It? — Hint: From Congress to the courts, people keep treating Trump like a “normal” president. It's time to stop. — Every day, President Donald Trump or his minions say something stupid, wrong, or demonstrably false.
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Rolling Stone and No More Mister Nice Blog
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Accuses Trump of Pay Discrimination: 'The Numbers Don't Lie' — The ex-Trump aide claims she was paid substantially less per month than her male counterpart for the same work. — Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former Apprentice star who campaigned for President Trump and then followed …
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BuzzFeed News, Mediaite, Shareblue Media, The Week and Raw Story
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Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Inside the Pampered and Personalized World of DC's VIP Diners — The big restaurant lie: Everyone is treated the same. — Sometimes maître d' Michael Arnaud has to play bad cop. Granted, he wears a wide smile above his green bow tie and greets every customer of Joe's Seafood …
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Axios, HillReporter.com, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
Bloomberg:
Pompeo Fails to Sway Allies on Iran in Awkward Surprise Visit — Cites intel threats in meeting U.K., French, German envoys — Defying Trump, Europeans say Iran nuclear deal must stand — U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo made scant progress persuading European Union counterparts …
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Peter Schweizer, Who Smeared Hillary Clinton, Is Back for Joe Biden. Don't Buy It. — Real journalists want to report the truth, wherever it takes them. Peter Schweizer wants to reelect Donald Trump. — Michael Tomasky — Are we really going to do this again, Fourth Estate?
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Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: How money flows from Amazon to 8chan — Follow the money from the world's most valuable company to a racist troll haven — You may or may not know about the 8chan website—but you are familiar with its work. The rudimentary message board is a wellspring of racism, violence …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
‘The epitome of privilege’: Booker supporters seethe over Buttigieg mania — One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor. The other is Pete Buttigieg.
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Front Page Magazine, Big League Politics and NBC News
The Daily Beast:
One-Time #Resistance Hero Rod Rosenstein Was Trump's Leak-Hunter-in-Chief — The Trump administration is on pace for a record number of leak prosecutions—thanks in part to a man hailed by the president's fiercest critics. — Rod Rosenstein was a #Resistance hero—and one of Donald Trump's …
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Raw Story and Columbia Journalism Review
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Inside Jared Kushner's 2 missions impossible — As President Donald Trump launches his re-election bid, his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is waging dual campaigns of his own, preparing to sell ambitious fixes to two of the most stubborn problems of the past 50 years.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
An Oral History of Trump's Bigotry — The first quotation from Donald Trump ever to appear in The New York Times came on October 16, 1973. Trump was responding to charges filed by the Justice Department alleging racial bias at his family's real-estate company. “They are absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said of the charges.
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Raw Story