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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
We need someone who can lift us up again. Enter President Obama. — An open letter to Barack Obama: — Mr. President, it is time. You must speak. Your country needs you. — Eleven summers ago, as you accepted the Democratic nomination for president, you announced: “Tonight …
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's new impeachment problem — President Trump's racist tweets had an unintended consequence: They gave House Democrats a new rationale for impeachment. — Why it matters: This has the potential to fundamentally change the conversation around impeachment, which has so far mostly focused …
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The Hill and Rep. Al Green
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CNN Panel on Trump's Demagoguery Goes Off the Rails: ‘The White Nationalists Will Never Love You’ — CNN went wild on Monday night when former Trump adviser Steve Cortes and New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali collided over President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets — Within hours of President Donald Trump's radioactive tweets on Sunday urging several Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to other countries, his campaign was scrambling to repackage the attack on the four women of color into a broader patriotic message.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Racist in the White House — On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama beat John McCain by nine and a half million votes and became the country's first African-American President. In 2016, Donald Trump, an unapologetic racist, lost the popular ballot by three million votes but …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump's Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don't Condemn Them — WASHINGTON — When President Trump defended neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, one of his top aides took the rare step of publicly condemning what he said. — Gary D. Cohn, who served …
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Politico, Daily Kos and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's racism cements his party's place among the West's far right
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Los Angeles Times, New York Times and New Yorker
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden praises AOC and progressive congresswomen following Trump's attacks
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POLITICO Playbook: The political world Trump made
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David Moye / HuffPost:
Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
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Washington Post, New York Times, Vox and Mediaite
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘Racist’ tweets? News media grapple with how to label Trump's latest attacks
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Trump's incendiary rhetoric is met with fading resistance from Republican and corporate leaders
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New York Post, LifeZette, Washington Press, Damian J. Penny, Media Matters for America and Washington Free Beacon
Associated Press:
The Latest: Romney calls Trump's tweets ‘destructive’
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter says Trump's racist tweets don't break its rules
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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Trump is a racist president — George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York. — To this day, I can remember almost the precise spot where it happened: a supermarket parking lot in eastern Massachusetts. It was the mid-1970s; I was not yet a teenager, or barely one.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke's Fund-Raising Falters as 2020 Democrats Announce Finances — The gap between the rich and the poor in the Democratic presidential primary is growing — and Beto O'Rourke has landed on the worrisome side of the dividing line. — Mr. O'Rourke, who had entered the race in March …
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Foster Klug / Associated Press:
North Korea suggests it might lift weapons test moratorium — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea on Tuesday suggested it might call off its 20-month suspension of nuclear and missile tests because of summertime U.S.-South Korean military drills that the North calls preparation for an eventual invasion.
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Min Joo Kim / Washington Post:
North Korea hints it may resume nuclear testing, accuses U.S. of reneging on pact
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
It's taking longer and longer to become a legal immigrant — The number of immigrants waiting on a judge to decide whether they can stay in the U.S. keeps climbing, according to Justice Department data. — Why it matters: Immigration-court backlogs “are basically crippling the whole system …
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New York Times:
After 2016 Bible Slip, Trump Lashed Out at ‘So-Called Christians,’ Book Says — Furious after he was criticized by evangelicals for stumbling in his reference to a book of the Bible during the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump lashed out at “so-called Christians” and used an epithet in describing …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Pelosi torpedoes White House debt limit plan, throwing budget talks into chaos — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday said the House of Representatives would not raise the debt ceiling unless it is part of a broader budget deal, putting extreme pressure on the White House and congressional leaders to cut a deal within days.
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Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
A Neo-Nazi Blogger Was Ordered To Pay $14 Million To A Woman Who Was Targeted In A Racist “Troll Storm” — A federal judge awarded more than $14 million to a woman who was barraged with anti-Semitic and threatening messages online after a neo-Nazi blogger instructed his followers to target her and her family with a “troll storm.”
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Joe Biden: I'll challenge Trump to do push-ups on stage if he makes fun of my age or mental state — If President Trump makes of fun of his age or questions his mental state during a debate, Joe Biden has a response at the ready: He'll challenge him to do push-ups on stage.
Kate Morrissey / Stars & Stripes:
Customs and Border Protection denies Marine Corps veteran entry for scheduled citizenship interview — SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — A deported Marine Corps veteran who has been unable to come back to the U.S. for more than a decade was denied entry to the country Monday morning …
Charles Creitz / Fox News:
Peter Thiel tells Tucker Carlson which 2020 Dem has him ‘most scared’ — Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel says there is one Democratic presidential candidate who makes him most concerned ahead of the 2020 elections. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is the only Democratic …
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
BBC Accepts Iran's Demand Of Blackout On Its Persian Sites Amid Regime's Attacks On Press — A deal to not share reporting from Iran on BBC Persian has angered staffers who see it as complicity with a government that imprisons, tortures and kills journalists.
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Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
The Labyrinthine Ways and Wages of Stefan Halper — Stefan Halper, the shadowy Cambridge academic who may have helped the FBI spy on the Trump campaign, was paid more than $1 million by a U.S. agency for research papers of dubious value, according to a new government report.
CNN:
Exclusive: Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post for election meddling — Watch this story on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer at 6 p.m. ET and on Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET. — Atlanta (CNN)New documents obtained exclusively by CNN reveal …
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New York Times:
Tariffs on China Don't Cover the Costs of Trump's Trade War — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday portrayed America as being on the winning end of his trade war, saying tariffs are punishing China's economy while generating billions of dollars for the United States …
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