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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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Isabella Borshoff / Politico:
Scaramucci: Trump ‘turning into’ a racist — Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications chief, said that U.S. President Donald Trump could be “turning into” a racist. — Scaramucci told the BBC's “Today” program on Tuesday that the president's recent Twitter tirade …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump feeds his voters another scam, wrapped in racist packaging — In the closing days of the 2018 elections, President Trump's political guru, Brad Parscale, rolled out a massive TV ad campaign featuring a worried suburban mom fussing over her daughter. The woman told herself that everything …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's racism cements his party's place among the West's far right
Trump's racism cements his party's place among the West's far right
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CNN, The Atlantic, The National Interest, Denver Post and The Week
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
'That's all I've got': Romney fails his own test on Trump's racist tweets
'That's all I've got': Romney fails his own test on Trump's racist tweets
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NB Blog, Daily Kos, Salt Lake Tribune, Boston Globe and Balloon Juice
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the ‘Squad’
Why Donald Trump is thrilled about this fight with the ‘Squad’
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Media Matters for America, Washington Post and New York Post
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.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: 'What's Your Ethnicity?' — “My ethnicity is not relevant to the question I'm asking you,” the reporter replied. — When White House reporter Andrew Feinberg posed a question to Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday about the president's racist tweets …
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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 …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
What Would It Cost for Republicans to Condemn Trump? — Anything you will have to do eventually, you should do immediately. — This is the passage that struck me most in the George Conway piece everyone is talking about: … What is it, exactly, that we want from elected Republicans?
Caitlin Byrd / Post and Courier:
Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep considers presidential run against Trump — Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman ousted from office after President Donald Trump urged voters to reject him, is considering a run for president. — Sanford, in an exclusive interview Tuesday …
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Admits to Hiring Prostitutes in 2015 and 2017 — Republican operative Jason Miller, the former communications chief for the Trump campaign and transition team, said he hired numerous prostitutes and visited “hand job” massage parlors as recently …
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Political Wire
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Judge Has Banned Roger Stone From Posting Anything On Instagram, Facebook, Or Twitter — WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday issued an order prohibiting Roger Stone, a longtime ally and adviser of President Donald Trump, from posting anything on Instagram, Facebook …
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Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Judge finds longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone in violation of gag order
Judge finds longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone in violation of gag order
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge bars Roger Stone from Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
Judge bars Roger Stone from Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
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PJ Media Home, The Daily Caller, VICE and New York Post
New York Times:
Eric Garner's Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer — The decision came five years after Mr. Garner's dying words — “I can't breathe” — became a rallying cry. — The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against a New York City police officer in the death …
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Amy Spiro / Jewish Insider:
Ex-CNN commentator at progressive summit: Major news outlets are ‘Zionist orgs’ — T-shirts linking Zionism with racism sold at Netroots Nation conference — PHILADELPHIA — Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” …
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twitchy.com, Daily Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Peter Thiel Says Elizabeth Warren Is Most ‘Dangerous’ Candidate — Peter Thiel, the technology industry's most prominent supporter of President Donald Trump, called Elizabeth Warren the most “dangerous” Democratic presidential candidate. — In a rare television interview …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's threat to investigate Google isn't based on evidence. It's based on Fox News.
Trump's threat to investigate Google isn't based on evidence. It's based on Fox News.
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Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP and CNBC
Dan Primack / Axios:
Questions for Peter Thiel after his accusations about Google and China were tweeted by Trump
Questions for Peter Thiel after his accusations about Google and China were tweeted by Trump
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Joe Biden: I'll challenge Trump to do push-ups onstage 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 onstage.
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Nick Givas / Fox News:
Biden says if Trump challenges his mental state he'll challenge him to a push-up contest
Biden says if Trump challenges his mental state he'll challenge him to a push-up contest
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New York Times:
In 2020 Democratic Fund-Raising, Five Candidates Stand Out — Five Democratic presidential candidates raised a combined $96 million from individual donors in the last three months — about three-quarters of the total fund-raising by the entire Democratic field, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
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Scott Bland / Politico:
‘Doomsday scenario’: Cash shortage squeezes huge Dem field
‘Doomsday scenario’: Cash shortage squeezes huge Dem field
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New York Times, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Vanity Fair
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape. — House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office. — “We had disagreements with a lot …
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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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Charlie Hoffmann / Washington Free Beacon:
Northam Steps Up Contributions to Dems after Virginia Primaries — Va. governor has given over $200k to Dem candidates since yearbook photo — Virginia's Democratic governor Ralph Northam stepped up his political contributions in June following the state's legislative primary elections …
David Montgomery / Washington Post:
Sebastian Gorka says that Obama was our first celebrity president — Sebastian Gorka was a deputy assistant to President Trump. He left the White House in August 2017, a week after Steve Bannon was forced out. Now he hosts a daily three-hour radio show on the conservative Salem Radio Network.
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Ginger Thompson / ProPublica:
A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It's Really Like to Guard Migrant Children — With the agency under fire for holding children in deplorable conditions and over racist and misogynistic Facebook posts, one agent speaks about what it's like to do his job. “Somewhere down the line people just accepted what's going on as normal.”
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 …
Mad Dog PAC:
Can DEAD PEOPLE donate to Trump? Maybe — In the name of Jesus.. — ...I compel you to donate to me. — As you many of you know - the Federal Elections Commission requires declared candidates, PACs, and SuperPACs to adhere to the filing schedule in a timely manner.
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Judge Decides Neo-Nazi Owes Woman Over $14M After ‘Storming’ Her Family — A federal judge in Montana decided Monday that Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin owes real estate agent Tanya Gersh more than $14 million after rallying other white supremacists on his site to inundate her and her family with a barrage of threats and vitriol.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Is the Most Unpatriotic Presidential Candidate in American History — In the smoldering wake of President Trump's unscripted racist outburst, his allies have sought to wrench him back onto favorable terrain. They hastily insisted that Trump meant to say, or actually did say, something different from the words he typed.
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Frida Ghitis / Washington Post:
Trump's racist tweets come straight from the authoritarian playbook — President Trump's barrage of racist tweets on Sunday ignited precisely the kind of firestorm he wanted. So on Monday he doubled down — and then tripled down, again attacking the four nonwhite Democratic women in Congress …
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George Joseph / www.wnyc.org:
Data Company Directly Powers Immigration Raids in Workplace — Palantir, a secretive data-mining firm co-founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, is facing mounting criticism for its work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In response, the company has tried to distance itself …
Associated Press:
Trump nominates Esper to be defense chief, succeeding Mattis — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Senate to confirm Mark Esper as the successor to former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whose resignation last December opened an unprecedented period of senior-level instability at the Pentagon.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden, Sanders and Warren top the 2020 Democratic field in New Hampshire — Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders sit atop the field of Democratic presidential contenders among likely primary voters in New Hampshire …
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Karen Heller / Washington Post:
The extraordinary trek of George Takei — The cult icon is on a mission to make sure America doesn't forget a shameful legacy — NEW YORK — As a child, he believed the camp to be a magical oasis, where mythical dinosaurs prowled the woods at night. A native of Los Angeles, he marveled at the …