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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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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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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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Politico, Political Wire, AOL.com and Breitbart
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Trump's racism cements his party's place among the West's far right — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — President Trump tweets with such frenzy and frequency that we have become almost inured to his rhetorical excesses. But there are times when you have to pay attention.
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Breitbart, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker and The Guardian
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump feeds his voters another scam, wrapped in racist packaging
Trump feeds his voters another scam, wrapped in racist packaging
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Power Line, CNN and NBC News
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
We need someone who can lift us up again. Enter President Obama.
We need someone who can lift us up again. Enter President Obama.
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Dispatches From the … and twitchy.com
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What has Ilhan Omar done that Donald Trump hasn't?
What has Ilhan Omar done that Donald Trump hasn't?
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Power Line, VICE and Breitbart
David Moye / HuffPost:
Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump
Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Been A U.S. Citizen Longer Than Melania Trump
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POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Gabby Orr / Politico:
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets
How Trump aides rushed to repackage the ‘go back’ tweets
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One America News Network, POLITICUSUSA, The Intercept and The Week
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics
Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics
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Reuters, Shareblue Media and NPR
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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National Review, Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Roll Call, Reason, The Week, Washington Times 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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CNN, Progress Pond, Daily Kos, The Week, Politico and Wall Street Journal
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The political world Trump made — DRIVING THE DAY — WELCOME TO AMERICA'S NEW POLITICAL REALITY, courtesy of Donald Trump. — THE BULK OF THIS WEEK will be focused on President DONALD TRUMP'S attack on Reps. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ, AYANNA PRESSLEY, ILHAN OMAR and RASHIDA TLAIB, a.k.a. The Squad.
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Associated Press, Breitbart, Fox News and New York Post
Harry Enten / CNN:
Most moderate GOP voices on immigration were wiped out in the 2018 Democratic wave — (CNN)Following President Donald Trump's racist tweets this weekend telling “'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen [to...] go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, Big League Politics, Mediaite and Dallas Morning News
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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Boston Globe, Salt Lake Tribune and Breitbart
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump's Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don't Condemn Them
Trump's Aides, Not Eager to Defend His Tweets, Also Don't Condemn Them
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Daily Kos, Associated Press and Politico
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘Racist’ tweets? News media grapple with how to label Trump's latest attacks
‘Racist’ tweets? News media grapple with how to label Trump's latest attacks
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The Texas Tribune, Associated Press and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
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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Fox News, CNN, The Daily Beast, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Times, The Week, The Guardian and Mediaite
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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The Daily Beast, The Week and VICE
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. will not charge police in connection with Eric Garner's death — The Justice Department will not bring federal charges against any police officers involved in the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man whose videotaped takedown in New York in 2014 helped coin a rallying cry …
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ThinkProgress, The Root and Breitbart
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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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke's Fund-Raising Falters as 2020 Democrats Announce Finances
Scott Bland / Politico:
‘Doomsday scenario’: Cash shortage squeezes huge Dem field
‘Doomsday scenario’: Cash shortage squeezes huge Dem field
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Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Washington Free Beacon and Axios
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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Media Matters for America, Boing Boing, Mercury News and Washington Free Beacon
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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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Shakesville, IJR and Political Wire
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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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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP megadonors pour money into Trump campaign — President Donald Trump savaged the megadonor class during his 2016 campaign. Now, he's turning to them to bankroll his 2020 effort. — The Trump political machine raked in $108 million for his campaign and the Republican National Committee during …
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New York Times:
How North Korea's Leader Gets His Luxury Cars — WASHINGTON — The armored black limousines appear everywhere with Kim Jong-un, sleek Western chariots for the young dictator of North Korea. — Flown in from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on a cargo plane, the sedans carried …
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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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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
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Reformist District Attorney Larry Krasner Argues Pennsylvania Death Penalty Is Unconstitutional — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who campaigned in 2017 as an unequivocal opponent of the death penalty, asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a legal filing Monday night to declare …
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / The Appeal:
Philadelphia D.A. Asks Court to Declare Death Penalty System Unconstitutional
Philadelphia D.A. Asks Court to Declare Death Penalty System Unconstitutional
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Splinter
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.
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Real Clear Politics