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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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ABC News, The Hill, Politico and Rep. Al Green
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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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Political Wire, Politico, Breitbart, AOL.com, RedState and Washington Press, more at Mediagazer »
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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Washington Post, Associated Press and The Atlantic
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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The Atlantic, Breitbart, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and New Yorker
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CNN Panel on Trump's Demagoguery Goes Off the Rails: ‘The White Nationalists Will Never Love You’
Anti-Defamation League:
White Supremacists, Extremists Celebrate President Trump's Latest Racist Tweets
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
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
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, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Townhall, Politico, Political Wire, Roll Call, Reason, PJ Media Home, The Week, Washington Times and Mediaite
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, twitchy.com, Mediaite, Washington Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and The Guardian
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, Washington Monthly, 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, Washington Post, Breitbart and New York Post
Harry Enten / CNN:
Most moderate GOP voices on immigration were wiped out in the 2018 Democratic wave
Most moderate GOP voices on immigration were wiped out in the 2018 Democratic wave
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, Big League Politics, Mediaite and Dallas Morning News
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, The Atlantic and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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, Reason and The Week
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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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Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
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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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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Power Line, CNN, NBC News and Politico
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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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
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, The Hill, Mercury News and Washington Free Beacon, more at Techmeme »
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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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Breitbart
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 and IJR
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What has Ilhan Omar done that Donald Trump hasn't? — A politician accused of anti-Semitism. Someone who has been critical of the United States and its leaders, often in strong terms. Who advocates positions outside of the American mainstream. Who swears.
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Power Line, VICE and Breitbart
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Woke assimilation: Teaching our politicians to hate America
Woke assimilation: Teaching our politicians to hate America
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National Review, Washington Press and Washington Post
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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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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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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Missoulian, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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.”
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Slate, VICE, ABC News and New York Times
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
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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Politico, Washington Post and One America News Network
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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