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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville — Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back!” about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in America's slide toward fascism. — GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems warn Omar in ‘imminent danger’ after Trump rally chants — House Democrats erupted in fury Thursday over President Donald Trump's attacks on freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar at his reelection rally, fearful that crowd chants of “send her back” have personally endangered her and her family.
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Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Jake Tapper Appears to Have Taken a Break From Truth-Telling — Late this afternoon, after increasing tensions among the House Democratic caucus seemed to pause in the wake of Donald Trump's racist tweets about Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, CNN anchor Jake Tapper had some news.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
House Republican campaign chairman says there's no place for ‘send her back’ language — The chairman of House Republicans' campaign arm on Thursday criticized the “send her back” chant that animated the crowd at Donald Trump's Wednesday night rally and added a dimension to the president's attacks on four Democratic freshman women.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats move to tamp down internal feud, delete tweets that sparked infighting — House Democrats are moving to quiet the searing internal feud that threatened to spin out of control last week — starting with the deletion of explosive tweets that helped spark the infighting and a joint statement of unity.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant as G.O.P. Frets Over Ugly Phrase
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Send her back’ a worst-case scenario for Trump
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Chanting ‘Send Her Back.’ Citizenship Isn't Conditional.
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump falsely claims he tried to stop ‘Send her back!’ chants about Rep. Ilhan Omar
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen
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Daily Mail:
Flirting with fascism: This was the most sickening moment of your presidency, Mr Trump …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant, Claims He Tried to Stop It: ‘I Was Not Happy’
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Lay Out 2020 Strategy to Paint Democrats as Radicals
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NBC News:
FBI believed Trump was closely involved in hush-money scheme, unsealed documents show — The release of the previously redacted documents came one day after the judge in the case disclosed that prosecutors had concluded their probe into Cohen's campaign finance crimes.
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
New Cohen documents reveal calls with Trump, National Enquirer publisher before payment — President Donald Trump and his campaign may have had prior knowledge of a deal to silence Stormy Daniels, the adult film actress who allegedly engaged in an extra-marital affair with the then-presidential candidate …
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker — MANHATTAN (CN) - Three years after the “Access Hollywood” tapes sent shot waves of panic through the Trump campaign and the publishers of the National Enquirer, hundreds of pages of new search warrant materials unsealed on Thursday catalogue the cover-up that ensued.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Unsealed warrants just directly implicated Trump in porn star hush money felony — Newly unsealed documents from the search warrants used to break open the case against Trump's personal lawyer have finally implicated President Trump directly in his illegal efforts to cover up his extramarital affair …
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New York Times, Althouse and Axios
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Hope Hicks' testimony gets second look after Cohen document dump
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
FBI believed Trump was in contact with Cohen, Hope Hicks over hush money payments
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump directly involved in talks that led to Stormy Daniels payment, FBI says
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Joshua Eaton / ThinkProgress:
New court docs implicate Trump in the illegal hush-money scheme that landed Cohen in jail
Jackie Kucinich / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Contractor Allegedly Threatened to Kill Congresswoman Over Vaccine Bill — Feds charged Darryl Varnum in late June after he told a member he was ‘gonna kill your ass if you do that bill.’ — A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor has been charged with threatening to kill a member …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever — The conservative intelligentsia flocked to the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., this week for the National Conservatism Conference, an opportunity for people who may never have punched a time clock to declare their eternal enmity toward elites …
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Madeline Peltz / Newsweek:
I'm Paid to Watch Tucker Carlson Each Night. Don't Tell Me This Rant About Ilhan Omar Isn't Shocking | Opinion — Tucker Carlson raced to the defense of President Donald Trump and his racist tweets against “the Squad” this week, accusing the four non-white Democratic congresswomen …
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
End Wall Street's Stranglehold On Our Economy — Last month, I announced my economic patriotism agenda — a commitment to fundamentally change the government's approach to the economy so we put American workers and middle-class prosperity ahead of multinational profits and Wall Street bonuses.
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A. Won't Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children's Health Problems — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced it would not ban a widely-used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children.
Maria Ines Zamudio / WBEZ:
O'Hare Standoff: Federal Officials Detaining Three Children Of Undocumented Parents — Chicago lawyers, a representative from the Mexican Consulate and a congresswoman from Illinois have all met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to find out why three American citizen children are being detained at O'Hare Airport.
Saagar Enjeti / The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Career officials rebut claims of White House interference in security clearance process — Two career White House security officials have testified in a closed door session with the House Oversight Committee that no political pressure was asserted on their office …
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Iran makes ‘substantial’ nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions — Iran has offered a deal with the US in which it would formally and permanently accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear programme, in return for the permanent lifting of US sanctions.
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Washington Post:
Trump says the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz — DUBAI — A U.S. naval ship destroyed an Iranian drone that flew too close and ignored multiple calls to stand down on Thursday, President Trump said. — The Iranian drone came within 1,000 yards of the USS Boxer …
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Kyle Hopkins / Anchorage Daily News:
The Alaska village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence — Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Just a random group of ‘Republicans’? CNN doesn't tell the whole story about a Trump-loving panel — There's no question that the panel of women CNN interviewed about President Trump liked him a lot and don't think he's a racist, despite a congressional resolution to the contrary on Tuesday.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Scaramucci disinvited from Florida GOP fundraiser for bashing Trump's ‘racially charged’ attacks — The Palm Beach County GOP disinvited Anthony Scaramucci from addressing its annual fundraising event after the short-lived White House communications director criticized President Trump's …
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Enough Games, Democrats: We Know You Wanted To Deport Sebastian Gorka — So, CNN actually counted the seconds President Trump remained silent when chants of “send her back” erupted during his rally in North Carolina. It was in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Of course, the Left was shocked.
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Quartz:
William Barr's donations to Senate Republicans spiked just before they confirmed him as attorney general — In between stints as US attorney general for George HW Bush in the early 90s and now for Donald Trump, while making millions as an executive at Verizon and a lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis …
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