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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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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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‘Send her back’ a worst-case scenario for Trump — A reelection campaign dominated by incendiary chants of “send her back” is a worst-case scenario for President Trump, warn senior Republicans who are moving swiftly to douse a political prairie fire sparked by the commander-in-chief's use …
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Vox, Political Wire, Rolling Stone and The Week


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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Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant as G.O.P. Frets Over Ugly Phrase — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday disavowed the “send her back” chant that broke out at his re-election rally Wednesday night when he railed against a Somali-born congresswoman, as Republicans in Congress rushed …
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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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Washington Post, The Atlantic, One America News Network, IJR, Breitbart and CNN


House Democrats move to tamp down internal feud, delete tweets that sparked infighting
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Politico and Political Wire

Trump says not happy with backers' ‘send her back’ chant
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McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen
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Stop Chanting ‘Send Her Back.’ Citizenship Isn't Conditional.
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Trump falsely claims he tried to stop ‘Send her back!’ chants about Rep. Ilhan Omar
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Vanity Fair, Althouse, Outside the Beltway, VICE and The Root

Flirting with fascism: This was the most sickening moment of your presidency, Mr Trump …
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Mediaite, Breitbart, Washington Times and Talking Points Memo

Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant, Claims He Tried to Stop It: ‘I Was Not Happy’
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Axios

Republicans Lay Out 2020 Strategy to Paint Democrats as Radicals
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Roll Call and Daily Wire


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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Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-money probe — WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors' decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part …
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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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Daily Kos, Boing Boing, CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Week and The Gateway Pundit


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.


Unsealed warrants just directly implicated Trump in porn star hush money felony
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Althouse and Axios

Hope Hicks' testimony gets second look after Cohen document dump
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FBI believed Trump was in contact with Cohen, Hope Hicks over hush money payments
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The Daily Beast and Washington Post


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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Boing Boing


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.
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Customs agent at Long Beach port admits selling guns illegally
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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Vox


Pete Buttigieg Is Still Figuring This Out — A dark-horse presidential candidate tries to stay on track. — It was a humid Sunday in June, a quiet afternoon that Pete Buttigieg knew would not remain quiet. “You know, there are always going to be ups and downs,” the 37-year-old mayor of South Bend …
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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.
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Boing Boing and Political Wire


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 …


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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Politico, Washington Free Beacon, The American Conservative, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller


Trump Voters Are Not the Only Voters — They are, in fact, in the minority — so why do the media and Democratic leaders seem so obsessed with them? — The anti-Trump vote is the single largest coalition in American politics. That was true in 2016, despite Hillary Clinton's defeat in the Electoral College.
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Politico, Washington Post, Dispatches From the … and CNN


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.


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 …


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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Plea deal by Kamala Harris AG office for sexual-harassing San Diego mayor was too lenient, critics say — Kamala Harris' presidential campaign biography rests heavily on her career as a prosecutor, including six years as California attorney general. But it omits a plea deal her office negotiated …
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twitchy.com


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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Shareblue Media


Epstein Scandal Brings Legal Titans to Blows — Four-year battle between David Boies, Alan Dershowitz turns uglier following financier's arrest — The arrest of Jeffrey Epstein is escalating a long-simmering fight between two of the nation's best-known lawyers, Alan Dershowitz and David Boies.

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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Democrats' Ratings of Party's 2020 Field: Better Than in 2016, Similar to 2008 — Early attention to presidential campaign hits a 30-year high — With a large slate of candidates to choose from and the first primary votes still more than six months off, Democratic voters express relatively high levels …
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Political Wire


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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Foreign Policy and Mother Jones