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John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Trump's tax returns required under new California election law — President Trump will be ineligible for California's primary ballot next year unless he discloses his tax returns under a state law that immediately took effect Tuesday, an unprecedented mandate that is almost certain to spark …
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Exclusive: Newsom Trump Tax Returns — Subscribe — Exclusive: California Gov. Newsom to Sign Bill Targeting Trump Tax Returns — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, my former boss, tells me that he has decided to sign a bill that would require all presidential and gubernatorial candidates …
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Daily Kos, Politico, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and The Week
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Gavin Newsom opens $50 million donor network to Kamala Harris post 2020 endorsement
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
California governor signs law targeting Trump's tax returns, ballot eligibility
California governor signs law targeting Trump's tax returns, ballot eligibility
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Fox News, Associated Press and California Governor
New York Times:
Trump's Pick for Top Intelligence Post Overstated Parts of His Biography — Aides revised old claims about Representative John Ratcliffe's role in prosecuting a prominent terrorism case. — WASHINGTON — Aides to the congressman chosen by President Trump to lead the nation's intelligence agencies …
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump's pick for intelligence director misrepresented role in anti-terror case — President Donald Trump's pick for the next director of national intelligence, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, has misrepresented his role in an anti-terrorism case that he's repeatedly cited among his credentials related to national security issues.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The first Mueller TV ad
POLITICO Playbook: The first Mueller TV ad
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Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
Defending intelligence pick, Trump says U.S. spy agencies ‘run amok’
Defending intelligence pick, Trump says U.S. spy agencies ‘run amok’
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Political Wire
John Walcott / TIME:
Top GOP Senator Warned the White House About Trump's Choice for National Intelligence Director
Top GOP Senator Warned the White House About Trump's Choice for National Intelligence Director
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Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Splinter and New York Times
David Priess / Lawfare:
The Potential Trouble with Nominating a DNI from Trump's Central Casting
The Potential Trouble with Nominating a DNI from Trump's Central Casting
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
‘Moscow Mitch’ Tag Enrages McConnell and Squeezes G.O.P. on Election Security — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell is usually impervious to criticism, even celebrating the nasty nicknames that have been bestowed on him by critics. But Mr. McConnell, the Senate majority leader …
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Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
MoscowMitchMcTreason trends after McConnell defends blocking election security bills
MoscowMitchMcTreason trends after McConnell defends blocking election security bills
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Ben Tobin / Courier-Journal:
McConnell lashes out on Senate floor about ‘Moscow Mitch’ accusation
McConnell lashes out on Senate floor about ‘Moscow Mitch’ accusation
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Vanity Fair
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Fearing defections, Trump and McConnell crank up pressure on budget vote
Fearing defections, Trump and McConnell crank up pressure on budget vote
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Political Wire
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's hidden enablers are corrupting our country
Trump's hidden enablers are corrupting our country
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Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Daily Beast
Tim Naftali / The Atlantic:
Ronald Reagan's Long-Hidden Racist Conversation with Richard Nixon — The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People's Republic of China, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan phoned President Richard Nixon at the White House and vented his frustration at the delegates who had sided against the United States.
QU Poll:
Release Detail — July 30, 2019 - Trump Is Racist, Half Of U.S. Voters Say, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Voters Say Almost 2-1 Don't Impeach President — President Donald Trump is racist, American voters say 51 - 45 percent in a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.
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Patrick Reis / Rolling Stone:
Trump's Racism Is a National Emergency — But even after his slander of Elijah Cummings, too few Democrats grasp the danger at hand — I often learn about President Trump doing or saying something bigoted before I've had a chance shake the cobwebs loose, as my father's expression goes.
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Roll Call, American Greatness and Bloomberg
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: 'There's no strategy' in attacks on Cummings
Trump: 'There's no strategy' in attacks on Cummings
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CNN, Politico, Vanity Fair and Patterico's Pontifications
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump administration will again waive nuclear sanctions on Iran — After an internal policy battle, the Trump administration is set to announce later this week that it will once again waive five different nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, preserving a key part of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump to disappoint Iran hawks with more nuclear waivers
New York Times:
ASAP Rocky Trial Begins in Sweden, With a Special Envoy From America — President Trump, who has helped turn the rapper's assault case into an international incident, sent a hostage-crisis diplomat to the courtroom. — STOCKHOLM — To some cheers and an equal amount of mockery …
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Jari Tanner / Associated Press:
US presidential envoy sent to Sweden for A$AP Rocky's trial
US presidential envoy sent to Sweden for A$AP Rocky's trial
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Law & Crime
Associated Press:
Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics — BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Carol Evans approves of Donald Trump's immigration policy. She gives him credit for the strong economy. But the Republican from the affluent Milwaukee suburbs of Waukesha County, a GOP bedrock in the state …
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The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
The Daily Beast:
Twitter Suspends Conspiracy Account After Trump Retweet — Before Trump's RT, ‘Lynn Thomas’ pushed conspiracy theories about Democrats harvesting kids' pineal glands. Then Twitter took the account down for violating its rules. — Twitter has suspended a conspiracy-peddling account amplified …
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Rep. Jason Crow:
Democracy is fragile and we must fight for it— that's why I support an impeachment inquiry — We must fight for our democracy, that's why I support an impeachment inquiry — In the summer of 2003, my infantry platoon was patrolling the streets of Baghdad when an Iraqi man approached me …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Sweats Fox News Loyalty, Grills Network Pals: ‘What the Hell Is Going On?’ — The president has taken to prodding his friends at the network about Fox's news anchors treating him “unfairly” and whether the Murdoch sons can be trusted, sources said. — In recent weeks …
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Mediaite, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
VA Democrat Who Interrupted Trump's Jamestown Speech Appears To Be A Full-Blown Anti-Semite — Today President Trump went to Jamestown to commemorate its 400thanniversary. Local Democrats were not happy. Virginia Democrats boycotted the event, with the Mayor of Richmond, Levar Stoney …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Dem lawmaker who disrupted Trump speech has history of anti-Israel remarks
Dem lawmaker who disrupted Trump speech has history of anti-Israel remarks
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twitchy.com, Washington Free Beacon and Front Page Magazine
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
ACLU: U.S. has taken nearly 1,000 child migrants from their parents since judge ordered stop to border separations — Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union told a federal judge Tuesday that the Trump administration has taken nearly 1,000 migrant children from their parents …
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Axios, ACLU, NPR, Splinter, Common Dreams, The Week and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington National Cathedral:
have we no decency? a response to president trump — The escalation of racialized rhetoric from the President of the United States has evoked responses from all sides of the political spectrum. On one side, African American leaders have led the way in rightfully expressing outrage.
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Bloomberg and POLITICUSUSA
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Judge dismisses DNC hacking lawsuit against Trump team, says claims ‘entirely divorced from the facts’ — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defends himself from criticism for blocking election security bills — A federal judge in frank terms has dismissed a lawsuit …
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Jonathan Oosting / Detroit News:
Republicans sue to block Michigan redistricting commission … (Photo: Dale G. Young, The Detroit News) — Lansing — Republicans are suing to stop Michigan's new citizen redistricting commission before it begins, alleging the voter-approved amendment is “blatantly unconstitutional” …
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Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and electionlawblog.org
Joel Kotkin / National Review:
The Return to Serfdom — I'm not a free-market fundamentalist. To me, the beauty of liberal capitalism lies in its performance: More people live well, and live longer, than ever before. Millions of working-class people have moved from poverty to become homeowners and have seen their offspring rise into the middle class or higher.
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
The quiet director: How Gina Haspel manages the CIA's volatile relationship with Trump — In January, when CIA Director Gina Haspel and other intelligence agency leaders testified before Congress that Iran was not trying to build nuclear weapons, President Trump ridiculed his spy chiefs as …
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
GOP senator introduces bill banning ‘addictive’ social media features — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a freshman who has emerged as a top Republican critic of major technology companies in Congress, on Tuesday will introduce a bill banning social media companies from building “addictive” features into their products.
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Trump Promotes QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Who Believes Clintons Are Consuming Brain Fluids of Dead Children — On Tuesday, Donald Trump promoted two of his supporters on Twitter who are actively perpetuating the QAnon conspiracy — a theory that alleges the president is secretly working …
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Washington Times and Right Wing Watch
Ariel Edwards-Levy / HuffPost:
Is The Democratic Party Getting More Extreme? The Public Doesn't Think So. — The party's self-described liberals are growing in rank, but a new poll finds no evidence that people see the party as becoming more radical. — A lot has changed inside the Democratic Party since the last time it elected a president.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Philippe Reines / Politico:
I Played Trump in Hillary Clinton's 2016 Debate Prep. Here's What It Takes to Beat Him. — Before any of them takes the debate stage on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 2020 Democratic candidates will already have put in dozens of hours each preparing. But here's what they need to understand …
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Althouse and Front Page Magazine
Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
New US Soccer fact sheet eviscerates Megan Rapinoe's ‘equal pay’ narrative — The United States has the best women's soccer team in the world, as evidenced by our recent Women's World Cup win. But we're told that the women's team still faces blatant sexism and a pay gap compared to our men's team.
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Daily Wire, Slate, Breitbart, IJR and Pacific Standard
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
North Carolina political operative faces new charges in ballot fraud investigation — A North Carolina political operative at the center of a ballot fraud investigation over a disputed congressional election was hit with new charges on Tuesday. — Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman …
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Washington Post
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Man Who Shaun King Falsely Accused Of Murdering Black Girl Dead From Apparent Suicide — A Houston-area man who social media activist Shaun King falsely accused of murdering a 7-year-old black girl late in 2018 has died from an apparent suicide after hanging himself in his jail cell earlier in July.
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