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4:05 PM ET, August 5, 2019

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The Post urges Trump to take action on assault weapons — Two mass shootings within 24 hours in El Paso and Dayton, days after the Garlic Festival killings. Three months after Virginia Beach, six months after Aurora, nine months after Thousand Oaks, 10 months after Tree of Life …

New York Times:

El Paso Shooting Suspect's Manifesto Echoes Trump's Language — At campaign rallies before last year's midterm elections, President Trump repeatedly warned that America was under attack by immigrants heading for the border. “You look at what is marching up, that is an invasion!” he declared at one rally.

Owen Daugherty / The Hill:

Ohio state representative blames shootings on gay marriage, video games, open borders — A Republican state representative in Ohio wrote a lengthy Facebook post in the aftermath of the Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting where she blamed the incident and other shootings on “the breakdown …

Discussion: daytondailynews, Talking Points Memo and PinkNews

Washington Post:

A mother died shielding her infant in El Paso. The father died shielding them both, family says. — They had just dropped their oldest daughter off at cheerleading practice when they pulled into the Walmart parking lot, packed with hundreds of back-to-school shoppers like them.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Bangor Daily News, KTLA, The Week and One America News Network

Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:

Confusion: Biden offers sympathy for the ‘tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan’ — Former Vice President Joe Biden misstated the locations of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, while speaking to donors at a high-dollar fundraiser in San Diego on Sunday night.

Discussion: New York Post, RedState, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Washington Times, twitchy.com, Splinter, Daily Wire and The Week

Courtney Hagle / Media Matters for America:

How Fox News pushed the white supremacist “great replacement” theory — Fox News figures have repeatedly warned of an immigrant “invasion” — The shooter who killed 20 people and injured dozens in El Paso, TX, over the weekend first posted online a document outlining the white nationalist …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Townhall and The Guardian

Jonathan Allen / NBC News:

In tragic self-owns, Trump denounces racism, and calls for immigration reform — Analysis: Rather than risk alienating his allies in the wake of another round of mass shootings, Trump chose to expose himself to claims of responsibility. — WASHINGTON — In looking to place blame …

Discussion: Rolling Stone, Mediaite and NPR

David French / National Review:

It's Time to Declare War on White-Nationalist Terrorism — We need all the tools we can muster — legal, rhetorical, financial, and cultural. — It's time to face some dreadful, terrible facts. The United States is now facing a deadly challenge from a connected, radical …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Examiner, Splinter, PJ Media Home, twitchy.com, The American Spectator, CNN, NB Blog and Washington Times

American Psychological Association:

Statement of APA President in Response to Mass Shootings in Texas, Ohio — WASHINGTON — Following is the statement of APA President Rosie Phillips Davis, PhD, on the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio: — “Our condolences are with the families and friends of those killed …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Vox

Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog:
Terminating Service for 8Chan

CNN:
El Paso shooting death toll rises to 22 in anti-immigrant massacre

Discussion: Vox, HuffPost, The Root, Lawfare, Richard D. Wiles, KTLA, Refinery29, The Daily Beast, Politico and IJR

Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Trump blames everything but his own words for hate in America

Discussion: The Resurgent

Center for Public Integrity:
Trump campaign still hasn't paid El Paso police bills

Discussion: The Federalist, Cincinnati.com and The White House

Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Joe Biden Mourns El Paso and Dayton Mass Shootings as ‘Tragic Events in Houston’ and ‘Michigan’

Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit

Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Ohio Republican blames mass shootings on ‘drag queen advocates,’ Colin Kaepernick and Obama

Discussion: Breitbart, Hullabaloo and Towleroad Gay News

Tom Scocca / Slate:
Where Taking the Concerns of Racists Seriously Has Gotten Us

Discussion: National Review and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »

USA Today:
Ohio politician blames mass shootings on ‘drag queen advocates’, Obama, open borders

Discussion: Salon, Law & Crime, Cincinnati.com, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Washington Times

Dr. Joan Donovan / NBC News:
El Paso shooter wasn't a ‘lone wolf’ — and his so-called online ‘manifesto’ proves why

Discussion: The Atlantic, CNN and KTLA

Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
You don't need to read the El Paso killer's manifesto. Just turn on Fox News.

Discussion: USA Today, National Review, Washington Post and The American Spectator

Associated Press: The Latest: El Paso victim dies, raising death toll to 21

New York Times:
Trump Condemns White Supremacy but Doesn't Propose Gun Laws After Shootings

Discussion: The Federalist, The Hill, USA Today, Associated Press, Morning Call, Political Wire, Bloomberg, Chicago Sun-Times, Patterico's Pontifications and Althouse

E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
On guns and white nationalism, one side is right and one is wrong

Discussion: NBC News, Washington Monthly, On Point and Los Angeles Times

Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump says US must condemn ‘white supremacy’ and ‘racism’ in wake of weekend shootings

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Politico, Washington Post, USA Today, One America News Network and Breitbart

Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI faces skepticism over its efforts against domestic terrorism

Discussion: Slate, Rolling Stone, UPI, Progress Pond, One America News Network, Shareblue Media, New York Post, The Week and Townhall

New York Times:
We Have a White Nationalist Terrorist Problem

Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
FBI Warns Other Domestic Violent Extremists Could Become ‘Inspired’ By El Paso

Discussion: FBI.gov, Washington Post and The Mahablog

CNBC:

Dow futures drop 370 points after China retaliates, escalating trade war — Stocks plunge as China threatens to weaponize its currency—Six experts break down what's next — Stocks fell sharply Monday as a trade war between the world's largest economies intensified with China retaliating against President Donald Trump's latest move.

Associated Press: Markets Right Now: Dow plunges 800 as trade war flares

Washington Post: Markets plunge after China lets currency fall to a decade low in payback against Trump's tariffs

Bloomberg:
China Takes On Trump by Weakening Yuan, Halting Crop Imports

Discussion: American Enterprise Institute, Slate and NPR

Michael Sheetz / CNBC:
Morgan Stanley: If the trade war escalates, a recession will be here in 9 months

Discussion: UPI

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:

Steve King Narrowly Won His Last Race. His Challenger, J.D. Scholten, Is Running Again. — J. D. Scholten, a Democrat who nearly toppled Representative Steve King of Iowa in a heavily Republican district in 2018, announced on Monday that he would run again for the seat in 2020.

Discussion: YouTube, The Atlantic and Washington Times

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Kenny Marchant Will Be Fourth Texas Republican Congressman to Retire in 2020 — Representative Kenny Marchant of Texas announced on Monday that he plans to retire, becoming the fourth Republican House member from Texas in recent weeks to head for the exits rather than face re-election in 2020 …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Axios, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Ben Jacobs / Jewish Insider:

Neo Nazis boast ‘We got Tulsi in the debates’ — Racist website takes credit for boosting Democratic presidential hopeful — A neo-Nazi website took credit for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's (D-HI) qualification for the first two Democratic primary debates. The Daily Stormer, a notorious white supremacist …

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Is The Field Too Big For Kamala Harris? — In theory, the easiest way to win a presidential nomination is to bring the various wings and factions of your party together toward some type of consensus. Not every voter has to love you (although some of them probably should or you won't have a base).

Brandon Morse / RedState: Kamala Harris's Arrest Reports Are Quietly Disappearing From California's DOC Website

Nate Cohn / New York Times: Policy Fissures in the Debates Aren't What Divide Voters

Associated Press:

Classmates: Ohio shooter kept a ‘hit list’ and a ‘rape list’ — DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.

Discussion: daytondailynews, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, Front Page Magazine, The American Conservative, KTLA, The Guardian, Heavy.com, Associated Press, The Week, Slate and Florida Politics

Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:

Judge questions Barr's handling of Mueller findings — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday pressed Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers on why the public shouldn't be allowed to see redacted portions of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report, suggesting that he may be willing …

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico: Judge signals interest in removing Mueller report redactions

Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed News:

The Trump Seeking To Heal A Nation Is Not The Real Trump — President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Monday in the wake of two mass shootings and called for “unity” and “love.” “We are a loving nation,” he said, focusing his eyes ahead to read a written speech. “Hate has no place in America.”

Ali H. Soufan / New York Times:

I Spent 25 Years Fighting Jihadis. White Supremacists Aren't So Different. — We can't fight domestic terror groups efficiently until the law treats them the way we treat foreign ones. — Mr. Soufan is a former F.B.I. special agent and the author of “Anatomy of Terror.”

Oli Coleman / Page Six:

What's going on between Lindsay Lohan and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia? — What the heck is going on with Lindsay Lohan and Mohammed bin Salman? — A wild rumor hit town that Lohan and the bloodthirsty crown prince of Saudi Arabia have gotten close, and that he's been flying her around …

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:

He's Getting Worse — The current, and (to date) most debased, phase of the Trump presidency—the phase that includes the unceasing demonization of minority legislators and the endorsement of North Korean communism—began, in retrospect, on May 8, in the Florida Panhandle, at a rally in Panama City.