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Bloomberg Law:
Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface — A recently appointed Trump Labor Department official with a history of advancing controversial conservative and faith-based causes in court has resigned after revelations that he wrote a 2016 Facebook post suggesting the Jewish-controlled media “protects their own.”
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twitchy.com and Political Wire
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Shameful: Trump Labor appointee forced to resign after Bloomberg portrays sarcastic Facebook post as anti-Semitic — In one of the most shameful, egregious, media failures of the year, a Trump appointee to the Department of Labor was forced to resign after a Bloomberg reporter started asking officials …
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twitchy.com
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump made ‘suggestion’ Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says — “I don't think it was a request, like a command,” Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday. “I think that it was a suggestion.” — President Donald Trump suggested …
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Talking Points Memo, Vox, VICE, The Guardian, Raw Story and Patterico's Pontifications
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Washington Post:
Trump encouraged Pence to stay at his golf resort in Ireland — Vice President Pence's top aide said Tuesday that Pence and members of his traveling entourage are staying at a golf resort in Ireland owned by President Trump at Trump's suggestion. But he defended an arrangement that Democrats …
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Politico, Shareblue Media, Kennebec Journal …, Political Wire and CNN
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
President Trump, Weatherman: Dorian Updates and at Least 122 Tweets — WASHINGTON — Over the long weekend, President Trump monitored Hurricane Dorian from a golf cart at his club in Virginia, calling for regular updates from an aide trailing him around the course.
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Raw Story, CNN, Shareblue Media, The Independent, Washington Post and The Right Scoop
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Benjamin Goggin / Business Insider:
Video appears to show Trump golfing in Virginia in the run-up to catastrophic Hurricane Dorian
Video appears to show Trump golfing in Virginia in the run-up to catastrophic Hurricane Dorian
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New York Daily News
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
5 U.S. states to declare emergency as Dorian closes in on Florida
5 U.S. states to declare emergency as Dorian closes in on Florida
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Associated Press, nhc.noaa.gov and USA Today
Clay Masters / NPR:
‘Details Are Irrelevant’: Biden Says Verbal Slip-Ups Don't Undermine His Judgment — Toggle more options — Joe Biden wants voters to look at the big picture. — His campaign is focused on a mission to “restore the soul of this nation.” — That's also why the former vice president does …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Political Wire, Splinter, Washington Times and CNN
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Biden: Inaccurate details in war story ‘irrelevant’ to policy decisions
Biden: Inaccurate details in war story ‘irrelevant’ to policy decisions
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National Review, New York Post and The Hill
David Karpf / Esquire:
Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point. — columnist Bret Stephens went searching for an online insult last Monday night. He found a — Twitter joke I wrote — , calling him a metaphorical bedbug as a riff on the — actual bedbugs reported in the
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Washington Post and Salon, more at Mediagazer »
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Why Kamala Harris Hasn't Caught Fire in the Democratic 2020 Race — Attacks on Biden appear to have backfired in the second debate — Californian faces questions about ideology and prosecutor past — Kamala Harris entered the presidential race with impressive credentials …
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
It's now Biden, Warren, Sanders — and everyone else
It's now Biden, Warren, Sanders — and everyone else
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Associated Press, Washington Post, Reason, Des Moines Register, Outside the Beltway, New York Times and Reuters
John F. Harris / Politico:
What We Know About the Democratic Primary
Noreen Malone / The Cut:
The Five Millennials (Actually) Changing the World — So here we are, a generation munching on the last greens of its salad days, saddled with dull, decade-old complaints about our coddledness, our entitlement, our selfies, our political correctness — most blah-blah-blah of all, by the boring cliché of our avocado toast.
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Washington Post:
Sen. Joe Manchin III won't run for governor in West Virginia, spokesman says, passing on challenge to GOP incumbent — Manchin, 72, previously served as governor from 2005 to 2010 and last year considered retiring from the Senate before reluctantly agreeing to seek reelection in a state …
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
Congressional Democrats plan to launch inquiry into Trump's alleged role in scheme to silence affair accusations — House Democrats plan to make President Trump's alleged involvement in a 2016 scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with him a major investigative focus this fall …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies raise money to target reporters — President Trump's political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets, according to a three-page fundraising pitch reviewed by Axios.
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Hullabaloo, Slate and Big League Politics
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell vows to give gun bill a vote if it is backed by Trump — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday stressed that President Trump's support is the key to a gun reform bill getting a vote on the Senate floor in the wake of recent mass shootings.
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Washington Post and Political Wire
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
McConnell: No votes on gun measures that Trump won't sign
Nolan Hicks / New York Post:
De Blasio logged a 7-hour work month at City Hall — Mayor de Blasio spent a mere seven hours — less than one full workday — at City Hall during the month he launched his bid for the White House, records reviewed by The Post show. — Hizzoner showed up at his office on just six occasions in May …
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The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats' messy impeachment push hits critical phase — House Democrats return to Capitol Hill next week with an impeachment mess on their hands and just weeks to make a choice that could define the rest of Donald Trump's presidency. — Lawmakers faced frequently contentious town halls during …
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Amateurs Identify U.S. Spy Satellite Behind President Trump's Tweet — Amateur satellite trackers say they believe an image tweeted by President Trump on Friday came from one of America's most advanced spy satellites. — The image almost certainly came from a satellite known as USA 224 …
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RedState and New York Post
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump's Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August — President Trump ended August as he began it, with a blast of angry tweets, ad-hominem insults, and bizarre fulminations that have become so standard that they no longer receive the attention they deserve—emanating, as they do, from the world's most powerful leader.
Pat Eaton-robb / Associated Press:
Former Navy SEAL enters Yale as a 52-year-old freshman — NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former Navy SEAL James Hatch says heading to class as a freshman at Yale University is just about as nerve-wracking as preparing for the uncertainty of combat. — At 52 years old, Hatch does not fit the profile of the traditional Yale freshman.
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
Netanyahu, Trump in Intensive Talks for Dramatic Diplomatic Gesture in Coming Days, Ahead of Israeli Election — Israeli prime minister in close contact with people close to U.S. president, with one option under consideration being an American statement on creating ‘defense pact’ with Israel
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middleeastmonitor.com
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump congratulates Poland on its Nazi invasion anniversary — And he still doesn't seem to know what FARC is. — President Trump is known to make the odd comment here and there about foreign nations, often because he doesn't seem particularly versed in what's happening in them.
Discussion:
Political Wire and Outside the Beltway
Ari Fleischer / The Federalist:
Obama-Defending NPR Reporter's Question To Trump At G7 Reinforces Media's Bias Problem — Much of what's wrong with the press was on full display in one question at the president's recent news conference at the G-7 meeting in France. — Anti-Trump press bias has become so routine that it's now taken for granted.