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Washington Post:
State Dept. intensifies email probe of Hillary Clinton's former aides — The Trump administration is investigating the email records of dozens of current and former senior State Department officials who sent messages to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email …
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Trump blurs lines between personal lawyer, attorney general — WASHINGTON (AP) — As Washington plunges into impeachment, Attorney General William Barr finds himself engulfed in the political firestorm, facing questions about his role in President Donald Trump's outreach to Ukraine …
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New York Times:
How a Shadow Foreign Policy in Ukraine Prompted an Impeachment Inquiry — WASHINGTON — Petro O. Poroshenko was still the president of Ukraine earlier this year when his team sought a lifeline. With the polls showing him in clear danger of losing his re-election campaign, some of his associates …
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POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post
Zachary Basu / Axios:
AG Bill Barr reportedly “surprised and angry” at Trump-Ukraine phone call — Attorney General Bill Barr was “surprised and angry” to find that President Trump had grouped him together with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani during a controversial July 25 phone call with the president of Ukraine …
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Rich Schapiro / NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani's former DOJ colleagues believe he committed crimes in pushing Biden probe — “I think the Giuliani that I know would prosecute the Giuliani of today,” said Jeffrey Harris, who worked closely with him in the 1980s. — On a Friday in late July, Rudy Giuliani boarded a plane …
CNN:
Mulvaney on shaky ground in wake of whistleblower fallout, sources say — (CNN)Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney is on shaky ground in the wake of a bad week for President Trump, according to multiple sources with knowledge of discussions surrounding the whistleblower fallout.
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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
When Trump's Envoy for Ukraine Resigned, a College Journalist Had the Scoop — An editor at Arizona State University's student newspaper beat everyone else to the news that Kurt Volker had stepped down. — Kurt D. Volker has traveled halfway around the world as a United States diplomat.
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CNN:
Volker plans to appear before congressional committees next week — Sources: Special envoy to Ukraine resigns — (CNN)Former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker plans to appear at his deposition next Thursday in front of three congressional committees, according to a source familiar with his plans.
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Political Wire
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
Collusion After the Fact — The Washington Post reported last night: … Shortly after the story broke, I received a message from a person directly involved with the FBI's decision to open a counterintelligence and obstruction investigation of President Trump in the immediate aftermath of the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
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Nick Arama / RedState:
More Video Of Justin Trudeau And This Is The Worst Yet — Last week, pictures and video of Justin Trudeau in blackface blew up and threatened his campaign for re-election. — There were multiple incidents. One was where he was dressed as Aladdin and made up in blackface at an …
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Ali Taghva / The Post Millennial:
Why did the Toronto Star just remove a high quality Trudeau blackface video?
Why did the Toronto Star just remove a high quality Trudeau blackface video?
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Washington Post:
Jamal Khashoggi's death made the Saudi crown prince a pariah. Trump has helped rehabilitate him on the world stage. — At the annual Group of 20 gathering of world leaders in Osaka, Japan, in June, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, beamed before cameras …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Staring down impeachment, Trump sees himself as a victim of historic proportions — Donald Trump is not the first American president staring down impeachment to nurse a deep sense of persecution and self-pity. But he is the first to broadcast that mentality to the world.
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Embarrassing Leaks Led to Clampdown on Trump's Phone Records — After blowup over calls with Mexican, Australian leaders, officials moved toward greater secrecy, now an issue in impeachment inquiry — WASHINGTON—The White House moved to clamp down on access to records of presidential phone calls …
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Trump blasts ‘savages’ — Ocasio-Cortez, three other women of color, Schiff, Nadler — “Savages” started to trend on Twitter after the president's post, which comes amid a House impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine. — President Donald Trump blasted six members of the House …
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Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
Chief accused of slamming black teen's head into door: Trump is ‘last hope for white people’ — A former New Jersey police chief standing trial for allegedly slamming a black teenager's head into a door jamb reportedly called President Trump “the last hope for white people” before the 2016 election.
Associated Press:
For Trump, a high-velocity threat like none he's ever faced — WASHINGTON (AP) — From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been shadowed by investigations and controversy. — They have been layered, lengthy and often inconclusive, leaving many Americans scandal-weary and numb to his behavior.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
If Democrats impeach Trump, a GOP House would probably impeach the next Democratic president — House Democrats are poised to impeach President Trump once they've spent more time following the leads in the whistleblower complaint. But should they take that step in a heavily partisan process …
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Washington Monthly, POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story, The Week, Vox and New York Post
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Impeachment Battle to Turn for First Time on a President's Ties to a Foreign Country — WASHINGTON — Alexander Hamilton, as usual, got right to the heart of the matter. When the framers were designing the Constitution and its power of impeachment, one of the high crimes they had in mind …
The Boston Globe:
Forget impeachment. Donald Trump needs to resign — THE VISCERAL REACTION I had to the summary of President Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was that he should resign the presidency. So obvious and brazen was the abuse of presidential power …
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RedState, Palmer Report, Mediaite and Connecticut Post
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Is Impeachment the End of the Road for Most of the 2020 Field? — The closing days of a fundraising quarter are usually hectic for presidential candidates and their top-level staffers, who are tasked with pulling in every last dime they can find and figuring out what to do with the cash.
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Political Wire
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Impeaching the Peach One — There are observers, including critics of President Trump, who are skeptical of the push for impeachment. Not because he hasn't earned the contempt and sanction of Congress, but because the politics are too risky. Will the public support an impeachment investigation …
Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:
The Pentagon is doing its damnedest to avoid being dragged into the Ukraine mess — A $250 million military assistance package to Ukraine was the spring that set in motion the possible impeachment of the president of the United States - and the Defense Department wants to be as far away from this quagmire as humanly possible.
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Ephrat Livni / Quartz:
Ukraine's president is being dubbed “Monica Zelensky” at home